Terence Diggory, Ross Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and chair, Department of English, delivered a paper titled “Hartigan’s Modernism” at a symposium organized in conjunction with the exhibition Grace Hartigan: Painting Art History Oct. 8 at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa.

Publications

Reg Lilly, associate professor of philosophy and chair, Department of Philosophy and Religion, translated Reiner Schürmann’s Broken Hegemonies which has just appeared from Indiana University Press. This text, originally written in French, is the two-volume magnum opus of Schürmann, who was German born and French educated, and taught most of his tragically shortened career at the New School for Social Research.

Susannah B. Mintz, assistant professor of English, has published Threshold Poetics: Milton and Intersubjectivity (University of Delaware Press, 2003), a study of encounters between selves in “threshold space” in Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes. Using feminist and relational psychoanalytic theory, the project examines representations of looking, working, eating, conversing, and touching, to argue that Milton repeatedly dismantles the binary oppositions that support categorical thinking.

Associate Professor of English R. Parthasarathy’s translation of the Old Tamil epic, The Tale of an Anklet: An Epic of South India, published by Columbia University Press in 1993, has been accepted in the “Penguin Classics” series and will be published by Penguin Books in 2004.

In addition, poems of Parthasarathy (“Aubade,” “The Traveler,” “Who Needs the Gods?” “The Seal,” and “A Word of Advice,” translated from the Sanskrit; “Song of a Former Courtesan,” translated from the Pali Therigatha [Songs of the Elder Nuns, 6th c. BCE], possibly the earliest anthology of women’s religious verse; and “When Will You Come, Beloved?” translated from the Hindi Padavali [Songbook, 16th c.] of Mira, a celebrated religious poet) appear in the Summer 2003 issue of Modern Poetry in Translation (London).

Also, three poems of Parthasarathy (“At Ghalib’s Tomb,” “Homage to Muhammad Ibrahim Zauq,” and “You, Amir Khusrau”) appear in the September-October 2003 issue of Indian Literature, published by the National Academy of Letters, New Delhi. Khusrau (1253-1325), Zauq (1788-1854), and Ghalib (1797-1869) are three of the greatest poets in Urdu.