Faith Beasley just finished editing a volume, Options for Teaching Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Women Writers, to be published by the Modern Languages Association. The goal of the volume is to show colleagues how to integrate early modern French women writers into all courses in history, and literature in particular, instead of simply adding them because "we need to include a woman." Beasley has also been invited to give the Robert Nicolich Memorial Lecture at Catholic University in November, where she will speak about the relationship between France and India in the seventeenth century (the focus of her current book project). Beasley is a Professor of French and Italian. This fall, she will teach the first-year seminar, Writing India, for Women and Gender Studies.
Sara Chaney has just had her paper, "Empathy, Audience, and the Performative Rhetoric of Autism," accepted to the Conference on College Composition and Communication, which will be held next March in Louisville, Kentucky. The paper will be part of a panel entitled, "Autism and Audience: Autism Remixes the Rhetorical Triangle." Chaney is the Assistant Director of Program Development for the Institute for Writing and Rhetoric. She teaches Writing 2-3 and will teach a first-year seminar for the Institute this spring.
Richard Crocker has contributed a chapter, "Faith in College," to The Power to Comprehend: The Formation and Practice of a Pastor-theologian, edited by Wallace M. Alston, Jr. and Cynthia A. Jarvis. The book was published by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company in September 2009. Richard Crocker is Dean of the William Jewett Tucker Foundation. He teaches a section of Writing 5.
Christiane Donahue will have two roles in this year's Conference on Composition and Communication. First, she will present her paper, “Internationalization and Composition Studies: Re-orienting the Discourse," a presentation that will argue that the "internationalization" label merits careful study if compositionists are to enter into real dialogue with colleagues around the world. She will also lead the workshop, "CCCC Unwritten and Rewritten: Spaces for International Dialogue about Higher Education Writing Research," an opportunity for exchange among international research colleagues designed to enable deep dialogue and learning across cultures. Donahue is Director of the Institute for Writing and Rhetoric. She is teaching a Writing 5 this fall.
David Erlich has had, and will continue to have, a very busy few months. In May, Ehrlich's 2008 animation, Line Dance, was awarded the prize for Excellence in Experimental Technique at the ASIFA-East Animation Festival in New York City. In June, the Kecskemet Animation Festival in Hungary had a retrospective screening of the animated films done by children in workshops Ehrlich has given around the world. In July, Ehrlich had a retrospective screening of his own animation at the ANIMATOR 2009 Festival in Poznan, Poland. He accompanied two of his latest films with a live piano performance. In September he will serve on the Jury of the Jilin Animation Festival in China. Erlich is a Professor of Film Studies. This fall, he will teach the first-year seminar, Representations of the Creative Artist in Film.
Karen Gocsik's short animated film, From the 104th Floor, has been included in a competition/screening held by the Festival International Très Courts in Seoul, Korea, this September. This unique festival screens films simultaneously at more than 40 cities in France and in an additional 30 cities globally. Gocsik produced the short film, which was based on a poem written by her daughter, Leda Rodis, and directed by Russian Director Serguei Bassine. The film debuted in 2003 on the Showtime Network and at the Sundance Film Festival, winning an honorable mention there. Gocsik teaches Writing 2-3 as well as the upper level courses Writing with Media and Composition Theory and Practice for the Institute of Writing and Rhetoric.
Gary Lenhart's new book, Another Look: Selected Essays and Review, will be released by Subpress this November. Lenhart teaches Writing 2-3 as well as Creative Writing courses for the English Department.
Sam Levey is currently at work on a project as co-editor and translator, with Massimo Mugnai (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), entitled Leibniz: Logical Papers, a parallel Latin and English edition for the Yale Leibniz Series. He will be giving talks at the workshop on "Intersections between Mathematics and Philosophy in the thought of Leibniz" in Paris, March 2010, and at the 5th Margaret Dauler Wilson Memorial Conference in Early Modern Philosophy, in Boulder, Colorado, in June 2010. His forthcoming and recent articles include: "Dans les corps il n'y a point de figure parfaite: Leibniz on Time, Change and Corporeal Substance" in Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy 5 (forthcoming in 2009); "Archimedes, Infinitesimals and the Law of Continuity: On Leibniz's Fictionalism," in Infinitesimal Differences: Controversies Between Leibniz and his Contemporaries (2008); and "Why Simples? A Reply to Donald Rutherford" in The Leibniz Review 18 (2008). Levey is an Associate Professor of Philosophy. He is teaching a first-year seminar, Life, Death and Meaning. And Movies, this fall.
Kevin McCarthy was this summer awarded a major grant for his work as a filmmaker from the Chairman's Discretionary Fund of the National Endowment for the Arts. McCarthy teaches Writing 5.
Jennifer Sargent will be teaching her annual Evidence class to new judges at the National Judicial College in Reno, Nevada, from October 12-15. Sargent, a New Hampshire judge, teaches Writing 2-3 and Writing 5, as well as the upper-level course, The Written Judicial Opinion, for the Institute of Writing and Rhetoric.
George Trumbull's book, An Empire of Facts: Colonial Power, Cultural Knowledge and Islam in Algeria, 1870–1914, will appear in November as part of Cambridge University Press's Critical Perspectives on Empire series. Trumbull is an Assistant Professor of History. This fall, he will teach a first year seminar, Pirates and Piracy in Global Historical Perspective.
