College of Architecture, Arts and Construction

ARCHITECTURE — Professor David Allison, Professor Anjali Joseph, and graduate students Swati Goel, Sara Kennedy, Monica Gripko, Devi Soman, Mina Shokrollahi Ardekani, Kassie Landvay, and Mohammad Ahmadshahi, all with the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing, presented work at the 53^rd Annual Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA53) Conference — “Health in All Design” — held June 1-4 in Greenville, SC. The team’s presentations included: “Mapping the Co-Operational Behavior of Healthcare Design Networks and Healthcare System in the U.S.,” ”Effects of the Physical Environment on Children and Families in the Emergency Department: A Systematic Literature Review,” ”OR-SMART: Design to Understand and Improve Workspace Design and Safety Culture to Influence Anesthesia Medication Selection and Delivery,” ”Impact of Exposure to Virtual Tours of Healthcare Facility on Child and Parent Anxiety,” “Investigating the impact of the built environment on patient and family engagement in healthcare design and delivery within the United States,” “Does the Built Environment of an Adult Intensive Care Unit Support the Families’ Needs As Part of the Patient and Family Engagement Model of Care?,” “Developing Design Guidelines for Anesthesiologist Workspace to Support Safe Medication Practices and Workflows,” “The Role of the Built Environment in Surgical Ergonomics and Interactions in the Operating Room,” “Impacts of daylight and window views on health and well-being: New Research Findings,” “Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) Patient Room Design: Identifying Safety Risks in Mirrored Rooms through a Graphical Systems Analysis,” “Hospital Emergency Department Adaptations and Resilience in Response to Respiratory Outbreak Events – the Case of Sars-Cov-2 (COVID-19),” “Exploring Nurse Burnout between Nurses in COVID-19 and Non COVID-19 Units and the Role of Break Area Support in the Hospital,” “Use of Virtual Tours to Inform Healthcare Facilities Design through the Recognition of Anxiety Triggers,” “Understanding Anesthesia Workflow Challenges during Medication Related Tasks,” and “Preparing the Next Generation in Design – How Can Health be Integrated and Prioritized in Design Education?” EDRA53 Greenville was cohosted by Clemson University’s School of Architecture.

REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT – Associate Professor Stephen Buckman published a paper in the Journal of Sustainable Real Estate entitled “The Impact of Sea-Level Flooding on the Real Estate Development Community in Charleston SC: Results of a ULI Member Survey.” The paper examines how developers in the Charleston area are dealing with issues of flooding and climate change and if it is changing their development patterns. The research was a result of a Pennell Center grant. In addition to the article, Buckman presented his research in two internarial conferences over the summer.

HISTORY – In June, LSU Press hosted a live Facebook book launch of “Lincoln’s Unfinished Work:  A New Birth of Freedom from Generation to Generation.” Edited by Professor Vernon Burton and Peter Eisenstadt, the book is a collection of essays by 14 of the 40 scholars who presented papers at the 2018 Clemson conference “Lincoln’s Unfinished Work.”  The conference included participation by students from under-resourced South Carolina high schools, sponsored by the Ford Foundation, who interviewed scholars at the conference. Also in June, Burton spoke virtually at the Livermore Public Library in California as part of a conversation on Juneteenth, Lincoln and race relations in U.S. history. On June 28, his discussion of critical race theory and the U.S. Justice System aired in Italy on Obehi Ewanfah’s Obehi Podcast.  On July 1, the National Archives Blog Talk Radio “Speak on It” rebroadcast Burton and his co-author’s interview about their book “Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court.” On July 10, Burton spoke on the Hamburg Massacre in North Augusta during a three-day event hosted by the Hamburg-Carrsville African American Heritage District. Burton was also quoted in a July 11 article in Atmos entitled, “The Courts Won’t Save Us.” He twice participated in Clemson History Department colleague Brent Morris’ NEH Teacher’s Institute on Reconstruction in Beaufort and spoke with the teachers at length on July 20. He also chaired a session at the St. George Tucker Society annual meeting in Savannah and gave the closing keynote, “Speaking the Past to the Present for the Future” at the conference on July 29.

ARCHITECTURE – Assistant Professor Lyndsey Deaton was elected to serve a second term as the American Planning Association’s International Division Vice-Chair-at-Large. In this role, she facilitates the student grant program, manages regional coordinators and oversees the Humanitarian Planning Committee (HPC), which produces bimonthly webinars to encourage humanitarian response teams to include designers and design thinking in their crisis responses. This year she will work with the HPC’s robust Ukraine Reconstruction Working Group which has partnered with the U.S. Agency for International Development, the US Army Corps of Engineers and the American Institute of Architects to develop guidelines for post-conflict construction.

ENGLISH – Maziyar Faridi, assistant professor of English and World Cinema, was an invited speaker at the symposium “Like Water Through Stone: Celebrating Hamid Naficy’s Contribution to Iranian Film and Diaspora Studies” at Northwestern University, June 2-3. Faridi presented an essay titled “Theorizing a ‘National Cinema’ Transnationally,” highlighting Naficy’s influence on diasporic film studies and Maziyar’s theoretical approach to Iranian cinema. At the American Comparative Literature Association 2022 he presented a draft of a new article he is currently developing, titled “En/Countering Rhythms of Modernity: Rhuthmos and Domestic Labor in Sohrab Shahid Saless’ ‘Still Life.’”

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Assistant Professor Elizabeth Jemison presented a paper at the Society of Civil War Historians biennial meeting in Philadelphia (June 2-4, 2022) on a panel discussing “New Perspectives on Reconstruction: Race, Religion, and the Remaking of the U.S. After the Civil War.” Jemison’s paper explored how the history of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church (CME Church) can reframe historians’ current assumptions about racial, religious and political identity in the postemancipation South.

ARCHITECTURE – Professor Anjali Joseph, director of the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing (CHFDT), will be working on a new National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant with Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering Jackie Cha entitled, “Adapting to the Future of Robotic Surgery: Understanding Training and Design Environments for Human-Robot Teams.” The major goals of this NSF funded project include developing a framework for designing work and workplaces to support the future of robotic surgery.

Also, as part of the EDRA 53 Conference Organizing Committee, Joseph assisted with organizing and providing the 53^rd Annual Environmental Design Research Association Conference (EDRA53 Greenville), cohosted by Clemson University’s School of Architecture. The conference was held June 1-4, 2022. The conference attracted a large multidisciplinary community of practitioners, researchers, and students from around the world that engaged in conversations about the role of built environments in promoting health, equity, sustainability and resilience. The event also provided the perfect opportunity to showcase and promote Greenville, Clemson University and the work of the CHFDT. EDRA53 conference attendees commented that the event was well organized, provided high-quality speakers, sessions and presentations, and provided the perfect venue to demonstrate the conference theme: “Health In All Design.”

Joseph and graduate student Sara Kennedy coauthored an article that was published in the Journal of Patient Experience entitled, Using discrete choice methodology to explore the impact of patient room window design on hospital choice. The study demonstrates the role patient room design plays in patient preference. Incorporating windows into the patient room is expected and demonstrates the need for a nuanced consideration of how patient room windows are designed in order to maximize the benefits of daylight and views.

Also, Joseph and graduate student Swati Goel coauthored an article that was published in Applied Ergonomics entitled, Improving safety in the operating room: Medication icon labels increase visibility and discrimination. The study concluded that carefully designed icons may offer an additional method for identifying medications and help reduce medication administration errors.

Finally, Joseph attended the first in-person meeting of the advisory board of the Swiss Center for Health Design in Biel, Switzerland in July where she contributed to developing the strategy and vision for this new organization.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Assistant Professor of Philosophy Claire Kirwin presented her paper “Worlds Collided: Love as Seeing and Seeing-With” at a conference on Interpersonal Relations at the University of Birmingham, UK (June 8–10) and at the 96th Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and Mind Association at the University of St Andrews, UK (July 8–10). She also presented her paper “After Birth: Middle and Late Nietzsche on the Value of Tragedy” at the annual workshop of the International Society for Nietzsche Studies at the University of Oxford, UK (June 24–25).

ENGLISH – Professor Brian McGrath’s monograph, “Look Round for Poetry: Untimely Romanticisms,” was published by Fordham University Press. The title is drawn from William Wordsworth’s advertisement to “Lyrical Ballads,” where McGrath anticipates that readers might not recognize his poetic experiments as poems and, as if seeking poetry elsewhere, look round for it. The book transforms Wordsworth’s idiomatic expression into a methodological charge. By placing tropes and figures common to Romantic and Post-Romantic poems in conjunction with contemporary economic, technological and political discourse, the book identifies poetry’s untimely echoes in discourses not always read as poetry or not always read poetically.

HISTORY – Professor Brent Morris has published his newest book, “Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp” by University of North Carolina Press. It the first book-length study that fully examines the lives of maroons (self-emancipated people) in the liminal world between slavery and freedom along the North Carolina-Virginia border, and undertakes a close analysis of the communities and individual lives of thousands men and women who made the Dismal Swamp their free home and sanctuary and who played an outsized role in undermining slavery and its supporting ideologies from the seventeenth century through the Civil War. This study offers a fresh reassessment of resistance to enslavement, scholars’ understanding of marronage and freedom in North America, and the uses of cutting-edge technology and interdisciplinarity in historical scholarship.

PERFORMING ARTS – Assistant Professor Lisa Sain Odom gave a master class this June to voice students at Rose Bruford College in Sidcup, England. The theatre program at Rose Bruford and the theatre program in the Clemson Performing Arts department are part of an exchange program where students from each school spend a semester at the other school learning about theatre in another culture. Odom was in England with the new Performing Arts Study Abroad summer program in London and was invited to the Rose Bruford campus to teach a master class and promote the Clemson exchange program.

GLOBAL BLACK STUDIES – Associate Professor L. Kaifa Roland recently penned a column for The Greenville News and Spartanburg Herald Journal: “Celebrating Juneteenth: Metaphors and More.” She also recently joined the Executive Council of the Caribbean Studies Association.

LANGUAGES – Professor Johannes Schmidt visited two universities in Germany to reconnect with partner institutions, the first visit since the beginning of the pandemic. Together with Todd Schweisinger, principal lecturer of mechanical engineering, he spent three days at OTH Regensburg to restart and reevaluate study abroad opportunities for Clemson students, especially for those with a German language background. A visit at RWTH Aachen University followed to explore new exchange opportunities for students and faculty. The visits were part of a U.S. Department of Education grant that has been instrumental in establishing Clemson’s new Engineering+Languages program. Also, as a member of the South Carolina Council on the Holocaust, Schmidt participated in the first in-person council retreat in Conway, SC since the start of the pandemic. During the retreat, he was appointed chair of the Higher Education Committee of the Council.

PERFORMING ARTS – Professor Mark Spede partnered on a follow-up to the International Aerosol Study with the Centers for Disease Control. The new paper, “Evaluation of COVID-19 Prevention Strategies among Elementary, Middle, High School and Collegiate Music Programs in the United States, August 1 – December 15, 2021,” can be viewed along with accompanying graphics and videos at the National Federation of State High School Associations website.

LANGUAGES – Assistant Professor of Japanese Jae DiBello Takeuchi began an appointment as co-director of the annual spring conference of the American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ), which is planning to hold its spring 2023 conference in-person for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic. On July 15, her article titled “Code-switching as Linguistic Microaggression: L2-Japanese and Speaker Legitimacy,” was published online in the journal “Multilingua” and will appear in print in an upcoming issue.

LANGUAGES – Associate Professor of French Pauline de Tholozany talked about her book, “L’Ecole de la maladresse” (Paris: Champion, 2017) on Radio France on July 14 on the show, “L’été comme jamais.” She discussed the topic of the day—awkwardness—with film director Antonin Peretjatko and choreographer Mylène Benoît.

LANGUAGES – Professor of French Eric Touya read a paper entitled “Con/di/vergences: Laïcité française, Féminisme/s, Intersectionnalités” in “Zones de contact, zones de conflit. Convergences et divergences francophones” at the “36ème Congrès Mondial du Conseil International d’Études Francophones,” Trente, Italy on June 24, 2022. He also published a book review of “Transcultural Migration in the Novels of Hédi Bouraoui” by Elizabeth Sabiston (Boston: Rodopi, 2021) “French Review” 95.3, p. 232-233.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION –  Associate Professor Ben White published a chapter entitled “The Pauline Tradition,” in the “T&T Clark Handbook to the Historical Paul.” He also gave a paper entitled “‘Was Someone Called While Circumcised? Let Him Not Conceal His Circumcision’ (1 Cor 7.18): How the Jewish Paul of Acts Underwent Epispasm in the Second Century” at the Nangeroni Meeting of the Enoch Seminar in Rome.

ENGLISH – Professor David Blakesley was voted President-Elect of Clemson’s Faculty Senate. His term as President will begin in April 2023. Blakesley also presented “Teaching the Rhetorics of Film: The Case of Absent Now the Dead” and “Festschrift in Honor of RSA Founder Dr. Janice Lauer Rice” at the Rhetoric Society of America Conference in Baltimore on May 28.

HISTORY –  Professor Vernon Burton completed a speaking tour in the Boston area with stops at Boston University, Boston College, and Harvard University before presenting a series of lectures and discussions at Phillips Exeter Academy. On May 9, Burton received the Clemson University Alumni Award for Outstanding Achievements in Research, and the following day Furman University News published an essay on his work as a historian, including his book, “Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court.”

On May 12, the podcast series, “U.S. Civil Rights Trail” released the South Carolina portion, “A Legacy of Courage” on which Burton served as a consultant and spoke in two of the three podcasts. On Friday May 13, he was on a panel discussing Peter Wood’s “Black Majority” commemorating the 50th anniversary of the publication of the landmark book at the College of Charleston Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World (CLAW) Program’s International TransAtlantic Diasporas conference. On the following night at the keynote, the CLAW Program honored Burton, executive director since 2001, by designating the best conference paper given annually, the Vernon Burton Research Award.

On May 19, Burton spoke to the Beaufort Historical Society on the three Reconstructions and Beaufort county’s role in them.  On May 29, his interview on Rob Mellon’s “History Ago Go” podcast was made available.

PERFORMING ARTS – Department Chair and Professor Linda Dzuris’ arrangement was performed as The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the National Park Service celebrated the Netherlands’ Liberation Day and the completion of the rehabilitation of the Netherlands Carillon in Arlington Ridge Park, Virginia, on May 5. The inaugural “Freedom Concert” solo carillon performance by Edward M. Nassor, the Washington National Cathedral Carillonneur, opened with George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” arranged by Dzuris.

CITY AND REGIONAL PLANNING – Department Chair and Professor John Gaber was nominated by Governor Henry McMaster to the “South Carolina Planning Education Advisory Committee” for a two-year term. This committee is composed of prominent planners chosen by the Governor to advise him and the South Carolina Legislature on matters concerning city and regional planning in South Carolina.

RHETORICS, COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION DESIGN – Professor Cynthia Haynes presented her research at the biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference in Baltimore, on May 27-29. The title of her paper was “Confined and Consigned: For-giving Rhetorically ‘Unwed’ Mothers.”

ARCHITECTURE – Professor Anjali Joseph, Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Endowed Chair in Architecture + Health Design, attended the Smart State Program Centers of Economic Excellence Forum in Columbia, SC on May 10 and 11. The South Carolina Smart State Program celebrated the 20th anniversary of the program’s founding.  Smart State researchers are working to generate technology that South Carolina companies can use to create new products and improve processes. The Smart State Program fosters an innovative environment in which innovation and technology transfer can lead to new startup companies from university research.

Joseph also co-authored an article that was published in Applied Ergonomics entitled, “A mobile application-based home assessment tool for patients undergoing joint replacement surgery: A qualitative feasibility study.” The paper concluded that in order to increase acceptance and utilization of a mobile application-based home assessment tool that could support transitions home after joint replacement surgeries, it is crucial that residents are made aware of such tools early so they can use them to improve their safety and independence.

She also co-authored an article that was published in LEUKOS: The Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society entitled, “Window view quality: Why it matters and what we should do.” The position statement outlines the initial steps needed to improve our understanding of the complex relationships among building design, operation and human needs concerning window view quality.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Assistant Professor of Philosophy Claire Kirwin presented her paper “Normativity from the First-Person Perspective” at a workshop for a new edited collection on normative realism, held at New York University, May 24-26.

HISTORIC PRESERVATION – Associate Professor Jon Marcoux and Associate Professor Amalia Leifeste published an article entitled “Impact of Digital Technologies on Historic Preservation Research at Multiple Scales” in the journal, Technology|Architecture + Design. The paper presents case studies from their work in Charleston highlighting the application of digital technologies to the documentation of the historic built environment at two scales—the individual building and the landscape.

ART – Senior Lecturer Joey Manson was selected to create a sculpture for the “ArtSS in the Open” sculpture competition for the city of Sandy Springs, Georgia’s Art Walk at City Springs. Manson’s sculpture, “Assume” is composed of forged steel, concrete and paint.

ENGLISH – Lecturers Mary Nestor and Caitlin G. Watt published chapters in “The Worlds of John Wick: The Year’s Work at the Continental Hotel,” edited by Watt and Stephen Watt (Indiana University Press). This volume appears in the series “The Year’s Work: Studies in Fan Culture and Cultural Theory.” Nestor’s chapter, “Captain Dead Wick: Grief and the Monstrous in the ‘John Wick’ and ‘Deadpool’ Films,” examines parody in the “John Wick” film franchise as a means of exploring its treatment of grief and comparing it with the self-referential “Deadpool” series. Watt’s chapter, “‘The One You Sent to Kill the Boogeyman’: Folklore and Identity Deconstruction in the ‘John Wick’ Universe” reads the evolution of John Wick’s character through the films’ incorporation of narrative elements from Russian fairy tales.

CITY AND REGIONAL PLANNING – Assistant Professor Luis Enrique Ramos-Santiago was recently selected as the recipient of two grant awards. The first is a CAAH Faculty Research Development Grant, which will be used for visiting and consulting archival collections related to a unique New Deal Town developed early in the 20th century in San Juan City, Puerto Rico. The relevant collections are housed at The National Archives in New York and Philadelphia and at the Special Collections in Cornell University in New York. The second award he received is a Diversity Scholarship by the Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC) from Portland State University. TREC, and the associated Initiative for Bicycle and Pedestrian Innovation program (IBPI), are the premier centers for research on urban sustainable mobility and active transportation in the US. The scholarship allows Ramos-Santiago to participate in the upcoming annual IBPI Workshop: Comprehensive Bikeway Planning and Design.  Finally, Ramos-Santiago’s most recent peer-reviewed paper “Identifying and Understanding Determinants of Regional Differences in Light-Rail Patronage and Performance” is now available in its final format.

GLOBAL BLACK STUDIES – Associate Professor L. Kaifa Roland penned a column for The Greenville News and Spartanburg Herald-Journal: “Celebrating Juneteenth: Metaphors and More”. She also recently joined the Executive Council of the Caribbean Studies Association.

HISTORY – Professor Michael Silvestri’s essay “British Imperial Intelligence and Anticolonial Revolutionaries during and after the Great War” was published in “The Irish Revolution: A Global History” edited by Patrick Mannion and Fearghal McGarry (The Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series, New York University Press).

HISTORY – Associate Professor Lee B. Wilson’s book, “Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in Colonial South Carolina and British Plantation America, 1660-1783,” was named a finalist for the 2021 George C. Rogers J. Award.  The award is presented by the South Carolina Historical Society and recognizes the best book of South Carolina history published during the previous year.

ART – Department Chair and Professor Valerie Zimany presented “Back to the Edge: Envisioning Mashiko’s Rebuilding Efforts after the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake” with Japanese artist Shikamaru Takeshita at the 2022 Woodfire NC Conference at STARworks Center for Creative Enterprise in Star, NC from May 27-29.  Zimany and Takeshita were introduced through the Mashiko Volunteer Center in 2011 following the earthquake and tsunami that devastated eastern Japan. Takeshita’s kiln and studio suffered significant damage, and Zimany, who lived and worked in Japan for seven years, joined fellow ceramic artists from the area in volunteer efforts to help potters in Mashiko area clean up and begin rebuilding their kilns and studios. In the lecture, the artists revisited the immediate aftermath and the inspiring reconstruction of Takeshita’s kiln and studio in the eleven years since the disaster.

ARCHITECTURE – Lecturer Bryan Beerman was elevated to Associate Principal and shareholder with his firm at LS3P. Beerman joined the firm in 2015, has been licensed since 2016, and has worked extensively in the civic, faith, education, and commercial market sectors with an emphasis on urban design, master planning, conceptual design and community-centered projects. Founded in 1963, LS3P is an architecture, interiors, and planning firm with regional roots and national reach.

HISTORY – The Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) lead a roundtable session on Professor Vernon Burton’s book, “Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court” at their 79^th annual meeting in Chicago on April 10.  Burton also chaired and commented on sessions on April 8 on “Turnout and Voting” and on April 9 on a panel on “Courts in the International Political and Institutional Context.”  On April 18, his interview with the Obehi podcast aired about “The American Struggle to be a Fair State: Equal Rights for all Americans.” On April 19, Burton spoke on “Critical Race Theory and Why it is Under Attack” as part of Greenville Tech’s Courageous Conservations Series. On April 21, he spoke on “Justice Deferred” at Furman University.  On April 28, Burton gave the Annual Stonecipher lecture at Tennessee Tech University on “Digital Humanities: The Future is Now,” and consulted on their new Digital Humanities emphasis.

HISTORY ­– Assistant Professor Joshua Catalano (History and Geography) and Lecturer Briana Pocratsky (Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice) published a chapter, “From Ken Burns’s ‘The Civil War’ to History’s ‘Ancient Aliens:’ Lincoln’s Unfinished Work on Cable Television,” in Vernon Burton and Peter Eisenstadt’s “Lincoln’s Unfinished Work: The New Birth of Freedom from Generation to Generation.” Catalano and Assistant Professor David Markus (Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice) received the Excellence in Historic Preservation Award from the Seneca Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution for their work at the sites of Fort Rutledge and the Battle of Esseneca. Catalano and Markus were also the recipients of an internal MRI grant of $124,038 in support of their project entitled “CU-MRI: Acquisition of Common-Use Geophysical Equipment for Locating, Researching and Protecting Archaeological and Cultural Resources on Clemson University Landscapes.” Catalano, Markus, and Associate Professor Andrea Feeser (English) also received a CAAH Faculty Research Development Program Collaboration grant to purchase equipment for processing archival artifacts and analyzing clay samples.

LANGUAGES – Senior Lecturer William “Bo” Clements, Assistant Professor Jody Cripps, and Associate Professor Stephen Fitzmaurice of the American Sign Language (ASL) faculty worked on the South Carolina Department of Education’s World Languages ASL panel, providing feedback on public school ASL standards. They also oversaw and amended the South Carolina Department of Education world languages requirements for second languages, notably the ASL component.

LANGUAGES – Assistant Professor Jody Cripps and seven of his Creative Inquiry students (Keyanna Clanton, Jaylin Dillard, Rhys Gerrish, Jayla Nelson, Pressley Pollard, Allison Schippert, and August Vincelette) traveled to Martha’s Vineyard from April 10 to 17 to interview island residents. Their effort, written about in more detail here, aims to bring the island’s signed language back to its former glory as a shared signed language community during colonial times. Their project will also be published in the Creative Inquiry’s Decipher magazine at the end of the Spring semester. Assistant Professor Cripps and his colleagues also co-authored an article in “Canadian Theatre Review” about universal accessibility while planning a language barrier-free conference that includes signed languages.

HISTORY –  Professor H. Roger Grant recently was interviewed for the History 605 Podcast by Dr. Ben Jones on South Dakota Public Broadcasting on “Railroads and South Dakota.” It will become available in early June.

ENGLISH – Associate Professor Walt Hunter published an essay titled “’A Little Room in a House Set Aflame’: American Poetry and Globalization in the Twenty-first Century” in “A Companion to American Poetry” (Wiley-Blackwell). An essay on Ali Smith and Muriel Spark titled “Whose Life Is It Anyway?” appeared in “Ali Smith Now,” a cluster organized by Contemporaries at Post45. Hunter read from his forthcoming poetry collection, “Some Flowers,” in London in early April.

ARCHITECTURE – Professor Anjali Joseph, Director of the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing (CHFDT), co-authored an article along with the Realizing Improved Patient Care through Human-Centered Design in the Operating Room (RIPCHD.OR) Study Group, that was recently published in HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal, titled “Understanding ‘Work as Done’: Using a Structured Video-Based Observational Method to Understand and Model the Role of the Physical Environment in Complex Clinical Work Systems.” The study concluded that video-based observation is an effective complement to the traditional observational method for in-depth study of the built environment in health systems, enabling researchers to employ quantitative approaches to data collection and analysis, in addition to qualitative interpretations.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Assistant Professor of Philosophy Claire Kirwin was an invited discussant for Alex Horne’s paper “Too Many Cooks” at the Bernard Williams workshop, Cambridge University. The event took place via Zoom on April 19

PERFORMING ARTS – Professor Linda Li-Bleuel has been named Chair of the newly formed Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) Commission. She also performed a solo piano recital on the SPG Live! Series at the Steinway Gallery in Greenville and was a piano soloist at the Men of Color National Summit reception in Greenville. She also had collaborative performances with the Kim-Lee-Sun Pianists and violinist Reiko Watanabe in honor of Clemson University APIDA Heritage Month.

ARCHITECTURE –As part of the CAAH symposium on the war in Ukraine, on Thursday, April 14  Assistant Professor Andreea Mihalache  moderated the conversation with Kate Malaia, Assistant Professor, Mississippi State University, titled “Stolen History, Stolen Heritage: Ukraine, Eastern Europe, and Russian Colonialism.” Also, Mihalache was the CAAH nominee for Clemson University’s Junior Researcher of the Year Award.

ENGLISH – Assistant Professor Clare Mullaney was announced the winner of the 2022 Rising Scholar Prize for her paper, “Textual Recovery: ‘Wildering Language’ and a Crip Editorial Practice.” The award is given by the C19 Rising Scholar Prize Committee. The committee praised Mullaneys work for adding an original and important framework to the ethics of recovery by offering a “genealogy of disability told not through biological lineages but textual transmissions.”

LANGUAGES – Professor and Department Chair Salvador Oropesa read the paper “La serie de Gracia San Sebastián de Ana Lena Rivera: del cozy al neo-noir” at the XVIII Congreso de Novela y Cine Negro: Crítica, Compromiso y Memoria en el Género Negro, at the Universidad de Salamanca, Spain.

LANGUAGES – Associate Professor of Spanish George Palacios was elected World Languages Area Representative of the College Language Association. He was also recognized with the Clemson University 2022 University Research Scholarship and Artistic Award (URSAA). On April 28, Palacios was invited to lecture by the Afro-Romance Institute at the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He talked about Colombia and the African Diaspora through Manuel Zapata Olivella’s works and activism.

ENGLISH – Senior Lecturer Mike Pulley won the Pearce Center for Professional Communication’s Professional Writing and Communication Award for the 2021-2022 academic year. Pulley received the award for news and feature articles his students completed in English 2310 (Introduction to Journalism) for The Tiger, Clemson’s student-run campus newspaper. The collaboration between the class and the newspaper was part of Pearce’s Client-Based Program.

ENGLISH – Associate Professor Elizabeth Rivlin presented her research at the Shakespeare Association of America Meeting held in Miami, April 6-10. Her paper was titled “Shakespeare Novels and Fandom on Goodreads” and was part of the seminar on “Early Modern Fan Culture.”

PERFORMING ARTS – Director of Bands and Professor Mark Spede became a partner with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention through his work with the International Coalition Performing Arts Aerosol Study and is working on a new paper with a CDC team on the effects of the pandemic on music during the Fall of 2021. This spring, as president of the College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA), he represented Clemson at conferences in Atlanta,  Baltimore, Columbia, and Orlando as well as Waco, Texas and Madison, Wisconsin.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Associate Professor Charles Starkey presented “Characterless Virtues” at the 113th Annual Meeting Of The Southern Society For Philosophy And Psychology in April.

LANGUAGES – Professor of French Eric Touya published a book chapter entitled “Voix politiques, transcendantes, et transgressives dans l’œuvre de Véronique Tadjo et Isabelle Eberhardt” in “Africana: Figures de femmes et formes de pouvoirs” (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2022 p. 417-428).  He also published in “Women in French Studies” a book review of Marie-Victoire Nantet’s “Camille et Paul Claudel: Lignes de partage” (Paris: Editions Gallimard).

LANGUAGES – Assistant Professor Jae DiBello Takeuchi served as the 2021-2022 president and was the conference organizer for the 37^th Conference of the Southeastern Association of Teachers of Japanese (SEATJ), held on April 2nd. Clemson University was the host institution, and the Department of Languages sponsored the virtual event. The conference included 23 individual presentations on Japanese linguistics and Japanese language pedagogy and a keynote address by Dr. Amy Snyder Ohta of the University of Washington. On April 6, Takeuchi also hosted a talk by Clemson alumnus Gregory Khezrnejat, of Hosei University, Japan. Khezrnejat’s talk, titled “Writing Between Languages,” focused on the transnational turn in modern Japanese literature. This talk was jointly sponsored by the Department of Languages, the Department of English, and the Pearce Center for Professional Communication. On April 15, Takeuchi presented a workshop on professional development for graduate students in the Japanese linguistics program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

ART – Associate Professor of Photography Anderson Wrangle spoke to the Gibbes Museum of Art’s young patrons group, Society 1858, at the Garden and Gun Magazine offices on March 24. His talk centered on his Outer Banks and Savannah River Watershed projects, on the landscape tradition in American art and photography and on contemporary and regional photographic projects seeking to describe large geographic systems.

ART – Professor and Department Chair Valerie Zimany is featured in “50 Bowls, 50 States, 50 Woodfires” at the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, CA, from February 12-July 24.  Zimany is the South Carolina representative in the project, which is the culmination of a multi-year celebration of American wood-firing. The exhibit is organized by Elaine O. Henry, former editor of Ceramics: Art & Perception magazine.

HISTORY – Professor Vernon Burton and Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature Rhondda Robinson Thomas were appointed as commissioners to the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission, whose mission is “is to identify and promote the preservation of historic sites, structures, buildings, and culture of the African American experience in South Carolina, and to assist and enhance the efforts of the South Carolina Department of Archives and History.” On March 4, Burton spoke with the Clemson Humanities Advancement Board about his book, “Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court.” On March 9, he spoke on the “Effects of the Civil War Then and Now” as the invited President Bill Clinton endowed lecture on American History at the New York Historical Society.  Burton was also interviewed by Grid News for a story about the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson. On NBC’s “Racial Reckoning,” Burton, who serves as chair of the History advisory board for the Echo Project, was interviewed for the story, “A former KKK Headquarters terrorized a town for years,  Now it  will become a Diversity Center.” On March 24, he spoke with Rev. James Howell on the podcast “Maybe I am Amazed” about “Justice Deferred.” He also spoke about his book to the Modjeska Simkins School’s public series sponsored by the S.C. Progressives Network on Reconstruction, Ben Tillman, Critical Race Theory debate, and Justice Deferred. Finally, Burton gave a guest lecture on “Justice Deferred” for the College of Charleston’s Friends of the Library and Avery Research Center on March 28.

ENGLISH – Lecturer Luke Chwala presented “Queering Gothic Slash Fandoms: Harry Potter, Ginger Snaps, and Worldbuilding” at the 43^rdInternational Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Fantastic Communities, held 16-20 March 2022.

ART – Lecturer David Gerhard designed a new book, “Warhol Lives: 2022 Print Market Report” for Revolver Gallery, a Los Angeles-based gallery boasting the largest Warhol print collection. He has also been published in the inaugural edition of FATHERFATHER Magazine, a publication that centers around text-based visual art. His piece, “the father at bedtime” is an interactive moment documented with lidar scanning.

ENGLISH – Lecturer Melissa Edmundson Makala published a scholarly edition of Charlotte Riddell’s “The Uninhabited House” (1875) for Broadview Press.

CONSTRUCTION SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT – Assistant Professor Ehsan Mousavi hosted Mick Schwedler, the president of the American Society of Heating Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), at Clemson with a tour of the West Side Chiller Facility.

ENGLISH — Senior Lecturer Kathleen Nalley published a three-part pantoum poem in Limp Wrist Magazine, co-edited by Dustin Brookshire and Denise Duhamel. The issue celebrated Barbie’s 63rd birthday and the 25th anniversary of Denise Duhamel’s Barbie-themed poetry collection, “Kinky.” Nalley also participated, alongside Denise Duhamel, Dorianne Laux, Nin Andrews, and others, in an online poetry reading in celebration of the issue’s publication.

CITY AND REGIONAL PLANNING –Assistant Professor Luis Enrique Ramos-Santiago recently published two peer-reviewed papers, in recognized transportation journals. The first paper, solo-authored by Ramos-Santiago is titled “Does walkability around feeder bus-stops influence rapid-transit station boardings?” and implements a multi-level generalized linear model to assess multi-scalar influences on aggregate travel behavior. The second paper, which is result of a recent international collaboration with researchers from Spain’s Universidade Da Coruña, is titled “Identifying and Understanding Determinants of Regional Differences in Light-Rail Patronage and Performance.” The latter is the first paper of a projected long-term research collaboration focused on sustainable urban transportation and accessibility impacts across socio-economic levels.

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE — Professor of Landscape Architecture+Urban Design Thomas Schurch, FASLA, presented a paper titled “Amicus Curiae: a Model for Amicus Civitas in Landscape Architecture Teaching, Research, and Service” at the annual conference of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture that was held in Albuquerque, New Mexico March 16-18.

HISTORY – Professor Michael Silvestri delivered the keynote address at the South Carolina Historical Association’s annual conference, which was held online on March 12^th. His talk was entitled “‘The Police Courts Rang with the Brogue’: The Irish Policeman in the British Empire.”

ENGLISH – Associate Professor Aga Skrodzka (World Cinema) interviewed the Polish visual artist Katarzyna Kozyra at the Four Corners Gallery in London. Titled “I Cannot Be Sure That I Will Not Be Erased or Voided,” the conversation was centered on Kozyra’s arts foundation and her efforts to bring the female artists from Poland, Belarus and Ukraine together into a creative collective.

LANGUAGES –Assistant Professor Jae DiBello Takeuchi hosted a Zoom event called “Talk with a Translator.” The main guest was Claire Tanaka, a Japanese-to-English translator in Japan. Tanaka talked about her work, including her current project doing the subtitle translations for “Komi Can’t Communicate,” a popular Japanese anime currently streaming on Netflix. The event offered an inside look into media translation, highlighted linguistic and cultural issues translators have to navigate, and shed light on restrictions that impact translators who work for large entertainment companies.

ENGLISH – Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature Rhondda Robinson Thomas was a featured speaker for the “Addressing Erasure: Designing Our Future” Conference organized by the Clemson chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architecture Students (cNOMAS) on March 18-20, 2022, held at the Clemson Design Center in Charleston.

ART – Chair and Professor Valerie Zimany presented the lecture ‘Dirt x Digital:  Patterns, Profiles, and Print Phenomena’ at the 2022 National Council for Education in the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) conference, which was held from March 16-19 in Sacramento, CA.  Zimany’s presentation was featured in the annual FabLab, and examined digital design modeling and the incorporation of FDM and 3d clay printers into creative research and studio pedagogy. “With both successes and casualties, I fabricated a variety of 3D printed components for an installation project, joined by graduate students pursuing complementary research,” she said.

HISTORY – The Washington Post published “Biden’s pick won’t shift the Supreme Court, but here’s what might” by Professor Vernon Burton and his “Justice Deferred” co-author, Armand Derfner. On Feb. 6, Burton participated in EMBCA’s zoom discussion of “Revolution of 1821, Hellenic “Cotton Triangle” Merchants, and the American Civil War” On Feb. 7, his interview on “Justice Deferred” with Heather Gray and Ernest Dunkley on Atlanta’s WRFG-FM aired.  Excerpts from “Justice Deferred” and a review also appeared on Gray’s Justice Initiative Blog/Newsletter soon after the broadcast. On Feb. 10, Burton presented the Black History Month lecture on the Emancipation Proclamation at Greenville Technical College. On Feb. 16, he was interviewed and quoted at length in an article in the Greenwood Index-Journal about Abbeville County council’s vote to acquire the John C. Calhoun statue. On Feb. 16-17 he also spoke on “Justice Deferred” at the University of South Carolina Law School, History Department, two undergraduate classes and Ph.D. students. Burton also appeared on “Speak On It! History and Genealogy Conversations with Janice & Cherekana” with Derfner to discuss “Justice Deferred. On Feb. 19, he participated as part of a panel with S.C. House Rep. Chandra Dillard and S.C. House Rep. Terry Alexander on a discussion of the documentary “Downing of a Flag” at the Greenville Peace Center.  On Feb. 20, he was one of several presidential historians and pundits whose ranking and their explanations of their rankings appeared in the featured essay, “Who’s the greatest post-war commander-in-chief of the all?” in the Champaign, Ill. Newsgazette. On Feb. 28, WILL PBS in Illinois revisited the Lincoln documentary, “Prelude to Presidency,” showcasing Burton and his 2007 book, “The Age of Lincoln.”

ENGLISH – Professor Emeritus Wayne Chapman published a book in two volumes entitled “‘Something That I Read in a Book’: W. B. Yeats’s Annotations at the National Library of Ireland.” Volume I, “Reading Notes” (Clemson University Press and Liverpool University Press, February 2022) is illustrated at lxvi + 475 pages; and Volume II, “Yeats Writings” (Clemson University Press and Liverpool University Press, February 2022) is also illustrated and concludes with appendices, lxvi + 235 pages. A commemorative essay by Chapman, “Yeats, the Library, and Literary Afterlife,” was simultaneously published on blog sites by both publishers. Also, in a special issue of the “Virginia Woolf Miscellany,” No. 98 (p. 16), on “The First Thirty Annual (International) Conferences on Virginia Woolf,” Chapman contributed the narrative for the Sixth Annual Conference, “Virginia Woolf and the Arts,” which he co-organized at Clemson with his English colleague Elisa Kay Sparks in 1996.

LANGUAGES – Associate Professor Stephen Fitzmaurice provided an online seminar detailing his findings from his recent text “The Role of the Educational Interpreter: Perceptions of Administrators and Teachers” for educational interpreters and administrators across New York City public schools.

ENGLISH – Pearce Professor Jordan Frith published his newest article in the journal “First Monday.” The article, which is co-authored with one of his colleagues in London, examines identity construction through virtual reality, with a specific focus on Mark Zuckerberg’s recent push for a supposed Metaverse as the future of digital media. The article, which can be found here, is part of a larger project that Frith and his colleagues are currently developing into a book about visions of the Metaverse.

LANGUAGES – Lecturer Jason Hurdich published his first American Sign Language (ASL) translation of a song, “7 Curses,” a new single with Charleston-based musician Chris Holly. A recent article about the song in Charleston City Paper is accompanied by a striking video featuring Hurdich’s translation.

ARCHITECTURE – Professor Anjali Joseph, director of the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing (CHFDT), recently presented Improving Safety and Quality Through Evidence-Based Healthcare Design to Michigan State University’s School of Planning, Design and Construction. Joseph discussed healthcare design as a system design challenge, the relationship between the built environment and patient safety, a CHFDT operating room study and a CHFDT preoperative room study. The presentation highlighted the point that a well-designed and therapeutic environment should be intuitive, flexible and supportive to all users at all times. Joseph also coauthored an article in
Healthcare Design Magazine titled, “Frontline Workers are Burnt Out. Studies Show Environment Can Help.” The article notes that simple changes to the work environment can have a huge effect on staff morale and wellbeing.

PHILOSOPHY – Assistant Professor Claire Kirwin’s long-form encyclopedia entry, “Nietzsche’s Ethics”, was published in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, a peer-reviewed online encyclopedia.

LANGUAGES – Associate Professor Joseph Mai published a review of Boreth Ly’s groundbreaking book, “Traces of Trauma: Cambodian Visual Culture and National Identity in the Aftermath of Genocide” in the Kyoto Review.

ENGLISH – Assistant Professor Clare Mullaney received an honorable mention for “Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers” contest for best paper delivered at the 2021 SSAWW Conference for her essay, “Emily Dickinson, Incapacity, and Industrial Life.”

ENGLISH – The February issue of “Poetry” magazine published an essay by Associate Professor Aga Skrodzka (World Cinema) titled “Strawberry Bondage and Disabling Discipline in a New Series of Cyborg Video Sonnets.” The magazine commissioned this essay as a critical introduction to the video poetry of Cyborg Jillian Weise (poet, disability activist, and former Clemson faculty), also published in the same issue of “Poetry.”

LANGUAGES – Assistant Professor of Japanese Jae DiBello Takeuchi was invited to give a talk by the Interdisciplinary Committee on Linguistics at Arizona State University. Her presentation was titled ‘‘Don’t Treat Me Like I’m Stupid:’ Code-switching, Native Speaker Bias, and Linguistic Microaggressions in Japanese.”

ENGLISH – Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature Rhondda Robinson Thomas was one of three panelists who participated in the virtual discussion titled “Remembering!: Increasing Empathy & Healing Trauma Through Untold Black Stories” as part of the Micah 6:8 Series sponsored by the University Care Department at Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, on February 17, 2022.

ART – Associate Professor Anderson Wrangle and MFA candidate Aviana Wells are exhibiting in the “Emergence: A Survey of Southeastern Studio Programs” exhibition at the Bascom Center for Art in Highlands, N.C. “Emergence” showcases the work of faculty and student pairs to celebrate the role of teaching and mentoring in artistic development. Each submission consists of two works: one by the faculty mentor and one by the student. 18 programs are represented in this year’s exhibition, which runs through April 30, 2022.

PERFORMING ARTS – Professor Becky Becker was presented with a Kennedy Center Gold Medallion Award on February 2. The award is presented annually by the eight Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival regions to honor individuals or organizations that have made extraordinary contributions to the teaching and producing of theatre and who have significantly dedicated their time, artistry and enthusiasm to the development of the festival.

PHILOSOPHY – Assistant Professor Pascal Brixel presented his paper “Incentives Compromise Autonomy: The Unfreedom of Extrinsically Motivated Activity” virtually at the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association.

HISTORY – Professor Vernon Burton was interviewed by the French daily newspaper, Liberation, in one of a series of articles marking one year since the January 6, 2021 riots in Washington D.C. The article focuses on the current wave of changing state electoral laws and redistricting taking place ahead of the 2022 elections. Burton and co-author Armand Derfner published an op-ed in the Washington Post discussing a recent Texas abortion Law, now reprinted in several other newspapers including the Denton Record-Chronicle. Burton and co-author Armand Derner discussed “Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court” in conversation with Deborah Kennedy Kennard at the Charleston Literary Society as part of their Speaker Series. As a member of the Board of editors of “Fides et Historia,” Burton was asked to write an essay about “How Covid-19 Has Changed My Writing,” which appeared in Vol. 53:2.

ART – Director of Lee Gallery and Senior Lecturer Denise Woodward-Detrich was selected to jury an Upstate exhibit, “26 Awards,” at Greenville Technical College. On display January 19 through February 25 at the Kroc Center, the awarded works were selected from the 2021 Visual Art Annual Student Exhibit.

ENGLISH – Assistant Professor of English and World Cinema Maziyar Faridi was invited to give a talk for the Persian Circle in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago. His presentation was titled “Awaiting Without Horizon: Notes on Messianic Readings of Modern Poetry and New Wave Cinema of Iran.”

ARCHITECTURE – Professor Anjali Joseph, Director of the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing (CHFDT), recently served on a panel of global experts for “The Future Hospital: Surgery 2050” webinar. The webinar was organized by European Healthcare Design for their “Future Hospital 2050” innovation series on SALUS TV. Joseph and the other panelists discussed how innovation in system and service design, medical technology, and digital and physical infrastructure will define the future hospital. Some of the biggest changes are taking place in emergency and critical care as well as in surgery and the operating theatre.

ARCHITECTURE – Assistant Professor of Architecture Andreea Mihalache was invited to present at Vanier College, Montreal as part of the annual Humanities Symposium, which this year was virtual and focused on the topic of “Boredom.” She delivered a talk titled “An Encounter with Boredom in Seven Tableaux (and an Epilogue).”

PERFORMING ARTS –Assistant Professor Lisa Sain Odom, soprano, performed an art song by Richard Strauss, “Zuiegnung,” at the National Association of Teachers of Singing’s Winter Workshop on January 8 in New York as part of a German masterclass with clinician Nils Neubert of the Manhattan School of Music. She was also selected to perform three musical theatre numbers for Broadway performers and audience.

LANGUAGES – Professor and department chair Salvador Oropesa published the article “How to Study Contemporary Mexican Cinema: The Case of David William Foster,” in the November 2021 edition of “Chasqui.”

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE – Professor Mary G. Padua was invited to give a virtual talk on January 12 to the American Society of Landscape Architecture (ASLA) South Carolina chapter on her 2020 award-winning book, “Hybrid Modernity: the Public Park in late 20th century China” (Routledge 2020). Her talk is part of the ASLA’s local chapter education program, Virtual Site Tours + Talks, where landscape architects can learn about award-winning works while earning continuing education credits needed to sustain their professional licenses. Padua was also invited to serve on an international panel of educators to assess China’s State Council 2021 proposed revisions to their “official catalogue of disciplines and majors”. This includes subsuming landscape architecture (LA) under urban planning as a sub-discipline. This proposal is a major revision to the previous 2011 State Council catalogue that initially classified LA as a first-level discipline equivalent to architecture and urban planning – enabling China’s universities to deliver academic and professional master’s degrees, as well as doctoral degrees in landscape architecture.

REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT – Professor and director of the Master of Real Estate Development program, Dustin C. Read, received a best paper award from the American Real Estate Society for his research on senior housing presented at the organization’s 37th annual conference. The paper, titled “Resident Service Coordinators as an Underutilized Resource in the Design and Development of Affordable Housing,” was co-authored with Greg Galford and Jeff Robert, both scholars at Virginia Tech.

HISTORY –Professor Douglas Seefeldt and his collaborators from a number of institutions received one of the inaugural National Historical Publications and Records Commission/Mellon Planning Grants for Collaborative Digital Editions in African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Native American History and Ethnic Studies. Seefeldt and Archivist Tawa Ducheneaux from the Woksape Tipi Library & Archives at Oglala Lakota College, are the project co-directors for the two-year planning grant titled “Wičhóoyake kiη aglí—They Bring the Stories Back: Connecting Lakota Wild West Performers to Pine Ridge Community.” The proposed digital edition of primary sources (texts, images, oral histories, and artifacts) focuses on Lakota community members who traveled across Canada, the United States and Europe as performers with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and other Wild West shows during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The project will demonstrate how unique and significant these performers’ experiences were to their families, to American culture and to European conceptions of Lakota people. Taken as a whole, the digitized items in this archival project will tell the important but little-known history of these Lakota performers from the perspectives of their own communities in a way that will both educate and inspire future generations.

HISTORY – Professor Michael Silvestri’s essay, “19 January 1922: The Dedication of the John Nicholson Statue, Lisburn,” was published on the “Century Ireland 1913-1923” website on the one-hundredth anniversary of the statue’s dedication. The Century Ireland project is an online historical newspaper, produced by Boston College and the Irish national broadcaster RTÉ, that tells the story of the events of Irish life a century ago.

WORLD CINEMA – Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies Aga Skrodzka was invited to write for the special issue of “Studies in World Cinema,” which focuses on women. Her article,  “Feminist Worlding and World Cinema: The Case of Małgorzata Szumowska,” proposes a new approach to theorizing World Cinema as an emancipatory practice. Skrodzka has also published a study on Walerian Borowczyk’s use of art as a sexploitation strategy. Titled “Walerian Borowczyk: Seventies Sexploitation through Sublimation,” the essay appears in the new edition of “Shocking Cinema of the 70s,” an anthology edited by the UK film scholars Julian Petley and Xavier Mendik (Bloomsbury Academic). This project is an outcome of Skrodzka’s collaboration with colleagues from the School of Media at Birmingham City University and Cine-Excess.

LANGUAGES – Associate Professor Gabriela Stoicea has published and co-edited with Carl Niekerk (Professor of German, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) the 2021 volume of the Lessing Yearbook, which focuses on the eighteenth century’s understanding of catastrophe and catastrophic events. Also, her monograph “Fictions of Legibility: The Human Face and Body in Modern German Novels from Sophie von La Roche to Alfred Döblin” (Transcript, 2020) has recently been reviewed in “The German Quarterly,” “Studies in the Novel” and in “Focus on German Studies.”

ART – Associate Professor Kathleen Thum exhibited drawings from her “Carbon Series” in the “13^th Annual International Juried Exhibition Drawing Discourse” at University of North Carolina Asheville from January 14 through February 11 and in the “Int’l Paperworks 2022” at the Northwest Arts Center at Minot State University in North Dakota from January 13 through February 24.

LANGUAGES – Professor Eric Touya presented a paper entitled “The virtues of Close Reading: Ethical, Social, and Theoretical Approaches to Mallarmé’s ‘Salut’: A Method Armistice, and the Problem of Method” at the Modern Language Association of America Conference in Washington DC. He also published an article entitled “‘Souvenir d’horizons, qu’est-ce, ô toi, que la Terre?’: Écopoétique chez Bonnefoy et Mallarmé: lieu, sens, présence” in Parler la Terre/Speaking the Earth, Contemporary French & Francophone Studies.

HISTORY – Professor Vernon Burton was featured on the SCETV radio program, “Walter Edgar’s Journal,” to discuss his book, Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court, which he co-authored with Armand Derfner. Later in December on Victoria Hansen‘s interview with Walter Edgar commemorating his 21-year career on public radio, Edgar mentioned Burton as one of the most frequent, memorable, and outstanding guests that he had interviewed over the years. Also, a special page review by John Simpkins of Justice Deferred appeared in the Charleston Post and Courier on December 5.

LANGUAGES – Assistant Professor Jody Cripps’ Creative inquiry project, “Martha’s Vineyard Sign Language,” was featured in a story in MV Times. The story interviews one of Cripps’ community partners who described how their project promotes the visibility of signed language and disseminates it on the island.

LANGUAGES – Associate Professor Stephen Fitzmaurice with Elizabeth Winston, published a co-edited volume “Advances in Educational Interpreting” with Gallaudet University Press.   This long-awaited volume brings together experts in the field, including Deaf and hearing educational interpreters, interpreter researchers, interpreter educators, and Deaf consumers of educational interpreting services. The contributors explore impacts and potential outcomes for students placed in interpreted education settings and addresses such topics as interpreter skills, cultural needs and emergent signers.

ENGLISH – Cambridge Elements in Digital Literary Studies, a series co-edited by Associate Professor Gabriel Hankins, has released Literary Geographies in Balzac and Proust by Melanie Conroy. This Element explores the literary geographies of Balzac and Proust as exemplary of realist and post-realist traditions of place-making in novelistic spaces. The central concern of the work is how literary cartography, or the mapping of place names, can contribute to our understanding of place-making in the novel.

ARCHITECTURE – Professor Anjali Joseph, Director of the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing (CHFDT), co-authored an article in Health Environments Research & Design Journal (HERD): “Perceived Usability of Seating in an Outpatient Waiting Area: A Combined Approach Utilizing Virtual Reality and Actual Seating Prototypes.” The study found that using VR and real seating in a lab is a reliable tool for designers and furniture manufacturers to obtain users’ perceived usability evaluations of seating during the design process, while the actual context is absent.

Joseph also presented “The Impact of Daylight and Views on Patient Satisfaction and Staff Burnout” at the Healthcare Facilities Symposium and Expo in Austin, Texas. The presentation discussed how hospital and window design influences patient and staff satisfaction and how window blinds can impact staff burnout and productivity.

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION – Assistant Professor Claire Kirwin was interviewed by Richard Marshall for the 3:16 AM series of interviews with philosophers (formally hosted at 3 AM). The interview was mentioned on Leiter Reports and discussed on the Daily Nous. She also presented her paper ‘How to Decide What to Do: An Argument for Value Realism’ at the annual Southampton–Humboldt Normativity Conference, which took place over Zoom on December 17–18.

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE – Professor Hala Nassar and Benjamin Okenwa’s paper, “Investigating Smart Neighborhood Design for Physical Activities; A Case Study of South Atlanta Neighborhood, Georgia,” has been published in Landscape Research Record Vol 10, 2021 pp. 122- 132.  The paper was published in the Journal paper titled  “Landscape Architecture for Health”.

Also, Dr. Nassar and Ryan Helle’s abstract for an oral presentation at the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA 2022) has been fully accepted for presentation and publication in the conference proceeding. The paper, “Perry Hill & Utica Mill Hill Villages Opportunity Zone Innovating Community Development in Context of Climate, Pandemic, and Social Disruptions,” will be presented at the conference this March in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

PERFORMING ARTS – Associate Professor Kerrie Seymour is directing the February 2022 production of Bekah Brunstetter’s “The Cake” at Roanoke, Virginia’s Mill Mountain Theatre.

HISTORY – Professor Michael Silvestri contributed a chapter on “Empire” to Ireland 1922: Independence, Partition and Civil War, edited by Darragh Gannon and Fearghal McGarry. The volume, published by the Royal Irish Academy, features fifty short essays by leading international scholars from different disciplines exploring a turning point in Irish history; one whose legacy remains controversial a century on.

LANGUAGES — Professor Pauline de Tholozany was invited to give a virtual talk at the Universidad Nacional Federico Villareal in Lima, Peru. Her conference took place on December 8 and was titled “Divorcios transatlánticos: Flora Tristan entre Francia y Perú”. Professor de Tholozany’s presentation investigated 19^th-century Franco Peruvian activist Flora Tristan’s pleas for divorce laws in Pérégrinations d’une paria (1838), an autobiographical travel narrative that describes her violent marital situation in France and her subsequent trip to Peru.

ART – The photography of Associate Professor Anderson Wrangle and MFA student Aviana Wells was selected for inclusion in Emergence: A Survey of Southeastern Studio Programs at the Bascom in Highlands, NC. The show opened on January 15th.

ARCHITECTURE – Lecturer Bryan Beerman and his team were recently recognized with design awards for the Wando Mount Pleasant Library, including an AIA SC Citation Award in the Interior Architecture category and an AIA SC New Construction Merit Award. The design is inspired by its Lowcountry environment, and diffused light filters through and animates the space, while a nature-inspired materials palette references grass, fish scales, water, and sky. Further details and photos can be found on LS3P’s website and e-book.

HISTORY – Professor Vernon Burton received the Benjamin E. Mays Legacy award, spoke at Lander University on the legacy of Benjamin E. Mays, and introduced the keynote speaker at the 10 year commemoration of the Mays Historical site on November 6. His essay, “Epworth Native Earned Place in History: Benjamin E. Mays, Schoolmaster of the Civil Rights Movement,” 98-102 was published in 10 Years Preserving History: Building a Legacy, (Greenwood: Gleams Center, 2021), the booklet accompanying the commemoration. On November 10, he participated in a discussion on his book, Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court with moderator Frye Gailliard in Dock Street Theater at the Charleston Literary Festival. Burton also responded to a session devoted to Justice Deferred at the annual meeting of the Social Science History Association in Philadelphia.  On November 17 he was interviewed a second time by Sharon Kay on Fisk University Nashville public radio about Justice Deferred. CNN’s Brandon Tensley quoted Burton as chair of the History Advisory Board for a story on the Racial Reconciliation Echo Project in CNN’s Race Reconstructed Newsletter. Also, The Association of African America Life and History (ASALH) and Howard University featured Justice Deferred, its authors, and Harvard historian and president of ASALH Evelyn Higginbotham in their Social Justice Reading Room for a two hour discussion.

HISTORY – Professor Emerita Elizabeth Carney co-ran an international conference, “Macedonia and its Environment” with Sabine Müller of the University of Marburg, which ran November 1-3. She presented her latest paper, “The role of Macedonia in the decline of monarchy in Molossia/Epirus,” on November 1.

LANGUAGES – “Martha’s Vineyard Sign Language Project,” one of the Creative Inquiry (CI) courses under the direction of Assistant Professor Jody Cripps, is collaborating with the television program, MV Signs: Then and Now and the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber of Commerce. According to the Martha’s Vinyard Chamber of Commerce, approximately 100 to 200 deaf people visit Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, every year as the island is known for its deaf-related history during colonial times. An introductory signed language webinar was created last semester in supporting teaching signed language to the business owners and the residents. Two American Sign Language students, Jaylin Dillard and Brooke Turell, and Dr. Cripps, traveled to Martha’s Vineyard and conducted interviews with the participants from November 18^th to 21^st.  In addition, Dr. Cripps published a special issue on the topic of Martha’s Vineyard in the latest Society for American Sign Language Journal.

ARCHITECTURE – Lecturer Harrison Floyd was part of a project team that earned a patent for US 11160483B2: a neurological monitoring cable for magnetic resonance environments. The technology reduces the risk of unwanted RF-induced heating in MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) devices. Also, Floyd, along with his comprehensive studio partner, Ryan Bing, received an Honor Award from the South Carolina AIA for their project, “The Grammar of Wood: Hangar for 53^rd Weapons Evaluation Group on Mass Timber,” which they completed in fulfillment of the requirements for their Master of Architecture degree. The project is a proposed aircraft maintenance hangar/auxiliary-support facility, which began with a respectful dissection of the visions proposed and prescribed by United States Air Force Facility Standards for these and similar projects. The award presentation can be viewed at the 16:50 mark of this video.

PERFORMING ARTS – Professor Emeritus Rick Goodstein was elected as a Lifetime Honorary Trustee of the Clemson Architecture Foundation and named an Emeritus Member of the International Council of Fine Arts Deans.

LANGUAGES – Lecturer Jason Hurdich is appearing in promos for WIS-TV in Columbia as a representative of ABLE South Carolina, teaching viewers to say “Good Morning” in American Sign Language and bringing ASL awareness to the Columbia metro area. Hurdich also published an article in the quarterly magazine of the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, for which he serves on the Board of Directors.

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION – Assistant Professor Elizabeth Jemison presented a paper at the American Academy of Religion’s annual meeting in November evaluating a recent book, Christianity Corrupted: The Scandal of White Supremacy by Jermaine Marshall (Orbis, 2021). Jemison was joined by senior faculty at Dartmouth College and Virginia Tech who share her expertise in Christianity and race.

ARCHITECTURE – Professor Anjali Joseph served as coauthor of a paper recently published in Applied Ergonomics: “An Exploratory Study Investigating the Barriers, Facilitators, and Demands Affecting Caregivers in a Telemedicine Integrated Ambulance-Based Setting for Stroke Care.” The study determined that the technical support required for communications and various tasks was not adequately supported by the current telemedicine system and should be addressed through system design.

PHILOSOPHY – Assistant Professor Claire Kirwin was an invited discussant for the launch of Mattia Riccardi’s book, Nietzsche’s Philosophical Psychology (Oxford University Press, 2021). The launch took place over Zoom on November 16.

PERFORMING ARTS – Professor Linda Li-Bleuel performed the piano with renowned tenor, Victor Robertson, at the Clemson University Men of Color Women’s Roundtable Pre-Summit and Leadership reception. Speakers at the Women’s Roundtable included Soledad O’Brien, journalist and host of “Matter of Fact,” and Vanessa Wyche, Director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center.

ARCHITECTURE – Professor Anjali Joseph, Research Assistant Professor Sahar Mihandoust and master’s student Seyedmohammad Ahmadshahi, along with other researchers from the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing (CHFDT), published an article in the Health Environments Research & Design Journal – Comparing Sources of Disruptions toTelemedicine-Enabled Stroke Care in an Ambulance. The study concluded that adequate space could reduce flow disruptions and facilitate the stroke care evaluation process.

LANGUAGES – Associate Professor Joseph Mai’s The Cinema of Rithy Panh: Everything Has a Soul, co-edited with Leslie Barnes of the Australian National University, was selected by the Asian Cinema Research Lab in Singapore for a special book launch. The event, conducted over zoom, featured the co-editors, six others speakers, and participants from Asia, the US, Australia, Europe, and Israel. Mai also published a review essay of the Cambodian filmmaker Kavich Neang’s documentation of the demolition of Phnom Penh’s iconic “White Building” (The Building) during a time of global capital influx in Cambodia; the essay appears in the November issue of The Mekong Review.

ENGLISH – Lecturer Chelsea Rice McElvey’s article, “Queen Anne’s Body in Stuart Court Sermons” was published with the Ben Jonson Journal. The article aligns the 1605, 1606, and 1609 court sermons of Lancelot Andrewes with Ben Jonson’s Masque of Blackness and Masque of Beauty (performed in 1605 and 1608, respectively) in order to argue that both genres politicize James VI and I’s domestic life by commenting on Queen Anne’s political and domestic roles.

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE ­–At the 2021 national American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Conference (Nov 19-22 Nashville, TN), Mary G. Padua, professor of Landscape Architecture was the lead speaker for a sold-out Deep Dive educational session panel on technology, titled, “How Big Data Benefits You: Using Information for Good in Landscape Architecture.” The panel of speakers also included two alumni of Clemson’s Planning, Design and the Built Environment (PDBE) Ph.D. program: Yang Song, assistant professor at Texas A & M’s Department of Landscape Architecture & Planning, and Jessica Fernandez, assistant professor at University of Georgia’s Department of Landscape Architecture. Their session presented ways big data and machine learning can cultivate solutions for equitable and inclusive environments.

ENGLISH – Associate Professor Elizabeth Rivlin presented a paper for the “Gloria Naylor in the Archive Symposium,” which took place at Lehigh University and online on Nov. 5-6. Her paper, presented virtually, was titled “’They Needed Things Like That’: Gloria Naylor and the Rise of Shakespeare Novels.”

LANGUAGES – Professor Johannes Schmidt was appointed to the South Carolina Council on the Holocaust. He will serve a 2-year term and focus on Holocaust and genocide education in the Upstate, especially for K-12 teachers.

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE – Thomas Schurch, Professor of Landscape Architecture+Urban Design was inducted into the Council of Fellows of the American Society of Landscape Architects. This is one of the highest honors bestowed by the ASLA. An investiture ceremony for him and other inductees to the Council was held this past month at the Annual Meeting of the ASLA held in Nashville.

HISTORY – Professor Michael Silvestri participated in a roundtable panel on “Navigating the Archives” at the North American Conference on British Studies annual meeting, which was took place in-person in Atlanta from November 11^thto 14^th. On November 6^th he also chaired a pre-conference on-line panel session on “Remembering Empire: Can Public Art Transform History?” Michael Silvestri and Stephanie Barczewski continue to serve as Executive Secretaries of the NACBS.

LANGUAGES – On November 13^th, Professor Pauline de Tholozany gave a paper at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association conference. Her paper was titled “Speed, Velocity, Pace: Time and Identity in 19^th-century Paris.” It explored the ways in which 19th-century French novelists have thought of urban speed and character identity. Professor de Tholozany argued that 19th-century novels can help us think about how the pace of the city may shape our identity and sense of self.

PERFORMING ARTS – Professor Bruce Whisler edited and mastered a collection of historic recordings for the International Trumpet Guild.  The title is From the ITG Archives: A Retrospective of the National Trumpet Symposium 1968-73.  These performances were all recorded on tape and were re-engineered to improve the sound quality and converted to digital files for online distribution. Notable performers in the compilation include Maurice Andre, The Maynard Ferguson Band, The Los Angeles Brass Quintet, and the brass-based rock band, Chase.

ARCHITECTURE – Professors Anjali Joseph and David Allison presented the work of the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing (CHFDT) at the Healthcare Design Expo + Conference in Cleveland, OH. CHFDT presentations included “Coming Full Circle: POE of a Prototype OR Implementation” and “Mock-up of a Pediatric ICU: Identifying Clinical Challenges and Flow Disruptions.”

HISTORY – Professor Vernon Burton spoke at the Furman Chapel for the memorial service of Furman University Chaplain James Pitts.  The Star & Ledger quoted Burton in an article on Justice Joseph P. Bradley’s name removal from a Rutgers University building. On Oct 7, he keynoted the Texas State NAACPs 84^th Annual meeting.  He discussed his co-authored Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court at the Nashville Southern Festival of Books. On Oct. 18, Burton’s interview with Hoopeston Hay on “Diverse Voices Book Review” was broadcast on KKAZI 99.7 FM on Oct. 18 (The Voice of Austin) and is available as a podcast. On Oct. 20, he discussed Justice Deferred at the Ollie Full Moon Bookfest at Patrick Square.  Burton published a review essay by former Beaufort mayor Billy Keyserling’s memoir, Sharing Common Ground: Promises Unfulfilled but Not Forgotten (2020) in Southern Jewish History: Journal of the Southern Jewish Historical Society Vol 24 (Fall, 2021).  He also published a book chapter, “Modeling the Baptist Faith” in the collection, Walk with Me: Reflections on the Life and Influence of James Milton Pitts, edited by Cecil P. Staton and John Adams (Smyth and Helwys).

HISTORY – Professor Emerita Elizabeth D. Carney gave a paper, “Complicating the ‘Agency’ of Royal Women,” on October 22 at a Zoom conference, “Power, Royal Agency, and Elite Women in the Hellenistic and Roman World: Session II.” This is a continuing international conference sponsored by the Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Institute.

LANGUAGES – Assistant Professor Jody H. Cripps and his colleagues published an article titled “Effects of inverted L2/Ln language pedagogy on student experiences and outcomes: The case of American Sign Language” that investigated flipped pedagogy with an advanced American Sign Language course in the Language Teaching Research journal. This ‘online first’ article can be found here.

ART – Provost Pathways Fellow in Art Rachel de Cuba’s work Nabegá was featured in a review written by Noah Hanna for the exhibition It Feels Like the First Time in Art Papers’ fall publication. Her work and writing was also featured in a collection of artists’ text on Mana Contemporary’s Editorial site. This collection of text focuses on the backstory and development of various works on display at Mana Contemporary’s Chicago exhibition space.

ENGLISH – Lecturer Stevie Edwards’ poem “Parthenogenesis” appears in the October 2021 issue of Poetry Magazine.

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION – Assistant Professor Elizabeth Jemison was the featured speaker for the Rocky Mountain American Religion Seminar (RMARS) on October 7 where she discussed her recent book, Christian Citizens: Reading the Bible in Black and White in the Postemancipation South (UNC Press, 2020). RMARS includes graduate students and faculty working with interests in American religion from the University of Utah, Utah State University, and Brigham Young University. Jemison’s book, Christian Citizens, has recently been reviewed favorably in the Journal of Church and State, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Civil War Book Review, and Political Theology, among other journals.

ARCHITECTURE – Anjali Joseph, Director of the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing (CHFDT), presented Improving Safety and Quality Through Evidence-Based Healthcare Design, at the 20th Annual Human Factors and Ergonomics Symposium: Puget Sound Chapter. The virtual presentation provided an overview of the work of the CHFDT. Joseph also edited a special issue of the open access International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health on ‘Improving Patient and Staff Safety through Evidence-Based Healthcare Design’. The special issue includes 7 high-impact papers addressing issues ranging from telemedicine implementation during COVID-19 to operating room design.

LANGUAGES – Joseph Mai and his co-editor Leslie Barnes (Australian National University) were invited by Michael Vann for an in-depth discussion of their book, The Cinema of Rithy Panh: Everything Has a Soul, on the popular New Books in History podcast.

ENGLISH – Lecturer Melissa Edmundson Makala published the first modern edition of short fiction by Clotilde Graves titled A Vanished Hand and Others with Swan River Press (Dublin, Ireland). The book is part of Swan River’s “Strange Stories by Irish Women” series.

ARCHITECTURE – Sahar Mihandoust, Anjali Joseph and doctoral student Sara Kennedy recently published an article in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health – Exploring the Relationship Between Window View Quantity, Quality, and Ratings of Care in the Hospital. The study found that patients viewing green spaces from their rooms rated the hospital, their care, and their rooms higher compared to those patients viewing non-green spaces, having no views, or no windows.

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE – Professor Hala Nassar’s peer-reviewed publication together with Mary Cummings and Vishwa Alaparthy has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Intelligent & Robotics Systems. This research is the outcome of a National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant titled “Drones and the Design of Public Outdoors Spaces” which was awarded in the full amount requested of $ 750,000 for three-year duration. The NSF grant is an interdisciplinary and inter-institutional research proposal in collaboration with Duke University Departments of Electrical and Computing Engineering, Material Sciences, the Human and Autonomy Laboratory, and Duke Robotics. The research examines the uncharted intersection of science and robotics, current problematic use of drones, and the design of outdoor public spaces, and utilized the Sarah P. Duke Botanical gardens and the North Carolina Correctional facilities as sites for the research.”

ENGLISH – Associate Professor Elizabeth Rivlin organized a session and presented a paper for the American Studies Association Annual Conference (Oct 11-14), held virtually this year. The session was titled “Collective Shakespeare in American Life,” and her paper was titled “’I Shall not Hence Upon that Stage’: Women’s Middlebrow Shakespeare at Chautauqua.”

LANGUAGES – Professor Johannes Schmidt presented with Rodrigo Martinez-Duarte (Mechanical Engineering) “The Corporate Partner: Forging New Global Connections” at the International Virtual Exchange Conference 2021. Their talk presented two case studies describing how to incorporate South Carolina businesses into the curriculum.

PERFORMING ARTS – Associate Professor Kerrie Seymour is directing the Kate Hamill adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility” at The Warehouse Theatre. The show opens on November 19 and runs through December 19. The cast includes actors from New York City, Los Angeles and the Southeast region. She also filmed a short film, “The Devil’s Game,” in Atlanta.

HISTORY – Professor Michael Silvestri chaired and commented on a panel on “Policing Thought, Surveilling Bodies: Everyday Operations of State Power in Colonial India” at the 49^thAnnual Conference on South Asia. The Conference on South Asia, normally held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, took place online this year.

PERFORMING ARTS – Professor Mark Spede was elected to the Board of the National Music Council. The National Music Council serves as a forum for the free discussion of the nation’s music affairs and problems. Founded in 1940, the council’s membership includes almost 50 national music organizations, encompassing professional and commercial musical activity.

LANGUAGES – Associate Professor Pauline de Tholozany presented a paper titled “Removing Chains: Medical Discourse and Political Dissent in Post-Revolutionary France” at the International Romanticism Conference in Charleston. In this paper,  de Tholozany questions the links between two famous French post-revolutionary scenes of liberation: physician Philippe Pinel removing the madmen’s chains at the Bicêtre Hospital (1792) and the National Convention abolishing slavery in the French colonies (1794). De Tholozany also presented a paper titled “Marie-Kondo-ing Madame Bovary” at the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Conference in Washington D.C. The paper explores the ways in which modernity affects our relationship to objects, cluttering, and consumption.

ART – Valerie Zimany, Chair of the Department of Art, Rachel de Cuba, Provost’s Pathway Fellow in Art, and Huan LaPlante, MFA student, are exhibiting as juried artists in the South Carolina Biennial 2021 Part I, which runs from October 7 – November 14, 2021 at the 701 Center for Contemporary Art in Columbia, SC. The 2021 Biennial features 24 artists and is the sixth survey of South Carolina art taking place at 701 Center for Contemporary Art.  701 CCA is located at 701 Whaley Street, 2nd Floor, Columbia, SC 29201. During exhibitions, hours are Wed-Sat, 11-5; Sun, 1-5. For more information, visit www.701cca.org.

ARCHITECTURE — Anjali Joseph, David Allison, and Sahar Mihandoust, along with other researchers from the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing (CHFDT), published an article in the Health Environments Research & Design Journal discussing how simulation-based evaluations are beneficial during the design process and can provide valuable input to design teams, as well as clinical teams about workflow and safety issues that allow design issues to be addressed before construction: Comparing User Perceptions of Surgical Environments: Simulations in a High-Fidelity Physical Mock-Up Versus a Post-Occupancy Evaluation.

PERFORMING ARTS — The first of Hamilton Altstatt’s two Creativity Professorship CD projects, “Lullabies, Sweet and Scary” has just been published and released by Cue Source Music.  A collection of classic lullabies recorded as both a “sweet” version using vintage music box or traditional orchestration and a “scary” version in a minor key using creepy, discordant instrumentation and scary sound effects—just in time for Halloween.  Targeted at the “synch music” industry (music for television, video, commercials, etc) and distributed by Sync Stories, it includes tracks that feature our own Dr. Lisa Odom on vocals.

ENGLISH — Campbell Chair and Professor of English David Blakesley is the Publisher and Founder of Parlor Press, which just had one of its latest poetry titles, Ghost Letters by Baba Badji, longlisted for the National Book Award. Longlist recognition means that the book is one of ten up for the award in 2021. Read more about the longlist titles at the National Book Foundation website, and read more about Ghost Letters at Parlor Press here.

HISTORY—Vernon Burton’s co-authored book, Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court, has continued to lead to positive reviews and appearances in media. Burton discussed his work on several shows, including NPR’s “The 21st” podcast, and “Sharon Kay’s 411” on Fisk University radio on Sept. 1. The book also received an enthusiastic new review in Trial News. Burton was interviewed and quoted on the issue of race, drugs, and criminal justice for an article in The Village Voice. On Sept. 14., Charleston Mayor Joe Riley introduced Burton for his community-wide talk on Justice Deferred at Grace Church Cathedral. In addition to work related to Justice Deferred, Burton also spoke twice at the Upcountry History Museum. He delivered a lecture focused on Ansel Adams photos and Japanese internment during World War II; he also spoke and appeared in a video about Clemson’s first African American Dean, Frankie Felder, who has written a new book on her family history.

HISTORY — Elizabeth D. Carney gave a paper, “Picturing Olympias: The Mother of Alexander the Great after Antiquity” for an online conference, QUEEN: Reimagining Power from Antiquity to the Present on September 23-24, 2021. The sponsor of the conference was the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University.

ARCHITECTURE — Anjali Joseph, Director of the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing, recently presented “Realizing Improved Patient Care through Human Centered Design in the OR (RIPCHD.OR): Key Outcomes and Next Steps” for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s 2021 Annual Patient Safety Learning Lab Meeting. The presentation provided a summary of key outcomes of the multiyear, multidisciplinary RIPCHD.OR project. Key outcomes from this project include 24 peer-reviewed journal articles, a high-fidelity operating room prototype, a web-based safe OR design tool and implementation at multiple surgical centers. Also in September, Joseph, along with Nora Colman, MD, of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, presented “Pediatric Intensive Care Patient Room Design: Identifying Safety Risks in Mirrored Rooms Through a Graphical Systems Analysis” for a Center for Health Design Workshop: “The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit – Design for the Forgotten Middle.”

PHILOSOPHY — Assistant Professor of Philosophy Claire Kirwin presented her paper, ‘How to Decide What to Do’ on September 10 at the Philosophy Colloquium speaker series at the University of South Carolina. On September 16, she presented her paper ‘Arguing With the Moral Skeptic’ virtually at a hybrid conference at the Universidad de Navarra, the LVI Reuniones Filosóficas, on ‘Varieties of Anti-Skepticism’. On September 17, she presented her paper ‘Value Realism and Idiosyncrasy’ at the Madison Metaethics Workshop.

ENGLISH — Melissa Edmundson Makala published a critical edition of short fiction by Elinor Mordaunt titled The Villa and The Vortex: Supernatural Stories, 1916-1924 with Handheld Press.

ARCHITECTURE — Sahar Mihandoust, Anjali Joseph, and doctoral student Sara Kennedy, all with the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing (CHFDT), presented Daylight, Views and the Patient Experience during a recent HealthSpaces Webinar. The project is a collaboration of the CHFDT and View, Inc. The research explores the impact of windows on patient experience and their perception of healthcare quality.

LANGUAGES — Arelis Moore de Peralta published a peer-reviewed manuscript titled “The Influence of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Other Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on United States Latinx Children’s Development and Health Outcomes: A review of the literature.” in the International Journal on Child Maltreatment, with first author Natalie Claypool. Moore presented on her study abroad project on “Building Healthier Communities in the Dominican Republic: Promoting Students’ Critical Thinking Skills by Engaging Low-Resource Communities in Research and Action”, at the 2021 Southeast Coastal Virtual Conference on Languages and Literatures organized by the Department of World Languages & Cultures of Georgia Southern University. In addition, Moore was informed by the Clemson Center for Career and Professional Development that a recent graduate who responded to the First Destination Survey indicated she made a big difference in that person’s journey at Clemson.

LANGUAGES — Salvador Oropesa read the paper “La serie de Gracia San Sebastián de Ana Lena Rivera” at The Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference at Furman University in Greenville, SC.

LANGUAGES — On September 28, a research article by Jae DiBello Takeuchi was published online ahead of print. The article, titled “Language ideologies among Japanese foreign language teachers: Keigo and L2 speakers,” was published in the Foreign Language Annals journal and will appear in the Fall 2021 print and online issue. Takeuchi’s article can be accessed here.

ENGLISH — Rhondda Robinson Thomas, Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature, facilitated the workshop titled “Call My Name: Using the Archives and the Internet to Enhance Public Engagement for Black History Projects” at the A Day of Training, Networking and Readying our Repositories sponsored by the South Carolina State Historical Records Advisory Board on September 20, 2021, at the SC Department of Archives and History Center in Columbia. She also co-facilitated a conversation, “Archival Research Methods and Strategies for Documenting Historic Cemeteries,” at the virtual symposium Historic Cemeteries and the University: the Power of Place and Community sponsored by the Legacy Council, Woodland Cemetery Preservation Project, and City of Clemson on October 7, 2021.

PHILOSOPHY— Daniel Wueste is the editor of Teaching Ethics – Instructional Models, Methods and Modalities for University Studies, published by Rowman and Littlefield (2021). This book is the fourth in a series of five books, Teaching Ethics across the American Educational Experience, edited by Dominic Scibilia. The book, which comprises ten chapters, encourages teachers and students to approach their work together with clear-eyed awareness that ethical judgments are made by persons who are not disinterested reasoners, devoid of passions or somehow effectively cut off from them, but individuals whose constitution (makeup, character) needs to be taken into account. Wueste wrote the “Introduction” and the first chapter, “Cognition and Conation: A Potent Alliance in Teaching Ethical Judgment.” Editorial reviews can be found here.