Tag: CAAH Faculty News

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In Memoriam

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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