Prof. Jennifer Bernstein has been awarded the Frederick J. Crosson Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Philosophy of Religion. During her year at the Center, she will be focusing on the intimate relationship between aesthetics, science, and theology in the writings of Jonathan Edwards and concentrating on the unsettling moral consequences of antinomianism in the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and William James.
Prof. James Leonard, as chief editor for Prentice Hall’s Anthology of American Literature, in late 2006 published the ninth edition of the two-volume anthology. The Prentice Hall anthology, one of the leading anthologies of American Literature, was founded in the mid-1970s by Prof. George McMichael, of California State University–Hayward, who continued as chief editor until succeeded by Prof. Leonard. The other members of the current editorial team are Prof. Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Director of American Studies at Stanford University; Prof. Dana Nelson, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor at Vanderbilt University; David Bradley, award-winning novelist and Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Oregon; and Joseph Csicsila, Associate Professor of English at Eastern Michigan University.
Dr. Philip W. Leon, Professor of English, presented a paper on John Donne's writings on suicide to the Robert Wilson Medical History Club in Charleston in March 2007.
Dr. Leon will conclude a one-year term as President of the Waring Historical Library at the Medical University of South Carolina in April 2007.
