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Faculty and Staff Kudos

Keith Jones (Career Center) completed the Management & Supervision Certificate, one of the noncredit certificates offered by the Office of Human Resources. This certificate is designed for those new to or interested in moving into a management role. Click this link to learn more about competency focus and certificate programs available to all faculty and staff.

 Trevor Kuntz (Office of Technology Services) completed the Leadership Certificate, one of the noncredit certificates offered by the Office of Human Resources. This certificate is designed for those new to or interested in moving into a leadership role. Click this link to learn more about competency focus and certificate programs available to all faculty and staff.

 Karen Mullaney (Auxiliary Services) completed the Workplace Professional Certificate, one of the noncredit certificates offered by the Office of Human Resources. This certificate is designed for developing the skills of our support staff. Click this link to learn more about competency focus and certificate programs available to all faculty and staff.

 Earline Rogers (Campus Recreation Services) completed the Workplace Professional Certificate, one of the noncredit certificates offered by the Office of Human Resources. This certificate is designed for developing the skills of our support staff. Click this link to learn more about competency focus and certificate programs available to all faculty and staff.

 Joseph Sabbat (Events & Conference Services) completed the Leadership Certificate, one of the noncredit certificates offered by the Office of Human Resources. This certificate is designed for those new to or interested in moving into a leadership role. Click this link to learn more about competency focus and certificate programs available to all faculty and staff.

Alan Britt’s (Department of English) book of poems, Violin Smoke, was translated into Hungarian, and twenty of his poems were translated into Spanish and appeared in Alianza: 5 U.S. Poets in Ecuador.  Both books saw print in September.

Chris Cain (Department of English) presented a paper, “Reading and the Anglo-Saxon Woman,” at the Jenny Jochens Celebration, “Women in the Viking Age,” on October 16.

Salvatore Pappalardo (Department of English) addressed the German Studies Association Conference in D.C. on October 2.  His subject was “Robert Musil and Bernard Bolzano: Writing the Non-National.”

Dana Phillips (Department of English) presented a paper, “Casual Cascades, Feedback Loops, Knock-On Effects, and Other Perils of Narrating Climate Change,” at the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Conference at the University of Idaho in June.  In July he gave the keynote address, “Collapse Resilience, Stability, and Sustainability in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAdam Trilogy” to the Association of University English Teachers of South Africa at Rhodes University.  And he guest-edited and wrote the introduction for a special issue of the journal Safundi on “Django Unchained and the Global Western” in September.

Carol Quinn (Department of English) reviewed V. Penelope Pelizzon’s Whose Flesh Is Flame, Whose Bone is Time? in Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing.

Diane Scharper (Department of English) reviewed three memoirs for The National Catholic Reporter: Bieke Vandekerckhove’s The Taste of Silence, Kevin Sessums’s I Left It on the Mountain, and Phillip Connors’s All the Wrong Places.  The reviews ran in NCRs fall book issue, October 9-22.