Associate Professor of English Adrian Blevins won the Two Sylvias Press Wilder Series Poetry Book Prize—a poetry contest for women over age 50—for her third book of poems, Appalachians Run Amok, which will be published in spring 2018. The Wilder Series Book Prize draws its inspiration from American author Laura Ingalls Wilder, who published her...
Walter Hatch, associate professor of government, commented in a March 4 Japan Times article about a recent ruling in the Seoul Central District Court that “partially affirmed the claims of Korean women who had been sex workers in ‘camp towns’ adjacent to U.S. military bases in the 1960s and ’70s.” The ruling “exposes the hypocrisy...
Adrianna Paliyenko, Charles A. Dana Professor of French, makes news again with a fellowship award from the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. The visiting research fellowship for January 2018 will support her new book project, Passion and Its Discontents: Rethinking Louisa Siefert’s Body of Work, with archival research to be conducted at the Beinecke...
Mary Ellis Gibson, the newly arrived Arthur Jeremiah Roberts Professor of Literature and chair of the English Department, brings remarkable breadth and depth to Colby as a scholar of literature in English, including works by British, American, and Indian authors. Arriving last fall from the University of Glasgow, Gibson is excited about the desire in...
Herb Wilson, the Leslie Brainerd Arey Professor of Biosciences, will address the Stanton Bird Club in Lewiston, Maine, March 6, in a talk titled “The Spring Arrival of Migratory Birds.” The Lewiston Sun Journal reports March 1 that Wilson “has been tracking the arrival dates of over 100 Maine breeding birds for more than 20 years,” and...
Melissa Glenn, associate professor of psychology, is a recipient of a 2017-18 James McKeen Cattell Fund Fellowship. For more than 50 years, the fund has provided support for the science and application of psychology. This award includes financial support to extend Glenn’s sabbatical from one semester to two. Her sabbatical activities will include collaborating with colleagues...
Associate Professor of Philosophy Lydia Moland has been awarded an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) fellowship in support of her 2017-18 sabbatical for a book project titled Hegel’s Aesthetics: The Art of Idealism. The ACLS was founded in 1919 to support “excellence in research” and foster “America’s democratic ethos and intellectual aspirations.” The grant will...
In a Feb. 24 Portland Press Herald op-ed, Catherine Besteman, Francis F. Bartlett and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Anthropology, recounts her struggle to understand Maine state Rep. Lawrence Lockman’s anti-immigrant position. Besteman, who has studied immigrant resettlement for decades, argues that welcoming immigrant populations is actually good for cities and encourages readers to look at the...
The CBC Radio podcast The Current included Charles A. Dana Professor of Science, Technology, and Society James R. Fleming in a Feb. 20 discussion titled “Can a $500 billion geoengineering project save the Arctic from melting?” In response to this particular project, Fleming told host Anna Marie Tremonti “I think we should study this but we shouldn’t...
William “Billy” A. Oates Jr. ’65, current trustee and member of the Colby Museum of Art Board of Governors, died Feb. 14, 2017, at age 74. Oates, from Dedham, Mass., was an investment advisor and founding partner of Northeast Investment Management in Boston, where he managed Northeast Investors Growth Fund for more than 30 years....
Joseph “Yossi” Roisman, professor of classics and expert on Greek and Roman history and historiography, has a new book out. The Classical Art of Command (Oxford University Press, 2017) examines the career of eight prominent Greek generals, including the Spartan king Leonidas and the Athenian leader Themistocles. “Bringing together extensive use of ancient sources and modern scholarship...
Adam Cote ’95 received the Meritorious Service Medal for his service with the Maine National Guard. “The honor recognizes Cote’s leadership in organizing and carrying out numerous projects of the 133rd Engineer Battalion in communities throughout Maine, from as far north as Houlton to as south as Acton, in 2016,” Foster’s Daily Democrat reports Feb....
Colby’s men’s ice hockey team is kicking ice this year, and WGME-TV caught up with coach Blaise Macdonald and the team at the University of New England. The Mules have been nationally ranked for most of the season, WGME’s Dave Eid reports. “I think when you look at our program, it’s a lot like farming,”...
An essay by Visiting Assistant Professor of English Jacquelyn Ardam appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books Jan. 10. Her essay on the podcast My Favorite Murder helps her cope with the memory of the shooting at UCLA, where she studied and taught. “My Favorite Murder feels like a support group for anxious people who are calmed, if not satiated,...
Visiting Associate Professor of Art Daniel Harkett has coedited, with Katie Hornstein, Horace Vernet and the Thresholds of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture (University Press of New England, 2017). This collection reconsiders the life and work of Emile Jean-Horace Vernet (1789–1863), presenting him as a crucial figure for understanding the visual culture of modernity. The book includes work by...
Professor of History Paul Josephson has been busy writing and lecturing since October. Here are his recent accomplishments: October 2016 A lecture on “Chernobyl’s Fallout in the World of Nuclear Energy Production—Thirty Years On” in Barcelona, Spain. January 2017 A talk on “Heroism and Secrecy Across the Arctic: Building Industry in the Dark and Cold” at...
Professor of Art Véronique Plesch’s chapter “Word and Image in Early Performance” in The Routledge Research Companion to Early Drama and Performance (Ed. Pamela King. Abingdon: Routledge. 99–117) is now out. The volume’s editor, Pamela King, writes in her introduction: “Aptly the first chapter here [referring to the book’s Part II: Modes of Production and...
In January Provost and Vice President for Faculty Lori G. Kletzer announced honors given to faculty members L. Sandy Maisel and Tanya Sheehan. Both scholars received new titles: Maisel was appointed the Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of American Government and Sheehan the William R. Kenan Jr. Associate Professor of Art. Sandy Maisel is a renowned...
The story of Fork Food Lab, a shared kitchen space in Maine’s largest city, was covered by WGME TV13 Jan. 18. Cofounded by Nick Spillane ’08 and Eric Holstein ’08, the collaborative kitchen allows food producers to pay rent to “gain access to industrial commercial kitchen equipment in a shared space,” WGME reports. Recently, the...
A new book by Charles A. Dana Professor of French Adrianna Paliyenko was recently published by Penn State University Press. Genius Envy: Women Shaping French Poetic History 1801-1900 reveals how female poets of the time, dismissed by thinkers, critics, and literary historians, “invigorated the debate about the origins of genius and garnered considerable recognition in their time...
