What are UNT faculty reading this summer?

There's nothing like settling down with a good book to wile away a summer day. InHouse heard that the UNT faculty had their noses buried in a few good books and other reading materials. Here's what they're reading:

• Alan B. Albarran, professor and chair of the Department of Radio, Television and Film
  — The Sigma Protocol, by Robert Ludlum
  — Churchill: A Biography, by Roy Jenkins

• Martin Bink, assistant professor of psychology
  — Kundun: A Biography of the Family of the Dalai Lama, by Mary Craig
  — Implicit Learning and Tacit Knowledge, by Arthur Reber

• Gloria Cox, associate professor of political science and director of academic core programs
  — The DaVinci Code, by Dan Brown
  — Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by J.K. Rowling

• D. Jack Davis, professor and dean of the School of Visual Arts
  — The Rise of the Creative Class, by Richard Florida
  — The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson

• Lea Dopson, associate professor of merchandising and hospitality management
  — The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love, by Jill Conner Browne
  — Lucky Man, by Michael J. Fox

• Eugene Hargrove, professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies
  — In Defense of the Land Ethic, by J. Baird Callicott, who is also a UNT professor of philosophy
  — Faking Nature, by Robert Elliot

• Lyle Nordstrom, professor of music
  — The Wailing Wind, by Tony Hillerman

• James Tanner, professor and chair of the Department of English
  — Kurt Vonnegut: A Critical Companion, by Thomas F. Marvin
  — The Norton Anthology of American Literature
  — The New Yorker, "cover to cover, every week"

BY PETER HOFSTAD paiswri2@unt.edu

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• Student health center screening for SARS
• UNT receives $900,000 to fund research
• New Faculty Senate chair says he's 'still emerging' as a scholar and leader
• New Student Orientation to host close to 3,000 incoming UNT freshmen
• UNT departments on the move
• Magazine ranks UNT among top 100 universities for Hispanic students
• UNT professor seeks study participants

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