Category: Professional Notes

Gary Richards, assistant professor of English, recently published two articles. “The Artful and Crafty Ones of the French Quarter: Male Homosexuality and Faulkner’s Early Prose Writings” is included in Faulkner’s Sexualities, a volume published by University Press of Mississippi in 2010. The second article, “Queering Katrina: Gay Discourses of the Disaster in New Orleans,” appeared in the 2010 special issue of the Journal of American Studies devoted to the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

Xiaofeng Zhao, assistant professor of business administration, published two papers as leading author, “B2B E-Hubs and Information Integration in Supply Chain Operations” in Management Research Review and “General System Theory and Information Integration in Supply Chain Management” in the proceedings for the Decision Sciences Institute annual meeting. He also presented the latter paper at the DSI meeting in San Diego, Calif., in November. In addition, Zhao reviewed two papers for the International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management (IJPDLM) and the International Journal of Logistics Management.

The IJPDLM identified Zhao as a leading researcher in the field and invited him to review for the journal, which covers leading edge developments and discussions of current developments in the fields of physical distribution and logistics that facilitate the interchange of information among business planners and researchers on a worldwide basis.

Elizabeth Freund Larus, professor of political science and international affairs, presented the paper “Taiwan after the Global Financial Crisis: Where Do We Go from Here?” at the 52nd meeting of the American Association for Chinese Studies in Winston-Salem, N.C., in October. She also presented the paper “Taiwan’s Reaction to the Global Financial Crisis” at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in Philadelphia in September.

Holly H. Schiffrin, assistant professor of psychology, wrote the opinion-editorial essay “Does Money Buy Greater Happiness?” for The Free Lance-Star, which published the article Oct. 3. The essay also was published by numerous other newspapers, including the Miami Herald, the Denver Post and the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star-Tribune. Read the column at http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2010/102010/10032010/577905.

In addition, Schiffrin presented a poster, “The Impact of Affect on Cognitive Processes,” with students Caitlyn Yantis, Rebecca Groman, Allie Sleeman, Elinor Tuhy and Eric Zupko at the Association for Psychological Science conference in Boston in May.

Mark Scharf, adjunct instructor, had his full-length play Keeping Faith produced by the Twin Beach Players of Chesapeake Beach, Md. in November. His one-act play Empires Fall was presented as a staged reading by the Run of the Mill Theatre in Baltimore in December, and his full-length Fortune’s Child will be presented in a staged reading by the Baltimore Playwrights Festival in January. In addition, his play for young audiences, The Machine, was accepted by Pioneer Drama Services for May 2011 publication.