Austin Briggs, the Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English emeritus, has published "Is Bella Cohen Jewish? What's in a Name?" in Volume 18 of European Joyce Studies (New York: Rodopi, 2009).
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Assistant Professor of English Tina Hall participated in the &Now Conference of Innovative Writing and the Literary Arts on Oct. 14-17 in Buffalo. She presented a video titled "Instructions for Contacting the Dead." More ...

Frontiers, A Journal of Women's Studies has published an essay by Professor of English Patricia O’Neill titled "Amelia Edwards's Travel Writing." The essay explores the role of travel in Edwards's career and, more generally, in Victorian women's intellectual life. More ...

Associate Professor of English Naomi Guttman and Burgess Professor of French Roberta L. Krueger published their article "Utica Greens: Central New York's Italian-American Specialty" in the Summer 2009 edition of Gastronomica, The Journal of Food and Culture. Based on interviews with local residents, the article traces the history and significance of one of Utica's signature dishes. This article is based on a paper Krueger and Guttman gave last year at the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery. More ...

Assistant Professor of English Tina Hall published "In Your Endeavors, You May Feel My Ghostly Presence" in the fall issue of the literary journal descant. The story is a found story made up of fragments taken and manipulated from a Victorian science manual titled The Forms of Water in Clouds and Rivers, Ice and Glaciers. Hall came across the book while doing research at the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge. More ...

Assistant Professor of English Tina May Hall gave a reading at SUNY Geneseo on Sept. 17. She read from her novella, All the Day's Sad Stories, and new work. More ...

Professor of English Vincent Odamtten presented a paper on "Selected Ghanaian Writing from a Pan-African Perspective" at the 5th Biennial Conference of Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD) in Accra, Ghana, in August. More ...

Austin Briggs, the Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English, emeritus, attended the North American James Joyce Conference held at SUNY Buffalo in June. At the conference, he participated on a panel he co-organized, "Joyce and the Visual Arts," and he co-moderated two discussion panels that he co-organized. In addition, as a trustee, Briggs attended a meeting of the Board of the International James Joyce Foundation. More ...

Associate Professor of English Naomi Guttman gave a poetry reading of new work as part of The Art Bar Poetry Series at Clinton's in Toronto, Canada, on June 2.. Guttman's latest collection, Wet Apples, Wet Blood, was published by McGill-Queen's University Press in 2007. More ...