Prize-winning Poet Aguero Presents New Poems and
More Readings
December 2004 Through March 2005
Josephine Abercrombie Professor of English Kathleen Aguero published
two poems in the December issue of the Women’s Review
of Books. She also received Honorable Mention for the Gretchen Warren
Poetry Award sponsored by the New England Poetry Club. Aguero’s
third book of poetry, Daughter Of, was published in the fall of
2004, by Cedar Hill Books of San Diego, Calif. Aguero is giving
several readings from Daughter Of this academic year. For more
information on her new book and the schedule of upcoming readings,
please go to the News and Events press release.
Dancer Montella to Direct Sweet Charity
December 2004 Through February 2005
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Dance Sharon Montella performed
in The Nutcracker with the Boston Dance Company in five cities
in and around Boston during the holiday season. In February, she
will direct and choreograph Sweet Charity at the Brooks School
in North Andover, Mass.
Pine Manor College Featured at NEASC Conference
December 2004
Dean of the College Nia Lane Chester, Dean of Student Life Denise
Alleyne, Associate Professor of Art History William Stargard, and
Associate Dean of Student Life William Boffi presented at an annual
assessment conference sponsored by the New England Association
of Schools and Colleges (NEASC). Their presentation focused on
the forms of assessment used at PMC to measure student satisfaction
and learning, and how results from recent assessments were used
to reconsider the nature and effectiveness of the College’s
First Year Seminars, particularly with regard to helping students
make a successful transition to PMC’s highly diverse community.
Boston Medical Center Honors Shea
December 2004
Assistant Professor of Sociology Robert Shea was honored by Boston
Medical Center’s Elders Living at Home Program in December
2004. The agency serves elderly homeless individuals in the Greater
Boston area. The event was hosted by Speaker of the Mass. House
of Representatives, Salvatore DiMasi, and included other honorees
Dan Shaughnessy of the Boston Globe and State Representative Byron
Rushing. Text from the event’s program reads: “We thank
Bob for his many contributions to ELAHP. We are especially grateful
for his active participation in the Steering Committee over the
past year, which has made us stronger, braver, better informed,
and a more successful organization.”
Miller Speaker at Southwest Conferences
Fall Semester 2004
Adjunct Instructor of Anthropology Cynthia Miller gave talks at
three prominent conferences held in the Southwest last semester.
In Tuscon, Miller presented “Turning Up the Heat: Narratives
of Environmental Justice and the Homeless Emergency Action Task
Force” at the Globalization and Environmental Justice Symposium.
In Las Vegas, she talked about “Images of a Wildly Imagined
West: the Musical Westerns of Jed Buell” at the 44th Annual
Meeting of the Western History Association. And in Dallas, Miller
presented “Banning the Beast: Sensationalist Propaganda in Hitler: Beast of Berlin (1939)” at the Biannual Meeting of
the Film and History Society. (She also served as Area Chair for
Propaganda Films for this conference.) In addition, Miller has
written several entries for the forthcoming Facts
on File: Companion to the Novel.
Weinstein Recipient of Harvard Teaching Award
Fall 2004
PMC Professor of Mathematics and Computers Joan Weinstein was honored
by Harvard University’s Extension School with the Petra T.
Shattuck Excellence in Teaching Award, a prize awarded annually
to honor outstanding teaching. Weinstein has been teaching statistics
or college algebra at Harvard’s Extension School for 12 years,
earning praise from her students for making difficult concepts
accessible and usable.
Gegerias Receives New Honors
November 17, 2004
Professor of French Mary Gegerias was promoted to Officer in the
National Order of Arts and Letters (Officier
dans l’Ordre
National des Arts et des Lettres) in November 2004, for her indefatigable
work over the past 56 years at Pine Manor College on behalf of
French culture, language, and literature. French Ambassador Alain
Briottet, acting on behalf of the French Republic and President
Jacques Chirac, presented Gegerias with the medal. In December,
as a result of this distinction, Gegerias also received a commendation
from Senator Cynthia Stone Creem for her “years of hard work
and evident dedication to French culture, language, and literature
at Pine Manor College.” Creem represents the First Middlesex
and Norfolk District of Mass., which encompasses both PMC and Gegerias’s
home in Brookline.
Connor Presents Paper at Child and Adolescent Conference
October 15, 2004
Mary Connor, Associate Professor of Education and
Director of the Teacher Licensure Program, gave a paper on October 15, 2004,
at the International Child and Adolescent Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The conference was sponsored by the National Association of School Psychologists
and the Council for Children with Behavioral Disorders. Connor's paper was titled “Teacher
Training in Assessment and Special Education: Implications for Early Childhood
and Elementary Education Inclusion Classrooms.”
Kelley in Sue Yang Exhibition
September 18 to October 3, 2004
Art Director Joan Kelley will show a painting in the exhibit “Sue Yang and Students” at the Greater Boston Buddhist Cultural Center, 950 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, Mass., September 18 to October 3. A reception will be held September 18, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Pansé Establishes New
Component for Biology Program
Fall 2004
Assisted by a grant from the Tomfohrde Foundation, Assistant Professor
of Biology and Chemistry Ujwala Pansé has established a biotechnology component for PMC’s Biology Program, as well as a new biotechnology laboratory. The goal is to provide hands-on training for students in the area that has been, and will be, critical to the understanding and development of both basic science and medicine. Students can now practice job-oriented biotechnology techniques in the laboratory and learn other important aspects of this ever-growing field.
Kreilkamp Contributes to Irish
Studies Books, Conferences, and Lecture Series
Summer 2004 to February 2005
English Professor Vera Kreilkamp wrote the introduction to two Irish novels
in the new Riverside edition (for undergraduates and graduate students
in literature) of Two Irish National Tales: Maria Edgeworth's “Castle
Rackrent” and Sidney Owenson's “The Wild Irish Girl,”
edited by James Smith (Houghton-Mifflin, 2004). In July, Kreilkamp
presented a paper on gender studies, “Disorienting Passion
in Charles Maturin's Fiction,” at the National Conference of
the American Convention of Irish Studies in Liverpool, England.
In February 2005, she will speak as part of the ongoing lecture
series on Kevin Kenny's Ireland and the British Empire sponsored
by the Irish Studies and Irish Programs at Boston College.
Pansé Attends Chemistry
Workshops
Summer 2004
Assistant Professor of Biology and Chemistry Ujwala Pansé attended workshops at Dolan DNA
Center, Cold Spring Harbor, and Tufts University School of Medicine,
where she learned a state-of-the-art technique called bioinformatics.
It is widely used in biochemistry research laboratories, as well
as in industry. Pansé will add experiments using this technique
to her courses in order to make them more job oriented. She also
attended a workshop on molecular modeling, which is used extensively
in the chemical industry and in protein chemistry. She plans to
introduce the basics of molecular modeling in her Chemistry courses.
Montella Studies Dance in New York City
July and August, 2004
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Dance Sharon Montella studied dance in New York City in July and August, attending classes with Nancy Bielski, Richard Pierlon, Max Stone, Bev B, and others.
Gegerias Attends Paris Seminar
June 2004
Professor of French Mary Gegerias attended a seminar in Paris in June 2004, co-sponsored by L'Institut de Sciences Politiques and Columbia University and titled “Affirmative Action: A Transatlantic Perspective.” Among the participants were President Bollinger and Professor Alan Brinkley from Columbia and representatives from the University of Paris and the École Polytechnique.
Portfolio Program Presented at
Middlesex Carnegie Summer Institute
June 2004
William Boffi, Assistant Dean of Student Life, Nia Lane Chester,
Dean of the College, and William Stargard, Associate Professor of
Art History conducted a panel presentation,
“The Pine Manor College Portfolio Program: Documenting Reflective
Learning,” at the Middlesex Carnegie Summer Institute in June
’04.
Morin Scores Essays in Florida
June 2004
Writing Tutor Sue Morin was invited to score AP English language
essays for the fourth year at Daytona Beach in June. Reading all
day for six days, Morin and some 500 others also took advantage
of many opportunities for networking and professional development.
Bregoli and Stimac Talk About
PMC’s Information Commons
June 11, 2004
Director of Annenberg Library Marilyn Bregoli and Information Technology
Librarian Amy Stimac presented a talk, “The Information Commons
at the Annenberg Library Loft,” at the annual program of the
Association of College and Research Libraries, New England Chapter.
This year’s program, held at Tufts University, was called “Creative
Collaborations: It Takes a Campus to Educate a Student.”
Kreilkamp Contributes to Forthcoming
Book
Spring 2004
English Professor Vera Kreilkamp’s chapter “Fiction and Empire”
will appear this spring in Ireland and the British Empire, edited by
Kevin Kenny, and part of the Oxford History of the British Empire
Companion Series published by Oxford University Press.
French Review to Publish Gegerias’s
Review
Spring 2004
Professor of French Mary Gegerias’s recent review of Pierre Péju’s
novel, La Petite Chartreuse, winner of the Pris du Livre
Inter 2003, will appear in the “Creative Works” section
of the French Review, publication of the American Association of
Teachers of French (AATF).
Pennell Selected for Eastern Communication
Association Presentation
April 2004
Marilyn Pennell, Assistant Professor of Communication,
was selected by the Eastern Communication Association to do a presentation
on her work about the use of video in diversity training at the
annual convention in April, to be held in Boston. Pennell is also
working with the New England Press Consortium on a documentary about
young people and the vote, and will be shooting at the National
Democratic Convention in Boston this summer.
Flanagan Publishes Book of Poetry
March 2004
Adjunct Lecturer in College
Composition Jean Flanagan’s, book of poetry Black Lightening
was just published by Cedar Hill Publications in California. The
poems are about a young woman who travels from Ireland to Boston
during the Great Hunger in Ireland.
Miller Presents Two Talks on
Environmental Issues
February and March 2004
Adjunct Instructor of Anthropology Cynthia Miller traveled to Saratoga Springs in February, to give
a talk titled “The Pedagogy of Environmental Justice: Where
Citizenship and Activism Meet,” at the 14th annual North American
Conference on Environment and Community. In March, Miller spoke
about “Memories of (no)Place: Homelessness and Environmental
Justice,” in Victoria, British Columbia, at the Joint Meetings
of the American Society for Environmental History and the National
Council on Public History.
Owczarek Judges Massachusetts
High School Drama Festival
February 2004
Professor of Drama Bob Owczarek served for the second year as a judge for the preliminary
round of the Massachusetts High School Drama Festival at Hingham
High School on February 28, 2004.
Weinstein Awarded PMC Wean Professorship
for ’04–’05
February 2004
Professor of Mathematics and Computers Joan Weinstein has been awarded the Wean Professorship for ’04–’05.
Weinstein has been teaching courses in Mathematics, Computer Studies,
and Statistics at PMC since 1973. During her sabbatical she will
be working on an introductory statistics textbook in collaboration
with a colleague at the Center for Biostatistics in AIDS Research
at Harvard University. The Wean Professorship is supported through
a gift of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Wean (Adelaide McCracken ’44).
Connor Wins Lindsey Professorship
for ’04–’05
February 2004
Associate Professor of Education Mary Connor, Director of the Education Licensure Program at the
College since 2001, has been awarded the Lindsey Professorship for
’04–’05. Professor Connor will be using her sabbatical
to complete research for her book on the Boston Asylum and Farm
School for Indigent Boys. She has published several articles in
educational journals and currently has a manuscript under review.
The Lindsey Professorship is supported through a gift of Mr. and
Mrs. John Lindsey (Sara Houston Lindsey ’43).
Aguero, Visiting Research Associate
at Brandeis University, Spring Semester
January to June 2004
Josephine Abercromie Professor of English Kathleen Aguero is a visiting research associate in the Scholars
Program of the Brandeis University Women’s Studies Research
Center this semester. From January 23 to February 8, Aguero enjoyed
a two-week residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
She looks forward to a new book of poetry, Daughter Of, being published
by Cedar Hill Publications this spring.
Hobbs to Read from Prize-Winning
Poetry Manuscript
March 9, 2004, Emerson College
Carol Hobbs, Adjunct Lecturer, College
Composition, won the PEN Discovery Award in January 2004, for
her unpublished poetry manuscript New Found Lande. She will join
the fiction and essay winners in a reading at Emerson College on
March 9, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Henderson to Play in Boston’s
Vagina Monologues
Thursday, February 5, 2004, 7:30 p.m., John Hancock
Hall, Boston
PMC Bursar Sophia Henderson was chosen to perform in the Boston
production of Eve Ensler’s Obie Award-winning play, The Vagina
Monologues. The production, which benefits The Second Step, features
a cast of prominent women from the Boston area and marks the city’s
inaugural participation in the worldwide V-Day campaign to end violence
against women. A former Miss Trinidad and Tobago (and mother of
PMC student Ananda Mitchell), Henderson has been affiliated with
The Second Step for several years.
Pennell Receives NATPE Faculty
Fellowship
January 2004
Marilyn Pennell, Assistant Professor of Communication,
was awarded a Faculty Fellowship from the National Association of
Television Program Executives (NATPE), to attend the annual conference
in Las Vegas, from January 15 through January 21. At the conference
TV industry executives from around the world discussed trends in
the industry and communication curriculum.
Miller Publishes Article
January 2004
Adjunct Anthropology Instructor Cynthia Miller’s article “A Nightmare of Complicities:
Crafting the Horror of Modernity in Gautam Bhatia’s Malaria
Dreams” appeared in Culture and Power: Phobias, edited by Cristina
Andreu, published by Peter Lang Publishing.
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