English Department News

Students

The following students were inducted into Sigma Tau Delta on April 27, 2010: Melissa Bennett, Amanda Carey, Dana Laribee, Jessica Lesniak, Cristina Manoiero, Brian Marcantonio, Devon Miller, Autumn Mooney, Andrea Peck, Korey Perkins, Brian Sfinas, Jennie Tofani, and Josh Zotta.


 

Faculty

Jason Denman spent June 2010 doing research for a book project at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C. The Folger houses the largest collection of the printed works of Shakespeare in the world and a major collection of rare books and manuscripts for the early modern period. His research is supported by a short-term fellowship from the Folger and by a summer fellowship from Utica College

Gary Leising received the Harold T. Clark summer fellowship to support a creative project, a collection of poems tentatively titled LDN, free verse poems dealing with London and other places in the United Kingdom. These quasi-comic, meditative poems will deal with places, people, art, London’s past and present, always with one thought about the city in mind: to quote Peter Ackroyd, England’s capital is ripe with “anomalies and contradictions—London is so large and so wild that it contains no less than everything.”

John Cormican was awarded the college’s Virgil Crisafulli Distinguished Teaching Award at graduation in May 2010.