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Kathleen A. Lawrence

Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication and Media Studies Department, has learned that her poem, “Things That Go Bump and Smile in the Night,” has been nominated for a Rhysling Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association.

Roseann D. Lorefice

Roseann D. Lorefice, Modern Languages Department, received the Dorothy Ludwig Memorial Award for Outstanding Service from the New York State Association of Foreign Language Teachers, Inc.

John C. Hartsock

John C. Hartsock, Communication Studies Department, had a new article, “Challenging the American Dream: The New Journalism and Its Precursors,” published in Witnessing the Sixties: A Decade of Change in Journalism and Literature, which is volume 51 of the Groningen Studies in Cultural Change series published by the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. The article examines how the American New Journalism of the 1960s subverted the cultural shibboleth and cliché of the American Dream. The series is published by the academic publisher Peeters of Louvain, Belgium.

Laura Davies

Laura Davies, English Department, had her essay, “Popcorn and Peter Elbow: Ways to Help Your Kids with Their Writing,” published by NCTE’s Commission for Writing Teacher Education’s blog, viewable on this link.

Alexander G. Gonzalez

Alexander G. Gonzalez, English Department, had his short article “Additional Interpretations of Eavan Boland’s ‘I Remember’ and ‘In Her Own Image’” published in ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews.

Christina Knopf

Christina Knopf, Communication and Media Studies Department, presented at two conferences in late July. She participated in a panel discussion, “Comics on Campus: Fandom + Academia,” in the educational track of the San Diego Comic Con-International on July 23. Also, she presented a co-authored paper, “Letters and Lace: Male Call and its Readers,” with Dr. Daniel Yezbick, St. Louis Community College, Wildwood, at the annual convention of the Comics Studies Society held July 29 at Michigan State University. Earlier in the summer, it was announced that Dr. Knopf is now a co-editor of the Routledge Advances in Comics Studies book series.

Li Jin

Li Jin, Geology Department, had a paper accepted for publication in the journal Science of the Total Environment. The title of the paper is “Modelling flow and inorganic nitrogen dynamics on the Hampshire Avon: Linking upstream processes to downstream water quality.”

Anna Curtis

Anna Curtis, Sociology/Anthropology Department, presented a paper titled “Little Me versus My Princess: Prisoners’ Gendered Expectations for Fathering” at the 2015 annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems held Aug. 21-23 in Chicago.

Laura J. Davies

Laura J. Davies, English Department, had her essay, “Questioning Originality: Plagiarism and Collaboration on edTPA,” published on the website and blog “Follow Education” on Sept. 23. “Follow Education” was created and is edited by faculty, and it is dedicated to raising public awareness about contemporary issues in public education and public education policy.

Katie Ducett

Katie Ducett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, received the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Special and Inclusive Education Research SIG at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual conference held in early April in Philadelphia. Her dissertation was titled “Social Lives at College: Experiences of Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disability.” Along with this award, Ducett also presented four other collaborative research projects and chaired two sessions while at AERA.