Robin Bernstein published Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights (New York University Press, 2011). This book argues that performance - both on-stage and in everyday life - was the key technology by which ideas about race and ideas about childhood intertwined in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. More information about Racial Innocence is available at http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~rbernst/RacialInn.html.

John Patrick Bray is now in his second semester as a lecturer in the Department of Theatre and Film Studies at the University of Georgia. His article, "'What's Wrong with this Play?': Workshops, Audiences, and Horizons of Expectations" was published in Platform, Volume 6, Number 1. A monologue from his play, Liner Notes, will be published in the 2011 Best Stage Monologues and Scenes for Women (Smith and Kraus, Inc.) in late January. His plays Liner Notes and Goodnight Lovin' Trail are now available through Indie Theater Now (www.indietheaternow.com), and his play Resonator Blues has been published by JAC Publishing and Promotions.

David Carlyon’s "'Find Love's Prick': Touchstone Improvises," an exploration in Shakespearean interpretation, was published as the lead article in the August 2011 ANQ. He was consultant for the PBS program, History Detectives, for a fall segment on Dan Rice. Last year, the Westchester Review published his poem, "Encomiast." In October he was invited to Minneapolis to deliver the Humanities & Fine Arts Fall Convocation Speech at Augsburg College.