Marie McAllister, professor of English, presented the paper “Addicted to Attention: Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda” at the 43rd annual meeting of the East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in Baltmore.
Anne Timpano’s Work Shown in Richmond Exhibition
Anne Timpano’s linocut print, “Venus as Paper Doll,” is currently exhibited in the 2012 Harnett Biennial of American Prints at the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond. Timpano, director of the University Galleries, is one of 47 artists from 25 states participating in the highly competitive exhibition of contemporary printmaking, which opened October 23 and will be on view through December 9, 2012.
Gary Richards Led Talk at Louisiana Book Festival
Gary Richards, associate professor of English, led the book talk “One Book One Festival: ‘A Confederacy of Dunces'” at the Ninth Annual Louisiana Book Festival in Baton Rouge, La., on Saturday, Oct. 27. At the same event, he was part of a panel discussion by contributors to “Comics and the U.S. South” (University Press of Mississippi, 2012), edited by Brannon Costello and Qiana J. Whitted. Richards contributed the essay “Everybody’s Graphic Protest Novel: ‘Stuck Rubber Baby’ and the Anxieties of Racial Difference” to that collection.
Stephen Farnsworth Appears on BBC News
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the Center for Leadership and Media Studies, appears in the BBC News segment “U.S. Election: Could South Asians Decide Who Wins the White House?” The piece, in which Farnsworth discusses the impact of South Asians in the Northern Virginia area to the upcoming presidential election, originally aired on Tuesday, Oct. 30.
Farnsworth is also the co-author, with Benjamin Hermerding, of an opinion column, “Virginia Senate candidates ratchet up attacks, seek last sliver of undecided voters,” published in The Chamberlink, a publication of the Fredericksburg Regional Chamber of Commerce.
Brian Baker Speaks at IEDC Annual Conference
Brian Baker, Executive Director for Entrepreneurship at the University of Mary Washington presented at the International Economic Development Council Annual Conference in Houston, Texas on October 1. His topic covered approaches for business assistance employed at the UMW Office of Entrepreneurship. Following the presentation, Baker led a discussion titled “Empowering Entrepreneurs.” The group discussion enabled colleagues in economic development to explore best practices on approaches to encouraging innovation, small company incubation, support services for business owners, and financing.
The UMW Office of Entrepreneurship is a division of the Center for Economic Development and hosts the UMW Small Business Development Center, the EagleWorks Accelerator and Innovation Program, the Engagement Council, and the Virginia Business Incubation Association.
Rosalyn Cooperman to Appear on D.C. Station Tonight
Rosalyn Cooperman
A segment featuring Rosalyn Cooperman, associate professor of political science, will appear on WUSA-9 during tonight’s 11 p.m. broadcast. In the interview, Cooperman discusses the importance of Prince William County to the presidential election, as well as the impact of women voters.
Stephen Farnsworth & Students Appear on C-SPAN
UMW political science students pose in front of the U.S. Capitol building.
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the Center for Leadership and Media Studies, took a group of political science students to Washington, D.C., on Monday, Oct. 22. During the trip, the students met with recent UMW graduates about making the transition from college to work and met with Brian Lamb and Steve Scully of C-SPAN.
The students were able to ask questions about the debates and the election from a variety of panelists live on C-SPAN on Monday afternoon. Farnsworth provided commentary and analysis, along with professors from other universities.
Mehdi Aminrazavi Publishes Chapter
Professor of Philosophy and Religion Mehdi Aminrazavi’s work has recently been published in The Great Umar Khayyam: A Global Reception of the Rubaiyat edited by A. A. Seyed-Gohrab.
The book includes Aminrazavi’s chapter, “ Reading the Rubaiyyat as Resistance Literature.”
Keith Mellinger Publishes Research Article
Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Mathematics Keith Mellinger recently had his article “The de Bruijn–Erdős theorem for hypergraphs” published in the journal Designs, Codes and Cryptography. The article was co-authored with mathematicians from the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of California in San Diego, and Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Doug Sanford Publishes Article on Urban Slavery
Professor of Historic Preservation Douglas Sanford published the article “Towards an Archaeology of Urban Slavery: Contextual Predictions” in the Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology.