Awards and events from around the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for September 2008.
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September 2008
News about awards and events from around the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Communication Sciences and Disorders
Communication Sciences and Disorders Website
Jimmy Harnsberger has been giving talks and workshops exploring the area of speech perception and speech forensics:
- “Exploring the consequences of the aging process on the articulation and perception of speech.”, invited speaker at the Workshop on Vocal Aging Explained by Vocal Tract Modeling, John Hopkins University.
- Testimony at Pentagon, before permanent Department of Defense staff and House of Representatives staffer William Natter, representing Rep. Ike Skelton (D - Missouri) of the House Armed Services committee concerning my research with Professor Harry Hollien on voice stress analyzers.
- Defense Academy for Credibility Assessment (DACA) Workshop on Emerging Technologies in Credibility Assessment.
English
- Pamela Gilbert recently completed four conference presentations in August and September. She spoke at two conferences on Ouida: “Ouida: The Reluctant Pilgrim” in Bagni di Luca, and the “Ouida Centenary Conference,” for which she was a keynote speaker. She also presented papers on the history of the skin and blushing at the British Association for Victorian Studies in Leicester and at the “Bodies and Things” conference in Oxford.
- Andrew Gordon delivered the keynote address, “Alternate Jewish History: Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America and Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union,” at the American Literature Association Conference on Jewish-American Literature in Salt Lake City.
- Andrew Gordon and Norman Holland organized the 25th annual International Conference on Literature and Psychology, held July 2–6 at the Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada in Lisbon, Portugal. Also attending from the University of Florida was Luis Alvarez-Castro, Romance Languages, who spoke on “The Role of the Reader in Unamuno’s Metafictions.” Gordon spoke on “Time and Waste in Malamud’s The Assistant.” A conference highlight was the closing panel on “Norman Holland and Psychoanalytic Theory,” a tribute to his long career and lasting influence on the field.
- Terry
Harpold’s essay “Screw the Grue: Mediality,
Metalepsis, Recapture” appears in Playing
the Past: History and Nostalgia in Video Games, eds. Zach Whalen and Laurie N. Taylor (Vanderbilt
University Press, 2008). 91–108.
Terry Harpold’s essay “Jules Verne’s Early Poetry [Jules Vernes vroege poëzie]” appears in “Jeugdherinneringen” en anderen texten [“Memories of Childhood and Youth” and Other Texts], ed. Garmt de Vries-Uiterweerd, trans. Hein Wernik and Garmt de Vries-Uiterweerd (Dordrecht: Jules Verne Genootschap, 2008), 29–33. - Sidney Homan reviews Scott Newstok’s Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare in South Atlantic Bulletin 72.4 (Fall 2007): 151–56.
- Judith Page presented “Grace Aguilar’s Victorian Romanticism” at the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism in Toronto, in a special session on “New Directions in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Jewish Writing.”
- Mark A. Reid chaired the “Wright and Paris” panel and presented “Richard Wright, Paris, and a PostNegritude Interrogation: Immigration, Homeless Lands, and Borderless Crossings” at the Celebrating 100 Years of Richard Wright: International Centennial Conference at the American University of Paris. Reid’s memorial to the deceased African American documentary filmmaker St. Clair Bourne appears in the journal Black Camera 22:2/23:1 (Spring 2008): 96–97. He has been appointed to the Editorial Board of the film journal Screening Noir.
- Malini Johar Schueller’s essay “Orientalizing American Studies” appears in American Quarterly 60.2 (June 2008): 481–89.
- Jodi Schorb has been named an Andrew W. Mellon 2008–2009 Research Fellow by the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania for her project, “Incomplete Sentences: The Role of Literacy in Pennsylvania Prison Reform, 1787–1850.” This summer, her essay “Seeing Other-Wise: Reading a Pequot Execution Narrative” and edited MS of “The Confession and Dying Warning of Katherine Garret” were published in Early Native Literacies in New England: A Documentary and Critical Anthology, eds. Kristina Bross and Hilary Wyss (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008).
- The poetry of the fifteenth issue of Two Lines: World Literature in Translation, titled “Strange Harbors,” was edited by Sidney Wade. Over the summer, she read and conducted a workshop at Rutgers/Camden’s Summer Literary Seminars, read from her new book, Stroke, in Kadir Has University’s Culture and the Arts Series (Istanbul), and read Turkish poetry in translation and conducted a Translation Workshop with the Center for the Art of Translation in San Francisco.
Physics
- Professor Andrey Korytov has been approved by the CMS Collaboration Board as the new Convener (leader) of the CMS Higgs Physics group. The CMS Collaboration Board is the body which approves all the important decisions in CMS, it consists from representatives of all the CMS Institutions (~140). In this capacity, Korytov will coordinate for the next two years (2009 and 2010), all the CMS work related to the Higgs searches.
- Assistant Professor Heather Ray was elected to be a representative of the 2008/2009 Users Executive Committee, a group of people who are the go between for users and management of Fermilab. This is a 2 year position.
- The Government of India, through the Department of Science and Technology, has awarded Dr. Sudarshan Ananth the prestigious Ramanujan Fellowship for the period of 2008-2013. Dr. Ananth is an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) in Pune, India. He works in theoretical particle physics. Sudarshan came to UF in the Fall of 2000 on an Alumni Fellowship. He worked on supersymmetric quantum field theories under the guidance of Professor Pierre Ramond, Distinguished Professor of Physics. After graduating from UF, Sudarshan worked as a Junior Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) for two years before moving back to India.
