Year: 2018

ARCHITECTURE – The Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing team members delivered eight presentations, a poster presentation and a preconference workshop at the Healthcare Design Conference held Nov. 10-13 in Phoenix. They also staffed a booth where they continued a research study using virtual reality. Presentations included “Testing and Implementing Human-Centered Design Ideas Throughout the Design Process,” by David Allison, Anjali Joseph, Deborah Wingler and, from Kent State, Sara Bayramzadeh; “How Simulation-Based Evaluations Are Improving Healthcare Design Decisions,” by Joseph and the University of Florida’s Shabboo Valipoor and Sheila Bosch; and “Portraits of a Nurse: Understanding the Role of the Built Environment on Nurse Fatigue,” by Wingler and industry consultant Kathy Oakland.

ENGLISH – Kristen Aldebol-Hazle was the CAAH recipient of the Open Educational Resources Faculty Stipend offered by Clemson Online and the Clemson Libraries. This stipend encourages faculty to adopt open source educational resources to reduce textbook costs for students and increase equity in educational access.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Richard Amesbury and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University Bloomington, published “Introducing Law and Religion,” the preface to a jointly edited series of essays on the field, in the journal Religious Studies Review 44:3. Amesbury also co-chaired the Law, Religion, and Culture Unit of the American Academy of Religion at its annual meeting in Denver Nov. 17-20.

ENGLISH – David Blakesley published “Composing the Un/Real” in the journal Computers and Composition, vol. 50 (Dec. 2018), pp. 8-20. The essay elaborates the rhetorical and philosophical foundations of composition as an act of creating or inventing the un/real and the role wearable and immersive technologies can play in expanding composition’s range as a creative, productive art.

HISTORY – Vernon Burton appeared on the South Carolina Public Radio program “Walter Edgar’s Journal” on Nov. 16 along with three guest presenters from the “Lincoln’s Unfinished Work” conference, which he organized and hosted at Clemson University Nov. 28-Dec. 1. He also spoke about his major academic summit on SC Radio Network. As chair of the Tom Watson Brown prize committee, Burton presented its $50,000 award for the best book on the Civil War era at the annual Society of Civil War Historians banquet Nov. 9 in Birmingham, Alabama. On Nov. 11, he participated in a session about Little Rock Central High at the Southern Historical Association annual meeting in Little Rock, Arkansas. On Nov. 16, Burton spoke as part of a panel at Lander University in Greenwood, South Carolina on the 120th anniversary of The Phoenix Election Riot. Burton also served as the historical consultant on “While I Breathe, I Hope,” a documentary film about attorney, politician and commentator Bakari Sellers, which premiered last month in Columbia, South Carolina.

HISTORY – Joshua Catalano presented his paper “From Ken Burns’ ‘The Civil War’ to History’s ‘Ancient Aliens’: Lincoln’s Unfinished Work on Cable Television” on Nov. 29 at the “Lincoln’s Unfinished Work” conference at Clemson University.

ENGLISH – Luke Chwala presented “The Transgothic Ecologies of H. Rider Haggard’s ‘She’” at the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States conference, “Victorian Futures,” held Nov. 8-10 in Palm Springs, California. The presentation was part of a roundtable, “Trans Studies and the Future of Victorian Studies,” which provided an overview of four articles appearing next month in Vol. 44 of the Victorian Review on Trans Victorians.

LANGUAGES – Stephen Fitzmaurice was elected to a four-year term as secretary on the board of directors for the Conference of Interpreter Trainers. He was also an invited presenter at the Southeastern Regional Symposium for College Educators of Teachers of the Deaf, and Educational Interpreters, in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he presented new empirical evidence regarding “Predicting Interpreter Performance.”

ARCHITECTURE – Roxana Jafarifiroozabadi, a doctoral student, recently received second place in the Three Minute Thesis competition at Clemson. The competition developed by The University of Queensland challenges students to present a brief and compelling oration about their thesis and its significance while using language appropriate for a general audience.

ARCHITECTURE – Anjali Joseph published “The Architecture of Safety: An Emerging Priority for Improving Patient Safety” in Health Affairs 37(11), pp. 1884-1891 along with her co-authors Kerm Henriksen and Eileen Malone. Joseph presented the paper Nov. 6 at an event the journal organized in Washington D.C.

PERFORMING ARTS – Eric J. Lapin presented as a part of a panel titled “Effecting Social Change Through the Humanities” at the National Humanities Conference held Nov. 8-11 in New Orleans.

ARCHITECTURE – Amalia Leifeste has been selected to serve a two-year term as chair of the executive committee for the National Council for Preservation Education. The council raises awareness about historic preservation; helps develop and improve educational programs in preservation; and aids students considering study in the discipline.

CONSTRUCTION SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT – Jason Lucas received a $75,233 grant from the Job-Site Safety Institute, which is titled “Advancing Best Practices for Construction Safety.” The grant will fund the creation of a guide that can be implemented to reduce risk and minimize total claims.

LANGUAGES – Joseph Mai published an extensive review of the Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh’s most recent film, “Graves Without a Name,” in The Mekong Review. This poetic documentary is an autobiographical exploration of mourning and reconciliation, 40 years after genocide during the Pol Pot regime.

ENGLISH – Angela Naimou participated in an international, multidisciplinary workshop on Human Rights, Humanitarianism and Development hosted by the Freie Universität Berlin. She was also among the Clemson faculty who presented papers at the American Studies Association’s annual meeting held Nov. 7-10 in Atlanta.

ARCHITECTURE – Winifred E. Newman was an invited panelist and speaker at the third annual higher education Campus Alliance for Advanced Visualization (CAAV) Conference Nov. 5-7 at Villanova University in Philadelphia. Newman also had her drawing “The Ground on Which We Stand: M-001” selected for the juried exhibition “A New Birth of Freedom…” being held Nov. 27-Dec. 12 at the Clemson University R.M. Cooper Library in conjunction with the “Lincoln’s Unfinished Work” conference.

ARCHITECTURE – Mary G. Padua co-authored a book chapter with Stanley Lung in the recently released book “Sustainable Coastal Design and Planning,” edited by Elizabeth Mossop (CRC Press Taylor and Francis Group). Their chapter “Adaptive Landscapes for Coastal Restoration and Resilience in Contemporary China” presents a discursive narrative for two case studies on low-impact development, green infrastructure, habitat restoration, community development and China’s “sponge city” pilot project.

PERFORMING ARTS –  Shannon Robert won Atlanta Theatre’s Suzi Bass Award for Best Scene Design (for the third time) for the Aurora Theatre/Theatrical Outfit production of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” She designed the set for the acclaimed production of “Newsies” at Atlanta’s Lyric Theatre, which ran Oct. 19-Nov. 4. Robert also presented on “creating space for devised theatre” for The Alliance for Arts in Research Universities Conference at University of Georgia in Athens.

ARCHITECTURE – Thomas Schurch made a presentation titled “Soft Cities” at the annual meeting of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) in Philadelphia. His presentation addressed landscape architecture’s role in shaping urban form relative to natural processes associated with water, “wild” landscapes, urban forests and carbon sequestration, in addition to urban agriculture. Schurch is co-director of the ASLA Professional Practice Network.

ARCHITECTURE – Robert Silance has exhibited photographs in an internationally juried exhibition titled “One Gun Gone: Thoughts and Prayers are Not Enough” at the Rhode Island Center of Photographic Arts in Providence, Rhode Island. The exhibition addresses the impact of gun violence in America and is the third show in a series designed to provide opportunities to support positive change in communities. The exhibition was juried by Boris Bally, a nationally recognized artist, author and activist.

LANGUAGES – Daniel J. Smith presented “The Order of Morpheme Acquisition: Spanish and English in Contact” at the Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

LANGUAGES – Graciela Tissera explored the historical memory of the civic-military dictatorship of Argentina (1976-1983) in her paper “Argentina ante la memoria de la última dictadura: percepciones fílmicas de la intrahistoria.” She presented her research at the conference “III Congreso Internacional Art-Kiné: estéticas de la memoria. Prácticas sociales del recuerdo: el cine, los medios de comunicación y la cultura,” which was held Nov. 6-9 at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

ENGLISH – Jillian Weise presented at NonfictioNOW in Phoenix as part of the panel “Just Be Yourself and Teach Us: Disabled Writers and the Imaginary Nondisabled Audience.” The panel was profiled by Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies. The magazine Bellingham Review interviewed  Weise and her satirical alter ego Tipsy Tullivan for their current issue.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Benjamin White presented two papers at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, held Nov. 17-20 in Denver: “Paul Within Judaism: Notes From the Second Century” and “Timothy as Collaborator: Rolling Delta and its Utility in Multi-Authored Pauline Epistles.”

ART – Valerie Zimany presented “Even Monkeys Fall From Trees: Accepting Fallibility as an Educator” on the panel “Bring Out Your Dead: Failed Attempts & Spectacular Disasters” at the annual meeting of SECAC (formerly known as the Southeastern College Art Conference) in Birmingham, Alabama. Artwork by Zimany and Todd Anderson is featured in “Radiate,” the 10-year anniversary exhibition of the Kai Lin Art Gallery in Atlanta. Zimany and Anderson Wrangle had artwork chosen for the 30th anniversary juried exhibition at the South Carolina State Museum out of a field of more than 1,000 entries. Work by Samuel Wang, an emeritus faculty member, was also included, along with pieces by Clemson MFAs Carly Drew (’13), Elizabeth Keller (’92), Jo Carol Mitchell Rodgers (’87), Alyssa Reiser Prince (’13) and Winston Wingo (’80). BFA alumna Katelyn Chapman (’14) was awarded third prize for her painting.

ENGLISH – Susanna Ashton attended the conference “Frederick Douglass Across and Against Times, Places, and Disciplines,” which was hosted by the Université Paris Diderot, the Foundation des États-Unis, the University of Chicago Center in Paris and the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 from Oct. 11-13 in Paris. She presented research in a paper “Black Agitator John Andrew Jackson and the Long Shadow of Frederick Douglass’s ‘Heroic Slave.’”

HISTORY – Mou Banerjee and Michael Silvestri participated in a roundtable panel on “New Directions in the Study of Political Violence and Revolutionary Terrorism” at the Annual Conference on South Asia on Oct. 12 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Silvestri also presented the paper “‘Fine Stalwart Young Irishmen?’ The Irish Experience of Policing and Criminality in the Late Nineteenth-Century British Empire” on Oct. 26 at the North American Conference on British Studies in Providence, R.I.

PERFORMING ARTS – Anthony Bernarducci was honored as the professor of the game at the Oct. 20 football game against North Carolina State. He was recognized on the field and was able to enjoy the homecoming victory with his wife, Breanna, in the president’s suite.

ENGLISH – Multiple faculty members presented at ASAP/10, a conference held by the Association for the Study of Arts of the Present from Oct. 17-20 in New Orleans. Maria Bose co-organized the “Surveillance as Infrastructure” seminar. Cameron Bushnell’s talk was titled “Orientalism Undisciplined.” Jonathan Beecher Field participated in the “Speculative Souths” seminar. Michael LeMahieu spoke on “Generic Racism.” Kim Manganelli presented “‘Gone With the Wind Fabulous’: The Plantations of River Road in ‘Lemonade’ and ‘The Beguiled.’” Amy Monaghan participated in the roundtable “Unflinching Aesthetics Challenging Gendered Stereotypes of Violence.” Angela Naimou, who serves as treasurer on the association’s board, co-organized the “Rethinking the Refugee” seminar. Tiffany Creegan Miller from the Department of Languages also presented at the conference.

HISTORY – Vernon Burton’s article “American Digital History” from Social Science Computer Review vol. 23, issue 2 (Summer 2005): 206-220 has been published in a Turkish translation, “Amerikan Dijital Tarihi” in Tuhed (Turkish History Educational Journal) vol. 7, issue 2 (2018): 697-719. Burton received a grant from the Self Family Foundation to help support his conference “Lincoln’s Unfinished Work” from Nov. 28-Dec. 1 and its accompanying workshop for secondary teachers on how to teach about the history of race relations. Burton and other contributors to vol. 3 of “State of the Heart: South Carolina Writers on the Places They Love” conducted a reading on Oct. 5 at the Anderson County Library. On Oct. 23-24, he read from his books and gave a lecture titled “Lincoln’s Unfinished Work” at the University of South Carolina Aiken. He also met with high school students from Aiken and Allendale counties who are part of the South Carolina Rural Action Team. Some of the students from underrepresented groups will attend his upcoming conference and conduct video interviews with scholars. On Oct. 27-28, C-SPAN 3 rebroadcast his 2017 lecture on “The Origins of the 14^th Amendment” given at the U.S. Senate Capitol Hill Society.

LANGUAGES – Stephen Fitzmaurice’s chapter “Teaching to Self-Assess: Developing Critical Thinking Skills for Student Interpreters” was published in “The Next Generation of Research in Interpreter Education,” edited by Cynthia Roy and Elizabeth Winston (Gallaudet University Press). The South Carolina Educational Interpreting Center grant he received in 2016 was renewed and its funder has published the 2018 Annual Report. Fitzmaurice also presented “Reducing Your Grading Time: Student Self-Assessment Practices That Work” at the international Conference of Interpreter Trainers in Salt Lake City.

CONSTRUCTION SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT – Dhaval Gajjar gave a talk, “Millennials in the FM Workplace,” at the International Facility Management Association Conference on Oct. 4 in Charlotte, N.C. He also published a new manuscript titled “Improving Janitorial Contract Performance With Facility Management Performance Scorecards” in the Journal of Facility Management Education and Research.

ARCHITECTURE – Frances Henderson Ford presented a paper at the Cultural and Historic Preservation Conference held Oct. 12 at Salve Regina University in Newport, R.I. Her paper “The Three C’s All Happened Here: Cotton, Cigars and College” was part of a session considering adaptive reuse for education, specifically looking at the conversion of historic buildings in Charleston neighborhoods into historic preservation classrooms. Her paper looked at the Hampstead Square neighborhood, where a five-story mill was constructed in 1881 for the manufacture of cotton thread and fabric and later became a successful cigar manufacturing plant. Most of the second floor is now the location of the Clemson Design Center-Charleston and the graduate program in Historic Preservation.

HISTORY – Stephanie Hassell participated in “Africa in Global History:  A Colloquium on the Work of Joseph C. Miller on Oct. 26 at Harvard University.

ARCHITECTURE – Hala Nassar and Robert Hewitt presented at the annual National Science Foundation’s National Robotics Initiative conference on Oct. 29 in Washington, D.C. Their presentation, “Drone Use and Landscape Assessment at Duke Botanical Gardens,” was based on their research with the Duke University Robotics Facility and Humans and Autonomy Laboratory.

ARCHITECTURE – Carter Hudgins and Amalia Leifeste led a team of four students to San Antonio, Texas and the surrounding Hill Country for a four-day field documentation project. The team created measured drawings of seven important vernacular structures. A final drawing developed from their field notes will become part of a tour when the Vernacular Architecture Forum holds its annual conference in San Antonio in May, 2020. Leifeste also presented at the Southeastern Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians conference hosted by Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. Her topic was “The Historic Record We Produce: Querying the Products of Analog and Digital Recording Techniques.”

ARCHITECTURE – Anjali Joseph participated in an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality review panel Oct. 24-25 in Washington, D.C. The group met to review grant proposals related to healthcare safety and quality improvement.

ENGLISH – Steve Katz worked on the article “Agricultural Research, or a New Bioweapon System?” and assisted its authoring scientists from Germany and France in the early style analysis of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) communiques by examining the metaphors they used. The lead author, Guy Reeves of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön, Germany, has just published the article in the journal Science; the article is receiving worldwide attention. Katz was invited to speak to a graduate class in professional writing theory Oct. 25 at Iowa State University, after they read his “The Ethic of Expediency: Classical Rhetoric, Technology, and the Holocaust” and responses to it over three class sessions. The conversation by videoconference was the culmination of their study of his famous and controversial 1992 article. The article, published in College English, won the National Council of Teachers of English award and has been reprinted several times, including in “Central Works in Technical Communication” (Oxford University Press, 2004).

ARCHITECTURE – Herminia Machry, a doctoral student, presented work from the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing at the VIII Congresso Brasileiro para o Desenvolvimento do Edifício Hospitalar held Oct. 30-Nov. 1 in Curitiba, Brazil. Her presentation was titled “Developing and Evaluating an Operating Room Design Prototype: The Use of a Mock-Up Simulation Approach Integrated to an Iterative Evidence-Based Design Process.”

ARCHITECTURE – Andreea Mihalache presented the paper “A Seemingly Serene Scene: Saul Steinberg’s ‘Strada Palas’ (1942)” at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) fall conference, “Play With the Rules,” Oct. 11-13 in Milwaukee.

LANGUAGES – Tiffany Creegan Miller gave the presentation “Uk’u’x kaj, uk’u’x ulew: Ecocritical and Ecofeminist Kaqchikel Maya Epistemologies in the Film ‘Ixcanul’ (2015)” at the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP/10) held Oct. 17-20 in New Orleans. Miller also gave a guest lecture by videoconference on Oct. 22 to a medical Spanish class at Brown University about her work with underserved Kaqchikel Maya patients in Guatemala.

ARCHITECTURE – Winifred E. Newman published “Cyber-innovation in the STEM Classroom, A Mixed Reality Approach” along with Tahar Messadi, Andrew Braham, Darin Nutter and Shahin Vassigh in the journal Creative Education.

LANGUAGES – Salvador Oropesa participated in the roundtable discussion by language department chairs on Oct. 15 at the Mountain Interstate Foreign Languages Conference at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

PERFORMING ARTS – David Stevenson joined 50 other guitarists on Oct. 4 to perform the world premiere of “The Walls,” a five-movement composition by Sergio Assad at Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C.

LANGUAGES – Jae Takeuchi was invited to give a lecture at the University of Washington in Seattle as part of their Japan Studies Program Lecture Series. The title of the talk was “Who Knew? How Japanese Language Learners Negotiate the Challenges of Dialect in Small-Town Japan.”

LANGUAGES – Graciela Tissera presented the research paper “Los castillos en la ficción cinematográfica: sobre los enigmas del espacio laberíntico” at the III Congreso Xàtiva: Historia, cultura e identidad. The conference on the theme of castles in history and fiction was held Oct. 17-19 in Xàtiva, Spain, and was organized by the Universitat de València, Institució Alfons el Magnànim and city of Xàtiva.

LANGUAGES – Eric Touya gave the presentation “Bonnefoy, Badiou, et l’avenir de la poésie: divergences et rapprochements” at the 2018 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He also presented “Teaching Hélé Béji, Post-Colonialism, and the Arab Spring: Perspectives From Baudrillard, McClintock, Giroux” at the conference’s Teaching Women in French Roundtable.

ENGLISH – Jillian Weise gave a talk, “Cyborgs & Tryborgs: Feminism, Futurism & Disability Pride,” for the philosophy department at Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C. She also presented her work at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania.

ARCHITECTURE – Deborah Wingler presented work at the Medical University of South Carolina Performance Improvement Conference Oct. 6-8 in Charleston, S. C. Her topic was “Engaging Clinicians in the Design Process Through Simulation-Based Mock-Up Evaluations to Support the Design of High Performance Healthcare Environments.” Wingler delivered the keynote presentation Oct. 6 at the Institute for Patient-Centered Design Innovation Summit, also in Charleston. She was recently awarded the institute’s Outstanding Service Award for her efforts as a patient and family advocate for health care design.

ARCHITECTURE – B.D. Wortham-Galvin’s article “Queering Reuse” appeared in the International Journal of Interior Architecture + Spatial Design, Vol. 5: Adaptive Interventions.

ART – Artworks by Valerie Zimany and Daniel Bare were featured in the Southern Miss Ceramics National 2018, an exhibition juried by Anthony Stellacio, the editor of Studio Potter Magazine. The exhibition ran Oct. 12 – Nov. 2 at The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg.

ARCHITECTURE – Anjali Joseph, David Allison, Deborah Wingler, doctoral student Herminia Machry and other researchers at the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing published three new manuscripts. “Minor Flow Disruptions, Traffic-Related Factors and Their Effect on Major Flow Disruptions in the Operating Room” was published as an EPUB in BMJ Quality & Safety. “An Observational Study of Door Motion in Operating Rooms” was published in Building and Environment, 144: pp. 502-507. “Comparing the Effectiveness of Four Different Design Media in Communicating Desired Performance Outcomes with Clinical End Users” was published in the Health Environments Research & Design Journal. The Center’s researchers are also working on the development of an operating room design toolkit that would help architects and clinicians better understand safety requirements in the OR and how design affects health-care outcomes.

HISTORY – Amit Bein presented at the conference “Middle Eastern and Balkan Mobilities in the Interwar Period (1918-1939)” at the University of Cambridge, England. His topic was “Strolling Through Istanbul: Egyptian Travellers in 1930s Turkey.”

ENGLISH – David Blakesley was accepted into the 2018-19 Adobe Partners by Design Program for art and design faculty. The program brings faculty members together to share best practices in the fields of art and design, lead local student design events, judge Adobe Design Achievement Awards, test new Adobe products and connect with the Society of Digital Agencies (SoDa) for professional and student opportunities.

HISTORY – Vernon Burton’s essay, “Mystery and Contradiction: My Story of Ninety Six,” appeared in “State of the Heart: South Carolina Writers on the Places They Love,” vol. 3 (University of South Carolina Press), edited by Aida Rogers, pp. 18-27. The series was begun by the late novelist Pat Conroy, and this volume contains a foreword by Nikky Finney and an afterword by Cassandra King. Burton and other authors appeared at an Oct. 5 reading at the Anderson County Arts Center.

HISTORY – Joshua Catalano’s article “Digitally Analyzing the Uneven Ground: Language Borrowing Among Indian Treaties” was published in the inaugural issue of Current Research in Digital History.

ENGLISH – Luke Chwala’s essay, “Emerging TransGothic Ecologies in H. Rider Haggard’s ‘She,’” was published in the special issue Trans Victorians of the Victorian Review, vol. 44, no. 1, Fall 2018.

ARCHITECTURE – Maria Counts has been elected a regional director for the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA). Region 6 includes Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida and Puerto Rico. As regional director, she will provide service to the board through outreach, coordination with other universities and will serve on an executive committee.

ENGLISH – Walt Hunter gave a keynote address for the conference “The Precariat in Art and Culture” on Sept. 21 at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark.

ENGLISH – Steven Katz was a noted speaker at the first Symposium on Sound, Rhetoric, and Writing Sept. 7-8 in Nashville, Tennessee. At the symposium, Katz was interviewed by Mari Ramler, a graduate of Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design (RCID). He also performed classical guitar with current RCID student Michael David Measel, who played mandolin and guitar, to demonstrate “Temporalities in Transition: ‘The Epistemic Music of Rhetoric’ by Steven Katz – 22 Years Later.” Current RCID online student Amy Patterson photographed, streamed, recorded and ran the boards for the panel.

PERFORMING ARTS – Linda Li-Bleuel has been selected to participate in The Trailblazers: Provost’s Mentoring Initiative for Faculty. This Clemson program provides experiential leadership training focused on the unique challenges of leadership in higher education.

HISTORY – Edwin Moise gave a talk, “Myths of the Tet Offensive,” on Sept. 12 at the First Division Museum at Cantigny Park, in Wheaton, Illinois.

ARCHITECTURE – Winifred Elysse Newman presented a paper at the Academy for Neuroscience for Architecture 2018 conference held at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California. Her paper “Home as Health Intervention” outlined research in a Naturally Occurring Retirement Community (NORC) in Atlanta, where physical models of inhabitants’ homes and the mental constructs derived from them were tested to explain the degree to which home environments support or augment mobility and health. This research has the potential to increase physical and social activities of older Americans, and make a significant impact on their health.

ENGLISH – Barton Palmer’s volume “Adaptation in Visual Culture: Images, Texts, and Their Multiple Worlds,” co-edited with Julie Grossman of LeMoyne College, received the 2018 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Studies Book Award for edited collection. This was Palmer’s second time winning the award. Palmer has also published “Rule, Britannia! The Biopic and British National Identity” (SUNY Press), co-edited with Homer B. Pettey of the University of Arizona. The volume focuses on how screen biographies of prominent figures in British history and culture shaped and promoted a protean national identity. The contributors engage with the concept of British nationality, especially as the sense of collective belonging is challenged by the ethnically oriented alternatives of English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish nations.

PERFORMING ARTS – Shannon Robert’s set design for the Aurora Theatre’s smash hit “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” was nominated for a Suzi Bass Award, which is Atlanta’s version of the Tonys.

LANGUAGES – Daniel J. Smith has been listed as an advisory board member on a European Research Council Advanced Grant application, “Cross-Community Bilingual Usage Patterns and Their Acquisition by Children.” His research on Spanish-English bilingualism in northeast Georgia is cited in the proposal for a potential project at the University of Cambridge. This will be the first major study of its kind to conduct a cross-community investigation of geographically separated groups of people who are nevertheless speakers of the same pair of languages, Spanish and English, in various locations in Europe and the Americas.

LANGUAGES – Graciela Tissera published “‘The Appeared’ (2007) by Paco Cabezas: Redefining the Book of Hidden Memories and Cyclical Time” in “Terrifying Texts. Essays on Good and Evil in Horror Cinema,” edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper (McFarland & Company).

LANGUAGES – Eric Touya read a paper titled “Claudel dans/pour l’avenir: diplomatie, économie, éco-critique” at the Colloque International Paul Claudel Résolument Contemporain, sponsored by Sorbonne University, the National Library and the Comédie Française at the Université de Paris IV Sorbonne in Paris.

ENGLISH – Jillian Weise’s essay, “Common Cyborg,” appears in Granta. The essay discusses Donna Haraway’s erasure of disabled women, Google’s romance with futurism and, as Weise writes, “how much we cyborgs sell our body parts for on eBay.”

ARCHITECTURE – The 50th anniversary celebration of the Architecture + Health Program was held Aug. 23-25. The program is nationally and internationally recognized as one of the oldest and most comprehensive programs of its kind. The 2018 South Atlantic Regional Conference for the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Academy of Architecture for Health was held in conjunction with the 50^th Anniversary Celebration. David Allison discussed “The Future of the Architecture + Health Program: Challenges and Opportunities.” The event celebrated the history of the program, its contributions to the discipline of healthcare architecture, current work in education and research, and the future of the program. Anjali Joseph, Dina Battisto and Byron Edwards provided research updates.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Richard Amesbury’s essay “Secularity, Religion, and the Spatialization of Time” is the lead article in the September 2018 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion.

HISTORY – Rod Andrew’s talk about his book “The Life and Times of General Andrew Pickens: Revolutionary War Hero, American Founder” (UNC Press, 2017) aired in July on C-SPAN. Andrew originally gave the lecture at the Society of the Cincinnati headquarters, Anderson House, in Washington. A video is posted on the C-SPAN website.

PERFORMING ARTS – Anthony Bernarducci published a book related to music pedagogy, “Listening Awareness: Building Independent and Creative Listeners in Choir” (GIA Publications, 2018). In addition, the remaining two movements of his multi-movement work “Missa Brevis San Francesco di Assisi” – “Gloria” and “Agnus Dei” – have been published through GIA Publications. A recording of the first movement is posted online.

ENGLISH – David Blakesley was named a Watt Faculty Fellow for 2018-19, joining its inaugural class. Blakesley’s publishing company, Parlor Press, received the Best Non-Fiction Cover award from Ingram Industries for the book “Type Matters: The Rhetoricity of Letterforms,” edited by Christopher Scott Wyatt and Dànielle Nicole DeVoss (2018).

ENGLISH – Maria Bose was selected as a Watt Faculty Fellow for 2018-19, joining its inaugural class. Bose also organized a 14-person seminar on “Surveillance as Infrastructure” for the upcoming Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present conference (ASAP/10) in New Orleans.

HISTORY – Vernon Burton’s review essay on the Ibram X. Kendi book “Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America” appeared in the Journal of Southern History, Vol. LXXXIV:3 (August 2018). On Aug. 1, South Carolina Academy of Authors member Burton delivered the keynote address at the Literary Landmark Site dedication of the Dr. Benjamin E. Mays Historical Preservation Site in Greenwood. The Mays site was nominated by the South Carolina Academy of Authors and the State Library, and is only the third literary site in the state to be recognized. An article about the recognition appeared in the Index-Journal newspaper in Greenwood.

ENGLISH – Luke Chwala presented “Monstrous Affect: Reading Queer Ecologies in Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’” at the International Gothic Association (IGA) Conference, which was held July 31-Aug. 3 in Manchester, England.

PERFORMING ARTS – Linda Dzuris has been selected as an inaugural Watt Faculty Fellow at Clemson University for 2018-19.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Steven Grosby published the article “Time, Kinship, and the Nation” in a special issue of the journal Genealogy 2/2: 1-18 on the theme of “Nations in Time: Genealogy, History and the Narration of Time,” which was edited by Atsuko Ichijo. Also, Grosby’s chapter “The Wars of the Ancient Israelites and European Culture” appeared in “Famous Battles and How They Shaped the Modern World 1200 BC-1302 AD, From Troy to Courtrai,” edited by D. Beatrice G. Heuser and Athena S. Leoussi (Pen & Sword: August, 2018), pp. 65-79.

LANGUAGES – Joseph Mai and Pauline de Tholozany each published a chapter in the Modern Language Association book “Approaches to Teaching Hugo’s ‘Les Misérables,’” edited by Michal Ginsburg and Bradley Stephens (2018). De Tholozany’s piece describes teaching the novel in the context of an interdisciplinary course on childhood. Mai’s piece explores Hugo’s conception of the moral individual. Mai also published an essay in The Mekong Review about Anthony Bourdain’s experiences in Cambodia.

ENGLISH – Angela Naimou completed a summer intensive course in Arabic at the Middlebury Institute for International Studies at Monterey, California, in August and gave the final public lecture at LaGuardia Community College (CUNY) as part of its National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Talk two-year series on diaspora and cosmopolitanism.

ARCHITECTURE – Mary G. Padua was invited by Charles Birnbaum, president and CEO of The Cultural Landscape Foundation to write a profile about Ron Herman (1941-2018) for the foundation’s “Pioneers of American Landscape Design” series. Herman was an expert on Japanese gardens who studied landscape architecture at the University of California, Berkeley and Kyoto University. He retired in 2017 with a portfolio of more than 400 built works, including collaborations with I.M. Pei, Flavin Architects and Robert A. Stern. Herman was Padua’s former teacher at UC Berkeley.

LANGUAGES – George Palacios was a visiting professor in the school of history at the Universidad Industrial de Santander in Bucaramanga, Colombia, where he taught the literature, culture and history of the African diaspora in Colombia and the Caribbean. Palacios lectured on “Reflexiones en torno a la diaspora Africana en Colombia” and “Literature and History through the Prism of the Haitian Revolution.” He also gave the inaugural lecture for the master in education program of the faculty of social sciences and humanities at the Universidad de Medellín in Colombia: “Una reflexión sobre el currículo: procesos y crítica para el contexto Latinoamericano.” Palacios presented the paper “Resistencias Afrodiaspóricas frente al destierro en la novela Colombiana hacia mediados de siglo XX” at the VI International Conference on Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian and Latin American Studies, held Aug. 7-10 in Accra, Ghana.

ENGLISH – R. Barton Palmer recently co-edited “The Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz” (University of Texas Press) with Murray Pomerance of Ryerson University. The multi-author volume is the first full study of the most prolific and successful Hollywood generalist of the classic studio period (1920-1970). Curtiz worked in all genres, turning out more than 100 films, including classics such as “Casablanca,” “Mildred Pierce” and “Yankee Doodle Dandy.” Palmer also published Volume 9 of “The Complete Poetry and Music of Guillaume De Machaut” (Medieval Institute Publications) with musicologist Jacques Boogaart. Machaut was the pre-eminent poet and musician of the late Middle Ages. This volume is devoted to Machaut’s motets (a complex musical form with extensive lyrics). Palmer has provided the first translations into any modern languages of these French and Latin texts. The edition is formatted for use both by performers and readers. Palmer also published a book chapter devoted to “The  Small Adult Film: A Prestige Form of Cold War Filmmaking” in “Cold War Film Genres,” edited by Homer Pettey (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press), pp. 62-78.

PERFORMING ARTS – Shannon Robert’s set design for “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” at the Aurora Theatre in Atlanta was accepted into the Prague Quadrennial 2019. The set design will be exhibited in the professional category of the Quadrennial’s Transformation exhibit.

LANGUAGES – Johannes Schmidt was one of several scholars interviewed for a German radio feature on Johann Gottfried Herder, titled “Herder: a Grandniece Discovers the Poet.” The feature was recently released as a podcast.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Charles Starkey presented “Virtue Without Character” at the annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

LANGUAGES – Gabriela Stoicea’s chapter “When History Meets Literature: Jonathan Israel, Sophie von La Roche, and the Problem of Gender” has just been published in a collection edited by Carl Niekerk, “The Radical Enlightenment in Germany: A Cultural Perspective” (Brill/Rodopi, 2018), pp. 211-37.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Benjamin White published “Gentile Judaizing in the Dialogue with Trypho: A Test Case for Justin’s Reception of Paul,” pp. 252-64 in “The Early Reception of Paul the Second Temple Jew: Text, Narrative, and Reception History,” edited by Isaac W. Oliver and Gabriele Boccaccini. This collection is volume 92 in The Library of Second Temple Studies series (New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2018).

ARCHITECTURE – Deborah Wingler presented recent work from the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing (“Integrating Technology in Patient Care Spaces: Using Scenario-Based Evaluations to Compare Design Alternatives in Virtual Reality”) at the International Ergonomics Association Conference in Florence, Italy.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Daniel Wueste published “Linking Academic Integrity and Ethics Across the Curriculum: Groundwork for Sustainability in Practical and Professional Ethics,” Chapter 19, pp. 303-26 in “Ethics Across the Curriculum – Pedagogical Perspectives,” edited by Elaine E. Englehardt and Michael S. Pritchard (Springer, 2018).

ART – Valerie Zimany’s artworks “Digifloral Roundels I, II, & III” are on exhibit at Carbondale Clay Center, in Carbondale, Colorado, in “Out of the Mold: Clay National XIII.” The exhibition was juried by renowned artists and educators Andrea and John Gill, and ran from Aug. 3-31. The exhibition, which marked its 13th year, focused on ceramic art that uses a mold as part of the creative process, whether physical or metaphorical.

ARCHITECTURE – The Center for Health Facilities Design & Testing team of Sara Bayramzadeh, Anjali Joseph, David Allison, Jonas Shultz and James Abernathy published a new paper in Applied Ergonomics, “Using an Integrative Mock-Up Simulation Approach for Evidence-Based Evaluation of Operating Room Design Prototypes.” Bayramzadeh delivered a presentation at the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA 49) conference in Oklahoma City, “Using Simulation-Based Mock-Up Evaluations to Proactively Engage Clinicians During Healthcare Facility Design and Renovation Projects.” Doctoral students Deborah Wingler, Herminia Machry and Roxana Jafarifiroozabadi delivered two presentations at EDRA 49, “Engaging End-Users in Architectural Design Decision-Making: A Comparison of Four Design Communication Media,” and “Patterns of Door Openings in Operating Rooms.” Joseph and Wingler presented work at the European Healthcare Design conference in London, England, “How Large Should the OR Be? Using a Multi-Disciplinary Systems Approach to Designing Safer Operating Rooms,” and “Understanding the Impact of Induction Room vs. Operating Theater on Child and Parent Anxiety During the Ambulatory Surgical Process.”

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Richard Amesbury gave a paper on “‘Christianity’ and ‘Islam’ in Far-Right Political Discourses: A U.S.-Germany Comparison” at the Reexamining Religion, Modernity/ies and Trans Modernity in the Populist Moment Working Group of the University of Notre Dame’s Contending Modernities research initiative on June 5 in Chicago. On July 4, he presented a paper on “‘Religion’ and Secularity in the Philosophy of Religion” at a conference on Philosophy of Religions: Cross-Cultural, Multi-Religious Approaches at the University of Leeds in England. Amesbury presented “Performing ‘the People’: Populism, Sovereignty, and the Construction of Religion” at a July 13 conference on Sovereignty, Religion, and Secularism: Interrogating the Foundations of Polity at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich.

HISTORY – Vernon Burton spoke on “Reconstruction, the Reconstruction Amendments and Voting Rights” at the NEH Summer Institute for School Teachers on the topic of America’s Reconstruction: The Untold Story, which was held July 8-28 at the University of South Carolina Beaufort. He chaired a session on the civil rights movement at the Civil Rights Museum in Jackson, Mississippi, at the July 27 meeting of the Saint George Tucker Society, a scholarly organization dedicated to the study of the American South.

ENGLISH — Professor Emeritus Wayne Chapman published an essay and field guide titled “Yeats’s White Vellum Notebook, 1930-1933” in the journal International Yeats Studies 2.2 (Spring 2018), pp. 41-60. Chapman also published a memorial to his late colleagues Bill Koon and Frank Day as the Dedication to The South Carolina Review 50.2 (Spring 2018), pp. 1-3.

HISTORY — Caroline Dunn and Professor Emerita Elizabeth Carney co-edited the book “Royal Women and Dynastic Loyalty” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). This volume in the publisher’s “Queenship and Power” series assembles  papers presented at the Kings and Queens 5 Conference they organized and hosted at Clemson University in April 2016. Dunn also published an article, “‘If There Be Any Goodly Young Woman’: Experiences of Elite Female Servants in Great Households,” in “The Elite Household in England: Proceedings of the 2016 Harlaxton Medieval Symposium,” edited by C.M. Woolgar (Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2018).

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Steven Grosby’s chapter “Nationality: Its Persistence and Significance” appeared in a collection edited by Kurt Almqvist, “Nation, State and Empire: Perspectives From the Engelsberg Seminar 2017” (Stockholm: Axel and Margaret Axson Johnson Foundation, 2018), pp. 33-40. “America: The Israel of Our Time,” Grosby’s review of the Samuel Goldman book “God’s Country: Christian Zionism in America” (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), appeared on the Law and Liberty website affiliated with the educational foundation Liberty Fund, Inc.

ENGLISH – Walt Hunter published two articles in The Atlantic: one about Shakespeare in federal court and the other about the poet Donald Hall, who died in June. He interviewed the South African painter Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi for ASAP/Journal. Also in ASAP/Journal, Hunter contributed “No Cure for That,” a tribute to the philosopher Stanley Cavell. His article on contemporary poetry and theories of the commons (“A Global ‘We’? Poetic Exhortations in a Time of Precarious Life”) was published in the journal Cultural Critique. In June, he presented on a roundtable about comparative methods in Irish studies at the American Conference for Irish Studies at University College in Cork, Ireland.

ENGLISH – Melissa Edmundson Makala published her second monograph, “Women’s Colonial Gothic Writing, 1850-1930: Haunted Empire” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). She presented a paper on women’s transcultural reading communities in colonial India at the annual international conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP), which was held July 9-12 at Western Sydney University, Australia. Makala was also interviewed about the social elements in women’s ghost stories, the subject of her first book, “Women’s Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain” (University of Wales Press, 2013), for the podcast “Breaking the Glass Slipper,” which highlights women’s involvement in fantasy, science fiction and horror.

ARCHITECTURE – Andreea Mihalache presented the paper “Denise Before Bob: Personal Letters and Critical Discourse” at the International Conference on Modern Movement Women: Women’s Creativity Since the Modern Movement (1918-2018) June 13-16 at Politecnico di Torino in Torino, Italy.

LANGUAGES – Tiffany Creegan Miller was an NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Summer Scholar at the University of Georgia. The NEH Summer Institute June 17-29 focused on Digital Technologies in Theatre and Performance Studies. In July, Miller was invited to deliver a talk at Oxlajuj Aj, a Kaqchikel Mayan language field school, offered through Tulane University. This presentation – “Kojb’ixan pa qach’ab’äl!: El papel de las canciones infantiles en las aproximaciones pedagógicas a la revitalización cultural y lingüística en el idioma kaqchikel” – took place July 25 in San Juan Comalapa, Guatemala. Her presentation focused on Kaqchikel Maya children’s songs in bilingual classrooms in the context of contemporary Pan-Maya activism in Guatemala. Miller was also elected secretary of the Central America section advisory board of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA).

LANGUAGES – Kelly Peebles published “Embodied Devotion: The Dynastic and Religious Loyalty of Renée de France (1510-1575)” in “Royal Women and Dynastic Loyalty” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), edited by Caroline Dunn and Professor Emerita Elizabeth Carney (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp. 123-137). She also presented the paper “From Mother to Daughter and Bride to Widow: Transforming the Gender Roles of Renée de France and Anne d’Este” at the Royal Studies Network Kings & Queens 7 conference, held July 9-12 in Winchester, England.

LANGUAGES – Johannes Schmidt presented (in German) on the differences in Johann Gottfried Herder’s and Nietzsche’s philosophies of history at the meeting of the International Herder Society in Turku, Finland. He also chaired two panels and gave the laudation honoring Karl Menges of University of California, Davis, the recipient of the 2018 Herder Medal.

ENGLISH – Rhondda Robinson Thomas published “Reconstruction, Public Memory, and the Making of Clemson University on John C. Calhoun’s Fort Hill Plantation” in the journal American Literary History. Clemson has presented founder Thomas Green Clemson primarily as a Renaissance man, agricultural scientist and visionary philanthropist, but largely ignored his roles as slaveholder, Confederate Army officer and participant in a sharecropping system that exploited former slaves and its ties to other Confederate veterans and organizations.

LANGUAGES – Eric Touya and Col. Lance Young led a group of Clemson students to Paris and Normandy in France during the summer. The aim of the course was to revisit the journey of the American soldiers during World War II from a French perspective. Through this journey, the students analyzed and reflected on the meaning and purpose of the GIs’ actions and experiences, and the current place and role of France and the United States in the world.

ENGLISH – Jillian Weise was interviewed and her research was cited in an article on gun ownership, “She Shoots,” which appeared in the July/August issue of Playboy magazine. Author Julia Cooke spoke to Weise because she was familiar with her scholarship on disabled women and gun ownership, after reading her work in the literary review Tin House.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Benjamin White published “Justin Between Paul and the Heretics: The Salvation of Christian Judaizers in ‘Dialogue With Trypho 47’” in the Journal of Early Christian Studies 26 (2018): pp. 163-89.

ART – Valerie Zimany’s work “Peonies” was selected for the UNICUM Triennial IV, running May 18-Sept. 30 at the National Museum of Slovenia in Ljubljana. An international jury selected 77 works from more than 300 artists around the world for the prestigious exhibition, which displayed the latest trends in contemporary art ceramics. Her silkscreen print “The Tinker” was selected for “The New South III” exhibition, held June 22-July 27 at Kai Lin Art in Atlanta. From more than 1,000 submitted works, 60 artists were chosen. Current MFA students Andrea Garland and Annamarie Williams were also selected. From July 3-15, 2018, Zimany was a fellow at Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences in Rabun Gap, Georgia, and she gave an artist talk July 14 on “Digital Translations: From Hand to Code.” Hambidge awarded 50 summer artist residencies in 2018, from a pool of 285 applications.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Richard Amesbury gave a lecture on “Populist Religion as a Secular Phenomenon” May 25 at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

ENGLISH – Katalin Beck presented “How ESP Pedagogy in Virtual Online Collaboration Contributes to the Authenticity of the Learning Process – A Case Study” May 12 at the International GlobELT Conference in Belgrade, Serbia. The GlobELT conference explores the teaching and learning of English as an additional language. She discussed how participants of international collaborative writing projects benefit from understanding and anticipating the influence of cross-cultural variables and the resulting rhetorical considerations.

ENGLISH – David Blakesley was named to the inaugural class receiving the University Research, Scholarship and Artistic Achievement Award (URSAAA) at Clemson University. President James P. Clements announced the awards May 9 at the 2018 Research Symposium.

ENGLISH – Maria Bose published “Immaterial Thoughts: Brand Value, Environmental Sustainability, and WALL-E” in the Summer 2018 issue of Criticism (59.2). Bose received a $4,000 Global Learning Seed Grant from the Office of Global Engagement to develop five interrelated courses in “Global Security Studies,” a curricular initiative designed to encourage students to engage with existing academic and policy debates surrounding “security” in its current political, economic, technological and cultural formations. In addition, Bose presented the talk “Postracial Formation in Recent U.S. Fiction” at the annual Society for Novel Studies conference at Cornell University.

HISTORY – On May 4, Vernon Burton spoke on the “Origins of the 14^th Amendment” and participated in a roundtable at the U.S. Capitol Historical Society Reconstruction Symposium in Washington: “Reconstructing the Constitution, Remaking Citizenship, and Reconsidering a Presidential Succession.” His lecture was broadcast June 2 on C-SPAN 3. Burton’s “In Memoriam: Charles Joyner, 1935-2016, Historian of the U.S. South” appeared in the American Historical Association magazine Perspectives on History (56:5, May 2018, p. 35). On May 8, he presented a lecture on Southern identity, “The South as Other, The Southerner as Stranger” for the Clemson Osher Lifetime Learning Institute in Patrick Square. Burton was named to the URSAAA inaugural class at Clemson.

ENGLISH – The Advanced Writing Committee’s project “Advanced Writing for Global Perspectives” received a $4,000 Global Learning Seed Grant from the Office of Global Engagement. The grant will allow Cameron Bushnell, principal investigator, and Katalin Beck, Christopher Benson and Mike Pulley, co-principal investigators, to develop innovative learning modules with a focus on global competency outcomes. These Canvas modules will be pilot tested and offered for implementation in business, technical and science writing classes in the fall semester. The goal of this project is to infuse global competencies in advanced writing courses, helping students prepare for global citizenship by applying the acquired knowledge, skills and behaviors in their lives and careers.

ENGLISH – Professor Emeritus Wayne Chapman was invited to lecture at the “Historicizing Modernism / Modernist Archives” conference May 17-19 at the University of York, England. His book “W.B. Yeats’s Robartes-Aherne Writings: Featuring the Making of His ‘’Stories of Michael Robartes and His Friends’” (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018) is considered a flagship volume of the Modernist Archives Series, the conference subject. Chapman presented the lecture “Yeats Now and in the Next Generation: The Legacy of the Archives.” He also participated in the concluding roundtable discussion on “The Future of Archival Studies in Modernism.”

CITY PLANNING AND REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT – John Gaber has been appointed to the selection committee for the Associate of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Rising Scholar Award. The annual award recognizes early-career scholars with the potential for a meritorious impact in the planning field.

HISTORY – Astrid Joehnk, a producer for ARD German Radio, interviewed H. Roger Grant about the Illinois Central Railroad’s City of New Orleans passenger train and rail passenger service in the United States.

ENGLISH – Cynthia Haynes received The Thomas Green Clemson Award for Excellence (faculty), the English Department Holman Research Award and was inducted into the URSAAA inaugural class at Clemson University. She received The Rhetoric Society of America 2017 Annual Book Award, which was presented May 31 at the society’s 50th anniversary conference. In addition, Haynes had the book chapter “Fort Worth by Day, Cowtown by Night, It’s All West of Adios” published in the edited collection “Inventing Place: Writing Lone Star Rhetorics” (Southern Illinois University Press 2018).

ENGLISH – At the Rhetoric Society of America conference May 30-June 3 in Minneapolis, Steve Katz served as a featured speaker on the roundtable “Rhetorical Temporalities,” along with Diane Davis, Michelle Ballif and Thomas Rickert. Katz discussed “Rhetorical Poiesis and Temporality.” Katz organized, chaired and presented on the panel “Re-Inventing ‘Disclosure:’ Confessional, Spiritual, Mystical, and Ethical-Artificial Experience as a Personal Basis of Rhetorical Scholarship.” He also presented “Can a Sophist Believe in G/d?: Psychagogic and Magical Experiences in Writing on Mysticism and Language.” Finally, Katz was a panelist for the business meeting of Klal Rhetorica, a national association of scholars from rhetoric and Jewish Studies.

ARCHITECTURE – Dave Lee authored “Design Instrumentation in an Immersive Virtual Environment,” which was presented at the 34th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student at the University of Cincinnati, and “Implementation of Synchronous Collaborative Design in Immersive Virtual Environments,” presented at the Fifth International Conference on Architecture and Built Environment in Venice, Italy. Lee received a 2018-20 Creativity Professorship from the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities. The designation recognizes faculty members engaged in exemplary teaching and/or research activities. Two students in Lee’s architecture design studio received awards in an international student design competition, the Lyceum Fellowship. William ‘Wilson’ Marshall received a citation award and Cody Blevins received a merit award.

ARCHITECTURE – Amalia Leifeste was selected to participate in the Jewish National Fund’s 2018 Summer Faculty Fellowship Program in Israel. She is one of 23 professors from universities and colleges across the United States who will travel throughout the country May 26-June 7, meeting Israeli professors with similar research interests. The program’s goal is to develop collaborations, initiate research projects and establish exchange programs between faculty and students.

LANGUAGES – Tiffany Creegan Miller presented at the annual congress hosted by the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) May 23-26 in Barcelona, Spain. Her presentation “‘Xib’e pa El Norte’: Ethnographic Encounters With Kaqchikel Maya Transnational Migration From Lake Atitlán, Guatemala” was part of a seminar on the theoretical and methodological challenges in studying migrations.

LANGUAGES – Salvador A. Oropesa read the paper “Fantasías Neoliberales en la Serie Procedimental de Eva Sáenz de Urturi” at the XIV Congreso de Novela y Cine Negro: Clásicos y Contemporaneos at the Universidad de Salamanca, Spain. His article “Mitología y terrorismo en la Trilogía del Baztán de Dolores Redondo” appeared in the collection “Clásicos y Contemporáneos en el Género Negro,” edited by Álex Martín Escribà and Javier Sánchez Zapatero (Santiago de Compostela: Andavira, 2018, pp.121-27).

LANGUAGES – Kelly Peebles published “Renée de France’s and Clément Marot’s Voyages: Political Exile to Spiritual Liberation” in a special issue of the journal Women in French, “Les femmes et le voyage (Women and Traveling),” edited by Catherine R. Montfort and Christine McCall Probes.

PERFORMING ARTS – Shannon Robert designed scenery for Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” at the Serenbe Playhouse near Atlanta, which received rave reviews from Playbill.com and Broadway World. She is designing Lauren Gunderson’s new play, “The Taming,” for Synchronicity Theatre in Atlanta, “Newsies” for Aurora Theatre and The Lyric Theatre in Atlanta, “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” for the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, and Lorca’s “Doña Rosita” for The Tennessee Williams Festival in Provincetown, Massachusetts, directed by David Kaplan for Texas Tech University Theatre. Robert will be doing devised theatre creation in Marfa, Texas with Doug Wright (“Quills,” “I Am My Own Wife”) and Rich Brown, also for Texas Tech. She is developing a devised performance project with colleagues and students that will be performed during the next academic year at an international theatre festival in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

PERFORMING ARTS – The National Alliance of Acting Teachers accepted Kerrie Seymour into its two-week physical theatre intensive in Los Angeles. She studied movement approaches and pedagogy with world-renowned instructors, including Stephen Wangh, Joanna Merlin and Alexandra Billings.

PERFORMING ARTS – Be The Match presented Mark Spede with a 2017 Leadership Award as part of its “Banding Together to Be The Match” campaign to enlist band members to join a national registry of potential bone marrow donors.

ENGLISH – Rhondda Robinson Thomas was invited to be one of four panelists for the opening session “Slavery and the University” May 5 at the “Race, Memorialization and Memory” conference hosted by the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

ENGLISH – Alex Lu interviewed Jillian Weise alongside Keah Brown and Esmé Weijun Wang in the literary journal Electric Literature. Her poem “The Responsibility of the Poet in the Voice of Ray Bradbury as Channeled by the Cyborg Jillian Weise” begins episode two of the Faber Poetry Podcast.

HISTORY – Civil War History 64 (March 2018), pp. 56-91 featured Vernon Burton in a roundtable discussion of Nate Parker’s controversial 2016 film, “The Birth of a Nation.”  Burton critiqued the filmmaker’s depiction of slavery and insurrection regarding Nat Turner’s 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia. On April 7, Burton was featured in the Great Lectures Series in New York City and spoke on “How the Civil War Still Impacts Us Today.” On April 13, Burton commented on Confederate monuments and commemoration in a session at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Sacramento, California. The session was taped by C-SPAN.

ENGLISH — Professor Emeritus Wayne Chapman has published a new book, “W. B. Yeats’s Robartes-Aherne Writings: Featuring the Making of His Stories of Michael Robartes and His Friends‘ (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018).

HISTORY – Caroline Dunn published “Serving Isabella of France: From Queen Consort to Dowager Queen” in the book “Royal and Elite Households in Medieval and Early Modern Europe,” edited by Theresa Earenfight, pp. 169-201 (Leiden: Brill, 2018).

ART – Andrea Feeser received a 2018-19 Faculty Research Development Program (Faculty Research Grant) for the project “Middle Earth: Artists Jimmie Durham and Maria Thereza Alves Investigate Ancient Mediterranean Culture and Its Legacy.” In addition, Feeser was elected to represent CAAH on the University General Education Committee.

ENGLISH – Walt Hunter published two poems in issue four of the journal Oversound. He presented a paper titled “The Location of Poetry and the Crisis of Global Capital” at the American Comparative Literature Association Conference in Los Angeles, on a panel he organized with Marijeta Bozovic called “Pointed Words: Poetry and Politics in the Global Present.”

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Elizabeth Jemison presented at the Organization of American Historians annual meeting held April 12-14 in Sacramento, California. Her presentation, “Christian Citizenship: Archives of Religion, Race and Belonging in the Post-Emancipation South,” was part of a panel titled “Telling Black Stories With White Sources” that addressed the methodological challenges of writing African American history given the preponderance of white voices in the archives.

ARCHITECTURE – Anjali Joseph, David Allison and doctoral student Rutali Joshi served as editors for the recently published booklet “Realizing Improved Patient Care Through Human-Centered Design in the Operating Room | Volume 2.” The new volume summarizes results and accomplishments from the second year of the RIPCHD.OR project and describes the design of the prototype. Projects from year two included iterative scenario-based simulations and statistical analysis of observational data. Anjali Joseph, Sara Bayramzadeh and other researchers at the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing (CHFDT) authored two new papers that were published in Applied Ergonomics in April, “Using a Systems Approach to Evaluate a Circulating Nurse’s Work Patterns and Workflow Disruptions,” and “Using an Integrative Mock-up Simulation Approach for Evidence-based Evaluation of Operating Room Design Prototypes.” Another manuscript authored by CHFDT researchers, “The Influence of Traffic, Area Location, and Other Factors on Operating Room Microbial Load,” was published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.

ENGLISH – On April 4, Steve Katz and Stephen Moysey, an associate professor of environmental engineering and earth sciences, conducted a workshop on writing scientific proposals to funding agencies. It was their fourth and last session at Clemson University for the 2017-2018 academic year. The workshops morphed from the Writing Across the Disciplines initiative that Katz started in 2014 with Lesly Temesvari, Alumni Distinguished Professor of biological science. The workshops now focus on the National Science Foundation Research Traineeship Program (NSF-NRT) doctoral program in Critical Resilient Infrastructure at Clemson University, which is funded through Sez Atamturktur’s $3 million NSF-NRT grant. Katz and Moysey serve as co-principal investigators on the grant. Critical Resilient Infrastructure is an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program, which draws doctoral students from across campus to work toward solving environmental and social problems by addressing infrastructure issues in poorer communities, such as flooding in the Lowcountry along the I-95 corridor.

LANGUAGES – Joseph Mai’s essay “Site 2: Style and Encounter in Rithy Panh’s Cinéma-Monde” appeared in the collection “Cinéma-Monde: Decentered Perspectives on Global Filmmaking in French,” edited by Michael Gott and Thibaut Schilt, (Edinburgh University Press). The essay examines how the great Cambodian documentary filmmaker Rithy Panh addresses representations of a post-Khmer Rouge refugee camp to a world cinema audience.

LANGUAGES – Tiffany Creegan Miller published an article, “Performing Transnational Maya Experiences in Florida and San Juan Chamula in Workers in the Other World by Sna Jtz’ibajom and Robert M. Laughlin” in Hispanic Studies Review 3 (2018): pp. 46-62. This article draws from Maya storytelling techniques to examine the ways that Maya activists in Chiapas, Mexico, use theatre and performance to raise awareness about the challenges that Maya migrants and their families face, both in sending communities and the United States.

HISTORY – At the conference “1968 and the Tet Offensive” April 27-28 at Texas Tech University, Edwin Moise was one of three panelists at the opening plenary session, “The Tet Offensive in Historical Persepective.” He also presented the paper “Failures to Communicate” on the panel “Tet, Public Opinion, and the Election of 1968” and served as commentator on the panel “Rethinking the Tet Offensive: Hanoi’s Long-Term Victory in South Vietnam’s Provinces.”

CITY PLANNING AND REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT – Elora Raymond presented on “Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders and the Uneven Housing Market Recovery,” focused on Los Angeles, at the American Association of Geographers annual meeting in New Orleans. At the Atlanta Studies Symposium, Ph.D. candidate Jermaine Durham presented a paper co-authored with Raymond. The paper analyzed homes owned by government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) and neighborhood instability following the foreclosure crisis. Raymond was quoted in a New York Times article “In 83 Million Eviction Records, a Sweeping and Intimate New Look at Housing in America,” which linked to her Atlanta Studies blog post “Evicted in Atlanta.”

LANGUAGES – Daniel J. Smith presented “Spanish and English Contact and the Order of Morpheme Acquisition” April 5 at the 2018 SouthEast Coastal Conference on Languages and Literatures (SECCLL) in Savannah, Georgia. While referencing a “natural order” of the acquisition of morphemes in first and second language acquisition, the presentation highlighted how two languages can influence each other and make changes in the order of acquisition. Implications were made regarding teaching English and Spanish as second languages and for children learning both languages simultaneously.

LANGUAGES – Jae Takeuchi was invited to be a panelist for a discussion “On Knowledge, Skills, and Dispositions Expected of Future Japanese Language Educators” at the 27th meeting of the Central Association of Teachers of Japanese Conference, held at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She also presented her research at the same conference, in a talk titled “‘His Japanese Makes No Sense’ – Native Speaker Bias and Depictions of L2 Japanese Competence.”

LANGUAGES – Graciela Tissera presented her research April 6 at the SouthEast Coastal Conference on Languages and Literatures, which was organized by Georgia Southern University. Her paper “‘Box 507’ (2002) by Enrique Urbizu: Crossroads of Human Spirit and Economic Systems” focused on the unforeseen outcomes of confrontations between companies investing in real estate. She also organized and chaired a session at the conference, “Individuals vs. Systems in Cinema,” to discuss the complex relationships portrayed inside and outside systems in multicultural environments and in relation to psychoanalysis, metaphysics, ethics, technology, health, business and gender. Tissera’s students, Jesse Bynum (Modern Languages-Spanish major with an English minor) and Hannah Cheeks (Psychology and Modern Languages-Spanish major) participated in the session. Bynum’s research paper “Systematic Defensive Memory and Psychological Trauma in David Carreras’ ‘Hipnos‘ (2004)” discussed dissociative identity disorders as coping mechanisms and experimental treatments for severely emotionally disturbed patients. Cheeks’ research paper “Exploring the Treacherous Systems of the Mind: Sergi Vizcaíno’s ‘Paranormal Xperience’ (2011),” centered on altered perceptions and symbols created by the unconscious mind as representations of systems influencing human behavior. The professional presentations were made possible through the Creative Inquiry program and Department of Languages travel grants.

ENGLISH – Jillian Weise presented on the panels “Hacking Norms and the Contested BodyMind” and “‘Against Death What Other Stay Than Love:’ Disabled Poets Read” at Split This Rock Poetry Festival in Washington. She also read at the University of Pittsburgh and was guest speaker for their Disability Studies Reading Group. Weise read ekphrastic poems at the Columbia Museum of Art for “Nothing to Hide: Four Writers Respond to Renée Cox and Imogen Cunningham.”

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Benjamin White has been awarded a Summer Stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The research grant will support his project “The Authorship of the Pauline Epistles: The Promise and Limitations of Computational Methods.”

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Richard Amesbury published “Political Theology between Reason and Will: Law, Decision, and the Self” in the Journal of Law, Religion and State and “Does Jurisprudence Require a Method to Be Rational?” in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Amesbury also signed a contract with Bloomsbury for an edited volume to be titled “Ethics After Wittgenstein.” He contributed to “Circumscribing the Body Politic: Circumcision, Religious Freedom and Identity in Europe,” an online symposium hosted by the Centre for Religion, Conflict and Globalisation at the University of Groningen. He spoke about his work on religion and human rights at Claremont School of Theology on March 20. In addition, Amesbury was appointed to the board of the International Journal for Philosophy of Religion.

PERFORMING ARTS – Anthony Bernarducci’s choral work titled “Crossing the Bar” was premiered by the Westminster Choir College Schola Cantorum on its spring tour to Virginia and North Carolina. The work is a setting of the Alfred Tennyson poem with the same title, which the poet wrote three years before his death. The poem employs the metaphor of a sand bar to describe the barrier between life and death.

HISTORY – Vernon Burton’s keynote address at the 2017 annual meeting of the South Carolina Historical Association, “Reconstructing South Carolina’s Reconstruction,” has been published (Columbia: Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association, 2018), pp 7-40. On March 28, a brief interview with Mandy Gaither aired on WYFF-TV in Greenville about the recent youth-led marches against gun violence and whether movements like this have historically had an impact. (The answer was yes, and Burton enjoyed placing today’s non-violent marches and protests in historical contexts.) As executive director of the College of Charleston’s Lowcountry and Atlantic World Program (CLAW), he welcomed participants to the “Freedom’s Gained and Lost: Reinterpreting Reconstruction in the Atlantic World” conference March 15-18 in Charleston, and presided over the plenary session. He also read a paper on W. E. B. DuBois’ iconic “Black Reconstruction.” As part of the conference, a historical marker was unveiled commemorating the integrated 1868 South Carolina constitutional convention site.

ENGLISH – Cameron Bushnell presented the paper “Expanding Professionalism through Meshed Linguistic Practices” on the panel “Center & Periphery: The Politics of Language Practices” at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in Kansas City, Missouri, March 14-17.

ENGLISH – Professor Emeritus Wayne Chapman has published a new edition of “An Annotated Guide to the Writings and Papers of Leonard Woolf” (Clemson University Press, February 2018). With his wife, Janet M. Manson, Chapman reset this Third Edition (revised) for its first printing. Manson taught in English and History at Clemson and elsewhere. He is the new Associate Editor-in-Chief of The Timberline Review, the literary magazine of Willamette Writers (Oregon and Washington).

LANGUAGES – Pauline de Tholozany gave the keynote address at “Equinoxes,” the French Studies Graduate Conference on March 17 at Brown University. Her paper was titled “‘Sophie, avec impatience’: of Impatient Children, Broken Stuff, and Irritated Adults in 19th-Century France.” She also presented a paper at the Southeastern Women’s Studies Association, along with two Clemson Students, Surabhi Poola and Kaitlin Samuels. Their panel was titled “Of Plots, Readers, and Change: Norms and Transgressions in 19th-Century French Literature.”

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – The Clemson Ethics Bowl Team of Andy Ackerman, Caleb Hylkema, ChiChi Drayton-Smith, Kathleen Dudgeon and Ryan Sweeney competed at the prestigious Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl Nationals in Chicago. The team was led by coaches Adam Gies, Stephen Satris, Kelly Smith and Charlie Starkey, all of whom are faculty in the Department of Philosophy and Religion. The students debated a range of challenging ethical and policy issues, including the opioid epidemic and the proper role of sports at colleges. The Clemson team put in a strong performance, going 2-2 over four rounds and distinguishing themselves with their thoughtful, well-researched, and organized presentations.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Steven Grosby’s article “Nationality and Religion” appeared in the journal Nations and Nationalism 24/2 (2018): 1-13. In addition, his chapter “Philip Rieff as Cultural Critic” appeared in a volume edited by Jonathan Imber, “Philip Rieff as Social Theorist” (Bath: Anthem, March 2018), pp. 41-63.

LANGUAGES – Daniel Holcombe was appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Research in Gender Studies, a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal that aims to publish critical and theoretical constructive contributions across the spectrum of humanities.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Elizabeth Jemison published the chapter “Gendering the History of Race and Religion” in the “Oxford Handbook of Race and Religion in American History,” edited by Paul Harvey and Kathryn Gin Lum, which was released this month by Oxford University Press.

ENGLISH – Steve Katz presented at the first plenary session of the annual conference of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing March 14 in Kansas City, Kansas. While in the city, he also participated on the roundtable, “Rhetoricking toward Transnational and Transformative Writing Pedagogies” at the Conference of College Composition and Communication Convention on March 15. The title of his presentation was “Ethics of Teaching Reading and Writing in Judaism: What Might We Learn?” Katz and Stephen Moysey, an associate professor of environmental engineering and earth sciences at Clemson, conducted two workshops at the Watt Family Innovation Center for doctoral students, one on writing the proposal for National Science Foundation grants and the other on writing a project summary.

HISTORY – Thomas Kuehn presented the paper “Lorenzo de’ Medici and Inheritance Law in Florence” March 9 at the 21st Biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies in Sarasota, Florida. Kuehn also delivered “Estate Inventories as Legal Instruments of Credit in Renaissance Italy” March 23 at the Renaissance Society of America annual meeting in New Orleans. His article “Bartolus as a Petrarchan Legist? Defining Family in Law” appeared in a special issue of the journal Studi Petrarcheschi.

PERFORMING ARTS – Eric Lapin has been accepted to the South Carolina Humanities Speakers Bureau: Humanities Out Loud project. Through the program, organizations can apply for grants that allow them to schedule Lapin to speak on topics of jazz history; classical music history; music and politics; and arts entrepreneurship.

ENGLISH – Michael LeMahieu participated in a roundtable discussion at Yale University hosted by the Gilder Lehrman Center following a performance of Suzan-Lori Parks’ play “Father Comes Home From the Wars, Parts I, II & III.” LeMahieu also delivered a paper, “Harper Lee’s Swept Yards,” at the Society for the Study of Southern Literature conference hosted by University of Texas at Austin. While at UT-Austin, LeMahieu conducted archival research at the Harry Ransom Center, which awarded him the Frederic D. Weinstein Memorial Fellowship for 2018.

ENGLISH – Dominic Mastroianni presented a paper on Thoreau, “Hearing With the Side of the Ear,” at the Biennial Conference of C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, hosted by the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, March 22-25.

LANGUAGES – Tiffany Creegan Miller presented at the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) in Los Angeles March 27-29. Her presentation “Orality and Translation in Print and Digital Recordings of Humberto Ak’abal’s Sound Poetry” was part of a seminar on topographies of sound and music in Spanish and Latin American literature and film. While in California, Miller was also invited to discuss her work with Kaqchikel Maya communities in Guatemala on the Maya radio program “Contacto Ancestral,” which airs in Los Angeles on the community radio station KPFK.

LANGUAGES – Arelis Moore de Peralta just returned from a spring break trip to the Dominican Republic, along with her Creative Inquiry and “Tigers Building Healthier Communities Abroad (TBHCA)” students. Moore and six students conducted research in an effort to develop sustainable, collaborative interventions to improve health and well-being in a low-resource community. This was the third TBHCA trip to the Dominican community of Las Malvinas II. This time, Moore and her group collaborated with a colleague from Boston University’s School of Social Work and their local partner university, Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE). Together they conducted two focus groups and a “photovoice” project with the youth of Las Malvinas II to identify effective ways to engage them in local health improvement efforts.

ARCHITECTURE – Hala Nassar and Robert Hewitt represented Clemson University as the American team of urban designers at the International Collaborative Urban Design Studio Meeting March 16-24 in Cairo. Along with teams from Huazhong Agricultural University in China and Ain Shams University in Egypt, they traveled to the Red Sea Governate, Egypt, to begin field research on urban design proposals for the city of Hurghada. Upon completion of their field studies, the teams met with the Governor of the Red Sea to discuss his plans for the city and the presentation of final project proposals to the Prime Minister of Egypt. As part of the international collaboration, Nassar and Hewitt attended a reception at El-Zafaran Palace in Cairo, where they conferred with the President of Ain Shams University. The trip culminated with a final presentation of teams’ field study analysis on March 24 to dignitaries from Ain Shams University and Professor Gao Chi, Vice President of Huazhong University.

ENGLISH – R. Barton Palmer edited a special issue on Langston Hughes in South Atlantic Review 83 No. 1, with guest editor Tara Green. He also edited The Tennessee Williams Annual Review 17, which includes Palmer’s annotated edition of Williams’ previously unpublished “Provisional Film Treatment of ‘A Gentleman Caller,’” pp. 5-36, the first known draft of the play that would later be produced as “The Glass Menagerie.” The Review also includes Palmer’s article “‘Period of Adjustment’ in Context: Tennessee Williams and Noël Coward,” 147-166.

ENGLISH – Elizabeth Rivlin presented a paper in a seminar, “Shakespeare and the Modern Novel,” at the Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting March 29-31 in Los Angeles. Her paper is titled “Anne Tyler’s Middlebrow Shakespeare and the Hogarth Shakespeare Project.”

ENGLISH – Geveryl L. Robinson was selected to be one of the contributors to the nationally distributed Black Panther Syllabus, curated by Brandon W. Jones and Shawn J. Moore. She was chosen from more than 150 people who submitted works to the syllabus, which was inspired by the blockbuster film of the same title.

ARCHITECTURE – Kate Schwennsen, FAIA, spoke on “Achieving an Equitable and Inclusive Profession” at the 2018 Women in Architecture Celebration in Cleveland, Ohio, on March 8 — International Women’s Day. Rick Jackson of WVIZ/WCPN Ideastream Public Television led the conversation “An Evening With Kate,” which was attended by approximately 100 people (during a blizzard). Schwennsen also appeared in a broadcasted interview the same day.

LANGUAGES – Jae Takeuchi has been awarded the Hamako Ito Chaplin Memorial Award for excellence in Japanese language teaching. The national award is given out to only one or two instructors of Japanese each year. Takeuchi also presented her research “Our Language”– an autoethnographic analysis of Japanese Dialect Use in L1/L2 Interaction” at the annual American Association of Teachers of Japanese annual conference in Washington.

LANGUAGES – On March 14, Graciela Tissera presented her research at the Congreso Internacional Interdisciplinario “La ciudad: imágenes e imaginarios,” which was organized by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain. Her paper entitled “La ciudad a través del cine: visión del individuo y los sistemas” focused on the portrayal of the cities of Caracas, Rio de Janeiro, and Barcelona in the following movies: “Secuestro Express,” by Jonathan Jakubowicz (Venezuela, 2005); “Cidade de Deus,” by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund (Brazil, 2002); and “Biutiful,” by Alejandro González Iñárritu (Spain, 2010). The analysis explored the profile of the cities as structured systems and their influence on the individual from social, cultural, economic and philosophical perspectives.

ENGLISH – Jillian Weise’s poem “Nondisabled Demands” appeared in the Academy of American Poets digital series Poem-a-Day. The series reaches more than 350,000 readers. Her poem “I Want Your Fax” was republished in an online anthology of disability poetics. Not Dead Yet, a national disability rights group, featured Weise’s performance art, “EZ Breezy Assisted Suicide,” on their site.

ART – Daniel Bare’s solo exhibition “Fused” opened at the Jane Hartsook Gallery of Greenwich House Pottery in New York City on Feb. 23 and will close with an artist talk March 23. A critique on the wastefulness of American consumerism, Bare’s reglazed and fired sculptures are formed with unwanted pottery from thrift stores, landfills and abandoned kilns. The gallery described his assembled works as appearing on the brink of collapse, while highlighting the uniformity of mass-produced goods: “Bare stacks similar items together, making it seem as though they are replicating of their own accord.”

ENGLISH – David Blakesley received an Award for Excellence from the Clemson University Board of Trustees Feb. 8 at a ceremony in the Brooks Center. The award followed his recognition as a Rhetoric Society of America Fellow and as recipient of the organization’s 2016 George E. Yoos Distinguished Service Award.

HISTORY – Vernon Burton delivered the Ragsdale Lecture Feb. 27 at Young Harris College in honor of Black History Month. “From Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, and Second Inaugural to the March on Washington” was his topic for the lecture, which supports the academic study of politics, government, and the community at the Georgia college. In addition, Burton is partnering with the University of Illinois as lead social scientist on the grant “To Improve Patient Outcomes by Listening to Their Social Media Communications,” funded by the Homecare Education Advocacy Resources & Support Team. He also received a South Carolina Humanities Council major grant to host a conference Nov. 28-Dec.1, 2018 at Clemson on “Lincoln’s Unfinished Work” and to conduct a workshop about teaching race in the South Carolina public schools. Burton, one of 27 presidential historians or doctors interviewed, was quoted in the Health Media article “Ranking the Health of U.S. Presidents: From Best to Worst.”

PERFORMING ARTS – Paul Buyer presented the clinic “Percussion From the Podium” at the South Carolina Music Educators Association conference in Columbia, South Carolina, in collaboration with Christopher Davis, a North Greenville University percussion professor, and Jesse Willis, a Coastal Carolina percussion professor. The clinic was a hands-on lab that gave band directors the opportunity to perform on percussion instruments and learn the correct techniques, mindsets, and listening skills necessary for their students to succeed.

HISTORY – Elizabeth Carney, professor emerita, gave the keynote address at a conference on Plutarch and Gender Feb. 23, which was sponsored by the Classics Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her paper was titled “Women and Masculinity in the ‘Life of Alexander.’”

CONSTRUCTION SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT – Shima Clarke coached the Clemson University team at the 2018 Associated Schools of Construction’s National Integrated Project Student Competition in Sparks, Nevada Feb. 8-9. It was the first time a Clemson team competed in the contest, and the group of three undergraduate and three graduate students from the department won second place. Stanford University placed first and the University of California-Berkeley placed third.

LANGUAGES – William “Bo” Clements received the Florida American Sign Language Teachers Association Distinguished Service Award at the group’s Professional Development Conference Feb. 16-18 in Tampa, Florida. The award recognized his service to the association and to the field of teaching American Sign Language. Until February, Clements had been the association’s president for three years and he had earlier served two years as secretary.

HISTORY – H. Roger Grant published the article “Railroads, Motor Carriers and Superhighways” in the Spring 2018 issue of Classic Trains magazine.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Steven Grosby’s review essay “Selden, A Legal and Philosophical Giant” was published by Law and Liberty: http://www.libertylawsite.org/book-review/selden-a-legal-and-philosophical-giant/

ENGLISH – Steve Katz was invited to be a main speaker on the first plenary panel of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Conference March 14 in Kansas City. The panel, which pairs “renowned scholars with…rising stars” for a discussion of the future of technical and professional communication, will be presented with no concurrent sessions. Katz, with Assistant Professor Lauren Cagle from the University of Kentucky, will discuss rhetoric and ethics in relationship to politics, in particular, ideology and phronesis (reasoning about ends) in human/nonhuman digital communication concerning climate change.

ARCHITECTURE – Andreea Mihalache co-chaired a panel at the College Art Association Conference Feb. 21-24 in Los Angeles. The panel was titled “Speech Balloons and Thought Bubbles: Architecture and Cartoons.”

LANGUAGES – Salvador Oropesa presented the paper “LSP Business Program: The Value of the Internship” at the IV International Symposium on Languages for Specific Purposes (ISLSP)/CIBER Business Language Conference Feb. 23 at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

ENGLISH – R. Barton Palmer recently published a chapter in “Hamlet Lives in Hollywood: John Barrymore and the Acting Tradition Onscreen.” The book was published by Edinburgh University Press and was edited by Murray Pomerance and Steven Rybin.

PERFORMING ARTS – The Clemson University Symphonic Band, under the direction of Mark Spede, performed at the South Carolina Music Educators Association Feb. 16 in Columbia, South Carolina. Assistant director of bands Timothy Hurlburt guest conducted. They gave an hourlong concert to an audience of high school students and teachers, as well as most of the college band directors in the state. Also present was Spede’s college band director from the University of Michigan, H. Robert Reynolds.

LANGUAGES – Gabriela Stoicea’s article “Moosbrugger and the Case for Responsibility in Robert Musil’s ‘Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften’” was published in a special issue of The German Quarterly that focuses on “The Politics of German Literature”: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gequ.2018.91.issue-1/issuetoc.

LANGUAGES – Eric Touya gave the lecture “Political, Transcending, and Transgressive Voices/Sounds in Véronique Tadjo’s ‘The Shadow of Imana’ and Isabelle Eberhardt’s ‘In the Shadow of Islam’: Rancière, Spivak, Lévinas” at the 2018 Women in French Conference Feb. 8-10 in Tallahassee, Florida.

ENGLISH – Lindsay Turner received a 2017 French Voices Award from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy for her translation-in-progress of the contemporary French poet Stéphane Bouquet’s multi-genre book, “Vie Commune.” Turner also published a peer-reviewed essay, “Writing/Not-Writing: Anne Boyer, Paralipsis, and Literary Work,” in the January 2018 issue of ASAP/Journal.

ART – The work of Valerie Zimany, Daniel Bare and Denise Woodward-Detrich is featured in “SC Clay > Higher Ed” Feb. 20-March 29 in the Hyman Fine Arts Center Gallery at Francis Marion University in Florence, South Carolina. The invitational exhibition features contemporary ceramic art produced by 22 individuals teaching at 14 colleges and universities around the state. The show also features Clemson Professor Emeritus Mike Vatalaro and alumni Deighton Abrams, Elizabeth Keller and Blake Smith.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Richard Amesbury participated in a policy dialogue on “The New Populism, the Old Human Rights and the Global Order” at the European University Institute School of Transnational Governance in Florence, Italy, Jan. 9-11. His co-authored piece “Online Resource for Religion and the Law” was published in Religious Studies Review. Amesbury also published two co-authored papers – “Emoji Dei: Religious Iconography in the Digital Age” and “Nothing Outside the Text? Religion and its Others in Emoji Discourse” in the Bulletin for the Study of Religion.

ENGLISH – Susanna Ashton co-edited “Approaches to Teaching the Works of Charles W. Chesnutt” with Bill Hardwig, an English professor at the University of Tennessee. The new book is part of the Approaches to Teaching World Literature series published by the Modern Language Association of America. Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) was born to free parents of color and he made a career as a journalist, stenographer, political activist and author of numerous stories, dozens of essays and a series of novels. His writings addressed issues including segregation, class, racial passing, Southern nostalgia and the Wilmington coup d’état of 1898. This collection of essays is designed to share with other teachers in ways that bring the challenging and brilliantly rewarding works of Chesnutt to their classrooms.

PERFORMING ARTS – Anthony Bernarducci’s four-movement work for choir and orchestra titled “Christmastide” was premiered in December by the Lake Forest College Department of Music in Illinois. The work consisted of three arrangements of traditional Christmas Carols and one newly composed setting of “Angels From the Realms of Glory.”

HISTORY – Vernon Burton participated in the filming of a documentary on slavery, Jim Crow, and segregation policies on Dec. 29 at the Benjamin E. Mays historical site. On Jan. 3, he participated in a documentary filming on Esau Jenkins, the Freedom Schools, and the Civil Rights Movement on Johns Island. He substituted for the mayor of Charleston to present the key to the city and to proclaim Jan. 4, Candie Carawan Day to honor the legendary civil rights activist and folk singer. He was quoted in the Mother Jones story “The Supreme Court Is About to Hear a Case That Could Unleash a New Wave of Voter Purges.” Burton was interviewed on Solomon Jones’ Philadelphia radio program “Our Voice” on Jan. 10 about voter restriction laws. He gave the Martin Luther King Jr. speech and initial lecture for former Charleston Mayor Joe P. Riley’s International African American Museum (IAAM) lecture series Jan. 16 at The Citadel. Burton was quoted In the Texas Tribune on the Texas in-person voter identification law and Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s role. He also presented a paper on the 14^th Amendment at the Louisiana State University Law School symposium Jan. 27.

HISTORY – Elizabeth Carney presented the papers “An Exceptional Argead Couple: Philip II and Olympias” at the Conference on Exceptional Couples, University of Lausanne, Switzerland and “The End of the Argead Dynasty: Causes and Commemoration” at the Eighth International Macedonian Conference in Thessaloniki, Greece. She published “Argead Marriage Alliances” in “The History of the Argeads: New Perspectives,” edited by Sabine Müller, Tim Howe and Robert Rollinger (Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, Germany, 2017, 139-150). Carney became Professor Emerita in January.

LANGUAGES – Stephen Fitzmaurice published “Best Practices for Educational Interpreters in South Carolina,” a technical assistance resource for the South Carolina Department of Education Office of Special Education Services. He was also featured in the Member Spotlight of the national Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf.

ENGLISH – Lucian Ghita’s essay “Bannon and the Shakespearean Revenge Playbook” was published on the Los Angeles Review of Books blog on Jan. 7. His preface to the Romanian translation of William Shakespeare’s “Henry VIII,” titled “Spectacles of Power and Theatrical Disenchantment in ‘Henry VIII,’” appeared in Vol. 12 of the New Romanian Shakespeare Series, edited by George Volceanov (Bucharest: Editura Tracus Arte, 2017).

PERFORMING ARTS – Lillian “Mickey” Harder, artistic liaison of the Brooks Center, selected artists to appear at the Association of Performing Arts Professionals Young Performers Career Advancement Program (YPCA) concert Jan. 15 at Carnegie Hall in New York City. In addition to being a judge, she served on the classical connections committee, was a panelist and mentored pianist Fei-Fei Dong.

LANGUAGES – Daniel Holcombe published the essay “Salvador Dali’s Everyman: Renaissance and Baroque Classicism in ‘Don Quixote and the Windmills (1946)’” in Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America. Here he traced Dali’s classical trajectory through art historical analyses of the third watercolor illustration from the artist’s first illustrated edition of “Don Quixote.” He also published “Salvador Dalí’s “Don Quixote: High Art or Kitsch?” in Laberinto Journal. He was recently named an editor of this online peer-reviewed journal published by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. His article in Laberinto defines Dalí’s role as an illustrator of the 1946 text. It also reveals how Dalí achieved what critics have deemed impossible: the rendering of both fantasy and reality in the same pictorial composition. Holcombe presented related research at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association conference in Atlanta.

ENGLISH – Tharon Howard contributed the chapter “The Viability of Online Communities and Virtual Teams for Enterprise Clients” to the first edition of “The Wiley Handbook of Human Computer Interaction Set,” edited by Kent Norman and Jurek Kirakowski. The two-volume collection is the definitive source on current research and theories in the field of Human Computer Interaction.

ENGLISH – Steve Katz published “Foreword” [Autopoeisis: The Evolution of Robots as Poems], written in both poetry and prose, in Androids, Cyborgs, and Robots in Contemporary Culture and Society, edited by Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design graduate Steven J. Thompson (IGI Global, 2018), xii-xxi. Katz also reviewed an experimental scholarly essay written as an electronic short story for the new rhetorical journal Intraspection. On Jan. 24, he presented a science writing workshop at Clemson on “Reading and Responding to Deep Values of RFPs in Writing Proposals” for the NSF-NRT Doctoral Program in Critical Resilient Infrastructure; in collaboration with Sez Atamturktur (Civil Engineering), Steve is a co-principal investigator on Atamturktur’s multimillion dollar NSF-NRT grant that funds this multidisciplinary Ph.D. program.

HISTORY – Edwin Moïse published the article “The Tet Offensive Was Just the Beginning” in the Opinion section of the New York Times. His new book “The Myths of Tet: The Most Misunderstood Event of the Vietnam War” was published by University Press of Kansas.

ENGLISH – Angela Naimou published an interdisciplinary forum on global refugee matters in the latest issue of Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development. The forum features essays by 10 scholars across humanities, social sciences and law. More about the forum, and full access to Naimou’s “Preface” and the “Dossier on Contemporary Refugee Timespaces” is available at Humanity journal.

ARCHITECTURE – Hala Nassar co-authored the chapter “Village Talk” in the Island Press book “Design as Democracy: Techniques for Collective Creativity,” in conjunction with Clemson alumnus Paul Duggan. The book was edited by David de la Pena, Diane Jones Allen, Randolph T. Hester, Jeffrey Hou, Laura J. Lawson and Marcia J. McNally. To design places that fulfill urgent needs of the community, achieve environmental justice and inspire long-term stewardship, the authors contend that bringing community members to the table opens up the possibility of exchanging ideas meaningfully and transforming places powerfully.

ENGLISH – R. Barton Palmer published an essay on Richard Burton in “Close-Up: Great Cinematic Performances: Vol. 1: Hollywood” and an essay on Alec Guinness in Vol. 2 (Edinburgh University Press). He served as the general editor of “William Faulkner in Hollywood,” by Stefan Solomon (University of Georgia Press) and the following books from Edinburgh University Press: “Nordic Genre Film: Small Nation Film Cultures in the Global Marketplace,” by Tommy Gustafsson and Pietari Kääpä; “Short Films From a Small Nation: Danish Informational Cinema 1935-1965,” by C. Claire Thomson; “Coming-of-Age Cinema in New Zealand: Genre, Gender and Adaptation,” by Alistair Fox; and “Who’s in the Money?: The Great Depression Musicals and Hollywood’s New Deal,” by Harvey Cohen. Palmer served as co-editor on “Adaptation and Visual Culture: Images, Texts, and Their Multiple Worlds” (Palgrave) and “Machaut’s Legacy: the Judgment Poems in the Later Middle Ages and Beyond” (University of Florida Press). Palmer presented one of the plenaries at the University of Mannheim Mediavistik Seminar Dec. 14 in Munich. He also provided texts for the Orlando Consort’s performances of “Machaut: Songs From Le Voir Dit” and translations for the related CD.

PERFORMING ARTS – Kerrie Seymour performed under contract with Actors’ Equity Association in Eugene O’Neill’s classic play “A Moon for the Misbegotten” Jan. 26-Feb.10 at The Warehouse Theatre in Greenville.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Kelly Smith signed a contract with Oxford University Press for an anthology on social and conceptual Issues in astrobiology. The project is an interdisciplinary look at some complex “extra-scientific” issues surrounding the search for life on other planets: What are our moral responsibilities to extraterrestrial life? What exactly is life and how will we know when we find it? What kinds of rules should govern whether and how we attempt to communicate with alien beings?

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Charles Starkey presented “Courage in Public Debate: Process Courage, Accolade Courage, and Values” in January at the “Virtues in the Public Sphere” conference at Oriel College, University of Oxford in England. The presentation involved a collaborative research project with Clemson University faculty Cynthia Pury (psychology) and Laura Olson (political science).

LANGUAGES – Eric Touya gave the lecture “Mallarmé et Claudel: ‘Qu’est-ce que cela veut dire?’ Théorie, poétique, et les fins du monde” at the Modern Language Association of America Conference Jan. 5 in New York.