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Contact: Bruce Conley
Associate Director of College Relations
Phone: (605) 274-5526
Fax: (605) 274-4903
www.augie.edu
March 9, 2006
SIOUX FALLS – Augustana College professors Patrick Hicks and Margaret Preston will be featured on the South Dakota Public Broadcasting program “Food for Thought” on Saint Patrick’s Day, March 17.
The program airs from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. The program can be heard on KCSD 90.9-FM.
“We will chat about Irish literature, Irish history, and we will take calls from the listening audience,” said Hicks.
Both Augustana professors have strong ties to Ireland.
Hicks’ mother was born in Northern Ireland and he still has family there. He earned a master’s degree from Queens University of Belfast and a Ph.D. from the University of Sussex in England. Among the courses he teaches at Augustana are “Troubling Narratives: Northern Irish Literature Since 1969,” and James Joyce’s Ulysses. Joyce (1882-1941) was born in Dublin.
Preston received a master’s degree in Irish History from University College Dublin and a Ph.D. in history from Boston College. She teaches a course on modern Irish history and in 2004 published Charitable Words: Gentlewomen, Social Control and the language of Charity in Nineteenth-Century Dublin.
In 2007, during the January Interim, Hicks and Preston will again lead a group of students to Ireland, where they teach a course called “The Disunited Kingdom: History, Literature and Social Reconciliation in Northern Ireland.”