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Doreen Fowler, professor of English, was elected to a three-year term on the Executive Council of the Faulkner Society. Her essay "Beyond Oedipus: Lucas Beauchamp, Ned Barnett, and Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust" has been accepted for publication in Modern Fiction Studies, and a review of a book on Walker Percy recently appeared in the Flannery O'Connor Review.

On May 27 in San Francisco, she presented " 'Go Slow, Now': Faulkner and the Rhetoric of Race" at the American Literature Association Conference. Paul Mirecki, associate professor of religious studies, spent four weeks this summer on the Greek island of Samothrace, meeting with Greek and American archaeologists at the ancient religious site of "The Great Gods." Mirecki took more than 1,000 digital photos of the site and the extensive museum collection that he will use in his courses at KU.

Keith McMahon, chair and professor of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, gave a talk titled "The Concept of Chinese Polygamy" on Oct. 13 at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, for a conference in memory of the sinologist Jaroslav Prusek. He also presented a lecture titled "Sexuality in China on the Verge of Modernity" on Oct. 17 at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris.

KU HISTORY

Comanche, a horse thought to be the only U.S. Army survivor of the battle of Little Big Horn, has been on display in Lawrence for more than 100 years. Although he was severely wounded in the battle, he was nursed back to health and lived until Nov. 7, 1891. KU naturalist Lewis Lindsay Dyche, a well-known taxidermist, was called to preserve the horse's remains. He agreed to waive his $400 fee if the Army would let KU keep Comanche. www.kuhistory.com