College of Liberal Arts
Matthew Durington, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of International Studies, was interviewed on the BBC and has an op-ed published in the Baltimore Sun regarding fear culture in South Africa and the Oscar Pistorius impending trial. His op-ed can be found here
Fran Botkin’s article “Revising the Colonial Caribbean: Three-Fingered Jack and the Jamaican Pantomime,” is in Callaloo 35.2 (2012).
Jack Carneal has a speaking and drumming part with the lead actor in I Used to be Darker, a movie filmed in Baltimore and screened at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah to which Jack was flown by the producers. The movie has been picked up by Monterey Media, and international TV rights have been bought by the Sundance Channel.
George Hahn has an article, “The Campus Trials of Mencken’s Satire,” in Menckeniana, No. 203 (Fall 2012), derived from his address to the Mencken Society. Another article, “Sending the Term Paper Back into the Game,” appears in The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 24, 2013.
Lana Portolano’s article, “Sign of God: What Catholics can learn from deafness” is in the January 7-14, 2013 number of America.
Diane Scharper reviewed Colm Toibin’s novel, The Testament of Mary, in the same issue of America that Lana Portolano’s article appeared in.
Bob Valasek’s essay Dark Chaucer: An Assortment, was published by Punctum Books. The chapter’s title is “The Light Has Lifted: Pandere Trickster.”
Jonathan Vincent’s chapter, “Women in War,” was recently published in The Cambridge History of American Women’s Writing. Jonathan also read a paper in November at the American Studies Association’s general meeting in San Juan, P.R. The paper’s title is “Inventing Preparedness: Touring U.S. Occupied Cuba, Domestic Social Reform, and the Culture of American Militarization.”
Andrew Diemer, History, presented a paper, “William Still and the Above Ground Politics of the Underground Railroad,” at Interpreting Black Politics: The Seventh Annual New Perspectives on African American History and Culture Conference, University of North Carolina, February 15-16. He was awarded the Best Paper Prize.
Alan Britt, English, participated in a poetry reading as part of the We Are You Project event at the Maysles Cinema in Harlem, NYC on February 23. The We Are You Project is a Latino art and culture iniative, aimed at fostering equal respect and opportunity for Latino culture in the US. The reading was filmed and is available on the We Are You Project website.
Andrew Reiner, English, was a Guest Speaker at Vanier College’s Humanities Symposium on February 6. Vanier is located in Montreal. The topic of his talk was “Unholy Text: The Case for a Texting & Social Media Sabbath.” The talk was based on an essay he had published in the Chronicle of Higher Education and on the talk he gave at TedX Towson last spring.
College of Health Professions
Dr. Andrea Boucher, Professor, Department of Kinesiology, Physical Education Teacher Education, received the EDA Achievement Award from the Eastern District of the American Alliance of Health, Physical Education, Recreation & Dance. The presentation was made February 22 at the Convention held in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
