Giuseppe Faustini, professor of Italian, delivered a lecture on Niccolò Machiavelli’s “La Mandragola: The Prince or the republic?” April 11 at Wake Forest University. He also lectured on Alberto Lattuada’s film La Mandragola (1965) and chaired a discussion on the film.

Kyle Nichols, assistant professor of geosciences, and James McLelland, visiting professor of geosciences, will make presentations at the 115th annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, scheduled Nov. 2-5 in Seattle. Nichols is co-author of a presentation titled “The Life of Desert Piedmont Sediment: Sediment Tracing Using Cosmogenic Nuclides,” and McLelland will be co-presenter of “Direct Dating of Adirondack Anorthosite by U-PB Shrimp Techniques: Implications for AMCG Genesis.” In addition, Nichols will join Robin Wiles-Skeels ’04 for an additional presentation, titled “City in the Country: Quantifying the Effects of Land-Use Change on the Hydrology of a Water Supply Watershed, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.”

Jay Rogoff, lecturer in English, read from his poetry Aug. 14 at the Bright Hill Literary Center in Treadwell, N.Y. He delivered a pre-performance talk titled “Shakespeare and Balanchine: A Meeting of Two Geniuses,” July 10 at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center before the New York City Ballet’s performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and July 12 at the Surrey-Williamson Inn to a group of Skidmore alumni prior to an NYCB matinee. Rogoff also served as a pre-performance interviewer July 11 at SPAC, discussing Jerome Robbins’s ballet Glass Pieces with former NYCB dancer and current assistant ballet master Jean-Pierre Frohlich, and again July 23, talking about Christopher Wheeldon’s new ballet Carnival of the Animals with NYCB resident choreographer Wheeldon and actor John Lithgow, who wrote and recited the ballet’s narration in addition to dancing the role of the elephant.

In addition, Rogoff was an invited speaker at the New York Council for the Humanities Teacher Institute on “Adaptations: Teaching Shakespeare, Literature, and History Through Film” July 24 at Bard College, where he also gave a talk on Hamlet called “To Be or Not to Be: So What’s the Question?”

Publications & Exhibitions

Giuseppe Faustini, professor of Italian, has published the following articles:
“La Ciociara di Moravia: romanzo e film,” in La Ciociaria: Letterature e Cinema, edited by F. Sangrilli, Ancona: Metauro, 2002; “A proposito di Pirandello traduttore,” published in Ariel, Quadrimestrale dell’Istituto di Studi Pirandelliani (Roma), Vol. 15, No. 3, Settembre-Dicembre 2001; and “Pirandello critico di se stesso,” published in Nuova Antologia (Firenze), Vol. 136, No. 2220, Ottobre-Dicembre 2001.

Deb Hall, assistant professor of art, has work included in the following national exhibitions: “Digitally Speaking,” through Oct. 9 at the Womanmade Gallery in Chicago. Juror for the exhibition was Dorothy Simpson Krause. View the show; “2003 National Digital Art Exhibition,” Aug. 1-Sept. 8 at the Muse Gallery, Prescott, Ariz.; and “Works on Paper,” Aug. 3-31 at the Long Beach Arts Gallery, Long Beach, Calif.

A catalogue published by the Tang Museum has won a national prize. Narratives of a Negress, which accompanied the Kara Walker: Narratives of a Negress exhibition held earlier this year at the museum, won second prize in the 2003 American Association of Museums Museum Publication Design Competition. Ian Berry, Tang curator, was a co-editor of the volume, along with Darby English, Vivian Patterson, and Mark Reinhardt, all of Williams College. The quartet also co-curated the exhibition, which is now at Williams College.

Jay Rogoff, lecturer in English, has had several poems recently accepted for publication. “Courtship at Isenheim” will appear in The Journal; “Making a Fool of Myself Over Maria Kowroski” in Literary Imagination; “In Camera” in Margie; “A Breakdown” in The Southern Review; and three poems, “Chawton,” “The Glass of Fashion and the Mold of Form,” and “Tulum,” in Western Humanities Review. His poem “Night Light” has appeared in The Southern Review, Vol. 39, No. 3 (Summer 2003), and another poem, “Turner River,” has been published in Emerson at Harvard, a poetry anthology marking the bicentennial of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s birth (Bristol, IN: Quill, 2003).

His extended essay-review, “Formal Gardens with Real Poets in Them,” a consideration of new books of poetry by Daniel Hofman, John Hollander, X.J. Kennedy, Mary Jo Salter, and Terri Witek, has been accepted for publication in The Southern Review.