The Fount

For the second year in a row, Assistant Professors Jason Solinger and Sean Heuston of the English Department coordinated and co-directed The Citadel's Summer in London Program, a six-week study-abroad program open to Citadel students and students from other area colleges and universities. Students took one of two English courses (either Major British Writers II or Anglo-Irish Literature) with Dr. Heuston and one of two elective courses (either Understanding Civilizations: Islam and the West or International Marketing) with British university lecturers while living and studying in London's Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

Cultural highlights of the program included seeing a performance of Shakespeare's Othello and participating in a special classroom session taught by a director at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre; spending two days visiting the Lake District of England (renowned for its literary connections and its natural beauty); visiting the British Museum and other major London museums; taking a literary London walking tour; visiting the Ismaili Centre, the Regent's Park Mosque, and other significant Muslim cultural centers in London; spending a weekend in Dublin, Ireland while studying Irish literature; and enjoying weekend home stays for individual students with volunteer host families in England, Scotland, and Wales.

In May, Professor Scott Lucas presented the paper "Spenser's Poetry and the Dream of the Godly Commonwealth" at the 42nd Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies at the University of Western Michigan. Later this year, Lucas will have three works appear in print. In September, his article on the contributors to the sixteenth-century political poetry collection A Mirror for Magistrates will be added to the on-line Reference Group section of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. In October, Lucas' article "The Visionary Genre and the Rise of the 'Literary': Books Under Suspicion and Early Modern England" will be published in the Journal of British Studies as part of a roundtable discussion of censorship practices in Medieval England. Finally, in December, Lucas' essay "'Let None Such Office Take, Save He That Can For Right His Prince Forsake': A Mirror for Magistrates, Resistance Theory, and the Elizabethan Monarchical Republic," will appear in the scholarly collection The Monarchical Republic of Early Modern England, published by the St. Andrews University Studies in Reformation History series.