Jeffrey Berman, Ph.D. `71, has-published Diaries to an English Professor: Pain and Growth in the Classroom (University of Massachusetts Press, 1994). A study of diaries written in Berman's literature-and-psychoanalysis courses, the book offers a glimpse into students' personal world. Berman is professor of English at the University of Albany.
Sharon Bryan, M.A. `69, edited Where We Stand: Contemporary Women Poets on Literary Tradition (Norton, 1994), a collection of essays by twenty-two different poets. Bryan is a visiting professor at Dartmouth College.
Julie Edelson, Ph.D. `74, has published her second novel, Bad Housekeeping (Baskerville Publishers, Inc., 1995).
Kevin Egan `74 has published (under the pseudonym Conor Daly) Local Knowledge (Kensington, 1995), a mystery set on the golf course.
Bruce Fink `76 presents and guides the reader into the radical new theory of subjectivity found in the work of Jacques Lacan in The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance (Princeton University Press, 1995). Fink is associate professor of psychology at the Duquesne University and a practicing psychoanalyst.
Lisa Aronson Fontes `82, in Sexual Abuse in Nine North American Cultures: Treatment and Prevention (Sage Publications, 1995), argues that therapy for child abuse must be culturally sensitive. Aronson Fontes is assistant professor of marriage and family therapy at Purdue University.
Diane Freedman `77 edited a collection in the Ad Feminam series (general editor, Sandra Gilbert) called Millay at 100, A Critical Reappraisal (Southern Illinois University Press, 1995). Freedman is teaching in the Department of English at the University of New Hampshire.
David Garnham `64 and Mark Tessler in Democracy, War, and Peace in the Middle East (Indiana University Press, 1995) ask whether the rarity of warfare between democracies means that Middle Eastern conflicts would abate if democracy spread within the region. Garnham is professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Eli Goldblatt `74, who has published three books of poetry and two children's books, has now written `Round My Way: Authority and Double-Consciousness in Three Urban High School Writers (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995). Goldblatt looks closely at texts three high school students wrote about their city neighborhoods and develops a theory of authority in writing. He is assistant professor of English and director of the writing center at Villanova University.
Arnold J. Goldman `53, a partner in Goldman & Goldman in Rochester, New York, a firm that specializes in real estate tax assessments, has re-issued with W. D. Sigismond Business Law: Principals and Practices, Fourth Edition (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996).
Eric Harwit `84, in China's Automobile Industry (M. E. Sharpe, 1995), traces the history of car manufacture in China and focuses on four modern foreign-invested projects in the People's Republic. Harwit is assistant professor of Asian studies at the University of Hawaii.
David Hassler `86 has published Sabishi: poems from Japan (Kent State University Press, 1994). He will be working in the Ohio Arts Council's -Poet in the Schools' program next year.
Theodore Hofmann, `58, M.S. `59, and Joan Harris Winterkorn `71 have published John Evelyn in the British Library (The British Library, 1995). John Evelyn was a diarist contemporary with and admired by Pepys. While Pepys is more vivid, Evelyn has broader interests and continued writing long after Pepys stopped.
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Steven L. Kessler `78, J.D. `82, an attorney in New York City, has published Civil and Criminal Forfeiture: Federal and State Practice (Clark Boardman Callaghan, 1993 & 1995 Supp.), a three-volume and twice-annually updated treatise on forfeiture and RICO statutes in all fifty states and the District of Columbia and the major provisions of the federal government.
Matthew H. Kramer `81, a university lecturer in jurisprudence at Cambridge University, has published his second book on legal and political philosophy, Critical Legal Theory and the Challenge of Feminism (Rowman & Littlefield, 1995).
F. Cooke, R. F. Rockwell, and David B. Lank, Ph.D. `83, have published results from long-term studies of birds in the late twentieth century: The Snow Geese of La Perouse Bay: Natural Selection in the Wild (Oxford University Press, 1995). Lank is assistant professor in behavioral and wildlife ecology research at Simon Fraser University.
Donald Lateiner, M.A. `67, studies the role of -body language' in Homer's fiction, particularly the Odyssey, in Sardonic Smile: Nonverbal Behavior in Homeric Epic (Michigan, 1995). Lateiner is the John R. Wright Professor of Greek and Humanities, Ohio Wesleyan University.
Carmen Licari `67 and Anna Soncini Fratta have published Andre Fontainas et ses amis belges. Avec des lettres inedites (1889-1948) (Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki, Florence, 1994). Licari is professor of French language and literature at the University of Bologna.
The Social Construction of Choice and the New Reproductive and Genetic Technologies (In Two Volumes), edited by G. Basen, M. Eichler, and Abby Lippman `60 (Voyageur Publishing, vol. 1, 1994; vol. 2, 1995), argue that new reproductive and genetic technologies bring with them social constraints on women's choices, economic gains for commercial interests, and most troubling, the fabrication of humans. Lippman is professor of epidemiology and biostatistics and acting chair of the Centre for Research and Teaching on Women at McGill University.
Robert Little `90, a law student, has edited with S. Alexander and S. S. Oliver Harm v. Culpability: Which Should Be the Organizing Principle of the Criminal Law? (Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues, 1994).
Marjorie Maddox, M.F.A. `89, has published many of her poems in journals and anthologies. Perpendicular As I (Sandstone, 1994), her first full-length book, won the Sandstone Publishing National Poetry Book Competition. Maddox is associate professor of literature and writing at Lock Haven University.
Nancy Nivison Menzel `66 has published Workers' Comp Management from A to Z: A -How To' Guide with Forms (OEM Press, 1994).
Bruce Piasecki `76, Ph.D. `81, associate professor of environmental management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has published Corporate Environmental Strategy: The Avalanche of Change Since Bhopal (Wiley Publishers, 1995).
Lynn Powell, M.F.A. `80, won the 1995 Brittingham Prize in Poetry for Old & New Testaments (University of Wisconsin Press, 1995).
Harriet L. Rheingold `28 published The Psychologist's Guide to an Academic Career (American Psychological Association, 1994).
Elisavietta Ritchie `54, has been writing, publishing, winning awards, and teaching stories and poetry for many years. The most recent include The Arc of the Storm, Elegy for the other Woman: new and selected terribly female poems, and Wild Garlic: The Journal of Maria X (all available from Signal Books, 118 East Main Street, Carrboro NC 27510). Ritchie lives in Washington, D.C., and Toronto.
Deborah Lee Rose `77, who lives in Walnut Creek, California, has published a new children's book, The Rose Horse (Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1995).
Tom Russell `63, professor of education at Queen's University (Canada), and Fred Korthagen, co-edited Teachers Who Teach Teachers: Reflections on Teacher Education (Falmer Press, 1995).
Irene Smalls `71, author of multicultural children's books, has five new ones coming out: Father's Day Blues and Ebony Sea (both Longmeadow Press, 1995), Louise's Gift (Little Brown, 1996), Jenny Reen and the Jack Muh Lantern on Halloween (Atheneum, fall 1996), and Christmas Masquerade (Little, Brown, fall 1996).
Judith L. Stern `84 and Robert Lettieri explain how to use and create digital video in Quicktime: The Official Guide for Macintosh Users (Hayden, 1994). Stern lives in Oakland, California.
Blema S. Steinberg, M.A. `57, published Shame and Humiliation: Presidential Decision Making on Vietnam (University of Pittsburgh Press, May 1996).
James R. Whitley `88, a doctoral candidate at Harvard, has published his first collection of poetry: The Impetus to March (Titan Books, 1995).
Robert A. Wilson, M.A. `90, Ph.D. `92, assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Western Australia, has published Cartesian Psychology and Physical Minds: Individualism and the Sciences of the Mind (Cambridge University Press, 1995).
Astri Wright `78, Ph.D. `91, associate professor of art history, University of Victoria, B.C., has published Soul, Spirit, and Mountain: Preoccupations of Contemporary Indonesian Painters (Oxford University Press, 1994).
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