Gary Richards, Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication, recently had his essay “Queering Welty’s Male Bodies in the Undergraduate Classroom,” published in Teaching the Works of Eudora Welty: Twenty-First-Century Approaches, edited by Mae Miller Claxton and Julia Eichelberger and released from University Press of Mississippi. His essay in particular analyzes the Welty stories “The Wide Net” and “Why I Live at the P.O.”
Jesse Stommel Featured on NPR
Jesse Stommel, who directs the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies, was recently interviewed in an NPR story called Laptops and Phones In the Classroom: Yea, Nay Or a Third Way?
“Ultimately, I see strict laptop policies (and especially blanket bans) as a form of control,” Stommel said.
Mathur Contributes Essay to Shakespeare Collection
Maya Mathur, Associate Professor of English and Associate Chair of the Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication, recently had her essay “‘I Know Thee Not, Old Man’: Using Film and Television to Teach 1 and 2 Henry IV” published in the Modern Language Association Series Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare’s English History Plays, edited by Laurie Ellinghausen.
Helen Housley Article Published in Book
Associate Professor of Theatre Helen Housley recently published the chapter, “Shakespeare’s Buzz: Lessac’s Tonal NRG and the Shakespearean Actor,” in the book, Play with Purpose: Kinesensics in Action, edited by Marth Munro, Sean Turner, and Allun Munro.
She also presented a workshop, “Shakespeare’s Prose: A Kinesensic Exploration,” at the 13th Annual Lessac Conference held in Dallas, Texas, Jan. 4-6.
Hirshberg Receives Asian Studies Award
Dan Hirshberg, assistant professor of religion, has been awarded Honorable Mention for his first monograph, Remembering the Lotus-Born: Padmasambhava in the History of Tibet’s Golden Age (Wisdom Publications, 2016), from the Association for Asian Studies.
The E. Gene Smith Inner Asia Book Prize, offered annually, honors outstanding and innovative scholarship across discipline and country of specialization for a book on Inner Asia published during the preceding year. There is only one prize, and occasionally one Honorable Mention, awarded each year.
Founded in 1941 and now with over 7000 members world-wide, the Association for Asian Studies is the largest scholarly, non-political, non-profit professional organization of its kind. It is also a member of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).
Bowen Publishes on Young Women’s Empowerment
Professor of Geography Dawn Bowen has co-authored an article, “Education, Leadership, and Conservation: Empowering Young Q’eqchi’ Women in Guatemala,” with Amy Leap Miller, UMW ’12, which has just been published in the International Journal of Educational Development. This paper marks the culmination of many years of field work in Guatemala with young women who participate in Community Cloud Forest Conservation’s Women in Agroecology Leadership for Conservation (WALC) program. Young women earn small scholarships that enable them to continue in school beyond grade 6 by learning about sustainable agricultural practices, income generation, and farm management, as well as nutrition, health, and human rights. This article is the first scholarly assessment of the program and its role in promoting female empowerment.
Farnsworth Talks Politics on Danish TV
Stephen Farndworth was recently interview about Trump’s First Year on Danish TV. View the interview at https://vimeo.com/251485548.
Richardson Column Appears in Free Lance-Star
Read Lynne Richardson’s latest column in The Free Lance-Star at http://www.fredericksburg.com/business/columns/richardson-under-promise-over-deliver/article_e59cf92b-a299-59d3-a1ec-e8fd092e4afa.html.
Konieczny Research Appears in Edinburgh Math Journal
Janusz Konieczny, professor of mathematics, co-authored a research article, “Four notions of conjugacy for abstract semigroups,” published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. This research was supported by the 2011–12 University of Mary Washington Faculty Research Grant.
Dolby To Talk About Dinosaurs
On Saturday, February 10, 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. Andrew Dolby, a nationally recognized ornithologist, demystifies the evidence supporting avian evolution and pre-avian dinosaurs. He poses an interesting question and offers some background:
Tyrannosaurus Rex at my bird feeder? It may be hard to fathom that the chickadee at your feeder is close kin to the mightiest predators to ever roam the earth, according to River Country News. However, biologists have long suspected a historical relationship between dinosaurs and birds. Evidence supporting such links between animal groups can be difficult to find, but over the last two decades, troves of new fossils and a variety of new laboratory techniques have been rapidly piecing together the origins of birds. Can we settle the question: are birds dinosaurs?
Dolby, University of Mary Washington’s (UMW) Department of Biological Sciences, will review the evidence for this fascinating evolutionary story in an illustrated presentation and field observation. Dr. Dolby has been a UMW faculty member for 18 years and teaches courses in ornithology, ecology, and evolution. Additionally, he leads field trips to the Galapagos Islands and Panama and conducts field research on birds. To read more, go to http://www.rivercountrynews.com/29950/314297/a/geo-series-are-birds-dinosaurs.