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January 2008
Astronomy
- Professor Ata Sarajedini and graduate student Conor Mancone have been selected to be members of the LSST Stellar Populations Science Collaboration. The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is an 8.4-m telescope planned for construction within the next few years that will image the entire southern sky every two days. Professor Sarajedini and Mr Mancone will be involved in mapping the halo of the Milky Way Galaxy using variable stars. More info about the telescope can be found at http://www.lsst.org/lsst.
Chemistry
- Randolph Duran who was decorated as Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques this afternoon for the excellence of his research programs and the important contributions that he has made to France-American cooperation in science. Dr. Michel Israel, Scientific and Technological Counselor of the French Embassy in Washington, D.C., conferred the medal on Randy this afternoon at UF.
English
- On January 27, Roger Beebe appeared on NPR’s Morning Edition as part of a feature on the evolution of music video over the past two decades. The audio can be heard on NPR’s website. Since September 2007, he has continued to make and show films, with solo shows at Anthology Film Archives, Duke University, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, and elsewhere. His latest film, an 8-projector, 30-minute installation/performance called “Last Light from a Dying Star,” opened the MERGE VISUAL exhibition at the Museum of Arts & Science in Macon, Georgia in September 2008.
- At a special session of the 2008 Modern Language Association Covention titled “Disclaiming Shakespeare,” Richard Burt delivered a response “W., M.I.A., or How I Learned to Mis(s)read(ing) Shakespeare."
- Marsha Bryant’s essay “Graduate Mentoring: A Poetics” appears in the collection Cary Nelson and the Struggle for the University: Poetry, Politics, and the Profession, eds. Michael Rothberg and Peter K. Garrett (SUNY Press, 2009).
- Susan Hegeman presented “Culture, After All” at the 2008 Modern Language Association Convention. In October, at the Modernist Studies Association meeting in Nashville, she spoke on “The Speech of the People: Lardner and Middling American Modernism.“ “By Any Other Name,“ her response to Vincent Pecora's essay “Culture as Theater/ Culture as Belief” appears in Criticism 49.3/4.
- Sidney Homan’s A Fish in the Moonlight: Growing Up in the Bone Marrow Unit received an Honorable Mention in the annual New England Book Festival awards.
- David Leavitt’s The Indian Clerk has been named as a winner of Italy's Premio Grinzane-Cavour for foreign literature.
- Emerita Professor Marie Nelson’s “Time and J.R.R. Tolkien’s ’Riddles in the Dark’” appears in Mythlore 27.1/2, (Fall/Winter 2008): 67–82.
- Mark A. Reid presented “The Blues Idiom in John A. Williams’s Clifford’s Blues” and chaired the panel “Race, Sexuality, and Masculinity in John A. Williams’s The Man Who Cried I Am and Clifford’s Blues” at the 2008 Modern Language Association Convention in San Francisco.
- Malini Johar Schueller’s book Locating Race: Global Sites of Post-Colonial Citizenship has been published by SUNY press.
- Roger Thompson returned from delivering lectures in Hong Kong, Macau and Manila on December 13. He gave presentations and workshops at the Philippine Normal University (sponsored by the Linguistic Society of the Philippines) and at the University of Macau, on methods of investigating how pop culture is influenced by English in the local media. At the 14th Conference of the International Association of World Englishes held at City University of Hong Kong December 1–5 he presented “Populism in Pop Culture: English in a Filipino Sitcom.” At the First International Conference on Popular Culture and Education in Asia (held December 11–13 at the Hong Kong Institute of Education), he spoke on “Pop Culture in English Commercials: Hidden Messages for Filipinos.”
- Phillip Wegner presented two papers at the 2008 Modern Language Association Convention: “Joseph Conrad and the Dawn of the ‘Long Twentieth Century’,” for the Joseph Conrad Society session and “Alan Moore, ‘Secondary Literacy,‘ and the Modernism of the Graphic Novel,” for the Division on Popular Culture session. He also organized the panel “Storytelling in Contemporary Fantastic Literature,” chaired the meeting for the Discussion Group on Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature, and was re-elected to the Delegate Assembly.
- Beyond Douglass: New Perspectives on Early African-American Literature, co-edited by Ed White and Michael Drexler, has been published by Bucknell University Press. Ed White’s essay “Crevecoeur in Wyoming” recently appeared in Early American Literature, alongside a new translation of Crevecoeur’s “Forty-Nine Anecdotes.” His translation of “Origin of the Settlement at Socialburg” will appear in Early American Studies this winter.
