Mark Snyder, assistant professor of music, was a guest artist at Louisburg College in Louisburg, N.C., on Monday, January 23 and at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C., on Tuesday, January 24. He performed his multimedia compositions as well as discussed his music with composition students.
Helen Housley, associate professor of theater, presented a workshop, “Exploring Shakespeare’s Consonants: An Experiential Journey,” at the 7th Annual Conference of the Lessac Institute, University of Memphis, January 5-7, 2012. The workshop explored the practical application of Housley’s research focused on Shakespeare’s deliberate placement of consonants in his words/lines, thereby providing his actors with subliminal instruction in how to ‘speak the speech’ in terms of pacing, characterization, and behavioral interpretation. Housley’s hypothesis suggests that contemporary actors may use this same technique in their own Shakespearean character development.
Michael McCarthy, a senior lecturer in the Department of English, Linguistics and Communication, has had four poems accepted for publication by The Southern Review, the literary journal edited at Louisiana State University. The prestigious journal, founded in 1935, is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. McCarthy’s poems, dealing with trees, alienation and the poet William Blake, are to appear in the Fall issue.
Stephen Davies, assistant professor of computer science, will have his paper “Cinefile: A Category-Based Analytic Browser” published in IEEE Computer. The paper, co-authored with former students Stacey Aylor ’11 and Jesse Hatfield ’10, discusses a new user interface paradigm for analyzing patterns in a large database, specifically using the IMDB movie database.
The paper will appear on the publication’s website and in the print version later this year.
Charles J. Shields, associate director of the Chappell Great Lives Lecture Series, will be the keynote speaker at the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read in Jacksonville, Fla. His lecture, “Mockingbird: Portrait of Harper Lee,” will be Saturday, Feb. 4.
He also will present at the Maine Festival of the Book on Saturday, March 31.
