Fazia Aitel (2004) has begun a tenure-track appointment as Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at the University of Montana-Missoula. She teaches courses in Comparative Literature, 20th Century Francophone literature, Anglophone literature, postcolonial studies, and film studies.

Elizabeth Augspach (2004) has published The Garden as Woman's Space in 12th and 13th Century Literature. Studies in Medieval Literature 27 (Lewiston, NY: Ewin Mellen Press, 2004). The book was based on her dissertation.

Philip Beitchman (1986) has published The View from Nowhere: Essays in Literature, Mysticism and Philosophy. (University Press of America: Lanham, MD and Oxford, UK, 2001).

Francesco Bonavita (1980) is a professor in the Department of Instruction and Educational Leadership at Kean University (Union, NJ). At the ACTFL Convention in November 2003 he presented a paper, "Primo Levi: Hope amidst Hopelessness." His textbook, Giardino italiano, An Intermediate Language Immersion Program in Italian, has been published by Bastos (2004).

Monica Calabritto (2001) is an Assistant Professor of Italian at Hunter College, CUNY. She made two presentations at the Annual Conference of the Renaissance Society of America (April 2004): "Emblems/Impresse" and "Exploring the Archives." She was awarded an I Tatti Fellowship at the Harvard University's center for research in Renaissance studies; the fellowship provides residence in Florence, Italy, during the 2004-05 academic year.

Giovanna DeLuca (2002) has begun a tenure-track appointment as an Assistant Professor of Italian at the College of Charleston (South Carolina). The position will also provide the opportunity for her to teach film studies.

Earl E. Fitz (1977) has been appointed Director of the Comparative Literature Program at Vanderbilt University.
Lynn Garafola (1985) is currently an Adjunct Professor of Dance at Barnard College. In addition to teaching dance history, she curated the series "On Dance: Conversations, Films, Lectures." Her third exhibition, "Liza Foner: A Retrospective," opened at GALLERY 1199, New York City, on March 23rd. She has published "Of Ballerinas and the Sublime, or What Peter Martins Thinks of Classicism." Washington Dance View, Autumn 2000. Her article, "The Sexual Iconography of the Ballets Russes," appeared in BALLET REVIEW, 18, no. 3 (Fall 2000). She lectured on "Salome and the Erotic Other: Versions of the Dance of the Seven Veils," Donnell Library Center, in January 2001. The program was sponsored by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Anja Grothe (2000) works at Greenhouse, a multimedia publishing group in Munich, Germany, and is an adjunct lecturer at Bayreuth University. Her essay, "Fate's Circles: The Female Triangle and its Mythological Repercussions in Pushkin House," appeared in a web-based casebook, Andrei Bitov's "Pushkin House." Dalkey Archive Press, www.dalkeyarchive.org.

Thelma Jurgrau (1976) has published "Anti-Semitism as Revealed in George Sand's Letters" in Le Siecle de George Sand. Ed. David Powell. Amsterdam: Rodopl, 1998. She presented two papers: " 'Shylock moderne': A Study of George Sand's Jewish Characters" at the 14th International George Sand Conference (Brandeis U, April 1999) and "The Changing Image of the Jew and George Sand's Rejection of the Romantic Subject in Valvedre," George Sand Studies, 21 (2002). She delivered a paper, "Les Mississipiens: George Sand's Allegory of a Bleak New World," at Tulane University, November 2002. A founding member of the George Sand Association and a member of the editorial board of George Sand Studies, she was guest editor of vols. 18 (1999) and 19 (2000) of George Sand Studies. Her bibliography of "Translations of George Sand's Work in English" can be seen on the George Sandwebsite.

Henry Krawitz (1976) is a professional editor. He has recently edited books for ABC-CLIO, Columbia U Press, Dahesh Museum of Art, Indiana U Press, Johns Hopkins U Press, U Kansas Press, Oxford U Press, Princeton U Press, and U Wisconsin Press.

James Kugel (1977), Harry Starr Professor of Classical Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature at Harvard University, won the Grawemeyer Award in Religion for 2001 for his book, The Bible As It Was: Biblical Traditions of Late Antiquity (Harvard U Press, 1997). In 2002 he was awarded the Graduate Center's first Distinguished Alumni Award.

Maria Makowiecka (1996) presented two papers: "Rewriting Esther/Reinscribing Jewish Otherness" AATSEEL, New Orleans, December 2001, and "Rewriting Central European Identities -- Maria Nurowska's German Dance," SCMLA, Tulsa, November 2001. She prepared these presentations during her appointment to the New York Public Library's Wertheim Study.

Jay Miskowiec (1991), Director of Aliform Publishing Co., was one of 10 editors specializing in Latin American literature in translation chosen worldwide to attend a week-long symposium in Buenos Aires, Fundación Teoría y Practica de las Artes. He has edited and published two translations by his former dissertation supervisor Gregory Rabassa: My Kingdom Is Not of This World, by the Portuguese writer Joao de Melo, and Jail, by the Colombian writer Jesus Zarate.

RoseAnna Mueller (1977) has published "Antonia Pulci (1452-1501)" in Catholic Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook. ed. Mary R. Reichardt, Greenwood Press, 2001. Her article "From Cult to Comics: The Representation of Gonzalo Guerrero as a Cultural Hero in Mexican Popular Culture" appeared in A Twice-Told Tale: Reinventing the Encounter in Iberian/Iberian American Literature and Film, ed. Santiago Juan-Navarro, U of Delaware Press, 2001. Another article of hers, "La Llorona, The Weeping Woman: The Sixth Portent, the Third Legend," was published in COMMUNITY COLLEGE HUMANITIES REVIEW, 2001. She presented a paper at the Latin American Studies Association Conference in Washington, D.C., September 2001, "Petra's Kingdom: The Cellar of the House on the Lagoon."

Elizabeth Pallitto (2002) was a postdoctoral fellow at the CUNY Honors College program (College of Staten Island, CUNY). Among her recent lectures are "Philomela's Tongue: Translating Petrarchism in a Female Voice," Biennial Conference on Literary Translation, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ; "Embodied Souls, Immortal Poems: Procreation and Artistic Creation in the Rime of Tullia d'Aragona and the Sonnets of William Shakespeare," Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference, UC Irvine; "Machiavelli: Beyond Might Makes Right," Stern School of Business, New York University. She co-chaired a workshop, "The Dialogue as Structure and Strategy in Court and Convent Attending to Early Modern Women," at the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies, U of Maryland, College Park, MD. She has published translations: four poems by Tullia d'Aragona, Forum Italicum, 36, 1 (Spring 2002); eleven philosophical madrigals by Tommaso Campanella, Philosophical Forum (Fall 2002). She delivered a paper at the Annual Conference of the Renaissance Society of America (April 2004): "Early Modern Italian Women Reading."

Karen Pinkus (1990) is Professor of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature and chair of the Department of French and Italian at the University of Southern California. She published The Montesi Scandal. The Death of Wilma Montesi and the Birth of the Paparazzi in Fellini's Rome (U Chicago Press 2003). She also gave the keynote speech in London at the Association for the Study of Modern Italy.

A book by Johanna C. Prins (1987) Medieval Dutch Drama: Four Secular Plays and Four Farces from the Van Hulthem Manuscript, was published by Pegasus Press (Asheville, NC). It is volume 3 in the series, Early European Drama in Translation.

Remy Roussetzki (1999) is an Assistant Professor of English at Hostos Community College, CUNY; he has recently been appointed to the faculty of the Graduate Center's Ph.D. Program in French. His article, "When Eve Answers Back: The Impossible of Paradise Lost," was published in Zeitspruenge, Zentrum zur Erforschung der Fruehen Neuzeit (Johann Wolfgant Goethe Universitaet, Frankfurt). He presented a paper on Milton's Paradise Lost, "Cuando Eva Dija 'No' a Dios y al Demonio," at the Jornadas da Escola de Causa Analitica (Rio De Janeiro) and an article on Rabelais, "Visual Grotesque and Denial of Castration," at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference (Cleveland).

Caroline Rupprecht (1998) is an assistant professor of Comparative Literature at Queens College, CUNY. Her paper, "A Family of Stone and Hearts Transformed into Deserts: The Divided Communities of Marguerite Duras and Etel Adnan," was awarded the 2003 South-Central MLA Prize for Best Conference Paper in Gender Studies. She presented a paper, "Castration Anxiety Revisited: Germany as 'Mother' in Kutlug Ataman's film Lola & Bilidikid," at the German Studies Association conference (New Orleans, 2003). Among her recent publications are: translation and introduction of Unica Zuern's Dark Spring (Boston: Exact Change, 2000); "The Violence of Merging: Unica Zuern's Writing (on) the Body," Studies In 20th Century Literature 27:2 (Summer 2003). Her book, Subject To Delusions: Narcissism, Modernism, Gender, (Evanston: Northwestern U Press) is in press for 2005. She was awarded a PSC-CUNY Research Award for "Empathy: Lessing, Brecht, and the Theater of Psychoanalysis."

Deborah Sinnreich-Levi (1987) is an Associate Professor of English Literature and Director of the Writing Program at the Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, NJ). She has co-edited and translated Selected Poetry of Eustache Deschamps (New York: Routledge, 2003). She gave two invited lectures: "WIT-Word, Image, Text: A 14th Century Filter," Keynote address, Conference to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the Master of Arts in English Literature, Mercy College, November 2003; "The King of the Uglies: Eustache Deschamps, 14th-Century Courtier-Poet," Wake Forest University Medieval Studies Group, March 2003. She received a major grant for a database of the poetry of Eustache Deschamps.

An book by Ekaterina Sukhanova (2001), Voicing the Distant: Shakespeare and Russian Modernist Poetry, was published by Fairleigh Dickinson U Press (2004). Her article, "Conscience Shaping Phenomena: Literature and Depression," has appeared (in a Spanish translation) in Vertex, Revista Argentina de Psiquiatría. XX/44 (June-July-August 2001). Her review of a book on authenticity and fiction in the Russian literary journey was published by American Book Review. 22/4, (May-June 2001). She presented two papers: "Depression as Text." Fifth World Conference on Depression. Mendoza, Argentina. September 2003; "Escaping the Badger Hole: Russian Modernists' Approach to Tradition." AAASS Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, Hunter College, New York, March 2003. She has edited a web-based casebook, Andrei Bitov's PUSHKIN HOUSE, Dalkey Archive Press, available at www.dalkeyarchive.org.

Saundra Tara Weiss (2002) is an Assistant Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College. She has received a Scholarly and Applied Research Grant for "Nature and the Environment: An Interdisciplinary Approach -- Art, Film, and Literature."