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The Erie County Legislature earlier this month approved a resolution honoring Kazimierz Braun, professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance, College of Arts and Sciences, for the recent productions of his play, “The Tales of Pola Negri,” in Toronto and Washington, D.C. Braun directed the world premiere of the play at the Nowotarska Theatre in Toronto, and the American premiere at the American University Theatre in Washington. Negri, a Polish silent-film actress who has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, was a femme fatale famous for her affairs with Charlie Chaplin and Rudolph Valentino.

Joan K. Copjec, UB Distinguished Professor in the departments of English and Comparative Literature, College of Arts and Sciences, has been named the Critical Inquiry Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago for 2009-2010.

Oxford University Press next month will publish a translation of Torquato Tasso’s “The Liberation of Jerusalem” by Max Wickert, associate professor, Department of English. Wickert will give an invited lecture on Tasso at the University of Exeter, England.