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October 2008
- African American Studies
- Anthropology
- Classics
- Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Geology
- English
- Mathematics
- Psychology
African American Studies
- Director of African American Studies Faye Harrison presented the Inaugural Annual Lecture in Anthropology at the Founder's College of York University.
African American Studies
- Director of African American Studies Faye Harrison presented the Inaugural Annual Lecture in Anthropology at the Founder's College of York University.
Classics
- Jennifer Rea's recent publication, Legendary Rome (Duckworth, 2007), has been chosen by the Social Science History Association for an "Author Meets Critics" book session at the annual meeting of the SSHA in Miami, FL on October 23, 2008. Rea was invited to speak at the conference on the significance of temporality for urban studies.
Communication Sciences and Disorders
Communication Sciences and Disorders Website
- Christine Sapienza was funded under MJFF’s Clinical Discovery Awards (now Clinical Intervention Awards) in 2005 to lead a 48-patient clinical trial testing an experimental treatment to improve swallowing in advanced PD. The treatment, called expiratory muscle strength training, uses a device that helps the swallowing muscles combat the slowed-down, rigid and weak musculature associated with Parkinson’s. This technique also strengthens the muscles used in breathing. At the final assessment meeting in September in NY city at the MJ Fox Foundation, Dr. Sapienza reported that the patients who received expiratory muscle strength training demonstrated improvements in ability to swallow and breathe. Dr. Sapienza also produced compelling data to understand the mechanisms by which the technique affected swallowing function. Dr. Sapienza’s research group now plan to validate the findings in a larger patient population.
Geology
- James Channell will present the Bullard Lecture at the American Geophysical Union Meeting in San Francisco in December 2008. This lecture, named after Sir Edward Bullard (1907-1980), is one of several keynote lectures presented during the largest annual gathering of Earth and planetary scientists.
English
- Pamela Gilbert’s “Sex and the Modern City: English Studies and The Spatial Turn” appears in The Spatial Turn, eds. Barney Warf and Santa Arias (Routledge, 2008). 102–121. She also recently completed four conference presentations in August and September. She spoke at two conferences on Ouida: “Ouida: The Reluctant Pilgrim” in Bagni di Luca, and the “Ouida Centenary Conference,” for which she was a keynote speaker. She also presented papers on the history of the skin and blushing at the British Association for Victorian Studies in Leicester and at the “Bodies and Things” conference in Oxford.
- Andrew Gordon and Norman Holland organized the 25th annual International Conference on Literature and Psychology, held July 2–6 at the Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada in Lisbon, Portugal. 60 papers were presented by conferees from Portugal, Italy, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Hungary, Greece, Denmark, Finland, and Japan. Also attending from the University of Florida was Luis Alvarez-Castro (Romance Languages), who spoke on “The Role of the Reader in Unamuno’s Metafictions.” Gordon spoke on “Time and Waste in Malamud’s The Assistant.” A conference highlight was the closing panel on “Norman Holland and Psychoanalytic Theory,” a tribute to his long career and lasting influence on the field. Holland was the respondent to the panel. The next International Conference on Literature and Psychology will be held July 1–5, 2009 at the University of Viterbo, Italy. For details, contact Gordon at <agordon@ufl.edu>.
- On September 13, Andrew Gordon delivered the keynote address, “Alternate Jewish History: Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America and Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union,” at the American Literature Association Conference on Jewish-American Literature in Salt Lake City.
- On October 4, Terry Harpold gave
a keynote address, “Pour
un auteur mondial, une collection mondiale” [“For a world
author, a world collection”] at the opening ceremony of L’Espace
Jules Verne, a new permanent exhibit and research center of the Maison
d’Ailleurs [House of Elsewhere], Europe’s foremost
museum of science fiction and film, located in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland.
On October 5, he moderated an international symposium on Verne (which
he also organized) in honor of Jean-Michel Margot, whose collection
of Verniana is the core of the EJV. Ten scholars from five countries
presented papers at the symposium, including Professor Harpold, who
spoke on “Showing Reading: Images of Readers in the Illustrated Voyages
extraordinaires.”
Terry's essay “Screw the Grue: Mediality, Metalepsis, Recapture” appears in Playing the Past: History and Nostalgia in Video Games, eds. Zach Whalen and Laurie N. Taylor (Vanderbilt University Press, 2008). 91–108. His essay “Jules Vernes vroege poëzie [Jules Verne’s Early Poetry]” appears in “Jeugdherinneringen” en andere texten [“Memories of Childhood and Youth” and Other Texts], ed. Garmt de Vries-Uiterweerd, trans. Hein Wernik and Garmt de Vries-Uiterweerd (Dordrecht: Jules Verne Genootschap, 2008), 29–33. - Sidney Homan reviews Scott Newstok’s Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare in South Atlantic Bulletin 72.4 (Fall 2007): 151–56.
- On October 4, Professor Emerita Marie Nelson and Caroline Dennis (MA, 1983) presented “Lacnunga 17: A Remedy for Wounds? Answers from the Cadfael Chronicles and Beyond” at the Southeastern Medieval Association conference in St. Louis, Missouri. Nelson’s recent publications include “Thomas Berger (1924–),” Arthurian Writers, eds. Larua Cooner Lambdin and Robert Thomas Lambdin (Westport, Connecticut and London: Greenwood Press, 2008); “‘The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son’: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Sequel to ‘The Battle of Maldon,’’ Mythlore 26.3/4 (Spring/Summer 2008); “The Authority of the Spoken Word: Speech Acts in Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,” Oral Tradition, 23.1 (March 2008); and “John Gardner’s Grendel: A Story Retold and Transformed in the Process,” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 18.3 (2007).
- Judith Page presented “Grace Aguilar’s Victorian Romanticism” at the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism in Toronto, in a special session on “New Directions in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Jewish Writing.”
- Mark A. Reid chaired the “Wright and Paris” panel and presented “Richard Wright, Paris, and a PostNegritude Interrogation: Immigration, Homeless Lands, and Borderless Crossings” at the Celebrating 100 Years of Richard Wright: International Centennial Conference at the American University of Paris. Reid’s memorial to the deceased African American documentary filmmaker St. Clair Bourne appears in the journal Black Camera 22:2/23:1 (Spring 2008): 96–97. He has been appointed to the Editorial Board of the film journal Screening Noir.
- Malini Johar Schueller presented “Neoliberal Feminism, Post-Orientalism and Imperialism“ at the American Studies Association meeting in Albuquerque. The talk was part of a panel on the 30th anniversary of the publication of Edward Said’s Orientalism. Her essay “Orientalizing American Studies” appears in American Quarterly 60.2 (June 2008): 481–89.
- Jodi Schorb has been named an Andrew W. Mellon 2008–2009 Research Fellow by the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania for her project, “Incomplete Sentences: The Role of Literacy in Pennsylvania Prison Reform, 1787–1850.” This summer, her essay “Seeing Other-Wise: Reading a Pequot Execution Narrative” and edited MS of “The Confession and Dying Warning of Katherine Garret” were published in Early Native Literacies in New England: A Documentary and Critical Anthology, eds. Kristina Bross and Hilary Wyss (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008).
- The poetry of the fifteenth issue of Two Lines: World Literature in Translation, titled “Strange Harbors,” was edited by Sidney Wade. Over the summer, she read and conducted a workshop at Rutgers/Camden’s Summer Literary Seminars, read from her new book, Stroke, in Kadir Has University’s Culture and the Arts Series (Istanbul), and read Turkish poetry in translation and conducted a Translation Workshop with the Center for the Art of Translation in San Francisco.ross the Room” has been accepted for publication by RHINO (Spring 2009).
Sociology
Barbara Zsembik received
the 2008 William R. Jones Outstanding Mentor Award
The 2008 Outstanding Mentor Award is made by the McKnight Doctoral Fellowship
program, funded by the Florida Education Fund.
William L. Jeffries IV, M.A., M.P.H. writes in his nomination letter: "I am extremely blessed to have Barb as my mentor and chair of my dissertation committee. Throughout the last 4½ years, she has provided me with exemplary mentorship, which has resulted in me acquiring considerable success as a graduate student. She has devoted a great deal of time—both inside and outside the classroom—to equipping me with the skills necessary to become a competent sociologist."
The McKnight Doctoral Fellowship program is designed to increase the number of African Americans and Latinos who receive Ph.D.s in crucial disciplines in which they have been historically underrepresented. Increasing the number of African American and Latino Ph.D.s is expected to diversify faculty in Florida's universities and colleges.