Danica Savonick
Danica Savonick, English Department, delivered the plenary address for Bryn Mawr College’s 9th Annual Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts Conference. Her talk, “Savor this Moment: The Activist Possibilities of Digital Pedagogy” is available online.
Nancy Kane
Nancy Kane, Performing Arts Department, had her article published in the September issue of The American Dance Circle. “Dance in New York’s Southern Tier” profiled Hilton Baxter, a contra dance inventor and caller for the Binghamton Community Dance group.
John Suarez
At the May 17 SUNY Civic Education Community of Practice Convening in Albany, N.Y., John Suarez, director of the Galpin Institute for Civic Engagement, co-developed and co-facilitated an active listening activity for about 65 people with Babette Faehmel, a history professor at SUNY Schenectady.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, is a co-editor for a special series for Critical Education journal, titled Contemporary Educator Movements: Transforming Unions, Schools and Society in North America. Series co-editors have recently published the first issue in the series: Teacher Learning In/Through Social Movements.
Christopher Gascón
Christopher Gascón, Modern Languages Department, guest-edited a special issue of the scholarly journal Symposium focusing on current critical approaches to 17th century Spanish and Latin American theater. In Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures: Special Issue: Twenty-First Century Approaches to Hispanic Golden Age Drama, Gascón brings together the work of six leading scholars to demonstrate how diversity and inclusivity guide current analyses of baroque drama in Spanish. His introduction shares the same title as the special issue.
Thomas Hischak
Thomas Hischak, Performing Arts Department, has received a SUNY Global Grant to partially finance his trip to Anadolu University in Eskisehir, Turkey. Hischak will be in Turkey for three weeks in May to teach and run workshops about American theatre and film.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, presented a paper titled, “The Bush Presidency and the Unitary Executive” at a conference on the presidency of the George W. Bush administration held at Hofstra University from March 24-26. The conference brought together presidency scholars, journalists and former members of the administration to analyze the second Bush presidency.
Gregory D. Phelan
Gregory D. Phelan, Chemistry Department, started a new volunteer program with St. Mary’s School in Cortland in mid-October. The work centers on the use of technology in the classroom. The students are using iPads and working through various activities in math, science and reading. Phelan hopes to expand the work to include other members of the SUNY Cortland community, including Noyce scholars.
Donna M. Videto
Donna M. Videto, Health Department, recently was selected as one of the American Association for Health Education (AAHE) fellows. Videto will be inducted as a fellow during the 2013 Annual American Alliance of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) meeting at the AAHE Scholars’ Presentation on Friday, April 26, in Charlotte, N.C.
John C. Hartsock
John C. Hartsock, Communication Studies Department, has had a new book accepted for publication by The University of Massachusetts Press. Hartsock’s Literary Journalism and the Aesthetics of Experience is due to be published in Fall 2015. The result of Hartsock’s most recent sabbatical project, the peer-reviewed volume explores theoretical issues that help to more clearly delineate narrative literary journalism as a genre, one that was long neglected by the academy. These include the advantages of a more traditional narrative approach to contemporary journalism practice, the distinctive nature of narrative literary journalism’s referentiality, the genre’s inherent assault on secular mythologies, and the relationship between the genre and memoir, among other concerns. Hartsock is the author of the critically acclaimed A History of American Literary Journalism: The Emergence of a Modern Narrative Form, which was the first history of the genre and was published by University of Massachusetts Press in 2000. In 2011, his award-winning Seasons of a Finger Lakes Winery was published by Cornell University Press. It is a narrative account of a mom-and-pop winery on Cayuga Lake.