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Around the College
February 2008
News about awards and events from around the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Astronomy
Department of Astronomy Website
- A team from the Harvard-Smithsonian
Center for Astrophysics visited
the UF FLAMINGOS-2 team
for advice in building an MMIRS instrument for their observatories in
Arizona and Chile. They met with UF team members to see the nearly-completed
FLAMINGOS-2 instrument in the laboratory and learn some of the critical
solutions to making the UF-developed design they are cloning function.
(Above, from left to right): Brian McLeod, principal investigator from Harvard-Smithsonian; Jeff Julian, UF senior cryo-mechanical engineer; George Nystrom, Harvard-Smithsonian engineering manager; Nick Raines, UF instrument scientist; Steve Eikenberry, UF principal investigator for FLAMINGOS-2; and Ed Hertz, Harvard-Smithsonian mechanical engineer. - Senior-year undergraduate Tyler Desjardins has been awarded the Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Award from the American Astronomical Society for excellence in research. Of 160 competitors, only three awards were given to undergraduates.
- The work of doctoral student Valerie Mikles was featured on Astronomy.com, in a story titled “A Black Hole Named Edd.”
English
- Roger Beebe’s role in organizing FLEXfest 2008 was highlighted recently in a video on Gainesville Sun’s web site.
- Marsha Bryant’s essay “Displaced Artist Statements, Reluctant Artist-Researchers: Poet-Editors of Women’s Poetry Anthologies” appears in the Canadian journal Open Letter 13.4 (2007): 45–63. This special issue addresses artist statements and the nature of artistic inquiry.
- Melissa Davis has won a 2007–08 Superior Accomplishment Award. She will receive this award at a ceremony on Wednesday, February 13, at Emerson Alumni Hall.
- Pamela K. Gilbert’s new book Cholera and Nation: Doctoring the Social Body in Victorian England has been published by SUNY Press. Pamela Gilbert organized a panel, “The Body as Boundary in Victorian Culture and Medicine,” at the 2007 Modern Language Association Convention in Chicago, in which she presented “Victorian Skin: Sweating, Bathing, and the Imperial Body."
- Terry Harpold, Sidney Homan, and Barbara Mennel have been awarded CLAS Teaching Awards for the 2007–08 school year.
- Norm Holland’s essay “Psychoanalysis as Science” appears in the Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine 10 (2006): 21–23. This essay summarizes his longer online essay with the same title, PsyArt (2004). The summary and the online essay form the opening shots in a colloquy with Frederick Crews, whose response appears in the same journal (24–28), followed by second response by Holland (29–30), and a “Response to Holland and Crews” by psychiatrist Peter Barglow (31–35).
- Brandon Kershner’s chapter “Joyce, Music, and Popular Culture” appears in A Companion to Joyce Studies, ed. Richard Brown (Blackwell, 2008): 270–85.
- William Logan reviewed the English poet Geoffrey Hill on the front page of the January 20 edition of The New York Times Book Review; and two days later, in the arts section of The Times, there was a long piece drawing from his review, forthcoming in Parnassus, about the hundreds and perhaps thousands of errors in Robert Faggen’s edition of Robert Frost’s Notebooks.
- Judith Page has been awarded a Visiting Fellowship at the Chawton House Library, home to a collection of books and manuscripts by women writing in English from 1600–1830. While at Chawton this spring, she will be working on books pertaining to landscape and gardening. Judith Page’s review of Alyson Pendlebury’s Portraying ‘the Jew’ in First World War Britain appears in AJS Review 31 (November 2007): 427–30. Her review of Eitan Bar-Yosef’s The Holy Land in English Culture, 1799–1917: Palestine and the Question of Orientalism appears in Review of English Studies 57 (2006): 838–40. Conference proceedings for “Exile, Judaism and Literary Criticism: Erich Auerbach, the 50th Anniversary of His Death,” including Page’s introductory talk “Auerbach and Exile,” held at the University of Florida on October 24 have been published online at http://www.libretto.co.yu/.
- Dostoevsky’s Greatest Characters: a New Approach to Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, and The Brothers Karamazov by Bernard J. Paris, UF Emeritus Professor of English, has been published by Palgrave Macmillan.
- Mark A. Reid chaired the panel “Theorizing Adaptation: Intercultural Adaptation” at the 2007 Modern Language Association Convention.
- Phil Wegner presented two papers at the 2007 MLA Convention, “The Unfinished Project of the Dialectic or, Theory After 9/11,” and “Specters of Modernism: Conspiracy’s Deaths in Ubik and The X-Files.” He also served his final year on the Delegate Assembly as the South representative and is the 2008 chair for the Discussion Group on Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature, and will be responsible for organizing the group’s 2008 panel, “Storytelling in Fantastic Literatures.” His review essay on Bret Benjamin’s Invested Interests: Capital, Culture, and the World Bank and the Contemporary University appears in the latest issue of Politics and Culture.
- Peter Rudnytsky has been inducted as a new honorary member of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He is recognized by the association for his commitment to the advancement of psychoanalysis. In a press release, the association said, “The renown of his scholarship is best reflected in his being named editor-in-chief of the esteemed journal “American Imago.” Founded in 1939 by Sigmund Freud and Hans Sachs, “American Imago” has had only four previous editors in its legacy.
- Maureen Turim’s “The Interiority of Space: Desire and Maya Deren” appears in Avant-Garde Cinema, eds. Alexander Graf and Dietrich Scheunemann (Editions Rodopi, 2008): 155–65. Maureen Turim’s “Women’s Films: Comedy, Drama, Romance” appears in Chick Flicks: Contemporary Women at the Movies, eds. Suzanne Ferriss and Malory Young (Routlege, 2008): 26–40.
News of Current Students
- Ramona Caponegro’s review of Keith Knight and Mat Schwarzman’s Beginner’s Guide to Community-Based Art appears in Community Literacy Journal 2.1 (Fall 2007).
- Marlo David and Angelique Nixon were recently interviewed in a Gainesville Sun article profiling the Black Graduate Student Organization’s project to present monuments by Duval Elementary school students commemorating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
- Eric Doise presented “The Sadness of (Not) Seeing: Remembering the Holocaust in Everything Is Illuminated” at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Conference in Atlanta on November 9.
- Christopher Garland’s article about Cité Soleil, Haiti, “Where the Sun Never Shines,” recently appeared in the world section of the New Zealand Herald.
- Jaimy Mann chaired a panel at the 2007 Modern Language Association Convention titled “Japanese Kawaii (Cute) Children’s Culture, 1995–Now.”
- Cathlena Martin has accepted the position of Secretary for the 2008 South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Children’s Literature Discussion Circle.
- Lee Felice Pinkas’s poem “Constitution” and two co-translations, “Prayer on the Battlefield” and “In the Cup are my Portions,” appear in Witness XXI.
- Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar’s essay “Out From Behind the Unspeakable” will appear in Woman.Period., a forthcoming anthology edited by Julia Watts, Parneisha Jones, and Jo Ruby.
- Dan Brown’s “Chopping Wood: ‘Primitive’ Masculinity in Gauguin’s Man With an Axe, Matamoe and Noa Noa” appears in Nineteenth Century Gender Studies 3.3 (2007) .
- The Jane Austen Society of North America’s Gainesville chapter, whose president is Amy Robinson, was recently the focus of a Gainesville Sun article “Sundays with Jane Austen.”
Geology
- Paul Mueller and Ann Heatherington co-authored a paper with Mark G. Steltenpohl that was reported in Science Daily. The paper confirms that the Uchee is an “exotic” peri-Gondwanan arc terrane - not part of Laurentia as had previosuly been believed.
Physics
- Pierre Ramond has been named the 2007 recipient of the Lise Meitner Prize from the Fysikcentrum Göteborg group, a consortium comprised of the physics institutes of Chalmers University of Technology and Gothenburg University. He was presented the award on Jan. 25 for his groundbreaking discoveries in theoretical physics that led to the superstring theory. The prize is given to researchers who under difficult conditions succeed in making groundbreaking discoveries in physics.
Sociology
Department of Sociology Website
- William Marsiglio has been named a Fellow of the National Council on Family Relations. Nominated by his peers, he was selected for his history of outstanding contributions to the field of family studies.