Liz Angeli (Department of English) presented “Responding to Public Health Crises: Collective Mindfulness, High Reliability, and User Experience” at the 2016 Symposium on Communicating Complete Information” in Greenville, NC, February 22-23. Her co-presenter was PRWR alum Christina Norwood.
Thomas Bechtold (Department of English) was featured and pictured in a story in The Baltimore Watchdog on February 21 under the headline, “TU professor turns to first love: the written word.”
Carl Behm (Department of English) read his paper, “’Rottenness,’ ‘Marsh Stagnancy,’ and ‘Beetles,’: D. H. Lawrence and Cambridge,” at the International D. H. Lawrence Conference in Paris on March 30.
Alan Britt’s (Department of English) “Ode to the Hudson” was published in a sequence of eight poems by Walt Whitman, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Erica Jong, and Emma Lazarus in International Gallerie’s handsome special edition, “New York, New York: A Confluence of Cultures,” 18.2 (2015).
Erin Fehskens (Department of English) presented “Taking the Tiger’s Point of View, or the Sloth’s Place and Displacement in Sol Plaatje Mahudi and Lauren Beuke’s Zoo City,” a seminar on “South Africa and Global Modernism” at Harvard on March 21.
Ted Hendricks (Department of English) presented his paper, “The Tragedy of Iago: The Status of Revolution in Shakespeare’s Othello,” at the annual Comparative Drama Conference in Baltimore on March 31.
Jacob Hovind (Department of English) presented his paper, “Alice Munro, Lorrie Moore, and the Legacy of the Modernist Epiphany,” at the annual Northeast MLA convention in Hartford, CT on March 18.
Jennifer Mott-Smith’s (Department of English) chapter, “Ideological English: A Theme for College Composition,” was published in Social Justice in English Language Teaching (TESOL International, 2016
Joel Slotkin (Department of English) read his paper, “Reading Muslim Identity in Othello and The Sophy,” at the annual conference of the Shakespeare Association of America in New Orleans on March 25.
Jane Neapolitan, Assistant Provost, (Office of Academic Innovation) has been elected to the Alumni Council of Teachers College, Columbia University in New York City. The Alumni Council helps to advance the goals of TC through awards and recognition, international outreach, and programs and resources. TC boasts more than 90,000 alumni worldwide.
