Rick Roemer, chair and artistic director of the Theatre Department, is starring in a world premiere play by Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Schekkan through The University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance. The Marriage of Miss Hollywood and King Neptune opens Friday, Nov. 4, in the B. Iden Payne Theatre and runs through Sunday, Nov. 13.

October 20, 2005

Eileen Cleere, associate professor of English, delivered a paper in late September at the 2005 North American Victorian Studies Association in Charlottesville. The paper, "Brown Studies: Painting and Pestilence in Late-Victorian Fiction," is part of her current book project about the impact of sanitary reform on Victorian aesthetics.

"'Learning to Govern: The Texas Experience" by Tiffany Barnes, Class of 2004, and Tim O'Neill, professor of political science, will be published in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Political Science. A 2004 Mundy Fellowship funded the research for this article.

October 6, 2005

Assistant Professor of Spanish Katy Ross's article titled "Sex, Drugs, and Violence in Lucia Etxebarria's Amor, curiosidad, prozac y dudas" will be published in Novels of the Contemporary Extreme this spring.

Alicia L. Moore, assistant professor of education, co-edited the Winter/Spring 2005 Black History Bulletin for the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) and co-wrote the foreword. The bulletin highlights the Niagara Movement, which was the first national organization to demand civil rights for African Americans. The bulletin includes articles and lesson plans written for middle and high school teachers who teach American history and social studies classes. The bulletin also showcases the writing talents of Jason Hayes, a recent Southwestern University graduate.