PERFORMING ARTS – Lecturer of Audio Technology Chris Cline was recently a featured DJ at the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, TX. Cline has been a featured artist for the past three years under the pseudonym, “Squibs,” and has been seen on the track and winner’s podium. Also, music that Cline co-produced, engineered and mixed from the Society of Rockets album, Future Factory is featured in the independent film The Paper Bag Plan. Now available to stream worldwide, The Paper Bag Plan has won 14 awards at film festivals in the U.S. and abroad.
PERFORMING ARTS – Lillian Utsey Harder, Brooks Center director emerita and artistic director of the Utsey Chamber Music Series, secured two broadcasts in September and October on American Public Media’s Performance Today: Sphinx Virtuoso’s performance of Michael Dudley’s Prayer for our Times on September 10 from their concert on March 30, 2023; violinist Geneva Lewis and pianist Evren Ozel’s performance of Brahms’ Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Major, Op. 78 (movt. 1) on October 15 from their performance on March 28, 2024.
PERFORMING ARTS – Assistant Professor Clifton Hyde has created a solo recording of Terry Riley’s 1964 minimalist masterpiece In C. Utilizing a diverse array of analog modular, frequency modulation, wave table, physical modeling, and computer-based (Max/MSP) synthesis while integrating Euclidean generative rhythms, Hyde has reimagined the classic piece for the modern, electronic musical world. Produced, recorded, and performed by Hyde at Clemson University and mixed by Portuguese audio engineer José Diogo Neves at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre — the album, Neuro-Mancer (In C) was released by Acitoxe Records and available for streaming and purchase on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, Tidal and all other major music services.
INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES – Professor and Chair Lisa Melonçon co-authored “Troubling Questions: A meta-synthesis of research questions in technical and professional communication”with Jessica Griffith and Molly Margaret in Proceedings SIGDOC (St. Paul, MN; pp. 128-134). The authors reviewed 1022 articles from TPC journals over a 10-year period to gain insights into what types of research the field was doing based on the types of questions being asked. After following previous coding strategies for metasynthesis research, they found that published research could be broken down into 34% empirical; 21% pedagogical or programmatic; and 45% other, which were classified as textual research that primarily examined small textual data sets. However, less than half of this textual research had a clear, explicit research question or thesis, which leads to the implication for TPC scholars to write clear and direct research questions. Future calls for research include more details on the type of data sets analyzed and insights into how the questions work to build knowledge in the field.
ENGLISH: Principal Lecturer Amy Monaghan led a discussion of Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette after a screening of the film at The Independent Picture House on October 25. The talk was part of the film’s 20th anniversary run.
LANGUAGES – Professor Salvador Oropesa presented “La memoria de la lucha de la Guardia Civil contra ETA: noir y reescrituras del conflicto vasco tras Patria” on October 15, 2026, in Espacio Mercado, Getafe, Madrid. The presentation took place at the First Crime Fiction Congress, organized by Getafe Negro and the International University of La Rioja (UNIR) as part of the 19th Getafe Negro Festival. The lecture compared Coque Astillero’s Pazman (2023) and Juan José Mateos’s Pikoletos (2022), examining their portrayals of the Guardia Civil’s fight against ETA and the role of democratic law in that struggle.
LANGUAGES – Principal Lecturer Anne Salces y Nedeo published “Black Women’s Quilts: Gifts of Experiential Knowledge” in Peitho, the journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition. The article re-examines the roles quilts—made by enslaved women in the 19th-century United States—played in their makers’ lives and families and argues that some of them were passed on to the next generations with emotional and experiential knowledge. Her article also contends that these quilts belong in the Black living archive.
LANGUAGES – Professor Johannes Schmidt published an article in the edited volume Herder’s Naturalism (ed. by Nigel DeSouza). “Auch ich liebe das Schöne mehr als das Häßliche” (or “die Lüge von Schönheit — Johann Gottfried Herder on Ugliness”) is the result of an expanded conference presentation. He also read a paper entitled “Herder’s Humanität in Heidegger’s “Über den Humanismus” at the annual meeting of the German Studies Conference in Phoenix, AZ.
LANGUAGES – Professor Eric Touya and Associate Professor Kelly Peebles received a grant from the “French in Higher Education Program” through the Albertine Foundation. In partnership with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States, Albertine Foundation is dedicated to supporting French-American relations through innovative cultural and educational projects. The funding will enable the French program at Clemson to organize two francophone job fairs between January and December 2027 that will benefit all Clemson students, including those majoring in French and International Business and French and International Health. The goals of the job fairs are to contribute to the visibility and appeal of the French programs leading to professional careers, and to showcase the relevance of French through innovation, internships, and immersive programs in France (Montpellier, Lyon, Aix-en-Provence, Pau) and Senegal (Dakar).
HISTORY – Assistant Professor Archana Venkatesh published an article, “A ‘Blend of East and West’? Indian Women Doctors in Mission Hospitals” in South Asia: A Journal of South Asian Studies. This article critically examines the work and place of Indian women doctors in mission hospitals to argue that they were crucial in the provision of healthcare to Indian women, and therefore to India’s claim to independence from British colonization.
PHILOSOPHY— Daniel E. Wueste, Kathryn and Calhoun Lemon Professor of Philosophy, organized and participated in an interactive panel session, “Integrity in Theory and Practice,” at the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum’s 27th Annual Conference on Ethics Across the Curriculum, The Moral University—Higher Education in an Age of Uncertainty, October 8 – 10, at James Madison University, in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
