COMINGS & GOINGS

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Fresh from completing her degree in Roman History at Columbia, JINYU LIU arrives at DePauw to fill a new (fifth!) tenure-line. SHAWN O'BRYHIM, meanwhile, was lured away by Franklin & Marshall.

AMBER SCAIFE receives her PhD from Ohio State this month with a dissertation on the Roman Triumph, and then becomes the newest member of the department at Kenyon. In the fall, she will teach one of the sections of Beginning Latin & an Advanced Greek course on the novels of Lucian and Longinus. In the spring, she will design a new course-in-translation called "Sincerely Yours: Letters and Letter Writing in Ancient Rome."

Knox alumnus NATHAN BETHELL returns to campus this year as a visiting lecturer. While working on his U.Mich dissertation, he will be teaching the elementary Greek sequence and a civilization course still to be determined.

Oberlin welcomes for 2004-2005 KENDRA ESHELMAN, whose interest is in the social history of the early Christian church, and BARBARA CLAYTON, a recent PhD from Stanford & the the author of Reweaving the Feminine in Homer's Odyssey.

JOHN FISCHER retired from Wabash College (& from his longtime role as Prime Mover of the GLCA Classicists). New to Wabash, but not new to the GLCA, is JEREMY HARTNETT, who taught at Oberlin this last year.

Leaving St. Olaf is JON BRUSS, with a tenure-track position at Sewanee.

With the departures of TOM FALKNER (see front page) & of NEIL BERNSTEIN (on tenure-track now at Ohio University), Wooster's department needed replenishing. Hired into a two-year position is MATTHEW MCGOWAN, a Latinist with a PhD from New York University. Also new to Wooster in 2004-2005 will be EDITH FOSTER, who did her graduate work at the University of Chicago.