Josh Compton presented a paper, “Image Restoration Strategies in Presidential Interregnum Rhetoric,” with his colleagues Liz Craig and David Mirfin from North Carolina State at the National Communication Association's annual convention in Chicago in November.
Josh Compton teaches Public Speaking and Persuasive Public Speaking.
Christiane Donahue, Director of the Institute for Writing and Rhetoric, was invited to coordinate the Council of Writing Program Administrators Research Initiative, a new initiative designed to foster research activity among WPAs.
Christiane Donahue teaches Writing 5.
David Ehrlich has had a busy fall. First he was featured in articles in The Valley News and The Dartmouth. Then, in honor of his retirement, his Film Studies 18 students and alumni collaborated on a surprise film, which was shown on December 3rd at the end of the 17th Annual Animation and Creative Arts Festival, held in the Loew Theater. (You can view it on the Dartmouth Animation Channel). The creative work of Ehrlich’s freshman seminar can also be viewed, on the Film Seven Website.
David Ehrlich teaches the first-year seminar, Representations of the Creative Artist in Film.
Marlene Heck was at the end of spring term awarded the Dean of Faculty Teaching Award for Adjunct Faculty and the Green Key Society Award for outstanding commitment to students and service to the Dartmouth community. At the end of fall term Heck was notified that she had once again been nominated for the Profiles in Excellence Award (which she was awarded in 2007).
Marlene Heck teaches Writing 5.
On January 16, Judith Hertog will graduate from Bennington College with an MFA in Creative Writing, with a focus on Creative Non-fiction.
Judith Hertog is the IWR’s ESL Specialist.
Julie Homchik has been busy this fall, and will continue to be busy after the first of the year. First, Homchik conducted field work at the Lost World Museum in Phoenix, NY; then, in November, she presented a paper on archives, museums, and the rhetoric of space at the National Communication Association conference in Chicago; she also accepted an invitation as guest reviewer for an article in Critical Studies in Communication; finally, she led a DCAL workshop on speaking about research for science graduate students and postdocs. This spring, she will have several articles and conference papers coming out: an article on the Hall of the Age of Man exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History, to be published in Science and Education (March 2010); a paper on the Lost World Museum, to present at the Libraries, Archives, and Museums division of the Popular Culture Association Conference in St. Louis (March 2010); and a paper on the Institute for Creation Research's Museum, to present at the Rhetoric Society of America in Minneapolis (May 2010).
Julie Homchik teaches Public Speaking, Argumentation in Speech and Writing, and Environmental Rhetoric.
Mara Sabinson recently returned from San Francisco, where she performed with the San Francisco Mime Troupe, America's oldest political theater company. The occasion was the company's 50th Anniversary Celebration. The play, an original version of A Christmas Carol entitled Ghosts—which Sabinson first performed in 1981 at the opening of the Moscone Center in San Francisco—was remounted for this special occassion at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Sabinson also contributed a series of photographs to the current show at the Yerba Buena Art Gallery. These photos were taken in the 1970's at a theatrical demonstration by the SFMT at a Board of Supervisors meeting, headed by California's current Senator, Diane Feinstein (who is a main character in the play). Finally, Sabinson has been invited to attend a Round Table Conference at Oxford University on Women Writers. She will be reading from her latest play, August Peacocks, about Mexican artists and revolutionaries of the 1930s.
Mara Sabinson teaches the first-year seminar, “Theater for Social Change.”
