John Bartle, Russian/GermanBartle joined the Hamilton College faculty in 1989. He earned a bachelor's degree from Rutgers University and his master's and Ph.D. from Indiana University. He published an introductory essay and translation of Dostoevsky's Models of Candor in Russian Language Journal (Spring 1998), and did the translation and introductory essay for Dostoevsky's Petersburg Visions in Prose and Verse for Russian Language Journal. Bartle has written extensively on Dostoevsky and presented many conference papers on his works. His research interests include Russian language, Russian literature, especially Dostoevsky and Gogol, and current Russian culture.
Timothy Elgren, ChemistryElgren joined the Hamilton College faculty in 1993. He earned a bachelor's degree from Hamline University, his Ph.D. from Dartmouth College, and served a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Minnesota. In 1998 Elgren was the inaugural recipient of the John R. Hatch Excellence in Teaching Award at Hamilton. He has received numerous grants and external funding to support his research, from the National Science Foundation, Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society and a three-year grant from the National Institutes of Health. He has published numerous articles and presented a number of lectures. Elgren's research focuses on the biological role of metal ions.
Lydia Hamessley, MusicHamessley received a bachelor's degree from Texas Lutheran College and master's and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota before coming to Hamilton College in 1991. She has written many articles, reviews and papers and a textbook chapter, "Concert Music," in Musical Experiences. She also co-edited, Audible Traces: Gender, Identity and Music (1998). Hamessley has presented numerous papers on women in bluegrass. She is an editorial board member of Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture, and is a member of the American Musicological Society.
Todd Rayne, GeologyBefore coming to Hamilton in 1993, Rayne was employed as a hydrogeologist and geologist in the private sector. He earned his bachelor's degree from Montana State University, and a master's degree and Ph.D. in geology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Rayne co-authored a book, Applied Hydrogeology: solution manual (1994), and has published several papers and abstracts for scientific publications. He is a member of the American Geophysical Union, the Geological Society of America and the Central New York Association of Professional Geologists.
De Bao Xu, ChineseXu earned a bachelor's degree from Taiyuan Teacher's College in Taiyuan, People's Republic of China. He earned a master's degree and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana before coming to Hamilton College in 1995. Xu has designed and programmed interactive multimedia software for Chinese language teaching. He is chief-editor of the Contemporary Linguistics Theory Series since 1993, and editor of Studies in Chinese Phonology in the 1990's since 1997. Xu has authored several books on the study of Chinese language, and written many articles. He is a member of the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Association, the Linguistic Society of America and Chinese Language Teachers Association.
