Kathryn Kramer
Kathryn Kramer, Art and Art History Department, published an exhibition report of Sitelines.2018, the revisionary biennial exhibition of SITE Santa Fe, for Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism. Sitelines.2018 is a new kind of biennial of contemporary art, focusing on a local community of artists that resists the generic internationalism that marks most biennial exhibitions. This is the first of a series of critical reviews that Kramer will publish in Afterimage throughout her Spring 2019 sabbatical of similarly oriented biennial exhibitions throughout the Global South.
Maria Timberlake
Maria Timberlake, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had her research article titled “Nice, but we can’t afford it: Challenging Austerity and Finding Abundance in Inclusive Education” published in the December issue of International Journal of Inclusive Education.
Ann McClellan
Ann McClellan, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, presented her paper, “‘Oh, Watson, the (Record) Needle!’: Sherlock Holmes and American Jazz,” at the annual Popular Culture Association conference on March 29 in Chicago, Ill. Also, on April 23 she gave a virtual talk for the Groton Public Library in Groton, Mass., on “The Sherlock Holmes You Never Knew: Black American Adaptations, Then and Now.”
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy Department and Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies (CGIS), gave two talks as an invited speaker to two conferences at University of Iceland, Reykjavik, in November. One talk addressed feminist discourses vis-à-vis state violence. The second presentation addressed recent trends in philosophy. Nagel also served as expert consultant for the Nordic workshop on “Gender, Violence and Power,” which drafted several grant proposals to European Union grantors.
John C. Hartsock
John C. Hartsock, Communications Studies Department, was a speaker at Lorraine University in Nancy, France, on March 8 where he gave a talk on “War, Literary Journalism, and the Aesthetics of Experience” sponsored by the English Department. Afterwards, for professional development, he traveled to Alsace to taste wine, accompanied by the founding president of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies, Professor John Bak of Lorraine University. On March 12 he discussed his book Seasons of a Finger Lakes Winery before the Ladies Literary Society of Cortland at the Phillips Free Library in Homer. In related news, portions of the book were excerpted in this spring’s issue of Life in the Finger Lakes.
Tom Lickona
Tom Lickona, Center for the 4th and 5th Rs, joined Howard Gardner of Harvard University, William Damon of Stanford University, and other psychologists and educators asked to advise the Harvard Graduate School of Education on its proposed initiative in social-emotional learning and character education. The educators met at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., on Sept. 25.
Kate Polasek and Mark Dodds
Kate Polasek, Kinesiology Department, and Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, presented “Stuffed fish, vibrating chairs, and anal beads: What’s new in sport cheating” at the Sport and Recreation Law Association conference held in February in Las Vegas.
Kathleen Lawrence
Kathleen Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, had a poem, “Young and Virgin at 17,” published by Silver Birch Press in February. Her poem “What T***p Was Really Saying” appeared in The New Verse News, also in February. Lawrence was nominated for a Rhysling Award, sponsored by the Science Fiction Association, for the poem “Dorothy Delivered,” originally published in Altered Reality Magazine in 2016. In addition, Lawrence had three poems accepted by Inigo Online Magazine — “Mean Girls,” “H-I-V: Hope Is a Verb” and “King” — scheduled to appear in April.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was invited by Clarkson University to deliver a talk on her book Red Lights on Sept.13.
John C. Hartsock
John C. Hartsock, Communication Studies Department, had his book Literary Journalism and the Aesthetics of Experience published by The University of Massachusetts Press in January. The volume is a theoretical examination of issues that arose from his earlier A History of American Literary: The Emergence of a Modern Narrative Form (2000), the first history of the genre of narrative literary journalism.
In related news, an excerpt from Hartsock’s new book was published in the fall issue of the journal Literary Journalism Studies. “The Literature in the Journalism of Nobel Prize Winner Svetlana Alexievich” examines the work of the first author to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature for journalism. Alexievich is a Belorussian literary journalist.