Brock Ternes
Brock Ternes, Sociology/Anthropology Department, had an article published in the journal Sustainability. His manuscript, “Are Well Owners Unique Environmentalists? An Exploration of Rural Water Supply Infrastructure, Conservation Routines, and Moderation,” offers evidence that controlling for water supplies reveals differences across many associations between water conservation efforts and other pro-environmental behaviors with commonly studied demographic variables.
Christopher D. Gascón
Christopher D. Gascón, Modern Languages Department, had an article about a recent off-Broadway production in Spanish published in the journal Bulletin of the Comediantes (issue 69.1, 2017). The article, titled “Virués’s Theater of the Grotesque: Interrogating La gran Semíramis from Roman Chronicle to the New York Stage,” analyzes elements of the grotesque in the 1579 text by Cristóbal de Virués and in Diego Chiri’s 2015 production of the play at Repertorio Español in New York City. Integrating the perspectives of Kristeva, Bakhtin, and Foucault, the study concludes that Chiri uses the grotesque to reconcile contradictory elements of the work, and that Virués participates in the processes of distortion and degradation that have typified the production of the Semiramis myth, itself grotesque, throughout the centuries.
Kati Ahern
Kati Ahern, English Department, had a chapter titled “Recording Nonverbal Sounds: Cultivating Rhetorical Ambivalence in Digital Methods,” published in volume one of a WAC Clearinghouse book, Methods and Methodologies for Research in Digital Writing and Rhetoric.
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, had her paper titled “Tiaras, Tantrums and Toe Shoes: Reality Television Programs that Illuminate Stage Moms & Kiddie Fame” competitively selected for presentation at the January 2012 Annual Hawaiian International Conference on Arts & Humanities. Lawrence’s paper served as discussion for the new trend in reality television that exposes the contemporary version of the age-old stereotypical stage mom. Most of their daughters are filmed crying their way to Warhol’s prophetic “15 minutes of fame.” Exhausted, erratic and overexposed, these girls are often being pushed to perform as young as the age of 18 months. Lawrence focused on how this proliferation of shows reflects a preoccupation in our culture with celebrity at any cost and at any age.
Deborah Matheron
Deborah Matheron, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, presented her research on motor speech disorder in a platform paper presentation at the 19th Biennial Conference on Motor Speech: Motor Speech Disorders and Motor Speech Control on Feb. 24 in Savannah, Ga. Her paper, “Temporal differences in a quasi-speech task: A comparison of highly intelligible speakers with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and neurologically intact speakers,” was well received.
This is an international conference organized by Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital, one of the nation's foremost providers for medical and physical rehabilitation for adults and children. The conference focuses on injury or disease processes affecting neuromuscular control of speech such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, Parkinson’s disease, Multiple Sclerosis, stroke, and birth defects. Relevant topics included experimental studies of sensory or motor function in the pulmonary, laryngeal, velopharyngeal and orofacial systems of persons with motor speech disorders, diagnostic evaluation or treatment of disrupted intelligibility, speech naturalness, voice, articulation and prosody in motor speech disorders in children and adults, as well as advances in uses of neuroimaging to support treatment effect.
Robert Ponterio and Jean LeLoup
Robert Ponterio, Modern Languages Department, Jean LeLoup, International Communications and Culture emerita, and the U.S. Air Force Academy, and Mark Warford, Buffalo State, had their article published in the September issue of the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages The NECTFL Review. “Overcoming Resistance to 90% Target Language Use: Rationale, Challenges and Suggestions” examines the rationale and modalities for implementing policies at all teaching levels for teachers to use the language being taught as much as possible and at least 90 percent of the time. This practice, strongly recommended by American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, is supported by evidence that we acquire language primarily through interactive use.
Denise D. Knight
Denise D. Knight, English Department, has had her essay, “Assessing Class Participation: One Useful Strategy,” included in a new e-book titled Grading Strategies for the College Classroom: a Collection of Articles for Faculty, from Magna Publications. The book is available on Amazon.com.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was invited by Brown University to deliver a campus-wide book talk on March 9. She will discuss her new book Tongzhi Living: Same-Sex Attracted Men in Postsocialist China, published in 2015 by University of Minnesota Press.
Eric Edlund
Eric Edlund, Physics Department, presented a poster at the 2020 American Physical Society’s Division of Plasma Physics conference titled “Overview of measurements from the Wendelstein 7-X phase contrast imaging diagnostic and plans for the OP2 campaign.”
Tadayuki Suzuki
Tadayuki Suzuki, Literacy Department, had a blog article titled “Reading, Teaching, and Discussing LGBTQ+ Family Stories with Elementary Students” published by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) in September.