Faculty News

The literary magazine the new renaissance, based in Boston, published Lauren Hahn's translation of a short story by the German author, Barbara Honigmann. The title of the story is "Graves in London" and it appears in volume 37, the most recent edition of this journal.

Allan Johnston recently had a poem, "Childhood Near Hollywood," published in Rhino, and he read as an invited reader at the Rhino publication reading. He also has a poem forthcoming in Poetry East called "Meditation on Bliss."

Gerald Mulderig's chapter "Telling Life Stories: The Rhetorical Form of Biographical Narratives" was published in Life Writing: Autobiography, Biography, and Travel Writing in Contemporary Literature, ed. Koray Melikoglu (Stuttgart: Ibidem, 2007) 35-46.

Christine Sneed has a story forthcoming from the New England Review and another from Other Voices.

Darren Trongeau (MAE 06) is in his third quarter of teaching First-Year Writing courses and will be presenting a paper at Western Michigan University's 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI on Friday, May 11.  This paper, titled "Laughter and Breaking the Silence," examines the threatening aspects of Merlin's laughter in the 13th-century French romance Silence.