[{"id":1601,"date":"2026-10-22T14:04:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T14:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2026-10-22T14:09:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T14:09:39","slug":"humanity-and-the-humanities-professor-brent-morris-at-the-2026-south-carolina-awards-in-the-humanities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/2026\/10\/22\/humanity-and-the-humanities-professor-brent-morris-at-the-2026-south-carolina-awards-in-the-humanities\/","title":{"rendered":"“Humanity and the Humanities”: Professor Brent Morris at the 2026 South Carolina Awards in the Humanities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Professor Brent Morris of the Department of History and Geography accepted the Governor’s award from SC Humanities on October 15, 2026. He delivered an acceptance speech about the future of the humanities in light of the rise in artificial intelligence. A transcript of his speech is below. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I always try to be as polite as possible\u2026when I\u2019m dealing with Siri on my phone, and that\u2019s increasingly a struggle for me to do. My family makes fun of me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I try, and it\u2019s not unrelated to an existential crisis I\u2019ve been navigating the past year brought on by the rapid development and impact of Artificial Intelligence over how we learn, teach write, research, and communicate. It\u2019s become clear to me that AI can now do many of the things that only humans used to be able to do, and honestly, do them better and much, much faster. Moreover, AI is already doing more than most people are aware. As quickly as it\u2019s developing and reaching into almost all aspects of our lives, I\u2019ve wondered (and I\u2019ve worried) where that leaves us, where that leaves ME\u2014a historian, a writer, someone deeply engaged with the humanities\u2014in 5 years, or 1, or a month\u2026?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so I\u2019m nice to Siri, I say please and thank you when I remember, and maybe that will get me on a list of people who get to keep their jobs when the robots take over. I\u2019m mostly<\/em> joking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I\u2019ve wrestled with this, I\u2019ve kept coming back to my belief that the humanities are actually the one area that can\u2019t possibly<\/em> be replaced with machines and AI. I think that certain human abilities with roots in our disciplines become even more<\/em> valuable from here on out. When AI can produce information, language, and answers almost instantly, the humanists have to maintain the guardrails, pump the brakes, and, importantly, remind us all who<\/em> we are and why<\/em> we are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The humanities have never been about amassing data and information just for the sake of collecting it. The humanities show us how to identify and interpret evidence, help us recognize important context, demonstrate how to sit with ambiguity, and invite us to understand people whose experiences and assumptions are very different from our own. The humanities show us what it means to be human<\/em>, encourage empathy, and give us a language to articulate experience. These disciplines teach us to ask not only \u201cIs this answer technically correct,\u201d but also \u201cHow do we know it to be?,\u201d \u201cWhat is missing?,\u201d or \u201cWhat assumptions are being made here?\u201d Also importantly, \u201cWhy do those other questions matter?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AI can generate an answer faster than we humans can even scratch our heads. What it can\u2019t do is decide for us which questions to ask in the first place. It can imitate a voice or a writing style, but it can\u2019t replace the experience of hearing or reading that which gives a thing meaning. Claude might seem smart, but ask him what it\u2019s like to stand in front of one of his namesake Monet\u2019s water lily paintings for the first time. Gemini may beckon to you at the top of every Google search, but it can\u2019t begin to ponder its place in the cosmos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AI allows us access to more raw information than any generation in history has ever possessed. Soon, we may all have our very own community data center as physical proof. However, information without discernment is not the same as wisdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I imagine that the great paradox of the dawning \u201cAge of AI\u201d is that as the technology advances, we are going to need the habits of mind that the humanities cultivate even more, not less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The humanities may just be what saves humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the future, we are going to need people who can distinguish evidence<\/em> from allegation<\/em>, real knowledge<\/em> from noisy confidence<\/em>, truth<\/em> from power<\/em>. We will need people capable of recognizing complexity and deciding what ought<\/em> to be done rather than merely what can<\/em> be done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so tonight, as we celebrate achievement in the humanities and recognize a handful of individuals, we need to also mark the enduring importance of the work of so many of the humanists represented in this room. We need every one of you to help us understand one another, to make sense of our uncertain world, and to decide what kind of world we want to build for the future. None of that is going away. If anything, it is becoming more essential than ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you, SC Humanities, for this honor, for recognizing what at this point is no longer what I want to do with my life but what I\u2019ve dedicated it to. To join in the company of some of my heroes who have been given this same award in the past is still<\/em> an unbelievable honor, and I thank so many of you here who have inspired and supported me, most especially my family who are here tonight who have either been the storytellers or listened as I retell them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor Brent Morris of the Department of History and Geography accepted the Governor’s award from SC Humanities on October 15, 2026. He delivered an acceptance speech about the future of the humanities in light of the rise in artificial intelligence. A transcript of his speech is below. I always try to be as polite as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3946,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5815],"tags":[],"coauthors":[126494],"class_list":["post-1601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-of-architecture-arts-and-humanities"],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3946"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1603,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions\/1603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1601"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":1588,"date":"2026-10-02T19:12:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T19:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/?p=1588"},"modified":"2026-10-02T19:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T19:20:12","slug":"alumni-spotlight-felicia-finney-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/2026\/10\/02\/alumni-spotlight-felicia-finney-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Spotlight: Felicia Finney \u201919"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Felicia Finney works in New York as a Vice President in the Global Communications and Marketing team at Lazard, a financial services firm. After graduating from Clemson she initially worked in Washington D.C., including service as a congressional staffer in the Executive Office of the Speaker of the House.

At Clemson, Felicia majored in Philosophy with an emphasis in Law, Liberty, and Justice, and was awarded the South Carolina Supreme Court Pre-Law Summer Internship that the Department offers for its majors. She was very active on campus, serving as a first year student welcome leader and working in student government, and was a member of the Clemson Model United Nations team. She also studied abroad in Florence, Italy.

Felicia sees a direct connection between the skills that she developed as a Philosophy major and her success after graduation. She reflects: \u201cPhilosophy provided a forum for me to foster my intellectual curiosity while honing the analytical skills that are essential for pursuing a career in public affairs. The coursework challenged me to evaluate my convictions, construct well-reasoned arguments, and develop a deeper understanding of the ethical, logical, and moral frameworks that shape public discourse. As I began my professional journey in Congress, I relied on this foundation to assess complex policy issues and communicate their implications. Moreover, as a strategic communicator, I continue to leverage these critical thinking skills to craft messages that resonate with diverse audiences and enhance integrated brand campaigns.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Felicia Finney works in New York as a Vice President in the Global Communications and Marketing team at Lazard, a financial services firm. After graduating from Clemson she initially worked in Washington D.C., including service as a congressional staffer in the Executive Office of the Speaker of the House. At Clemson, Felicia majored in Philosophy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3946,"featured_media":1594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5815],"tags":[],"coauthors":[126494],"class_list":["post-1588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-of-architecture-arts-and-humanities"],"fimg_url":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/files\/2026\/10\/finney-graduation-200x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3946"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1598,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions\/1598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":1586,"date":"2026-09-30T17:25:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T17:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/?p=1586"},"modified":"2026-09-30T17:25:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T17:25:33","slug":"college-of-arts-and-humanities-faculty-news-october-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/2026\/09\/30\/college-of-arts-and-humanities-faculty-news-october-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"College of Arts and Humanities \u2013 Faculty News \u2013 October 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY \u2013 Professor Rod Andrew<\/strong> was interviewed about his \u00a0book\u00a0The Marines\u2019 Fight for Survival: War, Politics, and Institutional Crisis, 1945-1952<\/em>\u00a0for the “Preble Hall” podcast series<\/a> produced by the United States Naval Academy Museum. The episode aired on September 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ENGLISH \u2013 Assistant Professor Stevie Edwards<\/strong> has had a number of poems published recently from the manuscript for her fifth book,\u00a0Born on a Saturday Night<\/em>:\u00a0“Ode to a Cheeseburger” and “How to Quit Drinking”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Anti-Heroin Chic,\u00a0<\/em>“American Sonnet” and “American Triolet”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Mezzo Camim<\/em>, and\u00a0“Allium Feast” and “A Stranger on the Internet Wants to Know How Depression Feels”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Diode Poetry Journal.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

LANGUAGES \u2013 Lecturer of ASL Tasha Goodrich<\/strong> delivered a TEDxClemsonU talk on Saturday, September 26, titled \u201cAccessibility Is Not Optional.\u201d The entire event is available to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES \u2013 Professor and Chair Lisa Melan\u00e7on<\/strong> w s named winner of the Best Research Article in\u00a0Programmatic Perspectives<\/em>, which is the journal of the Council for Programs in Scientific and Technical Communication. The award is given\u00a0to authors who have made exceptional contributions to the field of technical, professional, and scientific communication. Research from her article has been integrated into the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies’ Professional Communication and Information Design program, which directly serves over 2,800 Clemson students a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION \u2013 Professor Charles Starkey<\/strong> presented “Radical Virtue Externalism” at 2026 International Society for Moral Psychology Conference at Cornell University on September 17-19, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ENGLISH \u2013 Professor Rhondda Robinson Thomas<\/strong> accepted an invitation to participate in the “Reckoning Well: Working Toward Reparative Institutional Histories of Slavery” working group that met at the\u00a0AASLH and NCPH Joint Conference<\/a>\u00a0in Providence, RI, on September 16-19, 2026, to help create a practitioner network that will share challenges, successes, and ethical dilemmas through the development of a practical framework for responsible research, descendant engagement, and transparent interpretation that strengthens institutional accountability and supports community repair. Thomas was also recently appointed to the Culture and Community at the Penn Center National Historic Landmark District Advisory Board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY \u2013 Professor Rod Andrew was interviewed about his \u00a0book\u00a0The Marines\u2019 Fight for Survival: War, Politics, and Institutional Crisis, 1945-1952\u00a0for the “Preble Hall” podcast series produced by the United States Naval Academy Museum. The episode aired on September 14. ENGLISH \u2013 Assistant Professor Stevie Edwards has had a number of poems published recently […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3946,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5815],"tags":[],"coauthors":[126494],"class_list":["post-1586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-of-architecture-arts-and-humanities"],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3946"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1589,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions\/1589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1586"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":1573,"date":"2026-08-31T20:01:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T20:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/?p=1573"},"modified":"2026-09-04T16:14:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T16:14:21","slug":"college-of-arts-and-humanities-faculty-news-september-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/2026\/08\/31\/college-of-arts-and-humanities-faculty-news-september-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"College of Arts and Humanities \u2013 Faculty News \u2013 September 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES \u2013 Associate Professor Todd Anderson<\/strong> was in the Norwegian high arctic over the summer, completing a six-week residency at Artica Svalbard, which was sponsored by the Queen Sonja Print Award. Anderson was one of two international artists chosen this year by HMTQ Sonja\u2019s not-for-profit for artists and printmakers. Anderson spent his time windmilling between remote fieldwork on area glaciers and studio work in Longyearbyen. He is pleased to report a polar bear seen but not encountered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY \u2013 In June, South Carolina ETV\u2019s Curiosity Trek<\/em> released its online video<\/a> interviewing Professor Rod Andrew<\/strong> on Clemson graduate Major Rudolph Anderson and his role in the Cuba Missile Crisis. Andrew also gave two public lectures this summer on General Andrew Pickens\u2014one as part of the Brick-by-Brick series<\/a> sponsored by Clemson Historic Properties and OLLI on July 9 and a second one for the Oconee SC 250 Committee on August 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES \u2013 Professor and Campbell Chair in Technical Communication David Blakesley<\/strong> published Shaping Rhetorical Studies: The Research of RSA Fellows, with Commentary<\/em><\/a>, edited by Cheryl Glenn, Richard Leo Enos, and David Blakesley with Parlor Press, 2026, 760 pages. The book includes his essay \u201cDefining Film Rhetoric: The Case of Hitchcock\u2019s Vertigo<\/em>\u201d and a new Reflection essay. He presented \u201cThe Aesthetics of Cinematic Storytelling: Outtakes and Experiments fromThe Wordman<\/em> Film\u201d and \u201cBurke & Books\u201d at \u201cRhetoric in a Precarious World. Moving Forward with and from Kenneth Burke,\u201d<\/a> the International Conference on Rhetoric and Kenneth Burke, Ghent University, Belgium, July 2, 2026. He also presented on and chaired two panels at the Rhetoric Society of America conference in Portland, Oregon, 22 May 2026, \u201cRhetorics of Resilience in Crucible Moments\u201d and \u201cRhetorics of Engagement in Crucible Moments,\u201d Coffeehouse Conversations with RSA Fellows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY \u2013 Associate Professor Joshua Catalano<\/strong> received a grant from the South Carolina American Revolution Sestercentennial Commission for \u201cSignage & Markers Grant for Fort Rutledge & The Battle of Esseneca.\u201d This grant and an interdisciplinary efforto recreate a wall from Fort Rutledge culminated with the observation of the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Esseneca on August 1st. Catalano and Research Assistant Professor Spencer Roberts<\/strong> were also part of a team that received the Preservation Service Award, Presented by the Governor of South Carolina, South Carolina Department of Archives and History, and Preservation South Carolina for the Hopewell Carriage House Archaeology Field Lab. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

PERFORMING ARTS \u2013 Chris Cline,<\/strong> lecturer of Audio Technology, recently mixed the latest album by the Bay Area musical project, We Is Shore Dedicated<\/em>.  \u201cSecundomir\u201d features a who\u2019s who of Bay Area and New York jazz musicians, blurring the lines between art-rock and improvisation. The LP is currently landing in college radio stations and is being promoted by Shine On<\/a>, a leading PR firm in the world of independent music.  Listen to We Is Shore Dedicated<\/em> on Spotify<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LANGUAGES  \u2013  <\/strong> Associate Professor of ASL Jody Cripps<\/strong> conducted and assisted his Creative Inquiry students, Andrea Fletcher and Chrysa Calvert, on writing an academic article, \u201cExploring the Relationship between Libraries and American Sign Language.\u201d<\/a> It was published in Public Library Quarterly<\/em>, and is based on a projected completedat the libraries and a museum on Martha\u2019s Vineyard. They, along with two other students, Cassady Forston and Harley Mitchell, also traveled to Martha\u2019s Vineyard to do perform research and outreach. Cripps also traveled to the island again at the end of July to give a presentation on Katie West<\/a>, the commonly known last islander who knew Martha\u2019s Vineyard\u2019s signs. Also, he and some of his students assisted with Martha\u2019s Vineyard Museum\u2019s online exhibit on the Deaf Chilmarkers, \u201cThey Were Heard: The Unique Voice of the Martha\u2019s Vineyard Deaf Community.\u201d<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

ENGLISH \u2013 Assistant Professor Stevie Edwards<\/strong> went on a two-week book tour this August, promoting her fourth book of poetry, The Weather Inside<\/em> (University of Arkansas Press, 2026). She gave readings in Philadelphia, PA; Rochester, NY; Ithaca, NY; Portland, ME; Cambridge, MA; Reston, VA; and Washington, DC. Her readings ranged from bookstores to dive bars, poetry slams, and literary salons. Additionally, her ode \u201cLove Poem to My Belly\u201d was published in EPOCH Magazine,<\/em> and her pantoum \u201cGrounding Exercises\u201d was published in Pulsebeat Poetry<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION \u2013 Assistant Professor Quinn Hiroshi Gibson<\/strong> published a paper titled “AI Agents, Data Power, and the Ideological Horizon of AGI<\/a>” in the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. <\/em>The paper argues that the corporate narrative according to which AI agents mark fundamental progress towards artificial general intelligence is philosophically indefensible and serves a primarily ideological purpose. The key capacity required for general intelligence, viz., understanding, <\/em>is neither enhanced nor brought into being by increased agentic sophistication. The narrative is then seen to have a primarily ideological purpose providing moral cover for the consolidation of corporate control and ownership that AI agent deployment is likely to exacerbate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION \u2013 Cary Berkeley Kaye<\/strong>, Lecturer in Pre-Law Studies and CU Pre-Law Advisor, joined the board of the American Moot Court Association<\/a> (AMCA). AMCA is the national organization that coordinates moot court competitions for undergraduates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ENGLISH \u2013 At the Modernist Studies Association conference<\/a> in Loughborough, UK, Associate Dean Michael LeMahieu<\/strong> contributed a paper, \u201cLet Bad Enough Alone,\u201d to a roundtable commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the edited collection Bad Modernisms<\/em><\/a>, published by Duke University Press.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

ENGLISH \u2013 Senior Chelsea McKelvey<\/strong> published a monograph, Preacher-Poets: Early Modern Sermons, Literature, and Gender<\/em><\/a> (Routledge, 2026). McKelvey demonstrates that early modern sermons had a larger impact on early modern literary texts and culture than previously assumed, analyzing the role of gender in theological and non-theological texts. This book argues that the sermon genre was a critical force in early modern culture by illuminating its role in shaping literary texts and examining the role of gender in order to connect sermons to the broader early modern cultural discourse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES \u2013 Professor and Chair Lisa Melon\u00e7on<\/strong> co-edited Research Practices in Technical and Professional Communication<\/em><\/a> (The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado). The book examines how research is, at its core, a series of decisions that define how we see, describe, and intervene in the research sites in which we engage. The new work appears in the book series, Foundations and Innovations in Technical and Professional Communication<\/em>, which is edited by Melon\u00e7on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LANGUAGES \u2013 Associate Professor Arelis Moore<\/strong> published \u201cSocial Determinants of Mental Health Influencing the Emergency Department Experiences of Latinx Children and Adolescents with Mental and Behavioral Health Crises and Their Care Partners: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis Study,\u201d<\/a> in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry<\/em>. The study examines how immigration-related barriers, insurance access, socioeconomic conditions, psychosocial stress, and health-system factors shape the experiences of Latinx children and their care partners before, during, and after emergency department visits. Its findings highlight opportunities to improve care through culturally and linguistically responsive services, stronger care coordination, community partnerships, bilingual community health workers, and human-centered health-system design. The research is part of the AHRQ-funded RIPCHD.PED project, a collaboration among Clemson University, Prisma Health, and the University of South Carolina. The study was conducted with Anjali Joseph, principal investigator, and Devi Soman of Clemson University\u2019s Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing. This work advances efforts to promote equitable, patient-centered pediatric mental and behavioral health care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY \u2013 On August 11, Professor Brent Morris<\/strong> was announced as winner of the 2026 Governor\u2019s Award in the Humanities<\/a>, the highest honor of the SC Humanities Council. Established in 1991, the Governor\u2019s Awards recognize outstanding achievement in humanities research, teaching, and scholarship; institutional and individual participation in helping communities in South Carolina better understand our cultural heritage or ideas and issues related to the humanities; excellence in defining South Carolina\u2019s cultural life to the nation or world; and exemplary support for public humanities programs. Also, for the eleventh year, Morris was a lecturer for the UPenn Wharton School Lauder Institute<\/a>. An integral part of Wharton international MBA students’ Global concentration is the Summer Immersion which takes place in a student\u2019s first year in the Lauder program. Each year, Morris opens the program in South Carolina with a series of lectures on Southern social and economic history before seeing the students off on the Asia leg of the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ENGLISH \u2013 Professor Lee Morrissey<\/strong> spoke at the British and Irish Spenser Seminar<\/a>, held at University College, Oxford in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ENGLISH \u2013 Senior Lecturer and Associate Director of First-Year Writing Mary Nestor<\/strong> and Associate Professor and Associate Chair of English Megan Eatman<\/strong> presented on a panel at the Computers and Writing Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina. Their presentations focused on the challenges of constructing policies for student AI use and supporting graduate instructors at program and departmental levels. Nestor also presented at the Council of Writing Program Administrator’s National Conference in July. The title of her presentation was \u201cCommunicating AI Best Practices to Graduate Instructors of FYW through a Traffic-light Quick Guide.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PERFORMING ARTS \u2013 Associate Professor Lisa Sain Odom<\/strong> presented a poster, “Teacher-to-Teacher Mentorship: Strategies for Successful Collaboration,” at the 59th National Association of Teachers of Singing Conference<\/a> in San Antonio, TX on Saturday, July 4th. The poster was co-presented with Professor Justin DeLong from Ball State University. It shared a case study and an evaluation of NATS mentorship program data to determine what strategies lead to successful mentorship experiences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

LANGUAGES \u2013 Assistant Professor Miyabi Ozawa<\/strong> presented her research \u201cUse of first-person singular pronouns in Japanese interactions: The case of initiating a telling prompted by the co-participant\u201d at the International Conference on Conversation Analysis 2026<\/a> at University of Alberta in Canada on June 28. Also, she co-founded a new Special Interest Group \u201cJapanese Linguistics and Pedagogy<\/a>” at the American Association of Teachers of Japanese<\/a> to foster a community centered on Japanese linguistics within the context of Japanese language pedagogy, and presented her research \u201cWhy-interrogatives in Japanese Conversation: A corpus-based study of usage patterns and pedagogical implications\u201d in the group online on June 19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION – Assistant Professor Sonia Maria Pavel <\/strong>was recently interviewed about her research in philosophy of education by The Economist<\/em>. The conversation was aired in the July episode of The Economist<\/em>‘s Weekend Intelligence podcast, “The New Homeschoolers”<\/a>. The arguments she makes in the interview are based on her ongoing research for her first book, A Systematic Political Philosophy of Education<\/em><\/a>, as well as on a recently published article on homeschooling<\/a>, co-authored with Jeremy Cynamon<\/a> (Political Science, Clemson University).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LANGUAGES \u2013\u00a0 Senior Lecturer Satomi Saito<\/strong> published his new book,\u00a0The Evolution of Classical Detective Fiction in Japan: Between Honkaku and Henkaku<\/em><\/a> (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026). The book traces the evolution of honkaku (orthodox) detective fiction in Japan, examining how a Western-derived puzzle genre was adapted, contested, and transformed within Japan’s twentieth-century cultural climate. It begins with the genre’s prewar formation, focusing on Edogawa Rampo’s shift from a faithful practitioner of honkaku\u00a0to a representative figure of Japan’s henkaku\u00a0(unorthodox) mode. The second section analyzes the postwar honkaku\u00a0movement, demonstrating how Seishi Yokomizo and Seich\u014d Matsumoto revitalized the genre while revealing the limits of the classical puzzle model. The final section turns to the New Orthodox School of the 1990s, whose writers pushed honkaku to its limits by reworking narrative structures and subverting genre conventions. By foregrounding debates surrounding honkaku, this Element theorizes detective fiction as a historically contingent system of formal constraints and cultural negotiations, positioning modern Japanese literature as a crucial site for rethinking genre, narrative logic, and the global circulation of literary forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION – Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy Cosim Sayid<\/strong> published a law review piece, ‘Law, Language, and Aboutness: Diaz v. United States<\/em> as Case-Study.’ It uses a notion in the philosophy of language to make more precise legal inquiries into modeling legal rules \u2014 in this case, the issue being the extent to which an expert could testify about an accused criminal\u2019s mental state: whether she knowingly transported illegal narcotics. He closes by expressing how aboutness could be useful in addressing other sorts of interpretive issues. He also published ‘Cheap Talk, Deepfakes, Epistemic Injustice, False Light, and Free Speech,’ in which he argues that the law should understand the false light tort as protecting one\u2019s reputation from indirect attacks on it, so as to be a twin to direct attacks that found liability in an action for defamation. As part of his argument, he uses the notion of epistemic injustice in a way that\u2019s made rigorous using game theory\u2019s notion of cheap talk, and he shows how we can be sensitive to free speech concerns by creating wrongfulness-tracking liability-rules to effect corrective justice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

LANGUAGES \u2013 Professor Johannes Schmidt <\/strong>collaborated with Professor Brygg Ulmer (Computer Science) and others on a research project involving AI and “tangible, embedded and embodied interaction\u201d (TEI). The project \u201cVariations on a TEI token: iterations toward tangibles for engaging large document corpora\u201d involved large text data, in this case all published works by the German author G.E. Lessing, that could be manipulated using 3D-printed objects. A paper on the research was published in TEI \u201926\u2014Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, Article No. 96, 1-7<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PERFORMING ARTS \u2013  Assistant Professor Kimberly Souther<\/strong> served as a panelist for the International Conductors Lab and Competition<\/a> held in Greenville, South Carolina on August 8, 2027. Twelve conductors auditioned and were accepted into the competition, performing individually for panelists and receiving critique and encouragement.  She will also serve as a conductor for Harold Lloyd Entertainment, performing the newly restored films and music scores of Harold Lloyd and Carl Davis\/Robert Israel. Her recent visit to Los Angeles to visit the Sony and Disney studios is part of a new collaboration that will also include future film performances for the Clemson University Symphony Orchestra as well as recording opportunities during the 2027-28 academic school year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION \u2013  Associate Professor Charles Starkey<\/strong> presented “Building Enrollment in Philosophy Programs” at the invitation of the Executive Director of the American Philosophical Association, at the organization’s workshop for Philosophy chairs, heads, and directors, in August. His paper, “The Complexity of Courage,” co-authored with Cynthia Pury (Psychology), was accepted in July for inclusion in The Cambridge Handbook of Character<\/em> edited by Robert Sternberg (Cornell, Psychology) and Aakash Chowkase (Yale, Medicine). He also presented “Characterless Virtues” at the annual meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association in Halifax in June. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

LANGUAGES \u2013 Professor Eric Touya<\/strong> read a paper entitled \u201cGender and Feminist perspectives on Secularism in Contemporary France: Religion, tradition, nouvelle \u2018la\u00efcit\u00e9\u2019\u201d <\/strong>at the 67th Annual Conference of the Society for French Studies<\/em><\/a>, held at the University of Leicester, England. The paper focused on how religion and gender relations are at the heart of transformative processes in contemporary France that have prompted challenges to secularization theories. Questions examined in the paper included: how can states promote both gender equality and religious freedom, without harming either religious people or women? What political approaches can enhance religious inclusion and the full participation of women in society? What form of secularism can guarantee religious women\u2019s rights and social inclusion? And how can religious freedom be guaranteed to religious institutions, communities, and individuals?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION \u2013 Professor and Chair Ben White<\/strong> gave a talk on July 7th<\/sup> in Adelaide, Australia, at the International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature entitled \u201c’You Do Not Have Many Fathers’: The Reception of Paul in 1 Clement and the Problem of Dating the Apostolic Fathers before Marcion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES \u2013 Associate Professor Todd Anderson was in the Norwegian high arctic over the summer, completing a six-week residency at Artica Svalbard, which was sponsored by the Queen Sonja Print Award. Anderson was one of two international artists chosen this year by HMTQ Sonja\u2019s not-for-profit for artists and printmakers. Anderson spent his time windmilling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3946,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5815],"tags":[],"coauthors":[126494],"class_list":["post-1573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-of-architecture-arts-and-humanities"],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3946"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1573"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1584,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions\/1584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1573"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":1568,"date":"2026-05-12T16:47:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T16:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2026-07-02T16:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:51:15","slug":"college-of-arts-and-humanities-faculty-news-may-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/2026\/05\/12\/college-of-arts-and-humanities-faculty-news-may-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"College of Arts and Humanities \u2013 Faculty News \u2013 May 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

ENGLISH \u2013 In April, Professor Susanna Ashton delivered a public talk in Pendleton, South Carolina, on free speech, censorship, and public debate in the nineteenth century, using an 1849 attack on the Pendleton post office to explore broader questions about intellectual freedom and civic discourse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later that month, Ashton delivered a keynote lecture in Hallowell, Maine, based on her research into the histories of enslaved people who escaped from South Carolina to freedom. The event brought together local residents, educators, and public history advocates to discuss regional and transnational histories of freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, the National Park Service approved Ashton\u2019s application to the Network to Freedom for the gravesite of James Matthews, a man who escaped slavery in South Carolina and made his way to Hallowell. The official designation was announced publicly to the community on Saturday, May 3, creating an opportunity for local commemoration, education, and dialogue with Ashton and students who contributed to her research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY \u2013 Assistant Professor Camden Burd<\/strong> was recently awarded the Dorothy Schwieder Prize<\/a>, an award from the Midwestern History Association to honor the best article on Midwestern history published during the previous calendar year. The winning article, \u201cIn Search for a Postextractive Future: Ruin, Recreation, and Militarism in the Upper Midwest,\u201d was published in Agricultural History<\/em> 99, no. 4 (2025). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

ENGLISH \u2013 On April 14, the Faculty Senate presented Associate Professor Cameron Bushnell<\/strong> with the Alan Schaffer Senator of the Year award. The Schaffer award recognizes Faculty Service and commitment to faculty governance. Bushnell served for the past year as Chair of the Faculty Senate Policy Committee and Lead Senator for the CAH delegation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

LANGUAGES \u2013 Jody Cripps<\/strong>, associate professor of American Sign Language, and his colleague JB Begue from Towson University gave a Zoom presentation titled \u201cRain\u201d: A Signed Music Analysis<\/em> to Columbia University\u2019 Teachers College’s Feel the Music 2026 Conference<\/a> <\/em>on April 4th. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cripps also presented his Navigating Signed Music<\/em> presentation (virtual) to Aimee Whyte\u2019s sociology class at Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY. Cripps also, along with his Creative Inquiry (CI) students Chrysa Calvert, Andrea Fletcher, Harley Mitchell, and Cassady Fortson, provided a poster presentation titled “Exploring the Relationship between Libraries and American Sign Language”<\/em> at the Focus on Creative Inquiry Poster Forum<\/em> at Clemson. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lastly, Cripps and his CI students traveled to Martha\u2019s Vineyard to conduct research work and provide a presentation to Chilmark community members at Chilmark Public Library. Doreen Simons, a deaf community partner, joined them. Their presentation is titled “Hands Waving: Creating a Signed Language-Friendly Community<\/em>.”<\/a> This presentation covers their past and current research projects and outreach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ENGLISH \u2013 Assistant Professor of English and World Cinema Maziyar Faridi<\/strong> has published an article titled \u201cDeceleratory Encounters with Measures of Modernity: A Still Life<\/em>\u201d<\/a> in the latest issue of Diacritics<\/em>. This article explores philosophies of rhythm, value, and labor time under conditions of modernity. In March, Maziyar presented \u201cNeither Now nor New: The Untimely of the Other Modernisms\u201d at the American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PERFORMING ARTS \u2013 Lillian Utsey Harder<\/strong>, Brooks Center director emerita and artistic director of the Utsey Chamber Music Series, secured three broadcasts on American Public Media\u2019s Performance Today<\/em>: WindSync\u2019s performance of Viet Cuong\u2019s Flora<\/em> (movements 1 & 3) on April 8 from their concert on March 7, 2025;  Sphinx Virtuosi\u2019s performance of Valerie Coleman\u2019s Tracing Visions<\/em> on April 20 from their concert on March 30, 2023; and Verona Quartet and pianist David Fung\u2019s performance of  Gra\u017cyna Bacewicz\u2019s Piano Quintet No. 1 on May 4 from their performance on November 1, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES \u2013 Chair and Professor Lisa Melon\u00e7on,<\/strong> along with co-editor Miriam F. Williams, published a new book,Liminality: The Work of Resilience in Technical Communication<\/em><\/a><\/em> (University Press of Colorado) through the WAC (Writing Across the Curriculum) Clearinghouse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY \u2013 Assistant Professor Amanda (Mandy) Regan<\/strong> has been elected Co-Vice President of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) alongside Brandon Walsh of the University of Virginia. ACH is the leading professional organization for digital humanities in North America. She will serve a two-year term as Co-Vice President, followed by a two-year term as Co-President. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

ENGLISH \u2013 Members of the First-Year Writing team from the Department of English presented their research, \u201cEarly Findings from a Study on Instructor & Student First-Year Writing Curriculum Experiences at Clemson,\u201d at the 10th Annual Clemson University Research Symposium<\/a> on May 6. The panel presented initial insights from an IRB-approved assessment of student and instructor experiences of the revised English 1030 curriculum. Presenters included postdoctoral fellows Kelly Sauskojus<\/strong> and Matthew Burchanoski,<\/strong> graduate instructor Megan Crowe<\/strong>, and Director and Associate Director of First Year Writing, Michelle Smith<\/strong> and Molly Nestor<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

HISTORY & GEORAPHY \u2013 On May 14, Associate Professor of History Lee B. Wilson<\/strong> was a featured presenter at the Georgetown Public Library\u2019s series, “A Glorious Cause: South Carolina and the American Revolution\u201d. The series offers free public educational programs illustrating the Palmetto State\u2019s key role in securing American independence while exploring various aspects of colonial society that shaped the new nation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ENGLISH \u2013 In April, Professor Susanna Ashton delivered a public talk in Pendleton, South Carolina, on free speech, censorship, and public debate in the nineteenth century, using an 1849 attack on the Pendleton post office to explore broader questions about intellectual freedom and civic discourse. Later that month, Ashton delivered a keynote lecture in Hallowell, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3946,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5815],"tags":[],"coauthors":[126494],"class_list":["post-1568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-of-architecture-arts-and-humanities"],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3946"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":1566,"date":"2026-04-15T13:56:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/?p=1566"},"modified":"2026-04-16T13:46:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:46:50","slug":"college-of-arts-and-humanities-faculty-news-april-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/2026\/04\/15\/college-of-arts-and-humanities-faculty-news-april-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"College of Arts and Humanities \u2013 Faculty News \u2013 April 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY \u2013 Professor Rod Andrew<\/strong> has been named by the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation as the 2026 co-recipient of the General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award, awarded to the best book on the history of the Marine Corps.  This is for his book, The Marines\u2019 Fight For Survival: War, Politics, and Institutional Crisis, 1945-1952.  <\/em>The Foundation will also be presenting the General Roy S. Geiger Award to Andrew for the best article on Marine Corps Aviation for his article, \u201cFlying Leathernecks: The Public Debate over Close Air Support and the Future of the U.S. Marine Corps, 1945-1952\u201d in the Journal of Military History<\/em> (July 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY \u2013 Assistant Professor Camden Burd<\/strong> was recently awarded a residential research fellowship at the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, Missouri, to continue his research on his book project that explores the environmental history of neoliberalism. He was also awarded a residential research fellowship from the Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford University to conduct research on his book project examining the environmental attitudes and rhetoric embedded in early video game and software design. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY \u2013 Kathryn and Calhoun Lemon Professor James Burns<\/strong> was interviewed by the national podcast Intentional Teaching<\/a><\/em> hosted by Derek Bruff. He discussed the $500,000 Mellon Foundation ‘Teacher-Scholar’ grant<\/a> for which he was the primary investigator. The grant has brought nearly one hundred faculty from across the United States to the Clemson campus over the past three years to participate in workshops focused on integrating civic engagement and voting into humanities and social sciences courses.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

ENGLISH \u2013 Assistant Professor Stevie Edwards<\/strong> organized and presented in two panels at the annual Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference in March: \u201cChildfree & Childless Women Writers: Writing Against Gender Norms\u201d and \u201cI Could Not Stop for Death: Poets on Addiction & Substance Abuse.\u201d She also gave poetry readings at two off-site conference events: \u201cWednesday Night Poetry\u201d and \u201cButton Poetry Live: Charm City.\u201d Recently, she gave a reading at Clemson\u2019s Cooper Library as part of the annual Clemson Literary Festival. Her poem \u201cCampus Life<\/a>\u201d was published in Porcupine Literary<\/em>, a magazine that focuses on creative writing about being an educator. Additionally, she is holding a local book release for her fourth book of poetry, The Weather Inside<\/em><\/a>, at Pendleton Bookshop on Friday, April 24th at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ENGLISH \u2013 Associate Professor Jonathan Beecher Field<\/strong> was a guest on Lauren Lassabe Shepherd’s American Campus podcast<\/a><\/em> to take part in a discussion about college rankings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

PERFORMING ARTS \u2013 Lillian Utsey Harder<\/strong>, Brooks Center director emerita and artistic director of the Utsey Chamber Music Series, secured a broadcast on American Public Media\u2019s Performance Today of violinist Geneva Lewis and pianist Evren Ozel\u2019s performance of Bela Bartok\u2019s Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 56<\/em> on March 30 from their concert on March 28, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION \u2013 Associate Professor Elizabeth Jemison<\/strong> delivered the keynote lecture at the American Academy of Religion\u2019s Southeast Regional Annual Meeting on February 28. The meeting was held at Furman University, and her talk was titled, “Studying Religion in Fractured Communities: Resources for our Present.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PERFORMING ARTS  \u2013 Professor Linda Li-Bleuel<\/strong> presented a session, \u201cIgniting Passion: Repertoire as the Key to Sustaining Piano Interest with High School and Young Adult Students,\u201dat the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) National conference in Chicago on March 23. She also presented a concert with renowned mezzo soprano, Kylee Slee, at the Sigal Music Museum on March 26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PERFORMING ARTS \u2013 Associate Professor Lisa Sain Odom<\/strong> presented a highly attended session entitled, “Singing for the Golden Age” at the 2026 Southeastern Theatre Conference Convention in Chatanooga, TN. Also in March, Odom spoke on a panel about College Auditions for Singers at the Mid Atlantic Region Conference for the National Association of Teachers of Singing in College Park, Maryland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

LANGUAGES \u2013 Distinguished Professor Salvador Oropesa<\/strong> presented the paper, \u201cLa frontera en la miniserie televisiva Cuando nadie nos ve<\/em> (2025): Andaluc\u00eda noir,\u201d at the X Congreso Internacional Tenerife Noir de investigaci\u00f3n sobre el g\u00e9nero negro, Campus de Guajara in Universidad de La Laguna, Spain, on March 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LANGUAGES \u2013 Assistant Professor Miyabi Ozawa<\/strong> presented the paper,\u00a0\u201cdooshite<\/em>,\u00a0naze<\/em>, and\u00a0nande<\/em>: The use of why-questions in Japanese\u201d in a panel, \u201cCorpus-based approaches to Japanese language teaching: What we do is not what we think we do\u201d at the annual meeting of the\u00a0Association for Asian Studies<\/a>\u00a0in Vancouver. She also presented another paper,\u00a0\u201cSelf-initiated my-case tellings with first-person singular pronouns in Japanese talk-in-interaction\u201d at the annual meeting of\u00a0the American Association for Applied Linguistics<\/a>\u00a0in Chicago. Additionally, one of her students in Japanese for International Business II, Madison Bellville, won the most competitive Category 3 at the\u00a02026 Speech Contest<\/a>\u00a0organized by the Georgia Association of Teachers of Japanese and was awarded round-trip flight tickets to Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LANGUAGES \u2013 Associate Professor Roberto Risso<\/strong> has published his fourth monograph, Qui Io Devo Vivere<\/a><\/em> (Dell’Orso Editore, University of Turin). The book is an in-depth analysis of the last book and masterpiece of the Italian author Guido Morselli, a relevant author for the European canon of 20th<\/sup>-century literature. His book analyses five major themes of the book: solitude, suicide, nature\/culture, life\/death and his philosophy of composition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LANGUAGES \u2013 This semester, Senior Lecturer Alma Garc\u00eda Rodr\u00edguez<\/strong> developed and taught Spanish Grammar and Composition for Heritage Speakers (SPAN 3120). Recently approved and added to the curriculum, it is the first course at Clemson designed specifically for heritage speakers of Spanish. In this course, grammar instruction is contextualized through students\u2019 lived experiences and engagement with literary texts. Students analyzed narratives that explore the complexities of Hispanic identity and the experience of navigating between the Spanish-speaking world of the home and the English-speaking environment of school and social life, and connected the themes of the text to their own linguistic and cultural experiences while applying the grammatical structures studied in class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LANGUAGES \u2013 Associate Professor Kumiko Saito<\/strong> published a journal article, “Beyond Alternative History: Time Travel and Historical Continuity in Kindred<\/em> and The Incident at the Gam\u014d Residence,”<\/em><\/a> in Literature.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

LANGUAGES \u2013 Professor Johannes Schmidt<\/strong> published \u201cMemory and the Holocaust\u201d in Holocaust Remembered<\/a><\/em>, an annual publication of the South Carolina Council on the Holocaust. He also co-edited this issue and has been serving on the Council since 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ENGLISH \u2013 Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature Rhondda Thomas<\/strong> made a presentation on \u201cLiberation as Resistance of the Enslaved at John C. Calhoun\u2019s Fort Hill Plantation” at the 2026 South Carolina <\/a>Interpreters<\/a> <\/a>Mini-Conference<\/a> in Columbia, SC, on March 6, 2026. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

LANGUAGES \u2013 Professor Eric Touya<\/strong> read a paper entitled \u201cThe Crisis of Liberalism in the US and France. Theory and Practice from Tocqueville to Current Times\u201d at the 71st<\/sup> Conference for French Historical Studies<\/a><\/em>. The theme of the conference held in Philadelphia was \u201cLiberties\/ Libert\u00e9s\u201d. Touya explored the problematic relation between liberalism and democracy from the 19th<\/sup> century to the era of illiberalism. He contended that among all forms of liberalism, social liberalism was most conducive to preserving democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION\u2013 Kathryn and Calhoun Lemon Professor Daniel Wueste<\/strong> presented \u201cOn the Province of Practical and Professional Ethics\u201d on the first day of the 35th Annual International Conference of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, in St. Louis. He was one of five panelists for a session, \u201cHow do we evaluate our effectiveness when teaching ethics?: Conversations with Professors,\u201d on March 6th<\/sup>, with Cara Biasucci, Joanne LaLonde, Deborah Mower and Glenn Sinclair.<\/em> He was also a judge through quarterfinals of the National Championship Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl on March 7 and 8. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY \u2013 Professor Rod Andrew has been named by the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation as the 2026 co-recipient of the General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award, awarded to the best book on the history of the Marine Corps.  This is for his book, The Marines\u2019 Fight For Survival: War, Politics, and Institutional Crisis, 1945-1952.  The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3946,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5815],"tags":[],"coauthors":[126494],"class_list":["post-1566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-of-architecture-arts-and-humanities"],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3946"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":1564,"date":"2026-03-11T21:53:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T21:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/?p=1564"},"modified":"2026-03-11T21:53:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T21:53:37","slug":"college-of-arts-and-humanities-faculty-news-march-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/2026\/03\/11\/college-of-arts-and-humanities-faculty-news-march-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"College of Arts and Humanities \u2013 Faculty News \u2013 March 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY \u2013 Professor Rod Andrew<\/strong> gave an invited lecture to the Emeritus College on \u201cAndrew Pickens and the American Revolution in the South\u201d on February 26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ENGLISH \u2013 On February 18,\u00a0Professor Susanna Ashton\u00a0<\/strong>delivered\u00a0a video talk to the Kennebec Historical Society of Maine about her research into fugitives who escaped from South Carolin, focusing on the life of James Matthews, who escaped from Dorchester, SC and built a life in Hallowell, Maine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LANGUAGES \u2013 American Sign Language faculty Jody Cripps and Stephen Fitzmaurice<\/strong>, along with Rachel Soudakoff (Deaf Adventures) gave a presentation about their students\u2019 study abroad experiences titled\u00a0Study Abroad Using ASL: A Case Study of \u201cLife as a Signer\u201d\u00a0<\/em>at the University of Arizona\u2019s Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Roundtable<\/a> in Tucson, AZ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ENGLISH \u2013 Assistant Professor Stevie Edwards\u2019<\/strong> fourth book of poetry,\u00a0The Weather Inside<\/a><\/em>, was recently released by the University of Arkansas Press. This book was a finalist for the Miller Williams Poetry prize, judged by National Book Award Winner, Patricia Smith. A\u00a0book release event is planned at Pendleton Bookshop for April 24th at 6 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PERFORMING ARTS \u2013 Lillian Utsey Harder<\/strong>, Brooks Center director emerita and artistic director of the Utsey Chamber Music Series, secured broadcasts of five selections on American Public Media\u2019s Performance Today<\/em>: guitarist Ziggy Johnston and flutist Anthony Trionfo\u2019s performance of Astor Piazzolla\u2019s Aus\u00eancias<\/em> (arranged by Sergio Assad and Jo\u00e3o Luiz) on February 12 from their concert on April 1, 2025; Ziggy and Miles Johnston\u2019s performance of Radames Gnattali\u2019s Suite Retratos<\/em> for two guitars (movt.4) on February 16 from their concert on April 1, 2025; Septura\u2019s performance of Scott Joplin\u2019s Suite from Treemonisha<\/em> (movts. 3 & 4) and George Gershwin\u2019s An American in Paris<\/em> on February 18 from their concert on October 28, 2025; Sphinx Virtuosi\u2019s performance of Beethoven\u2019s Sonata No. 9 in A Major (movt. 3) on February 23 from their concert on March 30, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION \u2013 Senior Lecturer Brett Patterson<\/strong> was selected by the Clemson University Honors College to be the Faculty Fellow for the incoming class of the National Scholars Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PERFORMING ARTS \u2013 Associate Professor Kerrie Seymour<\/strong> will be reprising the role of Annie Wilkes in William Golding’s stage adaptation of Stephen King’s\u00a0Misery<\/em>\u00a0at Wolfbane Productions in Lynchburg, Virginia from April 10 – 26. She will be performing under contract with Actors’ Equity Association. Also, she directed the Clemson Players’ production of Shakespeare’s\u00a0Twelfth Night,<\/em>\u00a0which performed in the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION \u2013 Associate Professor Charles Starkey<\/strong> presented the paper, \u00a0“Emotion, Binding, and Synesthesia” at the annual meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology in Atlanta in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY \u2013 Professor Rod Andrew gave an invited lecture to the Emeritus College on \u201cAndrew Pickens and the American Revolution in the South\u201d on February 26. ENGLISH \u2013 On February 18,\u00a0Professor Susanna Ashton\u00a0delivered\u00a0a video talk to the Kennebec Historical Society of Maine about her research into fugitives who escaped from South Carolin, focusing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3946,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5815],"tags":[],"coauthors":[126494],"class_list":["post-1564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-of-architecture-arts-and-humanities"],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3946"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1564"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":1560,"date":"2026-02-10T21:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T21:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/?p=1560"},"modified":"2026-02-10T21:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T21:26:17","slug":"college-of-arts-and-humanities-faculy-news-february-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/2026\/02\/10\/college-of-arts-and-humanities-faculy-news-february-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"College of Arts and Humanities \u2013 Faculty News \u2013 February 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY \u2013 Assistant Professor Camden Burd<\/strong> published his article “Playing Gaia: Simulation, Science, and the Significance of Video Games\u00a0for\u00a0Environmental History,” in\u00a0Environmental History.\u00a0<\/em>The article explores the history behind, and meaning of, the popular game\u00a0SimEarth,\u00a0<\/em>released by Maxis in 1990. Designed by Will Wright, the game tasked users to consider atmospheric, geologic, and biological variables to simulate a global system. Wright based the game on James Lovelock\u2019s Gaia hypothesis\u2014a theory of Earth that posited that the planet was a singular cybernetic system. Throughout gameplay, players are introduced to Lovelock\u2019s ideas both through explicit text and implicit visual design. Exploring\u00a0SimEarth <\/em>and Wright\u2019s interpretation of Lovelock\u2019s work, Burd’s essay encourages environmental historians to examine video games\u00a0for\u00a0their unique visual\u00a0form and style of argumentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PERFORMING ARTS \u2013 Lillian Utsey Harder<\/strong>, Brooks Center director emerita and artistic director of the Utsey Chamber Music Series, secured four broadcasts on American Public Media\u2019s Performance Today<\/em>: Sphinx Virtuosi\u2019s performances of Heitor Villa-Lobos\u2019 Bachianas Brasileiras No. 9 on January 13 and Michael Dudley\u2019s \u201cPrayer for Our Times\u201d on January 19 from their concert on March 30, 2024; Evren Ozel\u2019s performance of Beethoven\u2019s Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No.2 (\u201cMoonlight Sonata\u201d) on January 21 from his concert on January 30, 2025; and WindSync\u2019s performance of Nadia Boulanger\u2019s 3 Pieces for Organ and Mozart\u2019s Andante from Serenade C minor, K. 388 on January 27 from their concert on October 29, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION \u2013 Associate Professor\u00a0Elizabeth\u00a0Jemison\u2019s<\/strong> book,\u00a0Christian\u00a0Citizens: Reading the Bible in Black and White in the Postemancipation South<\/em>\u00a0(UNC Press, 2020), was cited in\u00a0a recent article in\u00a0<\/a>New York Magazine<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>The article, \u201cTwo Paths for American Christianity\u201d\u00a0by Sarah\u00a0Jones covers a confrontation at a Minnesota church at which one of the ministers works for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Jones cites\u00a0Jemison\u2019s research into the history of Christian religious disagreement over issues of race, citizenship and slavery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LANGUAGES \u2013\u00a0Associate Professor Arelis Moore<\/strong> has received the\u00a02026 Outstanding Faculty Contributions to Service-Learning in Higher Education \u2013 Instruction Award\u00a0from the\u00a0Gulf South Summit<\/a>, recognizing her exemplary and sustained integration of service-learning into the curriculum. Selected from a highly competitive nomination pool, the award honors her commitment to engaged, community-centered teaching. Moore\u2019s scholarly and pedagogical work is grounded in reciprocal partnerships with Latinx communities in Upstate South Carolina. Through intentionally designed service-learning experiences, she engages students in addressing social determinants of health while centering culturally responsive, community-defined priorities. Students develop cultural competence, bilingual and professional skills, and civic responsibility, while community partners gain sustained collaboration, research support, and capacity-building resources. Her long-standing community-academic partnerships ensure that service-learning activities are co-designed with Latinx-serving community-based health organizations, ethically implemented, and sustained across academic terms, reflecting a deep and consistent commitment to advancing both student learning and community well-being. Moore will accept the award at the 2026 Gulf South Summit in Houston, Texas, in March 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ENGLISH \u2013 Professor Lee Morrissey’s<\/strong> book,\u00a0Milton’s Ireland: Royalism, Republicanism, and the Question of Pluralism<\/em>\u00a0(Cambridge UP, 2024), won the James Holly Hanford Award from the Milton Society of America<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES \u2013 Spencer Roberts<\/strong>, Research Assistant Professor on the Cemetery Hill Project, is representing Clemson University on the board of the Southeastern Cemetery Consortium<\/a>, a newly-launched initiative to provide resources, networking, and support\u00a0for\u00a0communities seeking to restore and preserve historic cemeteries across the southeast. Dr. Roberts is one of the founding board members\u00a0for\u00a0the Consortium, alongside other representatives from Georgia and North Carolina. Cemetery projects in need of assistance can browse resources, explore in-depth guides, and request support. Organizations that support historic preservation can join as Consortium Partners to help with projects in their regions. Finally, private companies involved in cultural resource management and preservation can request to be listed in the company directory\u00a0for projects that have funds to hire support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY \u2013 Assistant Professor Camden Burd published his article “Playing Gaia: Simulation, Science, and the Significance of Video Games\u00a0for\u00a0Environmental History,” in\u00a0Environmental History.\u00a0The article explores the history behind, and meaning of, the popular game\u00a0SimEarth,\u00a0released by Maxis in 1990. Designed by Will Wright, the game tasked users to consider atmospheric, geologic, and biological variables to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3946,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5815],"tags":[],"coauthors":[126494],"class_list":["post-1560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-of-architecture-arts-and-humanities"],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3946"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1560"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":1558,"date":"2026-01-13T15:09:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T15:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/?p=1558"},"modified":"2026-01-13T15:09:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T15:09:40","slug":"college-of-arts-and-humanities-faculty-news-january-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/2026\/01\/13\/college-of-arts-and-humanities-faculty-news-january-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"College of Arts and Humanities \u2013 Faculty News \u2013 January 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY \u2013 \u00a0Assistant Professor Camden Burd<\/strong> published his article \u201cIn Search of a Postextractive Future: Ruin, Recreation, and Militarism in the Upper Midwest,\u201d<\/a> in a special issue of\u00a0Agricultural History\u00a0<\/em>themed \u201cWriting History in Place.\u201d His article examines the various attempts of boosters and regional organizations in Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula as they responded to the shifting economic landscape in the decades after the Second World War. Though varied, each proposal was influenced by the boosters\u2019 sense of place. As such, the search\u00a0for\u00a0a postextractive future relied upon the unique industrial history and environments that had defined the region\u00a0for\u00a0over a century.\u00a0 Burd also published a short essay in an edited collection titled\u00a0Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the Midwest<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0which was recently published by the University of Illinois Press. His essay explores the environmental and place-based influences of the writer and poet Jim Harrison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ENGLISH \u2013 Assistant Professor of English Jonathan F. Correa Reyes <\/strong>published an article, \u201cTowards a Medieval Theory of the Human: Literacy and Bede\u2019s Parable of\u00a0C\u00e6dmon\u201d<\/a>, in the 2026 special issue of Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PERFORMING ARTS \u2013 Lillian Utsey Harder<\/strong>, Brooks Center director emerita and artistic director of the Utsey Chamber Music Series, secured four broadcasts on American Public Media\u2019s Performance Today<\/em>: Grazyna Bacewicz\u2019s Piano Quintet No.1 (movt.1) and Duke Ellington\u2019s Cotton Club Stomp performed by the Verona Quartet and pianist David Fung on December 3 from their concert on November 1, 2022; Beethoven\u2019s Sonata No. 9 in A Major (movt. 3), arr. Ruben Rengel, performed by Sphinx Virtuosi on December 4 from their concert on March 30, 2023; Joachim Stutschewsky\u2019s Hassidic Fantasy\u00a0 and Ernest Bloch\u2019s From Jewish Life performed by the Goldstein-Peled-Fiterstein Trio on December 17 from their concert on February 9 2023; Viet Cong\u2019s Flora (movts. 1 and 3) performed by WindSync on December 30 from their concert on March 7, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION \u2013 Associate Professor Elizabeth Jemison<\/strong> joined the\u00a0Board of Scholars<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0Facing History & Ourselves, a national educational nonprofit that supports middle and high school teaching of civics and history. Members of the Board of Scholars volunteer their various scholarly expertise\u00a0for\u00a0curriculum creation, staff education, and public-facing lectures with FH&O.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PERFORMING ARTS \u2013 Lecturer Kailey Potter<\/strong> recently produced and directed a staged reading of John\u00a0Ford’s ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore<\/em>\u00a0for Mortal Fools Collective<\/a> in Virginia, reviewed here by Peter Kirwan of Mary Baldwin University<\/a>. Potter\u2019s critical review of the Atlanta Shakespeare Company’s fall production of Matt Barbot’s\u00a0The Venetians<\/em>\u00a0will appear in the next edition of\u00a0Shakespeare Bulletin<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LANGUAGES \u2013 Professor Johannes Schmidt<\/strong> published a review on \u201cJohann Gottfried Herder Predigten: Riga 1765\u20131769\u201d by Dominik Fugger and Jenny Lagaude in the Lessing Yearbook 52<\/a><\/em> (2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ENGLISH \u2013 Professor and Chair Will Stockton<\/strong> edited The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Religion<\/a>.<\/em> The 34-chapter volume surveys new and longstanding critical conversations about the role of religion in Shakespeare\u2019s plays and poems. It contains essays from over thirty scholars on a range of different religious topics, from Reformation and Paul to Antitheatricalism and Bardolatry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LANGUAGES \u2013 Professor Eric Touya<\/strong> published two book reviews. The first was on Francophone Oceania Today: Literature, Visual Arts, Music, and Cinema \u00a0<\/em>(Liverpool University Press, 2025) by Michelle Royer, Nathalie S\u00e9geral and L\u00e9a Vuong, and his review was published in\u00a0French Review<\/em>, 99.3, 2026, p. 198-199. The second review, on\u00a0Voices of Pain, Cries of Silence: Francophone Jewish Poetry of the Shoah, 1939-2008<\/em> (Peter Lang, 2024)\u00a0by Gary D. Mole, was published in\u00a0Dalhousie French Studies,\u00a0Revue d\u2019\u00c9tudes Litt\u00e9raires du Canada,\u00a0<\/em>vol. 127, 2025, p. 128-129.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION \u2013 Associate Professor and Chair Ben White<\/strong> was recently elected to the editorial board of the\u00a0Journal of Biblical Literature<\/a><\/em>, the flagship journal\u00a0for\u00a0Biblical Studies, published continuously since 1881.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY \u2013 \u00a0Assistant Professor Camden Burd published his article \u201cIn Search of a Postextractive Future: Ruin, Recreation, and Militarism in the Upper Midwest,\u201d in a special issue of\u00a0Agricultural History\u00a0themed \u201cWriting History in Place.\u201d His article examines the various attempts of boosters and regional organizations in Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula as they responded to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3946,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5815],"tags":[],"coauthors":[126494],"class_list":["post-1558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-of-architecture-arts-and-humanities"],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3946"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1558"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":1555,"date":"2025-12-03T20:39:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T20:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2025-12-04T16:49:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T16:49:35","slug":"college-of-arts-and-humanities-faculty-news-november-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/2025\/12\/03\/college-of-arts-and-humanities-faculty-news-november-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"College of Arts and Humanities \u2013 Faculty News \u2013 November 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

ENGLISH \u2013 Professor Susanna Ashton<\/strong> presented a community storytelling event about the History of Pendleton and an 1849 attack on the post office at Everlan, the senior living community in Patrick Square at Clemson, on November 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY \u2013 Professor\u00a0Vernon Burton<\/strong>\u00a0introduced former Savannah mayor and Civil Rights leader Dr. Otis Johnson for a discussion of civil rights at the Beech Institute in Savannah during the \u201cThe Legacy of Slavery and the Struggle for Freedom\u201d conference on November 2.\u00a0\u00a0Later that afternoon, he led a discussion with CORE leader Mercedes Wright Arnold at the African American Civil Rights Museum in Savannah followed by a tour of the museum.\u00a0\u00a0On November 3, Vernon and Georganne Burton gave a lecture and discussed the role of Penn Center, from its Civil War beginnings to its major role in the Civil Rights movement. Also at the Penn Center, Burton introduced the Civil Rights icon David Dennis for a discussion followed by a tour.\u00a0\u00a0That evening, he was the host and moderator for the Organization of American Historians (OAH)\u00a0\u201cFuture of the Past<\/a>\u201d webinar\u00a0on \u201cVoting Rights.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0On November 4, he led a tour of Mother Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston and participated in a panel discussion with the minister Eric S.C. Manning and author Kevin Sack.\u00a0\u00a0That day, he also introduced and moderated talks by Joseph McGill, Jr. and Herb Frazier on their Slave Dwelling Project.\u00a0\u00a0On November 5, he led the conference group on a tour of the International African American Museum and participated in a panel discussion. That afternoon, he led a tour of the Avery Research Center at the College of Charleston and introduced and moderated panels with Dr. Millicent Brown, who was the lead plaintiff in the first successful South Carolina public school desegregation case, and Cecil Williams, the chronicler of the Civil Rights Movement in the state.\u00a0\u00a0That evening, he gave a lecture at the conference on the 1968 Hospital Strike in Charleston.\u00a0\u00a0At the annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association, on November 7, he was part of the plenary panel discussion on \u201cNonviolent Direct Action and the Struggle for Civil Rights with legendary civil rights activists Bernard Lafayette, Jr., Joan Browning and Kredelle Petway.\u00a0\u00a0On November 8, he presided and commented on the session \u201cReckoning with the Past: Digital Tools and the Documentation of Racial Violence roundtable. On November 21, he was part of the Social Science History Association\u2019s (SSHA) plenary panel and delivered a paper, \u201cPractices that Sap Voting Power: Restrictions, Gerrymandering, Suppression.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0On November 22, he spoke at the SSHA\u2019s memorial service for his friend, the sociologist and demographer, Dr. Andrew Beveridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LANGUAGES \u2013 Associate Professor of American Sign Language Jody Cripps<\/strong> and his colleagues, Carlisle Robinson, Maryam Hafizirad and Dawn Jani Birley gave a presentation on Deaf Arts Academy at Tokyo International Deaf Arts Festival<\/a> in Za-Koenji Public Theatre, Tokyo, Japan on November 9th, 2025. In this presentation, he talked about signed music and his experience as a signed music professor at the academy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY \u2013 Professor Caroline Dunn<\/strong> was invited by the conveners of the Late Medieval Seminar<\/a> to present an overview of her latest book Ladies-in-Waiting in Medieval England <\/em> at the Institute of Historical Research (London) on November 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LANGUAGES – Associate Professor Stephen Fitzmaurice<\/strong> co-authoredIntroducing ASL-English Educational Interpreting<\/em> <\/a>(Routledge), a groundbreaking textbook designed for educational interpreting students and educators.  The text offers a research-informed framework for understanding the diverse range of competencies necessary for effective interpreting with Deaf students in public schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PERFORMING ARTS \u2013 Lecturer Yuriy Leonovich<\/strong> has researched, edited, and published multiple works by renowned cellist David Popper, including orchestrations and new Urtext editions. His recent achievements include orchestrations of twelve works, ten of which are organized into two suites of five pieces each. He also contributed new scholarly prefaces to more than twenty previously published editions, expanding historical and editorial context for performers and researchers. His work also included updating and verifying the recording list for every work that currently has a known recording, providing a clearer overview of the performance history of Popper\u2019s music. Results of Leonovich\u2019s research can been seen at www.davidpopper.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LANGUAGES \u2013 Professor and Chair Joseph Mai<\/strong> presented at 25 Years of French and Francophone Cinema in the 21<\/a>st<\/a><\/sup> Century<\/a> at Villanova University. The colloquium will result in an edited volume, with each chapter focusing on an important French or Francophone film from each year of the first quarter of the century. He also participated in a roundtable titled “Watching the First Lumi\u00e8re Films, 130 Years Later” at the Wilson Center for the Humanities and Arts at UGA, discussing Gabriel Veyre, an early camera operator sent by the Lumi\u00e8re brothers to French Indochina to make the first moving images there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY \u2013 The research of Professor Brent Morris<\/strong> was featured in the November 17 episode of Origins<\/a><\/em>, a project of PBS\/WKNO Memphis. “Origins of Everything” is a show about the undertold histories and cultural dialogues that make up our collective story. Morris’ research and most recent book, Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp <\/a><\/em>explores the lives of maroons\u2014people who self-emancipated from enslavement and took refuge in the largest swamp in the United States\u2014and unearths the stories of these freedom fighters, their lives, and their struggles for liberation. This same research has also been featured in the New York Times<\/em> as well as an exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LANGUAGES \u2013 Assistant Professor Kumiko Saito has begun her role as Associate Editor-in-Chief for the online journal\u00a0Literature<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION \u2013 Associate Professor and Chair Ben White<\/strong> participated on a review panel of his recent book, Counting Paul: Scientificity, Fuzzy Math, and Ideology in Pauline Studies<\/a><\/em> (OUP, 2025) at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in Boston on November 23. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ENGLISH \u2013 Professor Susanna Ashton presented a community storytelling event about the History of Pendleton and an 1849 attack on the post office at Everlan, the senior living community in Patrick Square at Clemson, on November 12. HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY \u2013 Professor\u00a0Vernon Burton\u00a0introduced former Savannah mayor and Civil Rights leader Dr. Otis Johnson for a discussion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3946,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5815],"tags":[],"coauthors":[126494],"class_list":["post-1555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-of-architecture-arts-and-humanities"],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3946"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}]