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Demas Has Connections Hurricane, a new book by Corinne Demas, who also writes under the name Corinne Demas Bliss, has "a four-way Mount Holyoke connection," according to the author. Demas is an MHC English professor; the book's editor at Marshall Cavendish is Judith Roy Whipple '57; Demas's agent, who coordinates business matters surrounding the book is Tracey Schatvet Adams '93; and the sales representative, who is taking the book on the road for Marshall Cavendish, is Nicole M. Fortier '85, one of Demas's former students. Hurricane will be out in March. Demas, who has published numerous other children's books, an adult novel, and several short-story collections, currently teaches a seminar at Mount Holyoke titled Writing Literature for Children.

A Natural Selection Mount Holyoke anthropologist Lynn Morgan is slated to give a talk titled "Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Human Embryology" at the twenty-first annual Darwin Festival at Salem State College February 15.

Grant Granted Francesca Santovetti, visiting associate professor of Italian, has received for the second year in a row an Italiani Residenti all 'Estero Research Grant from the Italian Foreign Ministry to continue working on her project, "Children's Tales: Poetics and Politics of Childhood in Gianni Amelio's Cinema." In April, she will read a brief excerpt from it, "Open Doors, Locked Doors: Death Penalty vs Life Penalty in Gianni Amelio's Adaptation of Leonardo Sciascia's Novel," at a Brown University symposium titled Young Italian Cinema. She is currently teaching a language course along with Race, Gender, and Power in Modern Italian Culture, an interdisciplinary study of the theme of diversity as reflected in modern and contemporary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry; the figurative arts; and cinema. Santovetti's scholarship focuses on cinema and Italian literature and culture from the Baroque era to the present day. Her areas of research include eighteenth-century aesthetics and poetics; film studies; modern and contemporary literature; narratology and the relationship between fiction, poetry, and cinema; cultural politics; history of ideas; and Italian theater, architecture, and environmental and spatial studies.

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