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Show SUSC faculty member honored A Southern Utah State College faculty member has been invited to act as a discussant on Gandhian thought for the 1980 Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies. Dr. S. S. Moorty, associate professor of English at SUSC, will appear on a panel discussing "The Impact of Gandhian Thought on Indo-English Literature" Oct. 10-11 in Salt Lake City. The SUSC educator is originally from India, receiving a MA in English from the University of Delhi, and a BA in business with a minor in English , from Osmania University, Hyderabad, South India. ' He earned his PHD in English at the University of Utah. His doctoral dissertation, "Frank Norris and F. Scott Fitzgerald," has been accepted for publication by University Press of America, Washington, D.C. Dr. Moorty joined the SUSC faculty in 1975, teaching world masterpieces of literature, introduction to drama, modern British literature, English structure, Renaissance literature, the novel and various composition com-position courses. While at SUSC, Moorty has read several papers for 5 Western literary associations, most recently a paper on Norris's "McTeague" for the Western Literature Association, and a paper on Puritan poet Edward Taylor for the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. Moorty, who has been named to the 17th edition of "Who's Who in the West," has had papers published in several professional journals in the U.S. and India. Recent papers have appeared in Utah Academy procedings; in issues of "American Literary Realism," "Western American Literature, and "World Literature Written in English;"" and in the "Indian Literary Review," published in New Delhi. |