Monday, October 15, 2001
Contact: Peter Bailley
news@knox.edu
309-341-7715
Knox College Faculty to Sign Books, Oct. 20
Twelve members of the Knox College faculty will host a book-signing reception from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 20, 2001, in the Lobby of the Ford Center for the Fine Arts on the Knox campus in Galesburg, Illinois.
The book-signing, which is open to the public, is part of Knox College's Homecoming Weekend. Books may be purchased with cash, check, Visa or Mastercard.
The faculty authors and their books are:
Roy Andersen, Timme Professor of Economics, Robert Seibert, Murphy Professor of Political Science, and Jon Wagner, Professor of Anthropology
- "Politics and Change in the Middle East." An interdisciplinary textbook on history and current events in the Middle East.
Penny S. Gold, Professor of History, Chair of the History Department and Director of the Gender and Women's Studies Program
- "The Lady and the Virgin: Image, Attitude, and Experience in Twelfth-Century France." Historical analysis of women in a medieval society.
- "The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career: A Portable Mentor for Scholars from Graduate School Through Tenure." A guidebook for those considering, or in the early stages of, a career in higher education.
Kevin Hastings, Registrar and Professor of Mathematics
- "Introduction to Probability with Mathematica." A college-level text that uses the computer program Mathematica.
Robert Hellenga, George Lawrence Professor of English
- "The Sizteen Pleasures," and "The Fall of a Sparrow." Two best-selling novels.
Karen Kampwirth, Associate Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Latin American Studies Program
- "Radical Women in Latin America: Left and Right." An analysis of political and social activism by women in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Argentina, Brazil and Chile.
Robin Metz, Phillip Sidney Post Professor of English, the Chair of the Department of English and the Director of the Program in Creative Writing
- "Unbidden Angel." A collection of poems that explore feelings of grief and desire; winner of the Rainer Maria Rilke International Poetry Prize.
Duane Oldfield, Associate Professor of Political Science
- "Confronting the New World Order: Labor, the Christian Right, and the Politics of Globalization." Analysis of social movements that are critical of the global economy.
- "The Right and the Righteous: The Christian Right Confronts the Republican Party." Analysis of the impact of evangelical Christians in American politics.
Gary Schmidt, Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern Languages
- "Koeppen-Andersch-Boll: Homosexualitat in der deutschen Nachkreigsliteratur." A study of three German novelists and their depictions of gender and sexuality in post-World War II Germany.
David Slavin, Visiting Assistant Professor of History
- "Colonial Cinema and Imperial France, 1919-1939: White Blindspots, Male Fantasies, Settler Myths." Analysis of French films during the 1920s and 1930s that glorified France's expanding settlements and eventual conflicts in North Africa.
Mark Spence, Assistant Professor of History
- "Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks." An environmental and cultural history of Yellowstone, Glacier and Yosemite National Parks.
Jon Wagner, Professor of Anthropology, and Jan Lundeen, 1978 Knox graduate
- "Deep Space and Sacred Time: Star Trek in the American Mythos." A study of mythological and cultural themes in Star Trek television programs and movies.
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