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Assistant Professor of Literature Pavitra Sundar recently presented “Listening, Loving, Longing: Desire in Aligarh” as a panelist at the National Women’s Studies Association Conference in San Francisco.

Associate Dean of Faculty and Professor of Literature Onno Oerlemans was recently interviewed on the BBC Radio program The Compass, in an episode about “Poetry and Animals.”

Assistant Professor of Literature Stephanie Bahr recently published a personal essay about reading and teaching as a scholar with a disability.

Austin Briggs, the Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, was active at the North American James Joyce Conference held in Mexico City June 12-16.

Meredith Jones ’19 and Jasmine Murray ’19 received the FAO Schwarz Fellowship, a highly selective paid two-year Fellowship in Social Impact. The Fellowship includes a paid position with a leading nonprofit, personalized mentoring, and extensive professional development experiences.

Leo Ross ’21 plans to spend his summer kicking back, playing some David Bowie, and thinking about fascism.

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.