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Professor of English and Creative Writing Naomi Guttman published a review of Bitter Greens: Essays on Food, Politics, and Ethnicity from the Imperial Kitchen, by Anthony DiRenzo, in the Fall 2011 issue of Gastronomica, The Journal of Food and Culture.

Professor of English and Creative Writing Naomi Guttman will read from and discuss her work at the Colgate University Bookstore on Thursday, Aug. 11, at 5 p.m.  A book-signing and reception will follow. The event is sponsored by the Colgate Young Writers' Workshop and the Colgate Bookstore.

Cat Boyd, '12,  the recipient of an Emerson Grant, and Naomi Guttman, Professor of English and Creative Writing, spent the week of July 11-15 at the Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, N.Y., where they each produced an edition of a handmade book and documented the process with assistance from the Digital Humanities initiative.

In today’s digital age, print media has become something of a dying art form. Across the world, newspapers have lost distribution, book sales are down, and it’s harder than ever before to get published. This summer, Emerson grant recipient Catherine Boyd ’12 will seek to get back in touch with the origins of the book as art as she works with Professor of English and Creative Writing Naomi Guttman to write, design and print her own book.

Professor of English and Creative Writing Naomi Guttman and Watson Fellow Max Wall '10 presented a paper at the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, held at St. Catherine's College, Oxford University, in July. The theme for 2010 was "Cured, Fermented and Smoked Foods," and the paper "Sausage-in-Oil: Preserving Italian Culture in Utica, New York" discussed the continued cultural significance among Italian-Americans of making dry-cured sausages in the home to share with family and friends.

Six members of the Hamilton College faculty have been promoted to the rank of professor. Associate professors Debra Boutin, mathematics; Naomi Guttman, English; Shoshana Keller, history; Doran Larson, English; Herm Lehman biology; and Gary Wyckoff, government, were promoted, effective July 1.

Associate Professor of English Naomi Guttman will give a poetry reading on Wednesday, Feb. 17, at 12:30 p.m. at Utica College’s MacFarlane Auditorium, DePerno Hall, as part of the Professor Harry F. and Mary Ruth Jackson Lunch Hour Series.

Associate Professor of English Naomi Guttman and Burgess Professor of French Roberta L. Krueger published their article "Utica Greens: Central New York's Italian-American Specialty" in the Summer 2009 edition of Gastronomica, The Journal of Food and Culture. Based on interviews with local residents, the article traces the history and significance of one of Utica's signature dishes. This article is based on a paper Krueger and Guttman gave last year at the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery.

Associate Professor of English Naomi Guttman gave a poetry reading of new work as part of The Art Bar Poetry Series at Clinton's in Toronto, Canada, on June 2.. Guttman's latest collection, Wet Apples, Wet Blood, was published by McGill-Queen's University Press in 2007.

Associate Professor of English Naomi Guttman published the poem "After Hours" in the third edition of Stone Canoe: A Journal of Arts and Ideas from Upstate New York, published by Syracuse University. This spring Guttman is a humanities scholar in the New York Council for the Humanities' program, "Together -- Book Talk for Kids and Parents," which offers a unique forum for parents and children aged 9-11 to talk about books and ideas.