BRUCE BENNETT had three poems published in the magazine, Reflections, and a poem published in the Pudding House Publications anthology, Urgent Care for the World. His book of political fables and satire, Funny Signals, was reviewed by Richard Wakefield in the August 2003 issue of Light. The New York State Council on the Arts awarded the Visiting Writers Series a five-year grant, beginning during the current year. Professor Bennett and Vice President and Treasure Diane Hutchinson worked together on this grant for the College. 

CATHERINE BURROUGHS's 1996 article on Joanna Baillie, which was reprinted in 1999, has just been reprinted again in the first-ever collection of critical essays on Baillie--from Routledge. The bibliographical information is as follows: "'A Reasonable Woman's Desire': The Private Theatrical and Joanna Baillie's The Tryal" in Joanna Baillie, Romantic Dramatist: Critical Essays. Ed. Thomas Crochunis. Routledge, 2004. 187-205. Recently, Professor Burroughs served as one of the advisors of the new production by Cornell’s Interactive Theatre Ensemble (CITE)--"Absit Invidia (No Offense Intended)"-- which designs short plays based on real-case scenarios for viewing by employees in corporate and other workplace environments.

BEATRICE FARNSWORTH participated in an Executive Board meeting of the Middle Atlantic Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies at Columbia University on January 17, 2004.

ERIKA FEIGENBAUM successfully defended my dissertation in January.

JEANNE GODDARD spent the last week of January at Houghton College where she taught a movement workshop for voice students and provided choreography for their opera scenes program, directed by Steven Stull and Shirley Close.

JOSEPH HOFFMANN has just signed a contract with Trinity Press for One True Gospel: Marcion's Theology, Canon and Church (a revised edition of a 1984 study). On February 6, he taped two half-hour segments for Humanist Perspective, a nationally syndicated public access TV program on the role of the public understanding of religion in the United States in the global religious environment. (Aired over Rochester -- RCTV, Cable Channel 15 -- Sundays, 11:00 a.m., and Wednesdays, 8:00 p.m.)

The Journal of Latin American Studies and Anthropos both recently published reviews of LAURA MCCLUSKY's book, "Here, Our Culture Is Hard: Stories of Domestic Violence from a Mayan Community in Belize.

People to People Ambassador Programs, through the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, invited MILENE MORFEI to participate in its January program in South Africa. The delegation participated in an exchange of research and information with colleagues and professionals in South Africa, addressing social issues and social change.

ERNEST OLSON's paper "Discipline for the Body in the Flow of Time: The Tongan Kava Party" has been accepted for publication in Time, Self, and Society: The Cross-Cultural Embodiment of Time in Illness and Health, an edited volume to be published by the University of Arizona Press.

During January WILLIAM ROBERTS participated as a judge in the New York State Scholastic Art Competition. The competition was held at Onondaga Community College. His oil painting "Sublime,"6' by 5', which is owned by the Saratoga Arms Hotel in Saratoga Springs, New York, was featured in the February 2004 issue of "Victorian Homes".
 

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