First-year faculty member Casie Legette has won the University of Michigan’s Proquest Distinguished Dissertation award — $1,000 prize and trip to campus for a dinner and reception.
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Rhonda Brock-Servais will have an article published in a Palgrave McMillian casebook on The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe later this year. It’s titled, “The Author, the Movie, and the Marketing: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and Young Readers Adaptations.” It’s co-authored with Matt Prickett.
Rhonda has also been elected the Horror Division Head of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. The annual conference is in March, and she will choose all the essays for her division and arrange panels. Also, at that conference she will be doing a presentation about teaching the fantastic.
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Kristen Welch has the following forthcoming presentations:
“Rhetoric, Religion, and Authority: Pentecostal Holiness Women Preachers Speaking Truth.” Priscilla Papers. Autumn 2010 issue. (Peer Reviewed).
“Early Oklahoma Women Preachers of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church.” The Chronicles of Oklahoma. Accepted April 2010; publication date TBD. (Peer Reviewed)
“Legacy as Techne in the Rhetorics of Women Preachers.” Annual Papers for the Society for Pentecostal Studies, 2011.
“Teaching English in the Two Year College. 38.2 (December 2010): 190-195. (Peer Reviewed)(I was invited to write the response in this piece).
Kristen also has two upcoming presentations, including one invited, and she has been nominated for the Oklahoma Book Award by the Oklahoma Center for the Book. More information is available at the following link: http://www.odl.state.ok.us/ocb/
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Kat Tracy been offered a contract for her book manuscript Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature: Negotiations of National Identity from British publishers Boydell and Brewer.
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Robin Smith has been appointed to the Virginia State Literacy Team, which has been given the task of creating a K-16 literacy framework for the Commonwealth as part of a grant awarded to the VA Dept. of Education.
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Kelsey Scheitlin had a chapter published in Hurricanes and Climate Change, Volume 2, Editors: James B. Elsner, Robert E. Hodges, Jill C. Malmstadt, Kelsey N. Scheitlin. Her chapter is titled: A track-relative climatology of Eglin Air Force Base hurricanes in a variable climate.
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Ramesh Rao presented a paper, “Spirituality and Jiddu Krishnamurti’s philosophy of Transcending Human Capabilities,” at the annual National Communication Association conference in San Francisco, on November 14, 2010. Ramesh also had the following op-eds published – “India’s name in the mud, literally” (The Pioneer, New Delhi, 08/28/2010); “A bleak outlook, but so be it” (The Guardian, London, 09/06/2010); “Ayodhya is emblematic of Indian democracy” (The Guardian, London, 09/30/2010); “If I were Ravi’s father” (Indian Abroad, New York, 10/15/2010); “Déjà vu over Ayodhya” (The Pioneer, New Delhi, 10/16/2010); “Can we be equals?” (The Pioneer, New Delhi, 11/13/2010).Ramesh Rao also attended the experts meeting of the Uberoi Foundation, Denver, Colorado, in October 2010, and he secured a grant from the Uberoi Foundation ($7,500) that will be used to encourage scholarship and research focusing on the contribution of Indian religious traditions to human communication.
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English Professor Emeritus Michael Lund and Geoff Orth co-authored an article entitled “From the White House to Our House: The Story of an Honors College Vegetable Garden,” which appeared in the 2010 edition of Honors in Practice, v.6, pp. 177-87.
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Kelly Nelson presented at the Friends of Dard Hunter Conference, a national papermaking conference held at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. She presented “Solarplates”, a less toxic printmaking method that can be processed and printed as relief or intaglio. Two students, Amanda Haymans and Lindsay Decker, presented with Kelly. She also presented “I’ve Been Framed” at the Virginia Art Education Association state conference. The presentation encompassed archival matting and framing works on paper.
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Chris McGee contributed a chapter entitled “The Power of Secrets: Backwards Construction and The Children’s Detective Story” to the newly published collection Telling Children’s Stories: Narrative Theory and Children’s Literature, available from University of Nebraska Press.
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