At the Northeast Modern Language Association’s annual convention in Niagara Falls, New York, on March 25, Dr. Lauren Matz, professor of English, presented a paper on one of Anglo-American writer Henry James’s early short stories.

Her paper, “Secrecy, Ambiguity, Romans, and Roman Catholics in Henry James’s ‘Adina’ (1874),” considered James’s depiction of 19th-century American and Italian cultural masculinities as well as American travelers’ encounters with Rome’s pagan past and its Catholic present.