For the Record

Barbara Gates, Alumni Distinguished Professor of English, “In Nature’s Name: An Anthology of Women’s Nature Writing and Illustration, 1780-1930,” University of Chicago Press.

Jonathan Grossman, assistant professor, English, “The Art of Alibi: English Law Courts and the Novel,” Johns Hopkins University Press.

Mary Richards, professor, English, with David F. Bright, “The Academic Deanship: Individual Careers and Institutional Roles,” Jossey-Bass.

Publications

Howard Johnson, professor, Black American Studies Program, “Decolonising the History Curriculum in the Anglophone Caribbean,” in Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, vol. 30, no. 1, pages 27-60.

Peter Feng, assistant professor, English, “Screening Asian Americans,” in Depth of Field Series, Rutgers University Press; “Getting Lost on the Way to My Father’s Village,” an entry in exhibit catalog, Like Mangoes in July: The Work of Richard Fund, Toronto Images Festival; “Asian American Cinema and the Documentary Impulse,” catalog entry, commemorating 20th anniversary of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival.

Alexander Lehrman, associate professor, foreign languages and literatures, “Reconstructing Proto-Indo-Hittite,” in Greater Anatolia and the Indo-Hittite Language Family: Papers Presented at a Colloquium at University of Richmond, March 18-19, Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph Series, no. 38, pages 106-130; and “Koenigsberg 1799: A Kanto in 1 Octaves,” in Ironwood: A Review of New Formal Poetry, no. 2.

John Jebb, assistant professor, English, “Crimes in Criminals,” in Companion to Southern Literature, Louisiana State University Press.

Fleda Brown, professor, English, poems in Quarterly West 53, fall/winter issue, and in Cortland Review, February.

Dewey M. Caron, professor, entomology and applied ecology, with graduate student Alexis Park, ‘What’s in a Name?” in American Bee Journal, vol. 142, no. 3, pages 183-185.

Heinz-Uwe Haus, professor, theatre, “Contrasting Complement: Experience with Euripides,” in Lo Straniero, no. 34, September; “Modernism and the Birth of the Director,” in Ta Nea, no. 27, September; “Choreography and Chorus—Crossing Imaginary Bridges,” in Cyprus Weekly, no. 40, October; “Augumentation ‘Friedensethik’—Anmerkungen zu den Thesen Eines Theologieprofessors,” in Erneurerung und Abwehr, no. 2, 2002; and “Geschichte Ist, Was Man Glauben Will,” in MUT, no. 2, 2002.

McKay Jenkins, associate professor, English, “Womb with a View: Proust’s Magical Mind-fulness,” in Modernity in East-West Literary Criticism, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; “Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, Meditation and the Postmodern conception of History,” in Postmodernity and Cross-Culturalism, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; and “Metaphors of Race and Psychological Damage in the 1940s American South: The Writings of Lillian Smith,” in Racing and (E)Racing Language, Syracuse University Press.

Linda Stein, associate librarian, “Hemingway’s The Fifth Column: Comparing the Typescript Drafts to the Published Play,” in North Dakota Quarterly, vol. 68, no. 2-3, pages 233-244.

Matt Kinservik, assistant professor, English, “Theatrical Regulation During the Restoration Period,” in The Blackwell Companion to Restoration Drama, Blackwell, London; “Beyond Romanticism: New Books on Late 18th- and Early 19th-Century British Drama,” in 18th-Century Studies, vol. 35, pages 109-115.

Benigno E. Aguirre, professor, sociology and criminal justice, “’Sustainable Development’ as Collective Surge,” in Social Science Quarterly, vol. 83, no. 1.

Ellen Pifer, professor, English, “Her Monster, His Nymphet: Nabokov and Mary Shelley,” reprinted in 20th-Century Literary Criticism, 108, Gale; “Did She Have a Precursor? Lolita and Wharton’s The Children,” in Nabokov’s World, vol. 2, Palgrave, 2002; “Reinventing Nabokov: Lyne and Kubrick Parse Lolita,” in Selected Papers from the Nabokov Centenary Festival, Cornell University Press; “Nabokov’s Novel Offspring: Lolita and Her Kin,” reprinted in Vladimir Nasbokov’s Lolita: A Casebook, University Press, October 2002; and “Saul Bellow,” revised and updated, in Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia of American Literature, Harper Collins.

Hilton Brown, Harriet T. Bailey Professor of Art Conservation, et al, “Tempera Painting: A Medieval Medium Revived in 20th-Century Art,” book/catalog for the exhibit “Milk and Eggs,” at Brandywine River Museum.

Alvina Quintana, associate professor, English, book review in Signs, March 12, University of California-Los Angeles.

Yaroslav Bilinsky, professor, political science and international relations, “The Charter on (distinctive) Partnership Between NATO and Ukraine,” in Ukraine and Belarus in the Process of Transformation: A Preliminary Assessment, Verlag Wissenschaft und Politick.

Mary Richards, professor, English, “Manuscripts, Illuminations, Charters,” in The Year’s Work in Old English Studies, Old English Newsletter, vol. 32, no. 2, pages 71-82; review of ‘What Was the New Yorker?” in Soundings, vol. 83, no. 3-4, pages 543-545; review of The Making of English Law: King Alfred to the 12th Century, Vol. 1, in Legislation and Its Limits, Notes and Queries, vol. 246, no. 2, pages 167-170; and review of “Anglo-Saxon Appetites: Food and Drink and Their Consumption,” in Old English and Related Literature, vol. 100, no. 4, pages 557-559.

Elaine Safer, professor, English, review of James Atlas’ Bellow: A Biography, in Modern Jewish Studies, vol. 12, pages 115-120.

Bethany Hall-Long, nursing, “Running for Elective Office,” in Journal of Clinical Nurse Specialist, 2002.

Gibbons Ruark, professor, English, poems in Shenandoah, Crazyhorse and The Greensboro Review.

Jeanne Walker, professor, English, poems in Commonweal, Dec. 21, page 14, and in Mad Poet’s Review, December, page 88; invited poems in 75th anniversary issue of Prairie Schooner, fall, pages 96-99; and four poems invited for “9/11: Psalms and Lamentations,” in special section of Commentary, Image, vol. 32, pages 56-60.

Larry Purnell, professor, nursing, “Doors closed, doors opened, opening doors: Postmodernism Famderian Hermeneutic,” in The Emergence of Man into the 21st Century, pages 311-321, Jones and Barlett, Philadelphia.

Julian Yates, assistant professor, English, “Towards A Theory of Agentive Drift: Or, A Particular Fondness for Oranges,” in Parallax, spring.

Jeff Doucette, building supervisor, ice arena, “Safety Tip for Life,” “A Year in the Life: A View of the NEISMA Board” and “NEISMA Board Election UpDate: The Godfather Reviews All Applications,’ in Rink Rat, North East Ice Skating Manager’s Association (NEISMA), February.

Presentations

James L. Morrison, professor, leadership and consumer studies, “Comparative Analysis of Faculty Perceptions of Leadership Initiatives Required for Resolving E-Commerce Issues,” at International Applied Business Research Conference, March 14-17, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

Jack R. Vinson, H. Fletcher Brown Professor of Mechanical Engineering, “Sandwich Structures of Composite Materials,” at Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, March 7.

Fleda Brown, professor, English, poetry readings at Delaware House of Representatives, Dover.; Ferris School, Kelly’s Logan House and Academy for Lifelong Learning in Wilmington; Brader Elementary School, Newark; Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa.; and Rehoboth Arts League, Rehoboth Beach.

Howard Johnson, professor, Black American Studies program, “Strangers Behind the Counters: Anti-Chinese Sentiment in Jamaica in the 1930s,” at Latin American history conference of the American Historical Society, January, San Francisco.

Martin Brueckner, assistant professor, English, guest seminar leader, “The Continent Speaks: Geography and Oratory in Revolutionary America,” at Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, College of William and Mary and Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, October; keynote speaker, “The Continent Speaks: Geography, Oratory and the Figuration of Identity in Revolutionary America,” at McNeil Center for Early American Studies, September, University of Pennsylvania; and “Literacy for Empire: Reading Home, Terror and Geography in Antebellum America,” at Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, July, Williamsburg, Va.

Heinze-Uwe Haus, professor, theatre, “Commitment to Theatre: Experiences Teaching in UD’s Professional Theatre Training Program,” at Ministry of Education in Nicosia, Cyprus, August; and five papers at the IMISE conference, Naples, July: “Theatre as a Transcultural Event,” “Universal and the Particular in European Art, Literature and Theatre,” “Notes for a Medea Workshop-production,” “Students on Threepenny Opera Learning Fundamentals of Directing,” “Do We Need Brecht’s Appendices for a Short Organum for the Future?” and “Interwoven Contexts: Signpost of the Road to Transformation”; served as director of three plays, Medea-Material with the American Shakespeare Co., July , Naples, Italy, of Neopolitan Evil Eye with the Garibaldi Players, July, Naples, and Medea, August, Paphos and Droushia, Cyprus.

Michael Cotsell, professor, English, “The Dissociative Muse: Trauma, Dissociation and American Modernism,” at International Society for the Study of Dissociation fall conference, Dec. 2-4, New Orleans.

Carolee Polek, assistant professor, Paula Klemm, associate professor, Thomas Hardie, associate professor, Lisa Plowfield, associate professor, Erlinda Wheeler, assistant professor, and Margaret Birney, associate professor, all nursing, poster, “Asian American and Pacific Islander Women and Breast Cancer,” at Oncology Nursing Society Cancer Conference, March 6. Polek also presented at the panel.

Eileen Smitheimer, professor, theatre, served as lighting and sound designer for Surflight Theatre’s productions of “110 in the Shade” and “A Christmas Carol” and sound engineer for London’s Drill Hall in its production of “Gertrude and Alice.”

Susan Goodman, professor, English, “Drowning or Waving: The Problems of Biography,” at ALA meeting, Dec. 2-4, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico; “In Their Time: Edith Wharton and Ernest Hemingway,” at MLA meeting, Dec. 27-30, New Orleans.

Margaret Andersen, professor, sociology and criminal justice, “The Art of Collaboration: Pleasures, Pitfalls and Practicalities,” at Eastern Sociological Society meeting, March 7, Boston; “Whitewashing Race: A Critical Discussion of Whiteness,” at Research on Race, Ethnicity and Culture, Women’s Studies lecture series, Feb. 20, UD campus.

Matthew Kinservik, assistant professor, English, seminar, “Anna Larpent’s Letters and Journals,” at Lewis Walpole Library, March 2, Farmington, Conn.

Joel Best, sociology and criminal justice, “Damned Lies and Statistics,” at Eastern Sociological Society, March 7, Boston.

Joan L. Brown, Elias Ahuja Professor of Spanish, “La Historia Cultural y la Historia Personal en El Cuarto de Atras,” at Swarthmore College, Feb. 28.

Jean Pfaelzer, professor, English, “Driven Out,” Living in History lecture series, Feb. 21, and “Utopia in Dark Times,” at University of Nottingham, June.

Elizabeth Higginbotham, professor, sociology and criminal justice, “Invisible Work: Black Women’s Survival Strategies in Integrated Settings,” at Fordham University-Lincoln Center campus, March 4, New York City.

Ellen Pifer, professor, English, “From Parrots to Pedophiles: Contemporary Writers Imitating Nabokov,” at MLA meeting, Dec. 30, New Orleans.

Tammy Anderson, assistant professor, sociology and criminal justice, “Race and Gender: Inequality in Prison Work Release Programs,” Research on Race, Ethnicity and Culture lecture series, Feb. 27, UD campus.

Lois Potter, Ned B. Allen Professor of English, slide lecture, “Shakespeare’s History Plays on the Stage,” at Literary and Philosophical Society, University of Leicester, Jan. 21.

Bob Mulrooney, Cooperative Extension specialist, plant and soil sciences, with N.F. Gregory, “First Report of Sudden Death Syndrome on Soybeans on Delmarva,” at joint meeting of the Southern Soybean Disease Workers and Southern Division, American Phytopathological Society, Feb. 3, Orlando, Fla.

Alvina Quintana, associate professor, English, with graduate students Lil Crisler and Karen Gaffney, “U.S. Latina (W)rites: Remapping the Americas,” at Mid-Atlantic Latin American Studies Association meeting, March 15-16; keynote speaker, “A Gift from Mama,” at International Women’s Day Celebration, March 3; and “Lourdes Portillo’s Senorita Extraviata,” guest lecture, Women’s Film Series, March, all UD campus.

Elaine Safer, professor, English, “Tragedy and Farce in Roth’s Human Stain,” at MLA meeting, December, New Orleans.

Rudi Matthee, associate professor, history, “The Relevance of European Archives to Iranian History,” at University of Tehran, Dec. 19; and “Tobacco in Early Modern Iran: Pleasure and Proscription,” at the University of Chicago, Feb. 18.

Jeffrey J. Jordan, associate professor, philosophy, “Pascal’s Wagers,” at Society for Philosophy of Religion meeting, Feb. 21-23, Savannah, Ga.

Jeanne Walker, professor, English, poetry readings at Grand Opera House, Nov. 10, Wilmington, and at Manyunk Arts Center, Nov. 11, Manyunk, Pa.; first stage reading of “Tillie,’ at Centenary Stage Theatre, March 12.

A. Scott Andres, senior scientist, Delaware Geological Survey, “Watershed Monitoring and Best Management Practices for the Little Assawoman Bay Watershed,” at Center for the Inland Bays Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee, Feb. 1, Lewes.

Gary Stephen Allison, instructor, special education, “New Slant on Functional Assessment and Analysis,” for State Positive Behavior Support Team, Feb. 28, Delaware Technical and Community College; and “Reaching and Teaching the Reluctant Learner,” at Warner Elementary School, March 7, Wilmington.

Julian Yates, assistant professor, English, “Yeasty History,” at New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, March 16, Sarasota, Fla.; and “Shakespeare’s Oranges” and seminar, “Green Shakespeare,” at Shakespeare Association of America, March 21, Minneapolis.

Ron Martin, professor, geology, plenary lecture, “Cyclic and Secular Trends in Preservation Through Geologic Time: Implications for the Evolution of Biogeochemical Cycles and the Fossil Record,” at third international conference on taphonomy and fossilization, Feb. 14-16, Valencia, Spain.

Gibbons Ruark, professor, English, poetry reading, Winthrop University, March 14, Rock Hill, S.C.

Frank B. Dilley, professor emeritus, philosophy, “Taking Consciousness Seriously: A Defense of Cartesian Dualism,” at Society for Philosophy of Religion meeting, Feb. 21-23, Savannah, Ga.

Larry Purnell, professor, nursing, “Culturally Competent Care for Case Managers,” at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware, Jan. 15, Wilmington.

Jeffrey Rosen, assistant professor, psychology, “PKA and PKC Inhibitors Block Long-term Memory of Conditioned Fear and EGR-1 mRNA in the Amygdala,” at Neurobiology of Learning and Memory conference, Jan 12-15, Park City, Utah.

Cynthia Pearson, instructor, nursing, poster, “The Role of the CNS in Promoting Successful Adjustment to the Nursing Home,” at DNA Research Conference, March 1.

Janice Selekman, professor, nursing, “Pharmacology Update: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder,” Feb. 5, A.I. DuPont Hospital for Children.

Service

David Legates, associate professor, geography, testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, March 13, in Washington, D.C., on the economic and environmental risks associated with increasing greenhouse gas emissions.

Heyward Brock, professor, English, served at co-director of the Literature and Medicine Program at Trinity College, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Barbara Sheer, associate professor, nursing, was named to the editorial board of Medscape Nursing.

Awards

Rudi Matthee, associate professor, history, won a $1,000 prize for the best foreign-language book on Iran published between 1995 and 2000 for ‘The Politics of Trade in Safvid Iran: Silk for Silver, 1600-1730.” The award was presented Dec. 18 by the Iranian minister of culture in Tehran. Matthee has been selected to be a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University for the 2002-2003 academic year.

Lisa Plowfield, associate professor, nursing, has been selected as a Hartford Institute Geriatric Nursing Research Scholar for summer, 2002. She also was selected to participate in the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Leadership for Academic Nursing Program, which is designed to develop and enhance leadership skills in new and emerging administrators.

Bob Mulrooney, Cooperative Extension agent, plant pathology, was awarded the 2001 Distinguished Service Award by the Southern Soybean Disease Workers for his “many years service to the group and scientific contributions to soybean disease control.”

Several members of the Residence Life staff received awards at the American College Personnel Association annual convention, March 18-19: James Tweedy, assistant director, was awarded the American College Personnel Association Voice of Inclusion Medallion for helping to make the campus community a welcoming environment and the Outstanding Experienced Professional Award; Keith Edwards, complex coordinator, the Outstanding New Professional in Residence Life award; Jennifer Frost, CHEP 2002, residence hall director, the Outstanding Undergraduate Student Staff Member Award; and Margot Zarella, AS 2002, former resident assistant, the Outstanding Residence Hall Program Award.

April 17, 2002