<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-07-29/magazine/summer-2010/new-faculty-eager-blend-faith-and-learning.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>New Faculty Eager to Blend Faith and Learning</title><excerpt>Jamie Friedman, assistant professor of English, became fascinated by medieval studies when an English professor visited her history class to discuss Beowulf, the Old English epic poem. “He had us beat on the desks while he chanted the verse,” Friedman says. “The content of the poem and the sounds reverberated in my gut, and I was hooked.”</excerpt><author/><image>
            
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