Liz Angeli (Department of English) is serving on the Patient and Family Advisory Council for Quality and Safety at MedStar Union Memorial and Good Samaritan Hospitals. As an advisor she’ll help MedStar improve quality and safety.
Jennifer Ballengee (Department of English) presented a paper, “Grexit Stage Right,” at the Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts Annual conference in New Orleans, October 15-16.
Sharon Becker (Department of English) read her paper, “Britpop, Cool Cymru, and the Politics of Rock and Nationhood,” at the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture conference on November 7 in Philadelphia.
Fran Botkin (Department of English) participated in the Applying Quality Matters Rubric on October 17 and received the certificate qualifying her to teach online.
Erin Fehskens (Department of English) presented a teaching session, “Men and Mermaids: Caribbean Contact Zones,” to high school seniors and other prospective TU students at the Open House on October 31.
Sarah Gunning’s (Department of English) article, “Proposal Writers’ Role in Creating and Managing Organizational Memory: Adding Value to the Grants Profession beyond Fundraising,” is in Journal of the Grant Professionals Association, 15.1 (2015): 95-109. Sarah also taught a model class, “Explaining Visual Data: Exercises in Infographics,” at the November 6 Open House.
Andrew Reiner’s (Department of English) essay, “One Man’s Beat,” was cited as a piece of notable travel writing by the 2015 Best Travel Writing anthology. The essay had run in The Washington Post Magazine on March 23.
Zosha Stuckey and Jonathan Vincent (Department of English) gathered the Leather Apron Club at the U Club, Marriott on October 21 to hear papers in the works by Erin Fehskens and Carol Quinn.
