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Several faculty members and students were part of an all-Hamilton panel at the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) conference in Atlanta.

A group of Hamilton students recently joined other students, faculty, and activists for the 2018 Seneca Falls Dialogues: “Race and Intersecting Feminist Futures.” Assistant Professor of Literature Pavitra Sundar brought her class, “Indians, Aliens, and Others,” to the conference with support from a Social Innovation and Transformational Leadership Grant from the Levitt Center.

Steven Yao, the Edmund A. LeFevre Professor of Literature, delivered a paper as an invited participant at the conference, America's Asia/Asia's America. Yao's paper, "The Shape of Water: Rethinking Territory and Influence for Asian American Studies in a Global Age," discussed the need to reconfigure the dimensions of "Asian American" as a category beyond the boundaries of the nation-state.

Assistant Professor of Literature Pavitra Sundar recently presented at Cornell University during the second annual Upstate New York Sound Meet-Up.

Austin Briggs, the Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English Literature Emeritus, participated in the International James Joyce Symposium that took place at the University of Antwerp in June.

Olivia Paradice ’18 is interning at the Foreign Press Center (an office in the Public Affairs Bureau of the State Department) this summer. As a capstone internship project, Paradice will make a presentation in front of a foreign news outlet. After that, she’ll attend The American University of Paris for a Master's in Global Communications.

Associate Professor of Literature Katherine Terrell presented a paper at the 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, which met May 9-13 at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. Terrell's paper, "Reevaluating Bannatyne's Chaucer," examined the role of Geoffrey Chaucer's poems in the Bannatyne Manuscript (1568), one of the most important manuscripts for the preservation of older Scottish poetry.

Ryan Serhant ’06’s new show, Sell It Life Serhant, is now on Bravo TV. Serhant is known for his work on the six-season series Million Dollar Listing New York.

Assistant Professor of Literature Pavitra Sundar presented a paper and co-organized a seminar at conferences in Toronto and Binghamton, N.Y.

Poetry and Animals: Blurring the Boundaries with the Human, by Associate Dean of Faculty and Professor of Literature Onno Oerlemans, was published this month by Columbia University Press. The book presents different types of poetry about animals from the Middle Ages to today, classified into several categories.