Scene from the spring 2009 musical “Crazy About You”
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Philosophy Professor’s Poem Gets National Recognition
Dr. Troy Jollimore had a short essay about his poem “The Solipsist” published with the poem in the Washington Post’s “Poet’s Choice” column, Aug. 2, 2009. He also had the poem “At Lake Scugog” published in the New Yorker, July 27, 2009.
Duchamp Expert Curates at Smithsonian
Dr. James McManus, professor emeritus, Art and Art History, co-curated Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture, an exhibition that ran at the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution March 27–Aug. 2, 2009.
New Publications
Dr. Geoff Baker published Realism’s Empire: Empiricism and Enchantment in the 19th Century Novel (Ohio State University Press, 2009).
Dr. Lawrence Bryant had his History, Ritual, Ceremony, and the Changing Monarchy in France, 1350–1789 chosen as part of the Variorum Collected Studies Series published by Ashgate Publishing in London.
Dr. Jason Nice published Sacred History and National Identity: Comparisons between Early Modern Wales and Brittany (Pickering and Chatto, 2009).
Dr. Paul Eggers’ collection of stories, The Departure Lounge: Stories and a Novella (Ohio State University Press, 2009) won the 2008 Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction.
Professor Receives Grant for Medieval Maps
Dr. Asa Mittman, Art History, received a $50,000 Digital Start-Up Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Digital Humanities Initiative, for the Digital Mappaemundi: A Resource for the Study of Medieval Maps and Geographic Texts. His new book, Inconceivable Beasts: The Wonders of the East in the Beowulf Manuscript, will be released in winter 2009 by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Foreign Language Award
Dr. Sara Cooper, Foreign Languages and Literatures, won the Modern Languages Association Florence Howe Essay Award for her 2008 article on Cuban graphic novels.
Chinese Language Program Expands
Dean Joel Zimbelman, working with professors Frank Li, English, and Duke Sun, Math, received $75,000 from the Chinese Ministry of Education to expand the college’s Chinese language and culture community outreach program.
 On to the Stage
Whitney Krause left CSU, Chico with a BA in Theatre in 2009 and two stage managing internships: Summer Repertory Theatre at Santa Rosa Junior College in summer 2009 and The Western Stage in Salinas in the fall. |
