People, Papers, Presentations

James Agustín Castañeda, professor of Spanish, gave a presentation titled “Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz y la Dimensión Ética de la Comedia” at the annual meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese in San Francisco July 18. Castañeda gave a presentation July 28 titled “La Enseñanza de la Lengua y la Literatura Españolas en los Sistemas Educativos de los Estados Unidos” at the Academia Mester y Cursos Internacionales of the U. of Salamanca in Salamanca, Spain.

Beatriz González-Stephan, the Lee Hage Jamail Professor of Latin American Studies, has just published “Escribir la Historia Literaria: Capital Simbolico y Monumento Cultural.” This is Gonzalez-Stephan’s eighth book since receiving her Ph.D. in 1985.
Jim Good, lecturer in history, has co-edited, with Michael DeArmey of the U. of Southern Mississippi, “The St. Louis Hegelians,” three volumes, in the Thoemmes Press History of American Thought series (July 2001). Besides recently being signed on by the same press as editor of a book series, “American Idealism,” Good also has been named “Idealism” editor for the “Dictionary of Modern American Philosophy.”

Arthur Gottschalk, professor and chair of composition and theory and director, Electronic Music Lab, is the recipient of a 2001-2002 ASCAPLU$ Standard Award. These cash awards are made by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. They are granted by an independent panel and are based upon the unique prestige value of each writer’s catalog of original compositions as well as recent performances of those works in areas not surveyed by the society.

Keith Hamm, professor of political science, presented a paper titled “A Tools-of-the-Trade Look at Comparing Congress with State Legislatures” (co-authored with Peverill Squire of the U. of Iowa) in San Francisco at the 2001 American Political Science Association’s annual meetings.

William B. Parsons, associate professor and chair, Dept. of Religious Studies, was a respondent in a symposium at UC–Berkeley, which centered around his recently edited book, “Religion and Psychology: Mapping the Terrain” (New York and London: Routledge, 2001). The book is structured around Parsons’ revisionist understanding of and vision for his field, presenting leading scholars’ perspectives on the present status of and possible futures for the intersection between psychology, culture studies and religion. The book was praised as a work that will determine the course of the field for “the next 20 years.” The papers and responses will be published in a special issue of Religion and Psychology.

Stephen A. Zeff, the Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Accounting and professor of managerial studies, gave a plenary address at the European Institute for Advanced Study in Management International Workshop on Accounting and Regulation at the U. of Siena, Italy, held Sept. 27-29.

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