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David Adams, English-Lima: review of Woolf Across Cultures, ed. by Natalya Reinhold, Modernism/Modernity 12 (2005): 525-26.

Richard Dutton, English, and Jean Howard, eds. A Companion to Shakespeare's Works: 1 The Tragedies, A Companion to Shakespeare's Works: 2 The Histories, A Companion to Shakespeare's Works: 3 The Comedies, and A Companion to Shakespeare's Works: 4 The Poems, Problem Plays and Late Plays, paperback edition (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005).

Carter Findley and John Rothney, History: 6^th edition of Twentieth-Century World (Houghton Mifflin, 2006).

Doug Ramspeck [Sutton-Ramspeck], English: "Simulacrum," poem, Rosebud 33 (Aug. 2005): 103.

Mark Rankin, English: ed. "Complete Set of Woodcut Illustrations from the First Four English Editions of John Foxe’s Actes and Monuments (the 'Book of Martyrs'), with Selected Images from the 1554 and 1559 Latin Editions," The American Theological Library Association, 2004; http://www.atla.com/digitalresources.

Susan Williams, English: "Publishing," The Encyclopedia of New England: The Culture and History of an American Region, ed. Burt Feintuch and David H. Watters (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005), 1134-36.

At the 2005 College of Humanities Faculty Recognition Reception, the following faculty members were announced as recipients of the major awards given by the College: Distinguished Humanities Professors: Kevin Boyle (History), Peter Culicover (Linguistics), Carter Findley (History), Cynthia Selfe (English), and Abril Trigo (Spanish and Portuguese); Diversity Enhancement Award: James Buckley (English-Mansfield); Virginia Hull Research Award: Jennifer Siegel (History); and Exemplary Faculty Award: Frank Coulson (Greek and Latin). For descriptions of these awards and deadlines for this year's competitions, see: http://humanities.osu.edu/FacStaff/default.cfm.

Dancing with Ghosts: A Critical Biography of Arturo Islas (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005), written by Frederick Aldama, English, is this year's recipient of the Modern Language Association's award for best book in Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies.

Healing Identities: Black Feminist Thought and the Politics of Groups, written by Cindy Burack, Women's Studies, has received the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis's 2005 Gradiva Award for best book in the area of historical, cultural, and literary analysis.

David Adams, English-Lima, presented "Myth and Dogma in 1920: The Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy and Freud's 'Death Drive,'" at the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association and International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures Joint Congress, Cairns, Australia, July 17.

John Brooke, History, participated in a panel discussion on "The American Revolution in Worcester: The Significance of 1774," at the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, October 6.

Graduate student Anne Collinson, History, presented "Policing the Borders: Child Migrants and the Mexico-US Border" at the 10th annual Metropolis Conference on Migration, Toronto, Canada, October 19.

Patrick Mullen, English, presented "Go Down, Moses and 'Amazing Grace': The Writer and the Raconteur," at the 2005 Literature Colloquium "Investigating Intersections: Literature, Folklore, and Legend, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, October 14.

The Department of African American and African Studies Community Extension Center and the Institute for Collaborative Research will host "On Moral Grounds….High-Stakes Testing of Students and Schools: What’s At Stake?," A Community Conversation with Sherry Rose-Bond, Director of Accountability and Testing, Columbus Public Schools, 5:30-7:00pm, October 27, Community Extension Center, 905 Mount Vernon Ave. Contact: aaascec.osu.edu.

Katherine Burkman, English, and WOMEN AT PLAY will present their original, site-specific drama, "Woman in a Yellow Dress," at a home at 256 South Columbia in Bexley on October 27 at 8:00 pm, October 28 at 8:00 pm, October 29 at 8:00 pm, and October 30 at 2:00 and 4:30 p.m. The play will also be performed at the Columbus Museum of Art, 480 E. Broad Street in the auditorium at 6:00 pm, November 3 in conjunction with the museum's exhibit, "Renoir’s Women" (must have tickets in advance) and at the Riffe Gallery, 2:00 pm, 77 South High Sreet, November 6 in conjunction with the Riffe's exhibit, "Breaking with Tradition: Paintings by Ohio Women." Tickets for all performances are $15 or $10 for seniors/students. Contact: (614) 457-6580.

The Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies will host a symposium to honor Virginia Brown on her 65th birthday on October 28-29, 130 Page Hall. Professor Brown has been Senior Fellow at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto since 1970. She has taught regularly the courses in palaeography and text editing, as well as serving as the editor for Mediaeval Studies until 1988. She has trained several generations of scholars (including the current director of Palaeography for the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies) and is the world's leading authority on the Beneventan hand, the script written in the southern part of Italy during the Middle Ages. The symposium will feature Brown’s colleagues and former students who will address topics in areas of research in which Brown is currently engaged, including Beneventan script, texts dealing with the liturgy, and the classical tradition. Supported by the Departments of Greek and Latin, History, Germanic Languages and Literatures, the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the College of the Arts, the Hilandar Research Library, The John Glenn Institute for Public Service and Public Policy, and the Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies. Visit: http://epigraphy.osu.edu/courses/.

Stephen Kuusisto, Cindy Gaillard, and Bart Skarzynsksi will give a Student/Faculty Reading, 7:00 pm, November 3, 311 Denney Hall. Contact: Creative Writing Program, 292-2242.

The Center for Folklore Studies presents a Forum on Popular Culture and Social Change in Kenya Today featuring Kimani Njogu (Twaweza Communications, Nairobi) and Mbugua wa-Mungai (Kenyatta University, Nairobi), 3:30 pm, November 8, 347 University Hall. A reception sponsored by the Department of African American and African Studies will follow. Contact: Dorothy Noyes, noyes.10@osu.edu, or Nina Berman, berman.58@osu.edu.

Matt Goldish, History, will present "Sephardic Life After 1492," in the College of Humanities’ first Inaugural Lecture of the academic year, 4:30 pm, November 15, OSU Faculty Club. After the Iberian Jews (Sepharadim) were expelled from Spain and Portugal at the end of the fifteenth century, they were scattered across the Ottoman Empire and parts of Western Europe. Narratives of their lives over the following centuries can be found in an unexpected source: the responsa, or legal questions asked of rabbis with their responses. Hundreds of responsa collections from the Sephardic world have been preserved; selections from some of these will be discussed. RSVP: 292-1882.