Performing Pedagogy: Toward an Art of Politics, written by Charles Garoian, professor of art education and director of the School of Visual Arts, has been published by The State University of New York Press. The book discusses the ways that selected performance artists such as Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Suzanne Lacy can impact teaching in schools by using memory and cultural history to critique dominant cultural assumptions, construct identity and act politically. Garoian also illustrates how his own memory and cultural history inform his performance art works and his classroom teaching practices.
Jeremy F. Plant, professor of public policy and administration, School of Public Affairs, Penn State Harrisburg, has co-authored Maine Central Volume 2, the second of a two-volume illustrated history of the Maine Central Railroad. Co-author of the book is George F. Melvin, a longtime employee of the railroad and a well-known writer on railroad subjects. The book is published by Morning Sun Books of Scotch Plains, N.J.
Niel Brandt and Mike Eracleous, assistant professors of astronomy and astrophysics, are two of the editors of the book titled Structure and Kinematics of Quasar Broad Line Regions, recently published by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Press. The book is the proceedings of an international conference held in 1998 in Lincoln, Neb. The conference dealt with recent advances in the understanding of the major flows of gas that occur close to the supermassive black holes in quasars. Eracleous also provided the cover art for the book. More information is available on the Web at http://www.aspsky.org/pubs/volumes/v175.html.
Adam J. Sorkin, professor of English at Penn State Delaware County, is the translator of Sea-Level Zero, which contains 80 selected and new poems by Romanian poet and fiction writer Daniela Crasnaru. The publication of the book by BOA Editions, Ltd., of Rochester, N.Y., was supported by the Eric Mathieu King Fund of the Academy of American Poets. Sorkin also provided an introduction about the poet, as well as notes to the poems. The poems in Sea-Level Zero were translated over a nearly 10-year period. Crasnaru is a major voice in East European writing, the winner of the first Romanian Academy prize for poetry after this national award was freed from Communist Party politics