Andrea Guzzetti is the new Collections Development Librarian of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
Andrea received his PhD in Archaeology in 2012, with a dissertation titled A Walk through the Past: Toward a Study of Archaeological Museums in Italy, Greece, and Israel, directed by Professor A. A. Donohue.
Catherine Soussloff (AB ’73, PhD ’82) was invited as a Visiting Lecturer at the College de France where she delivered a series of lectures on the topic “Michel Foucault on Painting.” The lectures relate to her next book project, Michel Foucault and Painting.
Catherine Soussloff is Professor of Art History at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of British Columbia. Before that, she taught for 24 years at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Professor Soussloff earned her doctorate from Bryn Mawr in 1982 with a dissertation directed by David Cast, Critical Topoi in the Sources on the Life of Gianlorenzo Bernini.
Mark Sullivan (Ph.D., History of Art, 1981) has published a new book, Picturing Thoreau: Henry David Thoreau in American Visual Culture (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015). Mark Sullivan is associate professor of art history and director of the Art History program at Villanova University.
From the publisher’s website:
As we approach the bicentennial, in 2017, of the birth of Henry David Thoreau, there is considerable debate and confusion as to what he may, or may not have, contributed to American life and culture. Almost every American has heard of Thoreau, but only a few are aware that he was deeply engaged with most of the important issues of his day, from slavery to “Manifest Destiny” and the rights of the individual in a democratic society. Many of these issues are still affecting us today, as we move toward the second quarter of the twenty-first century. By studying how various American artists have chosen to portray Thoreau over the years since the publication of Walden in 1854, we can gain a clear understanding of how he has been interpreted (or misinterpreted) throughout the years since his death in 1862. But along the way, we might also find something useful, for our times, in the insights that Thoreau gained as he wrestled with the most urgent problems being experienced by American society in his day.
Noël Valis (Ph.D., Spanish Literature, 1975) has published a novella, The Labor of Longing (Charlotte, NC: Main Street Rag Publishing, 2014). Noël Valis is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies for Spanish at Yale University.
From the publisher’s website:
“If ghosts dreamed, what would they dream? What are dreams after we are gone? Set in the late nineteenth-century New Jersey Pine Barrens, The Labor of Longing is an intensely told story of lost love and madness, lost souls and found dreams.”
The Labor of Longing was a Finalist for the Prize Americana for Prose.
