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Honors, Presentations & Publications
Mara published a chapter in "The Language and Style of Steampunk"
Andrew Mara, associate professor of English, had a chapter entitled, "Steampunk's Identity Horizon and Contested Memory" published in University Press of Mississippi's recent book, Clockwork Rhetoric: The Language and Style of Steampunk
Birmingham contributed to an "NEA" project
Betsy Birmingham, professor of English, contributed an article and expertise to an NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) funded project titled Making a Place for Women. This digital archive chronicles the contributions of women to architectural practice, and includes film, historical photographs, sound files, and links to archival resources in addition to biographical material on hundreds of women architects. The project will go live in early 2015.
Amy Rupiper Taggart to present in Malmo, Sweden
Professor Amy Rupiper Taggart will present "When Feedback Goes Right: Understanding Positive Student Experiences of Instructional Comments" at the International Writing Studies Colloquium in Malmo, Sweden. Nov. 2014.
Brooks and Birmingham have article published
Kevin Brooks and Betsy Birmingham, professors of English, have a collaborative article in press. "Marshall McLuhan in an Age of Labels: The Descriptive Value of Antimodernism" in Finding McLuhan: The Mind, The Man, The Message will be out in early spring 2015.
Graham-Bertolini discusses Cohen's new book with the Forum
Alison Graham-Bertolini spoke with Meredith Holt of the Forum about Aimee Cohen's new book, Woman UP! Overcome the 7 Deadly Sins That Sabotage Your Success: www.inforum.com/content/women-becoming-more-aware-tendency-over-apologize.
Verzella, Tommaso published in "Changing English"
Massimo Verzella published an article on international collaboration with Laura Tommaso in the international journal Changing English (Routledge).
Brooks Named UND's Spring Visiting Fellow
Kevin Brooks was the spring Visiting Fellow at UND's Center for Human Rights and Genocide Studies, March 4-6. He screened African Soul, American Heart, a documentary he co-wrote and co-produced in 2008, gave a lecture entitled "How To Build a Country from Scratch: Three Examples from South Sudan," and participated in a panel discussion: "The Role of the University in Refugee Resettlement."
Theile Co-Edits Superstition Book
Dr. Verena Theile, NDSU Assistant Professor of Early Modern Literature, is co-editor of Staging the Superstitions of Early Modern Europe. A collection of literary and historical essays on superstitions in performance and early modern drama, the book will be released by Ashgate Publishing in February 2013. Theile co-authored the introduction. Her own, single-authored essay, "Early Modern Engagements with Fear, Witchcraft, the Devil, and that Damned Dr. Faustus" is featured in "Part 1: Early Modern Superstitions: Religion, Reformation, and the History of Fear."
Sassi Publishes Pedagogical Research
Dr. Kelly Sassi's research, "A Review of the Literature on Pedagogical Approaches to Native American/American Indian Literatures," was published in Applied Social Sciences: Education Sciences by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, January 2013. Her research addresses the achievement gap between Native American/American Indian students and majority White students in the United States and teaching strategies to diminish the gap. Sassi is an assistant professor at NDSU with a joint appointment in English and education.
Birmingham Initiates Grant for Muslim Journeys Bookshelf
Thanks to the collaborative effort of North Dakota State University's College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Fargo-Moorhead's Center for Interfaith Project, and the Fargo Public Library, NDSU Libraries and the Fargo Public Libraries have been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Muslim Journeys Bookshelf. This collection of books, films, and other resources will introduce the complex history and culture of Muslims in the United States and around the world. The libraries are two of only 842 public, academic, and community college libraries across the country selected to receive this grant. Each library will receive 25 books, three films, and access for one year to Oxford Islamic Studies Online. These bookshelf items will be available to the public starting March 1. A complete listing of materials included in the grant can be found on the Fargo Public Library's website, www.fargolibrary.org. For information on the award or related events, contact Betsy Birmingham, Associate Dean, Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Sassi Publishes Article in "Urban Education"
Dr. Kelly Sassi and Amy Carpenter Ford, coauthored the article, "Authority in Cross-Racial Teaching and Learning: (Re)considering the Transferability of Warm Demander Approaches." Their article compares a White teacher's approach to authority with that of an African American warm demander. Ethnographic methods and discourse analysis illuminated how an African American teacher grounded her authority with African American students in shared culture, history, and frame of reference. A comparative analysis makes visible what White teachers need to do differently to establish cross-racial authority with African American students, such as prioritize interpersonal relationships, communicate in culturally congruent ways, link care with justice, develop a critical race consciousness, ally with students, and critique curriculum. The article offers a reconceptualization of the warm demander relevant for White teachers. The article was published in Urban Education, December 2012.
Sassi is an assistant professor at NDSU with a joint appointment in the School of Education and the Department of English.
Sassi Publishes Book Review
Dr. Kelly Sassi's book review of Beloved Child: A Dakota Way of Life was published in the Winter 2012 issue of Tribal College Journal. The author, Diane Wilson, explores the meaning of the Dakota "hunka," or beloved child ceremony, as a counterpoint to historical trauma. One of the stories in the book is that of NDSU professor, Dr. Clifford Canku. The book was published in 2011 by Borealis Books.
Totten Publishes Two Articles on Wharton
Gary Totten, Associate Professor, English, has published two articles on the American novelist, Edith Wharton. His essay, "'Inhospitable Splendour': Spectacles of Consumer Culture and Race in Wharton's Summer" was published in the journal Twentieth Century Literature 58.1 (2012): 1-30. In the article, Totten examines how early-twentieth century consumer practices and attitudes toward race and gender influence Wharton's depiction of the novel's female protagonist. In his book chapter, "Selling Wharton," in Edith Wharton in Context (ed. Laura Rattray, Cambridge University Press, 2012), Totten examines Wharton's relationship to book publishing and marketing throughout her career.
Sassi & Laughlin Attend NTCE Conference
Kelly Sassi presented a paper at the National Council for Teachers of English Annual Conference, November 18-20 with NDSU doctoral student M.K. Laughlin and Sitting Bull College instructors, Carla Gerriets, Chad Harrison, and Lorie Hach. The presentation was titled, "Collaborating to Strengthen the Common Core Standards in Writing: Standing Rock Reservation Secondary and College Instructors Assess Writing Together." Heather Bruce, director of the Montana Writing Project and Professor at the University of Montana, chaired the panel. The well attended session reported research and reflection on collaborative writing assessment between middle, secondary, and college instructors on an Indian reservation hoping to improve the high school to college transition for Native American students. Presenters suggested ways of supplementing the Common Core Standards to better meet the writing needs of college-bound students. The work at Sitting Bull College was supported by a grant from the Lilly foundation. The group's work is being published in the Winter 2013 issue of Tribal College Journal.
Cameron Earns Doctorate
On November 15, 2012 English lecturer Kelly Cameron successfully defended her dissertation, "Imperial Rhetorics: Frances Power Cobbe's Answering of the Irish Question in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press" at Texas Christian University, where she received her Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition along with a graduate certificate in Women's Studies. Congratulations Dr. Cameron!
Sassi Awarded ND Humanities Council Grant
Dr. Kelly Sassi has been awarded a grant from the North Dakota Humanities Council for her proposal titled, "Reading Literature/Viewing Art: Moby-Dick, Ahab's Wife, and the paintings of T.L. Solien." The grant will make it possible to bring award-winning author Sena Jeter Naslund to Fargo to read from her best-selling novel Ahab's Wife, or The Stargazer during the Plains Art Museum's exhibit of paintings by T.L. Solien in fall 2013. The paintings are inspired by Naslund's novel and also by Melville's Moby-Dick. Tim Peterson, Associate Dean of the College of Business, will host the reading at Barry Hall. Concurrent with the exhibit and reading, Fargo Public Library is holding a "community read" of the two novels and Fargo Theater is planning a Moby-Dick film series. The grant will also fund a panel presentation on art, history, and literature by Colleen Sheehy, director of the Plains Art Museum; Dr. David Silkenat, NDSU history professor, and Dr. Gary Totten, NDSU American literature professor. Sassi will lead the Red River Valley Writing Project Open Institute for teachers on the use of art and writing in the classroom.
Sassi is an assistant professor at NDSU with a joint appointment in the School of Education and the Department of English whose research crosses disciplinary boundaries, studying social justice issues, pedagogy, and writing assessment practices.
Sassi Publishes Methodology Research
Dr. Kelly Sassi's " 'If You Weren't Researching Me and a Friend...': The Mobius of Friendship and Mentorship as Methodological Approaches to Qualitative Research" will appear in Qualitative Inquiry, Volume 18, Issue 10 in December 2012. Her article explores the affordances and risks of practicing friendship and mentorship as methodological approaches in two qualitative studies: (a) the mentor's study in a diverse 9th grade classroom and (b) the protégé's subsequent study of teacher professional development in the same school. By including mentorship as an extension of "friendship as method" for qualitative research, Sassi asserts that mentorship as methodology socializes peers into the conventions of qualitative research.
Sassi is an assistant professor at NDSU with a joint appointment in the School of Education and the Department of English whose research crosses disciplinary boundaries, studying social justice issues, pedagogy, and writing assessment practices.
Sassi Earns Best Article Honorable Mention
Dr. Kelly Sassi received a 2012 English Leadership Quarterly Best Article Honorable mention for her writing, "Misgivings and Opportunities: The Common Core Writing Standards", October 2011 issue themed "Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts." The committee liked Sassi's piece for it's "realistic portrayal of the tensions surrounding the Common Core writing standards."
Sassi is an assistant professor at NDSU with a joint appointment in English and education. She co-directs the Red River Valley Writing Project. Her research agenda focuses on social justice issues, including race in the classroom, fair practices in writing assessment, feminist research methodologies, pedagogical approaches to Native American literature, multicultural field experiences, and the high school to college transition in writing. Sassi also co-authored two books, Writing on Demand (2005) and A Student Guide to Writing on Demand (2006), with Anne Gere and Leila Christenbury.
A former high school English teacher from Fairbanks, Alaska, Sassi has presented around 50 professional development workshops for teachers on writing and reading strategies. She is a consultant for the National Council for Teachers of English (NCTE) and is a trainer for Project CRISS, a research-based learning strategies program.
Totten Published, Presented, & Named President of T. Dreiser Society
Gary Totten, associate professor of English, recently published the article, " 'Objects Long Preserved:' Reading and Writing the Shop Window in Edith Wharton's 'Bunner Sisters," in the Winter 2011 issue of the journal, Studies in American Naturalism. In the article, Totten examines the influence of consumer culture on Wharton's depiction of female characters. Totten also presented papers at two recent conferences. He presented "Zitkala-Sa and the Material Cultures of Citizenship" at the American Literature Association conference May 24-27 in San Francisco. At the conference, Totten also chaired two panel sessions and business meetings for the Edith Wharton Society, which he currently serves as president, and the International Theodore Dreiser Society. Totten was named president of the International Theodore Dreiser Society during its business meeting.
Totten attended the "Edith Wharton in Florence" conference in Florence, Italy, June 6-8, where he presented his paper, "The Politics of Affect in Edith Wharton's Travel Writing."
Sassi Presented at ICASS in Romania
Kelly Sassi, assistant professor in the School of Education and English, presented a paper at the International Conference of Applied Social Sciences: "A Review of the Literature in Education on Pedagogical Approaches to Native American/American Indian Literatures." The conference was held in Timisoara, Romania from June 18-19. Her paper will be published in the conference proceedings, to be published by Cambridge Scholars Press.
CJPS named Dr. Gary Totten as Interim Dept. Head
Dr. Gary Totten will serve as interim head of the Department of Criminal Justice and Political Science (CJPS) during the 2012-13 academic year. Totten's success in his service as President of the Faculty Senate and as a member of the University President's Cabinet, his record of excellence in teaching, research and service, along with his willingness to advocate for the CJPS department, faculty research and pedagogical initiatives while promoting the intellectual and professional development of graduate students assures Totten's continued success as head of CJPS.
Totten Helps Organize ISTW
Gary Totten, Associate Professor of English, co-organized the 7th biennial conference of the International Society for Travel Writing (ISTW) at Georgetown University, Mar. 30-Apr. 1, 2012. Totten collaborated with colleagues from Georgetown, Nottingham Trent University (UK) and Misericordia University to referee papers and organize the conference program. Totten presented a paper, "The Politics of Local Color in Dreiser Looks at Russia," related to his larger book project on Theodore Dreiser's travel writing, and also delivered the concluding remarks at the conference. Totten serves on the steering committee for the ISTW, which encourages and fosters the work of scholars, publishers, and practitioners of travel writing through a range of activities including conferences, a monthly newsletter, and affiliation with the peer-reviewed journal Studies in Travel Writing.
Maylath Earns Diversity Award
Dr. Bruce Maylath, NDSU Professor of English, was selected by the Tribal College Liaison to receive a University Green and Golden Globe Diversity Award. Maylath has been instrumental in supporting and promoting Dakota Studies at NDSU. The award ceremony was held April 16th, in the NDSU Memorial Union.
Schell Presents at WRTC Symposium
PhD graduate student, Tatjana Schell presented "Challenges of Teaching College Composition as a Non-Native Speaking Teacher" during the Graduate Symposium held by the School of Writing, Rhetoric, and Tech Communication (WRTC) at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA. Graduate students from all over the country attended the event held April 5-6, 2012. Kirk St. Amant from East Carolina University was the keynote speaker for the symposium. The WRTC will be hosting another graduate symposium in the fall 2012 as they are moving it from very busy April to October, and will gladly welcome more graduate students from NDSU.
Helstern and Totten attend MLA Convention
American literature scholars Gary Totten and Linda Helstern, both associate professors in the NDSU English department, were included on the program of the Modern Language Association's 127th Annual Convention, held in Seattle, Wash., January 5-8.
As president of the Edith Wharton Society, Totten chaired the session "Wharton at 150," sponsored by the society. 2012 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Edith Wharton, a major voice in early twentieth-century American fiction. Totten also participated in a pre-convention workshop, "Getting Started in Digital Humanities," which included break-out sessions on coding and programming, project management, grant funding opportunities, and cross-disciplinary collaboration to support research, archival work, and pedagogy within humanities disciplines.
Helstern presented a paper entitled "Back to Ground Zero: Performing the Fiction of Race in Gerald Vizenor's Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57" in the first session sponsored jointly by the MLA Divisions on American Indian Literatures and Asian American Literature. "Native Asian Encounters" focused on the representation of Native people in Asian American writing and the representation of Asian Americans in Native-authored texts.Helstern's paper addressed the ways that the White Earth Anishinaabe novelist Gerald Vizenor works in the most experimental of all his novels to counter the model minority stereotype attached to Asian Americans through a range of performative strategies, including kabuki, protest demonstration, striptease, sexual performance, and the re-enactment of Native history.
With some 140 divisions and discussion groups and more than 120 allied organizations, the Modern Language Association is the world's largest scholarly organization devoted to language and literature.
Celebrating Marshall McLuhan at 100
Kevin Brooks (Professor and Chair of English, NDSU) and David Beard (Associate Professor of English, University of Minnesota Duluth) launched a special issue of the journal Enculturation on Dec. 31, 2011. The issue's theme, Marshall McLuhan @ 100: Picking Through the Rag and Bone Shop of a Career, invited scholars to consider some of the neglected works of McLuhan (1911-1980), who coined the now famous phrases, "The Medium is the Message" and "The Global Village." Scholars from Canada, the US, and Australia contributed to the collection; NDSU PhD student in English, Steven Hammer produced an audio-video remix of McLuhan's 1969 book War and Peace in the Global Village and Associate Professor Andrew Mara added his voice to a multivocal review. This online, peer-reviewed journal can be accessed at http://www.enculturation.net/12
Birmingham and Burnett Named Associate Deans of AHSS
Elizabeth Birmingham and Ann Burnett have been named associate deans for the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at NDSU, effective Jan 9. Birmingham is associate professor of English, and Burnett is professor of communication and director of the Women and Gender Studies Program at NDSU. The entire article is featured on NDSU News.
Kevin Brooks earns Distiguished Alumni Award
Congratulations to English Department Chair, Dr. Kevin Brooks, as recipient of The Distinguished Alumni Award from the English Department of Iowa State University, Ames, IA. Dr. Brooks received one of 17 Iowa State University Distinguished Alumni Awards at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences award banquet on Thursday, October 20, 2011. His research on computers, writing, and literacy; his work building a non-profit to shelter, feed, and educate girls in South Sudan; and his grant-funded project with Fargo Public School children were all cited as reasons for this honor. On Friday, October 21, 2011 Brooks spoke to faculty and students about Sugar Labs at NDSU at a luncheon sponsored by the ISU Department of English.
Maylath Delivers Paper at Technical Communications Conference
Bruce Maylath, professor of English, delivered the paper "Responding to Field Convergence: Updating Curricula and Programs as the Roles of Technical Communicators and Technical Translators Merge" at the 2011 meeting of the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC). The conference was hosted by James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va., Oct. 6-8. A past president of CPTSC, Maylath also moderated the meeting's program administrators' roundtable and chaired the CPTSC Distinguished Service Award Committee.
Totten publishes essay on "South of Freedom"
Gary Totten's essay, "Geographies of Race and Mobility in Carl Rowan's South of Freedom," was recently published in the new anthology, Riding/Writing Across Borders in North American Travelogues and Fiction, edited by Waldemar Zacharasiewicz and published by the Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. In the essay, Totten examines Rowan's travel narrative, South of Freedom, an account of his trip through the US South in 1951 as an African American journalist for the Minneapolis Morning Tribune, and discusses how US attitudes about race affected both his travel experiences and the resulting travel narrative.
David Lemke presents at Society of Utopian Studies
Graduate student, David Lemke, presented his paper "Through The Looking Glass: Examining Utopian Dialogue in Oryx and Crake" at the 36th annual Society for Utopian Studies Conference held from October 20th to 23rd at Penn State University. Lemke's paper used the utopian frame of argument and counterargument put forth by Fredric Jameson and other utopian critics to examine Oryx and Crake. He specifically analyzed the role of the Crakers, a post-human tribal culture, in opposition with the dystopian scientific compounds. This reading allows for a more positive view of Atwood's message rather than focusing on the outwardly negative aspect of the novel.
National Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference
English department members Rebecca Hayes, Heather Steinmann, Kelly Cameron, Kelly Sassi, and Amy Rupiper Taggart presented recently at the national Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) conference, held this year in Mankato, MN from October 12-15. The theme of the conference was Feminist Challenges or Feminist Rhetorics? Locations, Scholarship, and Discourse. Cameron, Hayes, Rupiper Taggart, and Sassi formed a panel titled "Four Women Who Wrote for the Sake of Social Change," which emphasized feminist historiography, recovering important women writers and highlighting their distinctive rhetorical responses to challenging socio-political conditions of their times.
Cameron, former MA student and current lecturer in English (ABD, Texas Christian University), presented "An Irish Mother India: Margaret Cousins' Rhetoric of Witnessing in We Two Together." The paper suggested that Margaret Cousins, an Irish woman working in India, used a rhetoric of witnessing, acting as a medium to advance Indian women's rights.
Hayes, current MA student in English, presented on her archival research on Aloha Eagles letters. Eagles was a North Dakota legislator who worked on a bill that would have legalized abortion, and Hayes suggests that Eagles and her correspondents used the rhetorics of identity to navigate the socially sensitive topic of abortion. Her presentation was titled "Who Are You and I…?; Rhetoric of Identity in the Aloha Eagles Letters."
Rupiper Taggart, Associate Professor, presented "The Axis of Agency and Social Control: Jessie Fauset's Rhetorical Space and the Rhetoric of Respectability," which examines a Harlem Renaissance literary figure and Progressive era leader from a rhetorical perspective, suggesting she participated in both highlighting images of a rising African American middle class and in a rhetoric of respectable behavior rooted in the Baptist Women's Convention, all with the goal of race "uplift."
Sassi presented her work on S. Alice Callahan's novel Wynema and its reception. The presentation, titled "She Wrote It, BUT . . . It's 'Assimilationist Dogma': Indigenous Feminist Spatial Rhetoric in the First Novel by a Native American Woman," suggests that rather than being assimilationist, Wynema uses indigenous rhetorics of dual voicing, among other techniques, to reach white audiences.
Heather Steinmann, Ph.D. student, joined a panel on "Rhetoric and Fictions: Interpretation and Collaboration," and she presented her work "Victimization in Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina: Turning the Inside out." In this presentation, Steinmann suggests that Allison uses fictional writing techniques to expose readers to the experience of oppression that cannot be fully realized in purely academic writing.
Helstern Presents at WLA
Linda Helstern, associate professor of English, presented a paper on the work of contemporary Blackfeet novelist Stephen Graham Jones at the 46th Annual Conference of the Western Literature Association, which met in Missoula, Mont., Oct. 5-8. The conference brings together scholars from across Europe, Canada, and the United States to focus on the literature and culture of the trans-Mississippi West.
Helstern's paper, entitled 'Not the Same Elk': The Return of Native Agency in Stephen Graham Jones' Ledfeather, considers how this highly experimental text, a rewriting of the history of the Blackfeet starvation winter of 1883-84, reinforces key principles of Native thought through the play of language and story. It is part of an ongoing research project on historiography and Native American literature.
Also presenting at the conference was Joshua T. Anderson, a 2011 NDSU English graduate. Winner of the 2011-12 Western American Literature Editorial Fellowship at Utah State University, Anderson is currently pursuing his master's degree in American Studies.
Theile uses grant for European Collaborative Project
Thanks to the support of a FORWARD mentor travel award, Verena Theile, Assistant Professor of English at NDSU, was able to spend the summer at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbuettel, Germany, where she completed work on a collaborative project, Performance and medicine in the writings of three early modern physicians: the brothers Felix and Thomas Platter and Hippolytus Guarinonius by M A Katritzky (The Open University), for which Theile and Katritzky translated middle high German travel literature by the brothers Platter and Guarinonius into English. The book is forthcoming with Ashgate Publishing.
During her stay in Europe, Theile participated in the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress in Prague from July 17-22. Since the first meeting of Shakespeare scholars from around the world, this congress has convened every five years and traveled across four continents. Past sites include Stratford-upon-Avon, Berlin, Valencia, Tokyo, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, and Brisbane. This year's gathering, with its setting in the beautiful city of Prague, presented participants with an international, culturally-rich, academic environment that placed special emphasis on Shakespeare's European reception, the impact his work has had on intercultural communication, and the roles it has played in national emancipation.
Theile's paper, "'By the pricking of my thumbs, / Something wicked this way comes': Demonizing Macbeth," is forthcoming as part of the seminar proceedings for the special topic session "Magic and the Occult in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries" (Organizers: Lisa Hopkins and Helen Ostovich). This paper is part of Theile's ongoing research on the supernatural in the early modern period. Her own edited collection, with Andrew McCarthy (University of Tennessee-Chattanooga), entitled Staging the Superstitions of Early Modern Europe, is under contract and forthcoming with Ashgate Publishing.
Recent Publications
Birmingham, Elizabeth. "Making and Playing Cooperative Games: Feminist Aesthetics and Values in Prairie Prose." Feminist Media Studies 11.2 (2011): 20-26.
Helstern, Linda Lizut. "Museum Survivance: Vizenor Before and After Repatriation." Gerald Vizenor: Texts and Contexts. Ed. Deborah Madsen and A. Robert Lee. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2010. 231-48. Pub. 2011.
Maylath, Bruce, Marusca Gnecchi, Federica Scarpa, Birthe Mousten, and Sonia Vandepitte. "Field Convergence: Merging Roles of Technical Writers and Technical Translators." IEEE-Transactions on Professional Communication 54 (2011): 168-184.
Maylath, Bruce, John Humbley, Birthe Mousten, and Sonia Vandepitte. "Communicating Pragmatics about Content and Culture in Virtually Mediated Educational Environments." Computer-Mediated Communication across Cultures: International Interactions in Online Environments. Ed. Kirk St. Amant and Sigrid Kelsey. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2012. 312-327.
O'Connor, Robert."Beauty or Truth?: Ayesha's Faustian Dilemma in H. Rider Haggard's She." The Lamar Journal of Humanities, forthcoming.
O'Connor, Robert. "Review of Romantic Interactions: Social Being and the Turns of Literary Action, by Susan J. Wolfson." Keats-Shelley Journal. Fall 2011, Issue 60.
Rupiper-Taggart, Amy, and H. Brooke Hessler. "What's Stalling Learning? Using a Formative Assessment Tool to Address Critical Incidents in Class." International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 5 (January 2011): <http://academics.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl/v5n1/articles/HesslerTaggart/index.html>
Rupiper-Taggert, Amy, and Margaret Lowry. "On Program Transitions and TA Training: What TAs Say Makes the Difference." WPA Journal. (Spring 2011): 89-114 (With Margaret Lowry).
Sassi, Kelly. "Are We Aligned Yet? Opportunities and Misgivings in Working with the Common Core Writing Standards." English Leadership Quarterly. 34.2 (October 2011) 4-9 .


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Mar. 8 is Girl Scout Sunday
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What are you doing for the Fourth? Every year our community has a pancake breakfast, followed by a down home paradeand carnival. My kids LOVE decorating their bikes and joining in. The 1905 cottage that I've been working on is right on the parade route. I was thinking it would be fun to have the house open after the parade! Come for the parade at 10 am and then the … [Read more...]
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Is it appropriate to carry radios and cell phones in the wilderness?
I know that many outdoorsfolk would think it gauche, but I carried a cell phone on my last two backpacking trips, and it had a good deal to do with my feeling comfortable enough to be out for more than a dayhike. I called my child at night and felt that I could summon help in a true emergency. Worked for me, and bothered no one else.
Leslie Sussan Washington, D.C.
Would we consider playing rock music or accepting cell calls while in church, mosque, or synagogue? Like a house of worship, wilderness is that special place where we can be at peace with the universe and at one with God. Let's leave our pagers, TVs, cell phones, and boom boxes at home.
Roger J. Wendell Aurora, Colorado
I always take my shortwave radio when camping. I can hear great stations from around the world when I'm away from the electrical interference in the city and have a few hundred feet available to string out my antenna wire.
Randy Ruger North Hollywood, California
Is there such a thing as wilderness if you are still in contact with the rest of the world? I think that some people are missing the true experience.
Peter Kappen Defiance, Ohio
Is it appropriate? Only the elitist naturalists would ever ask this question! Safety--warnings on weather and calling for help in case of accidents--is always appropriate except to elitists!
Marvin Lewis Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
There are those who will argue that they are necessary and will amble off to the beautiful places on this planet with device in hand. They have forgotten that a fundamental reason we seek out wilderness is to reconnect with nature and the wondrous parts of ourselves that these devices have so brusquely cut us off from.
Sheryl Howe Boise, Idaho
Is it appropriate to carry an extruded aluminum hiking staff with a plastic handle and a rubber tip? Is it appropriate to carry any products with contents developed by DuPont? Should you wear shoes? Obviously, people take the tools they need to accomplish their purpose in going into the wilderness. The trick is to minimize the impact before going as well as while there. A better question might be: is it appropriate for the modern human, with products from corporations of questionable ethics, to go into the wilderness at all?
Don Myers Hewitt, New Jersey
Cell phones and radios do not affect rivers, soil, trees, squirrels, and moose any more than any conversation between two humans in the wilderness. Yelling for your dog or cursing out your mountain bike invade a much larger space. Unless conversations between people in the wild are regulated, then conversations in which one person is outside of the wilderness should not be. But please be discreet. Whether using your phone or thinking of calling to a friend across the lake, minimize your presence.
Kirk L. Nichols Salt Lake City, Utah
Last summer a dear friend's heart failed while he was camping. His group had no cell phone to call for immediate help. One hour and fifteen minutes later, a Med Evac helicopter arrived. Even though CPR was performed, he died. Take the technology with you, but use it only for emergencies.
Deirdre Devine San Francisco, California
If I saw someone carrying a cell phone in the wilderness I'd say, Go home! Take a vacation in some flashy resort. You're not suited for the wilderness.
Cindy Marzolf San Diego, California
Compared to the all-terrain vehicle and snowmobile, the radio and cell phone are harmless toys that can save lives. There is plenty of room for abuse, but I believe the vast majority of people are "out there" to blend in, not to disrupt.
Joyce Long Sayville, New York
Be self-reliant. Leave your radio, cell phone, and camera at home. The pictures in your head don't disappear.
Wally Juchert St. Helena, California


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The University of Memphis Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music's annual Jazz Week activities culminate Saturday with a concert featuring a…
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Leonard Nimoy left touching final message to all
Actor Leonard Nimoy, best known for playing Spock in the "Star Trek" series, has died at the age of 83.
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100 Best Songs About Memphis: 5-1
We close our countdown with twin tunes from Chuck Berry, the World's Oldest Teenager, a modern standard and that deathless Memphis beat.
100 Best Songs About Memphis: 10-6
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100 Best Songs About Memphis: 15-11
For day 18 of our countdown, we remember Furry Lewis, Alex Chilton and Martin Luther King.
100 Best Songs About Memphis: 20-16
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100 Best Songs About Memphis: 25-21
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1:: I love how your work has a mix of fashion, surreality and macabre twist going on. I've never seen anything like that, and it's absolutely hypnotizing. Tell us, was this something you've always wanted to achieve from the beginning, or is it a combination you explored by chance?
Thank you! I would like to claim that combination was completely intentional, but its just something that happened. There arent many examples now in my gallery, but if you go back far enough, there is a distinct difference in the atmosphere of my pictures. I only really started exploring a dreamlike aspect to portraiture in well, about early 2007. I actually remember the moment distinctly because it was after one of my vacations in college and I was talking to my roommate and said
something like, My photographys gotten weird. It was strange because before that I had mostly been experimenting with different looks in photomanipulations, altering colors, etcetera. And then, erchancemaybe the stars aligned correctly or somethingthe style clicked for me.
2:: The make up styling you have on your photos is also a very unique element, and it really blends everything together in harmony. What are your thoughts on make up being a kind of art in itself and what are your thoughts while choosing the right one for each piece?
Its all very well and good for the composition/lighting/whatever to be compelling in a photograph, but make up does allow for the ability to more aptly draw people into a photograph, especially unconventional make up. Of course, everyone sees people wear make up on a daily basis, but in photographs it can be used to an extent to make people take notice of a photograph. Even better is when it is used to transform a model. The job is done well when a model seems to become a different person which each different look. Its almost as if without the make up, she is any other girl you see on the street and she acts according to her normal, every day personality. Make up and a different wardrobe in general brings out something different like a part in a play? A different facet to their personality? I dont know, but the effect is damn awesome. And that is proof in and of itself that make up is an art form. It is one thing to be able to apply it meticulously enough to make it look good, but its quite another to transform a model into a completely different person. But the balance has to be there as well. All models have a certain range and a photographer has to have some idea of what that range is.
Sometimes there are moments when the make up just isnt fitting to who a model is. The make up can be incredible, but if the model doesnt know what to do with it to create an effect, then it is going to show and people are going to notice. And you know what theyre going to say? The make up is awesome, but the model looks really uncomfortable.
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3:: There is something I'm very curious about. Throughout your gallery we see the female figure being portrayed as beautiful, delicate but also with a very dark and even haunting side. Would you like to tell us about that?
When I started practicing portraiture in 2004, they were incredibly unremarkable. Actually, they probably would have been unremarkable for a Sears portrait (of course, at the time, I thought they were the most awesome pictures in the entire world, courtesy of my sixteen-year-old ego). At the highest point of what Id like to call the Pretty Girl, Bad Composition phase of Deviantarts popular section (rivaled only by the Pretty Girl, I Cry Tears of Blood phase), I finally realized just how unremarkable my photographs were. My expectations of a portrait were the same as many other amateursto make the model look their absolute prettiest, show their best side, ect. In the first question, I mentioned that in early 07, my photography took a very different direction and became a lot darker and more surreal.
Well along with that, I started looking through the lens and seeing a kind of darker sub-reality and with it a completely new facet to the model. I started focusing on eyes and general expression more than what can I do to make this model look drop dead gorgeous? Im approaching the pictures from an artistic viewpoint rather than a commercial one. For me, it isnt about the superficial nature of making a model look good. Its getting people to see whats behind the eyes, not just looking at the eyes themselves. And everyone has something vulnerable and haunting and even tragic in their pasteveryone hides a part of themselves from other people.
Pictures become the equivalent of their real life: force the smile, get it over with, cut, print, hang it on the wall for people to look at. For some reason, this has become peoples conception of a portrait should look like. People have enough fake snapshots of them smiling reluctantly. For my photos, I want something deeperI want the part of them they hide to be revealed in my work. Sometimes, it makes people deeply uncomfortable. But if I wanted to make people comfortable, I suppose Id take a Sears portrait. No offense to Sears.
4:: You're mainly a portraiture photographer, and you have explored both working with models/ friends and also some self portraiture. What are the main differences between each? How do you feel about exploring a personal theme/ emotion with someone else?
The stuff that I do with self portraiture is mainly experimental, because if the shoot doesnt work out, the only person I disappoint
is myself. But self portraiture is also harder, because its difficult to get all the creative aspects in a picture to work when one is in front of the camera, as opposed to behind it. Thats why most of my self portrait shoots dont work outbasically what Im doing with it is seeing what lighting techniques are effective, what make up colors look the best, etcetera. I tend to be very critical of my self portraits, especially if Im going to use a certain technique in a model shoot. Thats why I tend to only post maybe one or a couple shots from any of my self portrait shoots and more from my model shoots. I spend most of it just trying to get stuff right, so the range tends to be rather limited. But I love working with models, and infinitely prefer it to self portraiture.
The interesting thing about working with another person is getting an incredibly large range of pictures. I can control the aspects of the shoot behind the camera, but all the emotion is theirs. Im incredibly bad at direction. Im afraid that once I start controlling what the model does in front of the camera that itll take away their personal input.
Some photographers may not prefer that method, but to me, thats the one artistic part of the shoot that the model deserves to do on their own. All of the poses and emotions are genuine and belong to the model, they are not directed by me. It creates a large spectrum of emotion, where each picture is incredibly distinct from the other because Im not interfering with the models self expression. For me, thats what makes a portrait a genuine artistic collaboration. Its no longer me the Photographer and her the Modelwere both practicing our different artistic and emotional outlets, and they happen to come together for a photograph.
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5:: Still a bit related to the question above. What kind of work do you go through with each model to tell her about the kind of session and theme you want to explore? Do you sit and talk about each detail and emotion, or do you prefer things to happen naturally?
Naturally. When I meet with a model for a shoot, I generally ask if they have any ideas for make up and if they dont, I just tend to go at it, no forethought. It might sound bad because Im sure there are models out there that want to be reassured about every aspect of the shoot by the photographer, but they would probably get a lot of cryptic answers out of me. Think of the photographic equivalent of one of those hippie artists that just throw paint at a white canvas and spread it around. Thats me: hippie photographer.
For my shoots, I feel like the emotions and the resulting effect is more genuine if I just let things take shape as Im shooting.
Ive tried creative preplanning, and nothing quite works out the way I want it to. So eventually I just adopted the idea that by letting things happen naturally it gives both the model and myself room to express ourselves at the spur of the moment rather than expecting the shoot to turn out with a certain look. Im sure that detailing shoots before they happen work incredibly well for some photographers, but I just cant do it.
So the effect of my photographs happens quite by accidentwhich sounds completely weird given that it has become something of a trend. When Im preparing for a shoot, its like a shot in the dark, kind of like composing a story with no real direction.
Preparation and taking photographs is kind of like a free writing session: I have no idea whats going on, but I feel something compelling it to take shape. So I start with a model, and shes like a blank page. I get out my make up and just start something.
I mix colors and make up styles and when it feels done, I stop. And then I choose the outfit, generally trying to go for something interesting or colourful. I dont intend for the rather dark outcome. I start out with a pretty girl in a lovely dress.
I get behind the camera, look through the lens
And all hell breaks loose, as it were.
I dont see whats happening until I look through the lens. But with its cropping and focus, I see a story unraveling. Sometimes its dark and sometimes its terrifying, but it doesnt look the same with normal eyes. And the effect is almost indescribable, where Im looking at a creature that is no longer The Model, but a separate entity. And shes scary and tempting and vulnerable and intimidating all at the same time. For me, that sort of effect cannot be created through preplanning.
6:: We all go through the same, every now and then some smart ass comes to our gallery and tells us what we should and shouldn't do about our art, or something very similar. Have this ever happened to you? How do you react when you hear such things?
Yes. Ive discovered that this sort of thing is unavoidable. If Im going to share my photographs to the public, Im going to get some criticism. One of the things Ive learned to accept as a photographer is that not everyone is going to like my work. Sure, Id love it if no one hated my work. Who wouldnt? And Id like to shake the hand of a person who has never felt a moment of seething irritation at the one person who comes along and tactlessly proclaims, This picture is horrible. No explanation.
An artists work is kind of like, well, their baby. And no one wants to hear their baby is ugly. So when someone says it, the artists first reaction is to defend their baby. Explain why its good and significant and unique. This is a bad way to respond. The person has already shaped their opinion of the photograph and no amount of bitching at them is going to change it. If anything, its going to accomplish one of two things: make them roll their eyes because the artist clearly cannot
handle negative commentary, or make them laugh in glee because they got a rise out of the photographer.
I try not to get too defensive in my responses. With a lot of my work, I turn on the No Critique Desired option for comments. I realize that there are artists out there who are under the assumption that this is because artists dont want to be critiqued. I turn it on because anything else inevitably breeds comments like: You should have straightened the necklace during the shoot. Its distracting! I realize theyre trying to be helpful, but I like to hear stuff I can actually change about the photograph, not what I could have done during the shoot. The shoots done. I cant fix anything after the fact. It sucks that I didnt notice, but its a moot point. Sometimes I get notes with critiques for my work, and I actually really like these, especially when theyre in depth.
I feel like I need to hear critiques because if I dont, then how can I know if somethings wrong with a picture? Other eyes might notice something I might not have and it really helps if they succinctly point it out. I always thank these individuals because they took the time to note me about it and write out their critiques. In my opinion, that kind of critique is the best kind an artist can possibly ask for. Its objective and informative and it was clearly written with the intention of helping an artist rather than to just be mean. I always feel sorry for the people who write out beautifully written critiques of work only to get a pissed off message from the artist. Deviantart should be about improving work, not about being consistently praised.
And then, well, there are the dicks out there who appear to get off on giving an artist negative comments. You can usually pick them out
of a crowd because theyre the ones who cant seem to articulate their negative view of a picture. Theyre usually trolls who say something mean, hurtful or just plain rude, expecting an enraged response. I try not to reply to these comments. This individual is desperate for attention and wants the artist to get angry. But you also dont want anyone else defending your honor with these people. Occasionally they respond with what I like to call Giant Troll Freakout. They spam the picture with comments, they reply to the defender with the ever clever, shut up! responses (generally raping the English language in the process and typing like their caps lock is broken) and basically make onlookers roll their eyes at their general idiocy. I just hide the comments so that doesnt happen. If they continue being an asshole, I block them from my page. They dont need the extra attention. If they want it, they should apply to participate on a reality show. I hear people make asses out of themselves on those all the time.
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From July 3, 1994, in Chicago, this was Danzig's last stop on tour in support of Metallica. For the encore, Metallica brought Glenn Danzig out for a true rarity in playing Misfits classic London Dungeon for only the second time, Last Caress, and Green Hell. The "albums" you see in the video are concert bootlegs; someone - assumedly the tapers - made their own album covers for distributing their bootlegged concerts.
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George Jonas nails the Drummondville decision
He writes about the Supreme Court Decision that I believe is the Morgentaler decision or the Roe vs. Wade of religious freedom in Canada. Please read it all and tweet it and share it whereever you can.
God isn't ecumenical. He spells out exactly what he is, in Exodus 20: 4-5. "You shall not make yourself an idol," he tells prospective worshippers, "for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God."
When a jealous God talks about religion, he doesn't say: "Hey, six of one, half a dozen of the other." On the contrary, he commands his followers to regard him and his cosmology as the truth, and view others as being in error. Those who worship idols are idolaters. This doesn't mean bash their heads in, or give them false measure, but it may mean pray for them, and it definitely means don't tell your children: "Oh, it's all the same."
Jealousy isn't the only thing religion is about, but it's certainly one thing. "Thou shalt have no other Gods before me" is the second commandment in the Hebrew bible. In the Christian bible, it's the first.
God speaks plainly; Supreme Court justices speak legalese. They're different languages. If one looks for an innocent explanation of why the Ottawa Nine ruled as they did last Friday in S.L. v. Commission scolaire des Chênes, this may be it — though the real reasons are probably a little more complex or sinister.
Like most courts and tribunals below, Canada's top court sees its task as defending the state against the rights and freedoms it guarantees. Madam Justice Marie Deschamps, speaking for the nine justices, didn't make too many bones about the court's priority being policy over law. "The suggestion," she wrote, "that exposing children to a variety of religious facts in itself infringes their religious freedom or that of their parents amounts to a rejection of the multicultural reality of Canadian society and ignores the Quebec government's obligations with regard to public education."
Pardon? Is replacing religious classes with liberal pap an educational obligation? If so, Quebec failed in its obligation until 2008. Maybe, just maybe, we aren't talking about education, but ideology. Two ideologies, in fact: (a) The religious citizen's ideology that's protected by the Charter; and (b) the statist government's ideology that's protected by the courts.
Bills of rights don't warrant that governments can do everything they regard as beneficial; they warrant that governments can't infringe the rights of individuals. It shouldn't matter if a fundamental right did amount to the rejection of a government policy. I don't think it does in this case, but even if it did, what's our Charter supposed to guarantee, multiculturalism or religious freedom?


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iOS-controlled iStrike Shuttle drops balls on your enemies
The options open to iOS users wanting a miniature aerial vehicle have increased in recent years, with the market leading Parrot AR.Drone receiving competition in the form of the Swann RC Helicopter and Griffin Helo TC. The iStrike Shuttle by purveyor of office weaponry Dream Cheeky is the latest airborne gizmo to join the fray, hoping to stand out from the rest with an integrated weapon delivery system capable of dropping a ping-pong ball on hapless office co-workers. Read More
Almost a year ago, the Japanese Ministry of Defense made quite a splash when it revealed a spherical, remote-controlled aircraft that could zip around a room, roll along the ground, and even bounce off obstacles without losing control. But while it was mainly designed for search and rescue operations, many R/C enthusiasts took one look at that hovering Death Star and said, "I have got to get me one of those." Luckily, toy company Kyosho must have been listening, since it recently released a similar flying machine of its own for consumers. Kyosho's "Space Ball" can remain airborne while taking just as much punishment and even emits a fragrance to freshen up a room in the process. Read More
Combat Creatures launches the "Attacknid" toy robot
Earlier this year, inventor Jamie Mantzel unveiled a prototype of a remote-controlled robot he had nicknamed "the greatest toy in the universe" in a YouTube video that garnered over 2 million hits in three days. In the video, an exuberant Mantzel demonstrated how the six-legged creation could fire different toy weapons and react to hits when battling another bot. Now, just in time for the holiday season, distributor Wow! Stuff has expanded the idea into a full-fledged toy line, called "Combat Creatures," starting with the inventor's original model, now named the "Attacknid." Read More
Belkin has announced the launch of its WeMo Baby device that turns any iOS device into a digital baby monitor. Comprising a Wi-Fi connecting baby monitor and an accompanying iOS app, the WeMo Baby lets anxious parents listen to high-quality audio from their baby's room whether they're in the next room or the other side of the world … though it's probably not a good idea that the baby is left that unattended. Read More
After the birth of a child, many a well-intentioned parent has started to put together a baby memory box or baby journal, filled with keepsakes and mementos from their little-ones first year. But amid a blur of dirty diapers and messy feeds the majority lose momentum, Mementobox is a new iPhone app which it's hoped will see more parents stick with it by digitizing the process. Read More
B'kid is a wooden bike that grows with your child
The rate at which children grow, especially from being new-born to the age of around six-years-old, is scary. One day they're a helpless ball of flesh and bones, the next they're walking, talking, and starting school. This means that new parents have to continually buy new things for their child that may only last them a matter of months. While a bicycle may not be top of the agenda at such a young age, for a child to learn to ride one means buying several different models over the course of just a few years as they first learn, and then master, the art. Which is what led Noelia Vallano Alvaro to design B'kid: one bike designed to last a child from the age of two right through to the age of six. Read More
Woogie protects your iPhone and makes it considerably more huggable
The Woogie is an iPhone and iPod touch case that makes your Apple device considerably more huggable than those designed to add a keyboard or stop a bullet. Intended for those times you pass your iPhone to your kids, the new Woogie from Griffin Technology comes as one of two characters, which an accompanying app brings to life with your iPhone screen becoming the face of the interactive playmate. Read More
Ematic announces FunTab Pro tablet for kiddies
Children today are growing up on mobile devices. Concepts like pinch-to-zoom and slide to unlock – foreign to adults before the iPhone launched in 2007 – are as natural as breathing to today's kids. You love your children, but it can be unsettling to see your rambunctious four-year-old hoisting your $500 iPad. There are several ways around this: invest in AppleCare or other insurance, buy a Kindle Fire or similar budget tablet, or invest in a tablet dedicated for kids. Ematic is hoping you choose the latter, and buy little Susie her own FunTab Pro. Read More
If product releases are anything to go by, it seems that almost every child is going to be getting a tablet computer for Christmas this year. There's the VTech InnoTab 2, the Leappad 2, the Toys"R"Us Tabeo, and that's before you consider the myriad of child-centric add-ons for iPads. Also jostling for position on your little-ones Christmas list is the newly released Android-toting MEEP! from Oregon Scientific. Read More
Modular trampoline builds into a bouncy playground
As fun as the trampoline is, it's but a small oasis of bounce in a world ruled by rigid ground. The SMB Trampoline modulus finds out what happens when you expand the trampoline into an entire network. What happens is a lot more bouncy fun. Read More
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