Jo Anne Engelbert, professor emerita and former chair of Spanish/Italian, and Honduran poet Roberto Rosa have been awarded the National Translation Award for 2003. They received the award for The Return of the River: The Selected Poems of Roberto Sosa, translated by Engelbert (Curbstone Press, 2002). This prize is awarded by the American Literary Translators Association.
After a national search, Mary English of Classics and General Humanities has been named editor of The Classical Outlook, the largest circulating peer-reviewed classics journal in North America. Funding in the amount of $11,500 from the American Classical League will pay for supplies, duplicating and mailings of the journal, which is being provided space and support from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Tanya Pollard of English led a session at a day-long colloquium, "Shakespeare and the Law," at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Pollard discussed the preoccupation with poison in drama and legal writings in the Bard's time.
Jess Row of English has been named one of 10 recipients of the
2003 Whiting Writers' Awards. The awards, which are $35,000 each, have
been given annually since 1985 to emerging writers of exceptional talent
and promise. Row's first collection of stories, The Train to Lo Wu,
will be published next year by Dial Press. In its 19th year, the Whiting
program has awarded more than $5 million to 190 poets, fiction and nonfiction
writers, and playwrights. Whiting Writers' Awards candidates are proposed
by nominators from across the country whose experience and vocations bring
them in contact with individuals of extraordinary talent. Winners are
chosen by a selection committee of a small anonymous group of recognized
writers, literary scholars and editors, appointed annually by the Foundation.
The 2003 recipients were announced Oct. 30 at a ceremony at the New York
Public Library.
Rolf Sternberg and Gregory Pope of Earth and Environmental
Studies, and alumna Belkys Melendez '03 presented papers at the Middle
States Association of Geographers annual meeting in Albany, N.Y. Sternberg
presented "Perception, Response and
Interpretations: the Urban Aesthetics' Spatial Presence," discussing
the cultural and structural aesthetic intangibles of urban settings. Pope
presented "Setting Erosion Rates on a New Pedestal: Perched Rocks,"
which discussed estimates of land erosion using natural balanced rocks.
Melendez presented "New Theories to Explain Acid Precipitation in
Northern New Jersey," in which she explains her hypotheses for acid
air pollution distribution in the metropolitan area. Melendez's paper
was awarded the prize for Outstanding Paper for an undergraduate Student,
with a cash award of $100. In addition, Pope was sworn in as regional
counselor to the Middle States Association of Geographers, to serve a
three-year term as liaison with the National Association of American Geographers.
The Department was one of five in the region to be awarded the "100
Percent Membership Award," presented to departments in which all
geography faculty are active participants in the Association of American
Geographers.
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