Danica Savonick
Danica Savonick, English Department, delivered a keynote for Digital Humanities Week at Duke University on March 28. In her talk, “The Feminist Genealogies of Digital Pedagogy,” Savonick situated current conversations around digital pedagogy, public humanities and student writing within a genealogy of feminist and anti-racist aesthetics and activism. Video of the event is available here.
Teagan Bradway
Teagan Bradway, English Department, authored the lead chapter, “Affect and Aesthetics,” recently published in the Routledge Companion to Politics and Literature in English, edited by Matthew Stratton.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, had his book, After Queer Studies: Literature, Theory, and Sexuality in the 21st Century, published recently by Cambridge University Press. Co-edited with E.L. McCallum from Michigan State University, the book contains 12 chapters that address the reciprocal relationships between queer studies and literary studies, including Bradway and McCallum’s co-written essay, “Thinking Sideways, or An Untoward Genealogy of Queer Reading.” Read more about the book.
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.
Christa Chatfield
Christa Chatfield, Biological Sciences Department, and her student, senior biomedical sciences major Renee Bullard, presented her research at the 30th annual meeting of the Northeastern Microbiologists: Physiology, Ecology and Taxonomy group. Jeff Werner, Chemistry Department, also presented his research at the meeting, which was held June 22 at Blue Mountain Lake, N.Y.
Thomas Hischak
Thomas Hischak, professor emeritus of theatre, had his book, Broadway Decoded: Musical Theatre's Forgotten References, published by Applause Theatre and Cinema Books.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of two recent articles about the consequences of the Las Vegas mass shooting. His article, “America Used to be Good at Gun Control. What Happened?” was published on Oct. 3 by The New York Times.
His article, “An American standoff: How contemporary pro-gun orthodoxy is at odds with the Constitution and U.S. history,” was published Oct. 8 in the New York Daily News.
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.
Kati Ahern
Kati Ahern, English Department in Professional Writing and Rhetoric, co-organized the second biannual Sound Studies, Rhetoric, and Writing (SSRW) conference with synchronous keynote speakers Oct. 2 and 3. The conference was themed around sound, place and increasing diversity within sound studies scholarship. Due to COVID-19 the conference was moved online.
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.