Richard Hunter
Richard Hunter, Geography Department, co-authored an article in the current volume of Rangelands titled “Application of Vulnerability Assessment to a Grazed Rangeland: Toward an Integrated Conceptual Framework.”
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy and Africana Studies departments and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, gave an invited talk titled “Reconsidering the US’ Prison Dilemma: A Critique of the Affective Economy of Mass Incarceration” at a special seminar for the Microeconomic Seminar Series held June 11 at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona.
Thomas Hischak and Mark A. Robinson ’98
Thomas Hischak, emeritus professor of theatre, and theatre major Mark A. Robinson ’98, have co-written a book about musicals since 1989 that misfired on Broadway. The e-book, Musical Misfires: Three Decades of Broadway Musical Heartbreak, examines 151 musicals that did not run long enough to be considered hits. Such shows were once called flops but that, the authors argue, is no longer an appropriate description. The book cover is designed by graphics design major Karen Hischak ’12.
“Some of these were superb pieces of musical theatre that, for one reason or another, couldn’t find an audience, did not please the critics, couldn’t pay the high weekly bills, or just were not right for the time and place in which they opened,” Robinson said.
Oft-overlooked gems like “The Scottsboro Boys,” “Grey Gardens,” “Sweet Smell of Success,” “Xanadu,” “If/Then,” “Caroline, or Change,” “Bright Star,” “Steel Pier,” “The Last Ship” and “Tuck Everlasting” are explored alongside such famous musicals as “American Idiot,” “Victor/Victoria,” “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,” “Sister Act,” “All Shook Up,” “Be More Chill,” “Shrek the Musical,” “Seussical” and “Young Frankenstein” that never reached hit status on Broadway.
“This is a book for anyone who loves musical theatre, both its triumphs and its heartbreaks,” said Hischak.
Juke box musicals, cutting-edge musicals, movie adaptations, teenage musicals, biographical musicals, history musicals and even horror musicals are among the many genres included in this journey through Broadway shows from 1989 to 2020 in search of success.
Robinson is the author of such books as the two-volume reference series The World of Musicals and Sitcommentary: Television Comedies that Changed America, as well as a regular writer for various theatre websites and records companies.
Thomas Hischak is the author of The Oxford Companion to the American Musical and more than 30 other books on theatre, film and popular music.
Together, Robinson and Hischak penned the popular The Disney Song Encyclopedia in 2009.
Karen Hischak is a graphic designer for Hampton Golf Corporation and a freelance designer of print and online graphics.
Illustrated with 42 photographs and filled with backstage stories, reviews from the press, and commentary on why the musicals were not hits, Musical Misfires: Three Decades of Broadway Musical Heartbreak is available on all sites in which e-books are sold.
Robert Darling
Robert Darling, Geology Department, presented “Breccia-filled Fractures on Western Adirondack Summits: Relicts of an Ordovician Paleosurface?” at the combined Northeast/Northcentral regional meeting of the Geological Society of America. It was held March 20-22 in Pittsburgh, Pa.
John C. Hartsock
John C. Hartsock, Communication and Media Studies Department, has had one of his books selected to be issued as an audiobook. Redwood Audiobooks, a leading publisher of audiobooks, has licensed Hartsock’s award-winning Seasons of a Finger Lakes Winery, published by Cornell University Press, for conversion to audio. The book was honored with a First-Place Gourmand Award for wine writing in Paris, France in 2012, and was a runner-up for a Roederer Award in London later that year. The book recounts the seasonal passage of making wine at Long Point Winery on Cayuga Lake, which is owned by Gary and Rosemary Barletta of Cortland, N.Y. Moriarty Voiceovers has been engaged by Redwood to provide the audio reading.
Lin Lin and Krystal Barber
Lin Lin and Krystal Barber, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, had their paper titled “Tapping Into the Potential of Student Engagement With Universal Design for Learning in Pedagogical Courses” published on Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning 2022.
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.
Peter M. McGinnis
Peter M. McGinnis, Distinguished Service Professor of Kinesiology, had the 4th edition of his textbook, Biomechanics of Sport and Exercise, translated to Japanese. The book was published by Medical Sciences International, Ltd. in Tokyo. Counting this translation and those of previous editions, the book has now been translated into six different languages.
Denise D. Knight
Denise D. Knight, English Department, has had her monograph, “‘what our union once was’: Newly Recovered Letters from Charlotte Perkins Gilman to Martha Luther Lane,” published in the Fall 2021 issue of American Literary Realism.