Aguero Co-teaching in Roxbury and Publishing Again in the New Year
Fall 2005-February 2006
During the fall of 2005, Professor of English and Director of PMC’s College Composition Program, Kathleen Aguero co-taught a Changing Lives Through Literature course at the Roxbury District Court, as part of an alternative sentencing program. In the new year, Aguero, will have her poem “Stillness” published in the Cincinnati Review and an essay titled “Marriage Koan” published in Why I’m Still Married, ed. Karen Propp and Jean Trounstine (Hudson Street Press).
Montella Works in Hip-Hop, Grease and Nutcracker
November-December 2005
Sharon Montella, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Dance, directed a production of Grease at Brooks School in North Andover and choreographed a hip-hop/martial arts duet for the Moses Project in November 2005. Later in the fall, she also toured locally with the Boston Dance Company’s Nutcracker, performing in the roles of Marzipan, Spanish, Snow, and Flowers.
Stern Attends Teaching and Learning Conference
October-November 2005
Lynne Stern, Writing Tutor at the Learning Resource Center, attended a teaching and learning conference sponsored by the Colleges of the Fenway in November 2005. Titled “Learner-Centered Teaching,” the conference was held on the Simmons College campus.
Kreilkamp’s Editing Practicum Produces Journal
Fall 2005
A half-dozen PMC students from the EN 213 course worked with Professor of English Vera Kreilkamp on the 281-page journal Eire Ireland that she co-edits. The current issue included essays on sexuality, Oscar Wilde, 20th-century art (with full-color plates), and a selection of contemporary Irish poetry. It is sponsored by the Irish American Cultural Institute and reaches thousands of individual subscribers and university and college libraries, primarily in the United States, Great Britain, and Ireland. On October 15, 2005, Kreilkamp also published a review of Declan Kiberd’s Ireland and the World in the Irish Times.
Kearney Publishes Book and New Poems
November 2005
Meg Kearney, Director of Creative Writing Programs, had two new poems published in an anthology titled Never Before: Poems About First Experiences, ed. Laure-Anne Bosselaar (Four Way Books). Just out, too, is her “novel in verse” for ages 12 and up, The Secret of Me (Persea Books).
Miller Publishes New Essays
Fall 2005
Adjunct Faculty in Anthropology Cynthia Miller published essays in Hollywood West: American Frontier in Film, Television, and History, ed. Peter Rollins (University of Kentucky); Echoes from the Poisoned Well: Global Memories of Environmental Injustice, ed. Sylvia Hood Washington (Rowman and Littlefield Publishers); and Proceedings of War in Film, Television, and History, ed. Peter Rollins (Film & History League). She was also appointed film review editor for Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies, and to the editorial board of Scientific Journals International, and she served as a panel judge for senior grant proposal presentations at the Boston Arts Academy.
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