Richard Finkelstein, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of English, spoke in January at the 13th annual meeting of the National Conference on Science, Policy, and the Environment, held in Washington, D.C. His paper described the Climate, Environment and Readiness Action Plan (CLEAR) about which UMW has been in discussions with PD-16 area leaders. Also on the panel were environmental planners from the City of Philadelphia, and from San Francisco. In mid-February, the Dean also attended the annual meeting of the National Academy of Environmental Design to explore possible collaborations in the Fredericksburg/Spotsylvania area.

Elizabeth Franklin Lewis

Three articles previously published by Professor of Spanish Elizabeth Lewis on the late-Enlightenment dramatist María Rosa Gálvez were included in a new digital collection of the author’s life and work. The collection, edited by Helena Establier of the University of Alicante, Spain, is one of the newest additions to the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, the most extensive collection of digital texts in Spanish. Two of the articles–”Breaking Chains: Language and Slavery in María Rosa Gálvez’s Zinda (1804).” Dieciocho.  20.2(Fall 1997)  and  “The Tearful Reunion of Divided Femininity in María Rosa Gálvez’s Neoclassic Theater.”Letras Peninsulares.  9.2(Fall 1996)—represent some of the earliest published studies on Gálvez. The third–“Crying Out for Feminine (Un)Happiness: María Rosa Gálvez’s Search For Sapphic Immortality”–was a chapter taken from Professor Lewis’s 2004 book Women Writers in the Spanish Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness.  Aldershot, Hants, England and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishers.