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Around the College
December 2007
News about awards and events from around the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
- African and Asian Languages and Literatures
- Anthropology
- Chemistry
- Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Dial Center for Written and Oral Communication
- English
- Mathematics
- Physics
- Psychology
- Romance Languages and Literatures
- Women's Studies and Gender Research
African and Asian Languages and Literatures
Department of African and Asian Languages and Literatures Website
- Rose Sau Lugano from the department of African and Asian Languages and Literatures recently attended a workshop on "Representations of Childhood in the Literatures and Film of Africa and the African Diaspora" on October 12-13 at Smith College, Massachusetts. She also presented a paper based on a chapter titled "Condemned by Patriarchy: Trends of Growing Down in Euphrase Kezilahabi's Rosa Mistika" that examined the conditions that determine selfhood in the African girl child in the East African context.
Anthropology
Department of Anthropology Website
- Helen I. Safa, Professor Emerita of Anthropology and Latin American Studies at the University of Florida, was presented the Kalman Silvert award of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) at its recent Congress, September 5-8, 2007, in Montreal.
- Anita Spring was elected President-elect of Culture and Agriculture, a section of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). She presented two papers on gender: “Conventional and Global African Women Entrepreneurs: Modeling the Similarities and Differences,” at the International Academy of African Business Development, London, May 2007 and “Ester Boserup’s WID paradigm based on agriculture: Can we revise it now” at the annual meeting of the AAA in Washington in December 2007.
Chemistry
Department of Chemistry Website
- Lisa McElwee-White , professor of organic chemistry, has been elected Chair-Elect of the American Chemical Society Division of Organic Chemistry by a vote of the Section's members. She will serve as Chair-Elect in 2008, with the progression to Chair and Past-Chair proceeding sequentially. Dr. McElwee-White previously served as the National Program Chair of the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry in 2000-2003.
Communication Sciences and Disorders
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders Website
- Jim Harnsberger presented 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.”
- G. Paul Moore, Professor Emeritus recently celebrated his 100th birthday 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.
- WS Brown, Jr. was presented the Honors of the American Association of Phonetic Sciences at the association's annual meeting in Boston, November 15, 2007. This inaugural award was presented to Dr. Brown for his scholarly contibutions, leadership and service to the mission of the phonetic sciences in America.
- Sona Patel, a CSD doctoral student, has been invited to serve on the Speech Science Program committee for the 2009 ASHA Convention.
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.
At the annual meeting of the Modernist Studies Association in November (Long Beach, CA), Marsha Bryant co-moderated a peer seminar on "Modernisms in the 1950s," and was a panelist in an Open Forum on Teaching Innovations. Recent publications include “Egypto-modernism: James Henry Breasted, H.D., and the New Past,” co-authored with Mary Ann Eaverly, Modernism/modernity 14.3 (September 2007): 435-53. “Ariel’s Kitchen: Plath, Ladies’ Home Journal, and the Domestic Surreal,” in The Unraveling Archive: Essays on Sylvia Plath, ed. Anita Helle, U. of Michigan Press, 2007. 211-35. “Brooks, Ebony, and Postwar Race Relations,” American Literature 79.1 (March 2007): 113-141. - 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.
Professor Pamela K. Gilbert recently became Chair of the Department of English. Her most recent book, The Citizen's Body: Desire, Health, and the Social in Victorian England was published by Ohio State University Press in August, 2007. She gave a paper and chaired a session at a conference on “The Idea of the City’” at the University of Northampton, England in June. In September, she gave an invited talk at The Georgia Institute of Technology titled "The Spatial Turn: Sex in the City." In October, she 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." - 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 was 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 was 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.
- Malini Johar Schueller of the Department of English published Exceptional State: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the New Imperialism, co-edited with Ashley Dawson, Duke University Press, 2007 and “ The Perils of Academic Freedom,” (Ed. with Ashley Dawson), Social Text, Vol 25, no. 1 Winter 2007 as well as “Area Studies and Multicultural Imperialism: The Project of Decolonizing Knowledge” Social Text 25, no 1(2007), 41-62. and “Techno-Dominance and Torturegate: The Making of US Imperialism” in Exceptional State: Contemporary US Culture and Imperialism. Duke University Press, 2007, pp. 162-190.
- 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.
Germanic and Slavic Studies Studies
Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
- Nora M. Alter recently published her essay, “The Legs of Marlene Dietrich,” Dietrich Icon. G. Gemuenden and M. Desjardins. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007). In her capacity as Vice-president/ president elect she attended the annual Women in German Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Linguistics
Department of Linguistics Website
- Diana Boxer, U.F. Professor of Linguistics, presented an invited talk entitled, "Humorous self disclosures as resistance to socially imposed gender roles" at the International Pragmatics Association Conference this past July in Gothenburg, Sweden. It was part of a panel on Humorous self disclosures: Gender, age, and culture.
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.
Physics
- Distinguished
Professor Pierre Ramond has been selected as the 2007 recipient of the Lise Meitner Prize
presented by the Physics Center, an umbrella organization comprising
the
physics departments of Chalmers
University of Technology and Goteborg
University in Sweden. Pierre was selected for his pioneering
contributions to Superstring Theory. The prize ceremony, along with
Pierre's Lise Meitner Lecture, will be held at Chalmers later in January.
Political Science
Department of Political Science Website
- Daniel I. O'Neill, Assistant Professor of Political Science recently celebrated the publication of his new book by Penn State University Press, The Burke-Wollstonecraft Debate: Savagery, Civilization, and Democracy. One of the books principal subjects, Mary Wollstonecraft, is the woman generally acknowledged as the founder of modern feminism.
Psychology
Department of Psychology Website
- Peter Rudnytsky is to be inducted as an honorary member of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) along with Drs. Eric R. Kandel and Sander L. Gilman. Rudnytsky is being recognized for his commitment to the advancement of psychoanalysis. In her letter of nomination, APsaA member Vera Camden, professor of English at Kent State University, remarked “During the course of his career, Dr. Rudnytsky has had a remarkable gift for bringing together the academic and clinical worlds of psychoanalysis."
Religion
- Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons delivered a plenary address at the Gandhi-King Nonviolence Conference in Memphis, Tenn at Christian Brother's College on Saturday, October 27th. Her conference speech was titled, "True Peace Requires Institutional Justice and Individual Spiritual Change." She one of two invited speakers at the Silk Road Club's 3rd Annual Interreligious Dinner at the Paramount Hotel and Conference Center on October 1, 2007. The conference theme and the topic of her speech was “Love of Creation: A Bridge to the Divine Love.”
Romance Languages and Literatures
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Website
- Sylvie Blum (French) presented “Cooking with Julia (Child) or an American in Paris” at the Women in French session: “Le boire et le manger. L’art de vivre à la française chez les écrivain/e/s et cinéastes.” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association annual conference, Western Washington University, Bellingham, November 2007. She presented “Going Home or Geographic Crossing in Contemporary French Cinema,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual meeting, Chicago, in March.
- Professor of French Carol Murphy was named Chevalier in the French Legion of Honor in a decree signed by outgoing French President Jacques Chirac on April 23. She has been recognized for outstanding contribution to relations between the United States and France. It is France's highest national honor. In December, she will be participating in a bilingual international conference on French Philosophy and Contemporary Art at Florida Atlantic University.
Women’s Studies and Gender Research
Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research Website
- In addition to being awarded a University of Florida Research
Professorship, Milagros
Peña published: “Balancing School with the Call
to Community Service: Hispanic Master’s Students in U.S. Theological
Schools,” Milagros Peña, Edwin I. Hernández, Caroline
Sotelo Viernes Turner, and Danielle Dirks. Journal
of Hispanic Higher Education, July (2007) Vol. 6 No. 3: 284-296.
- Dr. Peña presented the following research paper: “Hispanic Churches in Social Ministries: Challenges in Feeding the Body in Contested Social Spaces,” presented at the American Sociological Association Conference, New York City, NY, August 11-14, 2007.
- Florence
E Babb was
a special guest editor of a series on “Engendering Anthropology,” which
appeared in five issues of Anthropology News this spring and
fall. She authored a final piece
on “The Future of Feminist Anthropology / The Feminist Future of
Anthropology” in the November issue. Her term as President
of the Association for Feminist
Anthropology concludes in December.
In September, Dr Babb presented a guest lecture on “Feminismo, Identidad, Diaspora Un comentario sobre las practicas transnacionales” for the art exhibition Cara a Cara / Face to Face: Diálogos y Confrontaciones Fronterzas, Narraciones de Género, Raza, Inmigración y Diásporas, at the Centro Cultural Español in Miami. She is also presenting papers this fall at the Latin American Studies Association conference in Montreal and the American Anthropological Association conference in Washington DC. - Stephanie Evans gave
three presentations including a panel discussion at the ABWH conference
titled "Intersections, Interdisciplinarity,
and Black Women in the Ivory Tower" held in Charlotte, North Carolina
on October 2-6; "Balancing Academic Substance with Polished Presentation,
or The Finer Points of Shameless Self-Promotion." SREB - Compact
for Faculty Diversity. Institute on Teaching and Mentoring held in Arlington,
Virginia on October 27; and “Historical Sisters of
the Academy: Using History as a Research and Publishing Tool" at
a panel presentation and mentoring workshops at the Sisters of the Academy
Boot Camp at Auburn University,
on August 9-12.
Dr. Evans’ recent journal articles include "Women of Color in American Higher Education" in Thought & Action, and "Mary McLeod Bethune's Research Agenda: Thought Translated to Work, " in African American Research Perspectives - Tace
Hedrick organized a session titled “Blackness
and Comparative Racial Politics in U.S. Afro-Latina/o, African American,
and Latin American Writing and Culture” for the Latin American
Studies Association (LASA) in Montreal, Canada on September 7, 2007.
Dr. Hedrick also delivered the Keynote Address, "Crossing the Bridge Between U.S. Latina/o and Latin American Studies," for the University of Florida's Third Hispanic Graduate Colloquium, "El Arte de Convivir," on October 13th.
Dr. Hedrick gave a talk titled "Gloria Anzaldúa and Gabriela Mistral, Queering the Cosmic Race" for English, Latin American Studies, and Women's Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia on November 15th. - Interim Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and former CWSGR Director Angel
Kwolek-Folland had two articles recently published. One,
with Margaret Walsh, co-editors of special issue of Business History
Review on "Gender and the Service Industries in Business History:
Some International Comparisons," and "Gender and the Service
Sector in United States Business History," Business History Review
vol. 81, no. 3 (Autumn 2007).
Dr. Kwolek-Folland also presented a paper (with Prof. Terry Dworkin, Indiana University) titled, "Gender Equity in the Stem Disciplines in the U.S.," at the Fifth Conference on Gender Equity in Higher Education Berlin, Germany, August 2007. - While traveling in Vietnam, Trysh Travis visited the American Studies Programs at both the Hanoi and the Ho Chi Minh City campuses of Vietnam National University. In Ho Chi Minh City, she met with to Professor Thien Thi Phuong Ngo's Advanced Seminar in American Studies to discuss their current research projects, which included American attitudes towards a female president, the distribution of household labor within two-career families, and the images of women in popular American Television.