In October, Professor Pamela Jones of the Art Department delivered the lecture “Seicento Viewers of Caravaggio’s ‘Madonna of Loreto'” at John Cabot University in Rome.

Margaret Musmon, dance director for the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance and graduate program coordinator for the Department of Exercise Science and Physical Education (ESPE), presented “The Role of Assessment in Dance Pedagogy” at the 16th World Congress on Dance Research held in Greece, from October 30 to November 3. The paper was co-authored with Ann Marie Gallo, an ESPE assistant professor.

Lloyd Schwartz, Troy Professor of English and Creative Writing, led the workshop “Reading One’s Own Work Aloud” at George Washington University on October 11.

John Conlon, chair of the Theatre Arts Department, recently published a review of Claire Tylee’s Women, The First World War, and the Dramatic Imagination in the English Literature in Transition: 1880-1920.

“Blind Angel,” an excerpt from a new novel in progress by Askold Melnyczuk, director of the Creative Writing Program, will be published as a chapbook by Pressed Wafer in November.

The essay “Lonely Londoner: V. S. Naipaul and ‘The God of the City,'” written by Assistant Professor of English Gautam Premnath, appears in Imagined Londons, edited by Pamela Gilbert and published by the State University Press of New York.

Candice Rowe of the English Department has had her essay “Sonoran Desert Blues” accepted for inclusion in the third edition of the Red Rock Reader, a composition text.

Short articles on poetry by Lloyd Schwartz, Troy Professor of English and Creative Writing, are featured on www.tompaine.com. The latest, “Life’s Work: Creativity,” was posted in September.

In October, Askold Melnyczuk, director of the Creative Writing Program, celebrated his last issue of Agni, the literary journal he edited at Boston University, with a reading featuring Seamus Heaney, Robert Pinsky, Lloyd Schwartz, and others.

“A Gift of Peace,” composed by Professor David Patterson of the Music Department, has been featured in concerts by harpist Ruth Hunter on her tour in Pennsylvania.

Lloyd Schwartz, Troy Professor of English and Creative Writing, presented “Recognize That Theme? Classical Music in Contemporary Film Scores” at a panel discussion on film music held at the Boston Public Library on October 16.

Laura Schrader-Johnson has been appointed as technical director for the Theatre and Dance Department. Her award-winning production of Interview recently won the Regional Community Theatre Festival Competition in New Hampshire.

Jon Mitchell and Linnea Bardarson, faculty with the Music Department, traveled to the Czech Republic to record two Beethoven piano concertos with the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic Orchestra in October. The trip was partially funded by a UMass Boston Faculty Development Grant.