John Anzalone, professor of French, is the pedagogical consultant for the Virtual Campus Project, an information technology initiative that links Bard College and Smolny College of the University of St. Petersburg, Russia. Two courses – one on Russian opera, the other on comparative politics – are being taught simultaneously on each campus this semester. The students and faculty are linked by video-conference tools and the Internet. Funded by the Mellon Foundation, the project will bring two such online courses to both campuses each semester during the three-year duration of the grant.

Peg Boyers, executive editor of Salmagundi, participated in a Feb. 9 poetry reading sponsored by the Saratoga Poetry Zone. Boyers and Chase Twichell read their work at the event, which took place at the Saratoga Springs Public Library.

Terry Diggory, Ross Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and chair, Department of English, delivered a paper titled “ ‘The Canvas Invites Writing’: Marjorie Welish on Cy Twombly” at a session titled “Toward Abstraction: American Experimental Poets on the Visual Arts” at the American Literature Association Symposium on “Twentieth-Century American Poetry: Developments and Definitions” March 13-15 in Long Beach, Calif.

Roy Ginsberg, professor of government and Glaverbel Professor of European Politics, Universite catholique de Louvain, was a Title VI-A grants reader for the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of International Education in February. The grants fund international studies curricula at undergraduate colleges and universities in the U.S. Skidmore received two such grants during the 1990’s.

Catherine Golden, professor of English, gave an invited lecture titled “In Search of the Brontes” at the Shenedehowa Library in Clifton Park earlier this year, as part of the library’s adult education program.

Deborah Hutton, visiting assistant professor of art history, gave a lecture titled “Interpreting the Veil I the Works of Shahzia Sikander and Shirin Neshat,” contemporary Muslim artists, Jan. 30 at St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

Reinhard Mayer, visiting associate professor of German, gave an invited lecture Jan. 23 to the Columbia University Faculty Seminar titled “On Eighteenth-Century European Culture.” Mayer’s lecture was titled “Reflections on Goethe’s Second Night Song and the Musical Settings of Friedrich Zelter, Franz Schubert, Franz Liszt, and Lionel Nowak.” He also organized a chaired a “Professional Focus” session titled “Wirtschaftsdeutsch (Business German) in North America” at the annual meeting of the American Association of Teachers of German and the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Nov. 21-24 in Salt Lake City. In addition he organized a post-conference workshop on Business German with Walther von Reinhart of the University of Rhode Island and Katharina Barbe of the Thunderbird School of International Business.

Peter MacDonald, publications director, and Mary Parliman ’81, senior graphic designer, earned an “Accolades” award in communications from District II (Mid-Atlantic) of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. The awards were announced in February at CASE’s regional conference in New York City.

They collaborated on a publication titled “Commencement Memories,” which was distributed last spring to members of the Class of ’02. The publication received an Honorable Mention in the category “Visual Design in Print – Single-Page Publications.”

David Porter, president emeritus, presented “The Well-Tempered Clavier” March 16 at the Saratoga County Arts Council. The program was one in the council’s “Sundays at 3” series.

Terri Sanacore, Campus Safety, earned New York State certification for mounted police following completion March 7 of a seven-week mounted police training course.

Sheldon Solomon, professor of psychology, recently gave two talks: “Defying Death by Destroying Others: Death Anxiety and the Impulse to Violence,” March 22 at Central Michigan University; and “Destroying the World to Save It: Death-Denying Apocalyptic Violence in the Wake of 9/11,” March 8 at the University of Washington.

John J. Thomas, professor emeritus of geology, participated in a workshop called “Design Principles for Creating Effective Web-Based Learning Resources in Geosciences,” Feb. 9-11 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Sponsored by the National Association of Geoscience Teachers and the Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College, the program featured 30 of the leading geoscientists working in web-based education to discuss issues related to the new technology. While there Thomas outlined a design for a modular web page for a mineral identification laboratory.

Publications

John Anzalone, professor of French, is the author of an article on Jean Renoir published in Peripheries, a volume of selected papers from the 19th Colloquium of the Society for Nineteenth-Century French Studies, edited by Tim Raser and published by Delaware University Press.

Beau Breslin, assistant professor of government, has had his book titled The Communitarian Constitution accepted for publication by Johns Hopkins University Press.
In addition Breslin and David Karp, assistant professor of sociology, are co-authors of an article titled “Debating Death: Critical Issues in Capital Punishment,” included in Critical Issues in Crime and Justice, second edition, published this year by Sage.

Dennis Conway, director of Campus Safety, is the author of “Skidmore Campus Safety Saddles Up,” an article published in The Clipboard, Vol. 21, No. 4, Winter 2003, the journal of the Northeast Colleges and Universities Security Association.

Catherine Golden, professor of English, is the author of “Teaching ‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’ Through the Lens of Language” published in Approaches to Teaching Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’ and Herland, edited by Denise D. Knight and Cynthia J. Davis and published this year by the Modern Language Association.

Penny Howell Jolly, Kenan Professor of Liberal Arts and professor of art history, is the author of “Marked Difference: Earrings and ‘The Other’ in Fifteenth-Century Flemish Art’ published in Encountering Medieval Dress and Textiles: Object, Text, and Image, edited by D. Koslin and J. Snyder and published by Palgrave, 2002.

Juan Carlos Lértora, professor of Spanish, published a review of Marginalities: Diamela Eltit and the Subversion of Mainstream Literature in Chile by Gisela Norat in Letras Femeninas, Vol. 28, 2002.

W. Michael Mudrovic, associate professor of Spanish, is the author of an article titled “A Single Thread of Meaning: Esperanza Ortega’s Hilo solo,” published in Romance Quarterly, Vol. 49, 2002.

Virginia Murphy-Berman, visiting professor of psychology, is the author of a chapter titled “Globalization in Cross-Cultural Perspective,” included in the book, Globalization and Children, edited by Natalie Kaufman and Irene Rizzini and published by Plenum.

Viviana Rangil, associate professor of Spanish, has published two articles: “Stereotypes But…: Gender Roles in Contemporary Latin Cinema,” in Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, Vol. 30, Winter 2002; and “Selena: Two Complementary Cinematographic Interpretations,” in Music, Popular Culture, Identities, a collection of essays edited by Richard Young and published by Rodopi (Amsterdam-New York, 2002).

Linda Simon, professor of English, had an essay titled “The Naked Source” recently included in two college readers: The New Millennium Reader, third edition, edited by Stuart and Terry Hirschberg and published by Prentice-Hall; and The Arlington Reader, edited by Lynn Z. Bloom, Louise Smith, and Ning Yu and published by Bedford/St. Martin’s. The essay, which originally appeared in The Michigan Quarterly Review in 1988, has been anthologized many times since then.