Professional Activities

What are the opportunities and challenges of teaching and learning in small college English departments? Mark C. Long, professor of English and American Studies, explores this question in his recently published essay, “Centers and Peripheries,” in the spring 2010 issue of the journal Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition and Culture. As the guest editor for the special issue, Mark brings together six essays that explore the small college English department to investigate the possibilities for teaching and learning in these institutional settings and to suggest how these local practices might inspire comparable intellectual work in other professional and intellectual contexts. In addition, the Reviews section of the special issue includes writing by Kate Tirabassi, assistant professor of English, and professor of English emerita Robin Dizard.

Laura Seraichick (Information Technology Group) presented on “Perspectives on Leadership from Women in Charge of Campus IT” at the New Hampshire Women in Higher Education Leadership Spring Conference at Franklin Pierce University, NH, April 9, 2010.

Joseph Darby (Music) presented the paper “Revisiting the Early Performing History of Handel’s Twelve Grand Concertos” at the Fourth Biennial Conference of The Society for Eighteenth-Century Music, held at St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY, on April 8-11. The study uses newspaper advertisements, oratorio wordbooks, and manuscript evidence to improve the documentary record of one of the mid-eighteenth century’s leading orchestral compositions. The paper has been accepted for publication by the Society in an forthcoming book to be published by Steglein Publishing.