Jason Sellers, assistant professor of history and American studies, presented a paper, “‘Wee drink one water’: Rivers and intercultural relations in the eighteenth-century Mid-Atlantic,” at the American Society for Ethnohistory’s annual meetings in New Orleans. The paper was part of a panel addressing waterways as borders in native North America.
Farnsworth Co-Authors Opinion Columns
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, is co-author of two opinion columns, “Arabic Media’s View of Obama,” published in Politico, and “Fox News: Tougher on Obama than Hezbollah’s TV news,” published at the Daily Kos. The columns were drawn from Farnsworth’s new co-authored book, “The Global President: International Media and the U.S. Government,” published last month by Rowman & Littlefield.
COE Faculty Member to Present at VERA Conference
Janine S. Davis, assistant professor of curriculum and instruction, will co-present at the Virginia Educational Research Association conference in Charlottesville, Va. on Friday, September 20 with two recent graduates of the five-year secondary/PK-12 M.Ed. program. The research studies are entitled “Navigating Learning with Digital Natives,” with Dana Cazan, and “Drama and Adolescent Social-Emotional Development,” with Charlotte Maalouf.
Gary Richards Contributes to Southern Literature Collection
Gary Richards, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication, recently contributed the chapter “Southern Drama” in The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American South. Edited by Sharon Monteith and published by Cambridge University Press in September, the collection features 14 essays analyzing southern literature from the rise of sectional literatures in the early 19th century to the contemporary moment. Richards’ essay surveys southern drama from antebellum manifestations through the masterworks of Tennessee Williams to 21st-century Broadway musicals.
Al-Tikriti Joins BBC Radio Panel
On September 12, Professor Nabil Al-Tikriti joined an evening panel of Fredericksburg area residents to discuss potential U.S. military intervention in Syria. The panel was organized by Fredericksburg Patch and the BBC’s Nuala McGovern, and was broadcast on BBC World Service during a four hour long world news show. In the course of the panel, Al-Tikriti expressed his reservations about a potential U.S. intervention, as both an area studies expert and experienced relief professional. For a posting explaining more about the broadcast, see: http://fredericksburg.patch.com/groups/politics-and-elections/p/fredericksburg-residents-respond-to-syrian-conflict.
Gaines’s Most Recent Translation Appears in TAEM
Jim Gaines, professor of modern foreign languages, recently contributed a translation of Alphonse Daudet’s short story, “The Ordeal of the Semillante,” to the emagazine TAEM/Eerie Digest. The story is part of Daudet’s collection, Letters From My Mill, and deals with a grisly shipwreck off the coast of Corsica in the 19th century, as remembered by the toughened crew of a customs patrol cutter. It appeared in the July edition and is still running on the opening page of the short story section of TAEM, which now reports a worldwide circulation of over 100,000 readers.
Liz Larus Offers Public Lecture on China
Elizabeth Freund Larus, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, offered a public lecture “Social and Economic Problems Facing China’s Fifth Generation of Leaders” at Creighton University in Omaha on September 9. The university’s Asian World Center invited Dr. Larus, a Creighton graduate, to offer the lecture to kick off this year’s Asian Culture Week.
Romero Joins International Symposium on Greek Literary Epigram
Last week, Joseph Romero, associate professor of classics, philosophy and religion, delivered a paper in London entitled, “Philosophers in Greek Epigram,” to a group of scholars from the U.S., U.K., and Europe. Check out more on the conference here.
Spooky Action Theatre to Produce Kristen LePine’s Play
Spooky Action Theatre in Washington, D.C. will present a Workshop Production of Kristen LePine’s play Dire Wolves.
The yet unproven presence of dire wolves rears its head in Evansville, Indiana, as six characters heed the call and face ancient fears within, in an interwoven play that encourages us to confront our wild nature or forever live in the realm of tamed comfort. Dire Wolves was commissioned by the Hub Theatre. This performance will be directed by Kristy Simmons.
Kristen teaches in the UMW Department of Theatre and Dance and has an MFA in Dramatic Writing.
The Details
What: Dire Wolves by Kristen LePine
When: Saturday, September 21 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, September 22 at 3 p.m.
Where: Spooky Action Theatre Company, 1810 16th St NW; Washington, D.C. 20009
Cost: FREE
Keith Mellinger Publishes Research Article
Keith Mellinger, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Mathematics, recently saw his co-authored research article Embedding cycles in finite planes published in the Electronic Journal of Combinatorics. The article addresses graph cycles in planes, a topic that has been connected to certain soft-decision decoding algorithms for error-correcting codes.