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Untitled@Large is proud to present its Spring production: Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead. Performances will take place on Friday, April 11 and Saturday, April 12, at 7 p.m., and on Sunday, April 13 at 2 p.m. All performances are in the Fillius Events Barn. Admission is free; doors open 1/2 hour before the performances.

Assistant professor of English Gillian Gane presented a paper, "Libraries, Black Writers, and Fire" at the meeting of the African Literature Association held in the Bibliotheka Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt, in March. Gane also published two articles, "Mixed-Up, Jumble-Aya, and English: 'How Newness Enters the World' in Salman's Rushdie's 'The Courter'" appeared in a long-delayed issue of ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, Vol. 32, no. 4 (cover date October 2001): 47-68 and "Achebe, Soyinka, and Other-Languagedness," appeared in The Creative Circle: Artist, Critic, and Translator in African Literature, edited by Angelina E. Overvold, Richard K. Priebe, and Louis Tremaine (Africa World Press, 2003): 131-49.

Assistant Professor of English Dana Luciano presented a paper, "Melancholia and Counter-Mourning in Moby-Dick," in the Mourning and Melancholia in American Narrative session at the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature conference at the University of California at Berkeley on March 29.

While none of these employees would describe their work environments as solitary, each assumes responsibility for a specific College initiative, in most cases as a staff of one. In this issue of Around the Hill, we'd like you to meet a few of Hamilton's "one-person shops."

Monk Rowe, director of the Hamilton College Jazz Archive, was listed in the acknowledgments section of a new book by Ashley Kahn, A Love Supreme/The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album.

Professor of Classics Shelley Haley has been invited to attend the spring session of the Oxford Round Table at Lincoln College in the University of Oxford, from March 30-April 4. The annual session of the Round Table will be devoted to the topic of human and civil rights with particular reference to women’s rights and issues of gender discrimination in both the public and private sectors.

Murray State University Professor Peter Murphy will speak on “Studs, Tools and the Family Jewels: Metaphors Men Live By,” on Thursday, April 3, at 7:30 p.m., in Kirner-Johnson 109, as a guest in the Kirkland Project “Masculinities” series. This talk will examine 42 metaphors organized thematically around five topics: sex as machine, sex as work and labor, sex as sport, sex as war and conquest, and sex as exclusively heterosexual. This talk is free and open to the public.

Associate Professor of English Doran Larson delivered a paper, "Amnesiac Recollections of the War to Come: Fascist Ideology in Djuna Barnes' NIGHTWOOD," at the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts Conference, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.

Last message from Sara Draucker on the Antartica 2003 expedition as they return to Punta Arenas.

Associate Professor of Sociology Mitchell Stevens was interviewed by Voice of America (VOA) for a segment about homeschooling that aired on March 29. "One of the biggest advantages of home schooling is that it enables parents to tailor an education program around a student's particular talents," he said. The Voice of America (VOA) is an international multimedia broadcasting service funded by the U.S. government. VOA broadcasts more than 1,000 hours of news, informational, educational and cultural programs every week to an audience of some 94 million people worldwide. VOA programs are produced and broadcast in more than 50 languages through radio, satellite television and the Internet.