Prestigous Publications

Faculty publications continue to grow in prestige and variety. Lee Person, head of the English department, and Thomas Moore, associate professor of political science, recently published works that have enjoyed national attention.

An internationally known Hawthorne scholar, Person edited W.W. Norton's critical edition of Hawthorne's

The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings

. Norton critical editions, which have been in existence for 40 years, are among the most widely used texts in college classes because they combine authoritative texts with essays, biographical information, letters, reviews, and bibliographies that bring authors' works to life and encourage in-depth study.

The Washington Quarterly

, a foreign policy journal with an international audience recently informed Moore that his co-authored

article has become a “member of its

Washington Quarterly

Hall of Fame.” The reason? “China Views Globalization: Toward a New Great Power Politics?” was “hit” over 3,500 times in its first three months on the web. Fewer than 20 articles of the journal have received that distinction. This is in addition to the hard copies distributed to libraries, institutions, and subscribers and to the electronic distributions to universities and MIT's web version. Moore has been invited to appear on Chicago Public Radio's “Worldview” program to discuss China's growing role in world affairs.