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Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz delivered the keynote address, “Music, Rhetoric, and Narrative: Listening as an Interpretive Act,” to open the first conference sponsored by the Word and Music Association Forum, held at the University of Dortmund, Germany, from Nov. 4-6.

The Chinese journal Foreign Literature Studies has published a new essay co-authored by Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz and James Phelan of Ohio State University: “‘A True Book, with Some Stretchers’”—and Some Humbug: Twain, Huck and the Reader’s Experience of Huckleberry Finn.”

One fictional and the other expository, novels and maps have a unique and little-studied relationship. But if maps on their own are misleading, the potential for misinterpretation is even greater when they are used in fiction. Michael Harwick ’11, working with Professor of Comparative Literature Peter Rabinowitz, has been awarded an Emerson grant to analyze the relationship between readers and the maps that riddle the fiction they read.

Five members of the Hamilton faculty were recognized for their research and creative successes through the Dean’s Scholarly Achievement Awards at Class & Charter Day on Friday, May 7. The Awards were established in three categories by Dean of Faculty Joe Urgo in 2008.

Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz delivered a paper, “Doctor Atomic Meets Frankenstein: Science, Ethics, and Rhetoric,” at the 25th International Conference on Narrative in Cleveland on April 10.

The Ohio State University Press series ("Theory and Interpretation of Narrative") that Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz co-edits with James Phelan has published its 31st volume: Tabloid, Inc.: Crimes, Newspapers, Narratives, by V. Penelope Pelizzon and Nancy M. West.

"Understanding Rhetorical Nuance: Western Music and Narrative Theory," by Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz, has appeared in Xushi Congkan (Narrative Series 1), edited by Fu Xiu-Yan and published by the China Social Sciences Publishing House in Beijing. The article, in a Chinese translation by Zhou Jingbo, is based on the plenary talk Rabinowitz originally delivered at the First International Narratological Conference, sponsored by the Jiangxi Academy of Social Sciences in 2007.

"Theory and Interpretation of Narrative," the Ohio State University Press series co-edited by Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz and James Phelan, has just published its 29th volume: Patrick Colm Hogan's Understanding Nationalism: On Narrative, Cognitive Science, and Identity.

Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz delivered a paper, "The Absence of Her Voice from that Concord," during a session on the "implied author" at the International Conference on Narrative in Birmingham, England, on June 5. The session, which grew out of debates about the implied author generated at the 2008 Narrative Conference, offered three significantly different perspectives on the validity of the concept, originally developed by Wayne Booth in The Rhetoric of Fiction.

Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz delivered a paper, "Inside the Text, Outside the Classroom: The Ethics of Narrative Ethics," during a special session at the MLA Convention in San Francisco on Dec. 28.