Faculty-Staff Achievements, Dec. 13, 2010
Activities
Terence Diggory, professor of English, led a discussion at the Saratoga Film Forum Dec. 12, following a screening of the new docudrama Howl, in which James Franco portrays a young Allen Ginsberg. Diggory is an expert on the Beat movement poets.
Regina Janes, professor of English, presented the annual Christian Gauss Award for excellence in literary criticism to V.A. Kolve for Telling Images: Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative II at the Dec. 3 award ceremony sponsored by Phi Beta Kappa in Washington, D.C.
Beth Post-Lundquist, director of financial aid, led a College Financial Aid Workshop Dec. 9 at the Saratoga Springs High School.
Gordon Thompson, professor of music, has been invited by the Business History Unit, London School of Economics Institute for Capitalising on Creativity, and the University of St. Andrews to address their conference on "The Global Popular Music Business-National Historical Perspectives." The conference will be held Feb. 24-25, 2011, at St. Andrews and is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council,the UK's leading research and training agency addressing economic and social concerns.
Publications
Regina Janes, professor of English, has published "Revisiting Garcia Marquez among the Bananas" in Modern Language Quarterly, Vol. 71, No. 4, December 2010.
In the News
Sandy Baum, professor emerita of economics, was a sorce for "What Does $60 Billion Buy?" published Dec. 5 in The New York Times.
Bernard Possidente, professor of biology, was a source for "Experts, teens back later class times," published Dec. 9 in The Daily Gazette.
Bob Turner, associate professor of government, was a source for "Professor: 'So much for that pesky deficit commission'," published Dec. 7 in The Post-Star.
