Faculty-Staff Achievements, Sept. 21, 2009

Activities

Mary Kathryn Jablonski, assistant to the director of the Schick Art Gallery and a 1989 Skidmore alumna, read recent poems in April 2009 at the Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz, N.Y. (with poet Georganna Millman), followed by a reading in July at Washington Park, Albany, N.Y. (presented by the Poetry Motel & Hudson Valley Writers Guild). In August Jablonski read at Saratoga Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, N.Y., (presented by Adirondack Center for Writing; with novelist Rob Cohen) and at the Spotty Dog Bookstore, Hudson, N.Y. (with poets Will Nixon and Kenneth Salzmann).

Publications

John Anzalone, professor of French and Class of 1948 Chair, has published "Hermann-Paul et la guerre sur bois" in the fall number of Le Bulletin du bibliphile, a journal founded in the 19th century by the Romantic writer Charles Nodier. The article reprises in part the presentation Anzalone gave in the 2007 Moseley Lecture on French graphic arts during the Great War.

Gordon Thompson, professor of music, last week posted two new entries to his Oxford University Press blog.

In the News

Sandy Baum, professor of economics, was a source for “In a recession, is college worth it? Fear of debt changes plans” published Aug. 31 in USA Today.