Category: College of Architecture

ENGLISH — David Blakesley is the Founder and Publisher of Parlor Press. The Conference on College Composition and Communication has awarded its annual Outstanding Book Award to the Parlor Press book “Creole Composition: Academic Writing and Rhetoric in the Anglophone Caribbean,” edited by Vivette Milson-Whyte, Raymond A. Oenbring, and Brianne Jaquette. To learn more about this prize and the book, see https://parlorpress.com/blogs/news/mla-prize-for-creole-composition and https://cccc.ncte.org/cccc/awards/oba.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY —  Vernon Burton and co-author Armand Derfner were interviewed on the Law360 podcast about their new book, “Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court.” The podcast is available for download on iTunes and other podcast apps. On May 1, Library Journal published the second review of “Justice Deferred.” On May 30, Cornell University history Glenn Altschuler published the first full-length review of the book in the Florida Courier. “Justice Deferred” was officially released on May 31.

PERFORMING ARTS — Paul Buyer has been selected to serve as a Leadership Facilitator with the Jeff Janssen Sports Leadership Center. With the program adapted for bands, Buyer is looking forward to helping high school and college band programs work toward excellence, reach their potential, and develop their next generation of leaders. As Janssen’s only licensed Band Leadership Facilitator in the country, Buyer will be presenting unique, in-person Leadership Summits in the Upstate and Charlotte, N.C. areas to develop and improve leadership skills in band members, student leaders, and staff.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY — Elizabeth Carney recently present a virtual public lecture, “Eurydice of Macedon: The Power of Memory,” at the University of Marburg in Germany. Carney also wrote the recent book chapter, “The First basilissa: Phila, Daughter of Antipater and Wife of Demetrius Poliorcetes” in “New Directions in the Study of Woman in Antiquity,” edited by Georgia Tsouvala and Ronnie Ancona (Oxford University Press, 2021).

ARCHITECTURE — Joseph Choma is officially the inventor of “Foldable Composite Structures,” U.S. Patent Number 10,994,468. The patent was issued on May 4. See a complete description of the patent here. On May 7, Choma gave a virtual talk (to an audience of 2,800 people) titled “Designing with Mathematics” as part of Notions of India: Shaping a Billion Dreams. On May 24, Choma gave an invited presentation titled “Foldable Structures and Materials” for the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science (MS21). On May 27, Choma and his collaborators, Jefferson Ellinger and Wesam Al Asali, were selected as one of the 12 shortlisted teams out of 119 entries from 41 countries for the Tallinn Architecture Biennale (TAB) Installation Competition.

LANGUAGES — Stephen Fitzmaurice and Salvador Oropesa published an essay titled “American Sign Language: Innovations in Teaching and Learning in One of the Most Popular Languages in the United States” in the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (ADFL) Bulletin. This essay showcases how the Clemson University Department of Languages has gained tremendous insight into the ways in which studying ASL provides important linguistic, cultural, and professional opportunities for students of modern languages.

RHETORICS, COMMUNICATION, AND INFORMATION DESIGN — Cynthia Haynes’ essay “Sacred Passages, Rhetorical Passwords” was selected as the lead essay in an important new edited collection from Penn State University Press called “Responding to the Sacred: An Inquiry into the Limits of Rhetoric,” edited by Michael Bernard-Donals and Kyle Jensen. Haynes writes that “the sacred belongs to no category or system of representation. It is beyond what can be communicated, perhaps beyond all knowing. Rhetoric, on the other hand, takes that barrier as its foremost challenge: seeking to permeate the impermeable, to relate to the unrelatable, to unveil so as to enlighten. It is a kind of sacred act. Rhetoric acts within the sacred, in words other than it otherwise would. This chapter aims to examine this unruly character of rhetoric by situating the two in a different kind of relationship, one that forms an organic bond — a passageway through which things come and go, ebb and flow, to and fro. To enter this forgotten passage, one needs passwords…. This chapter intends to weave rhetoric and the sacred into a passing through various forgotten passages and the passwords with which we gain entrance to ‘the answer itself. The one that was waiting for us’ (Cixous), even the one that is unholy.”

ARCHITECTURE — Anjali Joseph, David Allison, Sahar Mihandoust, and graduate students Rutali Joshi and Roxana Jafarifiroozabadi, all with the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing, presented work online for the 52^nd Annual Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA52) Conference — “Just Environments: Transdisciplinary Border Crossings” — held May 19-23. The team’s presentations included: “Comparing the Clinical Team’s Perception of the Surgical Environments Between a High-Fidelity Physical Mock-Up and a Post-Occupancy Evaluation,” “Identifying Flow Disruptions in a Physical Mock-Up of a Pediatric ICU: An Evaluation of a Three-Phased Scenario,” “Designing for Family Engagement in the Neonatal ICU: An In-Depth Look at Single-Family Rooms,” “The Impact of Daylight Versus Window Views on Health Outcomes: A Mixed-Methods Study of Patients with Heart Disease in a Cardiac ICU,” “Exploring the Relationship Between the Surgical Table Orientation in the OR and Flow Disruptions in the Intra-Operative Phase,” “Comparison of Circulating Nurse’s Workflow in Pediatric Operating Rooms Pre and Post Optimization,” “Impact of Workstation Design on Noise Levels and Perceptions of Speech Intelligibility During Emergency Physician Handoffs” and “Understanding Sources of Disruptions to Telemedicine-Based Stroke Care in an Ambulance Using Simulation.”

ARCHITECTURE — The Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA53) Conference Organizing Committee is thrilled to announce EDRA53 Greenville hosted by the Clemson University School of Architecture. The conference will be held in Greenville, South Carolina on June 1-4, 2022. As we emerge from a global pandemic, it has become imperative that environmental designers and researchers consider health — a state of complete physical, social and mental well-being over time — as a critical goal for all design projects. Thus, the theme of the conference is “Health In All Design.” Organizers hope to attract a multidisciplinary community of practitioners, researchers, and students to engage in conversations about the role of built environments in promoting health, equity, sustainability and resilience. Greenville is an excellent example of the conference’s theme and is listed among the 10 most livable cities in the United States.

ARCHITECTURE — Anjali Joseph and David Allison recently published an article in Instituto de Pesquisas Hospitalares (IPH) Magazine: “Design Insights from a Research Initiative on Ambulatory Surgery Operating Rooms in the U.S.” IPH Magazine is an interdisciplinary Brazilian publication designed to disseminate and promote knowledge in Architecture, Engineering, Administration, and other fields that contribute to the improvement of health facilities construction and management.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION — Claire Kirwin was the runner-up for the 2021 Marc Sanders Prize in Metaethics for her paper “Value Realism and Idiosyncrasy.” She presented a version of that paper at the Cyprus Metaethics Workshop via Zoom on May 21. She also presented her paper “Sympathy for the Devil?: The Guise of the Good Remastered” via Zoom at the New Mexico – Texas Philosophical Society Annual Meeting on May 26. Finally, she was interviewed about her work on value realism for the ‘Elucidations’ philosophy podcast.

LANGUAGES — Salvador Oropesa delivered a paper virtually, “Bajarse al Sur: ‘El Niño’ (2014) de Daniel Monzón y ‘Bebedores de té’ (2018) de José Manuel Caamaño Sánchez,” at the XVI Congreso de novela y cine negro: (Re)escrituras en negro at the Universidad de Salamanca.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION — Mashal Saif was named a Senior Fellow of the American Institute of Pakistan Studies, the funding from which will be used to support research for her new book project.

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE — Thomas Schurch has been elevated to the Council of Fellows of the American Society of Landscape Architects. His ASLA Fellows profile describes his impact in the field: “Thomas Schurch has demonstrated exceptional knowledge-based leadership and significant cross-disciplinary discourse between practice and theory for more than 40 years. Long devoted to advancing landscape architecture and urban design, he has made significant contributions through teaching, research, writing, and community-based learning techniques that have benefited both students and communities. … His many writings on subjects such as urban design, sustainability, and climate change have been lauded by his peers and the public.”

LANGUAGES — Gabriela Stoicea’s monograph “Fictions of Legibility: The Human Face in Modern German Novels from Sophie von La Roche to Alfred Döblin” (Transcript, 2020) has just been reviewed in the official journal of the German Studies Association. Read the review here.

VISUAL ART — Anderson Wrangle’s “Savannah River Watershed” and Clemson graduate Amanda Musick’s “Land Unfolding” projects came together in a recent exhibition, “Topographic & Expressive Landscape Photography: Amanda Musick and Anderson Wrangle,” at the Arts Center of Greenwood. The two projects created a dialogue about the ways a changing landscape is described and documented. Through their distinct processes, the artists offered a glimpse into the state of the landscape around us. The approaches to landscape in this exhibit split along the line of subjectivity and objectivity, but both approaches relied on direct observation, and immersion in the environment. These are not imaginary landscapes. Musick’s landscape constructions refer to her individual sensory experience in the world, and even as her constructions form a view, they refer to moving through the landscape and the perspective of the artist doing so. Wrangle’s landscapes are conceived of from an objective and descriptive position, and in most of the work he has endeavored to take the artist out of the work.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION — Dan Wueste was featured prominently in zippia.com’s collection of experts speaking about the job market for recent graduates in philosophy. See his comments here.

VISUAL ART — Valerie Zimany’s ceramic artworks, featuring ceramic 3D printed components and Japanese Kutani enamels, are on view in the group exhibition “Finding Nature” at Blue Spiral 1 gallery in Asheville, N.C. through June 25. Also in the exhibition are Zimany’s graduates Nina Kawar (MFA,’14) and Deighton Abrams (MFA, ’16), as well as Mike Vatalaro, Professor Emeritus. The exhibition presents works “which visually describe the way meaningful interactions with nature can make us feel whole.” More info on the exhibition is available at: https://www.bluespiral1.com/exhibit/313-finding-nature. In addition, Zimany’s artwork was selected for the national juried exhibition “Spring to Life,” which was on view at 311 Gallery in Raleigh, N.C. from May 7-29. The exhibition explored the color and complexity of all things flora and fauna. More info on the exhibition is available at https://www.311artgallery.com/exhibitions/2021/spring-to-life.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION — David Antonini’s book, “Public Space and Political Experience: An Arendtian Interpretation,” was published by Lexington Press on April 15. Reviews and publication information can be found here.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY — Abel Bartley was selected as the Commissioner of the Year by the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission during its annual meeting, held virtually on April 9.

ENGLISH — David Blakesley edited “Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2020” with Jessica Pauszek, Kristi Girdharry, Charles Lesh, and Steve Parks. The paperback was issued by Parlor Press, the independent publisher of scholarly books Blakesley founded in 2002. Blakesley also presented “The Commonplaces of Book Publishing” at the 2021 annual meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY — Vernon Burton on April 15 presented a virtual lecture at Iowa State University on the Voting Rights Act. On April 23, Burton presented a virtual lecture at Furman University on Reconstruction. His interview “Southern History, Influence and Tradition” with James Howell aired this month on the series “Maybe I’m Amazed.” Burton served as a commentator on the “Last Rice River,” a half-hour experience examining the rise and fall of the Rice Kingdom on South Carolina’s Combahee River. (It can be viewed here). Burton wrote the foreword for Clemson Emeritus Senior Associate Dean of the Graduate School Frankie Felder’s new book, “OURstory Unchained and Liberated from HIStory,” just published. Burton’s co-authored book, “Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park, Charleston, SC: Administrative History,” was just released by the National Park Service. The book was the result of a three-year grant to Burton at Clemson from the National Park Service.

ENGLISH — Cameron Bushnell was named CAAH Faculty Member of the Year. CAAH students nominate faculty members for the honor, and the recipient is chosen by a panel of CAAH ambassadors.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY — Joshua Catalano gave an invited talk, virtually, about digital public history at Northern Arizona University on April 1. He also participated in a virtual panel discussion about career paths for graduates of digital humanities centers at George Mason University on April 12.

LANGUAGES — Jody Cripps created a lyrical signed music piece in American Sign Language (ASL) called “Larry the Lion” in honor of his family friend, Larry Opperman, who recently passed away. The two had a close relationship, though Cripps, when growing up, feared Opperman based on his appearance. In order to follow the lyrical song in ASL, Cripps suggests the viewer learn some signed vocabularies, such as beard, good, heart, mom, lion, scared, sorry, still, and mine. Handspeak.com is a reliable ASL dictionary online. Cripps’ signed song can be seen here.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY — Caroline Dunn participated in a virtual roundtable event reflecting on the 10th anniversary of the international Kings and Queens conferences series, the fifth of which was hosted by Clemson University. Dunn also recently presented “The Fourteenth Century Plague” at the First Clemson TIDE (Tigers for Inclusion, Ethics, and Diversity) conference, held virtually on March 30.

ENGLISH AND WORLD CINEMA — Maziyar Faridi was named the co-recipient of the Charles Bernheimer Prize from the American Comparative Literature Association. The Bernheimer Prize goes to the best dissertation in the field of Comparative Literature. Faridi’s dissertation, “On an Aporetic Poetics of Relation: Translation, Difference, and Identity in Modern Poetry and New-Wave Cinema of Iran (1920s-1970s),” was nominated for the award by Northwestern University. In awarding Faridi the Bernheimer prize, judges said Faridi’s dissertation “develops an elegant narrative arc about an understudied corpus of modernist Iranian literary and cinematic texts. … This is a richly compelling contribution to comparatist global modernist studies.”

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY — H. Roger Grant participated in the St. Louis Mercantile Library-Barriger Zoom seminar, “The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad,” on April 17. One of three presenters, Grant spoke on “Building the Rock Island System” and responded to questions and comments.

ENGLISH — Walt Hunter was selected as the 2021 recipient of the Dr. Ted G. Westmoreland Award for Faculty Excellence at Clemson University. A student, staff member and faculty member each nominated Hunter for the award. Established in 2013 through an endowment funded by the late Dr. Ted G. Westmoreland, the award is presented annually to honor a distinguished faculty member who has made exemplary contributions to undergraduate student success at Clemson University.

ARCHITECTURE, PERFORMING ARTS — Anjali Joseph and Linda Li-Bleuel are recipients of the 2021 Clemson University Research, Scholarship and Artistic Achievement awards.

ARCHITECTURE — Elements of a new operating room design, developed by Anjali Joseph, David Allison, Scott Reeves and other researchers with the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing at Clemson University have been incorporated into the R. Keith Summey Medical Pavilion at the Medical University of South Carolina. The New York Times recently covered the implementation of the new design developed by this multidisciplinary team.

ARCHITECTURE — Anjali Joseph, Sahar Mihandoust, and doctoral student Rutali Joshi, along with other researchers from the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing (CHFDT), presented work virtually April 15 for the International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care — “Understanding Challenges in the Home Environment and Technology Preferences for Home Assessments and Modifications Among Older Adults Undergoing Joint Replacement Surgery: A Qualitative Feasibility Study.” Joseph delivered a presentation for the event — “Using Flow Disruptions to Study System Interactions in Healthcare.” She also participated in a virtual panel discussion — “Methodologies and Challenges Associated with Exploring Flow Disruptions in Hospital Environments.”

LANGUAGES — Arelis Moore de Peralta published a peer-reviewed manuscript titled “A Contribution to Measure Partnership Trust in Community-Based Participatory Research and Interventions with Latinx Communities in the United States” in Health Promotion Practice, with co-authors Prieto Rosas, Smithwick, Timmons and Torres. In addition, Moore was a second author in two published peer-reviewed manuscripts. The first one titled “Faculty Perception of the Contribution of Start-Up Packages to Professional Development” in Innovative Higher Education Journal with co-authors Höfrová, Rosopa, Small, Steele Payne, and Rymesova; and the second one titled “How Partnership Trust can Facilitate and Result from CBPR: An Assessment of Situational, Organizational, and Institutional Related Factors” in the Epidemiology International Journal with co-authors Charles, Prieto-Rosas, and Smithwick.

ENGLISH — Chelsea Murdock presented “4Rs at the Center: Relations in Writing Center Praxis” at the virtual International Writing Center Association Collaborative held April 7. She also presented “Standing Peachtree: Storying Places” at the Conference on College Composition and Communication held April 7-10.

CITY PLANNING AND REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT — Luis Enrique Ramos-Santiago’s first solo-authored paper was accepted for publication in the Journal of Public Transportation. JPT is an international peer-reviewed specialist journal. His paper titled “Does Walkability Around Feeder Bus-Stops Influence Rapid-Transit Station Boardings?” assesses the influence of built-environment and land-use attributes around feeder bus stops on rapid-transit patronage, and discusses policy implications related to promoting more sustainable travel in the United States using multimodal transit systems. The Los Angeles metropolitan area, a decentralized and dispersed mega-city considered an archetype of automobile-dependency, served as case study in Ramos-Santiago’s investigation. Ramos-Santiago is also working on two other parallel investigations focusing on the intersection of mass transit, urban design, and transit planning demand modeling. The first extends his work in Los Angeles by developing predictive models for bus-to-rail transfers. The second investigation is supported by an international research collaboration with colleagues from Universidade da Coruña where the team compares the performance of two light-rail systems from Spain (Granada, Tenerife) and three light-rail systems from the U.S. (Charlotte, Norfolk, Cleveland). The results from these two investigations are expected to be published this fall.

ENGLISH — Elizabeth Rivlin presented a paper, “(En)Listing Shakespeare in The Great Books,” as part of an April 1 live virtual seminar on “Reading Lists” for the 2021 Shakespeare Association of America Meeting. The abstracts for the seminar can be found here.

LANGUAGES — Satomi Saito was interviewed by Felix Shannon, the host and producer of Death of the Reader, a crime and mystery radio show on 2SER 107.3 FM in Sydney, Australia about Japanese detective fiction. The interview aired on April 11 in Sydney and the episodes on the podcast are now available: the regular episode about “The Decagon House Murders” by Yukito Ayatsuji (Saito is about 10 minutes in), and also the extended version of the discussion including Saito’s current work on Web fiction.

LANGUAGES — Anne Salces-Nedeo pioneered Clemson University’s virtual reality (VR) language classroom on April 21-22 with her French 3050 students. With the help of Kyle Anderson and his team of student designers, Salces-Nedeo’s project successfully came alive in the VR Mondi Paris space. In the VR space, the students were able to apply their knowledge and soft skills acquired over the semester with Salces-Nedeo by presenting and discussing (in French) architectural, cultural, and historical facts about France and Paris (especially such locations on Ile de la Cité as Notre-Dame de Paris, Sainte-Chapelle, and Conciergerie; kings Louis IX, Charles V, Henri IV, Louis XVI; the wars of religion and the French Revolution). Salces-Nedeo will continue to develop the VR Mondi Paris space with Anderson’s team to eventually offer this learning experience to all levels of French students.

LANGUAGES — Johannes Schmidt gave a virtual talk on “Universal Beauty and Particular Ugliness: Herder’s Concept of ‘That Which Is Good’ After the ‘Ideen’” at the annual meeting of the American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies. In addition, he helped organize the panel discussion “Women in German Romanticism,” which he co-chaired with Elizabeth Millán.

PERFORMING ARTS — Mark Spede was nominated and selected as the Ball State University School of Music Alumnus of the Year. Spede is also the co-author of the International Coalition Performing Arts Aerosol Study, which is undergoing peer review for publication. That study recently was honored by the American Academy of Teachers of Singing with an inaugural AATS Award for COVID-19 Response. The report provided vital information to bands and choruses as they sought to establish protocols for safely performing during the pandemic.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION — Charles Starkey presented “Virtue Without Character” at the annual Pacific Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA).  He also presented the paper at the annual meeting of the South Carolina Society for Philosophy.  Both conferences were held online this year in April. In addition, Starkey presented “Literary Style and the Moral Psychology of Leopold’s Land Ethic” at the meeting of the International Society for Environmental Ethics, held in conjunction with the Pacific Division meeting of the APA in April.

LANGUAGES – In April, Jae DiBello Takeuchi began a one-year term as president of the Southeastern Association of Teachers of Japanese (SEATJ). SEATJ serves the Southeastern region (Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Florida) and holds an annual conference attended by Japanese-language scholars and teachers from across the United States and Japan. As part of her role, Takeuchi will coordinate the 2022 conference, which will be hosted by Clemson University. Takeuchi’s first task as president was to organize a meeting for SEATJ members to discuss the recent increase in anti-Asian racism. The event, titled 「茶和会」 (or “sawakai,” a play on words of the term “tea party” that aims to share a feeling of peacefulness) was held on April 28 via Zoom.

LANGUAGES — Pauline de Tholozany published a book chapter titled “Narrative as Legal Precedent: Thoughts on Flora Tristan’s ‘Impatience’” in “Wall to Wall: Law as Culture in Latin America and Spain” (Vernon Press, 2021). The book explores the encounter of Hispanophone culture and the law. In her chapter, Tholozany investigates 19^th-century activist Flora Tristan’s plea for divorce laws in France and Peru.

ENGLISH — Rhondda Robinson Thomas was named senior Researcher of the Year at Clemson University. Thomas has garnered national and international recognition for her interdisciplinary, multifaceted Call My Name Project. The project documents and shares the stories of African Americans in the history of Clemson University and surrounding communities. In addition, Thomas participated in a roundtable featuring Black female historians at the “History of Slavery at the University of Georgia: Virtual Symposium on Recognition, Reconciliation, and Redress”  sponsored by the University of Georgia on April 30, and was a panelist for “Telling Truer Stories: Restorative Stories Beyond the COFC” at the Virtual Critical Conversations about Racial Healing Series sponsored by the Center for the Study of Slavery in Charleston, College of Charleston on April 7.

LANGUAGES — Graciela Tissera presented a research paper, “Cursos de español para profesionales de la salud: el cine y la representación de traumas psicológicos,” at Terceras Jornadas de Español para Fines Específicos de Viena (III JEFE-Vi), April 23-24. The virtual conference was organized by Universidad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales de Viena (WU), Consejería de Educación de Suiza y Austria, and Asociación Austriaca de Profesores de Español (AAPE). The research analyzed “La casa muda” (Uruguay, 2010) by Gustavo Hernández and “Paranormal Xperience” (Spain, 2011) by Sergi Vizcaíno to explore the perspectives of these filmmakers on multiple personality disorders involving disruptions of memory and identity.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION — Benjamin White has joined the editorial board of The Journal of Theological Studies, founded in 1899 and published by Oxford University Press.

VISUAL ART — Todd Anderson has begun a relationship with Round Weather art gallery in Oakland, California. Along with this new venue in the Bay Area, you can also see Todd Anderson’s artwork in person at Kai Lin Art gallery in Atlanta, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Mezzanine Gallery Store (main lobby) in New York City, and at Old Main Gallery in downtown Bozeman, Montana.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY — Amit Bein presented a talk, “Not So Distant Neighbor: Turkey and the Middle East in the 1930s,” at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom on March 25. Bein’s talk can be viewed here. The March 25 presentation, taking place via Zoom, was hosted by the University of Cambridge’s Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY — On March 5, Vernon Burton chaired the CAAH Humanities Hub virtual book launch discussion of Peter Eisenstadt’s new biography, “Against the Hounds of Hell:  A Life of Howard Thurman.” Eisenstadt is an affiliate professor in History. On March 25, Burton spoke at the Greenwood Chamber of Commerce Induction (posthumous) of Benjamin E. Mays into the Greenwood Hall of Fame. On 29 March, Burton presented a virtual lecture, “Lincoln’s Unfinished Work: Race and Memorialization in South Carolina,” for the Modjeska Simkins School in Columbia, S.C. Burton was interviewed by Charleston CBS-affiliate WMBF News for a segment with Live 5 on S.C. Senate Bill 534 which calls for using the 1776 Commission Report recommendations for teaching U.S. history in the public schools. The interview aired March 31. Burton has been invited to join the Board of Advisors for the Atlanta History Center as it plans for a broader and more diverse exhibit of the American South.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY — Joshua Catalano gave an invited talk titled “Digital History and Graduate Education” at University of Washington (virtually) on March 1.

ENGLISH – Luke Chwala presented “Gothic Manifestations of Contagious Cultural Conflicts in ‘American Horror Story’, Seasons 7-8” at Simon Fraser University’s virtual conference, Gothic in a Time of Contagion, Populism, and Racial Injustice, co-sponsored by the International Gothic Association, held March 10-13. He also presented “Queer Ecologies and Colonial Resistance in James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’” at the 42^nd International (virtual) Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Climate Change and the Anthropocene, held March 18-21.

LANGUAGES — Jody Cripps was the interviewer for the “The Black Drum Performance Documentary,” focusing on signed music, an emerging visual performance that has developed from within the Deaf community using a variety of performance practices. In addition, there were two talkback discussions with the cast and crew. In this one, cast member Yan Liu at 40:10 talks about acting and the research conducted by Cripps and his colleagues. In the second talkback, at 40:18 producer Joanne Cripps explains how the process of signed music began with the cast of “The Black Drum.” In this video, Cripps and others discuss other aspects of signed music.

VISUAL ART — Provost Pathways Fellow in Art Rachel de Cuba was invited to show work in “Distant Neighbors: Artists from the Tiger Strikes Asteroid Network at Eckert Art Gallery” in Pennsylvania.  This exhibition celebrates the idea that meaningful conversations and creative communities can thrive between artists in far-flung places. The show runs until May 1. “Distant Neighbors” includes paintings by Carl Baratta, Mark Brosseau and Sun You, photographs by Yael Eban, collages by Holly Cahill and Kara Mshinda, sculptures by Alexis Granwell and Sun You, and video by Rachel de Cuba.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY — H. Roger Grant has been honored by the Board of Trustees of the State Historical Society of Iowa for his book “A Mighty Fine Road: A History of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company” (Indiana University Press), which was selected for the 2021 Benjamin F. Shambaugh Award. This annual award recognizes the author of the most significant book published on Iowa history during the previous calendar year.

RHETORICS, COMMUNICATION, AND INFORMATION DESIGN — Cynthia Haynes gave the keynote address to the North Texas Gaming Symposium (NTX) hosted by Texas Christian University on March 20. Her talk, “End Game Racism: MMORPG’s ‘Crusader’ Narrative, the Walkthrough,” focused on how the crusader narrative in video games has been taken up by white supremacists and become fodder for racist gamers. Through an analysis of the Norwegian massacre of 2011, and Anders Behring Breivik’s use of World of Warcraft to stimulate his theorycraft for playing the game as well as for planning the Oslo bombing and massacre on the island of Utøya, Haynes concludes that her own gameplay is called into question as a potential game “walkthrough” itself and sets about to re-write an endgame that recalibrates the potential reduction of racist values.

ENGLISH — Walt Hunter gave the guest lecture for the Transhistorical Anglophone Literary Studies group at the Universidad de Alicante on March 18. He spoke on the topic of “The Place of Poetry.”

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION — Elizabeth Jemison was interviewed by the New Books Podcast Network in connection with her recent book, “Christian Citizens: Reading the Bible in Black and White in the Postemancipation South.” The March 31 podcast can be heard here. Jemison also was interviewed by The Anxious Bench on Patheos.com in a March 11 article, “Christian Citizenship in Black and White.”

ARCHITECTURE — Anjali Joseph, David Allison, and doctoral student Rutali Joshi, along with other researchers from the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing, published an article in HERD: Health Environments Research and Design Journal: “Emergency Physicians’ Workstation Design: An Observational Study of Interruptions and Perception of Collaboration During Shift-End Handoffs.”

PEARCE CENTER — On March 31, the Pearce Center hosted for selected faculty a virtual workshop presented by the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science. “The Essentials!” workshop focused on strategies and techniques to help faculty presenting their research to non-specialist audiences, including grantees, collaborators in other fields, and public audiences. Aimed at research scientists and practitioners who want to help others explore science and its significance, attendance was limited to 16 participants who self-nominated or were nominated to apply by their department chairs and/or associate deans for research. At least one faculty member from every college on campus attended the workshop, including Anjali Joseph, Director of the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing. Other Clemson faculty who participated in the workshop and their colleges include: Aby Sene Harper (CBSHS), Amy Scaroni (CAFLS), Barbara Campbell (COS), Carl Blue (COB), Christopher Eck (CAFLS), Faiza Jamil (COE), Jane DeLuca (CBSHS), Jessica Larsen (CECAS), Karen High (CECAS), Kumar Venayagamoorthy (CECAS), Lea Jenkins (COS), Lesly Temesvari (COS), Rhys Hester (CBSHS), Scott Husson (CECAS) and Shanna Hirsch (COE).

ENGLISH — Amy Monaghan presented a paper at the 2021 Society of Cinema and Media Studies virtual annual conference, “The Commercial Sofia Coppola: Advertisements for Herself and Others,” on March 18 via the SCMS conference platform.

PERFORMING ARTS — Lisa Sain Odom won the 2021 National Association of Teachers of Singing Foundation Pedagogy Award. The award will support Odom’s attendance at the 2021 Voice Pedagogy Institute at Rider University this July. Odom was also selected as a master class clinician for the Mid-Atlantic National Association of Teachers of Singing Region Workshop where she worked virtually with two students from the region, providing feedback and suggestions for improved performance. (See her working with students via Zoom here and at 53:15 here.) Also in March, Odom presented a conference session, “Making the Cut: Your Perfect Musical Audition Cut” for the 2021 Southeastern Theatre Conference (virtual) and held a live Q&A on the subject on March 3rd.

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE — Original research (three projects) by Mary G. Padua, and Xiaotong Liu, recent graduate of the Planning, Design and the Built Environment Ph.D. program, who also received her Clemson Master of Landscape Architecture degree in 2016, were selected out of around 250 submissions for virtual delivery at the 2021 annual conference of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA), March 16 -19. For the “History, Theory and Culture” conference track, Padua presented her sole-authored paper titled, “The ‘Sacred’ and ‘Profane’: Contemporary Gaze of South Carolina’s Vernacular Landscape,” part of her larger ongoing research project called the “American Experiment: Through the Lens of South Carolina’s Cultural Landscape,” funded by the Clemson Architectural Foundation. For the “Landscape Architecture for Health” track, Padua, with Liu as second author, presented “Health-based Axioms: Postulating Adaptive Strategies for Universal 21st Century Outdoor Environments” and in the same track, Padua was second author to Liu who presented “Nature As Restorative Resource for Pre-School Children: A Comparative Case Study in Childcare Centers.”

LANGUAGES — Salvador Oropesa recently published the book chapter “De Lisbeth Salander a la Ertzaintza: Fantasías neoliberales en la serie procedimental de Eva García Sáenz de Urturi” in “Cosmic Wit: Essays in Honor of Edward H. Friedman,” edited by Vicente Pérez de León, Martha García and G. Cory Duclos. (Juan de la Cuesta, 2021, pp. 182-99).

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY — Michael Silvestri gave a virtual talk on March 25 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison titled “Spies, Sailors and Revolutionaries: Bengali Revolutionary Networks and British Imperial Intelligence Between the World Wars.” Silvestri’s presentation, which can be viewed here, was part of the 2021 Spring Lecture Series hosted by the UW-Madison’s Center for South Asia. On March 20, Silvestri presented a virtual talk at the Southern Regional Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies. His presentation was titled “‘A Country that has Served the World Well with Police’: The Royal Irish Constabulary and the Policing of the British Caribbean.”

LANGUAGES – Jae DiBello Takeuchi presented her research in a talk titled “バカにしなくても大丈夫です [You don’t have to treat me like I’m stupid]: Linguistic Microaggressions and L2-Japanese Speaker Legitimacy” at the annual Spring conference of the American Association of Teachers of Japanese, held on March 25-27. The conference was held virtually and all sessions were presented live. In addition, recordings of sessions will be made available on the AATJ website for additional viewing. Takeuchi was also invited to contribute an article to the “JSP Class in the Spotlight” column of the March 2021 issue of the Japanese for Specific Purposes Special Interest Group Newsletter (American Association of Teachers of Japanese). This article introduces Takeuchi’s Japanese for Business classes and Clemson’s Language and International Business program to Japanese language teachers around the country.

ENGLISH — Rhondda Robinson Thomas’s book “Call My Name, Clemson: Documenting the Black Experience in an American University Community” was awarded honorable mention in the 2021 book competition sponsored by the National Council on Public History.

LANGUAGES — Graciela Tissera presented a research paper, “El individuo y los sistemas en la filmografía de Antonio Hernández y Miguel Cohan,” at the XXVII CILH Virtual Conference, March 4-6, 2021, organized by Congresos Internacionales de Literatura y Estudios Hispánicos. The research explores the impact of systems on individuals to analyze social, philosophical, political, and economic issues in two films: “En la ciudad sin límites” (Spain, 2002) by Hernández and “Betibú” (Argentina, 2014) by Cohan.

LANGUAGES — Eric Touya organized a panel session titled “COVID-19 and the New Normal in France and Beyond” at the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium organized online through Georgetown University in Washington D.C. Papers included topics on COVID-19 and public humanities, the Paris Opera Ballet, virtual activism, flânerie, and intimate-partner violence. He read a paper on this occasion entitled “Political Ramifications of COVID-19 in France: Sovereignty, Sustainability, and the Future of Democracy.”

ENGLISH — Jillian Weise‘s memoir, “Common Cyborg,” garnered attention from multiple major publishers and went to auction. It was bought by editor Jenny Xu at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. It will be published in Spring 2023.

PERFORMING ARTS — Bruce Whisler was a panelist in immersive audio at the Audio Engineering Society Midwest Region Summit on March 20. The meeting was hosted virtually by Webster University in St. Louis and featured presentations by audio educators and professionals nationwide. Whisler’s particular focus on the panel was ambisonic audio for 360-degree video.

VISUAL ART – Valerie Zimany’s artwork is featured in “A Handful of Life Water,” an international online exhibition, on view at the Sille Sanat Art Center in Konya, Turkey from Feb. 6–Aug. 6, 2021. The exhibition was organized by Zehra Özkara Çobanlı, Professor Emerita of Anadolu University, Eskişehir, Turkey and member of the International Academy of Ceramics. Zimany is featured with 54 other artists from the International Society of Ceramic Arts Education and Exchange, including China, Japan, South Korea, United Kingdom, Kenya, Mexico and Turkey. More info on the exhibition is available at: https://sergi.sillesanat.com/.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY — Amit Bein recently participated in a New Books Network podcast, discussing his book “Kemalist Turkey and the Middle East: International Relations in the Interwar Period.” The podcast is available here.

ENGLISH — David Blakesley, publisher and founder of Parlor Press, was pleased to receive a prestigious award for a Parlor Press book. The Modern Language Association has awarded its biannual Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize to “Creole Composition: Academic Writing and Rhetoric in the Anglophone Caribbean,” edited by Vivette Milson-Whyte, Raymond A. Oenbring, and Brianne Jaquette. The Shaughnessy Prize recognizes the best book published in rhetoric and composition over a two-year period. More information about the prize and book can be found on the Parlor Press website here, or on the Modern Language Association website here.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION — Pascal Brixel presented his paper “Why We Work” — on how monetary incentives for work affect the autonomy of workers — via Zoom at “The Ends of Autonomy,” an international interdisciplinary colloquium organized by Monash University in Australia.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY — Vernon Burton was part of an interdisciplinary team that presented “Using Social Media to Understand the Patient Perspective and the Emotional Impact of Dermatologic Condition” at the PRISM Virtual Health Symposium 2020, sponsored by University California San Francisco, Dec. 3-4, 2020. Travis Andersen interviewed and quoted Vernon Burton for a Jan. 11 article in the Boston Globe on the contrast between the response of then-incumbent President George H.W. Bush to defeat in 1992 to then-incumbent President Donald Trump in 2020. On Jan. 18, Vernon Burton was interviewed on Fox Carolina News for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day about commemorating Martin Luther King, Jr. Burton was also interviewed by Bret McCormick to comment on and help explain the culture of a mill town in South Carolina in the 1950s-1970s for the eight-part series podcast and newspaper series, “Return Man.”  Available at Apple podcasts and The Columbia State paper. The Charleston Post & Courier ran a front-page story about the Echo Project, and Adam Parker interviewed Vernon Burton, chair of the History Advisory Committee for the proposed museum to promote racial reconciliation using the inspiring story portrayed in the recent film “Burden” of a former white nationalist and his conversion by African American minister the Rev. David Kennedy in Laurens, South Carolina.

ENGLISH — Cameron Bushnell presented her paper “Orientalism Otherwise: The Figure of the Disoriental in Négar Djavadi’s ‘Disorienta’” as a part of a panel, “Orientalism Writes Back,” at the Modern Language Association Conference on Jan. 9, 2021.

ENGLISH — Emeritus Professor Wayne K. Chapman recently published “Leonard Woolf’s ‘The Village in the Jungle’ in Retrospect” in the Virginia Woolf Miscellany 96 (Fall 2019-Fall 2020), 26-28. This article is part of a special issue titled “Centennial Contemplations on Early Work by Virginia Woolf and Leonard Woolf” edited by Rebecca Duncan. Chapman also published “In Memoriam: Molly Jane Hoff (1931-2019),” Virginia Woolf Miscellany (Fall 2019-Fall 2020), 8; as well as a review of Fred Leventhal and Peter Stansky, “Leonard Woolf: Bloomsbury Socialist” (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), in Woolf Studies Annual 26 (2020), 161-63.

LANGUAGES — A piece of signed music by Jody Cripps had been featured on the virtual Blackwood Gallery as part of the presentation series “Translation, Camouflage, Spectatorship.” Cripps was one of the panelists, and his signed piece “Rain” was discussed in relation to visual translation and featured on the gallery from January 22nd – January 27th. “Rain” can be viewed here. More information about the presentation is available here.

VISUAL ART — Rachel de Cuba, Provost Pathways Fellow in Art, was invited to show artwork alongside artist matthew anthony batty. The two-person show, “From: Mangroves To: Magnolias,” is up until the end of February at Wofford College Richardson Art Gallery.

HISTORIC PRESERVATION — Frances Ford was recognized at The Preservation Society of Charleston’s 67^th Carolopolis Awards as conservator for the team restoring The Faber House, located at 635 E. Bay St., which received a Pro Merito Award. Ford analyzed the exterior finishes and discovered the original colors which were then replicated for the restoration.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY – Stephanie Hassell presented her work on Indian Ocean slavery in the Labor and Mobility Roundtable as part of a virtual conference, “The Indian Ocean World: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead,” on January 29, 2021. The conference website can be viewed here.

LANGUAGES — Jason Hurdich presented “Ableism and Social Media” at a virtual conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in December. He discussed the influence of ableism on social media, focusing on Deaf creators and individuals with disabilities. Most of the audience in this Learning Community Meeting-Wisconsin Population Health Service were master of public health fellows with a few medical doctors at UW-Madison. The program is one of the most premier programs of its kind in the nation, focusing on medicine, public health, and disability application.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION — Elizabeth Jemison presented on a panel titled “Localizing American Religions Pedagogy in Institutional Contexts” that she organized for North American Religions section of the American Academy of Religion’s (virtual) annual meeting in December 2020. An independent bookstore, Novel in Memphis, Tennessee, hosted a virtual book event for her recently published book, Christian Citizens: Reading the Bible in Black and White in the Postemancipation South, with well over 100 people in attendance. Also in December, Jemison published in the public-facing online journal Religion & Politics; her article, “The Long Road to White Christians’ Trumpism,” connects her recent book to the 2020 election.

ARCHITECTURE — Anjali Joseph, director of the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing, served as a healthcare design session moderator for the International Perspectives on the Future of Architecture and Urbanism in the Post-COVID Age – Online Symposium. The online symposium healthcare design sessions were held January 30, 2021. Joseph also served as coauthor on a paper recently accepted for publication in IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering: Task, Usability, and Error Analyses of Ambulance-based Telemedicine for Stroke Care. Joseph also participated in a podcast, “How Healthcare Facility Design Impacts Patient Care” on the marketscale.com website.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY — Steven Marks was quoted extensively in a piece, “The Problem With Capitalism” in The Signal.

ENGLISH — Amy Monaghan was invited to deliver a virtual seminar on “Ocean’s Eleven” (dir. Soderbergh, 2001) in January. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the nonprofit Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, Massachusetts has offered its educational programming virtually, using film as a window into other cultures, eras, and experiences. The seminar was presented in three parts. Registrants received a link to Monaghan’s pre-recorded lecture on Soderbergh’s precision-engineered heist film. They then viewed the movie on their own. Finally, a live discussion and Q&A took place on January 28 via Zoom. Participants submitted questions before the hour-long event, as well as during the discussion.

ENGLISH — Angela Naimou contributed an essay to the volume “Liquid Borders: Migration as Resistance,” published in January by Routledge. The book features internationally recognized scholars and activists across the humanities and social sciences who analyze major issues involving contemporary migration. Naimou’s essay examines practices of refuge and deportation for Iraqi refugees and writers based in Europe and the U.S. She was also elected to the American Literature Society, a professional organization of scholars devoted to the preservation, study, and recognition of American literature and culture.

ARCHITECTURE — The South Carolina chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects announced its jury’s Annual Awards selections including the book, “Hybrid Modernity: The Public Park in Late 20th Century China” and author Mary G. Padua with Landscape Architecture as recipient for the 2020 Honor Award-Communications. This category represents significance in communicating landscape architecture works, history, theory and technologies to an expanded audience through print media and other means. The Honor Award signifies an achievement for outstanding and imaginative work. Padua also engaged in a Zoom webinar on Dec. 11 with students and faculty (architecture, fine arts, landscape architecture and urban planning) at Xiamen University in Fujian Province, China. This interactive virtual session explored the green revolution covered in the sixth chapter of “Hybrid Modernity”: “Transforming from ‘hybrid’ to ‘ecological’ modernization in China’s 21st century.” Along with first author Pai Lu, recent PhD PDBE alumnus, Padua and three other Clemson faculty had the article, “Walking in Your Culture: A Study of Culturally Sensitive Outdoor Walking Space for Chinese Elderly Immigrants” published in HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal.

LANGUAGES — Kumiko Saito was one of the four panelists in “Sailor Moon: How These Magical Girls Transformed Our World,” a YouTube live stream webinar series about academic perspectives on Japanese pop culture, hosted by The Japan Foundation and broadcast on Jan. 28. She also presented a short lecture in the webinar, “Crossing Gender and Genre: Sailor Moon in Japan’s Socio-Historical Contexts.” The feature recorded over 350 simultaneous live viewers.

LANGUAGES — Together with Rainer Godel, Johannes Schmidt published the Herder Yearbook XV (2020). This is the fourth time Godel and Schmidt co-edited this bi-annual academic journal on behalf of the International Herder Society.

LANGUAGES — Daniel J. Smith published “The Hidden Meaning of Codeswitches in Spanish English Conversations” in the journal Normas: Revista de Estudios Lingüísticos Hispánicos in December 2020. Also in December 2020 he presented “The Spanish English Bilingualism of Children in the United States” at the virtual conference, the VIII CONGRESO VIRTUAL INTERNACIONAL LiLETRAd (Literature Languages Translation).

LANGUAGES — Eric Touya published the article “Gilets Jaunes, Macron’s Presidency, and France’s contradictions” in the academic journal Contemporary French Civilization. He also read a paper via Zoom titled “‘Habiter poétiquement le monde’: présence et représentation chez Claudel et Jean-Luc Marion” at the 2021 Modern Language Association of America Conference held in Seattle.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY — Lee B. Wilson published a chapter in Studies in Law, Politics, and Society titled “‘Negroes, Goods, and Merchandizes’: Legal Language and the Dehumanization of Slaves in British Vice Admiralty Courts, 1700-1763”. The article examines how English legal categories and procedures facilitated the dehumanization of Black people by conditioning litigants to analogize slaves to maritime property. Drawing attention to the ways in which legal language shaped reality for white colonists and African slaves, the article also suggests that slavery and the laws that governed it were not beyond the pale of English imperial legal history. Rather, they were yet another invidious manifestation of English law’s protean potential.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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