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Four faculty members of the Hamilton College English department delivered papers at the Return of the Text conference organized by the LeMoyne College Religion and Literature Forum on Sept. 28-29. This conference was co-sponsored by Hamilton's  English Department.

Addressing the "Cultural Value of Close Reading," Professor Onno Oerlemans delivered a paper titled "Close Reading the Bird/Poem"; Visiting Assistant Professor Benj Widiss presented "Progressive Stasis: David Gordon Green's 'George Washington'; Professor Naomi Guttman delivered a paper titled, "'If You Really Look': Gaps, Graphs, and Meaning in Jennifer Egan's 'Great Pauses in Rock and Roll'"; and Visiting Assistant Professor Christiane Gannon gave a paper asking, "Can Close Reading be Democratic?"

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