Kati Ahern
Kati Ahern, English Department, co-authored an article titled “Listening for Genre Multiplicity in Classroom Soundscapes.” It was published in the July issue of the journal enculturation.
Katie Silvestri
Katie Silvestri, Literacy Department, led authorship on a journal article about multimodal positioning as seen in interactions between children and the designs they create in an after-school engineering club recently published in Multimodal Communication. Co-authors are Mary McVee, Christopher Jarmark, Lynn Shanahan and Kenneth English at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). The article features a case study and uses multimodal positioning analysis to determine and describe how a purposefully crafted emergent artifact influenced and manipulated social dynamics, structure, and positionings of one design team comprised of five third graders. In addition to social semiotic theories of multimodality and multimodal interactional analysis, Positioning Theory is used to examine group interactions with their constructed artifact, with observational data collected from audio, video, researcher field notes, analytic memos, photographs, student artifacts (e.g., drawn designs, built designs), and transcriptions of audio and video data. Analysis of interactions of the artifact as it unfolded demonstrates multiple types of role-based positioning with students (e.g., builder, helper, idea-sharer). Foregrounding analysis of the artifact, rather than the student participants, exposed students’ alignment or opposition with their groupmates during the project. This study contributes to multimodal and artifactual scholarship through a close examination of positions emergent across time through multimodal communicative actions and illustrates how perspectives on multimodality may be analytically combined with Positioning Theory.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, organized a panel titled “Truth and Responsibility in the Ethnography of Sexuality” and presented a paper titled “Ethical Research on Ethnography of Sexuality” for the annual conference of American Anthropological Association, held Nov. 16 and 17 in Baltimore, Maryland.
Kate McCormick
Kate McCormick, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, recently co-presented a paper at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry held May 15 to 18 in Champaign-Urbana, Ill. The presentation was titled “Rhetorical Questions: Examining Early Faculty Experiences Through Found Poetry” and was presented with co-author Libba Willcox from Valdosta State University.
Gregg Weatherby
Gregg Weatherby, English Department, will appear as Bardolph and the Archbishop of York in Ithaca Shakespeare Company's production of “Henry IV” (Parts 1 and 2). Performances will be held July 9-26 outside at Cornell Plantations, alternating performances with “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication and Media Studies Department, recently received word that her poem, “The Nonpareils: As Told by the Woman in the Gingerbread House,” has been nominated for a prestigious Pushcart Prize. Wikipedia describes the Pushcart Prize as “an American literary prize published by Pushcart Press that honors the best ‘poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot’ published in the small presses over the previous year.” Lawrence’s poem originally was published in Star*Line, the print magazine for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association. “The Nonpareils” is a retelling of the well-known German fairytale by the Brothers Grimm titled Hansel and Gretel from the perspective of the witch, or homeowner. This is the second Pushcart Prize nomination she has received.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, was invited to present a paper titled “Comparing the Constitutional Presidencies of Bush and Obama: War Powers, Signing Statements, Vetoes” for a conference on “Change in the White House? Comparing the Presidencies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama.” The conference was held at Hofstra University on April 19 and hosted by Hofstra’s Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency.
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, had a poem, “Inglorious Bastards,” published recently by New Verse News. It is an abecedarian about the allegations of sexual assault, predatory behavior and abuse of power by some of Hollywood’s high-profile directors, producers, actors and comedians. Also, she had her poem, “Three’s a Crowd,” a hay(na)ku, accepted for publication by The Borfski Press for Issue III.
Timothy J. Baroni
Timothy J. Baroni, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences, presented a poster at the 11th International Mycological Congress meetings held July 15 to 21 in San Juan, PR. Baroni and co-authors from Italy, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and the US, including two of Baroni’s former students, Tracy Armstrong Curtis ’01 and Lance Lacey ’04, presented data accumulated in the Dominican Republic over an extended 20-year period on the biodiversity of group of not well-known fungi. Curtis and Lacey worked in the Dominican Republic with Baroni from 1996 to 2006 funded by Research Experiences for Undergraduates from the National Science Foundation. The title of the presentation and the publication that will result from the work is “The Rhodocybe/Clitopilus clade (Entolomataceae, Agaricomyetes) in the Dominican Republic: a new genus, new species and first reports for Hispaniola.”
Moyi Jia
Moyi Jia, Communication and Media Studies Department, had her study published in the July issue of the journal Psychological Reports. Her study is titled “Emotional experiences in the workplace: Biological sex, supervisor nonverbal behaviors, and subordinate susceptibility to emotional contagion” and the abstract is available here.