BRUCE BENNETT’s new book, Funny Signals, has been published by FootHills Publishing.  Funny Signals, a full-length collection of political poems and fables, includes the complete text of Professor Bennett’s 1989 FootHills chapbook, To Be a Heron, which was dedicated to Ronald Reagan.  Funny Signals is dedicated to our current leader, George W. Bush.

During the past year, CATHERINE BURROUGHS' book, Women in British Romantic Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 2000), received favorable reviews in the following journals: 19th-Century Studies, English Studies, Romanticism on the Net, 19th-Century Literature, and 18th-Century Studies. 

BEATRICE FARNSWORTH was invited to be a member of the Executive Board of the Middle Atlantic Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.  She attended an Executive Board meeting at Columbia University on January 18.

During PILAR GREENWOOD’s sabbatical leave last fall, she participated in the XXII Annual ALDEEU (Spanish Professionals in the United States) conference celebrated in Granada, Spain, June 15-18.  She presented a paper entitled, “Meaning/Signifying: Four Hispanic Women Poets in the USA,” which is expected to be published by the Universidad de Granada 2003.  In September she delivered a formal speech that opened the Annual Festival and Fair in Herencia, Spain.  The speech, entitled “Tradition and Change in Herencia: The Old and the New,” was co-authored and co-delivered with Davydd J. Greenwood and was carried on regional autonomous television channels #3 and #4 of Castilla-La Mancha, on local and regional radio, and was published by the regional newspaper, Canfali, in its September 27, 2002, issue.  In October, Professor Greenwood participated in the conference, “The Past as Future,” a series of intellectual round tables and workshops or “Jornadas” organized at the International Institute “Casa de Velázquez” at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain.  International scholars from France, Spain, Mexico, Italy, and the United States presented papers and led discussions in which Professor Greenwood participated.  In December, Professor Greenwood was invited to lead a performance of two of her children’s plays at the local preschool in Herencia, Spain.  These two plays, “El tlacuache y el coyote” and “Mr. Pérez Mouse,” which she wrote in rhyme form, introduce learning about other cultures to young audiences and will also be performed at a second school in the spring of 2003.  Professor Greenwood has been invited back to those schools and is working on a bilingual (Spanish/English) collection of plays for children.

MICHAEL GROTH met with other members of the Program Committee for the Conference on New York State History in Binghamton on February 4 to begin work on the program for this year's conference to be held at Bard College in June.  He gave an interview to the Poughkeepsie Journal relating to his essay, "Laboring for Freedom in Dutchess County," which has appeared in Mighty Change, Tall Within, a volume on the African-American experience in New York and the Hudson Valley, published by SUNY Press.

SPENCER HILDAHL’s review of the book, Reload: Rethinking Women and Cyberculture, by Mary Flanagan and Austin Booth, was published in the December issue of CHOICE.  

Chronicle Guidance Publications, Inc. requested that KARLA LEYBOLD-TAYLOR review and provide a quotation for the College and University Registrars occupational brief, which will be published in March.

MILENE MORFEI attended the 25th annual National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology in St. Petersburg, Florida from January 2 through 5.  She had a manuscript accepted for publication by the Journal of Adult Development entitled, "Agentic and Communal Generative Behavior in Four Areas of Adult Life: Implications for Psychological Well-Being."   Professor Morfei has been invited to participate in a summer session of the Oxford Round Table, which will be held at St. Anthony's College in the University of Oxford, Oxford, England, from August 10 - 15, 2003.  This 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. 

VICTORIA MUÑOZ served as a reviewer for the textbook, Hate Crimes: Causes, Controls, and Controversies  to be published by Sage Publications.

CRAWFORD THOBURN conducted the annual Holiday Concert by the Wells Concert Choir and Chamber Singers on December 11.  Several noteworthy performances of his choral compositions took place during December.  Ward Jamison conducted the Allegheny College choir in a performance of his recently published setting of “Nowell, Out of Your Sleep Arise and Wake” in a concert at the Frick Art Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and later in a performance on the Allegheny campus.  Another performance of this composition was given by the Davidson College choir, directed by Raymond Sprague, and in a recording of this performance was subsequently broadcast on South Carolina Public Radio.  A recording of his composition, “A Lovely Rose is All my Song,” sung by Madrigalia, a professional chamber choir from Rochester, New York, conducted by Roger Wilhelm, was broadcast extensively on Public Radio International during the holiday season.

CHRISTINA WAHL participated in research that led to the presentation of the following abstract at the 9th International Conference on Myopia, held in Hong Kong on November 10-14:  Li, T., C. Wahl, and H.C.Howland (2002) Comparison of varying diurnal light periods on the growth of the chick eye. 9th International Conference on Myopia 10-14 November Hong Kong Section, Program and Abstract Book p. 34, Abstract no. 70.
 
 

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