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Steven Yao

Yao Speaks at Modern Language Association

January 26, 2011 

Associate Professor of English Steve Yao spoke at the Modern Language Association (MLA) annual meeting held in Los Angeles, Jan. 6-9. Yao delivered a paper, "Comparing American Modernisms," on a panel sponsored by the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA). The MLA conference is the main national venue for language and literature scholars in higher education.

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Steven Yao

Yao Contributes Essay to Volume on Ezra Pound

January 16, 2011 

Associate Professor of English Steven Yao published an essay, "Translation," in the volume Ezra Pound in Context, published by Cambridge University Press and edited by Ira B. Nadel. In this essay Yao traces the importance of translation as a mode of literary production within Pound's individual career, as well as within Anglo-American modernism more generally.

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The marathon reading of <em>Paradise Lost</em>  last spring.

New York Times Features Hamilton's Milton Marathon

January 10, 2011 

The New York Times featured Hamilton’s marathon reading of John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost in an article in the Education Life section of the Sunday, Jan. 9, edition. Orchestrated last spring by Elizabeth J. McCormack Professor of English Margaret Thickstun, the 12-hour Milton fest drew some 60 students, faculty and community members.

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Marilyn Chin

Author Marilyn Chin to Read From Work

December 1, 2010 

Award-winning author Marilyn Chin will read from her work on Thursday, Dec. 2, at 8 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn. The reading is free and open to the public.

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Vincent Odamtten

Odamtten Participates in Tribute to Ama Ata Aidoo at Brown

November 16, 2010 

Professor of English Vincent Odamtten was a participant in the symposium “Conversations in Africana Writing: Ama Ata Aidoo, a celebration and tribute,” at Brown University on Nov. 4. The symposium addressed the theme of Ghanaian histories and contexts.

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John O'Neill

O'Neill Gives Paper at 18th Century Studies Meeting

November 1, 2010 

John H. O’Neill, the Edmund A. LeFevre Professor of English emeritus, presented a paper, “Resolving Tom Jones: Text and Film” at the annual meeting of the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in Buffalo, Oct. 21-23.

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Jane Springer

Jane Springer Receives 2010 Whiting Writers' Award

Second National Writing Award for English & Creative Writing Faculty This Year

October 28, 2010 

Hamilton College Visiting Assistant Professor of English Jane Springer has been named one of 10 recipients of the 2010 Whiting Writers’ Award by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation. The awards of $50,000 each have been given annually since 1985 to writers of exceptional talent and promise in early career.

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Nin Andrews '80

Kirkland and Hamilton Alumnae to Read Poetry

October 6, 2010 
Nin Andrews '80 and Jo Pitkin K '78, will read from their poetry on Thursday, Oct. 7, at 8 p.m., in the Wellin Atrium of the Science Center. The poetry readings are free and open to the public More ...
Tina May Hall

Drue Heinz Winner Hall Opens Writers Series

October 1, 2010 
Tina May Hall, associate professor of English and winner of the 2010 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, opened the 2010-11 Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series (PCWS) with a reading on Sept. 29, at the University of Pittsburgh. The PCWS presents creative writing as an intellectual endeavor, bringing notable contemporary writers of poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction to the campus. More ...
<em>Foreign Accents</em> by Steve Yao

Yao Publishes Study of Chinese American Poetry

September 26, 2010 
Associate Professor of English Steven Yao's book, Foreign Accents: Chinese American Verse from Exclusion to Postethnicity, has been published by Oxford University Press. More ...
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