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The Department of English has announced its annual fall literary readings. On Thursday, October 27, Visiting Assistant Professor of English Hoa Ngo will read from his fiction in the Red Pit at 8 p.m. On Monday, November 7, poet Colette Inez, professor of writing at Columbia University, will read in the Fillius Events Barn at 8 p.m. Both events are free and open to the public.

Mason Ashe ’85 was recently named adjunct professor in the DeVos Sport Business Management Graduate Program at the University of Central Florida in the College of Business Administration. He will teach sports law.

Students in Susan Mason's Principles of Instructional Communication class and other Education Studies classes have undertaken a unique project to help K-12 students in Mississippi and Louisiana displaced by Hurricane Katrina. The Katrina School Supplies Project collected school supplies and monetary donations which were given to Sacred Heart Elementary School in Hattiesburg, Miss., so the students will have the pens, pencils, notebooks, paper, glue and other materials they need when school resumes.

Associate Professor of Art History Steve Goldberg served as a member of the program committee for the 2005 New York Conference on Asian Studies held at SUNY New Paltz. He also chaired a panel titled "Critical Reflections on Teaching Asian Philosophy" and presented a paper titled "Authority of Excellence: Teaching Confucius through Visual Art" on Oct. 1.

The fourth annual Clinton Community Fall Fest will take place on Sunday, October 9 on the Village Green from 12-4 p.m. Fall Fest is free and open to the public. The annual event seeks to unite the Hamilton and Clinton communities for an afternoon of food, fun, and entertainment. Fall Fest is a family event. It includes a diverse array of games and activities for children, as well as live music by Hamilton's musical groups and performances by a variety of dance groups. Food and fall favorites like cider and pumpkin pie will also be provided. Fall Fest '05 is hosted by the Class of 2008. For further information contact Katie Childs at kchilds@hamilton.edu.

Steven Yao, assistant professor of English, recently published an article in Comparative Literature titled "The Unheimlich Maneuver: or the Gap, the Gradient and the Spaces of Comparison." This article lays out an alternative model for conceptualizing the category of difference as a foundation for the act of comparison. Yao is also serving on the advisory board for the American Comparative Literature Association.