Faculty and Staff Notes
Kirk Ormand Reviews Translation
July 1, 2020
Nathan A. Greenberg Professor of Classics Kirk Ormand reviewed Marlaine Delargy's translation into English of Theodor Kallifatides' The Siege of Troy (Other Press, 2019). Ormand's review appears in Reading in Translation, the online literary review of translated works, edited by Associate Professor Stiliana Milkova.
Nancy Darling Featured in CNN Article
June 27, 2020
Professor of Psychology Nancy Darling was featured in a CNN article on the resilience of 2020 graduates.
Sheila Miyoshi Jager Publishes Dutch Edition of Book
June 26, 2020
The Dutch edition of East Asian Studies Professor Sheila Miyoshi Jager's book Brothers At War: The Unending Conflict in Korea was released on June, 23 2020 from Uitgeverij Omniboek. It joins the U.S. and UK editions, both published in 2013.
Stiliana Milkova Interviewed
June 25, 2020
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Stiliana Milkova was interviewed in Italian about the RAI/HBO TV series "My Brilliant Friend." In her interview, Milkova discusses a key change in the adaptation of the TV series from Elena Ferrante's eponymous cycle of four novels. Milkova also reflectes on the role of place and space in Ferrante's novels.
Jiyul Kim and Sheila Miyoshi Jager Publish on the Korean War
June 19, 2020
Visiting Instructor of History Jiyul Kim and Professor of East Asian Studies Sheila Miyoshi Jager recently published "The Lasting Legacies of Korean War Special Operations" in the special Summer 2020 issue of the Wilson Quarterly marking the 70th anniversary of the Korean War and a series of posts on "New and Old Sources on Select Korean War Topics & Issues" on The Wilson Center History & Public Policy Program's Sources & Methods site.
Shari Rabin Quoted
June 19, 2020
Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Religion Shari Rabin is quoted in an article in the Jewish Telegraph Agency concerning a California synagogue's decision to alter a monument in their synagogue that included the name of a slave-holding, Confederate Jew.
Wendy Kozol writes piece on visual display of militarized force
June 12, 2020
Professor of Comparative American Studies Wendy Kozol wrote a piece for Reading the Pictures about the visual display of militarized force used against peaceful demonstrators.
Amanda Schmidt Coauthors Article
June 10, 2020
Associate Professor of Geology Amanda Schmidt coauthored the article “Cuba's clean rivers show the benefits of reducing nutrient pollution” published on the Conversation.
Kristina Mani Publishes Article about the Use of Military on Civil Protests
June 9, 2020
Associate Professor of Politics Kristina Mani wrote a piece in the Conversation about how U.S. should pay attention to what happens when strong democracies use the military to repress civil protests. In it, Mani states that lessons from Uruguay, Venezuela, and Chile are worth recalling now.
Megan Kaes Long Publishes Monograph
June 8, 2020
Associate Professor of Music Theory Megan Kaes Long published a monograph, Hearing Homophony: Tonal Expectation at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century (Oxford University Press). The book, which appears on the series Oxford Studies in Music Theory, explores how the regular rhythms and text setting of sixteenth-century popular song provoked encouraged a kind of listening that we now think of as tonal.