Willis Barnstone
This year, Professor Barnstone completed a new translation of Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal. He is also about to submit Paintings of Poets and Magic Couplets, portraits of 230 poets with couplet commentary.
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Sumie Jones
Sumie Jones, who retired from teaching 15 years ago, finally gave up all serious causes and endeavors in July 2021 and moved into a retirement home, where she now enjoys taking part in the Shakespeare Study Group and the Mahabharata Reading Group as well as watching plays, operas, and movies online. By the invitation of the Center for Japanese Studies of the University of California, Berkeley, she gave an online lecture in February 2022 entitled “Uptown and Downtown in Early Modern Japanese Urban Literature: The Making of a Three-Volume Anthology,” in which she reminisced about her happy days of working on the project with her colleagues and assistants.
James Naremore
In 2021, James Naremore published Letter from an Unknown Woman, a volume in the “Film Classics” series from the British Film Institute. He also completed Some Versions of Cary Grant, which was published by Oxford University Press in April.
Bronislava Volková
In addition having poetry and articles appear in various publication over the past two years, Bronislava Volková published a book in both English and Czech in 2021: Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought. Her story, “Escape,” also appeared in Fragmented Voices. A full summary of her recent work is available at bronislavavolkova.com.
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