Susan Hiner, associate professor of French and Francophone studies, discusses the significance of fashion and accessories in Adele Romany’s painting “Portrait of the Artist’s Family in Front of the Chateau de Juily, Ile-de-France.” Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College

L.A. is known as a mecca for court interpreters, but when a defendant or witness speaks a rare dialect, officials may resort to unusual remedies. Los Angeles Times, February 21, 2009

“Haoming Liu’s ambitious, demanding, and intensely interesting ‘Pharmaka and Volgar’ Eloquio: Speech and Ideogrammic Writing in Ezra Pound’s Canto XCVIII’ (Asia Major 22: 179-214) shows that this late poem ‘actually focuses on the issue of writing and its relation to speech’ rather than the dualistic morality and Confucianism most apparent at first reading.”
—Alec Marsh and Matthew Hofer. “Pound and Eliot.” American Literary Scholarship 2009, no. 1 (2009): 153-176.

Yu Zhou, Professor of Geography, was quoted in an MSN story about a Chinese bank that is run completely by robots.