Appointments

David A. Benfield has been appointed associate director of the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center.

Charles Hancock, Education, has been appointed as the Office of the Dean's lead person for the P-12 Project, 2001-02.

Linda Kurtz, Education, has been appointed to the Alumni Association's Alumni Advisory Council for the College of Education, 2001-2004.

Books

John M. Bennett, University Libraries, Yr Cream Dip (Columbus: Luna Bisonte Prods., 2001), co-author is Reed Altemus.

Helen Fehervary, Germanic Languages and Literatures, Anna Seghers: The Mythic Dimension (Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 2001).

Ethan Knapp, English, The Bureaucratic Muse: Thomas Hoccleve and the Literature of Late Medieval England (University Park, Pa., Penn State University Press, 2001).

Ileana Rodriguez, Spanish and Portuguese, Canones literarios masculinos y relecturas transculturales. Lo trans-femenino/masculino/queer (Barcelona: Antropos, 2001) and Convergencia de Tiempos: Estudios Subalternos/Contextos Latinoamericanos: Estado, Cultura, Subaltenidad (Amsterdam, Atlanta, 2001).

Patricia Sieber, East Asian Languages and Literatures, editor, Red is Not the Only Color: Contemporary Chinese Fiction on Love and Sex Between Women (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001).

Smriti Srinivas, Comparative Studies, Landscapes of Urban Memory: The Sacred and the Civic in India's High-Tech City (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001).

Grants

Bharat Bhushan, Mechanical Engineering, $350,000 National Institute of Standards and Technology Grant for "A Novel UHV Tribo-Apparatus and Modifications of Atomic Force Microscope for Applications to Micro/Nanoscale Devices," 2001-2004.

Benn Coifman, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, $100,000 National Science Foundation/U.S. Department of Transportation Grant for exploratory research on information and communications systems for surface transportation.

Raquel Diaz-Sprague, Allied Medical Professions, $5,000 National Corporation for Service Seed Grant to develop a service-learning course on "Medical Communication with Latino Patients."

Rongxing (Ron) Li, Keith W. Bedford and C.K. Shum, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, and Raul Ramirez, Center for Mapping, $1,100,000 National Science Foundation Grant for "Digitalization of Coastal Management and Decision Making Supported by Multi-Dimensional Geospatial Information and Analysis," co-recipient was Aidong Zhang, SUNY/Buffalo.

D.K. Panda, Computer and Information Science, $750,000 Department of Energy Grant for "Communication Support for Programming Models for Scalable Parallel Computing."

P. Sadayappan and Gerald Baumgartner, Computer and Information Science, and Russ Pitzer, Chemistry, $1,950,000 National Science Foundation Grant for "Synthesis of High Performance Algorithms for Electronic Structure Calculations."

Karla Zadnik, Optometry, $10,968,283 National Eye Institute and National Institutes of Health Grant for "Myopia Development in Children," 2001-2006.

The Writing Workshop, Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing and Hubbard Elementary, Trevitt Elementary and the Africentric School at Mohawk, $15,000 OhioReads Grant to expand existing Ohio State University/Columbus Public Schools Literacy Partnerships.

Presentations

Oniankpo Akindjo, Meaghan Emery and Julia Praud, French and Italian, presented "De l'exode rural al'exode continental: meme habitus" at the Midwest Modern Language Association 43rd Annual Conference, Cleveland, Nov. 1-3.

Chadwick Allen, English, presented "Fistfights in Heaven; Or, Operating the Lone Ranger and Tonto" at the Western Literature Association Conference, Omaha, Neb., Oct. 19, and "Comparative Indigeneity: North American Literatures and the Fourth World" at the American Studies Association Conference, Washington, D.C., Nov. 10.

Elizabeth Appleby, French and Italian, presented "Representations d'Heloise dans Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel de Marie-Clair Blais" at the 43rd Annual Midwest Modern Languages Association Conference, Cleveland, Nov. 1-3.

Terry Barrett, Art Education, presented "Interpreting Art: William Wegman's Photographs" at the New York City Art Teachers Association Conference, New York, Nov. 10.

Paul R. Berger and Niu Jin, Electrical Engineering, presented "Understanding Growth at the Atomic Scale: Si-based RITDs" at the American Physical Society Conference, Seattle, 2001, co-presenters were P.E. Thompson, G.G. Jernigan and M.E. Twigg.

Alex Blazer, English, presented "Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho and the Horror of Postmodernism" at the Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, SUNY-Cortland, N.Y., Oct. 28-30.

Anne Bower, English, Marion, presented "Tamale Loaf and Sombrero Beef Dip: Mexican Foods in Texas Community Cookbooks" at the 5th Congress of the Americas, Universidad de Americas, Puebla, Mexico, Oct. 19.

Laura Chrisman, African American and African Studies and Comparative Studies, presented "Rethinking Black Atlanticism" at The Modern Literature Conference, Michigan State University, Oct. 19.

Susan Delagrange, English, Mansfield, presented "Are You Looking at Me? reMembering Delivery and Ethos Online" at the 3rd Biennial Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, Millikin University, Oct. 19.

Kalenda Eaton, English, presented "When the Joke is On Us: The Satirical Neo-Slave Narrative and Sketches of Black Womenhood" at the Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, SUNY-Cortland, N.Y., Oct. 30.

Meaghan Emery, French and Italian, presented "The Life and Death of Mina Tannenbaum" at the 43rd Annual Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, Cleveland, Nov. 1-3.

Jon Erickson, English, presented "Defining the Political in Performance: Strategic and Communicative Action" at Northwestern University, Oct. 20; and "Realism or Avant-Garde: Must We Choose?" at Brown University, Providence, R.I., Oct. 26.

Carter Findley, History, presented "Subjectivity and Society: Ahmed Midhat and Fatma Aliye" at the Use of Memoirs and Biographies in Historiography Conference, Bilgi University, Oct. 12.

John Guilmartin, History, presented "Lepanto: The Battle that Saved Christendom?" at the Autour de Lepante: Guerre et Geostrategie en MŽditerraneen au Tournant des XVle et XVlle Siecles Conference, Paris, Oct. 12.

Merry Guldin, English, presented "Listening for New Directions: Gender and Conversation in the Basic Writing Classroom" at the 3rd Biennial Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, Millikin University, Oct. 19.

Donna Guy, History, presented "Women in Argentina: the Myths and Reality of Eva Peron" at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands, Nov. 1.

Barbara Hanawalt, History, presented "London's Medieval Poor: Their Lives and Their Patrons" at the Siena College Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, October 2001, and at the University of Minnesota, September 2001.

Mary Anne Harsh, French and Italian, presented "Effects of the Colonial School on Child's Play in Togo: Postcolonial Ramifications" at the 43rd Annual Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, Cleveland, Nov. 1-3, and "The Carnavalesque and the Grotesque in Roch Carrier's La Guerre, yes sir!: A 20th Century Narrative with Renaissance Echoes" at the Storytelling in the Americas Conference, Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario, Aug. 30-Sept. 1.

Sarah-Grace Heller, French and Italian, presented "The ÔDompna Ensehnada' and the Troubadour's Ideal Love" at the Midwest Modern Languages Association Conference, Cleveland, Nov. 1-3.

Sally Kitch, Women's Studies, presented "Theorizing Multiculturalism: From Utopianism to Critical Realism" at the American Studies Association Conference, Washington, D.C., Nov. 9.

Sukjae Lee, Philosophy, Newark, presented "Malebranche's Arguments for Occasionalism" at the Midwest Seminar in the History of Early Modern Philosophy Conference, Miami University, Oxford, Oct. 27-28.

Emma Perry Loss, English, presented "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as Male Countercultural Fantasy" at the Fantasy: A Scholarly Conference on Play, Peril, Politics, University of Texas, Austin, Nov. 2.

Ben McCorkle, English, presented "Whose body? The (En)Gendered Implications of Innovations in Interface Design" at the 3rd Biennial Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, Millikin University, Oct. 19.

Gregory D. Miller, Political Science, presented "The Price of Dishonor: Reputation and Alliance Formation" at the International Studies Association Midwest Conference, St. Louis, Nov. 2.

Dennis Minahen, French and Italian, presented "Specular Reflections: Rimbuad's Prevision of Lacan's Stade du miroir in Enfance" at the 19th Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Oct. 18-20.

Lucy Murphy, History, Newark, presented "Metis and Creole Identity in a Changing World: Self-Presentation in the 19th Century Midwest" at the Western History Association Annual Conference, San Diego, Oct. 6.

Dana Oswald, English, presented "Words and Works: The Rhetoric of the Old English Judith" at the 3rd Biennial Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, Millikin University, Oct. 19.

James Phelan, English, presented "On Placing Your First Article" and "On Placing Your First Book" at the Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, Cleveland, Nov. 3.

M. Karen Powers-Stubbs, English, Mansfield, presented "Rhetorica Docens, Rhetorica Utens: A Feminist Rhetorician Writes Revisionary Environmental History" at the 3rd Biennial International Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, Millikin University, Oct. 19.

Aaron Retish, History, presented "Power, Control, and Criminal Activity: The Peasantry and the Soviet Revolutionary Tribunal in Viatka Province, 1918-1921" at the Social Norms and Social Deviance in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Era Conference, Oxford, Ohio.

Martha C. Sims, English, presented "Hearing Others: Oral History Collection in a Service-Learning Folklore and Composition Course" at the American Folklore Society Annual Conference, Anchorage, Ala., Oct. 19.

Smriti Srinivas, Comparative 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 2001.

Publications

Paul R. Berger, Electrical Engineering, "Full Band Simulation of Indirect Phonon Assisted Tunneling in a Silicon Tunnel Diode with Delta-Doped Contacts," Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 78 (2001), pp. 814-16, co-authors were Cristian Rivas, Roger Lake, Gerhard Klimeck, William R. Frensley, Masimo V. Fischetti, Phillip E. Thompson and Sean L. Rommel.

Mansel Blackford, History, "Historians Approach Tourism in the American West," Business History Review, Vol. 75 (Autumn 2001), pp. 579-85.

Katherine Burkman, English, Emeritus, "Desperation in Harold Pinter's Celebration," CYCNOS, Vol. l8 (2001), pp. 3-13.

David Citino, English, "Poetry Smells," Columbus Dispatch, Sept. 30, F7; "Tools," Chelsea, Vol. 70/71 (2001), pp. 240-41; "Cell Phone," OSU onCampus, Sept. 27; OSU Parent Roundtable, Autumn (2001) p. 11; and Ohio State Alumni Magazine, Nov. (2001), p. 17; and "The Way We Do the Things We Do," The Journal, Vol. 25, No. 2 (2001), pp. 131-35.

Peter L. Demerath, Educational Policy and Leadership, "A Cross-Domain Explanation of the Metaphor ÔTeaching as Persuasion'," Theory into Practice, Vol. 40, No. 4 (Autumn 2001), pp. 228-34, co-author is Bradford S. Woods.

Angie Estes, English, "Chapel" and "Performance," Chelsea, Vol. 70/71 (2001), pp. 12-15, and "Roma Caput Mundi," Sad Little Breathings & Other Acts of Ventriloquism (Seattle: PublishingOnline, 2001), p. 15.

Kenneth Goings, African American and African Studies, "Aunt Jemima and Uncle Mose See the U.S.A. or, the Marketing of Memory Through Tourist Souvenirs," International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality, Vol. 2, Nos. 3/4 (2001), pp. 131-61.

Timothy Gregory, History, "Procopius on Greece," Antiquite Tardive, Vol. 8 (2000), pp. 105-14.

Mark Grimsley, History, "Commerce, Memory Will Have to Share the Ground," Newsday, Oct. 29.

Barbara Hanawalt, History, "Childhood Among the Lower Classes of Late Medieval England," Population History and the Family: A Journal of Interdisciplinary History Reader, edited by Robert I. Rotberg; and "The Contested Streets of Medieval London," DieStrasse: Zur funktion und perzeption offentlichen Raums im spaten mittelalter, edited by Gerhard Jantz (Austrian Academy of Science.)

Sarah-Grace Heller, French and Italian, "Light as Glamour: The Luminescent Ideal of Beauty in the Roman de la Rose," Speculum, Vol. 78 (October 2001), pp. 934-59.

Andrew Hudgins, English, "Mango," "The Poet Asserteth Nothing," and "Lives and Stories," TriQuarterly (Fall 2001), pp. 139-43.

Robert Kraut, Philosophy, "Metaphysical Explanation and the Philosophy of Mathematics," Philosophia Mathematica, Vol. 9 (2001), pp. 154-83.

Stuart Lishan, English, "Hue & Cry," Xconnect, Vol. 6, No. 1 (2001) and "How Nearness Becomes," Arts & Letters/Journal of Contemporary Culture, Vol. 5 (Spring 2001), pp. 39-41.

Myroslava M. Mudrak, History of Art, "Rupture or Continuum? Ukraine's Avant-Garde in Search of a System," The Phenomenon of the Ukraianian Avant-Garde 1910-1935 Exhibition Catalog, Winnipeg Art Gallery, October 2001, and "Neue Slowenische Kunst and the Semiotics of Suprematism," Centropa: A Journal of Central European Architecture and Related Arts, Vol. 1, No. 3 (September 2001), pp. 219-32.

P. Karen Murphy, Educational Policy and Leadership, "Teaching as Persuasion: A New Metaphor for a New Decade," pp. 224-27, and editor, "Teaching as Persuasion," Theory into Practice, Vol. 40, No. 4 (Autumn 2001).

Geoffrey Parker, History, "Martin Luther Burns at the Stake, 1521," What If?, Vol.2, edited by Robert C. Cowley (New York: Putnam, 2001); "Reflexiones sobre la primera guerra del Siglo XXI," ABC (Madrid: 2001), p. 3; and "Le traite de Lyon (1601) et le Ôchemin des Espagnols'," Cahiers deÔHistoire, Vol. 46 (2001), pp. 287-305.

Tony Pasquarello, Philosophy, Mansfield, Emeritus, "Program Notes on the Music of Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky," Mansfield Symphony Orchestra, Nov. 10-11.

James Phelan, English, "Sethe's Choice: Beloved and the Ethics of Reading," Mapping the Ethical turn: A Reader in Ethics, Culture, and Literary Theory, edited by Todd David and Kenneth Womack (Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press, 2001), pp. 93-109.

Christopher Phelps, History, "Why We Should Not Call It War," 09/11 8:48 am, (New York, N.Y.: Booksurge.com 2001, (New York University)).

Recognitions

Terry Barrett, Art Education, received the Midwest Society of Photographic Education's Honored Educator of the Year Award.

Dale Bertsch, City and Regional Planning, was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners and had his plan recognized as a National Planning Landmark.

Sebastian D.G. Knowles, English, was recipient of an Outstanding Academic Title for 2001 Award by Choice: Current Review for Academic Libraries for his book, The Dublin Helix: The Life of Language in Joyce's "Ulysses."

Lisa Tilder, Architecture, received the Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship for 2001.

Service

Chadwick Allen, English, is on the Executive Council of the Western Literature Association.

Mardi C. Hastings, Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, is chair of the Acoustical Society of America's Animal Bioacoustics Technical Committee, serves on its Technical Council and is on the National Academy Study Committee to Assess Ambient Noise in the Ocean with Regard to Potential Impacts on Marine Mammals.

Patrick B. Mullen, English, served on a National Endowment for the Humanities panel that evaluated implementation grants for Regional Humanities Centers, Sept. 21.

Lucy Murphy, History, Newark, served as commentator for a panel entitled "Engendering Metissage in the Mid-Western Borderland" at the American Society for Ethnohistory Conference, Tucson, Ariz., Oct. 19.

Giorgio Rizzoni, Mechanical Engineering, is on the Italian National Research Council's committee in charge of selecting the director of the Istituto Motori, an Italian national laboratory that conducts research in internal combustion engines and advance propulsion systems for transportation.

Raj Singh, Mechanical Engineering, is on the editorial board of the Journal of Sound and Vibration.