SOF News – September 2013

SOF News September 2013
Lucy Corin, 2013 Fellow
Lucy Corin - One Hundred Apocalypses
Detail of the cover of Lucy Corin, One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses
SOF News September 2013
Xenobia in Chains by Harriet Hosmer (1859) is the subject of a new book by Patricia Cronin
SOF News September 2013
The newest catalogue from Italica Press is now available

Lucy Corin (2013 Fellow) has announced the release of her new book, One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses. The San Francisco Chronicle calls it “a delightful, endlessly inventive read.” Lambda Literary interviewed her when she was still in Rome. Read the diary of some of her Rome adventures here. She will be touring this fall, see SOF Events for details.

Kiel Moe (2010 Fellow) also has a new book. Convergence: An Architectural Agenda for Energy was released in July.

The Zenobia Scandal: A Meditation on Male Jealousy by Patricia Cronin (2007 Fellow) focuses on the stir created by the massive marble sculpture Zenobia in Chains by Harriet Hosmer, one of the women sculptors working in Rome in the mid-nineteenth century.The book is available with issue 23 of Zing Magazine.

The newest catalogue from Italica Press is now available as a downloadable PDF. Publishers Ronald Musto (1979 Fellow) and Eileen Gardiner offer titles of interest to many members of the Academy community, as well an interactive map of medieval Naples and photo galleries that are delightfully distracting.

A lecture titled “The Rise and Fall of Quellenforschung” by Glenn W. Most (1983 Fellow) can be viewed here. It was delivered at the forty-second annual conference of the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies in July 2013.