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Annette Allen

Geoffrey Green

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This is Allen's second collection of poems written by the author of Country of Light (Arable Press, 2006).

Voices in a Mask - Based on images of disguise in literature, theater, and opera, this short-story cycle explores themes of identity and subterfuge in a fictional fugue that ranges from comic to poignant. Into the librettos of Don Giovanni, Tosca, Rigoletto, and other operas, Green weaves the authentic biographies of their singers and composers, modern-day settings, and his own imaginative twists. Throughout Voices in a Mask, characters obscure and reveal themselves as art mimics life and life, art. Ultimately the very acts of masking and projecting reveal a truth about the power of art and its inherent deceptions.
          "This is a wonderful book... The combination of artistic skill and critical acumen involved is astonishing, and the historical research involved is seriously done and superbly deployed in a creative manner." --Robert Scholes, Brown University
           Geoffrey Green's Voices in a Mask is an operatic tour de force of a 'novel' involving (among other things) grand opera--a subject on which the author is impressively and entertainingly knowledgeable."--John Barth

Patrick Barron
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The Selected Poetry and Prose of Andrea Zanzotto: a bilingual Edition (University of Chicago Press, 2007). The first comprehensive collection in thirty years for an English—speaking audience, the book gathers the very best poems from fourteen of Zanzotto’s major books of verse and a selection of thirteen essays.
          
“Just as Stephen Mitchell’s renderings of Rilke and David Hinton’s of Wang Wei have done so much to enhance interest in those artists, these translations by Patrick Barron and his colleagues will make Zanzotto indispensable to English-speaking lovers of poetry”-- John Elder, Middlebury College

Stephen Husarik
Husarik's paper "The impact of Digitalization Upon the Arts and Humanities" was published in The International Journal of the Humanities, Vol. 5, Issue 7 (December, 2007), pp. 119-126. Husarik also presented a paper entitled "Teaching and Assessing Digital Film-and Image-based Projects: Student Presentation via Web Sites, Movies and Power Points" at the Higher Learning Commission Conference, Hyatt Regency, Chicago, April 2006.

Alma Bennet
Editor
Women and Clemson University, 2006

Mark Blum

Continuity, Quantum, Continuum, and Dialectic The Foundational Logics of Western Historical Thinking
(Peter Lang, 2006) Continuity, quantum, continuum, and dialectic are foundational logics of Western historical thought. The historiographical method to discern them is a critique of historical reason. Through 'stylistics' Mark E. Blum demonstrates how the inner temporal experience of the person shapes both judgment and historical action. Blum's work augments the epistemology of Immanuel Kant, Wilhelm Dilthey, and Edmund Husserl.
         " In this book, Mark E. Blum shows the connection between the formal structure of time and the formal structures of syntax and grammar. This book discusses many authors, both classical and contemporary, with special attention given to Kant, Dilthey, and Husserl. It covers diverse fields of knowledge: philosophy and science as well as painting, music, literature, and politics. . . His work is intricate, original, and impressive in its depth and range." --Robert Sokolowski, Elizabeth Breckenridge Caldwell Professor of Philosophy, School of Philosophy, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC.

David Jenemann

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Adorno in America (University of Minnesota Press, 2007) The German philosopher and cultural critic Theodor W. Adorno was one of the towering intellectual figures of the twentieth century, and between 1938 and 1953 he lived in exile in the United States. In the first in-depth account of this period of Adorno’s life, David Jenemann examines Adorno’s confrontation with the burgeoning American “culture industry” and casts new light on Adorno’s writings about the mass media. Contrary to the widely held belief—even among his defenders—that Adorno was disconnected from America and disdained its culture, Jenemann reveals that Adorno was an active and engaged participant in cultural and intellectual life during these years.
          “An exalting portrait of Adorno as a defender of intellectual democracy, as well as an intriguing portrait of mid-twentieth century cultural shifts, Adorno in America is highly recommended for philosophy and cultural criticism shelves as well as biography shelves.” —Midwest Book Review

Cerena Caeser
Byzantium 15 (California Polytechnic State University), 2005.

Gloria K. Fiero

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Fiero has completed the revisions for the second edition of her one-volume humanities textbook, LANDMARKS in Humanities (McGraw-Hill). LANDMARKS is currently in production and should be available by December 2008 with a larger package of teaching ancillaries.
           The book is enjoying success in one-semester humanities courses at universities and junior colleges.
LANDMARKS in Humanities survey of global culture is designed for students of humanities, cultural history, and history of the arts. In chronological sequence, LANDMARKS highlights the most notable monuments of the human imagination--those works of art and architecture, literature, philosophy, and music that have been foremost in shaping the world's cultures.

Adeline Johns-Putra

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The History of Epic (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2006) is a narrative history of the development of the genre from antiquity into the present day. The volume parallels the development of the epic with wider historical and cultural developments, providing detailed readings of key texts, and, while structured chronologically, tracing a series of themes through the development of the genre.

John Lawson
Generations (St. Andrews College Press, 2007)

Award Winning Members

Dacia Charlesworth
2005 Outstanding New Teacher, Central States Commuication Association; 2005 Distinguished Teaching Award, Robert Morris University Student Government.

James Chichetto
2006 "Professional Development Grant" for Teaching and Research by Stonehill College.

Raymond Clines
2006 "Who's Who Among American Teachers"

Annmarie Kent-Willette
2006 Faculty Excellence in Community Service.

Melissa Kizina
2006 Honorable Mention for Excellence in Teaching First Year Composition.

Kristen Pursley
2006 C.C.A.E. Teacher Excellence

Theresa Tomaszek
2005 Michigan Campus Compact Community Service Learning Award.

Mary Ann Wilson
2006 named "Friends of the Humanities BORSF Endowed Professor," University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Samuele F.S. Pardini
Editor

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The Devil Gets His Due: The Uncollected Essays of Leslie Fiedler (Berkeley: Counterpoint Press), was published in March. Pardini edited and wrote an extended introduction to the collection.
          This collection of essays from National Book Critics Circle Lifetime Achievement Award winner Leslie Fiedler reveals a powerful mind critiquing whole aspects of culture and uncovering lessons therein that remain timely today.
           “No other student of the American novel has such fascinating and on the whole right things to say.” —Washington Post

Kate Reavey
Landscapes of Home: A Natural History of the Elwha Watershed (Port Angeles, Peninsula College, 2006).

Ona Russell

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Ona Russell - www.onarussell.com

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Russell recently published The Natural Selection (Sunstone Press), the second in her Sarah Kaufman historical mystery series. Set against the backdrop of what was deemed the "Trial of the Century," this socially and politically relevant blend of fact and fiction includes actual courtroom excerpts and vividly portrays the Scopes trial's central figures: John Scopes, William Jennings Bryan, Clarence Darrow, and especially H. L. Mencken.
          "Russell crafts a vinegar divide between science and fundamentalism, reason and racism, change and convention, and intelligence and insecurity. This book is the more fascinating, indeed distressing, by its relevance to today’s social and political climate....fast flowing, elegantly written, and keeps one hooked until the end."—Philadelphia Stories

          For further information please visit: www.onarussell.com and/or Sunstonepress.com.

Robert K. Wallace

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Wallace's newest book Thirteen Women Strong chronicles the 2006-07 season of the Northern Kentucky University women's basketball team. A year after NKU powered their way to an outstanding 28-5 record, expectations were sky-high for the team as they welcomed back all five starting players. Led by a core of upperclassmen and revered head coach Nancy Winstel, the NKU Norse expected a run to glory, much like their NCAA Division-II title in 2000.
          "This fluid, eloquent tribute to the joys and sorrow often associated with the learning process offers a variety of life lessons for everyone, especially young adults searching for identity and purpose, through the grace and powers of thirteen student-athletes who grow physically, emotionally, and intellectually on nearly every page."--Ron Ellis, editor of Of Woods & Waters: A Kentucky Outdoors Reader
Wallace's Emily Bronte and Beethoven: Classical Equilibrium in Fiction and Music (University of Georgia Press, 1986) will be available in paperback in December 2008.

Anthony Wilson

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Shadow and Shelter: The Swamp in Southern Culture (University of Mississippi Press, 2006) explores the interplay of contradictory but equally pre-vailing metaphors: first, the swamp as the underside of the myth of pastoral Eden that defined the antebellum South; and second, the swamp as the last pure vestige of undominated southern eco-culture. As the South gives in to strip malls and suburban sprawl, its wooded wetlands have come to embody the last part of the region that will always be beyond cultural domination.
          "Shadow and Shelter: The Swamp in Southern Culture is a very rare book in that it brings together a lot of things that I wondered about now and then but never saw as being that connected; it brings in a new way of seeing the environment around us via the rich lens of literature and is, far more than a guide or review of such literature, a work of fine and engrossing non-fiction which reads like literature itself."--Mike Walker, North Florida News Daily