Every year, I host a reception for faculty who have published books in the past 12 months. This year’s group includes faculty who work in mathematics, poetry, computing, philosophy, and literary translations.

(L-R): Professors Matthew Ally, Margaret Carson, Paquita Suarez-Coalla, Shamira Malekar, Marcos Zyman, Geoffrey Klock, Vincent Cheng and Holly Messitt (holding the book of the late James Tolan).

Authors and their books included Professors Matthew Ally, Ecology and Existence: Bringing Sartre to the water’s edge; Jodie Culkin, Learn electronics with arduino: An illustrated beginner’s guide to physical computing; Margaret Carson, translator of the novel Baroni: A Journey, by Sergio Chejfec; Vincent Cheng, Time is out of joint; Keridiana Chez, Victorian dogs, Victorian men: Affect and animals in nineteenth-century literature and culture; Erik Freas,The Exclusivity of holiness: The Role of the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount in the formation of national identities; Geoffrey Klock, Aestheticism, evil, homosexuality, and Hannibal: If Oscar Wilde ate people; Amy Lawless, Broadax; Andrew Levy, Artifice in the calm damages; Shamira Soren Malekar (co-author R.P. Mohanty), Success with emotional intelligence; Sophie Maríñez, Mademoiselle de Montpensier: Writings, châteaux, and female self-construction in early modern France; Paquita Suárez Coalla, Hestories pa contales (Más nomes de muyer);  Marcos Zyman (co-authors A.E. Clement and S. Majewicz), The theory of nilpotent groups.

Poet James Tolan, who died in 2017, had his book, Filched, published posthumously.