Mary Dalton, Department of English, in October read poems from her new book Merrybegot in the cities of St. John's, Corner Brook, Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto. The tour was sponsored by the League of Canadian Poets, the Canada Council for the Arts and Montreal publisher Vehicule Press. In April, Ms. Dalton read her work at major literary venues in the cities of Waterford, Cork, Galway, Dublin and Belfast; that tour was funded by the CCA and the Ireland-Newfoundland Partnership.

Dr. Valerie Legge, English, delivered a paper titled Agnes C. Laut: Romancing the American West at the 17th biennial Association for Canadian Studies in the United States Conference in Portland, Oregon, Nov. 19-23.

Dr. Ursula Kelly, Faculty of Education, recently published The Place of Reparation: Love, Loss, Ambivalence and Teaching, a chapter in Teaching, Learning, and Loving: Reclaiming Passion in Educational Practice (Routledge, 2004), a collection edited by Daniel Liston of the University of Colorado and James Garrison of Virginia Tech.