ENGLISH – Professor Susanna Ashton authored an article in Publishing History issue 36 entitled “William Stanley Braithwaite and Poetic Stereotypes,” which examines the life and work of African American printer, publisher, critic and poet William Stanley Braithwaite.
ENGLISH – Associate Professor Nic Brown authored the cover story for issue No. 10 of The Bitter Southerner, published March 28. The story is a profile of actor Michael Shannon, focusing on a recent project recreating the music of the pioneering alt-rock band R.E.M.
HISTORY – Professor Vernon Burton presented a paper, “What is Victory Day to the Black Man?” on March 1, at the South Carolina Historical Association annual meeting held this year at Francis Marion University. From March 19 to 21, he gave a public lecture on his book, Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court, to the University of Georgia School of Law and Department of History, in addition to directing two seminars for history graduate students. On March 27, at the Captain Kimberly Hampton Memorial Library in Easley, SC, he presented a lecture, “Lincoln, Liberty, Reconstruction, and the Supreme Court.” On March 22, he presented a guest lecture on “Reconstruction in South Carolina” at the Modjeska Simkins School. He also secured grants from the 1772 Foundation and the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission to support the University of South Carolina’s publication of Georganne Burton and his graphic history of Penn Center.
PERFORMING ARTS – Lillian Utsey Harder, Brooks Center director emerita and artistic director of the Utsey Chamber Music Series, secured six broadcasts on American Public Media’s Performance Today: Goldstein-Peled-Fiterstein Trio’s broadcast of Joachim Stutschewsky’ s Hassidic Fantasy on December 26 and March 25 from their concert on February 9, 2023; guitarist Jason Vieaux’s broadcast on December 27 of Agustin Barrios’ Waltz in G Major, Op. 8, No. 3 from his concert on September 14, 2024; Sphinx Virtuosi’s broadcast on January 1 of Michael Dudley’s Prayer for our Times from their concert on March 30, 2023; pianist Maxim Lando’s broadcast on January 9 of Nikolai Kapustin’s Variations, Op. 41 from his concert on September 15, 2022; and Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society’s broadcast on January 14 of Howard Ferguson’s Octet for Winds and Strings, Op. 4 from their concert on October 18, 2021.
LANGUAGES – Under the guidance of Assistant Professor Magdaléna Matušková, Clemson students Cassie Hunt and Hayden Roof participated at the UGA Conference on the Americas on February 21, 2025, in Athens, GA. Roof, writing and presenting entirely in Spanish, won the award for best undergraduate student essay with his writing on the film, También la lluvia (Icíar Bollaín, 2010).
ENGLISH – Assistant Professor Jonathan F. Correa Reyes pulished “Conjuring Ethiopia: Blackness as Dignity in Juan Latino’s Poetry,” in Viator 55, no. 1 (2025). Reyes’ study revisits the sixteenth-century author’s references to Ethiopia and the Ethiopians in his first published volume of poetry, examining recent questions regarding Latino’s birthplace in light of the power of his writing.
ENGLISH – Associate Professor Elizabeth Rivlin presented a paper titled “Hull House: A Historical Case Study in Public Shakespeare,” in the Public Shakespeare / Public Humanities Seminar, at the Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting March 20-22 in Boston.
PERFORMING ARTS – Professor Shannon Robert was inducted into the Southeastern Theatre Conference Hall of Fame in Baltimore. This recognition honors the dedicated contributions of theatre artists to the SETC organization and its mission to develop theatre education, promote opportunities, and support live theatre regionally and nationally.
INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES – Associate Professor Aga Skrodzka has published her new monograph, The Sex Slave in Cinema: An Inegalitarian Spectacle, with Edinburgh University Press. This book examines the visual politics of the cinematic figure of the ‘sex slave’ from its origins in silent film to its iterations in blaxploitation cinema, European art cinema, Nollywood, and, in its most concentrated form, the Hollywood blockbuster thriller.
PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION – Associate Professor Charles Starkey presented “Perception, Value, and Virtue: Huff and Fuchert’s Taking Moral Action” as part of a symposium on moral psychology at the annual meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics in Norfolk, Virginia.
PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION – Associate Professor and Chair Ben White gave the annual George Howard Lecture in the Department of Religion at the University of Georgia on March 24. The lecture was entitled: “Fuzzy Math: the Challenge of Counting Paul’s Authentic Letters,” based on White’s forthcoming book, Counting Paul: Scientificy, Fuzzy Math, and Ideology in Pauline Studies.
