Several departments have recently hired new professors who will offer exciting additions to their department's curricula. Departments include English Literature, Chemistry, and Art History.

English Literature is hiring one new tenure-track professor, Rachel Buurma '99, who will teach courses on the history of the English novel. She will also introduce specialized courses in Victorian fiction, theory, and archival research. Buurma graduated from Swarthmore with High Honors and holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Before returning to Swarthmore she had several post-doc fellowships and taught full-time at the University of Toronto.

Additionally, Buurma will teach a freshman year seminar called Close Reading and Its Discontents both semesters next year. In the fall, she will offer a mid-level course on The Rise of the Novel which will cover the novel's history from the 18th-20th centuries. Since it will be offered as a core English class, the course is open to students who have taken a writing course in any discipline. In the spring she will be teaching a course on the Victorian novel.

The Chemistry department will have two new tenure track professors, both of whom are currently Swarthmore assistant professors: Alison Holliday and Liliya Yatsunyk. Holliday currently teaches Analytical Methods and Instrumentation and an advanced seminar on Environmental Chemistry. Yatsunyk teaches General Chemistry in addition to courses in Inorganic Chemistry.

Art History will also have two new professors, Nikki Greene and Kathryn O'Rourke. In the fall, Greene will offer a course on African-American Art and Identity and O'Rourke will teach a FYS on the Architecture of Philadelphia and a class on the history of Latin American Architecture. In the spring she will offer three architecture courses: one on Frank Lloyd Wright, one on Mexico City, and a survey of modern architecture.

Both new Art History hires will be giving lectures at Swat this month. Greene will give a lecture on Thursday, April 2 at 4:30 in Beardsley 316 on "Reading Black Identity in the Work of Romare Bearden, David Hammons and Renee Stout." O'Rourke will be lecturing on Latin American Architecture on Wednesday, April 16 at 4:30 in Beardsley 316.