Faculty and Staff Achievements, Dec. 20, 2007
Catherine Golden, professor of English, gave a pre-preformane talk at Hubbard Hall in Cambridge, N.Y.,
titled ?The Victorian Other: Form and Deformity? to set a context for viewing the
Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance.
Publications
Robert Foulke, professor emeritus of English, served as literary editor for the Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History, published in four volumes in March, which brought a six-year process to completion.
In that capacity he located 60 scholars throughout the world to write ariticles about
maritime literature, edited their work, and wrote four comprehensive articles on sea
literature, voyage narratives, The Odyssey, and Joseph Conrad. On Dec. 12, he spoke about this project at the John Carter Brown
Library, Brown University.
In November a shortened version of Foulke?s ?Life in the Dying World of Sail, 1870-1910,?
a study related to Joseph Conrad?s voyage fiction, was republished as the Introduction
to a new edition of Square Rigger Days; Autobiographies of Sail, edited by Charles W. Domville-Fife.
Patricia and Robert Foulke continue working on a heritage tourism series. The second
volume in the trilogy, A Visitor's Guide to Colonial and Revolutionary Mid-Atlantic America, was published by The Countryman Press (a division of Norton) in September.
Kate Graney, associate professor and chair, Department of Government, is the author of ?Making
Russia Multicultural: Kazan at its Millennium and Beyond,? published in Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 54, No. 6, November-December 2007.
In the News
Mary Lou Bates, dean of admissions and financial aid, was a source for the story ?Beefing up the
application,? published Dec. 17 in The Post-Star (Glens Falls).
News of faculty and staff activities, achievements, performances, publications, and
exhibitions is published regularly in Scope Online. Please send news items to awise@skidmore.edu
for inclusion in the next edition.
