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 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 Civil War is due out from Cumberland Press in June 2007.
Mark Harman, a native of Dublin, Ireland, is Professor of English and German. He came to this country for graduate study at Yale University. His publications include a new translation of Franz Kafka’s novel The Castle (Schocken Books/Random House), which 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. He is in the process of developing and refining an interdisciplinary paper applying evolutionary psychology to analyze "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale" by Chaucer. Presentations of this paper include, “Evolution in Tropes: Chaucer’s Wife of Bath,” presented at the Human Behavior and Evolutionary Society’s Annual Conference in Philadelphia June 7-11, 2006, and “Metaphor and Desire: An Evolutionary Analysis of Chaucer’s Wife of Bath,” presented at the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Annual Conference, June 2-5, 2005 in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
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 is editing a special issue of the journal Midwest Miscellany containing articles on the theme "Out of the Midwest: Midwestern Writers and the World." The issue is due to be published in the autumn of 2007. Productions of his plays have recently been staged in Lancaster and Pittsburgh.
Carmine Sarracino has recently had several of his poems included in an anthology, Commonwealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (Penn State Univ. Press, 2005), and a poem in another anthology, Encore: More From Parallel Poets (Univ. Of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006.) His chapbook of Civil War poems, The Heart of War, was published by Parallel Press in 2004, and the complete collection will be published next year by Orchises Press. He has two Civil War longpoems (“The Hero of Gettysburg” and “Reconstruction”) slated for publication in the Fall, 2006 issue of Prairie Schooner.
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 currently being considered for publication by a publishing house in the UK. 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, The Best in Tent Camping: PA, was released in May 2006 by Menasha Ridge Press. It provides a guide to and evaluation of the 50 best tenting campgrounds in Pennsylvania. He is currently working on another book for Menasha Ridge, 60 Hikes within 60 Miles of Harrisburg. That is scheduled to be released in early spring of 2008.
Nate Matias (2006) has departed for England to begin study at Cambridge University. Nate 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.
Nate graduated with a B.A. In English from the Honors Program at Elizabethtown College, completing a hypermedia program and three-dimensional sculpture about nineteenth-century Philadelphia life and culture for his thesis. He will be keeping a blog about his English adventures at
www.natematias.com.
