Michael Saenger, assistant professor of English, has had an article titled "Apocryphalness and the Shapes of Collaboration: A Yorkshire Tragedy" accepted by the editors of "Shakespeare Yearbook 2005," a special themed issue devoted to the Shakespearean Apocrypa. Saenger's article was developed from papers delivered at the 1999 and 2000 conventions of the Modern Language Association.

Amy L. Wink, assistant professor of English, read her creative nonfiction essay "When This You See, Remember Me: Collecting the Signs of Life" at the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Conference in Albuquerque, N.M., last week. She also learned that her poem "Cleaning Matthew's Room" will be included, as well, as her co-authored essay "In Memory of Women: Antiques, Artifacts, and the Collectable Past," in the series of Collecting/Collections/Collectibles books edited by Susan Koppelman and Alison Franks, to be published by the University of Kentucky Press.

February 20, 2003

Rick Roemer, professor of theatre, will perform two sold-out concerts on the West Coast during spring break. Along with professional singer/actor Louis Sacco, Roemer will perform an "Evening Of Musical Theatre" at the Lancaster Performing Arts Center as part of their Broadway subscription season on Friday and Saturday, Mar.14-15. Upon returning from Los Angeles, he will jump into rehearsals as an equity guest artist in Shakespeare's "Henry V" with the Austin Shakespeare Festival which will open at the Austin Playhouse on Friday, Apr. 11.

February 14, 2003

Bob Bednar, assistant professor of communication studies, recently had an article and three of his photographs published in "The World is a Text: Writing, Reading, and Thinking About Culture and Its Contexts," edited by Jonathan Silverman & Dean Rader (Prentice Hall, 2003). The article is titled "Caught Looking: Problems With Taking Pictures of People Taking Pictures at an Exhibition."

February 6, 2003

Kathleen M. Helal, assistant professor of English, had her book review of Jane Dowson's "Women, Modernism and British Poetry, 1910-1939: Resisting Femininity" published in the Winter 2003 edition of the "Virginia Woolf Bulletin."

Eric Selbin, associate professor of political science, published a chapter entitled "Zapata's White Horse and Che's Beret: Theses on the Future of Revolutions," in the volume "The Future of Revolutions: Rethinking Radical Change in the Age of Globalization" (London: Zed). The volume was the product of a conference and includes in addition to the chapters contributed three "thematic discussions" among the participants. Selbin's involvement in the conference was funded by grants from the American Sociological Association's Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation of the University of California. The initial writing was supported by the Brown Distinguished Research Professor Program, improved by several colleagues on campus including Laura Hobgood-Oster, Phil Hopkins, Bob Snyder, and Shannon Winnubst and rewritten with feedback from Melissa Whited and some of the other students in the Spring 2002 course "Latin America: Reform, Resistance, and Rebellion."

Patrick Veerkamp, professor of art, has been invited to participate in a panel discussion focusing on the topic of "The Role of the Artist in Contemporary Society" at 1:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 10, at Baylor University. Other panelists include ceramists Bede Clark, University of Missouri, and Nick de Vries, University of Houston-Clear Lake. This panel is being presented by the Baylor University Department of Art and the University Lecture Series.