Appointments

Ed Adelson, Music, has been appointed associate dean of curriculum, instruction and student advising for the College of the Arts.

Avni Cirpili has been appointed director of nursing and patient care services at OSU and Harding Behavioral Healthcare and Medicine.

Caroline Whitacre has been appointed interim associate vice president for health sciences research and vice dean for research in the College of Medicine and Public Health.

Books

Thomas Cooley, English, The Ivory Leg in the Ebony Cabinet: Madness, Race, and Gender in Victorian America (Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001).

Herbert Weisberg, Political Science, Controversies in Voting Behavior, 4th ed., (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2001), co-editor is Richard Niemi.

Presentations

Rebecca Bias, French and Italian, presented"Colette and the Cinema" at the 54th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky., April 21.

Albert Churella, History, presented"The Emergence of the Tourist Economy and the Commodification of Native American Culture in the Southwest" at the Business History Conference, Miami, April 22.

Mark Bayer, English, presented"Moving UpMarket: The Queen Anne's Men at the Cockpit in 1617" at the Shakespeare Association of America Conference, Miami, April 14.

Morris Beja, English, presented"The James Joyce Pub, Zurich, 1979 and Beckett's Ohio Impromptu" at the Comparative Drama Conference, Ohio State University, April 26.

Richard Bradley, Entomology, presented"Basic Spider Biology" at the Audubon Eco-Weekend Conference, Dayton, April 28.

Brenda Jo Brueggemann, English, presented"Teaching Disability Studies in the Humanities" at The Body in Real Time: Interdisciplinary Work in Disability Studies Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis., April 27.

Katherine Burkman, English, presented"Desperation in Harold Pinter's Celebration" at the Comparative Drama Conference, Ohio State University, April 26.

John Burnham, History, presented"How a Consumer Culture Was Necessary for the Deinstitutionalisation of Mental Patients in the Second Half of the 20th Century" at the University of Tasmania, April 4.

Terence Concannon, Ohio Union, presented"Development Strategies for Marketing Professionals" at the 2001 Big Ten Marketing Conference, Columbus, May 17-18.

D. Denlinger, Entomology, presented"Behind the Editor's Door: Perspectives on Scientific Publishing" at the Words Symposium 2001, Miami University, April 7.

Kathy Fagan, English, presented"Turned into Paper: A Memory of Larry Levis and Re-reading of 'Sensationalism'" at the Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference, Palm Springs, Calif., April 19.

Carole Fink, History, presented"Turning Away from the Past: West Germany and the Six Day War" at the German Historical Institute of Washington and University of Nebraska at Lincoln Conference.

Catherine M. Gynn, Journalism and Communication and Technology Enhanced Learning and Research, presented"The 58-Second Presentation" at the Fisher College of Business, April 2 and 4; and"Ohio State's Faculty Development Programs and Planning" at the CIC Learning Technology Faculty Development Conference, Minneapolis, April 9-10, co-presenters were Jerry Martin, Tom Stone, Evan Straub and Cheryl Thrams, Office of Information Technology.

Mark Headings, Agricultural Technical Institute, presented"Developing the Instructor's International Expertise" at the 8th Annual Midwest Institute for International & Intercultural Education Conference, Kalamazoo Valley Community College, Oshtemo, Mich., April 21.

Nicholas Howe, English and Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies,"Falling into Place: Dislocation in the Junius Book" at the 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 4.

Casey Hoy, Entomology, presented"Aster Yellows Epidemiology, from Pest Management to Agroecosystems Management" at the Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Nanjung Agricultural University, April 5-16;"IPM Research in the USA; Perspective and Current Trends" at the Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Zhejiang University, April 5-16; and"Update on Insect Pest Management Research" at the Muck Crops School, Willard, Jan. 18, co-presenter was Angel Torres.

Sarah Iles Johnston, Greek and Latin, presented"The Importance of Being Mythic" at the Faculty Club, May 8.

Donna Long and Jan Macian, Spanish and Portuguese, presented"Innovative Writing Activities and Timesaving Assessment Techniques for Beginning and Intermediate Language Learners" at the Central States Teaching of Foreign Languages Conference, Indianapolis, April 28.

Danielle Marx-Scouras, French and Italian, presented"Migrant Militant Music Hits the Charts: Zebda from France" at the Europe 2001: Migrant Cartographies Conference, Universities of Amsterdam and Leiden, March 22-24.

N.L. McCaslin, Human and Community Resource Development, presented"Agricultural Education: Retrospect and Prospect" at the American Association for Agricultural Education Central Region Agricultural Education Research Conference, St. Louis, Feb. 23.

Michael Meckler, Greek and Latin, presented"The God Grannus" at the Annual Celtic Studies Association of North America Conference, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va., March 27.

Caryn Newmann, History, presented"Florence Nightingale Was an Activist!: The American Nurses' Association and Racism, 1950-70" at the Ohio Academy of History, April 7.

Harry Niemczyk, Entomology, presented"Your Golf and Lawn Turf Pest Spectrum and Target Calendar" at the N.E. Regional Turf Conference, Providence, R.I., March 8-9.

Dorothy Noyes, English, presented"'In the Blood': Memory, Rhythm, and the Franco Regime in Catalan Nationalist Performance" at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., May 7;"Interpretive Regimes and Cultural Conflict: Lessons from the Spanish Transition?" at the Societe Internationale d'Ethnologie et Folklore, Budapest, April 25; and"Network and Imagined Community in Italian-American Ethnicity" at the Interdisciplinary Seminar on Ethnicity/Migration/Heritage, Ohio State, April 11.

Dana Oswald, English, presented"'Offensive and Disgusting Bodies': Female Monsters in Alexander's Letter and The Wonders of the East" at the 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 6.

James Phelan, English, presented"The Memoir Boom and Its Backlash: Debates about the Ethics of Autobiography" at the College English Association of Ohio Conference, Columbus, April 27.

Jacqueline Jones Royster, English, presented"Sassy Women" at the Faculty Club, May 22.

Leila Rupp, History, presented"Finding a Place for Civil Rights History in the National Park Service" and"Putting Lesbian and Gay History Back Together Again" at the Organization of American Historians Conference, Los Angeles, April.

Michael Sasso, English, presented"(Dis)ability in the Composition and Business Writing Classroom: Disability Studies Perspectives for Teachers and Students" at the 5th Annual Teaching of Writing Colloquia, Kent State University, Canton, April 21.

Thibaut Schilt, French and Italian, presented"Time, Memory and Contradiction in Duras' and Resnais' Hiroshima Mon Amour" at the 54th Kentucky Foreign Langauge Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, April 21.

Amy Shuman, English, presented"Small World Stories: The Ordinary and the Profound in Everyday Life" at the Texas A&M University Linguistics Colloquium and Discourse Studies Circle, College Station, Texas, April 23.

Smriti Srinivas, Comparatives Studies, presented"Cities of the Past and Cities of the Future: Theorizing the City of Bangalore" at the Illinois Institute of Technology, New York University and Bilkent University, Antalya, Turkey, May 3-6; and"Creating an Urban Armature: Models of the City and Environmental Degradation in Bangalore, India" at the Wounded Cities Conference, City University of New York and Werner-Gren, April 20-22.

John Stapleton, History, presented"The Raadpensionairs at War: Anthonie Heinsius and the Wars of the Grand Alliance" at the Anthonie Heinsius and the Dutch Republic, 1699-1729 International Conference, Hague, Netherlands, March 29.

Dieter Wanner, Spanish and Portuguese, presented"Language Relations In and Around Italy" at the Department of Linguistics, April 6.

Douglas S. Way, Landscape Architecture, presented"India's Environmental Challenges" and a review of the"Global Fiducial Program" at the MEDEA Conference, Washington, D.C., April 23.

Edwin Williams, English, presented"Shaw's 1884 Lecture: Troilus and Cressida and Shakespeare's Artistic Crisis" at the Bernard Shaw Association Conference, Marquette University, Milwaukee, April 21.

Luke Wilson, English, presented"Monetary Compensation for Injuries to the Body, A.D. 602-1697" at the Shakespeare Association of America Conference, Miami, April 13.

Karen Winstead, English, presented"St Katherine of Alexandria: Constancy and Constant Change" at the 13th Annual Medieval Studies Symposium, Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind., April 20, and"The Virgin Strikes Back: Gendered Violence and Saint Katherine of Alexandria" at the 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 4.

The following members of the department of Spanish and Portuguese made presentations at the 31st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, University of Illinois, Chicago, April 20-22: Timothy Face,"Contrastive Focus and Global Intonation in Spanish"; Javier Gutierrez-Rexach and Scott Schwenter,"A Scalar Propositional Negative Polarity Item in Spanish"; Fernando Martinez-Gil,"Constraints on Consonantal Intrusion: Evidence from Old Spanish and Old French"; and Scott Schwenter,"A Pragmatic Re-Analysis of Como-Conditionals".

The following members of the Human and Community Resource Development department made presentations at the American Association for Agricultural Education Central Region Agricultural Education Research Conference, St. Louis, Feb. 23: Mark F. Starkey and Jamie Cano,"Cognitive Abilities of Oak Harbor High School Agricultural Education Students;" Neil Knobloch and Rogert A. Martin, Iowa State University,"Characteristics of Elementary Teachers Explaining Integration of Agricultural Awareness Activities in the Curriculum;" Jamie Cano and Barrett Zimmerman,"Attitude of Vocational Teachers Towards Teacher Evaluation;" Jaime X. Castillo and Jamie Cano,"Job Satisfaction Among Agricultural Teacher Educators: New Directions in Measurement;" and Neil Knobloch,"Characteristics of Learning Explaining the Benefits of Student Interaction in a Distance and Technology Situated Environment."

Publications

Katherine Burkman, English,"The Tragedy of Illusion: Harold Pinter and The Last Tycoon," The Films of Harold Pinter, edited by Steven Gale (New York: State University of New York Press, 2001), pp. 54-67, co-author is Migeong Kim.

David Citino, English,"Fireflies,""The Art of Hummingbirds," and"The Girl Who Made the Stars," reprint, The Honors Society of Phi Kappa Phi O.S.U. Chapter Newsletter, Vol. 23, No. 1 (2001), pp. 2-3; and"On National Poetry Month," The Columbus Dispatch, April 22, p. F7.

Katherine David-Fox, History,"Prague-Vienna, Prague-Berlin: The Hidden Geography of Czech Modernism, Slavic Review, Vol. 59, No. 4 (Winter 2000).

Angie Estes, English,"Vermeer Fever," The Paris Review, Vol. 157 (2001), pp. 41-43;"The Annunciation of an Initial R" and"Now and Again: An Autobiography of Basket," reprint, The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women, edited by Susan Alzenberg and Erin Belieu (New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, 2001), pp. 98-100; and"Amor Ornamenti,""Narrative," and"Rhapsody," FIELD 64 (Spring 2001), pp. 51-54.

Kathy Fagan, English,"In California," reprint, American Diaspora: Poetry of Displacement, edited by Virgil Suarez and Ryan G. Van Cleave (Iowa City, Ia.: University of Iowa Press, 2001), pp. 298-99 and"MOVING & ST RAGE,""To a Reader" and"Blue," reprint, How Much Earth: The Fresno Poets, edited by Christopher Buckley, David Oliveira and M.L. Williams (Berkeley, Calif.: HeyDay Books 2001), pp. 45-48.

G.E. Flores and P. Vidal, Entomology,"Cladistic Analysis of the Chilean Genus Callyntra Solier (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), with Description of a New Species," Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Vol. 108, No. 3-4 (2001), pp. 187-204.

Leigh Gilmore, English,"Una mappa per perdisi" Litteratura e feminisimi: Teorie della critica in area inglese e americana, edited by Maria Teresa Chialant and Eleonoro Rao (Napoli: Liguori, 2000), pp. 233-40.

Roig Junent, S.G. Flores, S. Claver, G. Debandi and A. Marvaldi, Entomology,"Monte Desert (Argentina): Insect Biodiversity and Natural Areas," Journal of Arid Environments, Vol. 47, No. 1 (2001), pp. 77-94.

Julian Markels, English,"Dreiser and the Plotting of Inarticulate Experience," reprint, Literary Masterpieces, Vol. 7 ('Sister Carrie') edited by Richard Lehan (Detroit: Gale, 2001), pp. 111-13.

Christopher Phelps, History,"Pragmatism and its Critics" and"Socialism and Radical Thought," The Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History, edited by Mary Kupiec Cayton and Peter Williams (New York: Scribners, 2001).

K.M. Pickett and J.W. Wenzel, Entomology,"High Productivity in Haplometrotic Colonies of the Introduced Paper Wasp Polistes dominulus (Hypmenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae)," Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Vol. 108, No. 3-4 (2001), pp. 314-25.

Karen Powers-Stubbs, English, Mansfield,"'Where We Are is Who We Are': Location, Professional Identity, and the Two-Year College," The Politics of Writing in the Two-Year College, edited by Barry Alford and Keith Kroll (Portsmouth, N.H.: Boynton/Cook, 2001) pp. 19-41, co-author is Jeffrey Sommers, Miami University.

Foster Forbes Purrington, Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology,"A Clearwing Moth Host (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae) for the Bee Fly, Geron argutus (Diptera: Bombyliidae)," Entomological News, Vol. 112, No. 3 (2001), pp. 178-82, co-author is Neal L. Evenhuis.

Charles J. Quinn, Jr., East Asian Languages and Literatures, review of Karen Sandness' The Evolution of the Japanese Past and Perfective Suffixes (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Center for Japanese Studies, 1999), Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 59, No. 4 (2001), pp. 1035-36; and"Why Early Japanese Rentaikei Sentences Didn't Mean 'ÉKoto'", Cognitive-Functional Linguistics in an East Asian Context (Tokyo: Kuroshio), edited by Kaoru Horie and Shigeru Sato, pp. 303-31.

D. Matthew Ramsey, English,"'Lifting the Fog': Faulkners, Reputations, and The Story of Temple Drake," The Faulkner Journal, Vol. 16 (2001), pp. 7-33.

Dieter Wanner, Spanish and Portuguese,"La pŽrdida del clitico adverbial y en castellano," Lengua medieval y tradiciones discursivas en la Peninsula IbŽrica. Descripti—n gramatical Ð pragm‡tica hist—rica Ð metodologia, edited by Johannes Kabatek and Daniel Jacob (Frankfurt/Main: Vervuet & Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2001), pp. 1-28.

Charlotte Weber, History,"Unveiling Scheherezade: Feminist Orientalism in the International Alliance of Women, 1911-50," Feminist Studies, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Spring 2001).

Recognition

Herb Asher, Political Science, received the League of Women Voters of Metropolitan Columbus Democracy in Action Award 2001 for a strong optimism that our democratic system of government works best when citizens are active and informed.

Service

Terry Barrett, Art Education, served as a presenter at the Arkansas Video Conference on Assessment and Comprehensive Art Education, Little Rock, Ark., May 4.

Joe A. Gilem, Human and Community Resource Development, was conference chair and editor of the conference proceedings at the American Association for Agricultural Education Central Region Agricultural Education Research Conference, St. Louis, Feb. 23.

Casey Hoy, Entomology, served on a panel on a"Cabbage IPM Calendar" at the Ohio Vegetable Growers Congress, Toledo.

Donna Long and Martie Semmer, Spanish and Portuguese, conducted a workshop on"Teaching with the Five C's: A Bluprint for Success" at the Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Indianapolis, April 26.

Donna Long, Spanish and Portuguese, is on the Executive Council and the Service-Learning Advisory Council of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.

Scott Schenter, Spanish and Portuguese, is on the editorial board of the journal, Revue Romane.

The following members of the Human and Community Resource Development department served in various roles at the American Association for Agricultural Education Central Region Agricultural Education Research Conference, St. Louis, Mo. Feb. 23: N.L. McCaslin, chair of session on"Agricultural Education Instruction in Higher Education;" Rosemary Gliem, discussant of the session related to"Research and Futuring in Agricultural Education;" and M. Susie Whittington, facilitator of the session on"Teaching and Learning in Agricultural Education."

Epstein, Colker are 2001-02 lecturers

Two Ohio State faculty members have been selected as the University Distinguished Lecturers for the 2001-02 academic year.

Arthur Epstein, Distinguished University Professor of Physics and Chemistry, and Ruth Colker, professor of law, each will deliver free, public lectures next year on a topic of their choice that reflects their scholarly expertise.

Epstein also is director of the Center for Materials Science. A faculty member at Ohio State for 15 years, he has increasingly been recognized as an expert in why conducting polymers conduct electricity. Among his best-known inventions is the world's first plastic magnet. He has received the University's Distinguished Scholar Award and is credited for his instrumental role in substantially increasing interdisciplinary research and education at Ohio State.

Colker holds the Heck-Faust Memorial Chair in Constitutional Law. An expert on the Americans with Disabilities Act, she has practiced law in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, taught women's studies at George Washington University, and taught in the law schools of Tulane University and the universities of Toronto and Pittsburgh. An OSU faculty member since 1997, she teaches constitutional law, legislation, sexual orientation and the law, feminist legal theory and disability discrimination.

The University Distinguished Lectureship recognizes outstanding faculty at Ohio State, giving them an opportunity to discuss their work with the community and providing a $5,000 award to support an academic program or project of their choice.