Jeremy Larochelle, Associate Professor of Spanish, published a book chapter titled “The ‘Brevity of the Planet’: Environmental Loss in Recent Poetry by Contemporary Amazonian Writers,” in Ecological Crisis and Cultural Representation in Latin America: Ecocritical Perspectives on Art, film, and Literature (Lexington Books). In addition he also recently published translations of two poems by poets from the Peruvian Amazon, Ana Varela Tafur and Percy Vílchez Vela, in the new edition of the Ayahuasca reader: Encounters with the Amazon’s Sacred Vine (Synergetic Press).
Farnsworth Presents Research on Presidential Politics, Humor
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently presented a co-authored research paper titled “Late Night TV Humor and the Culture of Ridicule” at the Conference on Character Assassination in Theory and Practice at George Mason University.
Rochelle Publishes Story “Feathers”
Warren Rochelle, professor of English, recently had his story “Feathers” accepted for publication by Second Hand Stories Podcast. A broadcast version will be available for listening in the next two weeks. The story is part of a collection-in-progress of gay-themed retellings of traditional fairy tales.
Scanlon Publishes on Whitman and (Digital) Literary Tourism
Mara Scanlon, Professor of English, published the essay “‘Afoot with my vision’: Whitmania and Tourism in the Digital Age” as a chapter in From Page to Place: American Literary Tourism and the Afterlives of Authors, eds. Jennifer Harris and Hilary Iris Lowe, U of Massachusetts Press. The chapter, drawing on a multi-university teaching experience using digital pedagogies that was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, focuses on questions of immediacy and presence in digital and embodied tourism related to the American poet Walt Whitman.
Chiang Publishes Article in BIM Academia Sinica
Yuan-Jen Chiang, Professor of Mathematics, published an article titled “Leaf-wise Harmonic Maps of Manifolds with 2-Dimensional Foliations” http://web.math.sinica.edu.tw/bulletin/archives_articlecontent16.jsp?bid=MjAxNjIwMg in the Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica.
She also presented her publication “Exponentially harmonic maps, exponential stress energy and stability” at International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians in Beijing, China. She was on a sabbatical leave in Fall 2016.
Gately Performs with the NSO & Ledisi at Kennedy Center
Doug Gately performed with the NSO and American R&B and jazz recording artist Ledisi at two performances at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall on Feb. 24 and 25. Both concerts were sold out.
Ledisi has been nominated for nine Grammy Awards and is a mainstay on Billboard‘s R&B charts. Also on the concert was the legendary pianist and composer Patrice Rushen.
Doug Gately and Patrice Rushen.
Subramanian Publishes in Slate
Sushma Subramanian’s story “Worse Than Tuskegee” has recently been published as a cover story in Slate. The story is about a study that remained hidden until fairly recently, involving American researchers in the 1940s infecting unknowing Guatemalans with syphilis to test prophylactic measures. Unfortunately, many of the subjects were not treated, and they’ve passed on the disease and its many devastating symptoms to their children and grandchildren, and cannot afford treatment.
Sushma Subramanian is a journalist and an assistant professor in the Department of English, Linguistics and Communication.
Hirshberg Co-Edits, Publishes Article in Special Journal Issue
Dan Hirshberg, Assistant Professor of Religion, co-edited and published an article in a special issue of the journal Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris). Focusing on “The Reincarnation Institution in Tibetan Buddhism,” the articles span diverse chronological and methodological foci in considering the foundation, evolution and function of this tradition, from early claims as the rebirths of 8th-century emperors to contemporary Westerners who were recognized and enthroned as the reincarnations of recently deceased masters. Hirshberg’s contribution explores what may be the first conflict between patrilineal and reincarnate inheritance models in Tibet.
http://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/ret/pdf/ret_38.pdf
Holmes Presents at CASE III Conference
Malcolm T. Holmes, director of University Marketing, recently co-presented a workshop titled “Marketing Imperative: The New Ad Arms Race” at the CASE III Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Colleges and universities spent well over $1 billion in paid advertising in 2015. The session gave attendees the inside story on the increasing levels of advertising by colleges and universities across the country, dissecting the astonishing numbers of the new ad arms race. Participants got a look at who is spending how much and on what platforms. Most importantly, the session presented strategies to help institutions with limited budgets stay competitive in a fiercely contentious marketplace.
Davis, Clayton and Broome Publish Article
Janine Davis, Courtney Clayton and John Broome’s article titled “Thinking like researchers: Action research and its impact on novice teachers’ thinking” was recently published in Educational Action Research. Full article can be found at http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/dxsxQffQmWmfXxZhFXti/full