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For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty and staff.
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Matt Kinservik, assistant professor of English, Disciplining Satire: The Censorship of Satiric Comedy on the 18th-Century London Stage, Bucknell University Press, Lewisburg, Pa.
Ed Okonowicz, editor in the Office of Public Relations, and Jerry Rhodes, contributing writer to UpDate, Matt Zabitka Sports: 60 Years of Headlines and Deadlines, Myst & Lace Publishers Inc.
Benjamin Steiner, assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice, “Keeping the Public in the Dark: The (Un) Availability of Public Information Regarding the Parole of Murderers,” in Homicide Studies, vol. 6, no. 2.
Lawrence A. Curtis, professor of biology, University Parallel Program, with Gerald W. Esch and M.A. Barger of Wake Forest University, “A Perspective on the Ecology of Trematode Communities in Snails,” in Parasitology, vol. 123, pages S57-S75.
Richard Davison, professor of English, “Celebrating Hemingway Off-Broadway: Michael Hollinger’s An Empty Plate in the Café du Grant Boeuf,” in North Dakota Quarterly, pages 225-232, spring/summer 2001; and “Memories of Jason Robards Jr., Actor’s Actor,” in Jason Robards Remembered, McFarland & Co., 2002.
Monika Shafi, professor of German, “Friends, Enemies, Countrymen: Representations of Foreigners in Contemporary German and Austrian Literature,” in Adventures of Identity: European Multicultural Experiences and Perspectives, John Docker and Gerhard Fischer, editors, pages 205-314, Tuebingen, Stauffenburg.
Fleda Brown, professor of English, essay, “Changing My Name,” and poem, “Delaware,” in Prairie Schooner, spring 2002, and “Beside the Juniata” and “The Chinchorro Mummies,” in Alaska Quarterly Review, summer and spring 2002.
Judy E. McInnis, associate professor of foreign languages and literatures, with Meghan E. McInnis, AS ’99, “Still the Oedipal Bind: An Analysis of Don Juan de Marco and Its Sources,” in Hispanofila, no. 132, pages 69-86; editor of Maclas: Latin American Essays, vol. 14, January 2002; and four book reviews: La Literatura Cetrera de la Edad Media y el Renacimiento Espanol by Fradejas Rueda and Jose Manuel, 1998, in Hispania, vol. 84, March 2001, pages 56-57; Queer Iberia: Sexualities, Cultures and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance by Josiah Blackmore and Gregory S. Hutcheson, editors, in Hispania, vol. 84, September 2001, pages 463-464; El Libro del Conoscimiento de Todos Los Reinos/The Book of Knowledge of All Kingdoms: Edition, Translation and Study, by Nancy F. Marino, in Hispania, vol. 84, December 2001, pages 798-799; and Curial y Guelfa y las Novelas de Caballerias Espanolas, by Montserrat Piera, in Hispania, vol. 85, March 2002, pages 76-77.
Gibbons Ruark, professor of English, poem, “Quarantine,” in Crazyhorse, winter 2002; essay, “The Day a Poem Comes Home,” in Cortland Review [www.cortlandreview.com], winter 2002, and an essay, “Spending an Irish Sixpence,” in Shenandoah, spring 2002.
Rudi Matthee, associate professor of history, “Mint Consolidation and the Worsening of the Late Safavid Coinage: The Mint of Huwayza,” in Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, vol. 44, pages 505-539.
Barbara T. Gates, Alumni Distinguished Professor of English, “Louisa Anne Meredith: At Home in Australia,” at conference on British 18th- and 19th-century women writers, April 18-21, University of Wisconsin.
Tom Leitch, professor of English, “Hitchcock the Comedian,” at Salisbury State University, April 8, Salisbury, Md.
Theodore E.D. Braun, professor of foreign languages and literatures, “Micromegas: Voltaire’s Interstellar Conte, A Model for the Future?” at American Society for 18th-Century Studies annual meeting, April 4-7, Colorado Springs. He also organized and chaired a session, “Men and Women Write the Same Stories.”
Thomas E. McKenna, associate scientist, with Peter P. McLaughlin Jr. and Richard N. Benson, senior scientists, Delaware Geological Survey, “Characterization of the Potomac Aquifer, An Extremely Heterogeneous Fluvial System in the Atlantic Coastal Plain of Delaware,” at SEPM Research Conference on Ancient and Modern Coastal Plain Depositional Environments, March 24-25, Charleston, S.C.
Ron Martin, professor of geology, “Taphonomy, Time-averaging and the Resolution of Late Holocene Sea-level and Paleoclimate Signals,” at University of Kansas Department of Geology, April 11, Lawrence, Kan.
Peter Feng, assistant professor of English, “Sexuality, Nationalism and Asian American Cinema in a Global Context,” at Yale University’s Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, April 2; and a keynote presentation, “Sexuality and the New World Order in Film,” at conference of the Asian Student Association, April 13, Smith College.
Gibbons Ruark, professor of English, a poetry reading, at Academy of Lifelong Learning, April 23, Wilmington.
Margaret D. Stetz, visiting associate professor of women’s studies, “Beatrix Potter and Aestheticism: What Did She Know and How Did she Know It?” at the 19th Century Interdisciplinary Studies conference, April 13, George Mason University.
Richard Davison, professor of English, “Hemingway, Benet and Rolfe: Some News on the Writer and the Man,” at Hemingway and the Sea Conference, Sept. 27-30, Strathmere, N.J.; “The Genesis and Transformation of Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men from Novella to Play to Musical,” at John Steinbeck Centennial Conference, March 19-24, Hofstra University, March 19-24; and “Tribute to Eileen Heckart and Her Work on William Inge’s Picnic and Dark at the Top of the Stairs,” at Inge Festival, April 17-21, Independence, Kan.
David Kaplan, professor of education, “Modeling Sustained Educational Change with Panel Data: The Case for Dynamic Multiplier Analysis,” at American Educational Research Association meeting, New Orleans; and “In-School versus Out Of-School ICT Learning: Preliminary Findings for the United States,” at first International Disseminations Conference for the OECD/CERI ICT Programe, March 23-25, Vanderbilt University, Nashville.
Janet de Vry, manager, Instructional Technology-user services, with Julius Bianchi of California Lutheran University, “Faculty Technology Development Strategies for Supporting Curriculum Enhancement,” at North East Regional Computing Program meeting, March 17, Worcester, Mass.
Joel Best, professor of sociology and criminal justice, “Are Rumors of Deviance’s Death Exaggerated?” at the Midwest Sociological Society annual meeting, April 6.
Monika Shafi, professor of German, “Helmat und Fremde im Werk Arnold Stadlers,” at Rand Afrikaans University, March 7-12, Johannesburg, South Africa; and “Geschichtslektionen? Zu Anna Mitgutschs ‘Hans der Kindheit’,” at Austrian Writers Confront the Past 1945-2000, an international conference, April 12-14, University of Pennsylvania.
Elizabeth Higginbotham, professor of sociology and criminal justice, “Invisible Work: Black Women’s Survival Strategies in Predominantly White Schools and Work Sites,” at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Apri1 1; and “Manufacturing Climate: Reflections on Faculty and Power in the Classroom,” at Southern Sociological Society meeting, April 6, Baltimore.
Farley Grubb, professor of economics, discussant of Bruce Mann’s book, The Politics of Insolvency in the Early Republic, at University of Pennsylvania Economic History Forum, April 5, Philadelphia; and “Risk and the Rate of Return to Shipping German Redemptioner Servants to Pennsylvania, 1720-1820” and “The Trans-Atlantic Market for British Convict Labor and the Market Evaluation of Criminality: Evidence from Convict Auctions in Maryland, 1765-1775,” at Washington College, April 18, Chestertown, Md.
Benjamin Steiner, assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice, “Jurors’ Stories of Death,” at St. Joseph’s University, April 19, Philadelphia.
Fleda Brown, professor of English, “Eleven Ways To Get a Life,” Biography in Poems panel, Associated Writing Programs conference, March 7, New Orleans, and poetry readings: Academy for Lifelong Learning, March 12; Rehoboth Arts League Writers’ Group, March 16, De Sales University Poetry Festival, April 11-12; and Delaware State University’s Poetry Festival, April 13.
Judy B. McInnis, associate professor of foreign languages and literatures, “Tea, Wine and Milton in Barbara Pym’s Novels,” at Barbara Pym Society, March 23, Harvard Law School; “Gustav Mahler, Erich Neumann and Mireya Keller,” at Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies conference, March 15, University of Delaware; “Boccaccio’s Fiameta and El Marques de Santillana’s Leonor,” at University of New Mexico, Feb. 21, Albuquerque; and “Mothers and Mothering in the Poetry of Gladys M. Ilarregui,” at American Women Writers of Color meeting, Oct. 20, Ocean City, Md.
Donald Mell, professor of English, panel chairperson, “Cultural Contexts and Satiric Strategies in Swift and Johnson,” at 33rd annual meeting of American Society for 18th-Century Studies, April 3-7, Colorado Springs.
Rudi Matthee, associate professor of history, “Islam and Colonialism,” at Pacem in Terris, March 12, Wilmington, and at Academy of Lifelong Learning, April 11, Wilmington.
T. Gregory Lynch, coordinator in professional and continuing studies, “Technology Acceptance and Administrative Workgroup Computing,” at 87th annual University Continuing Education Association Conference, April 19, Toronto.
Steven S. Hegedus, associate scientist, and Brian E. McCandless, associate scientist, Institute of Energy Conversion, were appointed for a three-year term to the editorial board of Progress in Photovoltaics, research and applications.
Susan Goodman, associate professor of English, received a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2002-2003 academic year, to work on a biography of W.D. Howells.
May 24, 2002
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