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Around the College
November 2007
News about awards and events from around the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
- Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Dial Center for Written and Oral Communication
- English
- Mathematics
Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Jim Harnsberger will be presenting on November 12, 2007, as chair of the Linguistics and Speech Committee of the Credibility Assessment Research Summit in Fairfax, Virginia, a summary report entitled “The Detection of Security-Relevant Information from Spoken Communication.”
- Dr. G. Paul Moore, Professor Emeritus, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders celebrated his 100th birthday this weekend with family, friends and colleagues at the Tower Club at the Villages in Gainesville. Dr. Moore was Chairman of CSD from 1962-1973 and is world reknown for his work in laryngeal function and vocal pathology.
Dial Center for Written and Oral Communication
Faculty
- Christa Arnold has agreed to be the
next editor of the Florida
Communication Journal, beginning with the
Fall 2008 edition.
- Diana Karol-Nagy has been elected the 1st Vice President of the Florida Communication Association.
Students
- Jie Deng won the award for the top Undergraduate Paper, "Communication in Medicine: The Pre-Medical Student's Perspective", at the annual Florida Communication Association Conference. (Faculty Advisor, Christa Arnold) .
- Brynn Huysman and Kayla Stanley won the Best Oral Poster Presentation Award for "Cohabitation and Communication" at the annual Florida Communication Association Conference.(Faculty Advisor, Diana Karol-Nagy).
- Jim Careccia won the Top Poster Award for "Preparing for the Future: Implementing a Family Communication Course in High School" at the annual Florida Communication Association Conference.(Faculty Advisor, Diana Karol-Nagy). Jim also received FCA Student Scholarship (Major, Public Relations; Minor, Communication Studies).
- The NCASC-Gator Chapter won the FCA Grant, for their proposal to sponsor a communication and leadership conference for high school leaders in the spring, at the annual Florida Communication Association Conference.
English
- Marsha Bryant’s “Ariel’s Kitchen: Plath, Ladies’ Home Journal, and the Domestic Surreal” appears in Anita Helle's edited collection The Unraveling Archive: Essays on Sylvia Plath (University of Michigan Press). Her co-authored essay with Mary Ann Eaverly (UF, Classics), “Egypto-Modernism: James Henry Breasted, H.D., and the New Past,” appears in Modernism/modernity 14.3.
- Richard Burt’s “Cutting and Running from the (Medieval) Middle East : The Uncanny Mises-hors-scène of Kingdom of Heaven’s Double DVDs,” appears in Babel 15 (2007): 247–98, a special issue on “Le Moyen Age mise-en-scène: perspectives contemporaines” edited by Sandra Gorgievski and Xavier Leroux. His essay “Thomas Middleton, Uncut: Castration, Censorship, and the Regulation of Middleton’s Dramatic Discourse” appears in Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture: A Companion to the Collected Work, eds. Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino, Oxford University Press, 2007.
- In October, Pamela Gilbert attended the 2007 meeting of the North American Victorian Studies Association in Victoria, Canada, where she delivered a paper titled “Putting the Skin to Work.” In September, she also gave an invited talk at The Georgia Institute of Technology titled “The Spatial Turn: Sex in the City.” She was happy to see many new friends and old, including UF PhD alums Ron Broglio, now on the faculty of Tech’s School of Literature and Communication, Derek Merrill, a Tech Brittain Fellow, and Trish Ventura – alum of both UF and the Brittain program – who is now on the faculty of Spelman College in Atlanta.
- Andrew Gordon spoke on Steven Spielberg’s film War of the Worlds at the Literature/Film Association Conference at the University of Kansas and on “Spielberg and the American Prejudice Against Fantasy” at UF’s 2007 EGO conference. His new book Empire of Dreams: The Science Fiction and Fantasy Films of Steven Spielberg has been published by Rowman and Littlefield.
- Terry Harpold has been named a founding member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Verniana – Jules Verne Studies / Études Jules Verne. The first international journal of Verne studies, Verniana will publish its inaugural issue in 2008.
- Tace Hedrick has been invited to Emory University on November 15 to present her lecture “Queering the Cosmic Race: Esotericism, Mestizaje, and Sexuality in Gabriela Mistral and Gloria Anzaldúa.” The lecture is cosponsored by Emory’s Department of English, Women’s Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Institute for the Liberal Arts.
- Susan Hegeman was a participant in a roundtable discussion of “Paradigms and Obsolescence: What Is to Become of ‘Culture,’ ‘Race,’ and Other Keywords in the New Transhemispheric American Studies?” at the recent American Studies Association meeting, held in Philadelphia.
- Brandon Kershner gave an invited lecture on “The Newspaper in Ulysses” as part of a Joyce conference in honor of Austin Briggs, held at Hamilton College on September 29. His review of Clair Culleton’s Joyce and the G-Men appears in James Joyce Quarterly 44.2 (Winter 2007): 380–82.
- David Leavitt’s new book The Indian Clerk was profiled recently on National Public Radio.
- Mark A. Reid’s review of Krin Gabbard, Black Magic: White Hollywood and African American Culture appears in Film Quarterly 61.1 (Fall 2007).
- An appreciation of Mary Robison’s work recently appeared in The Guardian.
- Leah Rosenberg’s new book Nationalism and the Formation of Caribbean Literature has been published by Palgrave Macmillan.
- Stephanie Smith’s review of Reclaiming Authorship: Literary Women in America, 1850–1900 appears in the New England Quarterly (September 2007).
- Maureen Turim’s “Sounds, Intervals, and Startling Images in the Films of Abigail Child” appears in Women’s Experimental Cinema: Critical Frameworks, ed. Robin Blaetz, Duke University Press.
- Phil Wegner presented “Heterotopia/Dystopia/Eutopia and the Utopia of the ’Place Between Two Deaths’ in 1990s Films” at the 32nd annual meeting of the Society for Utopian Studies, held in Toronto. Wegner also served as the program coordinator for the largest and most successful meeting in the Society’s history, a meeting at which UF graduates past and present were also well represented.
News of Former Students
- Joel Adams’s “Books That Will Rock Your Queer World!” appears in Talk About It, the yearly National Coming Out Month publication of the Office of LGBT Affairs at the University of Michigan.
Mathematics
- Graduate Research Professor John
Thompson will receive another
honorary doctorate next spring. This honorary doctorate will be
awarded by Ohio State University during the March 2008
Commencement. In this connection, Professor Thompson will deliver a series
of lectures at Ohio State in March.