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Faculty and Staff Activities

Erin Morris

Erin Morris, Sport Management Department, presented “Creating and Implementing the ‘Gender Identity Training: Respecting Pronouns’ on Campus” at the 2022 SUNY SPECTRUM Conference, held Sept. 15 and 16 in New York City. The conference featured speakers that helped to educate about the most significant concerns impacting the LGBTQIA+ college community in the U.S. today. SUNY Cortland’s Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Expression (SOGIE) Committee created a training around respecting pronouns aimed to educate faculty and staff across campus about what pronouns are, why using correct pronouns are important, and how to practice and implement inclusive language in our everyday lives. Morris’ presentation discussed the creation and implementation of this training module.

Tyler Bradway

Tyler Bradway, English Department, had his article, “Queer Exuberance: The Politics of Affect in Jeanette Winterson’s Visceral Fiction,” published in the March issue of Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature. Also, he had an essay titled “Critical Immodesty and Other Grammars for Aesthetic Agency,” published in Stanford University’s digital salon Arcade: Literature, Humanities, and the World. Bradway presented a paper, “Reading in Crisis: Queer Hermeneutics in Samuel Delany’s Para-Academic AIDS Fiction” at the 2015 American Comparative Literature Association Conference held March 26-29 in Seattle, Wash. In January, Bradway presented his paper, “Trigger Warning: Kathy Acker’s Visceral Pedagogy,” at the 2015 Modern Language Association Conference in Vancouver, Canada.

Susan Peterson and Lori Ellis

Susan Peterson, Modern Languages Department, and Lori Ellis, Art and Art History Department, collaborated on a writing project for NeoVox, SUNY Cortland’s online literary and new media design magazine. Students in Peterson’s Advanced Spanish Composition class viewed paintings done by students in Ellis’ 300-level painting class and chose one to critique in Spanish. Both the critiques and the artwork will be published in NeoVox this semester. The project encourages and supports both classes and individual student work. Photographs of the artwork were courtesy of Michael Bersani of the SUNY Cortland Public Relations Office. 

Eric Malmberg

Eric Malmberg, Physical Education Department, received an outstanding professional award at the New York State Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (NYS-AHPERD) Conference held in Verona, N.Y., in November.

Tom Lickona

Tom Lickona, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, has been awarded a $10,000 contract with the Kansas State Board of Education for the “Character Education Partnership Grant.” The period of performance is Feb. 21 to June 30, 2011.

Kristine Newhall

Kristine Newhall, Kinesiology Department, had her article about the potential effects of new Title IX regulations on athletics published in August. “New Title IX Guidelines Sexual Assault Mean Less Accountability for Athletics” was published on Engaging Sports, a blog that is part of the public sociology website The Society Pages.

Doug Langhans

Doug Langhans, Admissions, was a panelist on the State Study Consortia: Pool Resources & Increase Exposure! webinar presented by International English Language Testing System (IELTS) USA. IELTS hosted a variety of online workshops throughout the summer discussing various topics related to international education. Langhans, Study New York past-chair, and a number of other industry leaders discussed the benefits of forming a study state consortium to help increase the exposure of colleges and universities to international students and scholars. Langhans has been the SUNY Cortland representative for Study New York since it was founded in 2009 and has been a member of the Executive Leadership Team since 2016.

Caroline Kaltefleiter

Caroline Kaltefleiter, Communication and Media Studies Department, received a 2022 Transformative Justice Scholar-Activist of the Year Award from the national grassroots fully-volunteer organization Save the Kids. The organization is dedicated to alternatives to, and the end of the incarceration of all youth and the school-to-prison pipeline. Her work on creative youth media outreach projects and mutual aid actions over the last decade was highlighted.   

Matthew Whitman

Matthew Whitman, Institute for Civic Engagement and SUNY Cortland AmeriCorps member, presented “Using Social Media to Engage Students” at Imagining America's national conference held Oct. 6 in Syracuse, N.Y.

Kathleen Lawrence

Kathleen Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, had her poem “Trump’s Tip” appear in the Oct. 9 issue of Rattle magazine’s weekly Poets Respond feature about recent events in the news. She has 25 poems published or forthcoming this year, to date. Her poem “Even Happy Ghosts Can Be Scary Ghosts When You’re 7” won third place in the Science Fiction Poetry Association’s (SFPA) international 2016 contest and was published on the SFPA website in September. In October, her poem “Detecting Nancy Drew” appeared in in Silver Birch Press’s Nancy Drew Anthology. Nine clerihews (humorous short poems) appeared in The Muses’ Gallery of Highland Park Poetry, in September. Lawrence’s clerihews lampooned George W. Bush, Caitlyn Jenner, Ryan Lochte, Michelle Obama, Bernie Sanders, O.J. Simpson, Ringo Starr and Anthony Weiner. Five of Lawrence’s poems, “High Tea,” “The Infected,” “Howl E’en,” “Schoolyard Games” and “A Congress of Ghosts” were accepted for publication in the anthology Lupine Lunes by Popcorn Press, to be published on Halloween.