Global Issues, International Venues: Selected Faculty Awards, Presentations, and Publications

Christine M. Probes, Associate Director

As I received notice of faculty accomplishments in the humanities this semester, I was particularly impressed by their focus on global issues and dissemination in international venues. Space constraints permit only the following highly selective representative examples; all are from 2008 or 2009, unless otherwise noted. Also, please note that in the COA accomplishments, we must highlight non-performance ones, due to our mission that differs somewhat from that of the NEA.

Grants and Awards

• In the College of the Arts (COA), Chuck Owen’s proposal to compose a “Double Concerto for Saxophone, Guitar, & Orchestra” was awarded one of the most prestigious academic recognitions worldwide, a Guggenheim Fellowship.
• Michael Timpson’s Fulbright will permit him to conduct research for his book “Writing for Chinese Instruments: Orchestral and Philosophical Approaches for Western Composers.”
• Noël Schiller’s Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship will support her research at several institutions including the Koninklijk Bibliotheek in The Hague, Netherlands for the book project “Engaging Laughter: Representing Perception, Sensation, and the Passions in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art.”
• Elisabeth Fraser was awarded a grant from the Bibliographical Society of the U.K.
• Wade Weast received a Fellowship in the International Council of Fine Arts Deans’ “Rising Leadership” program.
• The Taiwan National Culture and Arts Foundation will support Chihchun Chi-sun Lee’s project of six new compositions for national monuments in Taiwan.
• In the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), Sandra Schneider and Victor Peppard’s Defense Language Institute Grant of $4.5 million allows them and a team of faculty from several departments to continue the “Critical Languages Project” of USF’s Center for the Study of International Languages and Cultures.
• The Kluge Center for Scholars of the Library of Congress, on nomination by the NEH, has named Jacqueline Messing Kislak Fellow in American Studies for her research project “Identity, Language, Ideology and Social Change in Colonial and Contemporary Tlaxcala, Mexico.”
• Jay Hopler was nominated by the American Academy of Arts and Letters for the Rome Prize and enjoyed a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship.
• The International Communication Association honored Elizabeth Bird with their Communication Research as Open Field Award.
• Kevin Yelvington’s coveted Guggenheim Fellowship supports his book project on Melville J. Herskovits and the making of Afro-American anthropology.
• Elizabeth Bell and Kenneth Cissna were designated Centennial Scholars of Communication by the Eastern Communication Association, in honor of the 100th anniversary of the ECA. Sage published Bell’s book, Theories of Performance. Cissna has been invited to deliver “Dialogic Approaches to Communication Research at the University of Roskilde, Denmark.
• The Charles Horton Cooley Award for best book was granted to Carolyn Ellis for her book Revision: Autoethnographic Reflections on Life and Work; her scholarship was also honored at a special session of the Southern States Communication Association and, in 2010, will receive special recognition at the Fifth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.

Publications and International Presentations

The following selection of representative publications and international presentations can only provide a glimpse of numerous recent contributions to the body of scholarly knowledge by arts and humanities faculty of the COA and the CAS.

College of the Arts

• Fanni Green presented her “Creating the Role of Sophia in the USF production of Moon on a Rainbow Shawl” at the International Conference on Caribbean Culture and Performance held in the Cayman Islands.
• Patrick Finelli was co-chair of the organizing committee of the International Conference on Caribbean Culture and Performance held in the Cayman Islands; he presented there “Theatrical Space and a Sense of Place in Errol John’s Moon on a Rainbow Shawl.”
• Sang-Hie Lee presented “Pianists’ Hands: Myths and Science” at the World Piano Conference in Novi Sad, Serbia, hosted by the Isidor Bajic Music School as part of its 100th year celebration. She also was invited to present “Biomechanical Profiles in Skilled Piano Performance,” at the International Congress for Music Physiology and Musician’s Medicine in Freiburg, Germany.
• Riccardo Marchi published “Kandinsky et Der Sturm” in the peer-reviewed catalogue of the exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
• Helena Szèpe published “Venetian Miniaturists in the Era of Print,” in The Books of Venice (Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana).

College of Arts and Sciences

• Golfo Alexopoulos wrote the article “Exiting the Gulag: The Role of a Prisoner’s Body, Gender and Kin,” for the journal Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas.
• Tammy Allen co-authored Designing Workplace Mentoring Programs: An Evidence-based Approach (Blackwell-Wiley); she co-presented “When Supervisory Support Matters” at the Third International Community, Work and Family Conference in Utrecht.
• Elizabeth Aranda’s essay “Puerto Rican Migration and Settlement in South Florida: Ethnic Identities and Transnational Spaces” appeared in Caribbean Migration to Western Europe and the United States: Essays on Incorporation, Identity and Citizenship (Temple UP).
• Roger Ariew delivered “Descartes and Humanism,” “Descartes and Modernity,” and “Descartes and Leibniz on the Principle of Individuation,” at Canadian conferences; he also delivered “The New Matter Theory and Its Epistemology: Descartes and Late Scholastics on Hypotheses and Moral Certainty,” at the Bucharest Colloquium in Early Modern Philosophy and “Fromondus’ Meteorology and Treatise on the Comet of 1618,” in Leuven, Belgium.
• Bob Batchelor’s essay “Selling Culture to the People: Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations in a Changing World” appeared in Popular Culture Values and the Arts: Essays on Elitism versus Democratization (McFarland).
• Sponsored by a grant from the American Embassy in Ukraine, Dan Belgrad’s book The Culture of Spontaneity was translated into Ukrainian.
• Giovanna Benadusi presented “Women and Work in Early Modern Italy” at a conference organized by The Labour Feminist Research Network in Stockholm; her essay “La madre e il granduca: Stato e famiglie nelle suppliche al Magistrato Supremo” appeared in Famiglie e Poteri nell’Italia Medievale e Moderna (École Française de Rome).
• Kees Boterbloem continues as editor of the peer-reviewed journal The Historian; he is a member of the Program Committee of the Canadian Historical Association and will travel soon to Amsterdam to deliver “The Money-Driven Life: The Amsterdam Oligarch Koenraad van Klenk at the Height of his Career (1650s-1680s)."
• Pablo Brescia’s article “‘Yo también podría borrarme con facilidad’: epistolaridad y constitución de los sujetos en Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela” appeared in América Sin Nombre.
• Judith Becker Bryant published the article “Language in Social Contexts: Communicative Competence in the Preschool Years” in The Development of Language (Allyn & Bacon).
• Gaëtan Brulotte was nominated for a Carnegie “Professor of the Year” national award; he delivered the invited address “Le Monde du peintre Jean Paul Lemieux” at the Musée des Beaux-Arts du Mont-Saint-Hilaire (Québec), and a critical study of his short story collection Le Surveillant was published by Romanian scholar Margareta Gyurcsik in the journal XYZ (Montréal).
• Kelli Burns presented “A Historical Examination of the Development of Social Media and Its Application to the Public Relations Industry” at the International Communication Association Conference in Montréal.
• Michael Clune’s “Orwell and the Obvious” appeared in Representations.
• Sara Munson Deats organized an international Marlowe conference in England and co-edited its selected proceedings: Placing Christopher Marlowe’s Plays: Fresh Cultural Contexts (Ashgate).
• Eric Duke co-edited Extending the Diaspora: New Histories of Black People (U of Illinois P) and delivered “Not Just Liberation, Black Liberation: Transnational Support for British Caribbean Federation in the African Diaspora” at the Biennial Conference of the Collegium for African American Research, held in Bremen.
• Darrell J. Fasching’s co-authored books Religion and Globalization, World Religions Today, Religions of the West Today, and Religions of Asia Today all appeared with Oxford UP.
• Edward Jay Friedlander provided the invited chapter “Magazine Feature Writing” to 21st Century Communication (Sage).
• Michael Gibbons and James Strange co-edited the book and CD: Proceedings of the Joint American Foundation for Greek Language and Culture (Interdisciplinary Center for Hellenic Studies Forum and Conference on the Hellenic Legacy through the Ages).
• Vicki L. Gregory presented “Effectiveness of Varying Communication Media in Enhancing Learning” at the Third Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Conference in Prato, Italy.
• In October Margit Grieb will deliver “Winnetou Updated: knallende Colts und galoppierende Rothaeute” at the German Studies Association Conference in Washington, D.C.
• Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong’s essay “Crime and Race, A Plea for New Ideas,” was published in the Review of Black Political Economy.
• Douglas Jesseph published his co-edited book Infinitesimal Differences: Controversies between Leibniz and his Contemporaries (Walter de Gruyter) and delivered in Nancy, France “The Very Soul of Mathematics: Barrow’s Mathematical Lectures and the Theory of Ratios in the Seventeenth Century.”
• K.C. Killebrew’s chapter “Convergence and Global Media: Moving towards a Common News Source” appeared in Understanding Media Convergence: The State of the Field (Oxford).
• Edward Kissi presented “Africans and the Holocaust: How Colonial Subjects Viewed the Nazi Persecution of European Jews” at the Global Conference on Genocide at Sheffield, England.
• Margarethe Kusenbach’s chapter “Mitgehen als Methode: Der ‘Go-Along’ in der Phaenomenologischen Forschungspraxis” was published in Phaenomenologie und Soziologie: Theoretische Positionen, Aktuelle Problemfelder und Empirische Umsetzungen (VS Press, Wiesbaden).
• Julie Langford-Johnson’s article “Speaking out of Turn(us): Subverting Severan Constructions of Ethnicity, Masculinity and Felicitas” appeared in the journal Ancient World.
• Gary L. Lemons published his book Black Male Outsider, a Memoir: Teaching as a Pro-Feminist Man with the State U of New York P.
• K.J. Malmberg delivered “A Global Memory Model of Forgetting and Remembering from Multiple Lists” at the International Congress of Psychology in Berlin.
• Eleni Manolaraki presented “Noscendi Nilum Cupido: the Nile in Lucan’s Bellum Civile” at a joint international conference hosted in Glasgow by The Classical Association of Great Britain and The Classical Association of Scotland.
• Kathleen de la Pena McCook published “Human Rights as a Framework for Reflection in Service Learning: ‘Para que Otro Mundo es posible’” in the American Library Association’s journal Service Learning; she delivered “Workplace Speech: Between Politics and Poetry” at the Canadian Library Association’s conference in Vancouver.
• Mozella Mitchell’s essay “Essential Being: Reflections of Christianity and Human Survival in Caribbean Literature” appeared in Mother Tongue Theologies: Poets, Novelists and Non-Western Christianity (Wipf and Stock).
• Adriana Novoa’s article “The Act or Process of Dying Out: The Importance of Darwinian Extinction in Argentine Culture” appeared in Science in Context.
• Deborah Plant’s chapter “Politics of Self: Individualist Perspectives in Seraph on the Suwanee” appeared in the MLA’s book Approaches to Teaching Zora Neale Hurston’s Novels; she also edited the book Zora Neal Hurston: Critical Essays (Praeger).
• Christine Probes delivered “Boileau et Bossuet, le poète-satiriste et le pasteur d’âmes: leurs rôles et leurs armes dans la controverse sur l’amour de Dieu,” at the international meeting of NASSCFL in NYC, she presented “’Seul je déploie les cieux’: La représentation du Créateur qui ‘affole les devins’ et ‘tourne leur science en déraison’ dans les sermons de Calvin sur Esaïe, découverts à Londres,” at the international congress “Calvin et son Influence, 1509-2009” in Geneva and “Mundus imago Dei est: The Spirituality of the Emblematist of the French Renaissance” at the international conference of The Sixteenth Century Society, Geneva. Her essay “La Perception de Dieu créateur et protecteur chez Jean Racine: des continuités d’un lyrisme à travers des genres” appeared in Travaux de Littérature (Paris).
• Ann Riedling presented “Learn to Learn: Essentials of Information Literacy and Research” at the LILAC Conference in Wales and “Learning to Learn: The Ultimate Outcome for Young and Old Alike” for the Third Rizal International Conference in Manila.
• Cheryl Rodriguez is President of the Association of Feminist Anthropology; her article “Beyond Today and Past Tomorrow: Self-Efficacy among African-American Adolescent Mothers” appeared in the Association’s journal.
• Lori Roscoe co-authored the article “Quality-of-life at the end-of-life for Nursing Home Residents” in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management and “Family Caregivers’ Future Planning for Younger and Older Adults with Serious Mental Illness” in the Journal of Applied Gerontology; she also holds a current grant on “A Study of Communication between Head and Neck Cancer Surgeons and Their Patients.”
• Martin Schönfeld presented the invited keynote address “Systema universalis substantiarum: das Erbe der kantischen Metaphysik im 21. Jahrhundert” at the Kantian Heritage International Conference in Taiwan; his book chapter “The Kantian Blueprint of Climate Control” appeared in Global Warming and Climate Change: Ten Years after Kyoto and Still Coming (Science Publishers).
• Camilla Vasquez co-authored “The Role of Pragmatics in MA-TESOL Programs” in the global TESOL Quarterly and co-presented “Raising Teachers’ Awareness about Corrective Feedback through Research Replication” at the International Language Teacher Education Conference in Washington, D.C.
• Kim Vaz co-edited the book Benefiting by Design: Women of Color in Feminist Psychological Research (Cambridge).
• Joanne B. Waugh co-authored the book chapter “Paideia before Philosophy: The Sophia of Xenophanes” in Paideia: Education in a Global Era (Athens: International Center for Greek Philosophy and Culture).
• Thomas Williams co-authored the book Great Medieval Thinkers (Oxford UP) and the book chapter “Describing God” in The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy (Cambridge UP).
• Wei Zhu organized the Colloquium “Research Insights for Building Online Writing Communities” at the international TESOL conference in NYC and co-authored the book chapter “Negotiating the Dissertation Literature Review: The Influence of Personal Theories” in Learning the Literacy Practices of Graduate School (U of Michigan P).