Seventh Annual Celebration of Faculty Scholarship

The seventh annual Celebration of Faculty Scholarship is coming up in early April! This celebration will highlight the wide variety of publications authored by faculty of Loyola University Maryland and College of Notre Dame of Maryland, focusing on those published from July 2009 to June 2010.

The Celebration will take place at the library, in the Ferguson Gallery and the Ridley Auditorium. Please join us here on Friday, April 8, from 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. for an exhibit of publications, refreshments, and presentations by several faculty members, who will discuss their research and the publication process (presenters will be announced soon). For additional information, please visit our Faculty Publications page.

UPDATE 4/5: We are pleased to announce our slate of faculty presenters for this year.

On Exhibit -- Flannery O'Connor: Letters from Andalusia

Starting today, the exhibit "Flannery O'Connor: Letters from Andalusia" will be open in the Library's Ferguson Gallery, highlighting the writer's unique relationship with the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. It is free and open to the public, and can be viewed during the library’s regular hours. For a full description, as well as a list of related events, including short story discussion groups, lectures and a film screening, please see the exhibit website: http://flanneryoconnor.lndlibrary.org/.

Italian Week at the Library

From February 21 to March 1, Loyola's Department of Modern Languages and Literatures is sponsoring Italian Week. This year the focus is on Dante, and the celebration will kick off with a screening of "Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic." Rather than being a straight adaptation of the poem, this film falls squarely into the genre of horror, playing fast and loose with details to tell a story inspired by the Inferno. The film will be shown on Monday, February 21 at 6:30pm in the Library's Ridley Auditorium.

Several other events have been planned, including a lecture by Dr. Dennis R. Looney of the University of Pittsburgh, who will speak about his forthcoming book "Freedom Readers: The African-American Reception of Dante's Divine Comedy." This lecture will be held on Monday, February 28 at 4pm on the Loyola campus, in the 4th Floor Programming Room of the Andrew White Student Center. For additional information on Italian week, please visit the Cultural Events page on the department's website.

For more information on Dante, please visit the library's Dante Resources page, where you'll be able to quickly find background information and a bibliography of important critical works. We've also mounted an exhibit of books on Dante and Italian culture -- you'll find them underneath the Italian flag mounted on the main level.

Student Exhibit: Painting: Color

We're pleased to host an exhibit of paintings created by students in SA 314 - Painting: Color, a Studio Arts class at Loyola taught by Prof. Christopher Lonegan. In this course, students look at color relationships and the historic context of color, through observation, research and by creating their own paintings. Come by and take a look at samples of their work this semester, paired with some of the research that inspired them. The assignments highlighted include The Renaissance Triptych, The Gothic Page and Painted Mosaics.

You'll find the exhibit on the Second Level, across from the elevator up from the Ferguson Gallery.

The Saint John's Bible: Faculty Forum

As a part of our exhibit The Saint John's Bible: Inspiration and Illumination, we are pleased to host a Faculty Forum on Monday, November 8 at 4:30pm. The event will feature members of College of Notre Dame’s Religious Studies Department and Loyola University’s Department of Theology, who will speak about Isaiah 53, one of the passages on display for the exhibit. A reception will follow. This event is free and open to the public -- we hope you will join us! RSVPs are appreciated; please contact Alison Cody at acody3@loyola.edu / acody@ndm.edu or (410) 617-6835.

From the College of Notre Dame of Maryland:
Dr. Lyle Weiss, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Dr. Henrietta Wiley, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

From Loyola University Maryland:
Dr. James Buckley, Professor of Theology
Dr. Angela Christman, Professor of Theology
Dr. Adam Gregerman, Affiliate Faculty Department of Theology, and Jewish Scholar at the Institute for Christian & Jewish Studies

The Saint John's Bible: Inspiration and Illumination

The Loyola/Notre Dame Library is honored to announce the installation of a new exhibit in the Ferguson Gallery. The Saint John's Bible: Inspiration and Illumination will run from October 25 through December 3. The exhibit is free and open to the public during library hours.

The St. John's Bible is a handwritten, hand-illuminated Bible. It was commissioned by the Saint John's Abbey and University in Collegeville, Minn., in 1998. Renowned calligrapher Donald Jackson coordinated teams of artists in Wales and scholars in Central Minnesota. Together, they created The Saint John's Bible, in which calligraphy and illumination bring the Word of God to life in an exquisite and inspiring blend of art and theology. Our exhibit features four books from the Heritage Edition, a fine art reproduction of the original.

In addition to the exhibit, the Library will host a faculty forum on Monday, November 8 at 4:30 pm. Please see our announcement about the Forum for complete details.

Currently on Exhibit: Artesanos Don Bosco

This semester at Loyola University Maryland, two of Dr. Tom Ward’s Spanish classes have been engaged in a service-learning project with Artesanos Don Bosco, a Baltimore non-profit organization. Artesanos Don Bosco sells hand-crafted furniture and religious art that is made in Peru by locally trained artisans who are able to receive fair pay for their work without having to leave their country. Their work is shipped to Baltimore and to Italy, where it is sold; all of the profits go directly to the carpenters and artists.

As a part of this collaboration, the Loyola/Notre Dame Library is pleased to host an exhibit of some of the furniture sold through Artesanos Don Bosco. The pieces on exhibit will not be for sale, but one chair will be raffled off at the opening reception on Thursday, March 25, from 5:00pm-8:00pm in the library's Ferguson Gallery. We hope you will be able to join us!

Celebration of Faculty Scholarship -- Second Panel

The sixth annual Celebration of Faculty Scholarship will be held on Tuesday, March 23, from 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. We are happy to announce the second faculty panel, taking place at 3:15pm and featuring two philosophers discussing their research and the publications being highlighted in this year's Celebration of Faculty Scholarship:

Desiree Melton, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, College of Notre Dame of Maryland, will discuss "The vulnerable self: Enabling the recognition of racial inequality," a chapter in the book Feminist Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy: Theorizing the non-ideal."

Nadja Germann, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Loyola University Maryland, will discuss her articles "Signification and truth: epistemology at the crossroads of semantics and ontology in Augustine's early philosophical writings" and "Philosophizing without philosophy? The concept of philosophy in Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan."

Celebration of Faculty Scholarship

The sixth annual Celebration of Faculty Scholarship is coming up later this month! This celebration will highlight the wide variety of publications authored by faculty of Loyola University Maryland and College of Notre Dame of Maryland, focusing on those published from July 2008 to June 2009.

The Celebration will take place at the library, in the Ferguson Gallery and the Ridley Auditorium. Please join us here on Tuesday, March 23, from 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. for an exhibit of publications, refreshments, and presentations by several faculty members, who will discuss their research and the publication process. For additional information, please visit our Faculty Publications page.

UPDATE 3/15: Our faculty panels have been set! Join us at 2:30pm for a panel of historians, and at 3:15pm for a panel of philosophers.

Currently on Exhibit: The City That Reads

Stop by the library through February 11 to enjoy our latest exhibit -- The City That Reads: Novels in Baltimore. The exhibit displays final projects created by students in the Fall 2009 section EN 367: The Novel in America, a course taught by Loyola Associate Professor Jean Lee Cole. Students were asked to examine reading practices in the Baltimore area, either through interaction with members of the community, or through archival and secondary-source research.

The exhibit also includes an online component, so if you can't make it to the library you can view the projects online.

Currently on Exhibit: From Protest to Peace

Stop by the Ferguson Gallery at LNDL through Friday, December 4 to view “From Protest to Peace,” an exhibit of murals by the Derry Bogside Artists of Northern Ireland. From the exhibition statement:

"In 1994, brothers Tom and William Kelly and their friend Kevin Hasson joined together as The Bogside Artists. The artists personally experienced the unfolding of the Northern Irish 'Troubles' during their lifetimes and ultimately united to express the struggle for civil rights in their community through public art. While the group continues the Ulster tradition of using the mural for social commentary, The Bogside Artists stand alone in their efforts to utilize this medium in cross-community workshops involving Protestants and Catholics to advance the peace and reconciliation process in Northern Ireland."

For more information on the exhibit and the artists, visit www.protesttopeace.org.

Did you miss the Celebration of Faculty Scholarship?

Did you miss the Celebration of Faculty Scholarship earlier this spring? Take a break from grading finals and spend a few minutes catching up. You can take a look at photos of this year's exhibit, and peruse the bibliography.

This year, you can also watch a video of faculty presentations. Four members of the faculty -- from the English and Education departments -- talked about the work that was highlighted in this year's celebration, which covered works published from July 2007 through June 2008. The speakers were:

Dr. Wendy Smith, Associate Professor, Education, Loyola College in Maryland
Dr. Debra Suarez, Associate Professor, Education, College of Notre Dame of Maryland
Dr. Jeana DelRosso, Associate Professor, English, College of Notre Dame of Maryland
Dr. Mark Osteen, Professor, English, Loyola College in Maryland

You can also view bibliographies for previous (and future!) celebrations on the faculty publications page of our website.

Please help us keep these lists up-to-date! You can send us information on your publications at any time, and if you notice an omission or correction for any of the existing bibliographies, let us know! Additions and corrections can be sent to Nancy Hanks: nhanks@loyola.edu.

Italian Week 2009

Loyola's Department of Modern Languages and Literatures will celebrate Italian language and culture during its 9th annual Italian Week, Feb. 19 – 26. Here at the library, you can peruse a selection of books on Italian culture, including cookbooks, travel books, art books and works of Italian literature. You'll find the exhibit on the main level, underneath the Italian flag.

In addition, the film “L’orchestra di Piazza Vittorio” will be screened in the Library auditorium on Wednesday, Feb. 25, from 6 - 8 p.m. The film documents the creation of an orchestra that formed while the musicians were trying to find ways to save a theatre and concert hall. Read more about it in the New York Times.

Italian Week at the Library

This week, the library is proud to participate in the Eighth Annual Italian Week celebration, sponsored by Loyola's Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. In addition to hosting Thursday evening's lecture by Salvatore J. LaGumina, professor emeritus and director of the Center for Italian American Studies at Nassau Community College in New York, the Loyola/Notre Dame Library is hosting an exhibit throughout the week. Stop by the library and learn more about the medals of honor awarded to Italian Americans during World War II. The exhibit is located in the Gallery, the library's main lobby, and will continue through Thursday, February 28.

A second exhibit inside the library highlights books on Italian history and art, as well as cookbooks and travel books! This exhibit is located on the first floor, to the right of the Research Assistance desk.

Don't miss other great Italian Week events! Learn more about this week's events from the Modern Languages and Literatures Department.