CATHERINE BURROUGHS has published an article in Volume 23 of the electronic journal, Romanticism on the Net. It is part of the special issue on Romanticism and Sexuality and is titled: "British Women Playwrights and the Staging of Female Sexual Initiation: Sophia Lee's The Chapter of Accidents (1780)." This article will soon be re-printed in a forthcoming special issue of European Romantic Review that will focus on Romantic drama and theatre. In addition, she has published a review essay of a recently-staged early 19th-century play called Obi; or Three-Fingered Jack, which she saw performed a year ago in Arizona at the annual conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism.
PILAR GREENWOOD, together with seven of her Spanish 203 students, participated throughout the fall semester in "La Hora del Cuento" (Story Hour in Spanish), a program organized by the Tompkins County Public Library in Ithaca for pre-school and elementary school Spanish-speaking children. As part of the Wells experiential learning and volunteer service learning program, these "Story Hours" took place every last Sunday of the month during the fall term. In addition to the seven students, both Professor Greenwood and Terry Martinez contributed by reading stories in Spanish. On November 24, Professor Greenwood read and then led a dramatized version of her own short story, "El Tlacuache y el Coyote," based on a classic Maya/Aztec myth.
LESLIE MILLER-BERNAL's book, Separate by Degree, was reviewed in the fall issue of the History of Education Quarterly. She reviewed an article for possible publication for the journal, Sociological Perspectives.
NIAMH O' LEARY presented a paper at the Annual Meetings of the Crop Science Society of America, held October 21-25 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The paper, entitled “Selection Criteria for Corn Performance in No-till Cropping Systems,” was co-authored by Margaret Smith of Cornell's Plant Breeding Department and Amber Nolder, Wells class of 2001.
LAURA PURDY participated as a Dow Fellow at the Dow Visiting Scholars and Artists Program on November 5 and 6. She taught two classes, gave a public lecture on xenotransplantation, and had a public conversation with Greg Bear, science fiction writer, on issues in genetics and xenotransplantation. Professor Purdy was one of four visitors the other three were Greg Bear, Brian Tokar, and David Burke. The subject of the symposium was genetics.
THOMAS STIADLE attended the 2001 Albany Group Theory Conference in Rensselaerville, New York, on October 12-14. He reviewed the second edition of Robert Smith's and Roland Minton's "Calculus" for McGraw-Hill.
Under the direction of CRAWFORD
THOBURN, the Wells Concert Choir and Chamber Singers presented a concert
for Parent’s Weekend on November 10 in Barler Hall. The choral ensembles
were joined for this concert by the Wells Chamber Orchestra, conducted
by Laura Campbell. On December 1, the choral ensembles presented
a concert at the Morgan Opera House in Aurora for the annual “Christmas
in Aurora” celebration. Mark Foster Music Publishers has accepted
two more of Professor Thoburn’s original compositions for publication,
“Adam Lay Y-bounden” and “I Sing of a Maiden.” Both are settings
of anonymous 15th century English texts for unaccompanied mixed voices.
His original published work is being sung during the holiday season by
many choral groups. Notable performances thus far include his setting
of “A God and yet A Man,” which has been sung several times during the
Advent season by the choir of St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral in Jacksonville,
Florida, under the direction of John Barray, and “In the Bleak Midwinter”
sung by the choir of Allegheny College, conducted by Ward Jameson.
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