Credits

John T. (Jay) Alexander, professor of history and Russian and East European studies, presented “Fedor Karzhavin in Virginia and Williamsburg, 1777-1787” on Nov. 29 at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va., as a guest of the Department of Modern Languages.

Jonathan Earle, associate professor of history, presented a paper, “Divided Democrats: Free Soil, Popular Sovereignty and the Kansas-Nebraska Act,” at the 70th annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association in Memphis. He also read from his recently published book, Jacksonian Antislavery and the Politics of Free Soil on Nov. 30 at the Lawrence Public Library.

John Sweets, professor of history, recently participated in the production of two documentary films. In September he was interviewed in Paris and Clermont-Ferrand, France, for a documentary concerning Msgr. Gabriel Piguet, bishop of Clermont-Ferrand during World War II. This film is directed by Barcha Bauer (Productions de La Lanterne, Paris) and will appear on French television in April 2005 and later in DVD format. Sweets was interviewed in November for a documentary film about Marshal Philippe Petain, head of the French State at Vichy during World War II. This film was produced by Sharon Wood for Lucasfilm and will be released as part of a 50-film historical documentary series in DVD format.

Richard Fyffe, assistant dean for scholarly communication, university libraries, has been elected treasurer of BioOne by the BioOne board of directors. He has served on the board since May 2003.

Legal Services for Students recently received a Low Income Taxpayer Clinic grant for 2005 from the Internal Revenue Service.  

Carol Ann Carter, professor of art, taught a course intensive, “Art, Culture and New Media Studies: Who Are We Together?” Oct. 18 to 23 at the International School of New Media in Luebeck, Germany.

Mechele Leon, assistant professor of theatre, was invited by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in Chicago to participate in the symposium “American and French Theater Today: Trends and Practices,” Oct. 28-30 at Northwestern University in conjunction with “Playing French: Chicago’s First Festival of Contemporary Plays from France.” She delivered her paper “Anti-Theatricalism and the ‘Intermittents du Spectacle.’”

Maggie Childs, associate professor in East Asian languages and cultures, presented “Coercive Courtship Strategies in Classical Japanese Narrative Literature” on Nov. 12 at the 28th International Conference on Japanese Literature in Tokyo, Japan.  The conference was sponsored by the National Institute of Japanese Literature.

Doreen Fowler, professor of English, recently had her article “Faulkner’s Return to the Freudian Father: Sanctuary Reconsidered” published in Modern Fiction Studies.

Jonathan Clark, distinguished professor of history, attended and spoke at an invited international conference in Savannah, Ga., dedicated to work of Hippolyte Taine, the historian of the French Revolution. His review of Gertrude Himmilfarb’s The Roads to Modernity was the lead review on Nov. 12 in the Times Literary Supplement.

Kent Miller, assistant dean of libraries; Tom Roderick, coordinator for information technology; and Susan Zvacek, director of instructional development and support, presented “Institutional Collaboration in the Development of a Collaborative Learning Environment” during the EDUCAUSE 2004 annual conference Oct. 20-22 in Denver.

Ada Emmett, reference librarian, and Judith Emde, librarian II, presented “Assessing Information Literacy Skills in the Real World: The Good, the Bad and the Literate” Oct. 22 during the fourth annual Brick and Click Libraries Academic Library Symposium at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville. At the same symposium, Susanne Clement, head of collection development; Tami Albin, reference librarian; and Nikhat Ghouse, coordinator of peer reference services, presented “Growing with the Flow: Responding to High Volume Instruction Growth.”