Lisa Czirr
Lisa Czirr, Memorial Library, presented “Cross-Pollination: Lessons Learned from Online Delivery to Enhance the Return to In-Person Information Literacy Instruction” at the SUNYLA 2021 (Virtual) annual conference held June 16 to 18. The session highlighted takeaways from the online format that can potentially improve in-person instruction. The conference theme was “From Seeds to Service: Growing the New Academic Library.”
John C. Hartsock
John C. Hartsock, Communication Studies Department, gave lectures in early October at St. Petersburg State University in St. Petersburg, Russia on American and international literary journalism. He was invited by Russia’s oldest university as part of the Russia Program sponsored by Stony Brook University. In addition, he participated in a roundtable discussion on journalism ethics at the university, and gave a lecture to the general public on literary journalism at the bookstore Word Order in St. Petersburg. This was his first return to Russia in 24 years. From 1989 to 1993 he reported on the collapse of the Soviet Union for several publications.
Jordan Kobritz
Jordan Kobritz, Sport Management Department, co-authored an article titled “Creating an Action Plan for Event Cleaning” that was published in the September issue of Cleaning & Maintenance Management magazine.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, gave an invited talk as part of a virtual roundtable on his new book, Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form (Duke UP, 2022). Held Jan. 19, the event was hosted by the University of Southern California and sponsored by the Race, Gender, and Sexuality Research Cluster, the USC Department of American Studies and Ethnicity, the USC Consortium for Gender, Sexuality, Race and Public Culture, and the USC Association of English Graduate Students.
Mechthild Nagel, Seth N. Asumah and Lewis Rosengarten
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy and Africana Studies departments and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, Seth N. Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, and Lewis Rosengarten, Educational Opportunity Program and Africana Studies Department, presented papers at the recent New York African Studies Association at CUNY and Columbia University. Students Deidre Kirkem and Adesola Belo also presented their papers. Asumah and Nagel’s book, Diversity, Social Justice, and Inclusive Excellence, published in 2014 by SUNY Press, won the New York African Studies Book Award.
John C. Hartsock
John C. Hartsock, Communication Studies Department, has learned that his book, Seasons of a Finger Lakes Winery, was named one of four finalists for the Louis Roederer Award for International Wine Book of the Year. The award is sponsored annually by the distinguished French Champagne House of Louis Roederer. Last March, Hartsock’s book won best in class at the Gourmand awards in Paris. The book was published in 2011 by Cornell University Press.
In other news, Life in the Finger Lakes published excerpts from the book in the summer and fall issues of the magazine.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, presented a paper titled “The Queerness of Creativity: Aesthetic Object-Relations in Eve Sedgwick and Alison Bechdel” at the 2016 American Comparative Literature Association’s annual meeting on March 18 at Harvard University. Also, he co-chaired and organized a seminar titled “Are We Queer Yet?” Also, in January, Bradway presented a paper titled "Bad Writing: Queer Experimentalism at the Limits of the LGBT Canon" at the 2016 Modern Language Association Convention in Austin, Texas.
Nance Wilson
Nance Wilson, Literacy Department, co-authored an article titled “Investigating students during-reading practices through social annotation” that was selected by the Association of College and Research Libraries Distance and Online Learning Section’s Research & Publications Committee for the Summer Top 5 post about Digital Reading and Annotation.
Bonni C. Hodges
Bonni C. Hodges, Health Department, has been selected to participate in the American Cancer Society/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s “School Health Education Higher Education Academy” set for Feb. 2 to 4 at Emory University in Atlanta, Ga. The 45 academy participants from across the country will engage in activities and participate in sessions designed to provide the basis for 21st century school health education preparation programs.
Dianne Wellington
Dianne Wellington is invited to be a panelist at the Crafting the Irresistible: Creative - Critical Literacies and Communities virtual symposium hosted by the University at Arkansas-Fayetteville Community Literacies Collaboratory on Oct. 21. The symposium will explore how the interplay between the creative and critical can bolster literacies scholarship, pedagogical practices, political and activist expression, and community formation and transformation. Wellington will be presenting as a panelist about imaginative pedagogies.