Research and Publications

Prentice-Hall Publishers has issued the fifth edition of Pamela Annas’ anthology, Literature and Society.

Matthew Brown’s article “Is There Anything ‘Post-‘ about Postnationalist Ireland?” appears in the Spring 2006 issue of The Irish Review.

Robert Crossley’s essay “H. G. Wells, Visionary Telescopes, and the ‘Matter of Mars’” has been published in Philological Quarterly.

Stephanie Kamath delivered a paper on ”John Lydgate and the Curse of Genius” at the International Congress of the New Chaucer Society.

Joyce Peseroff, UMass Boston Poet in Residence, has published her fourth volume of poems, Eastern Mountain Time with Carnegie Mellon University Press.  She also chaired a panel on “Jane Kenyon—Her Life and Art” at the national meeting of the Associated Writing Programs.

Betsy Klimasmith’s book At Home in the City: Urban Domesticity in American Literature and Culture, 1850-1930, was published by the University Press of New England.

Patrick Barron delivered an address on “Traversing the Majella” at the American Academy in Rome.

Lloyd Schwartz’s “Peter Sellars on DVD” appeared in the April 2006 issue of The Yale Review.

Nadia Nurhussein’s poem “French-English” was published in The Harvard Review.  She also gave a paper on “Dunbar’s Performances and Epistolary Dialect Poetry” at the Paul Laurence Dunbar Centennial Copnference.

Taylor Stoehr translated and illustrated poems by Francois Villon for his edition Ask the Wolf: Ballads and Bequests from the Testament of Francois Villon, published by Unicorn Press.

Susan Tomlinson read a paper “You Got to Come Home: Black Women Scholars, Autobiography, and Academic Celebrity” at the conference of the Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies” and she gave another paper “Passing for What? The Politics of Racial Rejection” at the American Literature Association.

Scott Maisano presented “The Catholic Redcrosse: Spenserianism on Stage in Shirley’s St. Patrick for Ireland” at the International Spenser Society Conference in Toronto.  He also spoke on “Shakespeare’s Dead Sea Scroll: On the Apocryphal Appearance of Pericles at the conference of the Shakespeare Association of America.

John Tobin published “Shakespeare, Nash, and Sir Thomas More” in Notes and Queries.

Linda Dittmar and Pamela Annas co-edited a special issue of Radical Teacher devoted to the theme of “Teaching in a Time of War.”

Elsa Auerbach led a two-day workshop on teaching strategies for second language instruction at the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont.

Askold Melnyczuk’s story “The Translator” appeared in the Spring 2006 issue of The Harvard Review.