Laura J. Davies
Laura J. Davies, English Department, was accepted to present at the Northeast Modern Language Association annual conference planned for April 2015 in Toronto, Canada.
Benjamin C. Wilson
Benjamin C. Wilson, Economics Department, co-authored a peer-reviewed article titled “Food, Money & Democracy: Cultivating Collective Provisioning for Resilient & Equitable Communities of Work,” published July 31 online in Food, Money & Democracy. Also, the online version of his edited volume of Care, Climate, and Debt - Transdisciplinary Problems and Possibilities was published with the hardback edition due out in October.
Teagan Bradway
Teagan Bradway, English Department, was awarded the Hunt-Simes Visiting Junior Chair Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre at the University of Sydney to teach in the Institute in Sexuality Studies in 2024.
Christopher McRoberts
Christopher McRoberts, Geology Department, presented a session at the 2011 Annual Meeting of The Geological Society of America (GSA) Oct. 9-12 in Minneapolis, Minn. His talk is titled “Habitat Heterogeneity and Speciation Among Deep-Sea Triassic Benthic Bivalves from the Exaerobic Zone.”
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, had a haiku, “blackbird dead,” published recently by Haikuniverse online magazine as part of an annual event to commemorate Halloween. Also, the upcoming anthology to be published by Scryptic Magazine will include two of her poems: “He Left Me Cold” and “Travelogue: First Day of My Last Trip.”
Kathryn Kramer
Kathryn Kramer, Art and Art History Department, will have her critical review of the recent Shanghai Biennale art exhibition, “The Energizing Biennale,” published in the September/October issue of Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism.
Melissa Morris
Melissa Morris, Physics Department, was a coauthor on a paper published in Icarus titled “Sedimentary laminations in the Isheyevo (CH/CBb) carbonaceous chondrite formed by gentle impact-plume sweep-up.” Also, Morris presented an invited talk at the Chondrules as Astrophysical Objects conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada. As a member of the Science Organizing Committee, she also helped organize the conference over the last year.
Nance S. Wilson
Nance S. Wilson, Literacy Department, recently had her blog post published. Titled “Interactive, Asynchronous On-line Discussions,” it describes how teachers can engage students in interactive, asynchronous online discussions that not only play an important role in online and hybrid classes, but are critical to assuring active participation by students.
Christina Knopf
Christina Knopf, Communication and Media Studies Department, presented at the Eastern Communication Association (ECA) conference held April 5 to 7 in Philadelphia. She presented a paper called “The Statue of Trumpery: Ironic Metaphor and the Visual ideograph,” which earned recognition as A Top Paper in Political Communication. She also participated in two roundtable discussions — “Invoking <Freedom>: Negative and Positive Freedom as Rhetorical Strategies in the Pandemic” and the “Scholars’ Roundtable: The State of U.S. Democracy in the Early 21st Century.” At the end of the conference, she became the new chair of the Rhetoric and Public Address interest group of ECA.
Alex Corbitt
Alex Corbitt, Literacy Department, had his article titled “Speculative F(r)ictions: A Youth Restorying Horror and Monstrosity” published in November in the Journal of Literacy Research.