For the Record

5 p.m., April 30, 2004--For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty and staff.

Christopher A. Knight, assistant professor of health, nutrition and exercise sciences, “Neuromotor Issues in the Learning and Control of Golf Skill,” in Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, vol. 75, pages 9-15.

Douglas White, research associate, marine studies, “OCEANIC, the Ocean Information Center at UD’s College of Marine Studies,” in Japanese Oceanographic Data Center quarterly online newsletter.

Martin Brueckner, assistant professor of English, book review of Jill Lepore’s “A is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States,” in William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 61, no. 1, pages 195-198.

Gibbons Ruark, professor of English, poems, “Thirteen Ways of Listening to the Songbirds,” winter 2004 feature in The Cortland Review.

Donald Mell, professor of English, “Challenge to University Presses 2004,” Friends of Newark Free Library Newsletter, spring 2004.

Jeanne Walker, professor of English, poems, “Hunter,” page 32, “End of Semester Reverie,” page 33, “Winter Morning,” page 35, and “Forgetting To Call My Mother,” page 36, in Prairie Schooner, winter 2003; and reprint, “Little Blessing for My Floater,” in Poetry PR, a brochure advertising the best poetry of 2004.

Mary Richards, professor of English, “Helmut Gneuss,” in “Handlist of Medieval Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England Up to 1100,” Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Manuscripta 45/46, pages 177-80.

Suzanne Burton, assistant professor of music education, with panelists from the Delaware Music Educators Association and UD’s
collegiate MENC officers, “Toward Teacher Retention: Partnering for Leadership, “ at Music Educators National Conference, April 14-18, Minneapolis.

Debby Andrews, professor of English, workshop, “Crisis Communication,” at the writing seminar series, McGill University Centre for the Study and Teaching of Writing, April 2, Montreal.

Philip Goldstein, professor of English, “Sex, Gender and Race: Judith Butler’s Post-Marxist Feminism,” at American Comparative Literature Association meeting, April 18, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Stephen A. Bernhardt, Andrew Kirkpatrick Professor of Writing, workshop, “Helping Students Communicate in Research and Development Environments: Lessons from the Pharmaceutical Industry,” at Writing Across the Curriculum conference, May 22, St. Louis, Mo., and at the National Commission on Writing advisory group, March 29, Washington, D.C.

Farley Grubb, professor of economics, “Testing for the Economic Impact of Adopting the U.S. Constitution: Purchasing Power Parity Across Six North American British Colonies versus Across the Same Six U.S. States, 1748-1781,” at Clark University, April 19, Worcester, Mass.

Richard Davison, professor of English, “Westside Story and The Zoo Story,” at William Inge Festival, April 21-25, Independence, Kan., and “Ernest Hemingway and Tennessee Williams,” at International Hemingway Conference, June 7-13, Key West, Fla.

Barbara Gates, Alumni Distinguished Professor of English, panel chair, “The Brontes and Their World,” Pace University, April 17, New York.

Tom Leitch, professor of English, “The Adapter as Auteur: Hitchcock, Kubrick, Disney,” at Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, April 3, Atlanta.

Donald Mell, professor of English, session chair, “Jonathan Swift and His Circle,” American Society for 18th-Century Studies annual meeting, March 24-28, Boston.

Clyde Moneyhun, assistant professor of English, “Foreign Relations: Achieving Détente between Composition Studies and Speech Communication,” panel organizer, “What Ever Happened to the Fourth C? FYC, Speech Communication and Programmatic Change,” with graduate students Michelle Filling, Noreen Miller, Jim Webner and Therese Rizzo, a panel, “Making a Difference: Three Ways Service Learning Can Serve the Composition Classroom,” at Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 24-27, San Antonio.

Kristen Poole, assistant professor of English, “Macbeth and the Physics of Calvinism,” at Inhabiting the Body/Inhabiting the World conference, March 20, Chapel Hill, N.C.; “Deathbeds and Wormholes,” at Renaissance Society of America conference, April 2, New York; and “From Freud to Phenomenology: Documenting Hell in Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus” and panel organizer, “Postmodern Theory, Early Modern Belief,” at Shakespeare Association of America meeting, April 9, New Orleans.

Gibbons Ruark, professor of English, poetry reading, at University of South Carolina, April 7.

Jeanne Walker, professor of English, poetry readings at Academy of Lifelong Learning, Wilmington, Feb. 24, Chrysostom Society, San Antonio, March 12, and Taylor University, Upland, Ind., April; invited response to Joel Carpenter’s “The Globalization of Christianity,” at the Chrysostom Society meeting, March 13, San Antonio; and keynote address, “The Silence Inside Poetry,” at Taylor University Poetry Festival, April 1.

Julian Yates, professor of English, “Eating Well: Or, Keeping Food on the Table in Renaissance Studies,” at University of North Carolina, March 19, Chapel Hill; and “Stealing Shakespeare’s Oranges” and “Shakespearean Materialities,” at Shakespeare Association of America conference, April 9-11, New Orleans.

“The Journalist’s Craft: A Guide to Writing Better Stories,” coedited by Dennis Jackson, professor of English, and John Sweeney, was listed among the 30 titles making up the essential library for every newsroom in “The Learning Newsroom” published by the American Society of Newspaper Editors. The book includes an essay, “Speaking of Metaphor,” by Jeanne Walker, professor of English.

Four poems in Prairie Schooner by Jeanne Walker, professor of English, were awarded that magazine’s prestigious Reader’s Choice Award for 2003.

Suzanne Burton, assistant professor of music education, was named the online general music mentor for the Music Educators National Conference/The National Association for Music Education for the month of April.

McKay Jenkins, associate professor of English, was named one of 14 writers to participate in a National Endowment for the Arts program, “Operation Homecoming,” that will put writers on military bases around the world to teach narrative writing and help soldier record their experiences.

Richard Davison, professor of English, judged the finalists in the Delaware One-Act Play Contest, March 27, Wilmington.

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