Summer 2010 Faculty Updates

Visiting Assistant Professor of German Imke Brust co-organized the panel“Gender, Violence, Nation and State in Contemporary Africa” and presented a paper entitled "Rape and the Transgressions of Nation-State Narratives” at the Canadian Association for African Studies, May 5-7 at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

Ruth Marshall Magill Professor of Music Curt Cacioppo released his latest CD, Italia, a collection of works composed in or about Italy.  This is his 10th disc, and is available on the Navona Records label.  A multimedia/enhanced content website accompanies the recording, and may be accessed at navonarecords.com/italia.

Assistant Professor of History Andrew Friedman gave a talk called“U.S. Geopolitics as Design Agent: The Global Postcolonial Vernacular in Reston, Virginia” at the Vernacular Architecture Forum: Housing Washington Conference, May 19-22 in Washington, D.C.

Professor of History Linda Gerstein's article“Conversion: Mikhail Karpovich: Between the Russian Immigration and American Academia” was published in the March 2010 issue of The New Review, No. 258. She also wrote the chapter“Reminiscences of Anatolii Yakobson” for the book Anatolii Yakobson, about the prominent Russian dissident, released by New Graphics Press this year.

Emeritus Professor of Political Science Harvey Glickman was one of 35 scholars invited to participate in the Oxford Round Table, a public affairs seminar held at Lincoln College, Oxford University, March 28-April 2. While there, he presented a paper called“Neo-Neo Realism: A Note on Contemporary International Relations Theory and Foreign Policy Today.”

Associate Professor of Chinese and Linguistics Shizhe Huang co-authored the article“Henda Guwu—More on the Type Matching Constraint on Modification” which was published in Essays on Linguistics, Vol. 39, a special edition in honor of Noam Chomsky on the occasion of his receiving an honorary doctorate from the Peking University, China.

Assistant Professor of French Duane Kight presented a paper entitled“A Model for Interactive Video to Teach French Culture” at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 15-17 in Lexington, Ky.

Assistant Professor of Fine Arts Hee Sook Kim was a Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Resident Artist at the Foundation in Taos, New Mexico, from January through April 2010. In April, she had a solo exhibition at the Abbei Gallery in Pulheim, Germany, as part of the International Festival of New Music. She also had a solo show at the Dam Gallery in Seoul, Korea, her native country

Professor of Fine Arts Ying Li was invited to participate in the exhibition“East Meets Midwest: New Visions of Figurative Painting” at the Beverly Art Center in Chicago, April 14- May 9. She participated in the related panel discussion on“Tradition as a Constant Source of Renewal.” She was also part of the panel“Artists as Educators” at the National Arts Club in New York on May 24.

Assistant Professor of Spanish Ana Lopez-Sanchez gave a talk called“Towards an L2 literacy-oriented pedagogy via the New London Group curricular components” at the 28th International Conference of AESLA (the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics), April 15-17 in Vigo, Spain.

Assistant Professor of Physics Peter Love co-authored an article entitled“Quantum-Merlin-Arthur--complete problems for stoquastic Hamiltonians and Markov matrices,” which was published in the March 2010 issue of Physical Review A (Vol.81, No.3).

Assistant Professor of English Laura McGrane gave a talk called“Transatlantic Shandyism and the Ailing Constitution in William Dunlap's The Father” at the American Literature Association (ALA) 21st National Conference, May 27-29, in San Francisco.

Associate Professor of English Maud McInerney delivered a paper called“Hector in the Alabaster Chamber: Narrative Time in the Roman de Troie” at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 13-16 in Kalamazoo, Mich. She also participated in a Readers' Theater performance of Sir Thomas Malory's“Tale of Arthur and Accolon.”

Assistant Professor of Anthropology Jesse Weaver Shipley gave a talk April 22 on the relationship between cultural studies and African studies as part of the seminar series in African studies at Yale University.  He gave a talk called“Number One Mango Street: A Celebrity Theory of Value in Ghanaian Popular Music” at the conference“Tuning in to African Cities: Popular Culture and Urban Experience in sub-Saharan Africa” at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Birmingham in Birmingham, England, May 6-8. He also participated in the Farfina African Writers Workshop, led by writer Chimamanda Adichie, May 25-30 in Lagos, Nigeria.

Associate Professor of English Gus Stadler presented a paper called“Warhol as Recording Artist” as part of The Experience Music Project in Seattle, April 15-18. He has also been named co-editor-in-chief of the Journal for Popular Music Studies. Haverford will house the journal in collaboration with USC, where his co-editor teaches.

Assistant Professor of English Theresa Tensuan delivered the paper“Blood in the Gutter: Graphic Responses to Hurricane Katrina from Flood to A.D.: After the Deluge” at the American Comparative Literature Association annual conference in New Orleans, April 1-4.

Assistant Professor of Sociology Anat Yom-Tov gave a talk called“The Barriers to Equality: How Jobs and Human-Capital Resources Reproduce Earnings” at RC (Research Committee) 28 - the Sociological Stratification Meeting, May 9-11 in Haifa, Israel.

Assistant Professor of Philosophy Joel Yurdin participated in the UNC/Duke Intellectual Virtues Workshop held in Chapel Hill and Durham, N.C., April 23-25. He also commented on Daniel Devereux's“Contemplation and Action in Aristotle's Ethics.”