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Pomona College Professors Appointed to Endowed Chairs
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Three Pomona College professors, Laura Mays Hoopes, Michael
McGaha and Arden Reed, have been named to endowed chairs in
biology, English and modern languages. The honors were
approved by the Pomona College Board of Trustees at their
quarterly meeting in May.
“These three faculty members,” notes Pomona President David.
W. Oxtoby, “have each contributed in varied and profound
ways to the life of the college through their teaching,
scholarship, and academic leadership. By appointing them to
endowed chairs, we celebrate their role in our community and
recognize their accomplishments.”
Laura L. Mays Hoopes, a professor of biology and molecular
biology who served as the college’s vice president of
academic affairs from 1993 to 1998, has been named the
Halstead-Bent Professor in Biology. A member of the faculty
since 1993, Hoopes teaches Introductory Genetics, Genetic
Regulation in Eukaryote and the introductory seminar
Biographies of Biologists.
Outside the classroom, Hoopes focuses her research on the
molecular biology of aging and DNA repair as a possible age
protection mechanism. Her work has been recognized with
grants from the National Institutes of Health, National
Science Foundation, and the Research Corporation. She is the
author of Genetics: A Molecular Approach (1981), and her
articles have appeared in a number of professional journals
including the Journal of Biological Chemistry, The EMBO
Journal (an official journal of the European Molecular
Biology Organization) and Molecular and Cellular Biology.
Currently a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America,
Hoopes is a past president of both the Council on
Undergraduate Research and the American Aging Association.
She is also a former division chair of the American Society
for Microbiology and, for several years, served on the
National Science Foundation Biology Advisory Committee.
Hoopes earned her Ph.D. from Yale University and her A.B.
from Goucher College, which in 1995, awarded her an honorary
D. Sc. degree.
The Halstead-Bent Professorship in Biology honors the gifts
given to Pomona College in 1915 by Mrs. Willard George
Halstead to establish the Willard George Halstead
Professorship in Zoology and the Henry Kirk White Bent
Professorship in Botany. The Halstead Professorship honored
Mrs. Halstead's husband, and the Bent Professorship honored
her father, a founding trustee of Pomona College.
Michael D. McGaha, who is chair of the Romance Languages and
Literatures Department, has been appointed the inaugural
Yale B. and Lucille D. Griffith Professor in Modern
Languages. A member of the faculty since 1970, he teaches
Advanced Spanish; Survey of Spanish Literature;
Literature and Life: Don Quixote; Sex, Power and Religion in
Golden Age Drama; and History and Culture of Sephardic Jews.
A former Fulbright Fellow, McGaha has devoted most of his
career to studying 17th-century Spanish literature,
especially the works of Cervantes and Spanish drama. In
recent years, he became increasingly interested in the
history and literature of the Sephardic Jews, and has just
completed the book The Creation of Kabbalah: Jewish
Mysticism in Medieval Spain.
His most recent publications include Domingo Badía y Leblich,
Alí Bey en Marruecos (1999) and The Story of Joseph in
Spanish Golden Age Drama (1998). He is also the author of
Cervantes and the Renaissance (Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic,
1980), a past editor of the Cervantes: Bulletin of the
Cervantes Society, and a former associate editor of
Hispania.
His scholarship has been supported by the National Endowment
for the Humanities, the Canadian Federation for the
Humanities, and the Program for Culture Cooperation between
Spain’s Ministry of Culture and North American Universities.
McGaha earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at
Austin and his B.A. from the University of Dallas.
The Yale B. and Lucille D. Griffith Professorship in Modern
Languages was created in 1985 by Pomona College alumnus and
trustee Yale B. Griffith, Class of 1925. Mr. Griffith's term
as a member of the Pomona College Board of Trustees from
1946 to 1975 is among the lengthiest in the College's
history. The professorship is named to honor Mr. Griffith
and his wife, Lucille Delaney Griffith.
Arden Reed, a member of the faculty since 1979, has been
named the Arthur M. Dole and Fanny M. Dole Professor in
English. He teaches the courses: Literature of the Romantic
Period; Nature of Narrative in Fiction and Film; Reading
Images; Queer Theories, Gay Fictions; and Wordsworth &
Proust: Advanced Seminar; as well as the art history course
Manet, Degas, Cezanne, and the introductory seminar Paris
and the Birth of the Modern.
Reed’s research has covered the spectrum of English Romantic
literature; 19th-century French painting and literature;
modernism across the arts; relationships between painting
and literature, or image and text; and issues surrounding
art and attentiveness.
A prolific author, Reed’s most recent publications are Manet,
Flaubert, and the Emergence of Modernism (2003) and
Constance DeJong: Metal (2003). He was the editor of
Romanticism and Language: A Collection of Critical Essays
(1984) and, in recent years, has had several articles
published in Art in America.
Reed earned his B.A. from Wesleyan University and his M.A.
and Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University. Under the aegis
of The Camargo Foundation, he served as a research fellow in
Cassis, France, and under the auspices of The Borchard
Foundation, he was a scholar in residence, at Chateau de la
Bretesche, in Missillac, France. Through an award from the
Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities he was a
fellow at the University of Edinburgh, among other honors.
The Arthur M. Dole and Fanny M. Dole Professorship in
English was established in 1962 through bequests from Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur M. Dole. Mr. Dole, a member of the Class of
1896, served as a trustee of the College for 47 years, from
1908 to 1955.
Pomona College is one of the nation’s premier liberal arts
institutions, offering a comprehensive program in the arts,
humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. Its
hallmarks include small classes, close relationships between
students and faculty, and a range of opportunities for
student research. Visit Pomona College on the web at
www.pomona.edu.
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