September 8, 2010
Austin Briggs, Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English emeritus, has published “Joyce’s Nymph of the Yews: Debates about the Nude in Painting” in
The Dublin James Joyce Journal (no. 2/2009), a new peer-reviewed publication appearing under the auspices of the University College Dublin James Joyce Research Centre in association with the National Library of Ireland.
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September 7, 2010
Hamilton College will host “Stone Canoe Readings,” a reading featuring five poets, on Tuesday, Sept. 7, at 8 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn.
The Stone Canoe is an annual journal of writing, art and ideas from upstate New York, edited by Robert Colley '66 and published by Syracuse University. This event is free and open to the public.
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Olivia Wolfgang-Smith ’11 Working at The Missouri Review
August 4, 2010
For Olivia Wolfgang-Smith ’11, the “slush pile” of unsolicited manuscripts is only barely a metaphor. Working at the literary magazine
The Missouri Review, Wolfgang-Smith pores over 30 manuscripts per week, evaluating their quality. With an Emerson grant and guidance from Associate Professor of English Tina Hall, Wolfgang-Smith is learning the production process of a highly-respected literary magazine.
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August 4, 2010
Assistant Professor of English Katherine Terrell presented a paper titled "The Trojan War in the British Isles: Anglo-Scottish Conflict and the Invention of Myth" at a conference on "Recycling Myths, Inventing Nations" at the University of Wales in July. The paper examined the evolution of competing English and Scottish origin legends in the late Middle Ages, and their contribution to the development of a nationalist discourse.
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August 3, 2010
Professor of English and American Studies Catherine Gunther Kodat has published an essay, "Unhistoricizing Faulkner," in
Faulkner's Sexualities (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2010).
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June 9, 2010
Nine Hamilton College faculty members were approved for tenure by the College's Board of Trustees during a recent meeting. The Board granted tenure to Donald Carter (Africana studies), Anne Lacsamana (women’s studies), Tina Hall (English), Chaise LaDousa (anthropology), Rebecca Murtaugh (art), Angel David Nieves (Africana studies), Edna Rodriguez-Plate (Hispanic studies), Chad Williams (history) and Yvonne Zylan (sociology).
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June 5, 2010
Austin Briggs, the Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English Literature emeritus, has published "Why Leopold Bloom Menstruates" in a volume in the Florida James Joyce Series (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009).
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