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.
Wylie Schwartz
Wylie Schwartz, Art and Art History Department, will present a research paper on Saturday, Feb. 18 at the College Art Association Conference in New York City. Schwartz will present a paper titled “Ephemeral Interventions: The Radical Practices of the Danish Experimenting School (1961-1972)” as part of a panel on Generative Pedagogies in Art and Curatorial Practice.
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence recently had four poems published by Synkroniciti Magazine, edited by Katherine Grace McDaniel. Two poems, “Kangaroo Court,” a satirical take on celebrities and politicians, and “Entanglements Under a Forest Canopy,” a study of nature and color and beauty), were written in the abecedarian form. Her poems “Amelia Earhart: Lost & Found” and “A Wall of Peaches of Immortality” trace the mystery and wonder of a favorite female explorer and a study of peaches and conflict in a lovely fruit grove.
Also, Lawrence received word this summer that two of her poems were included in Masques: Poetry of Identities: An Anthology by Culture Cult Press, Jay Chakravarti, editor. They included Lawrence’s abecedarian “Holy Wars,” about the inherent struggle of arguing agnostics and atheists in religious climates, and “Whirlpool,” a series of sinking cinquains of the swirling loss of culture, ideals, and principles in America.
Denise D. Knight
Denise D. Knight, English Department, will present a talk titled “Charlotte Perkins Gilman on and in Italy” at the Transatlantic Women II Conference in June in Florence, Italy.
Erin Morris
Erin Morris, Sport Management Department, presented “Creating and Implementing the ‘Gender Identity Training: Respecting Pronouns’ on Campus” at the 2022 SUNY SPECTRUM Conference, held Sept. 15 and 16 in New York City. The conference featured speakers that helped to educate about the most significant concerns impacting the LGBTQIA+ college community in the U.S. today. SUNY Cortland’s Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Expression (SOGIE) Committee created a training around respecting pronouns aimed to educate faculty and staff across campus about what pronouns are, why using correct pronouns are important, and how to practice and implement inclusive language in our everyday lives. Morris’ presentation discussed the creation and implementation of this training module.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, had his article, “Queer Exuberance: The Politics of Affect in Jeanette Winterson’s Visceral Fiction,” published in the March issue of Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature. Also, he had an essay titled “Critical Immodesty and Other Grammars for Aesthetic Agency,” published in Stanford University’s digital salon Arcade: Literature, Humanities, and the World. Bradway presented a paper, “Reading in Crisis: Queer Hermeneutics in Samuel Delany’s Para-Academic AIDS Fiction” at the 2015 American Comparative Literature Association Conference held March 26-29 in Seattle, Wash. In January, Bradway presented his paper, “Trigger Warning: Kathy Acker’s Visceral Pedagogy,” at the 2015 Modern Language Association Conference in Vancouver, Canada.
Susan Peterson and Lori Ellis
Susan Peterson, Modern Languages Department, and Lori Ellis, Art and Art History Department, collaborated on a writing project for NeoVox, SUNY Cortland’s online literary and new media design magazine. Students in Peterson’s Advanced Spanish Composition class viewed paintings done by students in Ellis’ 300-level painting class and chose one to critique in Spanish. Both the critiques and the artwork will be published in NeoVox this semester. The project encourages and supports both classes and individual student work. Photographs of the artwork were courtesy of Michael Bersani of the SUNY Cortland Public Relations Office.
Eric Malmberg
Eric Malmberg, Physical Education Department, received an outstanding professional award at the New York State Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (NYS-AHPERD) Conference held in Verona, N.Y., in November.
Tom Lickona
Tom Lickona, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, has been awarded a $10,000 contract with the Kansas State Board of Education for the “Character Education Partnership Grant.” The period of performance is Feb. 21 to June 30, 2011.
Kristine Newhall
Kristine Newhall, Kinesiology Department, had her article about the potential effects of new Title IX regulations on athletics published in August. “New Title IX Guidelines Sexual Assault Mean Less Accountability for Athletics” was published on Engaging Sports, a blog that is part of the public sociology website The Society Pages.