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COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE, ARTS AND HUMANITIES – Rod Andrew (History) and Eric Touya (Languages) led a group of Clemson students to Paris and Normandy in France during the summer. The aim of the course was to revisit the journey of the American soldiers during WWII from a French perspective. Through this journey, the students analyzed and reflected on the meaning and purpose of the GIs’ actions and experiences, and on the current place and role of France and the United States in the world.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ENGLISH – Susanna Ashton attended the conference “Frederick Douglass Across and Against Times, Places, and Disciplines,” which was hosted by the Université Paris Diderot, the Foundation des États-Unis, the University of Chicago Center in Paris and the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 from Oct. 11-13 in Paris. She presented research in a paper “Black Agitator John Andrew Jackson and the Long Shadow of Frederick Douglass’s ‘Heroic Slave.’”

HISTORY – Mou Banerjee and Michael Silvestri participated in a roundtable panel on “New Directions in the Study of Political Violence and Revolutionary Terrorism” at the Annual Conference on South Asia on Oct. 12 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Silvestri also presented the paper “‘Fine Stalwart Young Irishmen?’ The Irish Experience of Policing and Criminality in the Late Nineteenth-Century British Empire” on Oct. 26 at the North American Conference on British Studies in Providence, R.I.

PERFORMING ARTS – Anthony Bernarducci was honored as the professor of the game at the Oct. 20 football game against North Carolina State. He was recognized on the field and was able to enjoy the homecoming victory with his wife, Breanna, in the president’s suite.

ENGLISH – Multiple faculty members presented at ASAP/10, a conference held by the Association for the Study of Arts of the Present from Oct. 17-20 in New Orleans. Maria Bose co-organized the “Surveillance as Infrastructure” seminar. Cameron Bushnell’s talk was titled “Orientalism Undisciplined.” Jonathan Beecher Field participated in the “Speculative Souths” seminar. Michael LeMahieu spoke on “Generic Racism.” Kim Manganelli presented “‘Gone With the Wind Fabulous’: The Plantations of River Road in ‘Lemonade’ and ‘The Beguiled.’” Amy Monaghan participated in the roundtable “Unflinching Aesthetics Challenging Gendered Stereotypes of Violence.” Angela Naimou, who serves as treasurer on the association’s board, co-organized the “Rethinking the Refugee” seminar. Tiffany Creegan Miller from the Department of Languages also presented at the conference.

HISTORY – Vernon Burton’s article “American Digital History” from Social Science Computer Review vol. 23, issue 2 (Summer 2005): 206-220 has been published in a Turkish translation, “Amerikan Dijital Tarihi” in Tuhed (Turkish History Educational Journal) vol. 7, issue 2 (2018): 697-719. Burton received a grant from the Self Family Foundation to help support his conference “Lincoln’s Unfinished Work” from Nov. 28-Dec. 1 and its accompanying workshop for secondary teachers on how to teach about the history of race relations. Burton and other contributors to vol. 3 of “State of the Heart: South Carolina Writers on the Places They Love” conducted a reading on Oct. 5 at the Anderson County Library. On Oct. 23-24, he read from his books and gave a lecture titled “Lincoln’s Unfinished Work” at the University of South Carolina Aiken. He also met with high school students from Aiken and Allendale counties who are part of the South Carolina Rural Action Team. Some of the students from underrepresented groups will attend his upcoming conference and conduct video interviews with scholars. On Oct. 27-28, C-SPAN 3 rebroadcast his 2017 lecture on “The Origins of the 14^th Amendment” given at the U.S. Senate Capitol Hill Society.

LANGUAGES – Stephen Fitzmaurice’s chapter “Teaching to Self-Assess: Developing Critical Thinking Skills for Student Interpreters” was published in “The Next Generation of Research in Interpreter Education,” edited by Cynthia Roy and Elizabeth Winston (Gallaudet University Press). The South Carolina Educational Interpreting Center grant he received in 2016 was renewed and its funder has published the 2018 Annual Report. Fitzmaurice also presented “Reducing Your Grading Time: Student Self-Assessment Practices That Work” at the international Conference of Interpreter Trainers in Salt Lake City.

CONSTRUCTION SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT – Dhaval Gajjar gave a talk, “Millennials in the FM Workplace,” at the International Facility Management Association Conference on Oct. 4 in Charlotte, N.C. He also published a new manuscript titled “Improving Janitorial Contract Performance With Facility Management Performance Scorecards” in the Journal of Facility Management Education and Research.

ARCHITECTURE – Frances Henderson Ford presented a paper at the Cultural and Historic Preservation Conference held Oct. 12 at Salve Regina University in Newport, R.I. Her paper “The Three C’s All Happened Here: Cotton, Cigars and College” was part of a session considering adaptive reuse for education, specifically looking at the conversion of historic buildings in Charleston neighborhoods into historic preservation classrooms. Her paper looked at the Hampstead Square neighborhood, where a five-story mill was constructed in 1881 for the manufacture of cotton thread and fabric and later became a successful cigar manufacturing plant. Most of the second floor is now the location of the Clemson Design Center-Charleston and the graduate program in Historic Preservation.

HISTORY – Stephanie Hassell participated in “Africa in Global History:  A Colloquium on the Work of Joseph C. Miller on Oct. 26 at Harvard University.

ARCHITECTURE – Hala Nassar and Robert Hewitt presented at the annual National Science Foundation’s National Robotics Initiative conference on Oct. 29 in Washington, D.C. Their presentation, “Drone Use and Landscape Assessment at Duke Botanical Gardens,” was based on their research with the Duke University Robotics Facility and Humans and Autonomy Laboratory.

ARCHITECTURE – Carter Hudgins and Amalia Leifeste led a team of four students to San Antonio, Texas and the surrounding Hill Country for a four-day field documentation project. The team created measured drawings of seven important vernacular structures. A final drawing developed from their field notes will become part of a tour when the Vernacular Architecture Forum holds its annual conference in San Antonio in May, 2020. Leifeste also presented at the Southeastern Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians conference hosted by Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. Her topic was “The Historic Record We Produce: Querying the Products of Analog and Digital Recording Techniques.”

ARCHITECTURE – Anjali Joseph participated in an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality review panel Oct. 24-25 in Washington, D.C. The group met to review grant proposals related to healthcare safety and quality improvement.

ENGLISH – Steve Katz worked on the article “Agricultural Research, or a New Bioweapon System?” and assisted its authoring scientists from Germany and France in the early style analysis of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) communiques by examining the metaphors they used. The lead author, Guy Reeves of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön, Germany, has just published the article in the journal Science; the article is receiving worldwide attention. Katz was invited to speak to a graduate class in professional writing theory Oct. 25 at Iowa State University, after they read his “The Ethic of Expediency: Classical Rhetoric, Technology, and the Holocaust” and responses to it over three class sessions. The conversation by videoconference was the culmination of their study of his famous and controversial 1992 article. The article, published in College English, won the National Council of Teachers of English award and has been reprinted several times, including in “Central Works in Technical Communication” (Oxford University Press, 2004).

ARCHITECTURE – Herminia Machry, a doctoral student, presented work from the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing at the VIII Congresso Brasileiro para o Desenvolvimento do Edifício Hospitalar held Oct. 30-Nov. 1 in Curitiba, Brazil. Her presentation was titled “Developing and Evaluating an Operating Room Design Prototype: The Use of a Mock-Up Simulation Approach Integrated to an Iterative Evidence-Based Design Process.”

ARCHITECTURE – Andreea Mihalache presented the paper “A Seemingly Serene Scene: Saul Steinberg’s ‘Strada Palas’ (1942)” at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) fall conference, “Play With the Rules,” Oct. 11-13 in Milwaukee.

LANGUAGES – Tiffany Creegan Miller gave the presentation “Uk’u’x kaj, uk’u’x ulew: Ecocritical and Ecofeminist Kaqchikel Maya Epistemologies in the Film ‘Ixcanul’ (2015)” at the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP/10) held Oct. 17-20 in New Orleans. Miller also gave a guest lecture by videoconference on Oct. 22 to a medical Spanish class at Brown University about her work with underserved Kaqchikel Maya patients in Guatemala.

ARCHITECTURE – Winifred E. Newman published “Cyber-innovation in the STEM Classroom, A Mixed Reality Approach” along with Tahar Messadi, Andrew Braham, Darin Nutter and Shahin Vassigh in the journal Creative Education.

LANGUAGES – Salvador Oropesa participated in the roundtable discussion by language department chairs on Oct. 15 at the Mountain Interstate Foreign Languages Conference at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

PERFORMING ARTS – David Stevenson joined 50 other guitarists on Oct. 4 to perform the world premiere of “The Walls,” a five-movement composition by Sergio Assad at Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C.

LANGUAGES – Jae Takeuchi was invited to give a lecture at the University of Washington in Seattle as part of their Japan Studies Program Lecture Series. The title of the talk was “Who Knew? How Japanese Language Learners Negotiate the Challenges of Dialect in Small-Town Japan.”

LANGUAGES – Graciela Tissera presented the research paper “Los castillos en la ficción cinematográfica: sobre los enigmas del espacio laberíntico” at the III Congreso Xàtiva: Historia, cultura e identidad. The conference on the theme of castles in history and fiction was held Oct. 17-19 in Xàtiva, Spain, and was organized by the Universitat de València, Institució Alfons el Magnànim and city of Xàtiva.

LANGUAGES – Eric Touya gave the presentation “Bonnefoy, Badiou, et l’avenir de la poésie: divergences et rapprochements” at the 2018 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He also presented “Teaching Hélé Béji, Post-Colonialism, and the Arab Spring: Perspectives From Baudrillard, McClintock, Giroux” at the conference’s Teaching Women in French Roundtable.

ENGLISH – Jillian Weise gave a talk, “Cyborgs & Tryborgs: Feminism, Futurism & Disability Pride,” for the philosophy department at Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C. She also presented her work at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania.

ARCHITECTURE – Deborah Wingler presented work at the Medical University of South Carolina Performance Improvement Conference Oct. 6-8 in Charleston, S. C. Her topic was “Engaging Clinicians in the Design Process Through Simulation-Based Mock-Up Evaluations to Support the Design of High Performance Healthcare Environments.” Wingler delivered the keynote presentation Oct. 6 at the Institute for Patient-Centered Design Innovation Summit, also in Charleston. She was recently awarded the institute’s Outstanding Service Award for her efforts as a patient and family advocate for health care design.

ARCHITECTURE – B.D. Wortham-Galvin’s article “Queering Reuse” appeared in the International Journal of Interior Architecture + Spatial Design, Vol. 5: Adaptive Interventions.

ART – Artworks by Valerie Zimany and Daniel Bare were featured in the Southern Miss Ceramics National 2018, an exhibition juried by Anthony Stellacio, the editor of Studio Potter Magazine. The exhibition ran Oct. 12 – Nov. 2 at The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg.

ARCHITECTURE – The 50th anniversary celebration of the Architecture + Health Program was held Aug. 23-25. The program is nationally and internationally recognized as one of the oldest and most comprehensive programs of its kind. The 2018 South Atlantic Regional Conference for the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Academy of Architecture for Health was held in conjunction with the 50^th Anniversary Celebration. David Allison discussed “The Future of the Architecture + Health Program: Challenges and Opportunities.” The event celebrated the history of the program, its contributions to the discipline of healthcare architecture, current work in education and research, and the future of the program. Anjali Joseph, Dina Battisto and Byron Edwards provided research updates.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Richard Amesbury’s essay “Secularity, Religion, and the Spatialization of Time” is the lead article in the September 2018 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion.

HISTORY – Rod Andrew’s talk about his book “The Life and Times of General Andrew Pickens: Revolutionary War Hero, American Founder” (UNC Press, 2017) aired in July on C-SPAN. Andrew originally gave the lecture at the Society of the Cincinnati headquarters, Anderson House, in Washington. A video is posted on the C-SPAN website.

PERFORMING ARTS – Anthony Bernarducci published a book related to music pedagogy, “Listening Awareness: Building Independent and Creative Listeners in Choir” (GIA Publications, 2018). In addition, the remaining two movements of his multi-movement work “Missa Brevis San Francesco di Assisi” – “Gloria” and “Agnus Dei” – have been published through GIA Publications. A recording of the first movement is posted online.

ENGLISH – David Blakesley was named a Watt Faculty Fellow for 2018-19, joining its inaugural class. Blakesley’s publishing company, Parlor Press, received the Best Non-Fiction Cover award from Ingram Industries for the book “Type Matters: The Rhetoricity of Letterforms,” edited by Christopher Scott Wyatt and Dànielle Nicole DeVoss (2018).

ENGLISH – Maria Bose was selected as a Watt Faculty Fellow for 2018-19, joining its inaugural class. Bose also organized a 14-person seminar on “Surveillance as Infrastructure” for the upcoming Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present conference (ASAP/10) in New Orleans.

HISTORY – Vernon Burton’s review essay on the Ibram X. Kendi book “Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America” appeared in the Journal of Southern History, Vol. LXXXIV:3 (August 2018). On Aug. 1, South Carolina Academy of Authors member Burton delivered the keynote address at the Literary Landmark Site dedication of the Dr. Benjamin E. Mays Historical Preservation Site in Greenwood. The Mays site was nominated by the South Carolina Academy of Authors and the State Library, and is only the third literary site in the state to be recognized. An article about the recognition appeared in the Index-Journal newspaper in Greenwood.

ENGLISH – Luke Chwala presented “Monstrous Affect: Reading Queer Ecologies in Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’” at the International Gothic Association (IGA) Conference, which was held July 31-Aug. 3 in Manchester, England.

PERFORMING ARTS – Linda Dzuris has been selected as an inaugural Watt Faculty Fellow at Clemson University for 2018-19.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Steven Grosby published the article “Time, Kinship, and the Nation” in a special issue of the journal Genealogy 2/2: 1-18 on the theme of “Nations in Time: Genealogy, History and the Narration of Time,” which was edited by Atsuko Ichijo. Also, Grosby’s chapter “The Wars of the Ancient Israelites and European Culture” appeared in “Famous Battles and How They Shaped the Modern World 1200 BC-1302 AD, From Troy to Courtrai,” edited by D. Beatrice G. Heuser and Athena S. Leoussi (Pen & Sword: August, 2018), pp. 65-79.

LANGUAGES – Joseph Mai and Pauline de Tholozany each published a chapter in the Modern Language Association book “Approaches to Teaching Hugo’s ‘Les Misérables,’” edited by Michal Ginsburg and Bradley Stephens (2018). De Tholozany’s piece describes teaching the novel in the context of an interdisciplinary course on childhood. Mai’s piece explores Hugo’s conception of the moral individual. Mai also published an essay in The Mekong Review about Anthony Bourdain’s experiences in Cambodia.

ENGLISH – Angela Naimou completed a summer intensive course in Arabic at the Middlebury Institute for International Studies at Monterey, California, in August and gave the final public lecture at LaGuardia Community College (CUNY) as part of its National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Talk two-year series on diaspora and cosmopolitanism.

ARCHITECTURE – Mary G. Padua was invited by Charles Birnbaum, president and CEO of The Cultural Landscape Foundation to write a profile about Ron Herman (1941-2018) for the foundation’s “Pioneers of American Landscape Design” series. Herman was an expert on Japanese gardens who studied landscape architecture at the University of California, Berkeley and Kyoto University. He retired in 2017 with a portfolio of more than 400 built works, including collaborations with I.M. Pei, Flavin Architects and Robert A. Stern. Herman was Padua’s former teacher at UC Berkeley.

LANGUAGES – George Palacios was a visiting professor in the school of history at the Universidad Industrial de Santander in Bucaramanga, Colombia, where he taught the literature, culture and history of the African diaspora in Colombia and the Caribbean. Palacios lectured on “Reflexiones en torno a la diaspora Africana en Colombia” and “Literature and History through the Prism of the Haitian Revolution.” He also gave the inaugural lecture for the master in education program of the faculty of social sciences and humanities at the Universidad de Medellín in Colombia: “Una reflexión sobre el currículo: procesos y crítica para el contexto Latinoamericano.” Palacios presented the paper “Resistencias Afrodiaspóricas frente al destierro en la novela Colombiana hacia mediados de siglo XX” at the VI International Conference on Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian and Latin American Studies, held Aug. 7-10 in Accra, Ghana.

ENGLISH – R. Barton Palmer recently co-edited “The Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz” (University of Texas Press) with Murray Pomerance of Ryerson University. The multi-author volume is the first full study of the most prolific and successful Hollywood generalist of the classic studio period (1920-1970). Curtiz worked in all genres, turning out more than 100 films, including classics such as “Casablanca,” “Mildred Pierce” and “Yankee Doodle Dandy.” Palmer also published Volume 9 of “The Complete Poetry and Music of Guillaume De Machaut” (Medieval Institute Publications) with musicologist Jacques Boogaart. Machaut was the pre-eminent poet and musician of the late Middle Ages. This volume is devoted to Machaut’s motets (a complex musical form with extensive lyrics). Palmer has provided the first translations into any modern languages of these French and Latin texts. The edition is formatted for use both by performers and readers. Palmer also published a book chapter devoted to “The  Small Adult Film: A Prestige Form of Cold War Filmmaking” in “Cold War Film Genres,” edited by Homer Pettey (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press), pp. 62-78.

PERFORMING ARTS – Shannon Robert’s set design for “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” at the Aurora Theatre in Atlanta was accepted into the Prague Quadrennial 2019. The set design will be exhibited in the professional category of the Quadrennial’s Transformation exhibit.

LANGUAGES – Johannes Schmidt was one of several scholars interviewed for a German radio feature on Johann Gottfried Herder, titled “Herder: a Grandniece Discovers the Poet.” The feature was recently released as a podcast.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Charles Starkey presented “Virtue Without Character” at the annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

LANGUAGES – Gabriela Stoicea’s chapter “When History Meets Literature: Jonathan Israel, Sophie von La Roche, and the Problem of Gender” has just been published in a collection edited by Carl Niekerk, “The Radical Enlightenment in Germany: A Cultural Perspective” (Brill/Rodopi, 2018), pp. 211-37.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Benjamin White published “Gentile Judaizing in the Dialogue with Trypho: A Test Case for Justin’s Reception of Paul,” pp. 252-64 in “The Early Reception of Paul the Second Temple Jew: Text, Narrative, and Reception History,” edited by Isaac W. Oliver and Gabriele Boccaccini. This collection is volume 92 in The Library of Second Temple Studies series (New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2018).

ARCHITECTURE – Deborah Wingler presented recent work from the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing (“Integrating Technology in Patient Care Spaces: Using Scenario-Based Evaluations to Compare Design Alternatives in Virtual Reality”) at the International Ergonomics Association Conference in Florence, Italy.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Daniel Wueste published “Linking Academic Integrity and Ethics Across the Curriculum: Groundwork for Sustainability in Practical and Professional Ethics,” Chapter 19, pp. 303-26 in “Ethics Across the Curriculum – Pedagogical Perspectives,” edited by Elaine E. Englehardt and Michael S. Pritchard (Springer, 2018).

ART – Valerie Zimany’s artworks “Digifloral Roundels I, II, & III” are on exhibit at Carbondale Clay Center, in Carbondale, Colorado, in “Out of the Mold: Clay National XIII.” The exhibition was juried by renowned artists and educators Andrea and John Gill, and ran from Aug. 3-31. The exhibition, which marked its 13th year, focused on ceramic art that uses a mold as part of the creative process, whether physical or metaphorical.