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Show Cohen, Aton to read papers paper on nature poets, "Hopeful and Uncaring Nature." Aton, a faculty member of SUSC since 1980, presented a paper titled "Peter Matthiessen's 'The Snow Leopard' and the 'Walden' Tradition of American Nature Writing" in February at the Twentieth Century Literature Conference at the University of Louisville, Ky. He was the coordinator winter quarter for SUSC's film festival "American Film: The Evolution of a Cinematic Eye," which was funded by a grant from the Utah Endowment En-dowment for the Humanities. CEDAR CITY -. Southern Utah State College faculty members James M. Aton and Michael P. Cohen will read papers at the National Popular Culture Convention April 15 in Louisville, Ky. Aton, assistant professor of English, and Cohen, associate professor of English, will appear with two West Virginia University faculty members on the panel "Nature in America: The One We See and The One We Only Visit." Aton's paper is titled "Edward Abbey's 'Desert Solitaire': An Anarchist Defends the Ecosystem." Cohen's paper, written as a result of his year-long sabbatical sab-batical from SUSC, is titled "Gentell Wilderness." Wilder-ness." It deals with John Muir, the Scottish-born "Father of the National Parks." Other papers on the panel are Dr. Ellesa High's "Past Titanic: Meditations on Experiences Ex-periences in Nature," and Dr. William Boges' |