Lisa Ames, LMS Admin, joined Brown University, and the University of Maryland in a panel presentation at Educause 2012 held in Denver last week. Titled “Moving to the Cloud,” the three universities answered key questions and shared the stories, trials, tribulations, and successes with moving from their respective LMS to an LMS in the Cloud.
Eric Lorentzen Presents at Conference
Eric Lorentzen, associate professor of English, presented a scholarly paper at a special session of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Annual Convention in Raleigh/Durham, N.C., on Nov. 11. In the paper, entitled “Interdisciplinary Pedagogy in Literature: Dickens and Cultural Studies,” Lorentzen argued for the efficacy and exigency of adopting a cultural studies/critical pedagogy in the university literature classroom, and delineated the benefits of this methodological praxis through his treatment of Charles Dickens. He also served as secretary for a second panel on inter-disciplinarity in the humanities entitled “On the Human.”
Mara Scanlon Presents Paper at Conference
Professor of English Mara Scanlon delivered an invited paper for a panel of the H.D. International Society at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention in Durham, N.C., on Nov. 9. The paper, “‘Dot tick we are here’: H.D. on Art, Vision, and Codebreaking,” focused on modernist writer H.D.’s use of telegraphy and Morse code in several works as a metaphor for the unsayable (those elements of art and vision that transcend or resist translation or language) and to establish a model for the appropriate audience, or “receiving stations,” for modern literature.
Surupa Gupta Publishes Article
The Center for Strategic and International Affairs, a think-tank in Washington D.C., published Assistant Professor of Political Science Surupa Gupta’s article “FDI in Retail: How Can It Benefit India’s Farm Sector?” The article appeared in the Nov. 2012 issue of the Center’s publication. Gupta’s research was funded through a Jepson Fellowship.
Chris Foss Presents at Conference
Chris Foss, professor of English, organized a roundtable discussion on autism studies at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Annual Convention in Raleigh/Durham, N.C., on Nov. 10. For this special extended session panel, Foss joined four prominent national voices in offering short presentations to introduce threads of discussion that initiated a two-hour conversation on topics such as the nexus of autism and aesthetics, the nexus of autism and neurocosmopolitanism, and the nexus of autism and rhetoric.
Janusz Konieczny and Former Students Publish in Algebra Colloquium
Janusz Konieczny, professor of mathematics, has co-authored a research article, Sn-normal semigroups of partial transformations, published in the journal Algebra Colloquium. The article has been written jointly with two UMW graduates, Sean Droms and Roberto Palomba, and contains the results of undergraduate research that Sean and Roberto did when they were mathematics students at the University of Mary Washington.
Brian Baker Presents at VBIA Conference
Brian Baker, Executive Director for Entrepreneurship and Vice President of the Virginia Business Incubation Association, presented at the VBIA Annual Conference on October 23 in Charlottesville. He was invited to speak on the programs and economic benefits of the University of Mary Washington Office of Entrepreneurship. Those programs include the UMW Small Business Development Center, the EagleWorks Accelerator and Innovation Center where the La Ceiba and Esfuerzo de Amor programs are housed, the emerging “Incubation Corridor” in collaboration with George Mason University, Rural Business Development in Virginia’s Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula, and collaboration with faculty and students. In 2012, 38 students have been involved in applied skills projects at the Office of Entrepreneurship. Notable faculty collaborations include a business analytics project featuring Dr. Christopher Garcia and Dr. Gail Brooks of the College of Business, a master’s level analysis engagement featuring Dr. Louis Martinette of the College of Business, and the La Ceiba and Esfuerzo de Amor programs featuring Dr. Shawn Humphrey of the College of Arts and Sciences. In 2011 the SBDC was involved in over 425 business projects that yielded 174 new jobs, 394 retained jobs, 51 new business openings, over $5.9 million in increased sales, and over $13 million in new capital investment.
The Office of Entrepreneurship is a division of the University of Mary Washington Center for Economic Development and hosts the UMW Small Business Development Center, the EagleWorks Accelerator and Innovation Center, the Engagement Council, and the Virginia Business Incubation Association.
Elizabeth Lewis Gives Paper in Cádiz, Spain
Elizabeth Lewis, professor of Spanish, gave a paper titled “La verdadera Ilustración en Fernando en Zaragoza, Una visión de Frasquita Larrea (1814)” at the meeting of the Sociedad Española de Estudios del Siglo XVIII (SEESXVII) October 24-26, which was held in Cádiz, Spain to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the ratification of Spain’s first constitution. Her paper was on a pamphlet criticizing the constitution, published by the mother of Spain’s first realist novelist, Cecilia Bohl de Faber.
Will Mackintosh Presents at Pop Culture Conference
On Nov. 2, Will Mackintosh, assistant professor of history, presented a paper on transatlantic tourist satire at the 23rd Annual Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association Conference in Pittsburgh, as part of that conference’s larger focus on tourism and travel as popular culture.
Michael McCarthy’s Poems Appear in The Southern Review
Michael McCarthy, a senior lecturer in the Department of English, Linguistics and Communication, had four poems published in the Autumn 2012 issue of The Southern Review. The poems, “Mothering,” “Harp Hung on Willows,” “Beneath,” and “Autumnal,” are his first in the prestigious journal, which is edited at Louisiana State University and was co-founded in 1935 by Robert Penn Warren.