Year: 2020

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY – Stephanie Barczewski and Michael Silvestri began three-year terms as joint Executive Secretaries of the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS). The NACBS is a scholarly society dedicated to all aspects of the study of British civilization. The NACBS sponsors a scholarly journal, the Journal of British Studies, online publications, an annual conference, as well as several academic prizes, graduate fellowships, and undergraduate essay contests. While the largest single group of its members teach British history in colleges and universities in the United States and Canada, the NACBS has significant representation among specialists in literature, art history, politics, law, sociology, and economics. Its membership also includes many teachers at universities in countries outside North America, secondary school teachers, and independent scholars.

PERFORMIG ARTS — During Fall 2020, Becky Becker was named to Minot State University’s Academic Hall of Fame, but due to COVID-19 protocols, she will not be inducted until Fall 2021. (Read the press release here.) Becker earned a B.S.Ed. in Communication Arts with an emphasis in Theatre Arts, and a B.A. in English from MSU in 1992. In addition to this unexpected honor from her undergraduate institution, Becker recently published “Performing ‘Digital Citizenship’ in the Era of the Blind Spot” in the peer-reviewed journal, Theatre Symposium: A Publication of the Southeastern Theatre Conference.

COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE, ARTS AND HUMANITIES – James Burns’ recent article, “Comparing Historical Cinema Cultures: The Case of the British West Indies, 1900-1945,” was published in the Journal of Media History. The article can be read here.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY — Vernon Burton was interviewed by Brittany Gibson and quoted in an article on Jamie Harrison for the American Prospect which appeared Nov. 4. See the article here. On Nov. 13, Burton was part of a webinar, “Symbols of the Confederacy and White Supremacy: Removing Monuments to Hate in the Public Square.” The webinar was sponsored by the Board of Directors of the National Consortium on Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Courts.

LANGUAGES — Jody Cripps was invited to speak at a Nov. 23 virtual forum titled “International Inclusive Early Childhood Education Forum (IIECEF 2020): Building a Global Movement to Promote National Sign Languages in the Early Years,” held in Ghana, West Africa. He and his colleague, Kara McBride from World Learning, presented “Signed Language and Performing Arts: Then and Now,” and they talked about how the emergence of signed languages and their history are reflected in the performing arts within signed language communities and promoted future goals with providing signed language literacy and literary works to deaf children around the world.

ART — Rachel de Cuba recently presented via Zoom as a part of the Virginia Tech’s Virginia Dares Conference for Decolonizing Media. The presentation, “I Hope I Thank you Enough,” focused on the use of studio practices to investigate the influences of colonization within familial histories. De Cuba’s film work “A Dwelling Growth” was also an official selection of the Virginia Dares Cinematic Arts Awards and was featured during the virtual conference on Nov. 13. De Cuba has also been recently appointed to the College of Art Association’s Committee on Diversity Practices. The committee promotes artistic, curatorial, scholarly, and institutional practices that deepen appreciation of political and cultural heterogeneity as educational and professional values.

LANGUAGES – Stephen Fitzmaurice published an article, “Educational interpreters and the Dunning-Kruger effect,” in the Journal of Interpretation. This research found the least skilled educational interpreters overestimate their interpreting skills whereas better educational interpreters underestimate their abilities. These findings raise important questions about equitable educational access for Deaf students and whether educational interpreters are able to adhere to codes of professional conduct by only accepting interpreting work for which they qualified.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION — Elizabeth Jemison published her first book, “Christian Citizens: Reading the Bible in Black and White in the Postemancipation South” (University of North Carolina Press). The book received advance praise from Publishers Weekly (“A thorough exploration of how Black and white Christians drew on their faith in the aftermath of the Civil War to make radically divergent claims about an ideal political order”) and the Library Journal (“This well-researched and well-written book offers a corrective to certain of the popular myths about race relations in the pre-Civil War South, and of postemancipation relations; it also has a good deal to teach us about race relations today.”)

ARCHITECTURE — Anjali Joseph, Director of the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing (CHFDT) and the CHFDT research team published an article Nov. 5 in the British Journal of Anaesthesia: “Observational Study of Anaesthesia Workflow to Evaluate Physical Workspace Design and Layout.” Joseph also served as a co-author on a paper recently published in Paediatric Anaesthesia: “Perioperative Anxiety in Pediatric Surgery: Induction Room vs. Operating Room.” In addition, Joseph and Ellen Taylor, the latter from the Center for Health Design, are editing a special issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) titled “Improving Patient and Staff Safety through Evidence-Based Healthcare Design.” The deadline for manuscript submissions is March 31, 2021.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION — Claire Kirwin presented her paper “The First-Person Perspective for Moral Philosophers” via Zoom at a “Meet the Researcher” seminar at Cambridge University. At the same event, she also spoke to Ph.D. and master’s students about her experiences in the profession and gave advice on professional development.

HISTORIC PRESERVATION — Amalia Leifeste was honored at the Association of Preservation Technology’s award ceremony where she and her co-author Brent Fortenberry earned the Martin Weaver Award for the most outstanding article demonstrating excellence in the category of history of technology, training and education in historic preservation published in the APT Bulletin during 2020. The article is titled “Querying the Products of Two Recording Techniques: Analog and Digital” and can be found in the good company of previous winning articles here. Jon Marcoux has published a chapter in a new edited volume, “The Historical Turn in Southeastern Archaeology,” which focuses on the archaeology of Native American communities in the southeastern United States. In the chapter, Marcoux uses archaeology to document the ways Native American groups survived the chaos of the early colonial period. Marcoux and colleagues also published an article in the Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage documenting 18^th century pottery fragments found in South Carolina that bear decorations likely made by enslaved potters who learned their craft in Africa. The article can be viewed here.

LANGUAGES – Jae DiBello Takeuchi’s article “スピーチスタイルとネイティブスピーカーバイアス：在日L2話者から学べること” (“Speech Styles and Native Speaker Bias: What We Can Learn from L2 Speakers in Japan”) was published in the proceedings of the 28th Central Association of Teachers of Japanese (CATJ) Conference.

ENGLISH — Rhondda Robinson Thomas gave a talk about her recently released book “Call My Name, Clemson: Documenting the Black Experience in An American University Community” via Zoom on Nov. 30. The book is a part of the Humanities and Public Life series at the University of Iowa Press. Joining her were three of the project’s collaborators: Eric Young, a descendant of Thomas and Frances Fruster, enslaved persons who labored on the Fort Hill Plantation, and Clemson alumnus; Thomas Marshall, Clemson alumnus and Educational Policy Fellow of Color at the Intercultural Development Research Association in San Antonio; and Monica Williams-Hudgens, a community organizer, scholar of domestic violence, and the granddaughter of South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond. The conversation was facilitated by Hilary Green, Associate Professor of History in the Department of Gender and Race Studies, director of the Hallowed Grounds Project: Race, Slavery, and Memory, and co-program director of the African American Studies program at the University of Alabama. This event was hosted by the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, the University of Iowa Press, and Clemson University College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities.

LANGUAGES — Graciela Tissera presented a research paper, “From Literature to Film: The Eidetic Imagery in Michelangelo Antonioni and Damiano Damiani,” at the Southeast Coastal Virtual Conference on Languages & Literatures, organized by Georgia Southern University.

ART – Valerie Zimany’s artwork is featured in the 2020 Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, an international juried competition on view at the New Taipei Yingge Ceramic Museum in Taiwan from Nov. 20, 2020 – May 9, 2021. Zimany is one of only 10 other prominent U.S. artists selected for this prestigious museum exhibition. A total of 104 artists from around the world were selected from approximately 1,000 submissions. The international jury panel included: Chang, Ching-Yuan (Taiwan), Chair of the Graduate Institute of Applied Arts of the Tainan National University of the Arts; Liao, Hsin-Tian (Taiwan), the 14th General-Director of the National Museum of History and Professor of National Taiwan University of Arts; Yulin Lee (Taiwan), Director of Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan; Martin Smith (UK), Ceramic artist and Senior Research Fellow of Royal College of Art; Sandra Benadretti-Pellard (France), Commissioner General of the International Ceramics Biennale of Valluris and Chief Curator at the Musée de la Céramique de Vallauris; Toshio Matsui (Japan), Director of The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park and Professor of Kyoto University of Art and Design; and Arief Yudi (Indonesia), Founder and Director of Jatiwangi art Factory and curator of the 5th Indonesia Contemporary Ceramics Biennale 2019. More information on the exhibition is available here.

ENGLISH – David Blakesley presented at two Rhetoric Society of America Remote events on Zoom, both focused on publishing: Navigating Publication Series: “From Dissertation to Book” and “Making Contact: Working with Book Editors, Reviewers, and Readers.”

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY – Vernon Burton had been scheduled to keynote the annual Kenelm Conference at Campbell University, but that was changed to a virtual lecture. Through Webex from Clemson, Burton spoke on his forthcoming book, “Justice Denied: Race and the Supreme Court” on Oct. 20.  On that evening he “virtually” interacted with and answered questions from the honors students at Campbell University. On Oct. 21, Burton presented a lecture to the Proquest All Team Meeting via Webex and answered questions about the digital revolution and the history profession. Burton was invited to be a member of the ProQuest History Advisory Board. On Oct. 22, Burton, who teaches the creative inquiry Veterans Project, hosted Andrew Huber from the Library of Congress to do a virtual workshop and demonstration on Conducting Oral History for Burton’s class and for students in the College. In addition, Burton was also part of a team of physicians and computer scientists who presented their research “Discerning Patient Perspectives and Attitudes Towards Treatment of Dermatological Diseases Using Artificial Intelligence” and “Capturing Patient-Centered Perspectives via Social Media Data Sentiment Mining of Acne, Alopecia Areata, and Melanoma.” Those virtual presentations took place at the 2020 International Dermatology Outcome Measures Conference, Washington, D.C., Oct. 23-24.

PERFORMING ARTS — Paul Buyer’s new book, “Drumline Gold: Innovative Systems for Marching Percussion Excellence,” was released by Meredith Music Publications, a division of GIA Publications, Inc. Written for drumline instructors, arrangers, and performers at all levels, “Drumline Gold” reveals the philosophies, lessons, and mindsets of more than 20 of the most brilliant, creative, and successful game-changers in the marching percussion activity. Top educators in Drum Corps International, Winter Guard International, the Percussive Arts Society, college, and high school share their systems on leading, practicing, rehearsing, listening, cleaning, performing, arranging, competing, auditioning, reading, marching, tuning, recruiting, staffing, and building an excellent culture. There is even a system on self-care and the importance of wearing earplugs, preventing injury, and managing stress.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY — Elizabeth Carney has co-edited “The Routledge Companion to Women and Monarchy in the Ancient Mediterranean” with Sabine Müller of the University of Marburg, Germany, published by Routledge, Nov. 9. The collection, the work of 42 international scholars, is the first comprehensive look at the role of women in ancient monarchies.

ARCHITECTURE — Joseph Choma recently completed his third book, “The Philosophy of Dumbness” (ORO Editions, 2020). This is the dumbest smart book on contemporary architecture. What really is this “technology” that we speak of? How do we define “intelligence”? These are just two of the questions that this book attempts to answer through the unconventional (and seemingly ironic) lens of “dumbness.” Historical examples in science, art, and architecture ground “dumbness” as a means to convey a trajectory to practice “smarter.” Instead of a singular authoritative vision, over 50 contributors answer the question, “What is the dumbest, but smartest, thing you’ve done?” These unique responses provide a vivid lens into the culture of contemporary architecture and the rigor behind it.

LANGUAGES — William “Bo” Clements chaired a virtual professional development workshop for teachers of American Sign Language on Oct. 24. He recruited three nationally known presenters who discussed such topics as literature and social justice. Among the presenters was Jody Cripps, who spoke on “Service Learning in the Deaf Community.” Clements is a professional development director for South Carolina-American Sign Language Teachers Association.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY and WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP — Joshua Catalano (History) and Briana L. Pocratsky (Women’s Leadership) published an article, “What’s on History?: Tuning In to Conspiracies, Capitalism, and Masculinity,” in Current Research in Digital History. Using topic modeling and close textual analysis, this article explores the discursive means by which History (formerly The History Channel) assigns value to and legitimizes certain methodologies, ideas, and identities.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY — H. Roger Grant’s 36^th academic book was published on Oct. 9. Indiana University Press released “A Mighty Fine Road: A History of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company.”

PERFORMING ARTS – Eric Lapin and Rick Goodstein, along with Ron McCurdy of the University of Southern California, led a roundtable discussion on arts entrepreneurship for the International Council of Fine Arts Deans via Zoom on Oct. 2. Lapin and Goodstein also presented “Preparing Artist Entrepreneurs for a New Arts Economy” via Zoom to the College Music Society National Conference on Oct. 11.

ARCHITECTURE — Anjali Joseph, director of the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing, delivered an online presentation, “What will the OR of the future look like?” for the Virtual OR Excellence Conference . This presentation was delivered jointly with Dr. Alexander Langerman of Vanderbilt University and focused on future trends that might impact the design of human-centered operating rooms.

ENGLISH — Melissa Edmundson Makala published the anthology “Women’s Weird 2: More Strange Stories by Women, 1891-1937” with Handheld Press. She was also interviewed about her two “Women’s Weird” anthologies for a feature in the Guardian, published on Oct. 22.

ENGLISH — Angela Naimou participated in a livestreamed reading of Toni Morrison’s first novel, “The Bluest Eye.” Naimou joined U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, Angela Davis, Ta Nehisi-Coates, Edwidge Danticat, Tayari Jones, as well as other Morrison scholars, poets, and members of the Ithaca and Cornell communities. The event, which drew over 800 listeners, was the first in a yearlong series organized by Cornell University to celebrate Morrison’s life and writing, as part of Cornell’s Arts Unplugged series: https://as.cornell.edu/arts-unplugged.

COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE, ARTS AND HUMANITIES – Winifred Elysse Newman was the conference co-chair, with Nathan Newsome, of CAAVCon 2020, Campus Alliance for Advanced Visualization, 5^th Annual International Conference online at Clemson University, Oct. 14-17. The virtual conference was held on Mozilla Hubs, Zoom and Slack.

LANGUAGES — Salvador Oropesa published “The Cozy Mystery in the María Oruña Series” in “Spanish Women Authors of Serial Crime Fiction. Repeat Offenders,” edited by Inmaculada Pertusa-Seva and Melissa Stewart (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020).

LANGUAGES — Arelis Moore de Peralta and co-authors Shaniece Criss, Melissa Fair and Rut Rivera, facilitated the panel “Build Trust, Build Health: Community-Based Participatory Research to Combating Childhood Obesity in the Latinx Community” at the 2020 Coming Together for Action Virtual Conference.

CITY PLANNING AND REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT – L. Enrique Ramos led an international research team with colleagues from Universidade A ‘Coruña in Spain: Margarita Novales Ordax (Profesora Titular, Grupo de Ferrocarriles y Transportes) and Francisco Alberto Varela-García (Profesor del Grupo de Visualización Avanzada y Cartografía). Their first paper, “An International Assessment of Small Light-Rail Systems Transit Performance: Spain – United States,” has been accepted for presentation at the upcoming annual conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (November 2020) and the Annual Transportation Research Board Meeting in Washington (January 2021). This is the first research product of a projected longer-term team effort focused on sustainable mass transit performance and the role of city structure, urban design and built-environment on patronage.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY — Rebecca Shimoni-Stoil published an analysis about U.S. engagement on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict on NBC.com and also appeared live to discuss the topic on MSNBC’s MSNBC Live with Ayman Mohyeldin. Shimoni-Stoil, who has previously published in fivethirtyeight.com and the Washington Monthly, was the Washington D.C. correspondent for the Times of Israel while in grad school. Although she repeatedly vowed to leave journalism entirely after completing her Ph.D., her promise “was evidently empty” as Shimoni-Stoil explains that she enjoys taking history to the public arena by publishing in popular media outlets and offering on-screen analysis.

PERFORMING ARTS – Mark Spede, as president of the College Band Directors National Association, initiated a project to bring marching band members from across the country together for a virtual performance to be premiered at the College Football Playoff National Championship Game on Jan. 11, 2021. During the pandemic, many college marching bands have not been allowed to meet in person, perform at football games on the field, or even be in the stadium. More information on this initiative can be found here: www.cbdna-imb.com.

LANGUAGES — Eric Touya published the following articles: “Claudel dans/pour l’avenir: Diplomatie, Économie, Éco-critique” in Claudel aujourd’hui, Paris: Classiques Garnier ; and “Entretien avec Hédi Bouraoui: altérité, nomanitude, interstice” in The French Review. He also read a paper, “Voix politiques, transcendantes, et transgressives dans l’œuvre de Véronique Tadjo et d’Isabelle Eberhardt” at the Colloque International et Interdisciplinaire, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Benjamin White presented a paper, “The Pauline Tradition,” at the Atlanta New Testament Colloquium on Oct. 5, with respondents from the University of Edinburgh and Australian Catholic University.

ENGLISH — Jillian Weise appeared on Al Jazeera’s program “The Stream” to discuss barriers to voting. Weise was interviewed by Inside Higher Ed for an article on “manterrupting.” Since the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities Conference was inaccessible to the disabled and Deaf public, Weise declined to be on her panel “Cyborg Bioethics.” Her statement appears on Biopolitical Philosophy. Weise presented at the Dodge Poetry Festival. Her reading is on “crip time,” available here. The access copy for the reading is here.

VISUAL ART – Valerie Zimany was a featured demonstrating artist for FireFest 2020 at STARworks N.C., livestreamed Oct. 30-31. FireFest is a two-day festival celebrating the role of fire in the creation of glass and ceramic art at STARworks, where Zimany was a resident artist in 2019. Lectures and demonstrations were broadcast over the two-day event, and may viewed at https://www.starworksnc.org/firefest. STARworks is an arts-centered work community that promotes cultural and economic development by providing outstanding artistic educational programs and business ventures.

ARCHITECTURE – Anjali Joseph, David Allison, Sahar Mihandoust, and graduate students Rutali Joshi, Roxana Jafarifiroozabadi and Lisa Hoskins, along with other Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing researchers, presented work online for European Healthcare Design 2020 – “At the Tipping Point: Designing for Population and Planetary Health,” held Sept. 14-17. The team’s presentations included: “CU@Home – Proactively Managing Safe Transitions to Home After Joint Replacement Surgery,” “What Do Care Partners Find Important in a Surgery Waiting Room?,” “Exploring the Relationship Between Access to Nature Views and Nurse Burnout,” “The Impact of Single-Family Room Design on Family Engagement in the Neonatal ICU,” “Designing the Physician Workspace to Support Handovers in the Emergency Department,” “Translating Research Into Practice: A Web-Based ‘Safe Operating Room Design’ Tool to Support Evidence-Based Design Decision-Making” and “The Future of an Architecture for Health.”

ART – Several of Todd Anderson’s fine art prints are currently on loan to Universal Pictures as set decorations for the filming of “Dear Evan Hansen.” The set designer shared that she has been wanting to utilize Anderson’s work for the last couple films she has worked on, and “Dear Evan Hansen” was “finally the right fit.” Ben Platt and Julianne Moore lead the cast in this film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning musical. Despite not being told where they are filming, Anderson said he remains “foolishly optimistic in his hope of meeting Moore. Dream on.”

CITY PLANNING AND REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT – Robert Benedict recently presented a webinar at the Environmental Protection Agency’s virtual conference hosted by its College/Underserved Community Partnership Program. His topic was Greenville County’s historic Union Bleachery: “Bringing a Forgotten Icon of the Textile Crescent Back to Life.” Union Bleachery was a practicum project for Master of Real Estate Development students, who worked closely with the EPA, the San Souci community and Greenville County officials to create adaptive reuse plans for the historic mill and the surrounding mill village.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY – Vernon Burton spoke about Harvey Gantt’s integration of Clemson on the Sept. 4 edition of sportswriter Larry Williams’ weekly podcast. On Sept. 12, “While I Breathe, I Hope” won the Southeast Emmy Award in the documentary-topical category; Burton was the history consultant for the documentary about Bakari Seller’s unsuccessful campaign for South Carolina lieutenant governor. The film concludes with the mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston. On Sept. 18, C-SPAN began sharing the recording of last month’s Lincoln’s Cottage Scholar Session, “The Civil War – Confederate Monuments and Memorials,” featuring Burton and his former graduate student Edna Greene Medford, who is now a history professor and associate provost of Howard University. Also in September, C-SPAN rebroadcast Burton’s 2018 Capitol Hill talk on “Origins of the 14^th Amendment.” On Sept. 30, Burton led a Zoom workshop-lecture on the 1965 Voting Rights Act for the Richmond (Virginia) Racial Reconciliation group.

ART — Rachel de Cuba presented a talk for the University of Indianapolis about her studio-based research as a Provost Pathways Fellow in Art at Clemson. Her talk was a part of the Fall University of Indianapolis Art and Design Lecture Series that offers undergraduate students the opportunity to engage with speakers currently working in visual art careers.

ART — Andrea Feeser’s book “Jimmie Durham, Europe, and the Art of Relations,” which was published Sept. 25 by Routledge, examines the recent work of artist Jimmie Durham, whose five-decade career investigates how historical and cultural interactions among varied beings and places shape aesthetic and social experiences.

ENGLISH – Gabriel Hankins was put on the short list for the Modernist Studies Association’s First Book Prize. Hankins’ “Interwar Modernism and the Liberal World Order: Offices, Institutions, and Aesthetics after 1919” was published by Cambridge University Press in 2019. The award committee wrote the following: “Gabriel Hankins brings a revelatory perspective to the interwar kaleidoscope of modernist politics… The book changes what the political looks like and means for modernist studies.”

PERFORMING ARTS – Lillian “Mickey” Harder reports that Debussy’s Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor, performed at the Brooks Center on Nov. 4, 2019, was broadcast on Sept. 9, 2020 on American Public Media’s radio program “Performance Today.” The musicians were cellist Peter Wiley and pianist Anna Polonsky. The performance was recorded as a part of the Utsey Chamber Series at the Brooks Center. The Utsey Series was created by Lillian and her husband, Dr. Byron Harder.

ENGLISH – Walt Hunter was the James Merrill House Writer-in-Residence in Stonington, Connecticut for the month of September. Hunter reflected on poetry, the James Merrill House and fellow writers in a profile in the CT Examiner, an online newspaper based in Old Lyme.

LANGUAGES – Jason Hurdich participated in an online panel of national and regional Deaf leaders, “Multigenerational Panel: How Much Has The Deaf Community Changed Over The Last 50 Years?” The Sept. 24 discussion celebrated International Week of the Deaf (#IWDeaf), sponsored by the Deaf Literacy Center of Pinellas County (Florida) Library Cooperative. The week of celebration is an initiative of the World Federation of the Deaf and was first launched in 1958 in Rome.

ARCHITECTURE – Anjali Joseph delivered an online presentation, “A Human Centered and Evidence-based Approach to Operating Room Design,” for the China Construction Hospital Conference, held Sept. 18-20. The overall focus of the conference was a discussion of how to guide the transformation of modern hospitals from passive medical treatment toward active health through the construction innovation concept. Joseph also coauthored an article published in Landscape Architecture in September, “Human Health Assessments of Green Infrastructure Designs Using Virtual Reality.”

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY – With Clemson Humanities Hub funding, Pam Mack was able to invite three scholars – whose books she assigned – to speak to her students over Zoom this fall. The three scholars and their books are Barbara Hahn (“Technology in the Industrial Revolution”), John H. Lienhard (“Inventing Modern: Growing Up with X-Rays, Skyscrapers, and Tailfins”) and David E. Nye (“Technology Matters: Questions to Live With”).

ENGLISH – Amy Monaghan was invited to lead a virtual seminar on the film “Children of Men” for the Coolidge Corner Theatre, an independent, nonprofit cinema and cultural institution in the greater Boston area. Online, Coolidge educational programming has featured lectures by Stephanie Zacharek of Time, David Fear of Rolling Stone, Sam Adams of Slate, and Bilge Ebiri of New York magazine, as well as Boston-area academics. Marketing and education manager Wesley Emblidge reported that the “Children of Men” event was the top seminar for all of September.

ENGLISH ­– Angela Naimou delivered the opening lecture for the Center for the Humanities at Wesleyan University as part of the center’s Fall 2020 Monday Night Lecture series on the theme “Dirt.” Naimou’s talk, “Detention Operations,” was followed by a colloquium with faculty and student center fellows the next day. Naimou also presented part of her current work locally at the Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design Research Forum. Her essay, “Genres in Detention,” was published in the Post-45 Contemporaries forum “Extraordinary Renditions,” edited by Kalyan Nadiminti. The essay reflects on the limitations of a US-centered collective imagination of 9/11 and the Global War on Terror. It turns to Black and Iraqi diasporic literature and art to think about the global links between race, empire, policing, and prisons.

ENGLISH – Allen Swords started a virtual book club that will meet three times per month in the evenings on Zoom, beginning in October. “I have a lot of enthusiasm and high hopes for a fun, yet rigorous academic experience for all of us,” Swords said. This free club is open to Clemson alumni, colleagues, staff, any friends and any interested parties. The book club’s Facebook page  already has more than 225 members. The first book is Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “All the Things We Cannot See.” For November, the group will tackle William Goldman’s 1973 novel, “The Princess Bride.”

LANGUAGES – Jae DiBello Takeuchi published “Our Language – Linguistic Ideologies and Japanese Dialect Use in L1/L2 Interaction” in Japanese Language and Literature, Vol. 54 (2), pp. 167-197. Takeuchi also published “Diversity, Inclusivity, and the Importance of L2 Speaker Legitimacy” in the same issue, pp. 317-325. This article was part of a special section on Language and Pedagogy in Japanese language teaching.

ENGLISH – Rhondda Robinson Thomas was one of four panelists featured at the Speaks-Warnock Symposium on Race and Racism at the University hosted Sept. 29 by the University of Delaware via Zoom. Thomas made a presentation about her ”Call My Name“ project and then engaged in a roundtable discussion about the challenges and successes of launching and sustaining campus history initiatives.

ENGLISH – Jillian Weise was invited to speak with a creative writing class at American University in Washington. She spoke about page poetics and stage poetics. Weise produced “A Kim Deal Party,” a video play profiled here, which screened at the art gallery Public Space One on Sept. 19 and 20. Weise said: “‘A Kim Deal Party’ is on ‘crip time,’” explaining that theorist Ellen Samuels wrote that crip time is time travel. “The party continues and it is accessible by link to fellow cyborgs, disabled and Deaf people,” Weise said. “If that describes your identity, then you are invited. If not, then you are not invited.” Email Jillian Weise (jweise@clemson.edu) for the link.

ART – Valerie Zimany’s solo exhibition “And I Was Covered in Blossoms” opened Sept. 10 and remains on display through Oct. 25 at 701 Center for Contemporary Art in Columbia. Included in the exhibition are ceramics, drawings and mixed media work, much of which was created during a summer 2020 artist-in-residency at the center, with the support of a fellowship from the South Carolina Arts Commission. A livestreamed Q&A about the exhibition and the artist fellowship is planned for noon on Oct. 9. As the only art organization in South Carolina dedicated solely to the advancement of contemporary art, 701 CCA hosts year-round exhibitions of regional, national and international scope in its 2,500 square-foot gallery.

COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE, ARTS AND HUMANITIES – More than 20 professors in the College have contributed to a series of essays in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the country’s reckoning with racial injustice. The “Clemson Humanities Now” project was initiated by Lee Morrissey, founding director of the Humanities Hub, to foster meaningful academic inquiry and dialogue during a time when the Hub’s in-person public discussions and events have been paused. Morrissey wrote an introduction to the series, which features pieces on The Insurrection Act of 1807 and The Georgia election and Voting Rights Act, among other topics.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY – On Aug. 4, Vernon Burton, a board member of President Lincoln’s Cottage, participated in the first virtual Lincoln Cottage’s Scholar Session along with his former graduate student at the University of Illinois, Edna Greene Medford, now an Associate Provost at Howard University. Medford and Burton discussed the lasting meaning and impact of Confederate iconography. A recording of the session is available online. Burton also was reappointed as the associate editor for history at the journal Social Science Computer Review.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY – Joshua Catalano and Aby Sene-Harper from the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management at Clemson received a grant worth $55,689 from the National Park Service for a two-year oral history project. As part of this grant, they will conduct oral histories focusing on the establishment of the Reconstruction Era National Monument in Beaufort, South Carolina, and in Alabama, the Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument and the Freedom Riders National Monument in Anniston.

LANGUAGES – Jody Cripps, editor-in-chief of the Society for American Sign Language Journal, has just released a new issue, Vol. 3, No. 1. Two Clemson professors contributed work to the issue. W. Alton Bryant, a professor emeritus of American Sign Language, wrote a book review about a scholar who, like himself, is a Child of Deaf Adults (CODA). That scholar, R.H. Miller, wrote the memoir “Deaf Hearing Boy” about experiencing an identity crisis on whether he was a deaf or hearing person. Cripps, along with his journal colleagues Andrew P. J. Byrne and Samuel J. Supalla, wrote the article “Teaching Literature to Deaf Students and the Challenge of Bilingualism.” This article described the challenges as well as proposed future directions for teaching American Sign Language literature and written English literature to deaf students.

ENGLISH – Jonathan Beecher Field presented on Pilgrim kitsch at the Mayflower 400 conference in Leiden, Netherlands. He reported that he delivered his talk “Pilgrims, Natives, & Settler Kitsch” remotely from the comfort of his own living room.

ENGLISH – Jordan Frith published “It Is All About Location: Smartphones and Tracking the Spread of COVID-19,” with Michael Saker of the University of London, in Social Media and Society 6 (3). Frith also published “Pushing Back on the Rhetoric of ‘Real Life’” in Present Tense, a Journal of Rhetoric in Society 8 (2).

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY – H. Roger Grant was awarded a John H. White Jr. Research Fellowship for his book-length manuscript “The Station Agent and the American Railroad Experience.” The $2,500 research fellowships are presented by the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, Inc.

ARCHITECTURE – Anjali Joseph presented “Architecture and the Choreography of Healthcare” for the Columbia Museum of Art’s ArtBreak series. Her virtual presentation on Aug. 25 shared examples of the dynamic interactions between the built environment, care providers and those receiving care, tasks performed, and the tools and equipment used. Her presentation demonstrated the importance of understanding these complex interactions when designing human-centered health care environments. Joseph is director of the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Two faculty members from the department were nominees for the Researcher of the Year Award at Clemson University. Todd May, the Class of 1941 Memorial Professor, was nominated in the category of senior researcher and Mashal Saif, an assistant professor of religious studies, was nominated as a junior researcher.

ARCHITECTURE – Winifred Elysse Newman presented a paper, “The Neuroscience of Beauty and Gorillas,” for Psychology and Epistemology at the Ninth International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science (ESHS), hosted online by the Centre for the History of Universities and Science at the University of Bologna (CIS) and by the Italian Society for the History of Science (SISS), Aug. 31-Sept. 3.

PERFORMING ARTS – Lisa Sain Odom, along with Greenville actor Phyllis Henderson, performed the two-person play “’night, Mother” by Marsha Norman on Aug. 22. The play was performed on stage (without audience) at Centre Stage in Greenville. The production was filmed and is to be released by Centre Stage in the coming weeks. The play was staged so that both actors were at least 6 feet apart at all times; it was rehearsed mostly in masks; and the in-person rehearsal-to-performance period lasted less than two weeks.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY – Michael Silvestri was scheduled to deliver a lecture on the Irish republican leader and future Irish Prime Minister Éamon de Valera’s visit to Charleston in 1920. The event was part of the Irish Consulate’s Dev100! Commemorations, which marked de Valera’s travels in the American South that year. The event, jointly hosted by the Irish Consulate in Atlanta and the College of Charleston, was originally scheduled in April and rescheduled for August before its ultimate cancellation.

LANGUAGES – Jae DiBello Takeuchi was a guest speaker at the August meeting of the Colorado Japanese Language Education Association’s social salon series. The theme was biases and prejudices regarding non-native speakers. The event was conducted on Aug. 22 via Zoom.

ARCHITECTURE – Berrin Terim’s essay “Dreaming the Body: Filarete’s ‘Disegno’” was published in the Routledge book “Ceilings and Dreams: The Architecture of Levity,” edited by Paul Emmons, Federica Goffi and Jodi La Coe.

ENGLISH – Caitlin G. Watt published “The Speaking Wound: Gower’s ‘Confessio Amantis’ and the Ethics of Listening in the #metoo Era” in “Critical Confessions Now,” a special issue of postmedieval, a journal edited by Abdulhamit Arvas, Afrodesia McCannon and Kris Trujillo.

ART – Valerie Zimany was the resident artist at the 701 Center for Contemporary Art July 29-Aug. 4 in Columbia. Her residency offered the opportunity to complete new work for her upcoming solo exhibition “Valerie Zimany: And I was covered in blossoms,” which opens on Sept. 10 and is the culmination of her 2020 South Carolina Arts Commission Fellowship. As a non-profit art organization dedicated solely to the advancement of contemporary art, 701 CCA hosts exhibitions all year in a 2,500-square-foot gallery that are national and international in their scope.

Welcome to New Faculty

COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE, ARTS AND HUMANITIES – In August, CAAH welcomed some new faces to the faculty. The School of Architecture hired lecturers Brian Durham and Taylor Schenker. The department of art has added Brooks Harris Stevens as a lecturer and promoted Dustin Massey to a full-time lecturer. City planning and real estate development hired assistant professor Yujin Park and lecturer Brian Reed. In English, Maziyar Faridi and Clare Mullaney are new assistant professors, Sheila Lalwani is a new lecturer, Jamie Rogers has shifted from a visiting faculty member to a lecturer and La’Neice Littleton will work with the Humanities Hub as a postdoctoral fellow. In history and geography, Douglas Seefeldt came to Clemson University as an associate professor, while Ryan Hilliard and Archana Venkatesh joined the department as assistant professors. In the Nieri Family Department of Construction Science and Management, Bryan Malone is a new instructor. In performing arts, Matthew Anderson has rejoined the department as a lecturer. In philosophy and religion, Claire Kirwin and Pascal Brixel are new assistant professors. Briana Pocratsky joined the women’s leadership program as a lecturer. We are pleased to have these individuals in the College, and wish everyone a successful academic year.

In Memoriam

ART – Professor Emeritus Ireland G. Regnier died Aug. 15 at the age of 95. A World War II veteran and Renaissance man, he taught at Clemson University from 1962 until his retirement in 1988. His paintings are held in private collections in England and the United States, and one is part of the permanent collection of the Greenville County Museum of Art.

COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE, ARTS AND HUMANITIES – Faculty promotions and tenure were announced over the summer. Michael Silvestri of the Department of History and Geography; Kelly Smith, Interim Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion; and Jillian Weise, from the Department of English, all achieved the rank of professor. Dustin Albright, Hyejung Chang and David Franco became associate professors in the School of Architecture. David Coombs and Gabriel Hankins advanced to associate professors of English. And in the Department of Languages, Stephen Fitzmaurice (American Sign Language), George Palacios (Spanish) and Gabriela Stoicea (German) are now Associate Professors. Congratulations to all!

COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE, ARTS AND HUMANITIES – Winifred Elysse Newman has been named the Acting Associate Dean of Research in the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities. She agreed to assume the role after James Spencer was named Vice Provost and Dean for the Graduate School at Louisiana State University. Newman holds the Homer Curtis Mickel and Leona Carter Mickel Endowed Chair in the School of Architecture and is Director of the Institute for Intelligent Materials, Systems and Environments.

ENGLISH – Chris Benson retired from 25 years of service to Clemson University as a lecturer and senior lecturer in the department, and a research associate in the Strom Thurmond Institute.

ENGLISH – David Blakesley edited “Reinventing Rhetorical Scholarship: Fifty Years of the Rhetoric Society of America,” with Roxanne Mountford and Dave Tell. The paperback, copyrighted in 2020 by Rhetoric Society of America, was issued by Parlor Press, the independent publisher of scholarly books Blakesley founded in 2002.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY – The National Park Service interviewed Vernon Burton in May about Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War and Fort Sumter. Part 1 and Part 2 of his interview are posted online. He was interviewed for three recent Greenville News articles: “Who Was Ben Tillman: South Carolina’s Racial Demagogue,” one about the push to rename Wade Hampton High School, and another story about John Lewis’ death. On June 18, Burton gave a videoconference lecture about Juneteenth to nearly 500 scientists, engineers and other staff at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. On June 19, he served on a webinar panel about “Reparations and World Change” for the Thurgood Marshall Law School at Texas Southern University in Houston. Burton has two podcasts, “Lincoln’s Lifelong Learning” and “Lincoln’s Potent Politics,” posted online as part of the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources series “Combahee: The Last Rice River.” In July, he was interviewed by Latisha Catchatoorian from WRAL-TV for a Forward Justice story about felony disfranchisement in North Carolina. The reporter also quoted from his expert witness report for Forward Justice.  Burton also was scheduled to deliver the keynote address for a canceled conference at the California Technical University about the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

ENGLISH – Cameron Bushnell’s essay “Designing a Racial Project for WAC: International Teaching Assistants and Translational Consciousness” appeared in the online journal Across the Disciplines, Volume 17, Issue 1 / 2, published July 16, 2020. Her essay argues that international teaching assistants are acutely sensitive to complexities of language and the struggle to write well, and advocates that practitioners of writing across the curriculum offer instruction that is both culturally and racially aware.

ARCHITECTURE – Hyejung Chang published “Propositions for the Urban Aesthetics of Continuity” in Sage Open 10 (3): pp. 1–13.

LANGUAGES – Jody H. Cripps was one of the invited plenary speakers for a presentation titled “Signed Music and the Deaf Musicians” at Partition/Ensemble 2020 Conference hosted by Canadian Association Theatre Research and Société québécoise d’études théâtrales. Also, he and his colleagues delivered the virtual presentation “Signed Music in the Deaf Community: Performing ‘The Black Drum’ at Festival Clin d’Oeil” as part of the Music Festival Studies Conference at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. As part of his service, he was appointed to be on the scientific committee for the International Deaf Academics and Researchers Conference 2021 at the University of Quebec in Montreal.

ENGLISH – Will Cunningham’s article “Silent Spaces in Jesmyn Ward and Natasha Trethewey” was published in the peer-reviewed College Language Association Journal in May 2020.

ART – David Detrich’s sculptural work, “Me, myself and I think” was selected for the nationally juried art exhibition “Reflections” at the Arc Gallery and Studios in San Francisco. Online exhibition dates were May 16-June 27 with gallery exhibition dates: June 6-June 27. The juror for the exhibition was Shelley Barry, principal partner and managing member at Slate Contemporary Gallery in Oakland, California.

PERFORMING ARTS – Linda Dzuris has been named Acting Department Chair. Becky Becker, who has led the department since 2018, will continue to serve on the faculty.

ENGLISH – Jordan Frith published “The Pedagogical Opportunities of Technical Standards: Learning from the Electronic Product Code” in the journal Technical Communication, 67 (2), pp. 42-53. An article he co-authored with Michael Saker, “It Is All About Location: Smartphones and Tracking the Spread of COVID-19,” appeared in Social Media and Society.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY – H. Roger Grant is the author of “Ohio Railroad Crossroads,” which appeared in the August 2020 issue of Trains, pp. 20-29. This piece served as the capstone essay for a series of articles on railroading in the Buckeye State.

PERFORMING ARTS – Lillian “Mickey” Harder reports that Debussy’s Piano Trio in G Major, performed by The Lysander Piano Trio at the Brooks Center on Jan. 17, 2019, was rebroadcast on June 25, 2020 on American Public Media’s radio program “Performance Today.” The musicians were violinist Itamar Zorman, cellist Michael Katz and pianist Liza Stepanova. Debussy’s Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor, performed on Nov. 4, 2019 by pianist Anna Polonsky and cellist Peter Wiley, was broadcast on June 11, 2020. The Utsey Series was created by Lillian and her husband, Dr. Byron Harder.

ENGLISH – In late May, Walt Hunter published four new poems in the journal Literary Imagination. His recent book, “Forms of a World,” received reviews in Contemporary Literature and Studies in 20^th and 21^st Century Literature. In July, Hunter presented a writing workshop at Cornell University about his forthcoming article on race, genre, and contemporary poetry.

ARCHITECTURE – Anjali Joseph, Sahar Mihandoust, doctoral students Rutali Joshi and Roxana Jafarifiroozabadi, along with other researchers from the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing (CHFDT), authored several papers that were published in Health Environments Research & Design in May. The published articles include “Using Immersive Virtual Environments (IVEs) to Conduct Environmental Design Research: A Primer and Decision Framework,” “The Fit Between Spatial Configuration and Idealized Flows: Mapping Flows in Surgical Facilities as Part of Case Study Visits” and “Evaluating Care-partner Preferences for Seating in an Outpatient Surgery Waiting Area Using Virtual Reality.”

LANGUAGES – Arelis Moore de Peralta presented on her community-based research projects at Clemson during a workshop on May 26 for residents and faculty of the Prisma Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health. She also assisted South Carolina state epidemiologist Dr. Linda Bell and other DHEC leaders in a virtual call on July 22 that was designed to inform Latinx faith, business and community leaders about the statewide impact of COVID-19 and provide up-to-date information on prevention and control. She organized and led a webinar on July 23, “COVID-19 and Immigrant and Refugee Communities: Challenges and Response,” in which she and three panelists shared their experiences. The webinar was one of two she organized with the Global Alliance’s Migrant and Displaced Persons Task Force. Moore and co-authors Michelle Eichinger and Leslie Hossfeld published the book chapter “Urban Health and Urbanization: Socio-Ecological Approaches to Address Social Determinants of Nutritional Health in Urban Settings” in “Public Health Nutrition: Rural, Urban and Global Community-based Practice,” edited by M. Margaret Barth, Ronny A. Bell and Karen Grimmer. And, along with co-authors Cynthia Sims and Angela Carter, she published the chapter “Advancing Gender Equity Through Mentoring and Leadership Development: A Human Performance Technology Intervention Case Study” in “Cases on Performance Improvement Innovation,” edited by Darlene M. Van Tiem and Nancy Crain Burns.

ENGLISH – Angela Naimou participated in an international online panel discussion, “Race and Social Exclusion in a Global Context: Perspectives from the US and Korea,” organized by the Asia Society-South Korea. Locally, she joined CAAH colleagues Vernon Burton and Abel Bartley for an online discussion “Independence Day: Land of the Free?” as part of the Power of Perspective series organized by DeOnte Brown and Kendra Stewart-Tillman. Naimou’s essay, “Mediterranean Returns: Migration and the Poetics of Lamentation,” has appeared in the volume “Writing Beyond the State: Post-Sovereign Approaches to Human Rights in Literary Studies.” Naimou began her term as Lead Editor of Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development.

ARCHITECTURE – Mary G. Padua’s book “Hybrid Modernity: the Public Park in Late 20^th Century China” was just released by Routledge. Through a transdisciplinary “gaze,” it synthesizes the convergence of modernization theory, China’s modernity, cultural studies, local and global cultural trends, and the development of parks and the Chinese Picturesque as a new theory for understanding the spatial forms of purpose-built parks in China’s secondary cities. Case study analyses of four public parks serve as the schema for this new design language and the book reveals the significance of the discipline of landscape architecture in post-Mao China’s tremendous urban experiment.

PERFORMING ARTS – Shannon Robert co-created the Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC) Teaching Theatre Collaborative. The SETC-hosted webinar sessions addressed the teaching of theatre online, targeting both secondary school and university teachers. Robert moderated two sessions and was a panelist for the Teaching Scene Design webinar. She is currently working with the United States Institute of Theatre Technology (USITT) to form a partnership with SETC and extend the webinars as a service and resource to secondary teachers across the United States. Shannon was invited by The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Summer Playwriting Intensives as a guest resource artist and presented a discussion about how designers might work with new scripts. She also has been invited by the Dramatists Guild of America Institute to work with student participants on creating environment in storytelling.

ENGLISH – Jamie Ann Rogers’ article “Diasporic Communion and Textual Exchange in Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’ and Julie Dash’s ‘Daughters of the Dust’” appeared in the Spring 2020 issue of the peer-reviewed journal Black Camera. Her co-authored “Organizing Precarious Labor in Film and Media Studies: A Manifesto” on the creation of the Precarious Labor Organization for the Society of Cinema and Media Studies appeared in the Summer 2020 issue of the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. She was scheduled to co-chair a roundtable at the 2020 Society of Cinema and Media Studies’ annual conference, “Out of the Ashes and Into Academia: Workplace Organizing by Film and Media Studies Faculty,” as well as present the paper “Affective Geographies of Blackness at the Intersection of Documentary and the Avant-Garde” during the seminar “Geographies of Race in Film” at the same conference. Instead, she moderated a podcast recording of the roundtable for the Society’s ACA-Media, which will be released in August, and presented her paper at a virtual seminar in July.

LANGUAGES – Johannes Schmidt co-edited with Eva Piirimäe and Liina Lukas “Herder on Empathy and Sympathy – Einfühlung und Sympathie im Denken Herders,” which was published by Brill. His article “Herder’s Political Ideas and the Organic Development of Religions and Governments” was included in this volume. He also published “Die methodische Differenz im geschichtlichen Denkens Herders und Nietzsches” in the conference volume “Herder und das 19. Jahrhundert / Herder and the Nineteenth Century,” edited by Liisa Steinby. He also was scheduled to deliver a presentation titled “‘[…] once such ugliness exists it endures forever.’ Herder on the Artistic Expression of Ugliness” at the Conference of the International Herder Society in Ottawa, which was postponed. In June, Schmidt attended the virtual week-long Adobe Creative Campus Faculty Development Institute.

LANGUAGES – Jae DiBello Takeuchi presented a talk titled “スピーチスタイルとネイティブスピーカーバイアス：在日L2話者から学べること (Speech Styles and Native Speaker Bias: What We Can Learn from L2 Speakers in Japan)” at the 28^th Central Association of Teachers of Japanese (CATJ) Conference May 30-31. CATJ, a regional conference, was hosted by Macalester College this year and was moved online in response to concerns about COVID-19. As a result of the accessibility of the online format, the conference had a record number of attendees from across the United States and around the world, and all concurrent sessions had high attendance. Takeuchi’s paper presentation was attended by more than 70 people. Because the online format gave conferencegoers fewer opportunities to interact, Takeuchi hosted a virtual coffee room at the end of the conference to give attendees a chance to meet and make connections. The coffee room was well-received and was attended by more than 150 Japanese language educators and researchers.

ENGLISH – Rhondda Robinson Thomas presented the opening keynote “Call My Name: A Living Archive for Black Life at Clemson University” via Zoom for the annual Triangle Research Libraries Network meeting on July 30. She also made a presentation about the “Call My Name” project for a panel discussion titled “Humanities – Texts and Tools for Times of Crisis” held on Zoom and sponsored by the Association of American Universities for federal liaison officers on July 30.

In Memoriam

ARCHITECTURE – Professor Emerita Frances Chamberlain died July 2 in Boulder, Colorado. She is remembered for helping launch the landscape architecture program at Clemson. “She was tremendous,” said colleague Mary G. Padua. “In addition to the numerous Clemson students she taught, perhaps her lasting legacy is the nature-based sculpture program at our botanical garden.” A memorial scholarship fund at Clemson has been established.

Editor’s note: While some academic meetings have moved to online formats, many events remain canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We include news about scheduled appearances because that peer-reviewed scholarship deserves recognition alongside publications and honors that have gone forward.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY – Vernon Burton was reappointed associate editor of the Social Science Computer Review (SSCR). He faced multiple canceled appearances: Burton was to chair a session on Reconstruction at the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting April 2-5 in Washington and tape an interview for its Distinguished Lecturers speaker series. He was slated to induct new members at the annual meeting of the South Carolina Academy of Authors planned for April 17-18 in Aiken. Burton was selected to be the keynote speaker for a ribbon cutting ceremony at the North Carolina Civil War and Reconstruction History Center in Fayetteville, North Carolina and also an event marking the addition of Reconstruction to a Civil War study center at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. He was scheduled to introduce historian Eric Foner at the Penn Center 1862 Circle Gala lifetime achievement awards planned for April 25 in Hilton Head. Burton also was scheduled to give the keynote for a conference at the California Institute of Technology about the 1965 Voting Rights Act. And, as executive director of the College of Charleston’s Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Program (CLAW), Burton was scheduled to welcome participants to the 2020 Port Cities in the Atlantic Conference.

PERFORMING ARTS – Paul Buyer presented a Zoom workshop about his book “Working Toward Excellence” for the Music Honor Society Pi Kappa Lambda at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Buyer and the Clemson University Steel Band released their new CD, “We’re Steel Here.” The album will be available on Clemson Marketplace in the fall and digitally through CD Baby, iTunes, Amazon, GooglePlay and Gracenote MusicID.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY – Caroline Dunn was the 2020 recipient of the Bonnie Wheeler Fellowship. The fellowship honoring a prominent medievalist was designed to bring greater prominence to female scholars in that academic specialty. This grant will provide funds for research travel and release time to assist Dunn with completion of her monograph “Ladies-in-Waiting in Medieval England.”

CITY PLANNING AND REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT – John Gaber’s book “Qualitative Analysis for Planning and Policy: Beyond the Numbers” was published in a revised and updated second edition by Routledge.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY – H. Roger Grant’s book “Transportation and the American People” (Indiana University Press, 2019) won a Gold Medal in the 2020 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Awards in the category of Transportation.

PERFORMING ARTS – Lillian “Mickey” Harder reports that The Lysander Piano Trio concert on January 17, 2019 at the Brooks Center was broadcast April 20, 2020 on the American Public Media radio program “Performance Today.” The trio’s performance of the Debussy Piano Trio in G Major was part of the Utsey Chamber Music Series. The musicians were violinist Itamar Zorman, cellist Michael Katz and pianist Lisa Stepanova. The Utsey Series was created by Lillian and her husband, Dr. Byron Harder.

ENGLISH – Cynthia Haynes was scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the NTX Gaming Symposium at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. The symposium has been rescheduled for Fall 2020. She was also scheduled to deliver a conference paper at the Rhetoric Society of America Conference in Portland, Oregon. The title of that talk was “Hospitality Is a One-Way Street.” The conference was postponed and later canceled.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY – Tom Kuehn, Professor Emeritus of History, published “Justice in Renaissance Philosophy,” in the “Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy,” edited by Marco Sgarbi (New York: Springer, 2020) before his retirement in May.

ARCHITECTURE – Anjali Joseph led a panel presentation on May 19, “Using Simulation-Based Evaluations of Physical and Virtual Mock-Ups to Design Safer Hospital Environments,” at the virtual Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Healthcare conference May 18-20. This panel was originally meant to take place in March in Toronto. She co-presented with speakers from the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Health Quality Council of Alberta, Canada. Joseph also published a paper with Roxana Jafarifiroozabadi, Rutali Joshi and Deborah Wingler from the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing, “Evaluating Care-Partner Preferences for Seating in an Outpatient Surgery Waiting Area Using Virtual Reality” in HERD: Health Environments Research and Design Journal.

ENGLISH – Michael LeMahieu’s article “The Self-Erasing Word: Tautology and Unspeakability in Don DeLillo’s ‘End Zone’” appeared in the March 2020 issue of the peer-reviewed journal Poetics Today.

LANGUAGES – Arelis Moore de Peralta received an honorable mention on April 18 for the Zenobia Lawrence Hikes Woman of Color in the Academy Award. The award recognizes a woman of color with a distinguished career in higher education, demonstrated by scholarly endeavors or administrative and professional accomplishments. The award criteria also specify “an engaged member of her campus and community, with a history of advancing the development of young women of color as they pursue their education and prepare for careers in the academy and beyond.” In addition, Dr. Moore and co-authors Julie Smithwick and Myriam E. Torres published “Perceptions and Determinants of Partnership Trust in the Context of Community-Based Participatory Research” in the Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice.

LANGUAGES – Kelly Peebles was scheduled to present “Renée de France, Jeanne de Navarre and Anne d’Este: Kinship, Faith, and Rivalry” at the canceled annual convention of the Renaissance Society of America, planned for April 2-4 in Philadelphia.

ENGLISH – Elizabeth Rivlin presented a paper in a virtual seminar as part of the Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting on April 17. The event was originally scheduled to be held in-person in Denver. The seminar was titled “But Is It Any Good?: Evaluating Shakespeare Adaptation” and Rivlin’s paper was titled “Using Shakespeare’s Life: Marchette Chute’s ‘Shakespeare of London’ (1949).”

PERFORMING ARTS – Shannon Robert was scheduled to be the chair of a panel at the United States Institute for Theatre Technology conference in Houston, Texas, sharing research and moderating a group discussion on “Realities in Production and Design in Regional Theatres across the Industry.” She designed the scenery for The Warehouse Theatre’s canceled production of “Appropriate” in Greenville and Aurora Theatre’s production of “Cinderella” in the Atlanta area (currently postponed until January). Robert is currently teaching a free online painting class geared to novices (inspired by the paint-and-sip model) as an outreach activity sponsored by The Brooks Center for Performing Arts at 7 p.m. every Tuesday.

ARCHITECTURE – Thomas Schurch published an article in the American Society of Landscape Architects’ online blog “The Field.” His article titled “Urban Villages, Town Design, New Urbanism: Where Does Landscape Architecture Stand?” addresses landscape architecture’s historic and contemporary accomplishments in providing leadership in shaping urban form. This work is a continuation of his role as past co-director of the ASLA’s Professional Practice Network on urban design.

ENGLISH – Rhondda Robinson Thomas received the “Preserving Our Places in History Project Award” from the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission for her Call My Name Project. She also received the Holman Research Award from Clemson’s Department of English for outstanding and extraordinary achievement during past three years. Thomas was scheduled to present a talk at the Harrington Symposium on Race and the University on April 16 at the University of Delaware and give a presentation titled “Reconstruction, Public Memory, and the Making of Clemson University on John C. Calhoun’s Fort Hill Plantation” on April 22 at Wofford College in Spartanburg. Both events were canceled and will be rescheduled during the 2020-2021 academic year.

LANGUAGES – Eric Touya was invited to read a paper titled “Voix politiques, transcendantes, et transgressives dans l’œuvre de Véronique Tadjo et d’Isabelle Eberhardt” at the canceled international conference “Africana. Figures de femmes et formes de pouvoir” at the Université de Lausanne, Switzerland. Touya and Col. Lance Young were scheduled to lead a group of Clemson students to London, Paris and Normandy in May (program canceled). The aim of the course is to revisit the journey of the American soldiers during  World War II from a French perspective. Through this journey, the students analyze and reflect on the meaning and purpose of the GIs’ actions and experiences, and on the current roles of France and the United States in the world.

PERFORMING ARTS – Bruce Whisler produced a recording titled “British Brass Works: A Historical Sound Document of the New York Brass Quintet.” The work was published by the International Trumpet Guild. Whisler was also scheduled to give a presentation on recording studio acoustics at the Audio Engineering Society Midwest Region meeting in St. Louis. The conference was canceled.

Editor’s note: Due to the progression of the COVID-19 outbreak, most academic conferences scheduled after the first week in March were canceled. We included news about our faculty’s scheduled appearances because their scholarship deserves the same recognition as the publications and presentations that were able to go forward as planned.

ARCHITECTURE – Anjali Joseph and David Allison, along with other researchers from the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing (CHFDT), authored a paper published March 13 in the Journal of Patient Safety: “Proactive Evaluation of an Operating Room Prototype: A Simulation-Based Modeling Approach.”

ENGLISH – David Blakesley was scheduled to make two presentations at the canceled annual convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, scheduled for March 25 in Milwaukee: “Tales from the Far Side: The Commonplaces of Publishing” and, as both chair and speaker, “Kenneth Burke Special Interest Group.”

HISTORY – Vernon Burton hosted his collaborator Ian Brooks, director of the University of Illinois’ Center for Health Informatics, a World Health Organization Collaborating Center, on March 6 at Clemson University. Their talk, “Building Information Systems to Detect Disease Outbreaks and Support Public Health,” was sponsored by the School of Computing. They also discussed research projects conducted with their interdisciplinary team of medical doctors, and scholars of health and computer science. Their abstract, “Capturing Patient Perspectives: Natural Language Processing of Social Media to Evaluate Patient Global Impression of Change in Dermatological Treatments” was to be presented at the Cochrane Group Skin Conference March 18-19 in Colorado. With the cancellation of the meeting, it will be published online. Burton also was to chair a session at the annual meeting of the South Carolina Historical Association March 14 at USC-Aiken. Three of his M.A. students, Megan Gaston, Harris Bailey and Alexander Bowen, were to present papers but the meeting was canceled. Burton also was interviewed by Jorge Valencia about the Democrats Abroad primary for “The World,” a PRI radio program.

HISTORY – Caroline Dunn co-organized and co-presided over the annual meeting of the South Carolina Medievalists Group, held at the College of Charleston on March 7.

LANGUAGES – In March, Stephen Fitzmaurice presented a two-hour online seminar, “Identifying and Conveying Key Vocabulary,” for 126 educational interpreters across America for the National Association of Interpreters in Education.

ENGLISH – Jordan Frith coauthored the article “Locative-Media Ethics: A Call for Protocols to Guide Interactions of People, Place, and Technologies” in Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly. His article “Radio-Frequency Identification: The Shadow of a Once-Feared Technology Looms Large” was published by Salon.com and also the MIT Reader. He was scheduled to speak on the topic of “Defining and Demarcating Infrastructure as a Concept, Methodology and Object of Study for Technical Communication” at the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing conference, which was canceled in late March.

ENGLISH – Cynthia Haynes was to give a keynote lecture on March 26 at the Texas Christian University NTX Gaming Symposium in Fort Worth, Texas, which was canceled. The topic was “Endgame Rhetoric: Theorycraft at the End of Play.”

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Elizabeth Jemison‘s chapter “Christianity and Race in the Memphis Massacre” appeared in a new volume published by the University of Georgia Press, “Remembering the Memphis Massacre: An American Story,” edited by Beverly Bond and Susan O’Donovan.

ARCHITECTURE – Amalia Leifeste and Barry L. Stiefel co-authored a book chapter, “In Search of the Greenest Car: Automobility and Sustainability,” in “The Routledge Companion to Automobile Heritage, Culture, and Preservation.”

ENGLISH – Michael LeMahieu received a research travel grant from the John Hope Franklin Research Center at Duke University to support archival work in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The center houses the papers of Franklin, a pioneering figure in African American history who is best known as the author of “From Slavery to Freedom,” first published in 1947.

CITY PLANNING AND REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT – Eric A. Morris won the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) research award for best published paper in 2019 in the field of time use for “Do Cities or Suburbs Offer Higher Quality of Life? Intrametropolitan Location, Activity Patterns, Access, and Subjective Well-Being.” IPUMS is a major demographic data aggregator.

ENGLISH – Due to cancellation, Chelsea Murdock was unable to present “Commonwaters: Public Memory, Sustainability, and Embodied Presence” and “Standing Peachtree and Storying Places” at the annual convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication in Milwaukee. She was also unable to present “4Rs at the Center: Relations in Writing Center Praxis” as part of the 2020 International Writing Centers Association (IWCA) Collaborative. On March 28, she presented alongside undergraduate Writing Fellows Ronnie Clevenstine and Gracie Boyce as part of a collaborative panel, “Can We Collaborate?: Similarities and Differences in Writing Center and Communication Center Tutor Training.” This panel paired the Clemson Writing Center and the Clemson Communication Center, and potential collaborations were discussed.

ARCHITECTURE – Mary G. Padua was scheduled to present two peer-reviewed papers, titled “Park-Making in 21st Century China: From Hybrid to Ecological Modernization” and “The American Experiment: Through the Lens of South Carolina’s Cultural Landscape,” at the 2020 Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) conference in Louisville. Her papers were selected out of 420 submissions for the canceled conference planned for March 18-21. She also co-authored a paper, “Understanding the Healthy Impact of “Nature” in Outdoor Play Environments: A Comparative Case Study in South Carolina,” with Xiaotong Liu, a Ph.D.  student from thePlanning Design and the Built Environment program at Clemson.

PERFORMING ARTS – Shannon Robert was selected as a featured designer for Stage Design South at the Southeastern Theatre Conference convention in Louisville, Kentucky. Robert also was scheduled to lead a panel at the United States Institute of Theatre Technology about preparing students for the realities of the industry and designing practices around those realities. The panel she proposed was selected by the Stage Design Commission. Though the conference was canceled, information will be shared with the membership.

HISTORY – Michael Silvestri’s research on the role of Irish people in building the British Empire in India was featured March 18 in a story in the Dublin InQuirer, an online Irish newspaper.

LANGUAGES – Johannes Schmidt was scheduled to attend the annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in St. Louis. He was to co-chair a panel on “Women in German Romanticism” with Elizabeth Millán Brusslan of DePaul University, and to deliver a paper titled “Universal Beauty and Particular Ugliness: Herder’s Concept of That Which Is Good After the Ideen.” Both panels have been moved to the 2021 conference in Toronto.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Charles Starkey was scheduled to present “Virtue Without Character” at the joint meeting of the North Carolina and South Carolina Philosophical societies on March 28 in Asheville, North Carolina (canceled).

ENGLISH – Rhondda Robinson Thomas and Shelby Henderson, director of the Bertha Lee Strickland Cultural Museum in Seneca, South Carolina, one of the community partners for Thomas’ “Call My Name Project,” presented “When Oil and Water Mix: Small Museums Partnering With Major Institutions” at the South Carolina Federation of Museums Conference March 11-13 in Columbia, South Carolina.

LANGUAGES – Jae DiBello Takeuchi was scheduled to present as part of a panel at the Fifth International Symposium on Language for Specific Purposes (ISLSP) conference in Charlotte, North Carolina. Her paper was titled “Combining Business Case Studies with Mock Product Proposals in a Japanese for Business Class.” The panel, “Curricular Innovations in LSP: Three Examples from Clemson University’s Programs in Spanish, French and Japanese,” was canceled. Kelly Peebles was scheduled to present her paper “Blending LSP with the Health Humanities in a French for Health Program” on the same panel.

LANGUAGES – A paper by Eric Touya titled “‘Souvenirs d’horizons, qu’est-ce, Ô Toi, que la Terre?’: Sens et présence dans l’oeuvre poétique de Mallarmé et Bonnefoy” was peer reviewed and accepted at the 20^th-21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. The conference, scheduled for March 28, was canceled.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Benjamin White published “Paul and the Jerusalem Church in Irenaeus,” pp. 225-243 in the volume “Irenaeus and Paul,” edited by Todd D. Still and David E. Wilhite for the Pauline and Patristics Scholars in Debate Series. (London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark).

ART – Anderson Wrangle’s work was featured in a three-person exhibition, “The Pleasure of Unintended Consequences,” along with photography by Martin Amorous and Pablo Gimenez Zapiola, which opened March 14 in Houston. The show, part of FotoFest 2020 Biennial, was scheduled to run through April 18.

ART – Valerie Zimany’s artwork was selected for the South Carolina Arts Commission Pop-Up show at the American Craft Show, scheduled March 13-15 at the Cobb Galleria in Atlanta, but the event was canceled. The SC Pop-Up aimed to showcase six of the best South Carolina artists working in their craft mediums, and highlight these trends: tradition, innovation, social justice, technology, entrepreneurship and upcycling. Zimany, the current SC State Fellow in Craft, was selected as the “Technology” artist for her work in 3D-printed ceramics. Zimany was also to present “Hanazume: Digital Translations of Historic Packed Floral Designs” at the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) conference scheduled March 25-28 in Richmond, Virginia, but the conference was canceled. She also was going to demonstrate 3D clay printing research along with her MFA students Sara Mays, Molly Morningglory and Lauren Bradshaw, and architecture faculty members Shan Sutherland and David Lee. Finally, her work was to be exhibited in “Finding Nature,” a peer-reviewed, independent exhibition organized by Elaine Quave, at W. Howard Myers Enterprises LLC during the NCECA conference.

HISTORY – Vernon Burton spoke to the Clemson Seratoma Club on Feb. 4 about his forthcoming book about race and the Supreme Court. On Feb. 8, he spoke at the Charles Towne Landing State Historic Site about commemorating important places to understand South Carolina history. On Feb. 25, he spoke at “A History of Race Relations at Clemson,” sponsored by the Clemson Young Democrats. Burton was an invited speaker and participant in the Liberty Fund Symposium on “Henry Clay, The American System, and the Politics of Liberty in Antebellum America,” which began Feb. 27 in Tucson, Arizona. Burton contributed extensively to a recent USA Today article about 10 civil rights sites people should visit. He was quoted in a Washington Post article, “Lincoln’s Forgotten Legacy as America’s First ‘Green President.’” In the Charleston City Paper on Feb. 19, College of Charleston Professor Adam Domby cited Burton in the article “Debunking Myths Surrounding the Confederate Narrative: The Lost Cause Was a False Cause.” He wrote that “Clemson professor Vernon Burton likes to point out that the majority of South Carolinians supported the Union because the majority of South Carolinians in 1860 were enslaved, so one might even argue that South Carolinians won the Civil War.”

LANGUAGES – Jody Cripps published a feature article titled “Signed Language Pathology: A Profession in Need” in the Fall/Winter issue of California-Speech-Hearing-Association Magazine.

ART – Rachel de Cuba presented “Pioneer Women and the Future of Rural Engagement” as a part of the “No Country for Old Murals” panel at the College Art Association’s annual conference held Feb. 14 in Chicago. Her presentation focused on her time researching and working with the Pioneer Women quilting group in rural Indiana.

ENGLISH – Megan Eatman published “Ecologies of Harm: Rhetorics of Violence in the United States” (Ohio State University Press).

ENGLISH – Stevie Edwards recently presented a paper at the American Literature Association’s “American Poetry Symposium” in Washington. In her paper, “On the Dilemma of Trans-Exclusionary Imagery in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Feminist Poetry,” she discussed the works of Anne Sexton, Muriel Rukeyser, Lucille Clifton, and Sharon Olds, among others.

ENGLISH – Jordan Frith’s new coauthored article, “Locative-Media Ethics: A Call for Protocols to Guide Interactions of People, Place, and Technologies,” was published in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly.

HISTORY – H. Roger Grant contributed three articles to the special 20^th anniversary edition of Classic Trains magazine. This Spring 2020 publication contains his “Stronger Together” (railroad mergers), “Strike of the Century” (Shopmen’s Strike of 1922) and “Down by the Station” (disappearance of country railroad stations).

ENGLISH – Tharon Howard presented “Usability & UX Research in the Future: Mapping the Minefield” at the Ninth Annual Symposium on Communicating Complex Information (SCCI) on Feb. 25 at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.

ENGLISH – Walt Hunter was selected to be a Writer-in-Residence at the James Merrill House in Stonington, Connecticut.

ARCHITECTURE – Anjali Joseph participated in an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality review panel Feb. 19-20 in Washington. The group met to review grant proposals related to identifying risks and hazards that lead to medical errors and to find solutions to prevent patient injury associated with the delivery of health care. Joseph also was quoted in a Bloomberg opinion article about the spread of the new COVID-19 disease caused by a coronavirus, “Small Weapons Are the Most Potent in Virus Fight.”

HISTORY – Kathryn Langenfeld gave an invited lecture on her monograph manuscript, “Forging a History,” at the Southeast Regional Late Antiquity Consortium. The talk on Feb. 28 was hosted by University of Tennessee-Knoxville’s Center for Humanities. Langenfeld discussed how forged imperial letters and fake documents were used in politically subversive ways to undermine the public’s trust in the Roman emperors of the third and fourth centuries CE.

ENGLISH – Michael LeMahieu presented a paper, “Wittgenstein in 3D: Surveying Rough Ground,” as part of a workshop on “Reading Wittgenstein’s ‘Philosophical Investigations,’” sponsored by the Center for Philosophy, Arts, and Literature at Duke University.

LANGUAGES – Tiffany Creegan Miller published an essay, “Ri pach’un tzij aj Iximulew: Teaching Contemporary Maya Poetries From Guatemala,” which appears in the book “Teaching Modern Latin American Poetries” (MLA Series: Options for Teaching). In this essay, Miller offers techniques for teaching recent Guatemalan Maya poetry to demonstrate how these poets are not stuck in an ancient past, but are transforming themselves and taking advantage of electronic media to build community and extend their audiences.

LANGUAGES – Arelis Moore de Peralta, as a director-at-large for the Global Alliance for Behavioral Health and Social Justice, participated in its board meeting Feb. 21-23 in Charlotte, North Carolina.

ENGLISH – Chelsea Murdock presented “Writing Relations: Storying Constellations in the Writing Center” on Feb. 21 at the Southeastern Writing Center Association (SWCA) conference in Birmingham, Alabama. The conference gathered writing center leadership from across the southeastern United States.

ENGLISH – Angela Naimou delivered the annual Barstow lecture at Saginaw Valley State University. In addition to her talk, “Border Regimes and the Global Forms of World Literature,” Naimou guest-taught two general education classes on poetry and border politics. The Barstow seminar was created to promote excellence in teaching and recognize scholarship in the humanities, and its annual lecture is chosen by a committee in cooperation with the dean’s office. It was established through a gift from The Barstow Foundation, which supports education, health and human services agencies and humanitarian causes with emphasis on the greater Midland area.

ARCHITECTURE – Winifred Elysse Newman served as the scientific committee and publicity chair of the Ninth International Conference on Educational and Information Technology (ICEIT 2020), Feb.11-13 at St Anne’s College, University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom.

PERFORMING ARTS – Lisa Sain Odom served as musical director of the Clemson Players’ production of the musical “Bright Star,” presented Feb. 20-23 at the Brooks Center. This production was reviewed by a respondent with the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, who nominated two of the student performers for the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship competition. Odom also co-hosted a workshop on Feb. 29 with Jenna Elser, artistic director of GLOW Lyric Theatre, titled “Difficult Conversations: Classic Musical Theatre and the Modern Audience.” In this workshop at the Southeastern Theatre Conference in Louisville, Kentucky, Odom and Elser explored the question of how to reconcile a love of classic musicals with their often problematic treatment of marginalized groups and social issues. They discussed strategies for starting the conversation with students and audiences about whether we can still perform classic musicals today and how to approach the material.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Charles Starkey presented “Perceptual Emotion and Emotional Virtue” at the annual Central Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association on Feb. 27 in Chicago. He also presented “Interpersonal Variation and Noncognitive Urges: Comments on ‘Addictive Craving: There’s More to Wanting More’” at the conference.

LANGUAGES – Gabriela Stoicea published “Fictions of Legibility: The Human Face and Body in Modern German Novels from Sophie von La Roche to Alfred Döblin” (Transcript, 2020).

LANGUAGES – Jae DiBello Takeuchi gave the keynote address at the annual conference of the Southeastern Association of Teachers of Japanese, held on Feb. 22 in Memphis, Tennessee. Her talk was titled “Why Affirming Students’ Speaker Legitimacy Matters: Lessons from L2 Speakers Living in Japan.”

ENGLISH – Rhondda Robinson Thomas has curated the exhibition titled “Call My Name: The Making of the Black Clemson Community,” which is currently on display on the third floor of the Cooper Library. The exhibition was made possible by grants from the Whiting Foundation and South Carolina Humanities, and is based on research that is being conducted for the Call My Name Project. Thomas created the exhibition in collaboration with Shelby Henderson, director of the Bertha Lee Strickland Cultural Museum and Nick McKinney, director of the Lunney Museum. The exhibition will be on display until May 10, 2020.

ENGLISH – Jillian Weise read from her book “Cyborg Detective” at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln and The College at Brockport, part of the State University of New York.

ART – Valerie Zimany’s ceramic artwork is featured in the solo exhibition “Efflorescence” at the Tennessee Tech University Appalachian Center for Craft in Smithville, Tennessee. Included are sculptures and wall works that reinterpret traditional patterns through hand-built and 3D-printed ceramic florals, and digitally printed wallpaper. This research was facilitated by a CU SEED grant through the Office of the Vice President for Research. The exhibition opened on Feb. 13 with an artist talk and reception, and runs through April 20. The Appalachian Center for Craft hosts multiple juried exhibitions each year featuring traditional and contemporary fine craft, and mixed media work made by international and national artists.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – David Antonini presented a paper titled “An Arendtian Reflection on Civil Disobedience and the Separation of Powers in Light of the Trump Presidency” at the Indiana Philosophical Association’s workshop on Social and Political Philosophy.

ARCHITECTURE – Dina Battisto and designer Jacob J. Wilhelm published a co-edited book titled “Architecture and Health: Guiding Principles for Practice,” (Routledge, 2019).

PERFORMING ARTS – Under the direction of Becky Becker, the Clemson Players have been invited to perform a scene from “John Proctor Is the Villain,” by Kimberly Belflower, for the Awards Gala at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Region IV in Spartanburg, South Carolina. The gala event on Feb. 8 will be the culmination of a weeklong regional festival in which universities and colleges from across the region are represented.

PERFORMING ARTS – Anthony Bernarducci served as guest conductor of the Greenville County High School Honor Choir. Each teacher from the 14 high schools in Greenville County brought students to participate in the one-day festival on Jan. 31 at Mauldin High School.

HISTORY – Vernon Burton commented at a Jan. 4 session on Reconstruction at the American Historical Association annual meeting in New York. A pre-recorded interview about Politics in South Carolina Between World Wars first aired on Jan. 13 on “Walter Edgar’s Journal” on SCETV Radio. On Jan. 17, he gave the Martin Luther King, Jr. commemoration lecture and participated on a panel about Dr. King at Lander University in Greenwood, South Carolina. In an interview with the Organization for Defending Victims of Violence (ODVV), Burton shared his views about the growth of racial inequalities in the United States, public perceptions of minorities, police brutality against African Americans and President Trump’s immigration policies. The interview by international journalist Kourosh Ziabari is available on the ODVV website. Burton attended the National Park Service’s first Reconstruction Advisory Board meeting Jan. 30-31 in Beaufort, South Carolina, where the new Reconstruction Era National Historical Park is located.

ARCHITECTURE – Hyejung Chang published “Environmental Justice as Justification for Landscape Architectural Design,” the featured article in Landscape Journal 37(2), pp.1-17. She also published a book chapter, “Design for Humanity: Landscape Architecture of Understanding, Feeling, and Care,” in “Landscape Handbook of All Hands,” published in Seoul, South Korea, and edited by Y Kim, (pp. 236–251). The book was celebrated in a book signing event on Jan. 17 in Seoul, which was attended by noted authors and academics who read select passages from the book.

ENGLISH – Stevie Edwards’ poem “Narrative” was published in American Poetry Review. In addition, her pantoum poem “Easy as Pie” appeared in a special, food-themed issue of Crab Orchard Review, a publication of Southern Illinois University.

LANGUAGES – Stephen Fitzmaurice presented an interactive poster, “Exploring the Clemson University ASL-English Educational Interpreting Program,” in the Language and Literature Programs Innovation Room at the Modern Language Association convention in Seattle.

ENGLISH – Gabriel Hankins published “Interwar Modernism and the Liberal World Order,” (Cambridge University Press, 2019).

PERFORMING ARTS – Lillian “Mickey” Harder reports that two concerts from the Utsey Chamber Music Series were broadcast in December on the American Public Media radio program “Performance Today,” reaching more than 500,000 listeners. Brahms’ Clarinet Sonata, which aired Dec. 17, 2019, was performed by clarinetist Julian Bliss and pianist Bradley Moore on Jan. 19, 2017 at the Brooks Center. Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio No. 1, which aired Dec. 30, 2019, was performed by pianist Wu Han, cellist David Finckel, and violinist Philip Setzer of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center on Oct. 24, 2013 at the Brooks Center. The Utsey series was created through the generosity of Lillian and her husband, Dr. Byron Harder.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Elizabeth Jemison delivered a paper titled “Constructing Race and Christian Identity in Reconstruction-Era Southern Methodism” on Jan. 3 at the American Historical Association’s Annual Meeting in New York as part of a panel jointly sponsored by the Society of Civil War Historians about “Reimagining Interracial Cooperation in Religious Communities After the Civil War.”

ARCHITECTURE – In December, Anjali Joseph, Sahar Mihandoust and other researchers from the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing visited the new pediatric Ambulatory Surgery Center at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston. The purpose of their visit was to conduct a post-occupancy evaluation. This new MUSC surgery center has implemented some concepts developed over the course of the RIPCHD.OR project (Realizing Improved Patient Care through Human Centered Design in the Operating Room). The evaluation included: 1) making observations to map out layouts, key flows and locations in the facility; 2) conducting interviews with nurses, anesthesiologists, surgeons and cleanup techs; and 3) beginning to collect video recordings of the pediatric Ambulatory Surgery Center’s new operating rooms. Videos will be collected over several weeks to capture a variety of surgery types. The videos, flow maps, pictures and interviews are being analyzed to understand the impact of OR design and induction rooms on staff work flow; to identify design barriers and facilitators; and to make comparisons to the RIPCHD.OR project. A special toolkit was developed for the post-occupancy evaluation. Study outcomes will be published at a later date.

ARCHITECTURE – A manuscript authored by Anjali Joseph, Andrew Robb from the School of Computing and other researchers from the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing, “Using Virtual Reality to Compare Design Alternatives Using Subjective and Objective Evaluation Methods,” was recently published in Health Environments Research and Design Journal (HERD).

HISTORY – Thomas Kuehn presented an invited paper, “The “Confused Legal Status of the Children of Foundling Hospitals,” at “Common Children and the Common Good: Locating Foundlings in the Early Modern World, an International Conference” held Dec. 9-10 at Villa I Tatti and Innocenti Hospital in Florence, Italy. Kuehn also published “State and Law” in “A Cultural History of Marriage From Antiquity to the Present,” a six-volume collection edited by Joanne M. Ferraro. His paper appears in Vol. 2, “A Cultural History of Marriage in the Medieval Age (500-1500), edited by Joanne M. Ferraro and Frederik Pedersen (London: Bloomsbury Press, 2020), pp. 57-75.

HISTORY – Kathryn Langenfeld presented the paper “Inscriptions and Permanence: Memory, Spoliation, and Social Networks at Ostia and Dion” at the North American Colloquium for Greek and Roman Epigraphy, hosted Jan. 6 at Georgetown University in Washington.

ENGLISH – Melissa Edmundson Makala published the collection “Gothic Animals: Uncanny Otherness and the Animal With-Out,” co-edited with Ruth Heholt of Falmouth University in England. The book was published by Palgrave Macmillan.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Professor Emeritus William Maker presented “Capitalism and Nihilism” at the 26th International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference meeting at Dublin City University in Ireland.

ENGLISH – Lee Matalone’s essay  “On the Line Between Truth and Fiction When Writing About Your Family” was published in Literary Hub on Jan. 13.

LANGUAGES – Arelis Moore de Peralta, M.D. has been elected a director at large for the Global Alliance for Behavioral Health and Social Justice.The alliance is an interdisciplinary national membership organization of individuals committed to addressing some of society’s most challenging issues through research, policy development and practice. Through the board position, Dr. Moore will be able to increase her contributions to health equity and social justice in the United States and globally. In addition, she was formally recognized as a member of the Dominican Republic National Scientific Career cohort (Carrera Nacional de Investigación de la República Dominicana) during an award ceremony held Dec. 11 at the Santo Domingo Autonomous University (UASD). She was nominated by the Dean of Research Office at Iberoamerican University (UNIBE).

NIERI FAMILY DEPARTMENT OF CONSTRUCTION SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT – Ehsan Mousavi was invited as a panelist for the workshop on Ultraviolet Disinfection Technologies & Healthcare Associated Infections organized by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), held Jan. 14-15 in Washington. Mousavi presented his current research on “Automation in Hospital Cleaning and Disinfection” as part of the panel discussion of disinfection in the hospital environment.

ENGLISH – Chelsea Murdock presented “BTS Transmedia: English Composition and Participatory Culture” and “The BTS Transmedia Escape Room” at the first BTS: Global Interdisciplinary Conference at Kingston University on Jan. 4 in London.

ENGLISH – Angela Naimou was elected to the Postcolonial Forum Executive Committee of the Modern Language Association (MLA) for a term of five years.

ARCHITECTURE – Winifred Elysse Newman is the scientific committee and publicity chair for the Ninth International Conference on Educational and Information Technology (ICEIT 2020), which will take place Feb.11-13 at St Anne’s College, University of Oxford, England.

PERFORMING ARTS – Lisa Sain Odom performed an art song by Mozart,  “Als Luise die Briefe ihres ungetreuen Liebhabers verbrannte,” at the National Association of Teachers of Singing’s Winter Workshop on Jan. 10 in New York as part of a German Lied masterclass with clinician Margo Garrett of the Juilliard School. Odom also performed a recital of opera arias, art songs, musical theater and jazz numbers on Jan. 28 at Clemson University with collaborative pianist and the University’s director of choral activities, Anthony Bernarducci.

LANGUAGES – Salvador Oropesa published a brief article in the Winter 2019 MLA Newsletter, “Using Data to Advocate for Your Department.” In total, 13,000 printed copies of the newsletter are sent to Modern Language Association members.

LANGUAGES – Roberto Risso was guest editor for a special issue of the Rutgers University scholarly journal Italian Quarterly. The theme of the monographic issue was “Representations of Disaster in Italian Literature, Cinema and Arts.” The issue was co-edited with Alberto Iozzia.

ENGLISH – Elizabeth Rivlin’s essay “Shakespeare for Use and Pleasure: Elizabeth Nunez’s and Terry McMillan’s Middlebrow Fiction” was published in the Journal of American Studies 54 (2020), pp. 19-26, in the special issue “Shakespeare and Black America,” edited by Patricia Cahill and Kim F. Hall.

ARCHITECTURE – Tom Schurch was an invited speaker at the dedication ceremony for community art at the Sterling Community Center in Greenville, the historic site of the former African-American Sterling High School. Schurch secured funding from the Clemson Architectural Foundation to produce large reproductions of historic quilts from neighborhood residents. The work is permanently displayed in four locations on the exterior of Sterling Community Center, which is operated by the Greenville County Parks Recreation and Tourism Department. The four art pieces were produced by Schurch and his students as part of the Upstate Heritage Quilt Trail program in South Carolina.

HISTORY – Michael Silvestri participated in a screening and panel discussion of the film “Black 47” on Jan. 15 in Atlanta. The event was co-sponsored by the Consulate General of Ireland and Georgia Public Broadcasting. Other panelists included Consul General of Ireland Shane Stephens; President of Georgia Public Broadcasting Teya Ryan and James Frecheville, who played the leading role in the film, which tells the story of an Irish soldier who returns home in 1847, the worst year of the Great Famine.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Charles Starkey presented “Emotion, Phenomenal Binding, and Synesthesia” at the annual Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association on Jan. 9 in Philadelphia. He also organized a conference session, “Recent Work on Emotion Kinds and Moral Emotions.”

LANGUAGES – Eric Touya read two papers at the Modern Language Association convention held Jan. 9-12 in Seattle. His first paper was titled “‘Ne me quitte pas’: Literature, Professional Opportunities, and the Betterment of Society,” and was part of the panel “Let’s Say Quit to ‘Quit Lit’: Structural Issues in Graduate Education,” chaired by Kathryn D. Temple of Georgetown University. His second paper, “French-Chinese Poetics: Cross-Cultural and Symbolic Landscapes in Claudel’s ‘Connaissance de l’Est,’” was read in the panel “Comparative Poetics,” chaired by Pichaya Damrongpiwat from Cornell University.

ENGLISH – Jillian Weise presented on Jan. 10 at the Modern Language Association convention in Seattle on a panel titled “Disability and Surveillance.” Her short story on this theme, “Stealth,” appeared in the Sunday Review section of the New York Times Jan. 5. Weise’s alter ego, Tipsy Tullivan, rang in the New Year by conducting a two-hour live-streamed reading and call-in show about the novel “Me Before You” by Jojo Moyes. The commercial breaks during the show included trailers for the decade’s best films about disability.

ART – A photograph from Anderson Wrangle’s “Outer Banks” series was exhibited at the Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati in the group exhibition “Time Bombs: Art About Anxiety & Impending Disaster,” Dec. 13, 2019 – Jan. 10, 2020. His “Outer Banks” project was featured in the online magazine Lenscratch on Jan. 28, in one of four recent features written by Amanda Musick, an alumna from the MFA photography program.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Daniel Wueste published “Algorithmic vs. Conscientious Professional Responsibility” in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol. 108 Issue 6 (December 2019).