Month: May 2018

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.”