Faculty Scholarship

DR. HASSELL A. SIMPSON, PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF ENGLISH

SINCE HIS RETIREMENT from the College in 1995, Professor Emeritus of English Hassell A. Simpson has continued to write and to act. Two privately published monographs, bearing the imprint of Scotch Broom Press, appeared in 2005 and 2006. The 2005 publication, Simpson Hill, 1819-1978, contains some photographs by College Editor John L. Dudley ’95; and the second, “Twin Halves of One August Event”: Private Pinson and Colonel Shaw, was designed by the College’s Director of Publications Richard C. McClintock.

In 2005 Simpson wrote reviews of three books for the Norfolk Virginian-Pilo : Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men (Knopf 2005), Chtira Banerjee Divakaruni’s Queen of (Doubleday 2005), and Young Turk, by Moris Farhi (Arcade 2005).

Simpson was one of the faculty members and spouses who founded the Faculty Players in the late 1960s, appearing regularly in the group’s plays, and wrote Hampden-Sydney Stage: Theater at the College, 1786-2002, which was published by the College in 2004. Although Faculty Players was dissolved some years ago, Simpson has continued to act in student productions, most recently as Edward II in , directed by Lecturer in Fine Arts Matthew R .Dubroff, as well as in plays in Ashland, Virginia.

BEYOND THE Classroom FOR THE Classroom
Hampden-Sydney College Faculty Scholarship 2005-2008
A report by the Office of the Dean of the Faculty