Year: 2019

ARCHITECTURE – Anjali Joseph, David Allison, doctoral students Herminia Machry and Roxana Jafari, all with the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing (CHFDT), presented work at the Healthcare Design Conference Nov. 3-5 in New Orleans. Their presentations included “Improved Patient Care Through Human Centered Design in the OR: Final Implementation and Tool Development,” “The Impact of Using an Induction Room or Operating Room on Child and Parent Anxiety” and “The Impact of Daylight and Views on Post-Myocardial Infarction Patients.”

ARCHITECTURE – David Allison was presented the American College of Healthcare Architects’ highest honor, the ACHA Lifetime Achievement Award, at a luncheon held on Nov. 3 in conjunction with the 2019 Healthcare Design Conference in New Orleans. The award recognizes Allison’s full body of work in the field and his lasting influence on the theory and practice of healthcare architecture. On Nov. 4, the Center for Health Design formally recognized Allison with its Changemaker Award, which is given to professionals who have demonstrated “an exceptional ability to make change happen in how healthcare facilities are designed and built, and whose work has had broad impact throughout the industry.”

ART – Todd Anderson’s prints and Valerie Zimany’s ceramics are featured in “ILLUMINATE,” the 11^th anniversary exhibition of the contemporary art gallery KAI LIN ART in Atlanta. MFA alumnus Dale Clifford ’89 is also included. The opening reception was Nov. 22, and the exhibition featuring 20 artists based in the Southeast runs through Jan. 10. A mixer with the artists will be held from 5-8 p.m. Dec. 12.

ENGLISH – Bree Beal published “What Are the Irreducible Basic Elements of Morality? A Critique of the Debate Over Monism and Pluralism in Moral Psychology” in Perspectives on Psychological Science, pp. 1-19.

ENGLISH – David Blakesley’s publishing company, Parlor Press, and author Elizabeth Jacobson received the New Mexico Best Book Award 2019 and Best Poetry Book 2019 at the Arizona/New Mexico Book Awards banquet on Nov. 9 for the poetry collection “Not Into the Blossoms and Not Into the Air.”

ENGLISH – Keith Lee Morris, Jillian Weise, Nic Brown and a team of Clemson faculty and students published Vol. 52.1 of The South Carolina Review (SCR) with Clemson University Press. Their aim is to reimagine the Southern literary magazine and publish the best in international fiction and poetry twice a year. The fall issue includes fiction by Dean Bakopoulos and Emily Collins, along with poetry by Maurice Manning, and Canese Jarboe. The South Carolina Review is available by single copy or through subscriptions of one, two or three years.

HISTORY – Vernon Burton chaired a session on Reconstruction at the annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association, held in Louisville. He also participated in a panel on “Computing in the Humanities and Big Data” at the University of Illinois, sponsored by the School of Library Science and the Illinois Program in Research in the Humanities. He was quoted in a Greenville News article about Fletcher Perry being elected the first black mayor in Pickens County, South Carolina. As the chair of the speakers committee for Pan African Studies at Clemson, Burton introduced Paul Finkelman, president of Gratz College and distinguished legal scholar, and served as respondant to several of his six talks held Oct. 28-Nov. 1. Radio host Heather Gray in her “Justice Initiative” newsletter and blog posted a 2001 interview with Vernon Burton from “History Matters,” and serialized in six installhiments his foreword to Benjamin E. Mays’ autobiography, “Born to Rebel.”

PERFORMING ARTS – Paul Buyer received the Outstanding PAS Service Award on Nov. 15 at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention in Indianapolis. He also appeared on “Pete’s Percussion Podcast” on Nov. 1.

ENGLISH – Wayne Chapman, professor emeritus, was invited to contribute two writings to special sections of the Virginia Woolf Miscellany (VWM). The works are “Cecil Woolf (as I remember him),” part of a tribute edited by Paula Maggio, VWM 95; and “Leonard Woolf’s ‘The Village in the Jungle’ in Retrospect” in “Reading, Fast and Slow: Centennial Musings on the Early Novels,” edited by Rebecca Duncan, VWM 96 (Fall 2019).

LANGUAGES – On Nov. 2, Jody H. Cripps was a Master of the Ceremonies for a musical performance art show called “In Search of Signed Music: An Anthology of the Work of Ian Sanborn,” at FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. He also gave a presentation titled “The Rise of Aesthetics and Intersectionality in Signed Language Performance Arts: Poetry and Music in Valli’s ‘Dandelion,’” at the ARTiculating Deaf Experience Conference on Nov. 9 at Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York.

ENGLISH – Stevie Edwards’ poem “Window Shopping” was recently featured as Poem of the Week in the Missouri Review.

HISTORY – Stephanie Hassell presented a paper, “Slavery, Households, and Belonging in the Portuguese Empire in India, 16^th and 17^th Centuries,” at the annual meeting of the African Studies Association on Nov. 23 in Boston.

HISTORY – Thomas Kuehn published “What Has Moving Into the Twenty-First Century Done to the Sixteenth Century?” in the 50th anniversary issue of the Sixteenth Century Journal, pp. 24-28.

PERFORMING ARTS – Richard E. Goodstein, Eric J. Lapin and Ronald C. McCurdy (University of Southern California) published a book, “The Artist Entrepreneur: Finding Success in a New Arts Economy” (Rowman and Littlefield).

ENGLISH – Michael LeMahieu presented a paper titled “Writing After Wittgenstein” on Nov. 1 at the Boston University Symposium on Philosophy, Literature, and Aesthetics. The paper will be included in a forthcoming volume on “Wittgenstein and Literature,” published by Cambridge University Press.

COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE, ARTS AND HUMANITIES – Joseph Mai from Languages and Angela Naimou from English co-led a Creative Inquiry trip to Lumpkin, Georgia Nov. 7-9. Each member of the Creative Inquiry team met with a person detained at the Stewart Detention Center to listen to their stories. They also met with lawyer Marty Rosenbluth of Polanco Law, P.C., and the legal team of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Southeast Immigrants Freedom Initiative to learn more about challenges in representing detained clients. The team worked closely with Amilcar Valencia, director of El Refugio, a nonprofit group that advocates for people detained at Stewart and provides hospitality to their families and friends. On Nov. 21, the Creative Inquiry team presented its findings at a student-centered symposium co-sponsored by the National Scholars Program.

HISTORY – Steven G. Marks published an article, “‘Workers of the World Fight and Unite for a White South Africa’: The Rand Revolt, the Red Scare, and the Roots of Apartheid,” in a book he co-edited, “The Global Impact of Russia’s Great War and Revolution: The Wider Arc of Revolution, 2 Vols.” (Slavica Publishers). Marks is co-editor of the multivolume series, along with Choi Chatterjee, Mary Neuburger and Steven Sabol. In addition, a peer from the Department of History at Clemson, Michael Silvestri, contributed the essay “‘Those Dead Heroes Did Not Regret the Sacrifices They Made’: Responses to the Russian Revolution in Revolutionary Ireland, 1917–23.”

ENGLISH – Chelsea Murdock presented “Spirits Supporting Inquiry: Indigenous Video Games in Composition Classrooms” at the National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention on Nov. 23 in Baltimore.

PERFORMING ARTS – Lisa Sain Odom presented the workshop “Your Perfect Audition Song Cut” at the South Carolina Theatre Association’s 53rd Annual Convention on Nov. 16 at Francis Marion University. She also sang several alternative versions of children’s lullabies for a professional recording project with Hamilton Altstatt from the department’s audio engineering program.

LANGUAGES – Satomi Saito presented a paper on Japanese popular media titled “Medium Specificity: Theorizing Japan’s Media Mix” at the international symposium “Theorizing Anime: Invention of Concepts and Conditions of Their Possibility” at Waseda University, on Nov. 16 in Tokyo.

ARCHITECTURE – Thomas Schurch delivered a talk at the annual Conference on Landscape Architecture in San Diego titled “If It’s ‘Urban’ and There Is ‘Design’, Is It ‘Urban Design’?” The talk, which was prepared in his capacity as co-chair of the Urban Design Professional Practice Network of the American Society of Landscape Architects, compared urban design perspectives from architecture, urban planning and landscape architecture.

ARCHITECTURE – Four photographs by Rob Silance were chosen for exhibit by Independent Curator Kara Soper at the South East Center for Photography in Greenville. The opening reception is at 6 p.m. on Jan. 3.

HISTORY – Michael Silvestri provided commentary on a panel titled “Who Belongs? Ireland, Opposition & Soldiering” on Nov. 17 at the national meeting of the North American Conference on British Studies, Vancouver, British Columbia. He and Stephanie Barczewski serve as joint associate executive secretaries on the executive board of the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS).

ENGLISH – Rhondda Robinson Thomas participated in the roundtable “Routes and Roadblocks: Considerations of Home, Migration, and Belonging in Publicly Engaged Humanities” at the National Humanities Alliance conference Nov. 7-10 in Honolulu, which brought together four members of the 2018-19 Whiting Foundation Public Engagement Fellowship cohort. Like Thomas for her Black Clemson exhibition project, each Whiting Fellow worked with local community partners to identify relevant questions, develop new approaches to research and learning, and ultimately advance new understandings of home, migration and belonging. Their work raises questions about how to construct routes – and dismantle roadblocks – between the academy and the community.

LANGUAGES – Graciela Tissera presented her research “Imágenes del cuerpo y del alma en ‘A Esmorga’ (2014) de Ignacio Vilar” at an international conference in Warsaw, Poland: Cuerpos (in)tangibles en las culturas minorizadas de la Península Ibérica, literatura, cine y arte, organized by Instituto de Estudios Ibéricos e Iberoamericanos de la Universidad de Varsovia. The research paper analyzed the filmic adaptation of the novel “A Esmorga” (1959) by Spanish writer Eduardo Blanco Amor (Orense, 1897-Vigo, 1979). The film is set in Galicia during the post Spanish Civil War period, giving filmmaker Ignacio Vilar the opportunity to interpret the novel by Blanco Amor and to create a visual tragedy of characters trying to confront their inner demons, political repression, and ways to conciliate the crossroads of body and mind.

ENGLISH – Jillian Weise completed a six-city book tour for “Cyborg Detective,” including a residency Nov. 5-8 at The Betsy Hotel in Miami. While on the road, Weise’s alter ego, Tipsy Tullivan, interviewed disability rights activist Ace Tilton Ratcliff. Weise edited a trailer for Health Justice Commons to announce the Summer 2020 launch of the nation’s first medical abuse hotline. Reviews of “Cyborg Detective” appeared in American Literary Review, Foreword and RHINO. Anthony Madrid wrote in his review, “Here — and almost nowhere else in American poetry — we have an anarchic sharp-fanged satirist of the very first rank.”

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Ben White presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in San Diego on Nov. 24 titled “Paul’s Dirty Texts: Scribal Transmission and our Access to the Apostle’s Stylome.”

HISTORY – Rod Andrew’s biography of Andrew Pickens, “The Life and Times of General Andrew Pickens: Revolutionary War Hero, American Founder” (UNC Press, 2017), has received the 2019 Harry M. Ward Book Award. This award is given by the American Revolution Round Table of Richmond for the best book on the Revolutionary period published during the preceding two years.

PERFORMING ARTS – Anthony Bernarducci led the Clemson University Cantorei in a world premiere of his new work, “Evening Gale,” on Oct. 24. The piece is scored for choir, piano, cello and percussion. “Evening Gale” is a multi-movement piece inspired by Carl Sandburg’s “Prairie Waters by Night,” Robert Frost’s “Acquainted With the Night,” and an excerpt from Joaquin Miller’s “A Song of Creation.” He also was a guest conductor at the South Carolina American Choral Directors Association state convention. The concert took place at Charleston Southern University and premiered Bernarducci’s new work “Mother Shed No Mournful Tears,” a setting of the poem “The Young Warrior” by James Weldon Johnson.

NIERI FAMILY DEPARTMENT OF CONSTRUCTION SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT – The Fourth Annual Design and Construction Industry Symposium was held on Oct. 10 in Greenville, with opening remarks by Mike Jackson and featuring Greenville Mayor Knox White along with department professors and industry professionals. Joe Burgett, Shima Clarke and Jason Lucas served as panel moderators. The keynote address was given by Clemson Economics Professor Raymond “Skip” Sauer.

NIERI FAMILY DEPARTMENT OF CONSTRUCTION SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT – Ehsan Mousavi led a group of CSM students to a first-place finish in the Associated Schools of Construction Open Concrete Division Competition, sponsored by Baker Concrete and held from Oct. 22-24 in Peachtree City, Georgia. For the extraordinary effort, the team bought home a trophy and a $1,500 check. Mousavi’s students placed second in 2018, their first time participating in the competition’s Open Concrete Division. Another group of CSM students under the leadership of Joe Burgett brought home a $1,500 check for Best Presentation in the 2019 Commercial Division Competition, sponsored by Holder Construction. The Clemson teams were in direct competition with peer programs in construction education, including Auburn University, the University of Florida, Virginia Tech and Mississippi State.

HISTORY – Vernon Burton’s analysis of Big Data at Clemson appears in the article “Sherpas of Supercomputing: Drivers of Discovery,” by Lucy Birmingham and Mark Matthews for the American Society for Engineering Education’s Prism Magazine. (“For the historian, powerful computers are key to discerning patterns… ‘Numbers do matter.’”) The authors also mentioned Clemson’s plans to launch the nation’s first Ph.D. program in digital history in 2021. Burton’s review of Edward L. Ayers’ “The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America” appeared in The Journal of the Civil War Era, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 493-496. He presented a paper on the “Reconstruction Migrations” at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History on Oct. 4. Burton was quoted in an Oct. 17 article in the Greenwood Index Journal about how Benjamin E. Mays inspired Congressman Elijah Cummings. Burton gave the “Reflections on Furman” speech at the school’s homecoming reunion on Oct. 18. He also took part in Rhondda Robinson Thomas’ plenary roundtable about “Slavery, Its Legacies and the Built Landscapes of South Carolina’s Universities” on Oct. 25 at the College of Charleston.

PERFORMING ARTS – Paul Buyer will receive the Outstanding PAS Service Award on Nov. 15 at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention in Indianapolis.

HISTORY – Elizabeth Carney, Professor Emerita, published “Women and Masculinity in the ‘Life of Alexander’” in Illinois Classical Studies 44,1 (2019) pp. 141-55.

ART – Rachel de Cuba was invited to exhibit works as a part of the installation “Cinema Reset” at the New Orleans Film Festival. De Cuba’s video installation works were on view Oct.16-23 at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans. This programming was supported by a grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation and was curated by Rachel Lin Weaver. Works by de Cuba and artists Matthew Batty and Cristina Molina focused on new media approaches of storytelling in the southern region of the United States.

ENGLISH – Jordan Frith presented “The Bounded Norms of Virtual Reality” on Oct. 4 at the Special Interest Group on Design of Communication (SIGDOC) conference in Portland, Oregon, presented by the Association for Computing Machinery.

HISTORY – H. Roger Grant has been re-elected to the board of directors of Lexington Group Inc. at its annual meeting held in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Grant’s 35^th academic book, “Transportation and the American People,” was published by Indiana University Press. This is the third title in a social history trilogy for the IU Press, which also included “Railroads and the American People” (2012) and “Electric Interurbans and the American People” (2016).

ARCHITECTURE – Robert Hewitt was selected as a Fellow in the Council of Fellows of the American Society of Landscape Architects and appointed as an Honorary Professor at Ain Shams University in Cairo. His fellowship is among the highest honors the American Society of Landscape Architects bestows on its members, recognizing the sustained contributions of individuals to their profession and society at large. He is the first regular faculty member in the landscape architecture program at Clemson to have received this honor, and will be inducted in a formal ceremony at the society’s annual convention this month in San Diego. Hewitt participated in a panel and offered lectures and a keynote address as part of the formal ceremonies appointing him Honorary Professor of Landscape Architecture in the Faculty of Engineering at Ain Shams University. Ain Shams University is ranked globally, and is a leading University in Egypt, North Africa and the Middle East.

ARCHITECTURE – Carter L. Hudgins, Director Emeritus of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, published “Jamestown, Nevis and Urban Resilience in the Early English Caribbean” in the book “Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean: Contextualizing Sites through Colonialism, Capitalism, and Globalism,” edited by Todd M. Ahlman and Gerald F. Schroedl.

ENGLISH – Walt Hunter published an article in American Literary History called “Contemporary Poetry and Capitalism.” He presented a paper on Robert Lowell at the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers conference in Worcester, Massachusetts, and a paper on Muriel Rukeyser at the Modernist Studies Association conference in Toronto, Canada.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – The department’s recent proposal (in partnership with the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities and the Rutland Institute for Ethics) to host the journal Teaching Ethics was successful. Beginning in January, the journal of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum will be housed here at Clemson, with Stephen Satris serving as editor and Edyta Kuzian as associate editor.

ARCHITECTURE: Peter Laurence and Andreea Mihalache co-chaired the annual conference of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, held Oct. 9-12 in Greenville and co-hosted with the Clemson School of Architecture. Extremely well-attended, with more than 120 participants ranging from academics to preservationists, the conference was the second largest in the history of the organization. The keynote speaker, Sarah Williams Goldhagen, a renowned architectural critic and author, also gave a talk in the School of Architecture as part of its fall lecture series focusing on Contemporary Cities.

ARCHITECTURE – Amalia Leifeste was the chair of the conference committee and a moderator for the session “Vernacular Environment” at the National Council for Historic Preservation (NCPE) conference held in Denver. The conference brought together students and preservation educators to share current work and discuss pedagogy.

ENGLISH – The Times Literary Supplement in London reviewed Melissa Edmundson Makala’s edited collection “Women’s Weird: Strange Stories by Women, 1890-1940” (Handheld Press).

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – William Maker, Professor Emeritus, presented the paper “Capitalism and Nihilism” on Oct. 25 at the 26th Annual Vincentian Business Ethics Conference at the Dublin City University All Hallows Campus in Ireland.

LANGUAGES – Tiffany Creegan Miller was invited to give a guest lecture via videoconference on Oct. 18 to a medical Spanish class at Brown University about her work as a trilingual interpreter/translator (Kaqchikel Maya – Spanish – English) working with underserved Kaqchikel Maya patients in Guatemala.

LANGUAGES – Arelis Moore de Peralta was an invited faculty guest Oct.14-15 at West Chester University in Philadelphia. West Chester’s Department of Languages and Culture asked her to share information about our Language and International Health Program (L&IH) to inform its development of a similar B.S. program. She met with the deans of Arts and Humanities and Health Sciences to talk about Clemson’s program, and also with the faculty from the Department of Languages and Cultures. In a meeting with the director of the Center for International Programs, Moore de Peralta spoke about her experience running a study abroad program in the Dominican Republic. Her visit to West Chester also included a public panel on “Spanish in the Professions” with four professionals from other disciplines, and a presentation about her study abroad and Creative Inquiry project in the Dominican Republic, “Building Healthier Communities in a Cross-Cultural Context Through Community-Academic Partnerships.” Her presentation and panel attracted students and faculty from various departments at the university.

ENGLISH – Chelsea Murdock presented “Remaking the Center: Exhibitions, Space, Art, and Community” at the International Writing Center Association Conference on Oct. 17 in Columbus, Ohio.

PERFORMING ARTS – Lisa Sain Odom taught a master class to voice students from schools throughout South Carolina at the Fall Workshop for the South Carolina National Association of Teachers of Singing. Clemson theater and music (voice) students Seth Hilderbrand, Copeland Lewis and Kevin Arnold all advanced to the regional round of competition after singing in the association’s fall musical theater auditions.

PERFORMING ARTS – Shannon Robert started production work with Cincinnati Shakespeare for its presentation of “Merry Wives of Windsor,” directed by Brian Phillips, which runs Nov. 15-Dec. 7.

ARCHITECTURE – Thomas Schurch was one of two members credited with an important development for the American Society of Landscape Architects: the creation of an Urban Design award beginning in 2020, which will celebrate “the craft and beauty that landscape architects add to the daily lives of people and communities in dense urban places.” He serves as the society’s co-chair of the Urban Design Professional Practice Network.

ENGLISH – Michelle Smith published the chapter “In Rosie’s Shadow: World War II Recruitment Rhetoric and Women’s Work in Public Memory” in the book “Women at Work: Rhetorics of Gender and Labor,” edited by David Gold and Jessica Enoch (University of Pittsburgh Press).

ENGLISH – Rhondda Robinson Thomas facilitated a roundtable discussion, “Slavery, Its Legacies and the Built Landscapes of South Carolina’s Universities,” at the “Architectures of Slavery: Ruins and Reconstructions Symposium,” held Oct. 24-26 at the College of Charleston. Participants included Vernon Burton from Clemson and professors from the College of Charleston, Claflin University, the Citadel, Furman University and the University of South Carolina. Thomas and the roundtable participants will contribute revised papers to an essay collection edited and published by symposium organizers.

LANGUAGES – Graciela Tissera published “Los castillos y la ficción: la cinematografía del espacio laberíntico” in Diablotexto, a journal of literary criticism from the University of Valencia in Spain. The article explores the labyrinthine spaces of castles as they are portrayed in the 1966 film “Eye of the Devil,” directed by J. Lee Thompson, and the 1999 film “The Ninth Gate,” directed by Roman Polanski and based on the 1993 novel “El Club Dumas” by Arturo Pérez-Reverte. In these movies, images of castles symbolically recreate supernatural enigmas, projecting an elusive and ubiquitous presence that opens a portal to the unknown.

LANGUAGES – Eric Touya was invited to attend the 2019 French-American Business Awards Gala organized by the French-American Chamber of Commerce of the Carolinas. The B.A. in French and International Business at Clemson was nominated for an award in the category “Education and Culture.” Students in the major have recently found jobs in major international companies like L’Oréal, Chanel and Michelin. Hundreds of companies’ representatives attended the gala held Oct. 10 at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, North Carolina. Other guests included North Carolina’s Secretary of Commerce, Anthony Copeland, and the Consul General of France for the Southeastern U.S.

ENGLISH – Caitlin G. Watt published “Car vallés sui et nient mescine’: Trans Heroism and Literary Masculinity in Le Roman de Silence” in “Visions of Medieval Trans Feminism,” a special issue of Medieval Feminist Forum edited by Dorothy Kim and M. W. Bychowski.

ART – Valerie Zimany was featured in the Cluj International Ceramics Biennale held Oct. 2-15 at the Cluj-Napoca Museum of Art in Romania. The international jury included Monika Gass, former director of Keramikmuseum Westerwaldf in Germany, and members of the International Academy of Ceramics. Her artwork also was featured at Northern Clay Center in “Horror Vacui: Across the Margins,” an exhibition of works inspired by visual excess. The manner of installation was intended to exacerbate and inspire tensions in the exhibition space and featured wallpaper designed by the artists. Zimany presented an artist lecture for the opening reception on Sept. 20, and the exhibition in Minneapolis, Minnesota, ran through Nov. 3.

ARCHITECTURE – The Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing (CHFDT) team organized the “Innovations in Surgical Environments” workshop held Sept. 12-13 at the Clemson Design Center in Charleston. Anjali Joseph, David Allison, Sahar Mihandoust; doctoral students Herminia Machry, Rutali Joshi and Roxana Jafari; master’s students Lisa Hoskins and Heather Hinton, and other team members were involved in organizing the intensive two-day event. The workshop represented the culmination of a four-year multidisciplinary project, Realizing Improved Patient Care through Human-Centered Design in the Operating Room (RIPCHD.OR). About 100 advisory committee members, industry experts, designers, clinicians and healthcare administrators attended the workshop. On the second day, architects and clinicians had the opportunity to develop and test their own OR design using simulation. A video of the simulation is posted online. During the event, Anjali Joseph and the team also launched their web-based Safe OR Design tool, which was developed over the course of the RIPCHD.OR project.

ARCHITECTURE – Anjali Joseph, David Allison, and doctoral student Rutali Joshi served as editors for the recently published volume “Realizing Improved Patient Care through Human-Centered Design in the Operating Room,” which is available online. The final volume in the series serves as a complete overview and summary of findings for the RIPCHD.OR project funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, through a grant (No. P30HS0O24380).

ENGLISH – Susanna Ashton just returned from a four-day visiting scholar engagement at the College of Charleston’s English Department during which time she delivered two public lectures about her work on the lives of South Carolina authors who survived enslavement, hosted a workshop on archival grants for humanities scholars, and visited a number of classes.

ART – Artwork by Daniel Bare is included in the group exhibition “Total Collapse: Clay in the Contemporary Past,” which opened Sept. 19 and continues through Dec. 13 at the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Arts at the University of Texas at El Paso. The exhibition was curated by Andres Payan-Estrada of Craft Contemporary in Los Angeles. The show will travel to the Arizona State University Art Museum and Ceramics Research Institute in Tempe, where it will be on view from Feb. 1-June 27, 2020.

ENGLISH – David Blakesley presented “Making ‘The Wordman’ 2019” at the Rhetoric in Society 7: “Rhetoric as Equipment for Living” conference on Sept. 13 at Ghent University in Belgium. Blakesley also published “Listen for a While, Then Put in Your O(a)r” in the book “Explanation Points: Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition,” edited by Danielle Nicole DeVoss and John Gallagher (Utah State University Press). The essay offers this advice to aspiring writers: listen for a while, then put in your oar by writing what you know and care about to others who need or ought to know and care about it, too.

HISTORY –  On Sept. 8 in Orangeburg, South Carolina, Vernon Burton spoke at the Cecil Williams Museum on the occasion of the civil rights museum’s acquisition of the Briggs Family Bible (1876) and other memoranda. Harry Briggs was the lead plaintiff in Briggs v. Elliot, the first of the five cases that were combined as Brown v. Board (1954). On Sept. 9 at Clemson University, he introduced and moderated discussions with civil rights leader Cleveland Sellers and his son Bakari Sellers and screened the award-winning documentary, “While I Breathe, I Hope.” Burton was the history consultant for the documentary about Bakari Sellers’ historic candidacy as the Democratic candidate for the lieutenant governor of South Carolina. On Sept. 15, Burton spoke at the Horn’s Creek commemoration of George Washington’s Southern tour.

LANGUAGES – Jody H. Cripps is editor in chief for the Society for American Sign Language Journal (SASLJ). The biannual peer-reviewed journal provides a platform for researchers, scholars, administrators, developers, assessors, practitioners and students to impart and share knowledge that is socially conscious and sensitive toward American Sign Language as a human language. Cripps has been collaborating with Clemson University Press Director John Morgenstern in recent months. Beginning with the next issue, SASLJ will be published by Clemson University Press.

ENGLISH  – Jordan Frith edited a special issue of the journal Mobile Media & Communication, which was published in September. He also wrote the introduction with Didem Özkul of University College of London, “Mobile Media Beyond Mobile Phones,” 7 (3), pp. 293-302.

ENGLISH – Tharon Howard presented an invited plenary talk titled “Mapping the Minefield: Usability & UX Testing in the Future” on Sept. 19 at the Louisiana Tech Usability Studies Symposium in Bossier City.

ARCHITECTURE – Professor Emeritus Yuji Kishimoto was asked by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) to deliver two formal lectures and to travel with a group of 20 AIA members for “Japan’s Allure,” a special Architectural Adventures trip that extended from Sept. 9-21. In this, the second year of the travel program, the group visited seven major cities in Japan where contemporary and traditional architecture and culture were observed and experienced.

ENGLISH – Walt Hunter published the piece “Same Difference: Jacob Edmond’s Copy Poetics” in the Los Angeles Review of Books.

ARCHITECTURE – At the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Patient Safety Learning Laboratories meeting Sept. 5-6 in Rockville, Maryland, Anjali Joseph presented work related to the Realizing Improved Patient Care through Human-Centered Design in the Operating Room (RIPCHD.OR). The group met to discuss projects related to healthcare safety and quality improvement. The meeting included project presentations, panel discussions and poster sessions.

ENGLISH – Elizabeth Rivlin presented “‘To Thine Own Self Be True’: Women’s Shakespeare at Chautauqua” on Sept. 28 at the Reception Study Society Eighth Biennial Conference in Provo, Utah.

ARCHITECTURE – Robert Silance has a photograph in an exhibition titled “The Shape of Things” at the Praxis Gallery in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Another photograph is on exhibit in a show titled “Forgotten” at the Southeast Center for Photography in Greenville, South Carolina.

ENGLISH – Jillian Weise’s fourth book, “Cyborg Detective,” was published by BOA Editions. Poets & Writers featured the book for their 10 Questions series. 3:AM Magazine, an international online journal of radical literature and philosophy, published an interview with Weise.

ART – Denise Woodward-Detrich had her work “Blue Clouds” featured in the 10^th annual “Visions in Clay” exhibition from Sept. 5-27 at the LH Horton Jr Gallery in Stockton, California. The exhibition, which showcased 53 artists from across the country, was juried by Sarah Millfelt, executive director for the Northern Clay Center. Woodward-Detrich’s wall vases are a new body of work that draws inspiration from the intimate compositions of disparate elements found in nature, and suggest analogies between ecosystems found in nature and “ecosystems” of the home.

ART – Valerie Zimany is featured in “Off the Wall,” an exhibition that opened Sept. 6 at Blue Spiral 1 in Asheville, North Carolina, and runs through Nov. 9. The show brings together a collection of works by artists who create within their studios, but are informed by graffiti and street art. These artists work in a variety of media including paint, glass, metal, found objects and ceramics.

ART – Faculty members Daniel Bare, Denise Woodward-Detrich, Valerie Zimany and MFA alumni Deighton Abrams (’16) and Brent Pafford (’14) are featured in the exhibition “Interpretations in Clay,” which demonstrates the broad range of possibility within the media of clay. The exhibition featuring 15 prominent South Carolina artists opened Aug. 29 and runs through Oct. 4 at Lander University’s Monsanto Art Gallery in Greenwood.

ART – Mark Brosseau exhibited new paintings in a two-person show, “Sense of Place,” which closed with a gallery talk Aug. 24 in the Fried Family Gallery at Catamount Arts Center in Saint Johnsbury, Vermont. He also was featured in an article, “Lost in Space,” in the August issue of TOWN magazine.

HISTORY – Vernon Burton wrote the forward for the new book “Virtue of Cain: From Slave to Senator – Biography of Lawrence Cain,” by Kevin M. Cherry.

ENGLISH – Professor Emeritus Wayne Chapman published the first “library edition” of his book “The W. B. and George Yeats Library: A Short-title Catalog Undertaken at Dalkey and Dublin, Ireland, 1986-2006,” 3rd edition, revised (Clemson University Press, 2019). The fully indexed book cross-lists images of copied and inserted material at the National Library of Ireland and is enhanced by an appendix to acknowledge the growth of the Nobel Laureate’s personal library from 1904 onward.

ENGLISH – Luke Chwala presented “Teaching the Gothic: The Gothic Tradition in Global Fiction” at the 15^th International Gothic Association Conference held July 30-August 2 at Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois. The conference, titled “Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror,” marked the first time the association gathering was held in the United States.

HISTORY – H. Roger Grant delivered the monthly luncheon lecture at the Upstate History Museum in Greenville on Aug. 21, addressing the topic “The Joys of Railroad History.” Cornell University Press has published a paperback edition of his 2004 book “‘Follow the Flag:’ A History of the Wabash Railroad Company.”

ENGLISH – John Warren Steen IV reviewed Walt Hunter’s 2019 book “Forms of a World: Contemporary Poetry and the Making of Globalization” (Fordham University Press, 2019) in ASAP Journal.

LANGUAGES – During the approach and arrival of Hurricane Dorian, Jason Hurdich provided storm updates to South Carolina’s Deaf community via the state Facebook page for All Hands On, a national nonprofit organization that develops emergency management training for the community and its interpreters. His updates generated 30,000 page views.

ARCHITECTURE – Ashley Jennings participated in a two-session panel presentation, “IPAL (Integrated Path to Architectural Licensure): The Future of Education,” at the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards Licensing Advisor Summit 2019 held Aug. 2-4 in Minneapolis.

LANGUAGES – Joseph Mai presented a paper at the International Association of Genocide Studies Conference, which met this year in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to commemorate the 40^th anniversary of the fall of the Khmer Rouge. His paper examined the notion of baksbat, or “broken courage,” a Khmer language idiom related to post-traumatic stress disorder, and its representation in recent Cambodian film. He also organized and presented at a one-day symposium devoted to the work of filmmaker Rithy Panh, also in Phnom Penh. This symposium included contributors to the volume Mai is co-editing, “Everything Has a Soul: The Cinema of Rithy Panh,” which is forthcoming from Rutgers University Press. The filmmaker stopped by for a brief discussion.

ENGLISH – Dominic Mastroianni published “Transcendentalism Without Escape” in American Literary History 31 (3), pp. 575–585.

LANGUAGES – Arelis Moore de Peralta and co-authors M. Gillispie, C. Mobley and L. Gibson published “It’s All About Trust and Respect: Cultural Competence and Cultural Humility in Mobile Health Clinic Services for Underserved Minority Populations” in the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 30, pp.1103-18. Her article “Using Community-Engaged Research to Explore Social Determinants of Health in a Low-Resource Community in the Dominican Republic: A Community Health Assessment,” which was co-authored with L. Davis, K. Brown, M. Fuentes, N.S. Falconer, J. Charles, J. and M. Eichinger, is currently in press at the print journal Hispanic Health Care International. Her book chapter “Urban Health and Urbanization: Socio-Ecological Approaches to Address Social Determinants of Nutritional Health in Urban Settings,” co-authored with M. Eichinger and L. Hossfeld, is currently in press in the volume “Public Health Nutrition: Rural, Urban and Global Perspectives for Community-based Practice,” edited by M. Barth.

ENGLISH – Lee Morrissey and Rhondda Robinson Thomas recently presented their work with the Call My Name Coalition’s NEH Challenge Grant to the Public Humanities Network during the annual meeting of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, hosted by Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.

ENGLISH – Angela Naimou published “Moving Futures” in the Fall 2019 issue of American Literary History. The essay reviews four recent books in literary criticism, American studies and current issues in international migration.

ARCHITECTURE – Mary G. Padua has been invited to serve as an inaugural member of the professional advisory board for landscape architecture programs at the National University of Singapore. The university’s Department of Architecture, which is ranked as a top-10 program in the world, currently offers a Master of Landscape Architecture and is launching a four-year, professional Bachelor of Landscape Architecture degree.

LANGUAGES – Kelly Peebles published the chapter “Reincarnating the Forgotten Francis II: From Puerile Pubescent to Heroic Heartthrob” in the book “Remembering Queens and Kings of Early Modern England and France: Reputation, Reinterpretation, and Reincarnation,” edited by Estelle Paranque (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).

PERFORMING ARTS – Shannon Robert’s work on the set of “Newsies” for the Aurora Theatre and Atlanta Lyric Theatre was nominated for a Suzi Bass award in the category of best scene design for a musical. Robert just completed an industrial project redesigning the corporate office space for DHL at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. She is currently designing the production of “The Humans,” directed by Dean Emeritus Chip Egan, which will be presented in October by the Lean Ensemble Theater in Hilton Head, South Carolina. Robert also is designing two new plays that the Hollins University MFA playwrights program will take to the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Region IV: “Arachnothology,” by Kimberly Patterson (directed by Lauren Brooks Ellis) and “Moving,” by Sean McCord (directed by Todd Ristau).

HISTORY – Michael Silvestri published “A Revolutionary History of Interwar India” in the current issue of the journal South Asian History and Culture. The article is part of a roundtable on two recent books on Indian anticolonial revolutionaries titled “New Histories of Political Violence and Revolutionary Terrorism in Modern South Asia.”

LANGUAGES – Eric Touya read a paper titled “Gilets Jaunes, Macron’s Presidency, and France’s Contradictions” at the 2019 Contemporary French Civilization Conference: “Frenchness, Globalization, and Regionalism,” held Aug. 29-31 at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

ENGLISH – Jillian Weise’s essay “Common Cyborg” was profiled in a Longreads article titled “On Representations of Disability: A Reading List.” A review of “Cyborg Detective,” Weise’s fourth book, to be published in September by BOA Editions, appeared in New Pages.

ART – Anderson Wrangle spent a two-week residency at The Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences near Rabun Gap, Georgia. While there, he finished editing and sequencing work for two projects and made new photographic work.

COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE, ARTS AND HUMANITIES – Rod Andrew (History) and Eric Touya (Languages) 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 WWII from a French perspective. Through this journey, the students analyzed and reflected on the meaning and purpose of the GIs’ actions and experiences, and on the current place and role of France and the United States in the world.

ARCHITECTURE – David Allison, Byron Edwards and Deborah Wingler attended the American College of Healthcare Architects’ Educators and Summer Leadership Summit 2019, July 26-28 in Chicago. They were joined by Clemson alumni from the Architecture + Health program, Rachel Matthews and Leah Meer, who were invited as Next Generation Scholars.

PERFORMING ARTS – Becky Becker gave an invited talk and presented a workshop in July as part of “Overnight Sensations” at Mill Mountain Theatre and the Playwright’s Lab at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. In addition, Becker co-authored an article with Camille Bryant, Andrea Frazier, and Amanda Rees, “Children as Community Planners: Embodied Activities, Visual-Spatial Thinking, and a Re-imagined Community” for the journal Children’s Geographies.

HISTORY – At the Agricultural History Society Centennial anniversary annual meeting June 6-8 in Washington, Vernon Burton chaired and commented on a session titled “Organizations and Identity.” He was also recognized at a special plenary session as a former president of the society. On July 4, he was quoted in the Seneca Journal on the meaning of the Fourth of July.

HISTORY – Professor Emeritus Elizabeth Carney published “Royal Macedonian Widows: Merry and Not” in Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 59, pp. 368-96. The article ponders whether widows in the royal Macedonian monarchy were like ordinary widows – more independent than otherwise but seen as sexually threatening – or whether they were treated in a distinctive way: Did they have to marry the next king? Were they more likely to be murdered? Were they empowered or endangered by having a son too young to rule?

LANGUAGES – Bo Clements and Jason Hurdich attended Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training sessions June 10-14 in Atlanta. The sessions were presented by All Hands On, an organization dedicated to educating government officials on the importance of applying the CERT standard for emergency preparedness to the Deaf community. The ASL instructors earned 40-hour certifications and learned about CPR, mental health first aid, weather spotting, and how to stop bleeding.

HISTORY – Caroline Dunn presented “The Resilience of Medieval English Queens and their Ladies” in June at the University of Catania in Sicily, Italy. This was the eighth annual Kings and Queens conference, which this year was organized around the theme of “Resilience, Continuity, and Recovery at Royal Courts.”

HISTORY – H. Roger Grant published “‘Super-Railroads’: The Vision of John W. Barriger III,” in Classic Trains 20 (Summer 2019), pp. 46-53. He also delivered a public lecture, “The Rock Island Takes Shape: The Iowa Main Line Experience,” on June 15 at the James H. Andrews Railroad Museum in Boone, Iowa.

LANGUAGES – Jason Hurdich was an honorary guest at May River High School’s commencement ceremony June 4, when one Deaf student, Rodney Nunez, was graduating. In addition to serving as an ASL interpreter, Hurdich met with Nunez and also Eliana Adame Moreno, a Deaf student graduating from Hilton Head Island High School. The invitation came after Hurdich shared a video about both students made by the Beaufort County School District. WJCL-TV in Savannah covered the graduation surprise and the school district produced another video.

ARCHITECTURE – Anjali Joseph and the team from the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing (CHFDT) authored a paper that was published in Applied Ergonomics in July, “Using a Systems Approach to Evaluate a Circulating Nurse’s Work Patterns and Workflow Disruptions.” In addition, Joseph, Deborah Wingler and other CHFDT researchers recently kicked off the CU@HOME project. The study explores the development of a technology-based intervention that assess the home and community environment to prevent falls in the home and support aging in place. The purpose of the CU@HOME feasibility study is to clearly understand all aspects of the problem, and to explore potential data needs, data sources and technological solutions required to develop the intervention.

ENGLISH – Michael LeMahieu’s chapter “The Novel of Ideas” was published in “The Cambridge Companion to Ian McEwan” (Cambridge University Press, 2019), edited by Dominic Head.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Professor Emeritus Bill Maker delivered a paper, “The True, the Good and the Beautiful in Jane Eyre,” at the 35^th annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Division of the American Society for Aesthetics, July 12 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

LANGUAGES – In July, Tiffany Creegan Miller presented her research at several international conferences in Guatemala. At the Congreso de Estudios Mayas from July 3-6 in Guatemala City, she presented her research on pedagogical uses of Kaqchikel children’s songs in bilingual education classrooms: “Ri tijoxela’ yeb’ixan pa qach’ab’äl: Ri taq b’ix kichin ri ak’wala’ chuqa’ ri b’anob’äl kaqchikel.” Miller was one of three academics based in the United States who presented research in the indigenous language, instead of Spanish. Miller presented on onomatopoeic K’iche’ oral poetry at the Guatemala Scholars Network Conference July 11-13 in Antigua. She presented on K’iche’ poet Humberto Ak’abal’s work at the Runimaq’ij ri Wuj chi Iximulew (Feria del Libro de Guatemala), which ran July 16-19. While in Guatemala, Miller also gave an invited talk about the translation of Kaqchikel Maya literature at Oxlajuj Aj, an indigenous language field school hosted by Tulane University. The presentation “Nuevas aproximaciones a la (auto-)traducción de literaturas escritas en idiomas indígenas de Abia Yala” took place July 10 in Antigua.

HISTORY – A revised edition of Edwin Moise’s book “Tonkin Gulf and the Escalation of the Vietnam War” has been published. It includes details from intercepted North Vietnamese naval communications that had not been released at the time of the first edition.

ARCHITECTURE – Winifred Elysse Newman was appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Technology. Architecture + Design (TAD), a peer-reviewed international journal dedicated to the advancement of scholarship in the field of building technology and its translation, integration, and impact on architecture and design. Newman also was selected to be a Watt Faculty Fellow at Clemson University for 2019-20.

PERFORMING ARTS – Tony Penna published an article in the United States Institute for Theatre Technology’s Quarterly Review, “Innovative Uses of Technology for Accessible Teaching, or Improvise, Adapt, Overcome,” which highlights his experiences adapting a stage lighting course to make it accessible for learners with varying abilities.

PERFORMING ARTS – Shannon Robert exhibited her work in the Prague Quadrennial PQ 2019 from June 6-16 as one of 50 selected American professional performance designers. She participated on a panel with the Broadway Green Alliance and Quebec Green Alliance to discuss sustainable practices in American theater. Robert also was invited to be a guest presenter for the Dramatist Guild of America’s Certificate of Dramatic Writing. The guild is the premiere membership association of playwrights, librettists, composers and lyricists writing for the stage in the United States. In June and July, Robert joined the Hollins University MFA playwriting faculty to teach design (for new play development) and Company Management for their certificate in directing. Shannon designed the new devised performance for the Marfa Intensives (July 28-Aug. 9) with Texas Tech. She also designed the “Children of Eden” set for Aurora Theatre in Atlanta and did scenic touch up work for the national tour of “Rent.”

HISTORY – Michael Silvestri published the book “Policing ‘Bengali Terrorism’ in India and the World: Imperial Intelligence and Revolutionary Nationalism, 1905-1939,” which is part of Palgrave Macmillan’s “Britain and the World” series.

LANGUAGES – Eric Touya read a paper titled “Professional Career Paths in French and International Business” at the American Association of Teachers of French Conference held July 14-17 in Philadelphia. He discussed the French and International Trade bachelor’s degree offered at Clemson University, how it is organized, the study abroad experience, internship opportunities and the career paths that it offers.

ENGLISH – Jillian Weise co-edited (along with Khadijah Queen and Peter Catapano) the second installment of poetry by disabled writers for The New York Times. “We Will Not Be Exorcised” appeared on June 15.

ART – Valerie Zimany presented the paper “Hanazume – Interpreting Packed Floral Patterns Across Ceramic History” at the biannual International Ceramic Art Education and Exchange (ISCAEE) symposium June 24-July 3 at Dankook University near Seoul, South Korea. She also demonstrated her recent work in 3D printing and clay (facilitated by a CU SEED faculty research grant) as a workshop for the 200 attendees from 15 ceramic programs in nine countries. She was joined by MFA student Sara Mays. Zimany and Mays displayed artwork in the International Society for Art Education and Exchange exhibition at Dankook University’s art museum. The articles and artwork were published in the symposium’s journal and catalog. Zimany presented a lecture on “The Clemson Anagama: Wood-firing in South Carolina” at Utatsuyama Craft Workshop in Kanazawa, Japan. While there, she also gave an artist talk as a key collaborator on the project “English as a Foreign Language in Higher Education Contexts of the Ceramic Arts,” which was supported by a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Kakenhi) Grant with Mark Hammond, associate professor at Kanazawa University, as its principal investigator.

COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE, ARTS AND HUMANITIES – Dean Richard E. Goodstein recently announced faculty promotions and tenure. Robert Hewitt, a specialist in landscape architecture, achieved the rank of professor in the School of Architecture. Also in architecture, Joseph Choma, Sallie Hambright-Belue and Amalia Leifeste were named associate professors. New associate professors also include Todd Anderson (art); Joe Burgett and Jason Lucas (construction science and management); Walt Hunter (English) and Raquel Anido (languages/Spanish). The following faculty members were promoted to senior lecturers: Clarissa Mendez and George Schafer (architecture); Katalin Beck, Lucian Ghita, Andrew Mathas and Kathleen Nalley (English); and Harris King (languages/German). Congratulations to all!

HISTORY – Rod Andrew was interviewed in a USA Today special section commemorating the 75^th anniversary of D-Day. Andrew discussed how he connects today’s students to the realities of D-Day through a study-abroad trip where they stand on the same ground and research individual Clemson soldiers lost there. The publication also featured a photograph from one of his past trips.

PERFORMING ARTS – Anthony Bernarducci published two new choral works with GIA Publications titled “My Heart Be Brave” and “The Awakening.” Both compositions utilize the poetry of James Weldon Johnson. A recording for the “My Heart Be Brave” is available at the GIA website, https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/my-heart-be-brave-print-g9830.

HISTORY – Vernon Burton spoke on May 3 about “Historians in the Courtroom: Voting Rights, and the Long Reconstruction in an Age of Alternative Facts” in the Russell Senate Office Building. The occasion was the 2019 United States Capitol Historical Society Symposium titled “Reconstruction and the Long Reconstruction:  150 Years toward Freedom.” C-SPAN3 broadcast his presentation on June 2 and has posted it online: https://www.c-span.org/video/?460393-3/voting-rights-historians-courtroom. On May 13-14, Burton brought six students from the Clemson University Creative Inquiry Veterans Project to Washington where they toured the Pentagon and met with Congressional and Senate officers from South Carolina. Burton and the students were recognized at a Clemson Corps alumni gathering on May 14 at the Library of Congress, where they presented nearly 50 video interviews of U.S. service veterans, mostly from WWII, to the Library of Congress Veterans History Project. The Library of Congress is using the Clemson Creative Inquiry project, which has submitted more than 150 interviews thus far, as a model for other universities to follow.

PERFORMING ARTS – Professor Emeritus John H. Butler and the late Bruce F. Cook were honored May 17 at the dedication of a new pictorial sign at Tiger Band Plaza. Both were former directors of the band. Cook’s widow, Pat, and children Tim and Michelle were in attendance, along with Butler.

ENGLISH – Gregory Luke Chwala published “Ruins of Empire: Decolonial Queer Ecologies in Cliff’s ‘No Telephone to Heaven’” in the “Tropical Gothic” special issue of the eTropic journal, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Spring 2019). “Ruins of Empire” examines the ways in which Michelle Cliff’s 1987 novel “No Telephone to Heaven” uses postcolonial Gothic conventions to articulate a convergence of gender, race, sexuality, capitalism, colonialism, and environment.

ART – David Detrich had two artworks featured at the Con-Temporary Art Observatorium in Lavagna, Italy. The curated “Egocracy” exhibition, which ran from May 9-26, displayed work from around the world by artists who explored “the meanderings of egocentricity, of selfreferentialism and the presenteeism that permeate, rule and characterize the contemporary society… from the elitist mind, to the mass gratification in social networks.”

PERFORMING ARTS – On May 23, Performance Today on American Public Media broadcast the Brahms Clarinet Sonata No. 1 performed by clarinetist Julian Bliss and pianist Bradley Moore on Jan. 19, 2017 at the Brooks Center as part of the Utsey Chamber Music Series. On May 31, the radio program broadcast another Utsey Series performance, the Aram Khachaturian Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Piano performed Sept. 12, 2016 by clarinetist Stas Chernyshev, pianist Eliran Avni and violinist Brendan Speltz. The series was established by Lillian “Mickey” Harder and her husband, Byron, in memory of her parents.

ENGLISH – Tharon Howard was invited to give presentations about website usability, user experience, and content strategy at four universities in China. Howard spoke at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Xi’an International Studies University, Shanghai Dianji University and Southeast University in Nanjing.

LANGUAGES – Jason Hurdich was featured in a recent South Carolina Public Radio story about monthly “Signing Starbucks” nights he co-founded with fellow Clemson ASL instructor Bo Clements. The monthly social events at the shop’s Laurens Road location in Greenville have become popular with members of the Deaf community, drawing as many as 300 people.

HISTORY – Thomas Kuehn was an invited participant at an exploratory seminar titled “Speaking of Foundlings: Contexts of Care at the Ospedale degli Innocenti” from May 9-10 at Harvard’s Villa I Tatti outside Florence, Italy. His presentation was “Illegitimacy, Legitimacy, and Paternal Power of the Innocenti: Ambiguities of the Legal Status of Foundlings.” Kuehn published “Travails of the Widow in Law in Florence at the End of the Fifteenth Century: An Illustrative Case” in Sixteenth Century Journal 49, pp. 691-711.

PERFORMING ARTS – Linda Li-Bleuel performed recitals and gave lectures during May and June at Nanjing University and Xi’an University of Arts and Sciences in China.

LANGUAGES – Tiffany Creegan Miller presented at the annual Congress hosted by the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) held from May 24-27 in Boston, Massachusetts. Her presentation was titled “Kaqchikel Ajq’ij and Poet Calixta Gabriel Xiquín’s Gendered (Re-)Mappings of the Four Cardinal Points and the Sioux White Buffalo Calf Woman.”

ENGLISH – Amy Monaghan was invited to serve as one of three jurors awarding the narrative feature Grand Jury Prize at the 17th annual Independent Film Festival Boston held from April 24 to May 1.

ARCHITECTURE – Winifred Elysse Newman was invited to serve as a juror for the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) 19^th Annual Steel Design Student Competition, administered by the ACSA and sponsored by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC). Winners announced this summer.

LANGUAGES – Salvador Oropesa published “Twenty-First Century Noir: From Stieg Larsson’s Trilogy to Dolores Redondo’s and Eva García Sáenz de Urturi’s Trilogies” in the Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, 42, pp. 114-27. Oropesa also read the paper “‘Mar de Plástico’ (2015-16): Duelo de Legitimaciones Étnicas en un Western Constitucional” on May 7 at the conference XV Congreso de Novela y Cine Negro: Clásicos y Contemporáneos, Universidad de Salamanca.

LANGUAGES – Kelly Peebles was selected to participate in a pedagogy seminar, “Enseigner le Français Medical” (Teaching French for Health), sponsored by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the U.S. The seminar from May 20-24 was hosted by the France-Florida Research Institute at the University of Florida in Gainesville, and was taught by François Renaud, responsable pédagogique with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Paris Île-de-France. Only 17 faculty members were selected to participate, hailing from U.S. institutions including Clemson, Cornell, Rutgers, Baylor, and the Universities of Kentucky, Florida, Arkansas, and Arizona, among others.

LANGUAGES – Jae Takeuchi presented on her new research project at the 25^th Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum, held May 11-12 at Princeton University. The title of her presentation was “Keigo Ideologies Revisited: JFL Teachers’ Beliefs and L2 Speaker Legitimacy.”

ENGLISH – Rhondda Robinson Thomas made a presentation at The Metropolitan Museum of Art about her “Black Clemson” traveling museum exhibition project at the spring convening of incoming and outgoing Whiting Foundation fellows from May 23-24 in New York City. Thomas received a Whiting public engagement award last summer to support research conducted for her project during this past academic year.

ENGLISH – Jillian Weise co-edited (along with Khadijah Queen and Peter Catapano) a selection of poetry titled “Make No Apologies for Yourself,” which appeared May 19 in the online edition of The New York Times. Weise released a video interview of her character Tipsy Tullivan interviewing the writer Ishmael Reed. In “Ishmael Reed vs. Hamilton,” they discuss historians Michelle DuRoss, Lyra Monteiro, Nancy Isenberg and Ron Chernow. They also discuss the poets Gwendolyn Brooks, Amiri Baraka and James Baldwin.

PERFORMING ARTS – Bruce Whisler published an article on new microphone designs from Austrian Audio in the audio trade publication Tape Op.  He also served as recording technical coordinator and mastering engineer for the CD “The Thirty-Four Orchestral Etudes of Vassily Brandt” published by the International Trumpet Guild.

COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE, ARTS AND HUMANITIES – Clemson University recently recognized its new faculty emeriti, including members of the CAAH faculty: Steven Grosby, professor of religion; Steve Katz, Pearce Professor of Professional Communication; and Victor Vitanza, director of the Ph.D. program in Rhetorics, Communications, and Information Design (RCID). Carter Hudgins, director of the graduate program in Historic Preservation, and Criss Mills, a senior lecturer of architecture, also were recognized upon their retirement from the faculty. Congratulations and sincere thanks to all for their dedicated service to Clemson University.

ENGLISH – Maria Bose published three essays: “Distantly Reading Race in the Contemporary ‘Postrace’ Novel” in Textual Practice; “Virtual Flânerie: Teju Cole and the Algorithmic Logic of Racial Ascription” in C21 Literature; “Allegories of ‘Postracial’ Capitalism: Colson Whitehead and the Materials of Twenty-First-Century Black Cultural Authorship” in Critique. She also completed fellowships at Clemson with the Watt Center and Global Engagement. The latter involved master’s coursework in Global Political Economy and Security Studies via Johns Hopkins’ Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.

ART – Mark Brosseau was awarded a $21,000 grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation for the period of April 15, 2019 to April 15, 2020 to support his studio practice. The Greer Citizen published an article about his award. News about the foundation’s 2019 grants to 111 artists also was published in major arts publications such as ARTnews and Artforum.

HISTORY – On April 4 at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians (OAH) in Philadelphia, Vernon Burton chaired a session about his forthcoming book, “Reconstruction at 150: Reassessing the Revolutionary New Birth of Freedom,” co-edited with Brent Morris of the University of South Carolina. On April 6, Burton presented a paper during a panel discussion on the “250^th Anniversary of the 14^th and 15^th Amendments in Retrospect.” An interview with Burton also was recorded for the organization’s Distinguished Lectures series. On April 10, he spoke at the Supreme Court and participated in a discussion with Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor and presented her with mementoes from her visit to Clemson in 2017. On April 17, Burton presented an OAH Distinguished Lecture at Augusta University in Georgia about “Cyberinfrastructre for the Humanities: Recent Advances in Digital History,” and consulted with the history department on its new public and digital history initiative.

HISTORY – Professor Emerita Elizabeth Carney published “An Exceptional Argead Couple: Philip II and Olympias” in the book “Power Couples in Antiquity: Transversal Perspectives,” edited by Anne Bielman Sánchez (Routledge: London and New York, 2019), pp. 16-31.

ENGLISH – Lucian Ghita was invited to present a research paper titled “The Jacobethan Avant-Garde: Re/Intersections in Cultural, Literary, Theater, and Performance Studies” at the “More Soon; A Symposium Honoring Joe Roach,” held in April at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago. He was also recently awarded the English department’s Holman Teaching Prize.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Professor Emeritus Steven Grosby’s review essay “Scholarship, Truth, and Islam” of Alexander Bevilacqua’s book “The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment” (Cambridge: The Belknap Press, 2018) appeared in The Athenaeum Review 2, pp. 45-48. He retired this semester after 22 years at Clemson.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Elizabeth Jemison received the CAAH Ambassadors’ Advisor of the Year Award for her exceptional work with students.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Edyta Kuzian, a postdoctoral fellow in philosophy, conceived and organized the “Embodiment and Race Conference,” held April 11-13 at the Outdoor Lab. The conference allowed Clemson University students the chance to engage with students from other universities and some of the leading scholars in the world on these topics.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Professor and Chair Emeritus William Maker delivered a paper, “Black Bodies, Black Souls: An American Narrative,” at the recent “Embodiment and Race Conference.”

ARCHITECTURE – Andreea Mihalache’s article “The Priest, the King and the Street Vendor: Urban Allegories in Saul Steinberg’s ‘Strada Palas’ (1966)” was published in the journal Architecture and Culture, Vol. 6, No. 3. Mihalache presented the paper “On Deferred Judgment: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives” at the “Architectural Theory Now?” symposium held April 4-6 at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She also presented the paper titled “On Boredom: Architecture and Public Spaces in the 1960s” at the 72^nd Annual International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians held April 24-28 in Providence, Rhode Island.

ENGLISH – Angela Naimou delivered a public lecture at the University of Binghamton in New York as part of its speaker series on “Refugee Journeys, Lifeworlds, and Futures,” co-sponsored by the Human Rights Institute and the Department of English. She also participated in the Migrations and Mobilizations conference organized by the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where national and international scholars who have done significant work in their fields convened to discuss today’s internationalism.

ENGLISH – Kathleen Nalley coordinated and participated in a Circle of Poets event on April 16 at M. Judson Booksellers in Greenville, South Carolina, in honor of National Poetry Month. Additionally, she served as a judge of the 2019 Young Minds Dreaming Poetry Contest for high school students, presented through the SC State Library, and was chosen to serve on the Emrys Foundation Board of Directors.

PERFORMING ARTS – Shannon Robert presented with the Broadway Green Alliance on sustainable theatre practices for the United States Institute of Theatre Technology and presented a second session on her design work at the same conference. Robert, Matthew Leckenbusch, and Brad Putman from Clemson Engineering were awarded a USITT Innovation Grant for $49,700 to develop and fabricate new technology for the theater entertainment industry. Robert is currently designing scenery for “Children of Eden” for Aurora Theatre in Atlanta.

LANGUAGES – Johannes Schmidt published “‘Ich begehre keinen freien Willen’ (I desire no free will): G.E. Lessing’s Peculiar View on Human Freedom” in Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 52, No. 3 (Spring 2019), pp. 337-360. He also presented a paper titled “Herder’s Telos: Between Christian Linearity and the Simultaneousness of History” and chaired a panel on “Herder’s Temporalities” at the 2019 meeting of the American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies in Denver.

LANGUAGES – Graciela Tissera published two book chapters: “Jorge Luis Borges y David Roas: Percepciones de Múltiples Universos y Seres Soñados” in “Estéticas de lo Insólito en la Narrativa en Lengua Española,” edited by Natalia Álvarez y Ana Abello Verano (Editorial Visor), and “Paco Cabezas y Gilles Paquet-Brenner: Intersecciones de la Memoria Histórica en el Cine,” in “¿Qué es el cine?” edited by Mercedes Miguel Borrás (Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid). Tissera also attended two conferences related to her research in International Health: World Congress on International Therapies and Future Leaders in the Biotech Industry, from April 10-12 in New York City.

ENGLISH – Jillian Weise read with Ishmael Reed and Tennessee Reed at Third Man Records in Detroit for a new series. The series – The All Access Café – focuses on disabled writers and musicians. It is supported by Jack White, Marshall Mathers and the Knight Foundation. Weise also read at Syracuse University as part of the Burton Blatt Institute’s Multimedia (Dis)courses Series.

ART – Valerie Zimany’s “Hanazume (Double Eared Vessel)” is on view in “Nuance: Craftsmanship, Imagination, and Innovation” at the Peters Valley School of Craft in Layton, New Jersey. This national exhibition was juried by renowned artist and educator Sin-ying Ho, and features work representing the merger of hands and technology in contemporary craft. Selected artists use technology to expand their work, forward the craft, and demonstrate what is possible when technology is used to design and fabricate components or facets of handmade work. Most importantly, the diversity of the work exemplifies how human nuance can be augmented through innovative applications of technology. The show opened April 13 and continues through May 19 at the school’s Sally D. Francisco Gallery.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Richard Amesbury presented a paper on populism in a workshop on “Reexamining Religion and Modernities” March 16 at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Under the direction of Head Coach David Antonini, Clemson’s Ethics Bowl Team placed third in the Nationals March 2-3 in Baltimore. Antonini was assisted in coaching by Adam Gies, Stephen Satris, Kelly Smith, Charles Starkey and Dan Wueste. Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl is organized by the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE) and engages nearly 200 student teams from more than 150 U.S. institutions of higher learning.

HISTORY – Vernon Burton spoke about Reconstruction to the Edgefield Historical Society March 10 at the unveiling of a panel on African American Reconstruction leaders at the Heritage Corridor Discovery Museums. On March 21, he spoke at the Commitment to Justice Award Reception of the Center for Heirs’ Property Preservation Center in Charleston, South Carolina. On March 25, Burton hosted Will Gravely at Clemson for a talk on his book, “They Stole Him Out of Jail: Willie Earle, South Carolina’s Last Lynching.”

LANGUAGES – Jody H. Cripps conducted ethnomusicological research at two sites by observing, taking notes and doing interviews about the development of signed music in “The Black Drum,” the first ASL musical theater production. (Signed music is created in signed language, rather than interpreted from sound.) His first trip was the retreat for Black Drum’s Creative Thinking Core Team that was held March 10-12 at Banff, Canada. The core team prepares and refines the script, storyboards and production. Cripps also attended Black Drum’s Actor Focused Workshop from March 18-23 in Toronto, Canada. The goal of this workshop was to create/compose the signed music pieces and conduct training with the actors/signed musicians. A pre-production trailer of “The Black Drum” can be viewed on YouTube.

 ARCHITECTURE – Ufuk Ersoy’s model of a well-known Glass Pavilion designed by the architect Bruno Taut in 1914 and seven student projects from his last architecture studio on the subject of “Liquidity of Desires vs Solidity of Matter: Pallasians in Charleston, SC” will be featured in the “City Luminous” exhibition through May 5 in the City Gallery of Charleston.

HISTORY – Roger Grant wrote the introduction to “After Promontory: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Transcontinental Railroading,” a joint publication of the Center for Railroad Art and Photography and Indiana University Press.

ENGLISH – Tharon Howard has been named an Associate Fellow for the Society of Technical Communication (STC). This rank is conferred by the international organization with more than 14,000 members to recognize their members with “outstanding achievements in and contributions to the arts and science of technical communication, and for sustained and significant service to STC.”

ENGLISH – Walt Hunter wrote a piece about dance, memory, and time passing for Modernism/modernity Print Plus, a digital platform that is an integral part of the Modernist Studies Association journal.

ARCHITECTURE – Anjali Joseph and David Allison, along with other researchers from the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing at Clemson, received the Applied Ergonomics 2018 best paper award for their article “Using an integrative mock-up simulation approach for evidence-based evaluation of operating room design prototypes.” Joseph and other Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing researchers also presented “Designing a safer and more ergonomic operating room using simulation in a patient safety learning lab” at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2019 Health Care Symposium, held March 24-27 in Chicago.

ENGLISH – Steve Katz helped support the Graduate School’s “Margin’s Conference” by bringing Jenny Rice of the University of Kentucky to Clemson on March 8. Katz helped organize and performed/chaired two panels at the College Composition and Communication Convention (4Cs) held this year in Pittsburgh: “Laughter, Play, and Song: Integrating Orality, Aurality, and Multimodality of Performance-Rhetorics in the Composition Classroom” (March 15); and “Performing Interdisciplinarity: Writing and Teaching in STEM Collaborations” (March 16). His upcoming retirement was celebrated March 15 at Brugge on North, a restaurant within a bookstore in Pittsburgh. The event, organized by Elizabeth Pitts, an assistant professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, featured 40-60 former and current doctoral students and faculty colleagues originally from three universities where Katz taught: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, North Carolina State University and Clemson University. Katz plans to write full-time after his retirement in August, as well as continue his involvement at Clemson, including working with Ph.D. students, through the Emeritus College.

ENGLISH – Michael LeMahieu was one of four scholars invited to participate in the Second Book Project symposium hosted by the Trowbridge Initiative in American Cultures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

LANGUAGES – Tiffany Creegan Miller gave a presentation titled “Tzotzil Maya (Net)working: Digitally Archiving the Politics of Collaboration in Taller Leñateros’s Facebook Account” at the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) conference held March 27-30 in Oaxaca, Mexico. She was invited to a symposium on the Public Humanities in March at the University of Georgia. Miller also gave a guest lecture via videoconference to a medical anthropology class at Albion College in Michigan about her work with underserved Kaqchikel Maya patients in Guatemala.

ENGLISH – Amy Monaghan presented the paper “Seeing Sound: The Poor Image and the Rich Soundtrack of ‘Until the End of the World’” at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) annual convention, which was held March 13-17 in Seattle. Jamie Rogers also chaired a panel that included Eddy Troy.

ENGLISH – Dominic Mastroianni published a chapter, “Perfectionist ‘Pierre,’” in “The New Melville Studies,” edited by Cody Marrs (Cambridge University Press).

ARCHITECTURE – Winifred Elysse Newman was a keynote speaker at the International Conference on Educational and Information Technology, held March 2-4 at the University of Cambridge, Trinity College, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Her subject was “Cultures of Learning Technology.” She served as a panelist for the 107th Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Annual Meeting, “Black Box: Articulating Architecture’s Core in the Post-Digital Era,” held March 28-30 in Pittsburgh. Newman joined past colleagues from the University of Arkansas in presenting the case study “Baroque Rome as Algorithm: Coding History” as part of the “History and Precedent in the Design Process” panel. Peter Laurence, Andreea Mihalache and B.D. Wortham-Galvin also presented at the “Black Box” conference.

LANGUAGES – Salvador Oropesa published the article: “La Ética de una Estética en Antonio Muñoz Molina.” Barcarola 90-91 (Diciembre 2018-Enero 2019): pp. 141-47.

ARCHITECTURE – Mary Padua of Landscape Architecture presented her peer-reviewed work “Trees and ‘Greening’: The Lexicon of Political Freedom and Modern Nation-Building in China” at the 2019 annual conference of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) hosted by the University of California, Davis March 6-9 in Sacramento, California. The piece was excerpted from her forthcoming Routledge book, “Hybrid Modernity: Late 20^th Century Parks in China.” In addition, a co-authored work on a Chinese public infrastructure pilot program titled “Investigating China’s Sponge City and the Significance of Groundwater: A Review of the Literature” was presented by lead researcher Jueminsi Wu, a student from the Planning, Design and the Built Environment Ph.D. program at Clemson.

PERFORMING ARTS – Shannon Robert served as one of three judges for the undergraduate and graduate design awards at The United States Institute for Theatre Technology 2019 national conference in Louisville, Kentucky. She also served as co-principal investigator in securing a grant from the Association for Performing Arts and Entertainment Professionals (USITT) along with Brad Putman, from Engineering. The grant proposal is based on an idea developed by Matt Leckenbusch, who began doing informal research and planning for the project in the Clemson DEN (Design Entrepreneurial Network) last year. The USITT grant for nearly $50,000 will allow Leckenbusch to develop Plot-Bot technology with students in computing, engineering, and performing arts. Mike East, a performing arts alumnus and owner of TTS Studios in Charleston, will work with the team to provide a laboratory setting for testing.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Kelly Smith edited a special issue of the Futures journal, which brings together 15 scholars from a number of disciplines to debate the ethics of human colonies in space. In addition to the individual articles, the issue features an interactive piece where all 15 contributors discuss various positions more informally.

LANGUAGES – Jae Takeuchi presented a paper, “A ‘Girly Girl’ or a ‘Man’s Man’? Ideologies of Gendered Language and Perceptions of L2 Spoken Japanese,” at the 34th Annual Conference of the Southeast Association of Teachers of Japanese, which was held on March 2 at Wake Forest University. She also presented a paper, titled “L2 Speakers and Keigo: Problematizing What It means to be a Speaker of Japanese,” at the 2019 Annual Spring Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Japanese, held on March 21 in Denver.

ENGLISH – Jillian Weise presented, via Skype, on the panel “Writing Against Assumptions: Crafting Diverse Narrators” at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference held March 27-30.

ENGLISH – Katalin Beck and Mike Pulley showcased the Pearce Center for Professional Communication’s Global Learning Seed Grant Project on Feb. 16 at the second annual Global Learning Institute for Faculty at Clemson University. Their presentation highlighted the ways global learning modules were incorporated into the curriculum of several of the English department’s advanced writing courses during the fall 2018 semester, as well as how the pilot project was substantially expanded to include more courses and faculty this spring.

HISTORY – Vernon Burton and his wife, Georganne, spoke about their 2002 book “The Free Flag of Cuba: The Lost Novel of Lucy Holcombe Pickens” on Feb. 14 at the Edgefield Discovery Center. The occasion was the premiere of an original play, “The Loves of Lucy Pickens.” He also appeared on the PBS special “Lincoln in Illinois,” which aired on public television stations across the country in February. In local media, he discussed Gov. Lanham of Virginia and the topic cultural racism on Feb. 4 with reporter Joe Ripley on WYFF in Greenville. He also was quoted in the Greenville News on Feb. 13 for an article in a series on Civil Forfeitures, “Why Did They Lie.”

PERFORMING ARTS – Paul Buyer was named co-editorial director of Percussive Notes, the official journal of the Percussive Arts Society. He also published an article titled “America’s Mallet Maker – The Epilogue; An Interview With Mike Balter” in Rhythm! Scene.

HISTORY – Joshua Catalano published an article, “Blue Jacket, Anthony Wayne, and the Psychological and Symbolic War for Ohio, 1790-1795,” in Ohio History 126, No. 1 (2019): pp. 5-34.

ARCHITECTURE – Maria Counts has been elected as the Region 6 director of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) for a three-year term. Region 6 includes Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida and Puerto Rico. Counts’ book chapter, “Inside Out: Illustrating Site Experience Through Drawing,” was published in “Representing Landscape: Analogue,” (Taylor & Francis: 2019), edited by Nadia Amoroso.

HISTORY – Caroline Dunn organized the South Carolina Medievalists biannual meeting, which was held at Wofford College, and presented a paper, “Political Negotiations and Personal Support: Queens of England and Their Foreign Ladies-in-Waiting.”

HISTORY – H. Roger Grant published the article “Southern Pacific: The Southern Transcon” in the February 2019 edition of Trains, pp. 26-35.

HISTORY – Stephanie Hasell has received a Humanities Fellowship from the Clemson Humanities Hub for a book project, “Renegade Slaves: Religious Conversion, the Inquisition, and the Portuguese Empire in India in the 16th and 17th Centuries.”

ENGLISH – Steve Katz was invited to deliver a presentation and workshop for the GRAD 360° program at Clemson University. The title of this event held on Feb. 28 was “The Art of Communicating Science With the Public.” The workshop was intended to help graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in the sciences at Clemson University translate and/or accommodate science to both general and specific non-expert audiences.

ARCHITECTURE – Winifred Elysse Newman served as keynote speaker for the Eighth International Conference on Educational and Information Technology (ICEIT 2019) held March 2-4 at the University of Cambridge, Trinity College, in the United Kingdom. Her address was titled “Cultures of Learning Technology.”

PERFORMING ARTS – Shannon Robert and Matt Leckenbusch recently traveled with a group of students from the theater concentration within the Department of Performing Arts to present their devised production “Hello, My Name Is” at the American University of Sharjah in Dubai. Robert also designed scenery for the Salt Lake Acting Company production of “The Cake,” by Bekah Brunstetter, a writer and producer for the television series “This Is Us.” The play was staged in Salt Lake City and directed by Justin Ivie.

LANGUAGES – Johannes Schmidt edited the Herder Yearbook XIV with Rainer Godel. The yearbook, an academic journal devoted to the philosopher and literary figure Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803), is published every other year by the International Herder Society. At 320 pages, this volume was the most extensive yearbook to date. In addition to the continuation of the Herder Bibliography, it features two reviews and 11 articles by scholars from four continents.

PERFORMING ARTS – Kerrie Seymour appears in the world premiere production of “Power of Sail,” by Paul Grellong, at The Warehouse Theatre in Greenville. The production runs from March 15-31.

LANGUAGES  – On Feb. 18, Daniel J. Smith presented online to a graduate seminar class studying bilingual code-switching at Leiden University in Leiden, The Netherlands. At the invitation of the class professor, Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto, he presented his research about Spanish English contact in the state of Georgia.

PERFORMING ARTS – Mark Spede was selected by the College Band Directors National Association Athletic Band Committee to share a video presentation of the Clemson Tiger Band at the association’s Marching Band Showcase in February at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona. The Tiger Band director was joined by his assistant director, Tim Hurlburt, when they presented alongside the four other universities selected.

LANGUAGES  – Gabriela Stoicea has received a Humanities Fellowship from the Clemson Humanities Hub, as well as a 2019 CU SEED grant in support of her book project “Fictions of Legibility: The Human Face and Body in Modern German Novels From Sophie von La Roche to Alfred Döblin.”

ENGLISH – On Feb. 14, Rhondda Robinson Thomas was the featured presenter for the African American History, Culture, and Digital Humanities’ (AADHum) first intensive this semester at the University of Maryland. Her talk was titled “Life, Love, and Labor in Clemson University’s Early African American History, 1825-1972.” She is one of six scholars selected to receive individualized assistance from the staff of Maryland’s AADHum and Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, which will support the digital development of her Call My Name project during the spring 2019 semester.

LANGUAGES – Graciela Tissera presented a research paper titled “‘The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao:’ Junot Díaz y los Reflejos Lingüísticos y Literarios de Dos Culturas en Contacto” at the Congreso internacional Cruce de Fronteras Entre el Español y el Inglés: Cuestiones Actuales, Perspectivas Futuras, Aproximaciones Lingüístico-Literarias held from Feb. 5-6 at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Universiteit Gent in Belgium.

ART – Work by Daniel Bare is on display in “Drip,” a nationally juried ceramic art exhibition at the Morean Art Center for Clay in St. Petersburg, Florida. The exhibition celebrates the ceramic glaze drip and the beauty of glaze over ceramic form.

CITY PLANNING AND REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT – Robert Benedict was named the 2018 recipient of the March of Dimes Real Estate and Economic Development Award. The award was presented at the organization’s annual luncheon, which raised more than $133,000 in  support for the Greenville Hospital System’s Neonatal Care Unit. When Benedict was recognized for his leadership in Upstate South Carolina, it was noted that the Clemson MRED program and its alumni are major contributors to communities in the Carolinas and the field of real estate development. Benedict will serve as chairman and host of the 2019 March of Dimes event.

HISTORY – Vernon Burton’s essay “The Creation and Destruction of the Fourteenth Amendment During the Long Civil War” was published in the Louisiana Law Review, Vol. 79 (Fall 2018): pp. 189-239. His book review of Steven Hahn’s “A Nation Without Borders: The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars” appeared in December 2018 in H-Net Reviews in the Humanities & Social Sciences. On Dec. 1 Burton was one of the leaders of a workshop for secondary school teachers on how to teach about the History of Race Relations, as part of the “Lincoln’s Unfinished Work” conference he organized and hosted. During the four-day event with more than 40 speakers, he also spoke on the topic of “Taking History to Court.”

HISTORY – Professor Emerita Elizabeth Carney’s chapter “Royal Women as Succession Advocates” was published in the book “Ancient Macedonians in the Greek and Roman Sources,” edited by Frances Pownall and Tim Howe (Classical Press of Wales).

LANGUAGES – Jody H. Cripps served as editor-in-chief of the Society for American Sign Language Journal, which released its second volume. He presented his article from the journal “Stuttering-Like Behaviors in American Sign Language” at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association convention in Boston. Cripps published another article, “Exploring Signed Language Pathology: A Case Study of Professionals Working With Deaf Students Who Have Delay/Disorders in Signed Language Development,” in conjunction with his undergraduate student who was doing a research study at a residential school for the deaf on the topic of signed language pathology.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Steven Grosby’s chapter “The Philosophical Anthropology of Edward Shils” was published in the volume “The Calling of Social Thought: Rediscovering the work of Edward Shils,” edited by Christoper Adair-Toteff and Stephen Turner (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019), pp. 32-46.

ENGLISH – Walt Hunter published a book, “Forms of a World: Contemporary Poetry and the Making of Globalization” (Fordham University Press). A piece Hunter wrote for The Atlantic about the poem on the Statue of Liberty was awarded honorable mention for “Best American History Reads of 2018” by the editor of Bunk, a history website.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION –  Elizabeth Jemison presented a paper, “Christian Citizenship in Black and White in the Post-Emancipation South,” at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Church History, held Jan. 3-6 in Chicago.

ARCHITECTURE – Anjali Joseph, David Allison and the other researchers from the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing (CHFD+T) at Clemson worked with the clinicians from Medical University of South Carolina from Dec. 12-13 to evaluate the functionality of a high fidelity OR mock-up constructed at the Clemson Design Center in Charleston. Highly realistic simulations were conducted for pediatric and orthopedic surgeries, where surgical teams performed tasks as they would during a live surgery. Researchers evaluated the performance of the OR during these simulations to identify design and operational challenges.

ARCHITECTURE – Professor Emeritus Yuji Kishimoto is highlighted in the American Institute of Architects digital magazine as a Featured Member.

ENGLISH – Michael LeMahieu’s “The Civil War in the Age of Civil Rights” was published in “Timelines of American Literature,” edited by Cody Marrs and Christopher Hager (Johns Hopkins University Press). LeMahieu gave two talks at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, one to its English department and another to the Sweetland Center for Writing. He was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship for the 2019-20 academic year.

ENGLISH – Melissa Edmundson Makala published the edited collection “Avenging Angels: Ghost Stories by Victorian Women Writers” with Victorian Secrets Publishing, based in Brighton in the United Kingdom. Her chapter, “Buyer Beware: Haunted Objects in the Supernatural Tales of Margery Lawrence,” also appeared in “The Female Fantastic: Gendering the Supernatural in the 1890s and 1920s” (Routledge).

HISTORY – Edwin Moise published an article, “Tet in the News,” in the February 2019 issue of Vietnam magazine.

ENGLISH – Angela Naimou presented her work at the Human Rights Futures conference hosted by the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice at Sheffield Hallam University in the United Kingdom. She also presented work at the Modern Language Association (MLA) 2019 Convention held Jan. 3-6 in Chicago.

LANGUAGES – On Jan. 14, Salvador Oropesa and Lee Ferrell presented the characteristics and nuances of the Clemson Language and International Trade program to students of the MA Seminar of Culture and Identity led by Professor Wilfried Dreyer at the Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule in Regensburg, state of Bavaria in Germany.

ENGLISH – Mike Pulley had two poems – “The Fifties” and “Out of Place”– appear in the December 2018 issue (#56) of Another Chicago Magazine, a literary journal known for publishing leading experimental and politically progressive writers. An autobiographical poem, “The Fifties” focuses on Pulley’s ancestors in Laurens, South Carolina, and their involvement with the Ku Klux Klan during the civil rights era.

CITY PLANNING AND REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT – Elora Raymond published the article “Millennial First-Time Homebuyers and Location Choice” with co-authors Jessica Dill and Yongsung Lee in the Journal of Planning Education and Research. Their research also was covered in the City Lab blog. “From Foreclosure to Eviction: Housing Insecurity in Corporate-Owned Single-Family Rentals” also appeared in Cityscape 20 (3), pp. 159-188. Raymond also contributed a book review to the Journal of Planning Education and Research on “The Geopolitics of Real Estate,” edited by Dallas Rogers.

PERFORMING ARTS – Shannon Robert is currently designing scenery for Paul Grellong’s new play, “Power of Sail,” directed by Jackson Gay. The play will have its world premiere March 15 at The Warehouse Theatre in Greenville.

LANGUAGES – Kumiko Saito appeared on “Writing Dystopia Now,” a radio program in The Cultural Frontline series on BBC World Service. On the Dec. 9 broadcast, she spoke about cyberpunk and Japanese popular culture. The program is available on demand. Saito presented her paper “Mapping the History of the Future: Politics of Enlightenment in Translated Works of Science Fiction in Meiji Era Japan” on Jan. 20 at the Southeast Regional Conference of the Association for Asian Studies in Memphis, Tennessee.

PERFORMING ARTS – Kerrie Seymour spent much of January directing Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie” at The Warehouse Theatre. The production runs through Feb. 10.

PERFORMING ARTS – In his capacity as president-elect of the College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA), Mark Spede, Director of Bands, was invited to participate in “Carolina/CMS Summit 2.0,” an experiential workshop on designing relevant, thriving 21^st-century music programs. The workshop took place Jan.17-20 in Columbia, South Carolina.

ENGLISH – Rhondda Robinson Thomas was one of the presenters for “The Scholar in the World: Supporting the Public-Facing Humanities in Our Departments and Colleges,” a workshop/discussion sponsored by the MLA Office of the Executive Director at MLA 2019. The session featured Whiting Foundation Public Engagement Fellows and Seed Grantees briefly discussing their projects and then developing recommendations for evaluating and rewarding public-facing humanities scholarship with the audience.

LANGUAGES – Eric Touya published an article, “Le poète et le philosophe: Bonnefoy, Badiou, et l’avenir de la poésie,” in Revue européenne de recherches sur la poésie, No. 4. Paris: Classiques Garnier, and a book chapter titled “Teaching Hélé Béji, Post-Colonialism, and the Arab Spring: Perspectives From Baudrillard, McClintock, Giroux” in “Rethinking the French Classroom: New Approaches to Teaching Contemporary French and Francophone Women,” edited by E. Nicole Meyer and Joyce Johnston (Routledge, New York).

ENGLISH – Spencer Tricker was awarded the Melville Society’s annual Hennig Cohen Prize for the best article, book chapter, or essay in a book about Herman Melville. His essay, “‘Five Dusky Phantoms’: Gothic Form and Cosmopolitan Shipwreck in Melville’s ‘Moby-Dick,’” was published in 2017 in the journal Studies in American Fiction. The Melville Society’s award committee stated that the essay “richly complicates the continuing inquiry into Melville’s literary engagement with racialization and imperialism” and, more broadly, “recontextualizes race across the Pacific.” The award was presented on Jan. 4 at the MLA Convention.

ENGLISH– Jillian Weise presented on cyborg poetics at the MLA 2019 Convention. Granta commended Weise’s essay, “Common Cyborg,” for being one of the Top 5 Most Read Articles in the literary magazine during 2018. Granta commissioned and published an additional essay by Weise.

ART – Artwork by Valerie Zimany and Todd Anderson is featured in “Contemplative,” a small group exhibition at Kai Lin Art Gallery in Atlanta. The show runs from Jan. 11-March 1. A panel discussion by the artists is scheduled for 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9.