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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LANGUAGES — Yanming An recently published a Chinese translation of Georg Brandes’ “Friedrich Nietzsche” in Yilin Press of China.

VISUAL ART — Todd Anderson participated in a panel discussion, “Don’t just stand there, do something,” chaired by Robert Derr at the 2021 College Art Association (virtual) Conference. The panel focused on collaborative art practices centered on social and environmental change. Anderson discussed “The Last Glacier,” a small art collective he co-founded about 10 years ago. In addition, Anderson’s work is featured in the exhibit “The Last Glacier: Images of Our Changing Landscape” through June 19 at the Hockaday Museum of Art in Kalispell, Montana. The exhibition is being featured by Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss, a print and web-based special global project of the Codex Foundation. The project brings together about 50 exhibitions and art interventions throughout North and South America, Europe, and Australia, centered on societal change and the climate crisis. Visit Extraction here.

COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE, ARTS AND HUMANITIES — James Burns‘ article “The African Bioscope—Movie House Culture in British Colonial Africa,” is being reprinted in a special three-volume issue of “Black Camera: An International Film Journal” commemorating the 50th anniversary of FESPACO (Festival panafricain du cinema et de la television de Ouagadougou), the oldest African film festival.  The editor in chief called the essay “integral to an understanding of the colonial formation of African cinema.” The article was originally published in the French journal “Afrique & Histoire.”

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY — Vernon Burton keynoted the first virtual Interdisciplinary Conference on “Race, Identity & Equity” hosted on Feb. 15 by the University of South Carolina at Beaufort. Burton spoke on how different disciplines study and approach race relations. In the “Justice Initiative” newsletter on Feb. 15, editor Heather Gray introduced Burton and highlighted some of his work. She recapped the eight parts she had serialized earlier from Burton’s Foreword to Benjamin E. Mays’ autobiography, “Born to Rebel.” Gray also reprinted part of an interview with Burton by Roy Rosenzweig from 2001 in History Matters. (The complete interview can be viewed here.) Burton was interviewed twice by Gray in February to broadcast later on her Atlanta radio show, “Just Peace” on WRFG-FM. One program aired Feb. 8 with Burton and his friend Emory Campbell about Penn Center and the book Burton wrote, “Penn Center:  A History Preserved,” and the second edited interview was aired on Feb. 15 where Gray ranged over a number of topics related to Southern history and race relations, including Burton’s friendship with Mays.

ARCHITECTURE — Joseph Choma gave three invited virtual lectures at the Rachana Sansad’s Academy of Architecture in Mumbai, India, at the Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY — H. Roger Grant presented on Feb. 18 “The Rock Island Railroad Takes Shape: The Iowa Main Line Experience.” His Zoom lecture and question-and-answer session were part of the ongoing “Iowa Stories Series” sponsored by the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs.

ENGLISH — Walt Hunter spoke with the poet Jay Bernard about Claudia Jones for the Young Poets Network. Hunter has three new poems and a review in the recent issue of Literary Matters.

LANGUAGES — Jason Hurdich was named 2021 Palmetto Goodwill State Champion for his work on behalf of individuals with disabilities and the Deaf community related to barriers to employment. Palmetto Goodwill honored Hurdich for his dedication to helping people achieve their full potential through the dignity and power of employment. Palmetto Goodwill presented the certificate in a ceremony at its corporate headquarters in North Charleston to Hurdich on Feb. 19. Hurdich joins 23 previous Goodwill Champions. During his time with the South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation Department, Hurdich suggested Palmetto Goodwill incorporate ASL classes for hearing employees interacting with their Deaf co-workers, which was implemented in 2020. It became a success locally. Later, it was expanded to Hawaii, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Hurdich’s acceptance speech can be viewed here.

Also in February, Hurdich presented a live performance titled “Deaf Influencer’s Journey Into the World of Social Media” in Santa Rosa, California. Hurdich spoke about his journey as a social media influencer and as a Deaf creator on different social media platforms. His platforms are primarily TikTok and Instagram. He discussed how creators in minority communities, including creators with disabilities, face challenges in mainstream social media communities, such as dealing with shadow bans where the company partially blocks a creator to protect them from being bullied. Hurdich currently has more than 100,000 followers and 4 million likes on TikTok. His videos have more than 50 million views. This event was sponsored by Santa Rosa Junior College.

ARCHITECTURE — Anjali Joseph, Sahar Mihandoust, and doctoral students Rutali Joshi and Roxana Jafarifiroozabadi, along with other researchers from Clemson University authored two papers. One study published in The Gerontologist explored how proactively evaluating and adapting the home environment prior to total joint replacement surgery may support transition to the home after surgery: “Understanding key home and community environment challenges encountered by older adults undergoing total knee or hip arthroplasty.”  The other study was a collaboration with researchers from the Industrial Engineering program at Clemson to explore how the design of telemedicine systems support communication and teamwork to provide stroke care in an ambulance. This study was published in Human Factors: “Communication and teamwork during telemedicine-enabled stroke care in an ambulance.”

ENGLISH — Melissa Edmundson Makala published the solicited essay “Many (Un)Happy Returns: Nostalgia and Haunted Memory in the Final Season of ‘Supernatural’” in the Canadian journal, Monstrum, which can be accessed here.

ARCHITECTURE — Sahar Mihandoust published an article in Health Environments Research & Design Journal (HERD) recently: “Exploring the Relationship Between Perceived Visual Access to Nature and Nurse Burnout.”

LANGUAGES — Arelis Moore, M.D. was invited, as a guest speaker, to the IV Anniversary of the Institute on Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Iberoamerican University (UNIBE), Dominican Republic. Moore presented on the topic “Amplifying voices: Community-based participatory research and its impact in health promotion” on Feb. 3 on the UNIBE’s YouTube channel. On Feb. 10, Moore published a peer-reviewed manuscript titled “Social Determinants of Health Approach to Facilitate Fulfillment of the U.S. Latinx Children’s Right to Personal Security: The Strong Communities Initiative as a Case Study” in the Epidemiology International Journal, 5 (1).

ENGLISH — Clare Mullaney recently wrote a commentary for Times Higher Education about the benefits of online learning for disabled students: “The shift online has finally made space for disabled students.”

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE — Hala Nassar was part of a team that presented “A Low-Cost Acoustic Alerting System for Rogue Drones in Public Spaces” at the National Robotics Institute conference. This was part of an interdisciplinary and inter-institutional collaborative work with Duke Robotics and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Duke University in North Carolina. Nassar is the Clemson University Principal Investigator of this National Science Foundation grant titled “Drones and the Design of Outdoor Public Space.”

LANGUAGES — Johannes Schmidt recently published the chapter “Johann Gottfried Herder: Misunderstood Romantic?” in the Palgrave Handbook of German Romantic Philosophy, edited by Elizabeth Millán (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 177–203).

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION — Charles Starkey presented “Epigenetic Obligation” with Kendra Gordillo, an Honors student writing a thesis on biomedical ethics, as part of the annual meeting of the Association of Practical and Professional Ethics at the end of February.

VISUAL ART — Denise Woodward-Detrich was juror for the 2021 Juried Exhibition held Jan. 15-Feb. 25 at the Blue Ridge Arts Center. The exhibition draws applications from a regional audience and the exhibit showcased 75 works representing a broad range of ideas and media. Woodward-Detrich was also invited as one of three jurors for the “74^th Annual Student Art Competition” hosted by the Ewing Gallery at the University of Tennessee. Woodward-Detrich reviewed more than 300 works of art selecting 78 works and identifying 22 awards for graduate and undergraduate artworks. Jurors were invited to present a talk on “Artist as Curator” held in conjunction with the opening of the exhibit. The jurors’ presentations can be viewed here.

ART – Todd Anderson and Ian van Coller’s book of original art, “Mount Kilimanjaro – The Last Glacier,” was acquired by Stanford University Ute and Bill Bowes Art and Architecture Library Special Collections.

HISTORY – On July 13 Vernon Burton presented a lecture and workshop to the  NEH Summer Institute on Reconstruction at Penn Center, St. Helena Island, and on 14 July he spoke to the Summer Institute on the history of Voting and Voting Rights in the United States at the University of South Carolina Beaufort.  During the month of July, he was featured as Clemson University’s “Meet a Tiger.” 

PERFORMING ARTS – Anthony Bernarducci had a new piece of music published by Hinshaw Music. The piece is titled “They Remain” for Men’s choir, piano and oboe. It uses portions of the poem “For the Fallen” by Robert Laurence Binyon.

ENGLISH – From David Blakesley: Asao Inoue’s book, “Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies: Teaching and Assessing Writing for a Socially Just Future” won the Council of Writing Program Administrators’ Best Book Award in July. Inoue’s book was co-published by the WAC Clearinghouse and Parlor Press in 2015.

LANGUAGES – Adrienne Fama received a scholarship from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) to study in Salamanca, Spain. She spent two weeks in July at Colegio Delibes taking a methodology course for instructors of Spanish as a foreign language.

LANGUAGES – Stephen Fitzmaurice published an article “Unregulated autonomy: Uncredentialed educational interpreters in rural schools” in the American Annals of the Deaf. This research employed ethnographic methodologies to explore how interpreters without national certification were enacting their role in a rural high school. He also provided a workshop for the South Carolina Department of Education: Research to Practice Institute focusing on educational interpreters and how to convey key vocabulary in their interpreting work.

ENGLISH – Jonathan Beecher Field published Statue Mania in The Boston Review.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – In July Steven Grosby was invited to join the editorial advisory board of the book series “Polycentricity: Studies in Institutional Diversity and Voluntary Governance.” The series is published by Lexington Books. In August the Chinese translation of Grosby’s “Nationalism: A Very Short Introduction” (Nanjing: Yilin Press, 2017) appeared in print. He also participated in a manuscript workshop, Aug. 16-19,  sponsored  by the Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University, on the draft of  the book “Honor Management: The Unsocial Passions and the Making of the Modern World.”

PERFORMING ARTS – Lillian “Mickey” Harder, Brooks Center Artistic Liaison, recently served as a judge to select artists to perform at Carnegie Hall in January as part of the Young Performers Career Advancement Program sponsored by the Association of Performing Arts Presenters.

LANGUAGES – In August William Daniel Holcombe published a peer-reviewed article in Mexican Studies / Estudios Mexicanos, a journal co-published by the University of California at Santa Barbara and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. In the article, Holcombe examines how Mexican chronicler Carlos Monsiváis (Mexico City 1938-2010) utilized the concept of slumming and the term “queer” in his later works that focused on sexuality studies. Holcombe, William Daniel. “Lo queer de Carlos Monsiváis: slumming en el ambiente.” Mexican Studies/Estudios mexicanos 33.2 (Summer 2017): 272-95.

LANGUAGES – Joseph Mai gave a paper titled “Democratic practices and the Human Affair” at the Bophana Center in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where he was conducting research on the work of filmmaker Rithy Panh. The Bophana center, named to preserve the memory of just one of the Khmer Rouge’s many victims, was founded by Rithy Panh to provide audio-visual resources and production training and support to young generations of Cambodians.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Bill Maker presented “Charles Mingus’ ‘Remember Rockefeller at Attica’ and Theodor Adorno on Modern Music” at the 34th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics, held in Santa Fe New Mexico in July.

ARCHITECTURE – Andreea Mihalache published “The Act and Art of Architectural Critique: A Drawing, a House and a Sign” in The Plan Journal this summer. She presented the paper “In the World but not of it: Quaker Influences on Robert Venturi’s Chapel for the Episcopal Academy” at the V Congreso Internacional de Arquitectura Religiosa Contemporanea (Santiago de Chile, Aug. 23-27).

PERFORMING ARTS – Shannon Robert designed scenery for “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” for Theatrical Outfit and Aurora in Atlanta and “Gnadiges Fraulein” for The Tennessee Williams Festival in Provincetown produced by Texas Tech. She taught for WildWind Performance Lab at Texas Tech, Hollins University MFA Program in Playwriting (for design) and the UNCG Theatre MFA summer program. Robert is currently designing “Clybourne Park” for Warehouse Theatre.

PERFORMING ARTS – Mark Spede has won the 2017 Leadership Award from Be The Match, operated by the National Marrow Donor Program. The award recognizes individuals and groups who have demonstrated exceptional achievement in educating and engaging target audiences about the organization’s mission

LANGUAGES – Gabriela Stoicea participated in the Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association in Utrecht, the Netherlands in July. There she organized a three-day seminar entitled “Liberalism in Crisis: A Perspective from the Humanities.”

ENGLISH – Lindsay Turner and Walt Hunter have co-translated a book of philosophy, “Atopias: Manifesto for a Radical Existentialism,” by the French philosopher Frédéric Neyrat. The book is appearing in a series, Lit Z, at Fordham University Press, co-edited by Brian McGrath and Sara Guyer.

ENGLISH – Candace Wiley is one of five poet-recipients of this year’s Fine Arts Work Center writing fellowship. From October through April, she will be living and writing in FAWC’s artist colony in Provincetown, Massachusetts. While there, Wiley will be finishing an Afro-futurist poetry collection about Afro-Atlantic Mermaids, Klingons and haints (ghosts), as well as continuing work with her poetry nonprofit The Watering Hole. While Wiley writes to her heart’s content, FAWC will provide housing and a modest stipend. The fellowship is extremely competitive with applicants from all over the world. Past fellowship recipients include Denis Johnson, Yusef Komunyakaa, Jhumpa Lahiri, and this year’s Pulitzer Prizewinner in poetry, Tyehimba Jess.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Benjamin White presented a paper entitled “Computing the Apostle: The Promise and Limitation of Forensic Stylometry for Discerning Paul’s Linguistic Fingerprint” at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany for the International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature on Aug. 8.

ARCHITECTURE – Anjali Joseph and Deborah Wingler presented a research paper at the International Academy for Design and Health, 12th Design & Health World Congress & Exhibition in Vienna, Austria. Sara Bayramzadeh and Deborah Wingler presented two papers at the 8th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics in Los Angeles, California. Deborah Wingler will also present two CHFDT research papers at the 48th Annual Conference of the Association of Canadian Ergonomists & 12th International Symposium on Human Factors in Organizational Design and Management in Banff, Canada at the beginning of August.

ART – Valerie Zimany recently traveled to the United Kingdom for the bi-annual International Ceramic Art Education and Exchange symposium at the University for the Creative Arts Farnham, England. She presented her paper “Digital Translations: From Hand to Code” about her recent work in 3D printing and clay, work which is facilitated by Clemson’s School of Architecture Digital Design Shop and a CAAH Research Grant for an artist-in-residency at Medalta’s Shaw Center for Contemporary Ceramics.  She was joined by current Clemson University MFA graduate students Lacy Miller (17’) and Conor Alwood (18’), who made a co-presentation about their respective artwork entitled “Reflective Surfaces.” All three displayed their artwork in the International Society for Art Education and Exchange exhibition, held in the James Hockey and Foyer Galleries at UCA Farnham in July. The articles and artwork are published in accompanying journal and catalogue of the symposium.  In addition to the symposium, Zimany, Miller and Alwood visited art institutions such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Tate Modern, and the British Museum in London, and traveled to the historic sites of the Spode Factory, Middleport Pottery, and Wedgewood Factory in Stoke-on-Trent with ceramics faculty of Staffordshire University.

ENGLISH – Susanna Ashton traveled to Charleston, S.C. in January to be interviewed for a four-part documentary series on migration being produced by Nutopia, a British television company. This series will feature one episode devoted to her work on those who suffered the consequences of forced migration or kidnapping from Africa during the era of the global slave trade. In particular, the documentary will feature Ashton’s original research on John Andrew Jackson, a man who escaped bondage on a plantation labor camp in South Carolina to become an author, abolitionist and agitator. This film series is anticipated to air on the History Channel in early summer 2017.

LANGUAGES – Luca Barattoni gave a lecture at the Department of Cinema and Television Studies at Kadir Has University in Istanbul on Dec. 7. His topic was “The Relevance of the Neorealist Debate to Contemporary World Cinema.”

HISTORY – Stephanie Barczewski was invited to Paris-Sorbonne University to present her work at the conference “Mythology and “Nation Building: N.F.S. Grundtvig and His Contemporaries,” which took place on Jan. 24 and 25.  The conference focused on the role played by pre-Christian mythologies in the formation of national identities in the nineteenth century. Barczewski’s paper was entitled “The Arthurian Legend and the Construction of an Imperial Vision for the Late Victorian British Nation.”

PERFORMING ARTS – Anthony Bernarducci was invited to guest-conduct the Southeastern United States Choral Festival hosted by Troy University. The honor choir consisted of 130 high school students. A public concert was presented on Jan. 14th.

ENGLISH – David Blakesley published two hypertext articles at the Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative hosted by the University of Michigan. He was interviewed by Brian Gaines (RCID) for “The Wrench in the Gears: How Independent Academic Presses Can Disrupt the Publishing Model.” 28 Nov. 2016. The second, “The Future of Digital Publishing, Circa 2003” (2 Dec. 2016), reflects on the emergence of digital books and the making of one of the first digital books ever cataloged in the MLA International Bibliography in 2003. Parlor Press, the scholarly publishing company founded and edited by  Blakesley, announced on Jan. 11 that one of its recent publications in poetry, Go On by Ethel Rackin, was named a finalist for the 2016 National Jewish Book Award by the National Jewish Council.

HISTORY – Vernon Burton had two essays, “Age of Lincoln: Then and Now,” pp. 11-26 and “Edgefield Reconstruction Political Black Leaders, pp. 161-172, published in Michael Bonner and Fritz Hamer (eds.) South Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras: Essays from the Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association, (University of South Carolina Press, 2016). On Dec. 5, in Washington, D.C., he served on a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) panel to evaluate applications to the NEH Humanities Connections, a new grant program. In Denver, at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA) he presented a paper, “On Historians as Expert Witnesses.” He was also interviewed at the AHA for C-SPAN TV to be broadcast later this year. As a member of the Clemson University MLK, Jr. committee, he helped organize and lead a discussion on Dr. King’s book, Why We Can’t Wait. On Jan. 12, he spoke on voting rights and discrimination at a luncheon meeting of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. Burton has appeared on SCETV and other public stations in three different programs during December and January.

COLLEGE AND PERFORMING ARTS – On Jan. 7, 2017, Richard Goodstein, Eric Lapin (performing arts) and Ron McCurdy (University of Southern California) presented “The Artist Entrepreneur: Unlocking and Nurturing the Creative Process” at the Jazz Education Network conference in New Orleans.

ENGLISH – Jan Holmevik’s article, “Where creativity meets academics, Using digital media to enhance core curricula,” appeared in the Adobe Education Exchange.

ENGLISH – Walt Hunter’s article on finance and the history of the ode, “Planetary Dejection: An Ode to the Commons,” appears in the current issue of the journal symplokē.

ENGLISH – Steve Katz, Pearce Professor of Professional Communication, had three poems about rhetoric/science/technology published in Elohi Gadugi: “Three Articles of Faith;” “Posthumanistic;” Divorce in the Cosmos: A Complaint.” He reviewed an article (written as a short story) for Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture. And he was invited to be a discussion leader for the Research Network Forum (RNF) at the Conference of College Composition and Communication (CCCC) in March. These all-day sessions, facilitated by scholars recognized for their expertise in their fields, are dedicated to the working with and improving the research of doctoral students nationwide in rhetoric, composition and technical/scientific writing.

ENGLISH – Wittgenstein and Modernism, a book Michael LeMahieu co-edited with Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé (Tulane University), was published in January by the University of Chicago Press. LeMahieu gave two papers at the MLA Convention in Philadelphia, one on “Modernism and Civil Rights” and another on “Wittgenstein and Literary Studies.”

HISTORY – Pamela Mack published a reflection in the History of Science Society January 2017 newsletter.

HISTORY – Steven Marks gave a public lecture Jan. 6 titled “The Global Legacy of the Russian Revolution” at the Mining Institute in Newcastle, UK, in connection with the annual meeting of the British Study Group on the Russian Revolution. His article, “Cultural Migrations between Spain and Russia,” was published in Cuadernos de Historia Contemporanea (Universidad Complutense Madrid), vol. 28 (2016).

ENGLISH – Building the British Atlantic World, a book to which Lee Morrissey contributed an essay, won the 2016 Allen G. Noble Book Award. This award is given by the International Society for Landscape, Place and Material Culture and recognizes the best-edited book in the field of North American material culture. Building the British Atlantic World: Spaces, Places, and Material Culture, 1600-1850, was published in 2016 by the University of North Carolina Press

ENGLISH – Angela Naimou’s book, Salvage Work: U.S. and Caribbean Literatures amid the Debris of Legal Personhood (Fordham 2015), has received honorable mention for the William Sanders Scarborough Prize awarded by the Modern Language Association for an outstanding scholarly study of African American literature or culture. The Modern Language Association of America is the oldest and largest association for the study and teaching of languages and literature. The William Sanders Scarborough Prize was established in 2001 and named for the first African American member of the MLA, a scholar of classical philology and languages who was brought up in the South. Naimou’s book also won the 2016 ASAP book prize for best study of the arts of the present. In December, she was an invited speaker at “A Mobile World Literature and the Return of Place: New Diasporic Writing Beyond the Black Atlantic,” a conference hosted by the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt (Germany), where she presented her current work on refugee timespaces and contemporary literature.

ENGLISH – Barton Palmer’s most recent books are:

• (With Marc C. Conner), eds. Screening Modern Irish Fiction and Drama.  This volume is the second to appear in the Palgrave Macmillan book series, Adaptation and Visual Culture, for which Palmer and Julie Grossman serve as general editors.
• (With Homer Pettey and Steven Sanders), eds. Hitchcock’s Moral Gaze, published by SUNY Press.

Palmer also published “John Huston and Postwar Hollywood: The Night of the Iguana in Context” in Douglas McFarland and Wesley King, eds., John Huston as Adaptor (SUNY Press), 125-138.

PERFORMING ARTS – Shannon Robert is working with Salt Lake City Acting Company as the scene designer of the world premiere of Harbur Gate, a new trilogy by Kathleen Cahill, directed by Tamilla Woodward. Robert was nominated for the Broadway World Atlanta Regional Theatre Award for Best Professional Scenic Design for In The Heights at Aurora Theatre and Theatrical Outfit (at The Rialto).

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AND CITY PLANNING & REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT – Tom Schurch was invited to serve as a visiting professor at the Architecture and Building Institute at Kazakh National Research Technical University in Almaty, Kazakhstan. During an intensive two-week period this past December Professor Schurch presented daily lectures on urban design to graduate and undergraduate students in architecture, in addition to directing them in a studio project focused on campus master planning.

ARCHITECTURE – On Jan. 11, in Orlando, Fla., the National Association of Home Builders announced a house in Clemson, designed and detailed by Rob Seel, as the Best in American Living, Remodel of the Year. Seel and local builder, Ken Berry, were recognized for the renovation, additions and remodeling of a 1950 Cape Cod-style house for two sisters who grew up in the house and have returned to Clemson for retirement. “Cape Cod Revisited / Riggs Renovation” also received a Best in American Living Platinum Award for Remodel over $250,000. Through Blurb, Seel has published a photography monograph entitled Core Construction: an Artist-Architect’s View of the Job Site for the Clemson University Core Campus Project. The book presents a collection of 150 photos from the nearly 27,000 progress shots Seel took while serving as a local resource architect on the project for two years. Also through Blurb, Seel has published Central Focus: a Photographic Exploration of the Town of Central, South Carolina.  The book presents the photographs included in a 2014 exhibition plus photos taken since.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – In December, Kelly Smith presented  “Social and Conceptual Issues in Astrobiology” to the engineering and medicine working panel of the National Academy of Sciences.

CITY PLANNING AND REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT – Jim Spencer has been invited to give a keynote and lead a discussion on his 2014 book, Globalization and Urbanization The Global Urban Ecosystem, at Cleveland State University’s College of Urban Affairs.

PERFORMING ARTS – Richard St. Peter directed a short film, The Truth and Nothing But the Truth, for the Romanian National Theatre, Marin Sorescu. It premiered online on Jan. 18 and will be screened throughout Europe and the United States as part of a transatlantic theatre festival known as the Plurality of Privacy Project. (The film will be screened at the College of William and Mary’s 10th Global Film Festival Feb. 23-26.) St. Peter is teaching at the University of Craiova in Romania this year as a Fulbright Scholar.

ENGLISH – Rhondda Robinson Thomas  participated in a roundtable on “The Civil War and Memory” at the Modern Language Association Conference in Philadelphia on Jan. 6.

LANGUAGES – Eric Touya read a paper entitled “Claudel diplomate, poète, et exégète” on the panel “(Re)-presenting Claudel Today” at the Modern Language Association Conference in Philadelphia Jan. 6. The program was arranged by the Paul Claudel Society.

ENGLISH – The New York Times published Jillian Weise’s essay, “The Dawn of the ‘Tryborg,’”  on Nov. 30. Her video, “How to Write for The New York Times,” appeared across the NYT social media platforms on Dec. 2. Weise was invited to an empathy event and profiled in New York Magazine on Dec.  26. She is featured in the documentary Guns & Empathy, which was nominated for a 2017 Ellie Award – the national magazine awards for print and digital media – in the video category.

HISTORY – Lee B. Wilson published “Worlds of Violence,” Reviews in American History 44 (2016): 532-38.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Daniel Wueste has been elected to a three-year term on the Executive Committee of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum.  The society holds an international conference annually in the fall (Clemson has hosted two of them: 2002 and 2015), and publishes the peer reviewed journal Teaching Ethics. Wueste served two terms as SEAC’s president (2007-2012).

Faculty Notes

HISTORY – At the North American Conference on British Studies in Washington D.C.,  Stephanie Barczewski chaired a panel on “Objectifying Empire: The Legacy of Objects and the Imperial Experience,” while Caroline Dunn was commentator for the panel “Medieval Law and the Margins of Society.”

ARCHITECTURE – On Nov. 10, an exhibit of selected sketches and watercolors by Jim Barker opened in the Sheffield Wood Gallery at the Fine Arts Center in Greenville, S.C. In his first show, Jim displays works completed from 2000 until the present. Jim started drawing while an architecture student and has done pen-and-ink and pencil drawings of many campus scenes as well as places he has visited around the world. Since returning to the faculty, he has done several watercolors and experimented with charcoal. The Fine Arts Center, established in 1974, provides advanced comprehensive arts instruction to students who are artistically talented and wish to take an intensive pre-professional program of study. The exhibit runs through Feb. 3, 2017 in the Sheffield Wood Gallery, 102 Pine Knoll Road in Greenville.

PERFORMING ARTS – Anthony Bernarducci had the first movement of a three-movement choral work published with GIA Publications. The piece is titled “Kyrie: Missa Brevis San Francesco d’ Assisi.”

CONSTRUCTION SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT – Joseph Burgett was awarded the “2016 Regional Excellence Teaching Award” by the Southeast Regional Associated Schools of Construction for his demonstrated excellence in teaching at the undergraduate and/or graduate level.

HISTORY – Vernon Burton’s essay, “Localism and Confederate Nationalism: The Transformation of Values from Community to Nation in Edgefield, South Carolina,” pp. 107-123, 233-39 was published in Citizen Scholar: Essays in Honor of Walter Edgar, edited by Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr. (USC Press). Oct 27, he presented a lecture “A New Birth of Freedom” (chap. 2) from his book manuscript “Race and the Supreme Court” at the American History Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, University London. On Oct. 28, at the British American Nineteenth Century History (BRanch) 23^rd annual meeting at Madingley Hall, he spoke briefly about historian Charles Joyner. The next evening he gave the keynote, “Reconstructing Reconstruction” at Cambridge University. For their 75^th anniversary, on Oct. 8, Burton presented a lecture, “The South as Other: The Southerner as Stranger,” to the McKissick Club in Greenwood, S.C. On Nov. 26 at the Social Science History Association annual meeting in Chicago he presented a paper “Using the Social Web to Explore Online Discourse and Southern Identity and Memory of the Civil War” in a session on “Collective Memory and Public Discourse.” The next day he chaired and served as a commentator on the presidential session “Sustaining Soil Fertility in Agricultural Systems.”

HISTORY – Elizabeth Carney presented a paper titled “The Public Image of Eurydice, mother of Philip II” at the conference on Hellenistic Queenship at the University of Waterloo. 

LANGUAGES – Stephen Fitzmaurice was invited to present “High school interpreters:  What are the other duties?” at the national, biennial Conference of Interpreter Trainers held in Lexington, Kentucky.  This work was presented entirely in American Sign Language and is the result of a landmark ethnographic exploration uncovering the other functions an educational interpreter performs aside from the direct transfer of meaning in high school environments.

HISTORIC PRESERVATION – Frances Ford and Brent Fortenberry’s paper, “Hybrid Methodologies for Mortar Analysis, a View from the Carolina Lowcountry” was published in Proceedings of the 4th Historic Mortars Conference HMC2016, 673-680, edited by Ioanna Papayiannai, Maria Stefanidou and Vasiliki Pachta.

COLLEGE – Rick Goodstein has been elected as a member of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the oldest and most selective honor society for all academic disciplines in the United States. Founded in 1897, Phi Kappa Phi is a charter member of the Association of College Honor Societies.

HISTORY – Roger Grant’s 32nd book, “Electric Interurbans and the American People,” has been published by Indiana University Press. Grant gave an address on Oct. 31 to the Monday Luncheon Group in Columbia, S.C. on “Railroads and the Historian.” In early November, he represented Simpson College of Iowa at the inauguration of Scott Cochran as the new president of Spartanburg Methodist College. On Nov. 13, Grant gave an address to the Old Edgefield Genealogical Society on “The Georgia & Florida Railroad and Its Greenwood, South Carolina Extension.”

ENGLISH – Walt Hunter presented a paper at the Modernist Studies Association conference in Pasadena, California called “On Togetherness: Claudia Jones’s Poetics of Black Revolutionary Feminism.” Hunter was quoted on John Clare, poetics, and dispossession in an article in The Atlantic, “The Poems That Help With Sudden Change.” Hunter’s poem “No Trees” was published in November in the print issue of Prelude magazine.

ENGLISH – Steve Katz, Pearce Professor of Professional Communication, had “The Corpus of Poems” published in Pre/Text, a special issue on “Games and Rhetorics” edited by Jan Holmevik. The poems were: “After Reading Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (A Pantoum);” “The Clone Comes to Consciousness;” “Neuronic;” “Mimesis Mine;” “Pinball Goes Subatomic;” “Anyon There?;” “Virtual Gloves;” and “Avatar of Love.” Steve also participated as a full committee member in a doctoral defense at NC State University, in which Elizabeth Pitts examined the ethics of genetic engineering as a new and unregulated form of writing in DIYi/hacker labs. She passed.

ARCHITECTURE – Peter Laurence’s book, “Becoming Jane Jacobs,” has won the Urban Communication Foundation’s 2016 Jane Jacobs Book Award. Also, the book is included on economist Tyler Cowen’s year-end list of the best non-fiction books of 2016. In late November, Laurence gave a keynote lecture at KTH in Stockholm, Sweden, following presentations at the University of Virginia and Boston College.

HISTORIC PRESERVATION – Amalia Leifeste coordinated a PechaKucha presentation and mixer event to bring together students studying the built environment through various degree programs in Charleston, S.C. Presenters and attendees hailed from the American College of the Building Arts, Clemson Architecture Center in Charleston, the College of Charleston’s historic preservation and community planning program, the Art Institute of Charleston’s interior design program and Clemson + CofC’s graduate program in historic preservation.

PERFORMING ARTS – Andrew Levin’s musical composition, “Round Dance no. 13,” was selected a winner in the South Carolina State Performance Assessment Sight Reading Composition Competition. Orchestras across the state will perform the piece in late spring 2017.

LANGUAGES – A new collection, “Nietzsche and Dostoevsky: Philosophy, Morality, Tragedy,” edited by Jeff Love and Jeffrey Metzger, has just been published by Northwestern University Press.

HISTORY – In November, Steven Marks delivered a keynote lecture titled  “Capitalism and the Information Nexus” at the ‘Costs of Information: Northern European Markets, 12th-18th Centuries” conference at the University of Copenhagen.  

HISTORY – Michael Meng chaired a panel at the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies meeting in Washington D.C. “One for All and All for One: Mass Responses to Soviet Political and Cultural Influences, 1920s-70s” and chaired a roundtable session on “Tolstoy and the Fiction of History.”

LANGUAGES – Tiffany Creegan Miller published a book chapter entitled, “Una sociedad fragmentada: la heterogeneidad maya durante el conflicto armado guatemalteco y la violencia de la ‘posguerra’ en ‘Insensatez’” in the edited volume “Horacio Castellanos Moya: el diablo en el espejo,” published by Ediciones Eón in Mexico and edited by María del Carmen Caña Jiménez and Vinodh Venkatesh. In other news, Miller also presented work on appropriations of Japanese cultural forms in K’iche’ Maya poetry at the Symposium on Indigenous Languages and Cultures of Latin America (ILCLA) at Ohio State University. She also was invited to be a guest lecturer for a medical Spanish class at Brown University to discuss health care initiatives in Guatemalan Maya communities.

HISTORY – Maribel Morey was very active at the meeting of the Association for Non-Profit Organizations and Voluntary Actions meeting in Washington D.C, presenting papers in two sessions and also participating in a mini-plenary session. 

ENGLISH – Barton Palmer and Murray Pomerance  received the 2016 SAMLA Studies Award  for their multi-author volume “George Cukor: Hollywood Master,” published in 2015 by Edinburgh UP. The award is the first for an edited volume presented by the South Atlantic Modern Language Association

ENGLISH – Elizabeth Rivlin was invited by her alma mater, Vassar College, to participate in an alumni panel, as well as other events, to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. The panel included Shakespeare scholars and practitioners.

PERFORMING ARTS – Shannon Robert won the Atlanta Theatre Suzi Bass Award for Best Scene Design for a Musical for her design of “In The Heights” for Aurora Theatre and Theatrical Outfit.

CITY PLANNING AND REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT – Jim Spencer has been appointed by U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx  to serve as a subject matter expert on the new federal Advisory Committee on Transportation Equity (ACTE). According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, the committee is intended “to connect people to opportunity, strengthen and revitalize communities, and ensure that transportation systems and facilities reflect and incorporate the input of all of the people and communities they touch.” The ACTE will provide independent advice and recommendations to the Secretary of Transportation about USDOT’s efforts to: 1) institutionalize DOT’s Opportunity Principles into the Department’s programs, policies, and activities; 2) empower communities to have a meaningful voice in local and regional transportation decisions; 3) strengthen and establish partnerships with other governmental agencies regarding opportunity issues; and 4) sharpen enforcement tools to ensure compliance with opportunity-enhancing regulations. The ACTE will consist of up to 15 voting members who will serve two-year terms and meet approximately twice per year. The committee’s first public meeting will be held December 15, 2016 in Washington, D.C.

GEOGRAPHY – Billy Terry presented a paper titled “Seasonal Guest Work and Vulnerability in Hospitality and Tourism: Challenges for J-1 and H-2B Workers” at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers.

ENGLISH – Rhondda Robinson Thomas (English) made three presentations on her project “Call My Name: African Americans in Early Clemson University History” at EDUMAX in San Diego on Nov. 1; for the roundtable “Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Public Memory and Commemoration of Racial Violence” at the Southern Historians Association Conference in St. Petersburg, Florida, on Nov. 3; and “Of Slaves, Sharecroppers, and Convicts: Unsettling Clemson University’s History” at the University of Maryland for the “Democracy Then and Now Series: co-sponsored by the Department of English and the Local Americanists on Nov. 7.

LANGUAGES – Graciela Tissera presented her research on the supernatural in Hispanic films, “Spirits Trapped between Worlds: The Devil’s Backbone by Guillermo del Toro,” and chaired a panel on film and paranormal phenomena at the Film and History Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Oct. 29. Tissera’s students, Jodie Holodak and Rebecca McConnell, participated in the panel to discuss their Creative Inquiry projects related to health and business topics in film and media. Tissera also attended the Film and Literature Conference organized by the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina (Nov. 8) to present her research paper entitled “Theories of Knowledge in the Fiction of Borges and Cortázar.”

LANGUAGES – Eric Touya published a book entitled “The Case for the Humanities: Pedagogy, Polity, Interdisciplinarity.” Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. The book contends that the well-being of the humanities, as a field of study, has not only academic but also cultural, political and existential ramifications.

ART – Anderson Wrangle gave an artist’s talk at the Crutchfield Gallery of the Spartanburg County Public Library on Dec. 1 in conjunction with his exhibition “Falling Water.”

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Daniel Wueste published, “Hard Cases, Discordant Voices: Professional Ethics and ‘Ethics Plain and Simple’,” in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Volume 102, Issue 6, 1785.

Program Notes

CONSTRUCTION SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT – Student competition teams (Commercial and Design Build)  were awarded second place in the recent Southeast Regional Associated Schools of Construction Student Competitions. Thanks to Joe Burgett and Shima Clarke for all of their hard work serving as team coaches.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – The Department of Philosophy and Religion hosted a visit by Dr. Brian Butler, Distinguished Professor of Humanities at UNC-Asheville on Nov. 9.  He gave a talk on a pragmatist approach to Constitutional Law as part of the Lemon Lectures in Social, Legal and Political Thought, and met with students in Andrew Garnar’s “American Pragmatism” seminar to discuss his forthcoming book. This provided the students an exciting opportunity to engage in a lively discussion with an expert in John Dewey’s philosophy of law.

ENGLISH – On Nov. 11, graduate students in Clemson’s Master of Arts in Professional Communication program hosted a World Usability Day celebration in the Class of 1941 Studio. Students from the Human Centered Computing program and several MAPC alumni were in attendance as well. The guest speaker lineup featured Mike Wolfe of Slalom Consulting, Maggie Reilly of TSYS, Cliff Anderson of Ally Bank, and Bryce Howard of U.S. Naval Air Systems Command. Presentations covered a wide range of topics within usability including entertainment platform design parameters, software development, realistic chatbot creation and scrum project management. The celebration concluded with a round table discussion of career opportunities in the field. The MAPC students would like to thank Dr. Tharon Howard for his help in planning and all our attendees who made the event a success.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – The Clemson University Ethics Bowl public policy debate team, led by coaches Stephen Satris, John Park, and Adam Gies, took third place at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Ethics Bowl competition on Nov. 19. After going undefeated three rounds in a row, the team narrowly lost in the semifinal round with Wake Forest. The Clemson team earned a spot at the National Ethics Bowl Competition in Dallas in February 2017.

Todd Anderson (art) received a grant through The Sustainable Arts Foundation to help fund the purchase of his own printmaking press. More than 1,300 individuals applied for the grant, and Anderson was one of only two visual artists to receive the award. In other work over the summer, Anderson conducted research visits to the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, as well as the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. The purpose of his visits was to collect data about the glaciers of Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado as well as those on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. In related research, Anderson and co-PI Bruce Crownover (University of Wisconsin-Madison) conducted fieldwork at Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado, hiking to the park’s remaining eight glaciers. This project, “Rocky Mountain National Park: The Last Glacier,” is being funded in part by a Clemson University Project Initiation Grant. Finally, a two-person exhibition, “The Last Glacier: Todd Anderson and Bruce Crownover,” opened at the Overture Center for the Arts in Madison, Wisconsin on June 14th.

Anthony Bernarducci (performing arts) had a feature article published in the Florida Music Director journal. It was titled “The Neutral Syllable: Sending a Soundscape of Subliminal Messages,” focusing on pedagogy in the choral rehearsal. 

Caroline Dunn (history) presented the paper “‘If there be any goodly young woman’: Female Servants in Aristocratic Households” at the annual Harlaxton Medieval Symposium in England. This year’s conference theme was “The Great Household, 1000-1500.”

Linda Dzuris (performing arts) was commissioned to write a piece for carillon by Yale University in celebration of their student guild’s 50th anniversary. It was premiered in June in New Haven on Yale’s 43-ton instrument during a congress of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America. Also premiered by Dzuris were newly released arrangements from her second volume of Yiddish Carillon Music, published by American Carillon Music Editions, and Gershwin’s famous Rhapsody in Blue, published by the guild. Other summer concerts were performed in Michigan: Grand Valley State University, Cook Carillon, Allendale; Grand Valley State University, Beckering Family Carillon, Grand Rapids; Kirk in the Hills Presbyterian Church, Bloomfield Hills; St. Hugo of the Hills Catholic Church, Bloomfield Hills; and Oakland University, Elliott Carillon, Rochester.

Andrea Feeser (art) worked with student artists over the summer to study and represent how colonial and early republican white South Carolinians displaced Cherokees from their town Esseneca, the land Clemson University sits upon. The primary outcomes of this project consists of two major, collaborative artworks. The first is a large-scale print and drawing by recent BFA graduate Kevin Pohle, in a handcrafted frame created by recent BFA graduate Chip Sox, which addresses native and colonist use of the Cherokee medicinal plant Indian root. The second is a photograph by MFA candidate Haley Floyd of historical Esseneca lands, which are currently under development to expand the university’s athletic district. Both of these artworks will be displayed on campus at sites that will encourage reflection on the university’s past uses of its lands. Feeser’s project was supported in part by a College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities faculty research development grant.

On June 11th C-Span showed H. Roger Grant’s lecture, “Electric Interurbans,” from his History of American Transportation class. C-Span has archived this presentation, and it can be viewed at any time. Grant is the Kathryn and Calhoun Lemon Professor of History

In July Professor Steven Grosby (philosophy and religion) published the following:

• Steven Grosby, “National Identity, Nationalism, and the Catholic Church,” Oxford Handbooks (Oxford University Press), pp. 1-26, and
  
• Steven Grosby, “Religion and Liberty in Neglected Great Works of the Ancient Near East,” in Will Jordan & Charlotte Thomas, eds., The Most Sacred Freedom: Religious Liberty in the History of Philosophy and America’s Founding (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2016), pp. 9-33.

Walt Hunter (English) was named the 2017 South Carolina Arts Commission Poetry Fellow. The $5,000 fellowship was awarded to four South Carolina artists in the categories of prose, poetry, dance choreography and dance performance.

Thomas J. Kuehn (history) published “Property of Spouses in Law in Renaissance Florence,” in Family Law and Society in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Era, ed. Maria Gigliola di Renzo Villata (New York: Springer, 2016), 109-134.

Joey Manson’s (art) sculpture, Slip, was installed in the Chicago Sculpture Exhibit in Chicago Illinois, in June, and will be on display for one year.

Steven G. Marks’ book The Information Nexus: Global Capitalism from the Renaissance to the Present was published this summer by Cambridge University Press. Marks is Clemson University Alumni Distinguished Professor of History.

Professors Hala Nassar and Robert Hewitt (landscape architecture) were invited by Huazhong Agricultural University’s department of landscape architecture in Wuhan, China to teach an urban design studio during June and July. The invitation was due in large part to Nassar and Hewitt’s international award from the 10th Annual China Garden Design Competition where they received third prize. The “vertical” studio course taught in China consisted of 30 students at undergraduate, masters and doctoral levels, and addressed a site known as Fang Island on the Yangtze River. The city of Wuhan experienced overwhelming flooding twice while Professors Nassar and Hewitt where on campus in China. Turning the devastating events into teaching opportunity, their urban design studio addressed the challenging conditions by incorporating resilient city and sustainable urban design concepts in their design approaches. At the conclusion of the studio, the University President Xiuxin Deng and Vice President Professor GAO Shi bestowed Huazhong Agricultural University’s highest level of accolade granted to a foreign professor by appointing Nassar and Hewitt guest professors (2016-2019) – the first foreign professors to receive this honor.

Elizabeth Rivlin (English) presented a paper at the World Shakespeare Congress in Stratford upon Avon in the UK, which took place August 1-6. Her paper was titled “‘Everyday Shakespeare’ in the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle” and was part of a seminar titled “Everyday Shakespeare.”

Greg Shelnutt (art) participated in ThinkTank9: Citizen/Artist: Education and Agency at Montana State University in Bozeman in June. Hosted by the Montana State University School of Art, TT9 brought together art and design master and emerging teachers and administrators to address thematic issues of higher education. The workshop employed a mix of facilitated discussions, workshops and presentations, interspersed with informal meals and social interaction.

Eric Touya (languages) presented “Fluid Selves in Isabelle Eberhardt’s ‘In the Shadow of Islam’: Gender, Cross-Cultural, and Nomadic Identities” at the Women in French Conference at Gettysburg College in June. He was also scholar-in-residence at the University of Virginia while participating in a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America.

Rhondda Robinson Thomas (English) was selected as a fellow for the “Hearing the Inarticulate: Ethics and Epistemology in the Archives” Seminar and Writing Retreat at the Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePauw University, June 20-29, 2016, where she gave a public talk and wrote biographical essays about African American convict laborers who helped to build Clemson University.

Kathleen Thum (art) was awarded a quarterly support grant from the South Carolina Arts Commission to help cover the cost of travel and supplies for her Jentel Artist Residency in Wyoming in May and June.

This fall Jillian Weise (English) is guest editor-in-residence at The Iowa Review.

Benjamin L. White (religious studies) co-authored an article with Alexander Batson, an undergraduate student majoring in religious studies, that was accepted into the blind, double-peer reviewed journal The Journal for the Study of Paul and His Letters. The article, entitled, “Paul’s Collection through the Saints: Romans 15:31 in Papyrus 46” explores a little known textual variant in the earliest manuscript of Paul’s letters and stems from research in a course on early Greek manuscripts of the New Testament. In June White delivered an invited paper entitled “Paul and Justin” at an international gathering of scholars in Rome, Italy. The 30-person seminar was the 7th Nangeroni Meeting of the Enoch Seminar and was partially subsidized by the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies.

Valerie Zimany (art) was promoted to associate professor. During the month of July, she received a competitive South Carolina State Arts Commission quarterly project grant for artists to conduct research on ceramic imagery and three-dimensional printing as a resident artist at Medalta International Artists in Residence, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. Zimany was awarded the artist residency as the grand prize recipient of Medalta’s 2015 International Juried Exhibition, in which her artwork was acquired into Medalta’s permanent museum collection. During the residency, Zimany held a master class, “COLOUR @Medalta,” on Japanese Kutani enamels and their contemporary application from July 23-24, 2016. The residency was also made possible through a  faculty research award from the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities.

The Marine Corps awarded Rod Andrew (history) the Legion of Merit for his work as a field historian in the Field History Branch, Marine Corps History Division, Quantico, Virginia, and for his leadership of the Field History Branch as Officer-in-Charge from January 2013 to August 2015.  The Field History Branch is a small unit of just over a dozen officers and senior NCO’s (all Reservists) who play a large role in the collection, preservation and writing of Marine Corps history.  The citation credits Andrew with finding creative ways for his team to collect oral histories in the face of new budgetary constraints, leading the unit in providing the research and the text for 72 display panels in the soon-to-be-opened new wing of the National Museum of the Marine Corps, and in authoring four monographs published or soon to be published by Marine Corps History Division. The Legion of Merit is typically awarded only to generals and colonels for “exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services and achievements,” and must be approved by a three-star general or higher.

Vernon Burton (history) spoke on “Reconstructing our History,” as the speaker for the University of South Carolina Society’s 80th annual meeting.  The talk will be published and made available at the annual meeting next year.  He participated in the panel on “Enslaved Lives Matter” at Clemson University on April 5.  On April 14 he appeared on Gus Hutchinson’s The Cow Talk Radio (Until Justice) to discuss race relations. On April 16, Burton was inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors. On April 18 he spoke at Midwestern State University on Lincoln’s Civil War. On April 21-22 he participated in the University of South Carolina’s “The Reconstruction Era: History and Public Memory Symposium on Reconstruction. On April 24, he spoke on Governor Benjamin Ryan “Pitchfork Ben” Tillman and the Constitution of 1895 at the Modjeska Simkins School for Human Rights. The talk was sponsored by the S.C. Progressive Network.

Paul Buyer (performing arts) held a clinic called “Percussion from the Podium” for the South Carolina Percussive Arts Society Day of Percussion in Lexington, S.C. on April 9. On March 21, he was guest speaker at the University of South Carolina, lecturing on his book, Working Toward Excellence.

Elizabeth Carney and Caroline Dunn (history) hosted an international conference on the theme of “Dynastic Loyalties” in April at the Clemson ONE building in downtown Greenville. This was the first North American setting for the Royal Studies Network’s annual “Kings and Queens” conference series – the first four gatherings were all in Europe. The conference showcased 57 papers on topics spanning monarchies from the Ancient World of Greece and Rome to Twentieth-Century Britain. Geographically, conference papers covered Nepal in the East to Revolutionary America in the West, although most focused on European dynasties.  Speakers traveled from across the U.S. and Canada. Panels included European delegates from Britain, Finland, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain and speakers from as far away as Australia and New Zealand. Creative Inquiry students and history graduate students helped organize and run the conference. Several Clemson University faculty members (Stephanie Barczewski, Kelly Peebles, Lee Wilson) presented their research at the gathering and many others kindly chaired conference sessions.

Wayne Chapman (English) has published a critical edition of Yeats’s one-act play The Hour-Glass, which was substantially rewritten from 1903 and 1913. Initial typesetting of the book, with instruction on the whys and wherefores of documentary editing, was undertaken as a collaborative project in Chapman’s literary editing course in spring 2015. Larissa Barkley, one of 18 students in the class, continued as an intern in the fall and assisted in the completion of the edition by locating materials for two appendices. As a consequence: W. B. Yeats, Rewriting The Hour-Glass: A Play Written in Prose and Verse Versions, ed. with an introduction by Wayne K. Chapman (Clemson University Press, 2016), xxiv, 113 pp. was vetted by CUP’s overseas partner, Liverpool University Press, and was printed in hardcover in Poland by BookFactory.co.uk in April 2016. The book is Chapman’s tenth since joining the English Department in 1991. Both of his ongoing book projects on Yeats contributed to the making of The Hour-Glass edition.

Kim Dunn (languages) co-authored the peer-reviewed article “Early Reading for Young Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children: Alternative Frameworks” which was published last month in the online journal Psychology.

Christopher Grau (philosophy and religion) published his essay “A Sensible Speciesism?” in the Italian journal Philosophical Inquiries (v.4, n.1). The essay appears as part of a special issue dedicated to the work of the philosopher Bernard Williams. In addition, his co-edited collection Understanding Love: Philosophy, Film, and Fiction (2014, Oxford University Press) was recently reviewed in both the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism and Philosophy in Review.

Steve Katz (Pearce Professor of Professional Communication) organized and conducted the 8^th Writing in the Disciplines (WID) Initiative Workshop on April 7 (with Lesly Temesvari, Alumni Distinguished Professor of Biology).  As a Fellow of the Rutland Institute for Ethics, Steve also served as one of three judges for the J.T. Barton Jr. Ethics Essay Scholarship Competition, with winners announced on April 22. Finally, Steve concluded the year of co-teaching (also with Lesly Temesvari) the Creative Inquiry course in the Department of Biological Sciences in “Popular Science Journalism,” which publishes the Tigra scientifica articles in The Tiger, and a hardcopy and digitalized journal at the end of each semester.

Alex Kudera’s (English) book, Auggie’s Revenge, was published on March 29 by Beating Windward Press. In addition, Fight for Your Long Day was reprinted as a Classroom Edition by Hard Ball Press and now includes essays on the academic novel, contract labor and more.

Eric Lapin presented the paper, “Music and Politics: Using Blues, Jazz, and Rock to Teach Complexity, Context, and Humanity” at the 2016 Humanities Education and Research Association conference in New Orleans in March. He also presented “Music and Politics: Entertainment and Integration at Clemson College” as part of the Greater Clemson Music Festival on April 20 at the Catbus Headquarters in Central, S.C.

Roger Liska (construction science and management) received the Construction Education Recognition National Award from the National Center for Construction Education and Research in Charleston, S.C. last month. This award is given to industry professionals with at least 10 years of service to NCCER who have made significant contributions to construction education and workforce development efforts. One of NCCER’s major initiatives, since its inception, is the development and delivery of one-week construction management academies for field supervisors, project managers, estimators, safety directors and executive managers. The majority of those academies were conducted at Clemson University and, since the beginning, more than 3000 construction industry professionals have attained the academy credential. Liska, working with industry representatives, was instrumental in the design of the academies and taught in most of them, along with other construction educators, consultants and practicing professionals from across the U.S.

Joe Mazer (communication studies) presented “The Validity of the Parental Academic Support Scale: Association’s Among Relational and Family Involvement Outcomes” at the annual meeting of the Central States Communication Association. His paper has received the Top Paper Award from the association’s communication education interest group. Mazer was also recently elected to the resolutions committee of the National Communication Association.

Carnegie Corporation of New York has named Maribel Morey (history) a 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellow for her research on the role of elite philanthropy in the lives of black Americans. She is one of 33 individuals across the country selected for this honor.

Barton Palmer (Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature) published “Period of Adjustment and Hack Writing.” Tennessee Williams Annual Review 15 (2016): 87-104.

Shannon Robert (performing arts) is working with Tamilla Woodward (director from the Lark New Play Development Center) to design scenery for the world premiere of Harbur Gate by Kathleen Cahill at the Salt Lake City Acting Company in Utah. She is working with Aurora Theatre and Theatrical Outfit (at The Rialto) for the Atlanta production of Lin Manuel Miranda’s In The Heights (directed by Justin Anderson). She is currently in production with Atlanta’s Actor’s Express for the southeastern premiere of Josh Harmon’s Significant Other (directed by Jessica Holt from The Alliance). Robert will be a guest artist responder at the Hollins New Play Development Festival at Mill Mountain Theatre and will be conducting final graduate portfolio review sessions at Virginia Commonwealth University. She will be the Wildwind Performance Lab’s Faculty Scene Designer this summer at Texas Tech University and will be working with a new initiative in development of new works (created by Mark Charney at TTU) with Gary Garrison and Rich Brown in Marfa, Texas.

Johannes Schmidt (languages) was lead editor for a co-edited volume Herder and Religion. Contributions from the 2010 Conference of the International Herder Society at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana (Synchron 2016). The volume includes his own contribution “Light of Nature/Light of Reason. Herder’s and Kant’s Religion Essays.” He is also included in another Herder publication with an article entitled  “Johann Gottfried Herder’s Adrastea: History in Relation” (Beate Allert (ed.): Herder: From Cognition to Cultural Science. Synchron 2016).

Michael Silvestri (history) was invited to write a short article for Racecard, the online journal and blog site of the Runnymede Trust, entitled “The Easter Rising was an Inspiration for Anti-colonial Nationalists.” The Runnymede Trust is the leading racial equality think tank in the United Kingdom. Silvestri also presented a paper at the American Conference for Irish Studies Southern Regional Meeting in Atlanta on April 16th.  The paper was titled, “‘Those Dead Heroes Did Not Regret the Sacrifices They Made’: Responses to the Russian Revolution in Revolutionary Ireland, 1917-1921.”

Eric Touya (languages) was invited to give a lecture entitled “The Future of the Humanities: Theory, Praxis, Interdisciplinarity” at the Romance Languages and Literatures Department’s Spring Colloquium Series at University of Georgia in Athens. He also made a conference presentation entitled “‘Un instant de l’autre sans fin’: seuils et passages dans ‘Les Arbres’ d’Yves Bonnefoy” at the Colloque International des Études Françaises et Francophones des XXème et XXIème siècles in Saint Louis.

Jillian Weise (English) protested the Association of Writers and Writing Programs on a panel at the AWP conference in Los Angeles by reading a poem titled “Envoy.” The poem is available here. Millersville University invited Weise to Lancaster, Pennsylvania for National Poetry Month. She read poems and screened videos from her satirical series on YouTube.

Stephanie Barczewski’s (history) new book Heroic Failure and the British has just been published by Yale University Press. The book, which argues that the British celebrated heroic failure as a means of mitigating the more violent and coercive aspects of their massive overseas empire in the 19th and early 20th centuries, has been widely reviewed in the British press, including the Times, the Sunday Times and the Guardian, where it was the “book of the day,” and has stirred a lively debate.

Anthony Bernarducci (performing arts) had two music publications released this January for the 2016 catalog of choral music through Hinshaw Music Publishing. The first, titled Dies Sanctificatus, uses a traditional Latin text. It was performed by the Illinois All-State Choir in January. The second piece, titled Winter Roses, utilizes portions of a poem by John Greenleaf Whittier and is scored for three-part women’s voices and piano accompaniment.

In an interview about the South Carolina presidential primaries, Vernon Burton (history) was featured in NPR’s Feb. 18th “Here & Now” segment titled “How South Carolina’s Primaries Became ‘First in the South.'”

In late January, Paul Buyer (performing arts), presented his workshop  “Working Toward Excellence” to music majors at the University of Central Florida.

Caroline Dunn (history) published “All the Queen’s Ladies: Philippa of Hainault’s Female Attendants,” Journal of Medieval Prosopography 31 (2016).

Andrea Feeser (art history) was a member of the committee that rewrote the AP Art History exam. Feeser’s committee was specifically mentioned in The Atlantic magazine article “Rewriting Art History.”

A new book by Keith Green (architecture), Architectural Robotics: Ecosystems of Bits, Bytes, and Biology, has just been released from M.I.T. Press (2016). The subject matter looks toward interactive, partly intelligent and meticulously designed physical environments and how robotic systems will support and augment us at work, school and home over time. Green also received an invitation to present the new book as a featured speaker at Border Sessions in June 2016 (The Hague, Netherlands), for the fifth international technology conference exploring how emerging technologies shape our future society.

Steven Grosby (philosophy and religion) has been accepted to publish under “Nationalism and the Catholic Church” in Oxford Handbooks in Religion, New York: Oxford University Press (forthcoming). Along with that, the following were very recently published: