Faculty-Staff Activities

Terence Diggory, Courtney and Steven Ross Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and chair, Department of English, attended the sixth conference of the International Association for Word and Image Studies July 21-27 at the University of Hamburg, Germany. He organized and chaired a panel titled “Moving Images and Traveling Texts I Contemporary Art,” in which he responded to presentations by German metalsmith Wolfgang Kaiser and New Zealand filmmaker Bridget Sutherland.

Linda Simon, professor of English, gave a paper titled “The Empowered Physician: William Wilberforce Baldwin and 19th-Century Medical Therapeutics” at the International Henry James Conference July 9 in Paris. Baldwin was James’s physician.

Joel Smith, associate professor of philosophy, completed a three-year term on the board of ASIANetwork by chairing the board this past year. ASIANetwork is a national consortium that promotes the study of Asia in small liberal arts colleges. His duties included organizing ASIANetwork’s 10th anniversary conference near Chicago April 19-21, which included two keynote speakers, two plenary sessions, 16 breakout sessions, and a musical performance. He also organized and participated in a conference panel titled “Orienting Students for Study Abroad.”

Publications

Jennifer Delton, assistant professor of history, is the author of Making Minnesota Liberal: Civil Rights and the Transformation of the Democratic Party (University of Minnesota Press, 2002). Read more about it.

Chinese gouache paintings by Doretta Miller, professor of art, are featured in an article (“The Chinese Gouaches of Doretta Miller”) by John A. Parks published in Watercolor: An American Artist Publication, Summer 2002. Parks called Miller’s work “a reward of visual treats and delights.”

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