Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, presented a paper titled “The Queerness of Creativity: Aesthetic Object-Relations in Eve Sedgwick and Alison Bechdel” at the 2016 American Comparative Literature Association’s annual meeting on March 18 at Harvard University. Also, he co-chaired and organized a seminar titled “Are We Queer Yet?” Also, in January, Bradway presented a paper titled "Bad Writing: Queer Experimentalism at the Limits of the LGBT Canon" at the 2016 Modern Language Association Convention in Austin, Texas.
Garrett Otto
Garrett Otto, Mathematics Department, recently had his article "Allee effects introduced by density dependent phenology" published in Mathematical Biosciences.
Jacob Wright
Jacob Wright, Career Services, received the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award for Individual Excellence at the annual SUNY Career Development Organization (SUNYCDO) conference held June 13 in Suffern, N.Y. Recognized for his outstanding performance and significant contribution to the career services field, the career coach and educator served as vice chair of the DEI Committee and the Conference Program Committee for SUNYCDO during the 2023-24 academic year.
Thomas S. Hischak
Thomas S. Hischak, Performing Arts Department, has signed a contract with McFarland Publishers to write the nonfiction book American Literature on Stage and Screen about 19th and 20th century American fiction that has been adapted for the theatre, film and television. McFarland recently released Hischak’s Disney Voice Actors: A Biographical Dictionary about all performers who did voices for every Disney animated short and feature film from “Steamboat Willie” (1928) to “Tangled” (2010).
Christopher Xenakis
Christopher Xenakis, Political Science Department, is the author of a new book, World Politics and the American Quest for Super-Villains, Demons, and Bad Guys to Destroy. The 593-page text is published by Cognella Academic Publishing, with a 2014 copyright.
Diane Craft
Diane Craft, Physical Education Department, was an invited presenter at the China Research Center on Sports for Persons with Disabilities Forum at the Beijing Sports University. She gave two lectures on inclusive physical activities with young children with disabilities on Oct. 28 and 29.
Samuel Avery
Samuel Avery, Communication Studies Department, recently had his film, “Glimpse,” accepted into the 2016 Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival. Watch Film.
Denise D. Knight
Denise D. Knight, English Department, gave an invited talk on “The Marriage of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Charles Walter Stetson” in January at the Providence Art Club in Providence, R.I. Former SUNY Cortland President Judson Taylor and his wife, Elise, attended the talk.
Seth N. Asumah
Seth N. Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, was conference co-chair with Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo, University of Ghana, for the 2017 Biennial Conference of the African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA) from Oct. 12 to 14 at the University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana. The ASAA Conference theme was “African Studies and Global Politics.” Asumah was also one of the keynote speakers for this conference and he spoke about his research on “Africa: Rethinking Democratic Consolidation and Development.” Professor Jacob Gordon, University of Kansas; Dr. Wangui Wa Goro, African Development Bank; rofessor Jean Allman, Washington University; Dr. Yao Graham, Third World Network-Africa; and Professor Takyiwaa Manuh, UN Economic Commission for Africa, were also plenary keynote speakers at the conference. Also, SUNY Cortland Africanists Ibipo Johnston Anumonwo, Geography Department, and Bekeh Utietiang, History Department, presented papers at the ASAA Conference in the concurrent session, “African Migrations: National Security and the Politics of Representing the Movements of Persons.” Organizations such as the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and the Association of African Universities (AAU) presented their position papers on higher in Africa and the African Diaspora. Africanists, Africologists and African enthusiasts from the African continent, United States, the Caribbean and Europe, participated in this international conference.
Nancy Kane
Nancy Kane, Performing Arts Department, choreographed the musical, “1776,” performed Nov. 2-6 in Ithaca, N.Y., under the direction of John Hertzler.