Faculty-Staff Activities

Jeff Beachy, director of advancement services, was named a “faculty star” for his presentation early this year at the District 1 regional meeting of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education.

Robert Foulke, professor emeritus of English, gave the closing paper at the international conference of the Joseph Conrad Society, United Kingdom, July 6 at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. His topic was “Maritime Contexts: Nuances and the Ironies in Conrad’s Voyage Fiction.” Later in the day he led fellow conferees through a tour of the square-rigged ship Cutty Sark, built in 1862 and now preserved in dry dock at Greenwich as the last surviving clipper ship.

Catherine Golden, professor of English, gave an invited lecture titled “Reading Illustrations: The Art of the Victorian Illustrated Book” Oct. 3 at The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls.

Penny Jolly, professor of art history, accepted an invitation to participate in an international symposium last summer in conjunction with the exhibition “Van Eyck, Early Netherlandish Painting and Southern Europe.” The event took place June 26-27 at the Groeningen Museum in Bruges, Belgium. She lectured on Rogier van der Weyden and Magdalene imagery.

Publications and Exhibitions

John Cunningham, Davidson Professor of Art, has an interior exhibition of his work now showing at the Memorial Student Center of Texas A&M University. The show includes work he calls his “peristyle series” as well as his arachnid sculpture. In connection with the show, he gave a paper titled “Mechanical Advantage and Locomotion,” derived from observations made while creating art. Among other things, he theorizes that Tyrannosaurus rex was actually a very fast runner and that it might not be very difficult to make walking machines. Cunningham credits colleagues Bernie Possidente, Monica Raveret-Richter, and Roy Meyers for their help in with his presentation.

Jay Rogoff, lecturer in English and liberal studies, has recently had the following poems accepted for publication: “Book Burning” in The Progressive; “Flemish Adorations” in Salmagundi; “Horoscope” in The Texas Review; and “Death’s Love” and “Pyramid of the Sun” in Witness.

David Vella, associate professor of mathematics, is co-author of the paper “Support
Varieties for Algebraic Groups” in Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik, Vol. 547, June 2002. His collaborators are Brain Parshall of the University of Virginia and Daniel Nakano of the University of Georgia.

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