Ben LaBreche, assistant professor of English, has been awarded a Clark Short-Term Fellowship for research at the University of California, Los Angeles William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. The fellowship will support a month of research at the Clark Library through the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies. His research will focus on Milton’s conception of liberty, 17th-century natural law, and debates in modern political theory.
Antonio Barrenechea Co-Chairs Panel & Presents Paper in Canada
Antonio Barrenechea, associate professor of English, co-organized and co-chaired the panel “Mapping the Literatures of the Americas” at the annual conference of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), held in Toronto, Canada from April 4 through 7. As part of the panel, he presented the paper “American Literature as Comparative Literature: Hemispheric Navigations in the Classroom.”
Susan Ball Completes Certification Series
The University of Mary Washington Small Business Development Center’s Early Venture Specialist, Susan Ball, recently completed the SBDCGlobal Consultant Certification Series. This program prepares SBDC consultants to assist clients with international trade activities. SBDCGlobal is a powerful online trade platform that will link clients of the U.S., Mexican and Columbian Small Business Development Center networks for international trade opportunities.
Hanna and Farnsworth Present Co-Authored Research Paper
Stephen Hanna
Stephen Farnsworth
Stephen P. Hanna, professor of geography, and Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University of Mary Washington Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently presented a co-authored research paper, “Visualizing Virginia’s Changing Electorate: Mapping Presidential Elections from 2000 to 2012,” at the Virginia Social Science Association Annual Meeting in Richmond, VA.
Rosemary Arneson Presents at Conference
University Librarian Rosemary Arneson is presenting a session on the ThinkLab makerspace at the Association of College and Research Libraries conference in Indianapolis this week. The session, titled “Made in the Library” is part of the ACRL CyberZedShed series on innovative uses of technologies in academic libraries. The UMW ThinkLab is among the first general-purpose 3D printing labs in an academic library in the country. Arneson will also present a poster session showcasing items created in the ThinkLab.
Jim Groom invited to Open Learning Hackathon at MIT
As part of an attempt to start imagining what open systems for publishing and sharing a community’s work—as UMW has done exceptionally well with UMW Blogs, ds106, and Domain of One’s Own—Jim Groom (the Director of the Division of teaching and Learning Technologies) has been invited to the Open Learning Hackathon at MIT this weekend to work with a range of thinkers to start framing an architecture that might harness and expose the power of loosely coupled syndication systems modelled on the qweb rather than monolithic information systems..
Study Created by Stephen Farnsworth Garners Media Attention
Stephen Farnsworth
A new Virginia public opinion survey sponsored by UMW’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies and created by Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science, has generated considerable media attention, with two front-page news stories on the poll in the Richmond Times-Dispatch and reports in a variety of media outlets, including Slate.com, the Daily Kos, the American Prospect and the Washington Post.
Marie McAllister Authors Article
Marie E. McAllister, professor of English, authored the lead article in volume nine of Eighteenth-Century Novel, “Pox Imagery in Clarissa.“
Eric Lorentzen Gives Scholarly Talk at Conference
Eric Lorentzen, associate professor of English, gave a scholarly talk at this year’s annual Northeastern Modern Language Association conference in Boston, for a panel called “Dickens at 201.” The talk was titled “Cultural Studies, Critical Pedagogy, and Connecting with ‘Boz’ in the 21st Century.”
Chris Foss Presents at Conference
Chris Foss, professor of English, presented a paper entitled “The Aesthetics of Bharautism: The Articulation of Autistic Identity and Indianness in Raam, My Name Is Khan, and How Can I Talk If My Lips Don’t Move?” at the 43rd annual national meeting of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association on Wednesday, March 27. This year’s conference, which featured more than 3,000 program participants, was held at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park.