Around the College
Originally published in the January 1999 issue of CLASnotes.
Department News
Classics
- Lewis Sussman gave a guest lecture in November at Florida State University on "Roman Aqueducts and Public Health." The event was the second this year in a new program of exchange lectures between the two Classics programs.
Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Geralyn Schulz gave a workshop on December 11 to the Georgia Speech, Language and Hearing Association entitled: "Adult Neurogenic Speech Disorders: Research and Treatment Programs" held in Atlanta, Georgia.
English
- Brandon Kershner has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the International James Joyce Foundation for a six-year term. He will be one of nine North American scholars on the board.
- William Logan's Vain Empires and Padgett Powell's Aliens of Affection were both listed as Notable Books of the Year in the New York Times Book Review.
- Mark A. Reid has been appointed to the Editorial Advisory Board of The African American Almanac, 8th Edition (Gale Research). During July, Reid will co-direct "Black Film Studies: Integrating African American Cinema into the Arts and Humanities Curriculum," a 1999 NEH Summer Institute for College and University Teachers (University of Central Florida).
History
- Bertram Wyatt-Brown, presented papers at the Tucker Society, the IPSA Conference in St. Petersburg, the Southern Historical Association, and Wofford College, Spartanburg, this spring, summer and fall on Edgar Allen Poe, Twentieth-Century Southern Writers and the traumas of Confederate defeat. He was selected to be Vice-President, 1999-2000, and President, 2000-2001, of the Southern Historical Association. On sabbatical leave, he is currently the Henry Luce Foundation Fellow at the National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
Linguistics
- Anne Wyatt-Brown gave a paper at the IPSA Conference, St. Petersburg on novelist Henry Roth, and two papers in November at the Philadelphia meeting of the Gerontological Society of America: "Critical Gerontology, Post-Modernism, and Literature," and "The Ethics of Autobiography." On sabbatical leave, she is Research Scholar at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Romance Languages and Literatures
- Bernadette Callier was invited this fall to chair a session on the Martiniquan Novel at an International Conference on Caribbean Literatures (The College of the Bahamas, Nassau—Purdue University Calumet, Indiana, Morehouse College-Atlanta, Georgia). She was also invited to participate in an international conference on Edouard Glissant in New York (Dec 3-4) organized by L'Association Francophone de City University of New York, the PhD Program in French at CUNY, and the French Embassy (Cultural Services). She chaired a panel and read excerpts from Glissant's work in a special session.
Sociology
- At the invitation of the Department of Sociology and Social Psychology, Tampere University, Finland, Jay Gubrium conducted a day-long workshop on empirical studies at the intersection of culture, narrative and social interaction.
CLAS Awards
Bob Zieger (History) was awarded a special recognition plaque by the North Central Florida Central Labor Council at the Council's annual dinner on December 14. Recognition was extended for his work in a variety of labor-oriented community-university projects this past year and for being "a force in the struggle for social justice."
As part of the Fatherhood Data Team of the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, Bill Marsiglio (Sociology) recently received the Hammer Award given by Vice President Gore's National Performance Review to those who best serve the cause of reinventing government.
CLAS Holiday Party
Held in New Faculty Center
On December 9, CLAS held its annual Holiday party in the recently opened Keene Faculty Center. The gathering was the first official College-wide event in the new facility. A trombone quartet serenaded guests from the balcony.
TIP and PEP Awards
The 1998 legislature appropriated to the State University System $2,100,000 for the Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) and $2,100,000 for the Professional Excellence Program (PEP). Each award provides recipients with a $5,000 increase in base salary rate, whether on a nine- or twelve-month appointment, retroactive to the beginning of the recipients' 1998-99 employment contracts. Twenty-eight CLAS faculty members received PEPs while 50 received TIPs.
