HISTORY — Professor of History Vernon Burton and Peter Eisenstadt coauthored “The Voting Rights in Georgia: A Short History” was published in “Southern Cultures.” On March 4, Burton was quoted on the 14th Amendment Colorado ballot initiative Supreme Court decision on NPR Morning Edition SCETV radio. Burton was one of four historians to appear on a news webinar entitled “Historians Weigh in on SCOTUS Trump v. Anderson Colorado ballot ruling.” He was mentioned in an article on “The Guardian” about the webinar. On March 6, Burton presented the Black History Month lecture on his book, “Penn Center: A History Preserved,” at Greenville Technical College. From March 14-16, Burton participated in the annual SHOES (Southern History of Education Society) meeting and chaired a session on Reconstruction. On March 29, Burton was one of three historians who participated in the first Southern Historical Association virtual history discussion on the significance of historian C. Vann Woodward. On April 11, Burton was a guest on NPR’s “Throughline” podcast.
ENGLISH — Sarah E.S. Carter, director of First-Year Composition, presented at the Veterans in Society Conference on March 15. Her presentation entitled, “Operation Nightingale: Digging Band of Brothers,” focused on veteran archaeological initiatives taking place in the United Kingdom.”
ENGLISH — Assistant Professor Jonathan Correa-Reyes reports that the third season of “The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast” launched in March. The anthology-style podcast, sponsored by The Medieval Academy of America, seeks to reframe conversations about medieval history and culture by expanding our understanding about the multicultural reality of the medieval world and celebrating the plurality of voices that make up medieval studies. The podcast’s goal is to bridge the gap between the knowledge produced by scholars and the wider world in a free and accessible manner. This is available wherever you listen to podcasts.
PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION — Assistant Professor Quinn Hiroshi Gibson published a paper entitled “Philosophy’s Role in Theorizing Psychopathology” in “Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology.” In the journal paper, Gibson argues philosophy is an indispensable tool for investigating mental disorder. The paper can be found by doi here. The journal also published invited commentaries on the feature article, as well as Gibson’s reply entitled “Understanding, the Manifest Image and ‘Postmodernism’ in Philosophy of Psychiatry.” The response can be found by doi here.
PERFORMING ARTS — Brooks Center Director Emerita Lillian Utsey Harder, artistic director of the Utsey Chamber Music Series, secured a broadcast on America Public Media’s “Performance Today” broadcast on March 4 of Sphinx Virtuoso’s performance on March 30, 2023, of Sisifo na Cidade Grande by Ricardo Herz.
ENGLISH — Associate Dean for Undergraduate and Graduate Studies Michael LeMahieu contributed a paper entitled, “Inherently Unequal: Race, Rhetoric and the Law” at a symposium on judicial rhetoric hosted by the University of Virginia Law School in early April.
ENGLISH — Principal Lecturer Amy Monaghan presented her paper entitled, “Mark Wahlberg, Stochastic Terrorist: Patriots Day’s Mean Images of the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing,” on March 15 at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ annual convention in Boston.
ENGLISH — Disability Rhetorics Assistant Professor Clare Mullaney presented a paper titled, “‘Colored Editress’: Uplift, Anti-Black Violence and the Ends of Print,” at C19: The Society for 19th Century Americanists’ bi-annual conference on March 14-16 in Pasadena, California. She also participated in a seminar entitled, “Unfolding Editorship.”
ENGLISH — Senior Lecturer Kathleen Nalley participated in the “Visual and Verse” exhibit in coordination with Greenville Poet Laureate Glenis Redmond at the Metropolitan Arts Council (MAC) in March. The program asked 15 poets to respond to artworks created by 15 artists. Poets read their works at an opening reception. “Visual and Verse” is on exhibit at MAC through April. TOWN Magazine covered the opening reception.
LANGUAGES — Professor of Spanish Salvador A. Oropesa, alongside five other university professors, contributed to evaluating the diverse programs offered at Bentley University’s College of Arts and Sciences in Waltham, Massachusetts, on March 25-27. Tasked with overseeing the Department of Languages, Oropesa brought his knowledge and experience to the assessment process. The effort was a comprehensive review of the language department’s curriculum, faculty and overall effectiveness within the university’s academic framework.
HISTORY — Assistant Professor Amanda Regan gave a talk entitled, “Mapping the Margins: Gay Travel Guides and the Promise of Digital History,” as part of Villanova University’s Digital Seed Speaker series. The talk focused on her digital history project called “Mapping the Gay Guides” and how digital methods allow historians to ask new questions of historical travel guides.
PERFORMING ARTS — Assisting Visitor Professor of Music and Director of Orchestra Kimberly Souther has been appointed festival director for the Heifetz International Music Institute this summer. The Clemson University Symphony Orchestra presented a celebratory concert for the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts on April 16. The concert featured the winners of the Clemson University Concerto Competition, Elise Bloom (violin) and Ansley Hollingsworth (soprano). The orchestra’s current focus on enhanced engagement through real-time program notes, pre-concert talks, supertitles and interactions with musicians and composers resulted in a successful evening of shared music with the community.
ENGLISH — Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature Rhondda Robinson Thomas accepted an invitation to visit the Reynolds’ Homestead (Rock Spring Plantation) and Virginia Tech on March 11-13. She was joined by several members of the Woodland Cemetery team including Marjorie Campbell, Sara Collini and Deborah Robinson to give two lectures and meet with faculty, staff, descendants of the enslaved community and local leaders for a series of discussions about documenting campus and community histories with a legacy of slavery based on public humanities strategies drawn from her Call My Name project and the cemetery project.