The Wesleyan Connection

Book translated by Krishna Winston.

Krishna Winston, the Marcus L. Taft Professor of German Language and Literature, dean of the Arts and Humanities and coordinator of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, translated the new book, Don Juan: His Own Version, written by Peter Handke.

The 128-paged book is published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.  It will be released in Feburary.

This photograpy book was published by Wesleyan University Press in October 2009.

Wesleyan University Press published a photographic book about the Connecticut River Oct. 23. The photographs in The Connecticut River: A Photographic Journey Through the Heart of New England follow this major waterway for 410 miles, from its origin near the Canadian border to its wide mouth on Long Island Sound, giving readers a vivid portrait of a living artery of the New England landscape. Middletown is featured in the book.

Author and photographer Al Braden opens the book with an essay introducing important aspects of the river, and Chelsea Reiff Gwyther, executive director of the Connecticut River Watershed Council, closes with an essay that succinctly highlights the environmental pressures that the river faces.

The book has 136 full-page color photos, ranging from close-ups to dramatic aerials, to reveal the river as few people are privileged to experience it. Readers will see and learn about many facets of the river, including its landscape, history, development, conservation, geologic formations, flora and fauna, and, of course, the moods of the water, sky, and riverbank. Informative captions provide a wealth of information about the images, which depict every¬thing from pristine misted mornings to rich valley farmlands and modern hydroelectric turbines. The Wesleyan University Press book is $35 and available online.

Alex Dupuy, the Class of 1958 Distinguished Professor of Sociology, is the author of “Indefensible: On Aristide, Violence, and Democracy,” published in the November issue of Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 30, pages 161-173. The article is edited by David Scott.

Magda Teter, associate professor of history, associate professor of medieval studies, associate professor of feminist, gender and sexuality studies, is the co-author of ”Out of the (Historiographic) Ghetto: Jews and the Reformation,” published in Sixteenth Century Journal 40 No. 2, pages 365-393 in 2009.

The exhibit catalog for “Pearl of the Snowlands: Buddhist Printing from the Derge Parkhang” is now available. The catalog contains essays by Patrick Dowdey, Curator of Freeman Center for East Asian Studies, Clifton Meador, and Yudru Tsomu as well as an extended photo essay by Clifton Meador who is a noted book artist.

Laurie Nussdorfers’ book Brokers of Public Trust: Notaries in Early Modern Rome was published by The Johns Hopkins University Press in October 2009. Nussdorfer is is a Professor of History, Medieval Studies, and of Letters.

Joel Pfister’s book The Yale Indian: The Education of Henry Roe Cloud was published by Duke University Press in June 2009. Pfister is the chair of the English Department and the Kenan Professor of the Humanities, along with being professor of American studies.

Tsampikos Kottos, assistant professor of physics, and physics and mathematics major Gim Seng Ng ‘08 are co-authors of “Avalanches of Bose-Einstein condensates in leaking optical lattices,” published in New Journal of Physics, 11, 073045 in 2009. The paper is about novel properties of Bose-Einstein condensates (ultra-cold atoms) in open systems. This project constituted a large part of Ng’s senior honors thesis in physics.

Book edited by Leo Lensing.

Leo Lensing, chair and professor of German studies, professor of film studies, is the editor of the book, Peter Altenberg: The Self-Invention of a Poet. Letters and Documents 1892-1896, published by the Wallstein Verlag (Goettingen) in Germany.

The 210-page book, published in September, documents the beginning of the literary career of the Viennese writer Peter Altenberg (1859-1919).

The book received positive reviews in a Sept. 28 issue of The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, whose arts pages are the most prestigious in the German-speaking world.