Assistant Professor of English Katherine Terrell published an essay titled "Depicting Identity: Cartography, Chorography, and the Borders of Pre-Reformation Scotland" in The Shaping of Scottish Identities: Family, Nation, and the Worlds Beyond. The collection was edited by Jodi A. Campbell, Elizabeth Ewan and Heather Parker.

Poet Don Bogen will visit Hamilton and read selections from his award-winning poetry on Thursday, Sept. 15, at 8 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn. The reading is free and open to the public.

Prize-winning poet and author Randall Horton will read from his work on Thursday, Sept. 8, at 8 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn. The event, hosted by the English and Creative Writing Department and sponsored in part by the Dean of Faculty, is free and open to the public.

Professor of English and Creative Writing Naomi Guttman published a review of Bitter Greens: Essays on Food, Politics, and Ethnicity from the Imperial Kitchen, by Anthony DiRenzo, in the Fall 2011 issue of Gastronomica, The Journal of Food and Culture.

Several poems by Visiting Assistant Professor of English Jane Springer have recently been published in literary magazines.

Dean of Faculty Patrick Reynolds announced the promotion of five Hamilton faculty members to the rank of professor.  Todd Franklin, philosophy; Marianne Janack, philosophy; Katherine Kuharic, art; Bruce Walczyk, dance and movement studies; and Steven Yao, English and creative writing, were promoted effective July 1.

Assistant Professor of English Katherine Terrell published an article titled “‘Lynealy discendit of þe devill’: Genealogy, Textuality, and Anglophobia in Medieval Scottish Chronicles" in the Summer 2011 issue of Studies in Philology.

Professor of English and Creative Writing Naomi Guttman will read from and discuss her work at the Colgate University Bookstore on Thursday, Aug. 11, at 5 p.m.  A book-signing and reception will follow. The event is sponsored by the Colgate Young Writers' Workshop and the Colgate Bookstore.

Assistant Professor of English Katherine Terrell presented a paper at Natio Scota: The Thirteenth International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Language and Literature, held in Padua, Italy.