Zach Whalen, Assistant Professor of English, participated in three events at the recent Modern Language Association conference in Chicago. On Friday, Jan. 10, he was part of a reading of electronic literature, where he and colleagues read from twitter bots in a “Bot Choral.” On Saturday, Jan. 11, he was a panelist on the roundtable […]
Chris Foss, Professor of English, recently published a chapter entitled “Building a Mystery: Relative Fear and the 1990s Autistic Thriller” in Bloomsbury Press’s Kidding Around: The Child in Film and Media, a collection of essays edited by Alexander N. Howe and Wynn Yarbrough.
Jeff McClurken, professor and chair of history and American studies, lead a daylong workshop at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa. on Friday, Jan. 10. He spoke to faculty, librarians, and administrators about the wide-ranging aspects of digital humanities.Read more here: Jeffrey McClurken Workshop at Dickinson.
Professor Jim Gaines of the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures has published a translation of Alphonse Daudet’s tale “Moving In” in the December 2013 issue of Eerie Digest/TAEM, an online journal originating in Washington with a large worldwide readership. The story, one of a series translated by Gaines from the book Letters From […]
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently delivered a Washington lecture entitled, “Federalism, Separation of Powers and Mass Media Regulation in the United States,” to political leaders from Zambia as part of the U.S. Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program.
