Category: Professional Notes

William Crawley, director of the Chappell Great Lives Lecture Series, and Charles J. Shields, associate director, will be featured on AM 1230 WFVA. The interview, which will air Sunday, Jan. 15 at 8 a.m., will focus on the upcoming season of the lecture series.

Shields talks about his book, And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut, A Life, in a segment on the syndicated Colorado public radio program, Page by Page. The segment originally aired on Tuesday, Jan. 10 and is available online at http://www.aspenpublicradio.org/pod_listen.php?row=2126.

He also shares the book in an interview on AARP Prime Time Radio, taped on Wednesday, Jan. 11.

In addition, Shields discusses the life of Harper Lee in a video on the Biography Channel website.

Jeff McClurken, associate professor of history, presented his paper “Teaching with Social Media” during the Digital Humanities workshop at the 126th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in Chicago.

He also ran a pre-conference workshop, “So, You Want to Teach a Digital History Class?” at the AHA.

Gary Richards, assistant professor of English, is featured in three videos on the Biography Channel’s website, focused on Truman Capote, William Faulkner and Harper Lee.

In addition, his essay “Everybody’s Graphic Protest Novel: Stuck Rubber Baby and the Anxieties of Racial Difference” is included in the recently published Comics and the U.S. South (2012).

Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the Center for Leadership and Media Studies, is featured in the Thursday, Jan. 5 issue of The Washington Times. In the article, “McDonnell Nets Record Haul for GOP Governors,” Farnsworth discusses the rivalry between Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley.

On Friday, Jan. 6, Farnsworth appeared on CTV News to discuss the Republican candidates’ preparations for the New Hampshire primary.

Claudia Emerson, Arrington Distinguished Chair in Poetry, is featured in the January issue of Northern Virginia Magazine.

The issue is available on newsstands now; the article will be available online at the end of January.