Lisya Seloni, ENG, was elected chair-elect of Second Language Writing (SLW) Interest Section of TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages).
Cynthia Huff, ENG, presented Inscribing Personal and Social Subjectivities: The Diaries of Marianne Brougham for the Modern Language Association session in Los Angeles, Calif.
Cheryl Ball, ENG, edited Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, Vol. 15.
Stephen Bennett, HIS, wrote Jerusalem as a City Reclaimed: Orientalism and Biblical Discourse in U.S. Media, 1948 and 1967, which was published in Jerusalem Quarterly, Vol. 44.
Karen Coats, ENG, co-edited Handbook of Research on Children’s and Young Adult Literature, which was published by Routledge.
Aaron Pitluck, SOA, wrote Distributed Execution in Illiquid Times: An Alternate Explanation of Trading in Stock Markets, which was published in Economy and Society, Vol. 40.
T.Y. Wang, POL, wrote Cross-strait Rapprochement and U.S. Policy toward the Taiwan Issue,” which was published in Issues and Studies, Vol.46, and Taiwan’s Expansion of International Space: Opportunities and Challenges in the Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 20.
James Wolf, ITK, wrote A Reexamination of Gender-Based Attitudes Toward Group Projects, which was published in the journal Computers in Human Behavior, Vol. 27.
John Presley, EAF, was appointed to the Advisory Committee for the Re-Imagining Undergraduate Education Initiative of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities.
Jeffrey Bakken, SED, co-edited Advances in Special Education: The History of Special Education, which was published by Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Bakken, Barbara Fulk and Emily Watts, SED, wrote The History of Physical and Health Impairments, Bakken co-authored The History of Intellectual Disabilities and Bakken and Carrie Courtad, SED, wrote The History of Learning Disabilities, which were all included in Advances in Special Education: The History of Special Education.
Zeng Lin, EAF, wrote How Do American Universities Cope with Faculty Hiring When Facing Fiscal Crisis? Part Time Faculty and Tenure System, which was published in the Tsinghua Journal of Education, Vol. 41.
John Presley, EAF, edited The Nazarene Gospels Restored, by Robert Groves, which was published by Carcanet Press. His poems, Landscape: White on White; Prologues and Disasters: The Father, The Son, Gladioli, Cotton; and A Lover’s Lesson: The Immigrant Cemetery at Lepanto, were published in The People Who Stayed: Southeastern Indian Writing After Removal; and Sources, Collaborators, and Critique in Antigua, Penny, Puce and One Story and One Story Only: Robert Graves’s American Reputation in Gravesiana, Vol. 3, and Neurasthenia and the Cure of Literature: Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, Andy Collins in JAC, Vol. 30. Presley wrote Historical Perspective: Preludes to PTSD, which was included in Sergeant Back Again: The Anthology, and Chief Academic Officers and Change: The Example of Community Engagement in Teacher/Scholar: The Journal of the Senior Comprehensive University, Vol. 2. Presley co-edited The Future of Higher Education: Perspectives from America’s Academic Leaders, which was published by Paradigm Publishers.
Spring Break Note:
No March 8 Report. Deadline for next Report is March 11 at noon.
Faculty/Staff Research and Honors
Playwright to give two presentations
March to the Arch for Valley tournaments
Register for Redbird Challenge
Zielke to deliver artist lecture
State of Grace final performance
New Music Festival March 14-17
Spring Speaker Series features Spencer
Milner mini-book sale March 15
Writing for publication panel March 25
Safe Zone orientation April 14