Susan Peterson and Lori Ellis
Susan Peterson, Modern Languages Department, and Lori Ellis, Art and Art History Department, collaborated on a writing project for NeoVox, SUNY Cortland’s online literary and new media design magazine. Students in Peterson’s Advanced Spanish Composition class viewed paintings done by students in Ellis’ 300-level painting class and chose one to critique in Spanish. Both the critiques and the artwork will be published in NeoVox this semester. The project encourages and supports both classes and individual student work. Photographs of the artwork were courtesy of Michael Bersani of the SUNY Cortland Public Relations Office.
Danica Savonick
Danica Savonick, English Department, delivered a keynote for Digital Humanities Week at Duke University on March 28. In her talk, “The Feminist Genealogies of Digital Pedagogy,” Savonick situated current conversations around digital pedagogy, public humanities and student writing within a genealogy of feminist and anti-racist aesthetics and activism. Video of the event is available here.
Kati Ahern
Kati Ahern, English Department in Professional Writing and Rhetoric, co-organized the second biannual Sound Studies, Rhetoric, and Writing (SSRW) conference with synchronous keynote speakers Oct. 2 and 3. The conference was themed around sound, place and increasing diversity within sound studies scholarship. Due to COVID-19 the conference was moved online.
Katie Ducett
Katie Ducett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, was a 2024 Faculty Grant Winner of Teach Access, a national non-profit disability advocacy organization dedicated to bridging the digital accessibility skills gap between education and industry. She is one of 25 recipients awarded a $2,000 grant to fund their work to incorporate teaching about accessibility into their existing courses. Grant recipients, in turn, contribute their teaching materials, such as lesson plans, assignments, tests and discussion prompts, to the free and open-access Teach Access Curriculum Repository, multiplying the impact of the grants. Teach Access offers free programs and resources help educators teach and students learn about the fundamentals of disability and accessibility.
Tracy Rammacher
Tracy Rammacher, Publications and Electronic Media, has been elected secretary of the SUNY Council for University Advancement's Board of Directors. She will serve a two-year term in this role.
Kathryn Kramer
Kathryn Kramer, Art and Art History Department, will have her critical review of the recent Shanghai Biennale art exhibition, “The Energizing Biennale,” published in the September/October issue of Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, received a Choice award for Outstanding Academic Title for his book After Queer Studies: Literature, Theory, and Sexuality in the 21st Century. He co-edited the book with E.L. McCallum from Michigan State and it was published in 2019 by Cambridge UP.
Alex Corbitt
Alex Corbitt, Literacy Department, had his article titled “Speculative F(r)ictions: A Youth Restorying Horror and Monstrosity” published in November in the Journal of Literacy Research.
Szilvia Kadas
Szilvia Kadas, Art and Art History Department, presented her talk titled “Encouraging Students to Design with Social and Environmental Responsibility” at the Popular Culture Association Conference on June 3.
Christina Knopf
Christina Knopf, Communication and Media Studies Department, presented at the Eastern Communication Association (ECA) conference held April 5 to 7 in Philadelphia. She presented a paper called “The Statue of Trumpery: Ironic Metaphor and the Visual ideograph,” which earned recognition as A Top Paper in Political Communication. She also participated in two roundtable discussions — “Invoking <Freedom>: Negative and Positive Freedom as Rhetorical Strategies in the Pandemic” and the “Scholars’ Roundtable: The State of U.S. Democracy in the Early 21st Century.” At the end of the conference, she became the new chair of the Rhetoric and Public Address interest group of ECA.