Faculty News
Kimberly Adams has recently published Our Lady of Victorian Feminism (Ohio UP, 2001), a study of the Madonna-figure in the work of three women writers, all Protestants and feminists: Anna Jameson, Margaret Fuller, and George Eliot. She also co-wrote the endnotes to the Modern Library edition of George Eliot’s Romola. 
David Downing published two award-winning books on C. S. Lewis in 2005, Into The Region Of Awe (Chicago: InterVarsity) and Into The Wardrobe: C.S. Lewis And The Narnia Chronicles (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass). His newest book, A South Divided: Portraits Of Dissent In the Confederacy was released by Cumberland Press in June 2007.
Mark Harman's translation of Franz Kafka’s novel The Castle (Schocken Books/Random House) was nominated for the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club prize, selected as a best book of the year by the Los Angeles Times, and won the first Lois Roth Award of the Modern Language Association of America. South African novelist and Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee wrote the following in the New York Review of Books: “Semantically accurate to an admirable degree, faithful to Kafka’s nuances, responsive to the tempo of his sentences…For the general reader or for the student it will be the translation of preference for some time to come.”
Louis Martin has recently served as an external evaluator for the Departments of English at Albright College and Juniata College. Dr. Martin is engaged in interdisciplinary work in literature and evolutionary psychology. Recent presentations include, “Evolution in Tropes: Chaucer’s Wife of Bath,” at the Human Behavior and Evolutionary Society’s Annual Conference June 7-11, 2006, and “Much Ado about Nothing: An Evolutionary Fable of Desire,” at The Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, November 22-23, 2008.
Dana G. Mead won a Presidential Strategic Grant to launch a new initiative to build community among first-year students in the Honors Program. Incoming honors students experience an additional day of orientation off campus engaged in team building activities at a local challenge course. In its first offering, 69 first-year students, 10 peer mentors, and 5 faculty participated in HOOT (Honors Outdoor Orientation Trek).
John Rohrkemper John Rohrkemper’s new play, God Bless the Shadows, will be performed at the college as a dramatic reading on March 17, 2009. Last March, Las Madres de la Plaza, an opera he co-wrote with Jim Haines, had its premiere at the college.
Carmine Sarracino published two books in 2008, The Battlefield Photographer (Orchises Press), a collection of poems about the Civil War, and The Porning of America (Beacon Press), a cultural study of the influence of pornography on American life. His first book of poetry, The Idea of the Ordinary, was published in 2004, by Orchises. Recently, several of his poems were included in two anthologies: Commonwealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (Penn State Univ. Press, 2005), and Encore (University of Wisconsin Press, 2006). His chapbook of Civil War poems, The Heart of War, was published by Parallel Press in 2004. His poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Laurel Review, The Beloit Poetry Journal, and in other poetry magazines.
Suzanne E. Webster's book manuscript, which deals with Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s religious and philosophical perceptions of the relationship between Body and Soul, is forthcoming. In Spring of 2006, Dr Webster presented a conference paper—“Shaping the Landscape, Shaping the Ladies in Eighteenth-Century England”—at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies annual meeting, in Montreal.
Matt Willen's
most recent book, 60 Hikes within 60 Miles of Harrisburg was released in July 2008 by Menasha Ridge Press. He is currently working on a documentary project on the Westfjords region of Iceland.Student and Alumni News
Matthew Salyers (2009) presented a paper entitled “Anti-Petrarchan Ideals: Examining Unconventional Beauty and the Idea of Love in Renaissance Sonnets” at the Moravian College Undergraduate Conference on Medieval and Early Modern Studies, December 6, 2008.
Nate Matias (2006) won the prestigious Davies-Jackson Scholarship that will enable his study at Cambridge, where he will be a part of the affiliated B.A. Program, studying English literature. He will be keeping a blog about his English adventures at www.natematias.com.
