Category: Professional Notes

Richardson’s Weekly Column Featured in FLS

Lynne Richardson’s latest column, Understanding Your Benefits, recently appeared in The Free Lance-Star.She explains: “I was asked by one of my students—a recent immigrant from another country—to help her understand the benefits package offered by a company.”You can read her column here:http://www.fredericksburg.com/business/columns/richardson-understanding-your-benefits/article_c347678c-c2f3-5f61-98b3-b75c3f1fa64e.html

Bessette Publishes Review of Comics Collection

Lee Skallerup Bessette, Instructional Technology Specialist in DTLT and adjunct instructor in the Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication, recently had her review of Graphic Novels for Children and Young Adults published in The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship.Read it here:https://www.comicsgrid.com/articles/10.16995/cg.124/.

Gupta delivers talk at the University of Pittsburgh

Surupa Gupta, associate professor of Political Science and International Affairs, delivered a lecture titled “Food Fights at the WTO: Political Economy of India’s Focus on Food Security in International Trade Negotiations” on Friday, Jan. 26, 2018, as part of a speaker series at the Asian Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania.

Smith and Burtis Publish on Tools for Preservation

In January, Andréa Livi Smith and Martha Burtis had their article, “A Practical Cultural Resource Survey Tool for Preservation,” published in a special issue of the Association for Preservation Technology Bulletin. The piece shares a project Smith and Burtis have collaborated on since fall 2013 when they decided to develop an online tool to facilitate […]

Barry Presents on Gender Violence

Jennifer Barry, assistant professor of religion, presented a portion of her recent work at the Women’s and Gender Studies Brown Bag lunch on Wednesday, Jan. 24.The talk was the result of her Faculty Research Grant awarded for the 2017-2018 academic year. Barry’s next major book project is on male fantasies of gender violence in late antiquity.A description […]