Oberlin Alumni Magazine: Spring 2003

Around Tappan Square

Profs Who Publish
by Courtney Mauk '03

Oberlin's faculty and staff members are a prolific bunch; nearly 30 have had books published since January 2000 in topics ranging from poetry and short stories to literary studies, quantum mechanics, music educa- tion, and Mexican history. The works were featured at a campus reception in December hosted by the Friends of the Oberlin College Library.

Event coordinator and author Anne Trubek '88, assistant professor of rhetoric and composition, says that the Friends-sponsored reception was the first public recognition of Oberlin authors, in part because it has been difficult to compile a complete list in past years. The authors appreciated the effort; many brought their families and mingled with students amid the elegant displays of books.

"This was a really good way for people at Oberlin who actively produce scholarship to meet each other and to view each other's work," says Anuradha Needham, professor of English and author of Using the Master's Tools: Resistance and Literature of the African and South Asian Diasporas.

"It brought together faculty who could put faces to names to products, and thus created an opportunity to discover the interests of other faculty members," says author John Pearson, Young-Hunter Professor of art and co-chair of the department. "The notion to highlight formally the scholarly production of faculty is a long-overdue idea."

At the event, Ray English, director of libraries, remarked on the "extraordinary productivity of the faculty and staff." He also stressed the importance of the Friends of the Library, which provides vital funding for faculty needs and library collections.

Oberlin College Faculty and Staff-Authored Books, 2000-2002

Name	Title	Book Title	Publisher and Date
Ann Cooper Albright	Associate Professor, Theater and Dance	Moving History/Dancing Cultures	University of Wesleyan Press, 2001
Christa Champion, Editor	Women’s Basketball Coach	Girls Got Game: Sports Stories and Poems	Henry Holt & Co., 2001
Dan Chaon	Assistant Professor, Creative Writing	Among the Missing	Ballantine, 2001
Pat Day	Associate Professor, English	Vampire Legends in Contemporary America: What Becomes a Legend Most	University of Kentucky Press, 2002
Michel Debost	Professor, Flute	The Simple Flute	Oxford University Press, 2002
Kay Edwards, et al	Assistant Professor, Music Education	Prelude to Music Education	Prentice-Hall, 2002
Joanne Erwin, et al	Chair, Music Education	Prelude to Music Education	Prentice-Hall, 2002
Sebastiaan Faber	Assistant Professor, Hispanic Studies	Exile and Cultural Hegemony: Spanish Intellectuals in Mexico, 1939-1975	Vanderbilt University Press, 2002
Dorit Ganson	Assistant Professor, Philosophy	The Explanationist Defense of Scientific Realism	Garland Press, 2001
Suzanne Gay	Associate Professor, East Asian Studies	The Moneylenders of Late Medieval Kyoto	University of Hawaii Press, 2001
Daniel J. Goulding	Professor Emeritus, Theater Arts	Liberated Cinema: The Yugoslav Experience, 1945-2001	Indiana University Press, 2002
Jessica Grim	Reference Librarian, Instruction Coordinator	Vexed	UbUWeb.com
David Kamitsuka	Associate Professor, Religion	Theology and Contemporary Culture	Cambridge University Press, 2000
Jody Kerchner, et al	Associate Professor, Music Education	Prelude to Music Education	Prentice-Hall, 2002
John Knight, et al	Professor, Music Education	Prelude to Music Education	Prentice-Hall, 2002
Wendy Kozol, Editor	Associate Professor, Women’s Studies	Haunting Violations: Feminist Criticism and the Crisis of the "Real"	University of Illinois Press, 2001
Haipeng Li, Editor	Reference Librarian, Outreach Coordinator	Proceedings of the International Conference on Academic Libraries in the New Millennium	Yunnan University, 2002
Katherine Linehan	Professor, English	Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: A Norton Critical Edition	Norton & Co., 2002
Patricia Mathews	Associate Professor, Art History	Passionate Discontent: Creativity and Gender in French Symbolist Art	University of Chicago, 2000
Charles McGuire	Assistant Professor, Musicology	Elgar's Oratorios: The Creation of an Epic Narrative	Ashgate, 2002
Laurie Hovell McMillin	Assistant Professor, Rhetoric and Composition	English in Tibet, Tibet in English: Self-Preservation in Tibet and the Diaspora	Palgrave, 2001
T.S. McMillin	Associate Professor, English	Our Preposterous Use of Literature: Emerson and the Nature of Reading	University of Illinois Press, 2000
Anuradha Needham	Professor, English	Using the Master's Tools: Resistance and Literature of the African and South Asian Diasporas	St. Martin's Press, 2000
Tom Newlin	Associate Professor, Russian	The Voice in the Garden: Andrei Bolotov and the Anxieties of Russian Pastoral	Northwestern University Press, 2001
David Orr	Professor, Environmental Studies	The Nature of Design: Ecology, Culture and Human Intention	Oxford University Press, 2002
Elena Osokina	Visiting Assistant Professor, History	Our Daily Bread: Socialist Distribution and the Art of Survival in Satlin's Russia	Sharpe, 2000
Laszlo Scholz, Editor	Professor, Hispanic Studies	Los avatares de la flecha	Universidad de Salamanca, 2002
Dan Styer	Professor, Physics	The Strange World of Quantum Mechanics	Cambridge University Press, 2000
Yasser Tabbaa	Visiting Assistant Professor, Art History	The Transformation of Islamic Art during the Sunni Revival	University of Washington Press, 2000
Anne Trubek	Associate Professor, Rhetoric and Composition	Writing Material: Readings from Plato to the Digital Age	Longman, 2002
Linda Weintrab	Luce Professor, Emerging Arts	In The Making: Creative Options in Contemporary Art	Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.,2003
David Young	Professor, English	At The White Window	Ohio State University Press, 2000
Sandra Zagarell, Editor	Professor, English	The Heath Anthology of American Literature, 4^th Edition	Houghton Mifflin, 2001