Carol Costell Corbin
Carol Costell Corbin, Advisement and Transition, presented a concurrent session at the National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students annual conference held Feb. 4-6 in Atlanta, Ga. Her presentation was titled “Transfer Credit Services that Support Completion for all Students.”
John C. Hartsock
John C. Hartsock, Communication Studies Department, was invited to give a lecture on June 21 to the doctoral program in human sciences at the University of Perugia on the relationship between literary journalism and ethnography. The University of Perugia is located in Perugia, Italy and is one of Italy’s oldest universities, founded in 1308. The invitation came about because Hartsock has been teaching a study abroad course at the Umbra Institute in Perugia for the last three summer sessions.
Kevin B. Sheets
Kevin B. Sheets, History Department, had an article, “Talking Toward Success: In the World of the 19th Century, Social Climbers Used Conversation to Scale the Ladder,” published in the Fall 2022 issue of Forum, the quarterly magazine of Phi Kappa Phi.
Kristine Newhall
Kristine Newhall, Kinesiology Department, presented at the annual meeting of the North American Society for Sport History in May in Washington, D.C. Her talk “Who is a women’s sports advocate?” focused on the life and activism of Dr. Jean Grossholtz of Mt. Holyoke College.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was invited by Reed College in Oregon to deliver a campus-wide book talk on her book Tongzhi Living: Men Attracted to Men in Postsocialist China and to teach a class on her book Red Lights on Nov. 15.
Thomas Hischak
Thomas Hischak, professor emeritus of theatre, has had two books published recently: the anthology Plays of the American Experience: 25 Scenes for the Classroom and Stage (Meriwether Publishing) and The Woody Allen Encyclopedia (Rowman & Littlefield).
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, recently learned that her poem “Three’s A Crowd” was accepted for publication in the upcoming anthology Hay(na)ku 15, edited by Eileen R. Tabios and forthcoming from Meritage Press.
Denise D. Knight
Denise D. Knight, professor emerita of English, has been informed that her article, “A `solitary song’: Identity, Agency, and Motherhood in Wharton’s Summer,” has been accepted for publication in American Literary Realism.
Fran Elia
Fran Elia, Sports Information Office, along with the Georgetown University sports information director, co-moderated the “Town Hall” panel at the annual Eastern College Athletic Conference-Sports Information Directors Association (ECAC-SIDA) workshop June 26 in Troy, N.Y.
John C. Hartsock
John C. Hartsock, Communication and Media Studies Department, recently had one of his books translated and published in Mandarin Chinese. A History of American Literary Journalism: The Emergence of a Modern Narrative Form has been published by Fudan University Press in Shanghai. The translation was released in the U.S. at the 14th Conference of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies held earlier this month at Stony Brook University. It was translated by Li Mei, professor of journalism at South China University of Technology in Guangzhou, China. It was originally published in 2000 by the University of Massachusetts Press and is still in print. In 2001 it was honored with the Best History Award of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication for its publication year, and the similar award of the American Journalism Historians Association. It was also published in Romanian in 2015.
In related news, the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies awarded the third “John C. Hartsock Award for Best Article” published in Literary Journalism Studies to Lindsay Morton of Avondale College in Macquarie, Australia for her article "The Role of Imagination in Literary Journalism." This was for 2018 publication and was the third year for the international award, with previous recipients from South Africa and the United Kingdom. The award was founded by the association to honor Hartsock as the founding editor of the journal during its first five years of publication. This year the journal celebrated its tenth year of publication.