Faculty/Staff Achievements

Richard Gillin has been named Washington College’s new Ernest A. Howard Professor of English Literature. Gillin assumed that mantle following the retirement of Nancy Tatum. Douglas Hanks III, media relations associate, had a satirical essay published by The Washington Post “Outlook” section on Sunday, May 9. The article, titled “Here’s the Soft Landing You’re Looking For,” urged President Clinton to retire to the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Claire Katz, assistant professor of philosophy, was a respondent in the Spring Symposium at Salisbury State University in April. The symposium focused on the ethics of cloning. She was also selected to participate in the National Humanities Council summer seminar on Foucault in June, and was invited to present a paper at a conference

on Levinas and the Judiac at Emory University this October. Katz also had a paper accepted at the Merleau-Ponty circle this summer in Wales, and has a book review being published in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy. Jacqueline Jones, assistant professor of English and American studies, has been invited to submit an essay on James Baldwin for a volume of the Dictionary of Literary Biography on American Novelists since World War II. It will be published by Northern Illinois University. Valérie Loichot, assistant professor of French, recently had an article titled “Renaming the Name: Glissant and Walcott’s Reconstruction of the Caribbean Self” accepted for publication in The Journal of Caribbean Literatures in a special issue titled “The Carib (Continued on p. 14)

Thomas Cousineau, professor of English, served as visiting professor of American literature at the University of Paris during the spring semester. His new book, After the Final No: Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy (Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses), has recently been published. (See article on Page 8.) Lisa Daniels, assistant professor of economics, had her review of Participatory Development: The Case of Zimbabwe by John Makumbe accepted by the African Studies Quarterly Journal. James Daraszdi, associate professor of business management, had his paper “Using the Audit Committee of the Board to Assess Risk” accepted for publication in The Forensic Examiner, the journal of the American College of Forensic Examiners. He also has completed a pre-publication academic review on a recently published book titled Cash Flow Return on Investment, a Total System Approach to Valuing a Firm. Richard DeProspo, professor of English, had his paper “An Anomaly on the Face of the Earth” accepted by Richard Kopley for the Poe Session at the Modern Language Association. He

was employed again by the U.S. State Department to travel to Slovenia in June to advise Maribor University on the establishment of an American studies program. Robert Fallaw, the Everett E. Nuttle Professor of History, in April gave a paper on “Recent Interpretations of the American Civil War” at the regional meeting of the Delaware State Library Association in Georgetown, DE.

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