Books

Kathy Fagan, English, Greatest Hits (chapbook), (Columbus: Pudding House Press, 2003).

Jane Hathaway, History, A Tale of Two Factions: Myth, Memory, and Identity in Ottoman Egypt and Yemen, (State University of New York Press, 2003).

Jacqueline Jones Royster, Humanities and English, Profiles of Ohio Women, 1803-2003, (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003).

Abril Trigo, Spanish and Portuguese, Memorias migrantes. Testimonios y ensayos sobre la diáspora uruguaya, (Buenos Aires: Beatriz Viterbo Ed. / Montevideo: Ed. Trilce., 2003)

James Unger, East Asian Languages and Literatures, Ideogram: Chinese Characters and the Myth of Disembodied Meaning (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003).

Presentations

The following individuals from the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures presented papers at the first Slavic Linguistics Graduate Colloquium, Nov. 8: Maria Alley, "Lexical Gaps in Russian with Special Emphasis on the Verbal Paradigm"; Bojan Belic, "Minor Paucal in Serbian"; Tanja Ivanova, "Cross-Dialectal Borrowing in the Balkans"; Marcela Michalkova, "Slovak Compounds Mediated via Proper Inflectional Linking Elements"; Natalie Mykysey, "Don't Natashenka Me!"; Miriam Whiting, "To Vy or not to Vy"; and Jiri Hana, Linguistics, "Czech Clitics in Higher Order Grammar."

The following individuals gave presentations at the 2003 Ohio Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Conference in Columbus, Nov. 14-15: Edwina S. Carreon, ESL Composition, "Writing in a Web-based, Sheltered Environment," co-presenter was Ludmila Marchenkova; Cathryn Crosby, ESL Composition, "Grammar Games in the Adult ESL Classroom"; Jack H. Rouzer, ESL Composition, "Collins Cobuild Corpora as a Personal Resource for Solving Word Usage Problems"; Laura Dachenbach, ESL Composition, "Writing Without Erasers"; Joel Bloch, ESL Composition, "Software Evaluation for Classroom Use:  A Parent's Perspective"; Gary Whitby, American Language Program, "Screen Test Fluency"; and Diana Nasman, American Language Program, "Global Education: Projects to Enhance Diversity and Understanding."

Chadwick Allen, English, presented "Kia Hoki ki te Whenua: Potiki and the New Maori Frontier" at the Western Literature Association Conference, Houston, Texas, Oct. 30.

Daniel Avorgbedor, African-American and African Studies and Music, presented "Integrating ‘Indigenous' Practices in Christian Worship" at the Global Consultation on Music and Missions International Symposium, Fort Worth, Texas, Sept. 15-19; was panel chair for "Musical Memories of Loss and Trauma" at the Society for Ethnomusicology Conference, Miami, Fla., Oct. 2-5; presented "Sound in/and Context: Critical Paths Toward Understanding Music in Everyday Life" and was panel chair for "Theorizing Rhythm" at the International Symposium on the Music of Africa, Princeton, N.J., Oct. 10-11.

David Brewer, English, presented "‘The Very Name of Rochester': Attribution and the Posthumous Functions of Authors" at the North American Conference on British Studies, Portland, Ore., October 2003.

Brenda Brueggemann, English, presented "Why Disability Studies? Why Now?" for the vice-president of academic and multicultural affairs and the Office of Disability Support Services at the University of Minnesota, Oct. 28, and "Deaf, She Wrote" on a panel on "Women and Deafness" at the Fourth Biennial Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, Columbus, Oct. 24.

Katherine Burkman, English, presented "The Contamination of Birth by Sex and Death in the Plays of Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter" at MMLA, Chicago, Nov. 7.

Scott Cantor, Office of Information Technology, presented "Shibboleth and InCommon -- Making Secure Collaboration a Reality" at the CIC TechForum2003, Madison, Wis., Oct. 30-31.

Tien-Hsien Chang, Molecular Genetics, presented "DEAD-box Proteins Alive: A Tale of Three Lives of an RNA Helicase" to the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, Oct. 21.

Wendy Chrisman and Ben McCorkle, English, presented "From Ms. Pac-Man to Lara Croft and Beyond:  Mapping Representations of Gender in Videogames" at the Fourth Biennial Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, Columbus, Oct. 25.

David Cressy, History, presented "The Lambeth Disturbances, The People's Fury, and The Insurrection of May 1640" at the Huntington Library British History Seminar, Oct. 18.

Doug Dangler, English, presented "Writing Back (and Forth) Online: Tutoring via IMs" at the International Writing Center Association Conference, Oct. 24.

Susan Delagrange, English, presented "The Comprehensive Feminist Classroom -- Web Use and Design: Visual, Pedagogical, and Rhetorical Considerations" at the Fourth Biennial Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, Columbus, Oct. 24.

Kathy Fagan, English, presented a poetry reading, at Oberlin College's Field Benefit, August 2003; presented poetry at Cosumnes River Elementary, Rancho Murieta, Calif., Sept. 18; poetry reading, Kenyon College, Gambier, Oct. 2; poetry reading, Fontbonne College, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 20; and a poetry reading, River Styx Series, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 20.

Erin Greenwald, French and Italian, presented "The Great White Fear: Saint-Domingue Refugees in New Orleans (1791-1804)" at the 22nd Annual Gulf South History and Humanities Conference, Pensacola Beach, Fla., Oct. 16-18.

Stephen G. Hall, History, presented "Those Who Were Stronger than Shackles: Postbellum African American Historians and the Writing of Antebellum Black History" at the Great Lakes History Conference, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Mich., Nov. 8.

Kyoung-Min Han, English, presented "Wordsworth's The Prelude: Sympathizing, Healing, and Beyond" at the North American Conference on British Studies, Portland, Ore., Oct. 24.

Wendy Hesford, English, presented "Testimonial Rhetoric and Human Rights Documentary" at the Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, Columbus, Oct. 23.

Michael Ibba, Microbiology, presented "Non-orthologous Displacement of Lysyl-tRNA Synthetase Prevents Infiltration of the Genetic Code by Lysine Analogues" at the 20th tRNA Workshop, Banz, Germany, Oct. 5; and "Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases: the Rationale for Diversity" to the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Colorado University, Boulder, Colo., Oct. 29.

Norman F. Johnson and Luciana Musetti, Entomology, presented "Scelionidae of Brazil (Hymenoptera): Contributions Toward a World Generic Revision" at the national meeting of the Entomological Society of America, Cincinnati, Oct. 29.

Ken Kaiser, Recreational Sports, presented "The Football Official as a Customer Service Specialist" at the Membership of the Central Ohio Football Officials Association in Columbus, Sept. 16, co-presenter was Beau Rugg; and "Current Issues in Campus Risk Managements" at the Ohio Recreational Sports Association State workshop, Wright State University, Nov. 7.

Mihaela Marin, French and Italian, presented "Masques anciens, sens nouveaux? Lecture des visages dans La Terre de Zola" at the 29th Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Arizona, Tucson, Oct. 23.

Lee Martin, English, gave a reading at the Lennox Center Barnes and Noble, Columbus, Oct. 21, and at the Nebraska Book Festival, Omaha, Neb., Oct. 25.

George A. Marzluf, Biochemistry, presented four lectures covering "Genetic Regulation, Genomics, and Biotechnology" and participated in several discussion sections and workshops, at the Firdi Research Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Sept. 28-Oct. 6.

Dennis Minahen, French and Italian, presented "Gender Ambiguities, Conflicts, and Shifts in Rimbaud's Poésies" at the 29th Annual Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, Oct. 23.

Diana Nasman, American Language Program, presented "Global Education: Projects to Enhance Diversity and Understanding" at the 2003 Ohio Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Conference, Columbus, Nov. 15.

Terence Odlin, English, presented "Could a Contrastive Analysis Ever Be Complete?" at the Sixteenth International Conference on Foreign/Second Language Acquisition, Szczyrk, Poland, May 22; "On Determining When Language Transfer Has Occurred" at Columbia University, New York, April 1; and "Fossilization in L2 and L3" at the annual meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Arlington, Va., March 24, co-presenters were Rosa Alonso and Cristina Alonso-Vázquez.

Marylaura Papalas, French and Italian, presented "Greek Surrealism: Challenging the Modern Greek Identity" at the Modernity and Modernism in the Mediterranean World Conference, Toronto, Oct. 30-Nov. 1.

Scopas Pogga, African-American and African Studies, Mansfield, presented "The Historical Origins of the Southern Sudanese" at The International African Studies Association Conference, Boston, Oct. 31-Nov. 2.

Mark Rankin, English, presented "Thomas More's Utopia as Early Modern Literary Polemic" at the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (GEMCS) Annual Conference, Newport Beach, Calif., Oct. 23-26.

Walter Rucker, African-American and African Studies, presented "Memories of ‘Homeland': Historical and Literary Representations of Enslavement and Acculturation in the Diaspora" at the Literary Manifestations of the African Diaspora Conference, University of Cape Coast, Ghana, Nov. 11.

Julia Watson, Comparative Studies, "The Trouble with Autobiography: Cautionary Notes for Narratologists" at the Contemporary Narrative Theory Conference: The State of the Field, Ohio State, Oct. 24-25, co-presenter was Sidonie Smith; "Self-love, Self-pleasure, and Self-Production: Autobiographical Conundrums in Jamaica Kincaid's Autobiography of My Mother" at the Autobiografictions Conference, British Comparative Literature Association, Sept. 8-10; and "Schooling in Submission: Interrogating the Post/colonial Bildungsroman" at the American Comparative Literature Association Conference, San Marcos, April 4-5.

Sara Webb-Sunderhaus, English, presented "And Never the Two Shall Meet? The Role of the Teacher in Classical Rhetorical and Feminist Pedagogies" at the Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, Columbus, Oct. 23.

Gary Whitby, American Language Program, presented "Screen Test Fluency" at the 2003 Ohio Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Conference, Columbus, Nov. 14.

Wendy Wolters, Women's Studies, presented "Location, Location, Location: Scenes of Bearing Witness to Without Santusary" at the Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, Columbus, Oct. 23.

Publications

Stephen T. Abedon and J.J. Gill, Microbiology, Mansfield, "Bacteriophage Ecology and Plants," APSnet Feature, November 2003, www.apsnet.org/online/feature/phages/.

Chadwick Allen, English, "Indigenous Literatures and Postcolonial Theories: Reading from Comparative Frames," Beyond the Borders: American Literature and Post-Colonial Theory, Deborah L. Madsen, ed., (London: Pluto Press, 2003), pp. 15-27.

Terry Barrett, Art Education, "The Future: Hopes and Dreams, Obstacles and Solutions," The Teaching Artist Journal, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 196-202.

Brenda Brueggemann, English, "The Juggler," Composition Studies in the New Millenium, Lynn Z. Bloom, Donald A. Daker and Edward M. White, eds., (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2003), pp. 88-94.

Edwina S. Carreon, ESL Composition, "Curriculum Review of an ESL Composition Program," Assessment Practices, Christine A. Coombe and Nancy Hubley, eds., (Alexandria, Virginia: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, 2003), pp. 151-164.

David Cressy, History, "God's Time, Rome's Time, and the Calendar of the English Protestant Regime," Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Vol. 34 (2003), pp. 392-406.

Kathy Fagan, English, "Saloon Pantoum," Slate.com, (Sept. 30); and "Desire" (reprint), O Taste & See: Food Poems, Garrison and Hermsen, eds., (Bottom Dog Press, 2003).

Carole Fink, History, "The Ligue internationale de la Paix et de la Liberte and American Pacifism, 1871-1890," Les Etats-Unis D'europe; Un Projet Pacifiste (Bern: Peter Lang, 2003), pp. 97-112.

S.D. Gehrt and W.R. Clark, Natural Resources, "Raccoons, Coyotes, and Reflections on the Mesopredator Release Hypothesis," Wildlife Society Bulletin, Vol. 31, No. 3 (2003), pp. 836-842.

P. Charles Goebel, David M. Hix and Marie E. Semko-Duncan, Natural Resources, "Identifying Reference Conditions for Riparian Areas of Ohio," OARDC Special Circular, Vol. 192 (2003), p. 26.

Peter L. Hahn, History, "Teaching the War in Iraq," OAH Magazine of History, Vol. 18, No. 1 (October 2003), pp. 51-55.

Rebecca Haidt, Spanish and Portuguese, "The Enlightenment and Fictional Form," The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel from 1600 to the Present, Harriet Turner and Adelaida Lopez de Martinez, eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 31-46.

Amy Helder and Becky Cornett, Medical Center, "Clinical Quality as a Compliance Issue:  An Update," Compliance Today, Vol. 5, No. 11 (November 2003), pp. 22-24.

Tina M. Henkin, Microbiology, "tRNA Requirements for glyQS Antitermination: a New Twist on tRNA," RNA, Vol. 9 (2003), pp. 1148-1156, co-authors are Mary R. Yousef and Frank J. Grundy.

Wendy Hesford, English, "Labored Realisms: Geopolitical Rhetoric and Asian American and Asian (Im)migrant Women's (Auto)biography," JAC: A Quarterly Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Rhetoric, Culture, and Politics, Vol. 23., No. 1 (2003), pp. 77-107, co-author is Theresa Kulbaga.

Ludmila Isurin, Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, "Retroactive Interference from Translation Equivalents: Implications for First Language Forgetting," Memory and Cognition, Vol. 29, pp. 312-319.

Lisa Kiser, English, review of David Salter's Holy and Noble Beasts: Encounters with Animals in Medieval Literature, Speculum, Vol. 78 (2003), pp. 1390-92.

Daniel Kline, English, "‘Unhackneyed Thoughts and Winged Words': Arnold, Locke, and the Similes of ‘Sohrab and Rustum,'" Victorian Poetry, Vol. 41, No. 2 (2003), pp. 173-195.

Charles Klopp, French and Italian, "Reconsidering Romano Bilenchi," Italica, Vol. 80 (2003), pp. 428-432.

Lee Martin, English, "Stage Chatter," Indiana Review, Vol. 25, No. 2 (2003), pp. 58-64.

Irene Masing-Delic, Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, "Who are the Tatars in Aleksandr Blok's The Homeland? The East in the Literary-Ideological Discourse of the Russian Symbolists," Poetica: Zeitschrift fur Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft, Vol. 35 (2003), pp. 12,353.

Terence Odlin, English, "Language Ecology and the Columbian Exchange," When Languages Collide: Perspectives on Language Conflict, Language Competition, and Language Coexistence, Brian Joseph, Johanna DeStefano, Neil Jacobs and Ilse Lehiste, eds. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2003), pp. 71-94; "Cross-linguistic Influence," Handbook on Second Language Acquisition, Catherine Doughty and Michael Long, eds., (Oxford:  Blackwell, 2003), pp. 436-486; "Looking for Roots in the Substrate: The Cases of Ebonics and Anglo-Irish," Ohio State University Working Papers in Linguistics, www.ling.ohio-state.edu/publications/osu_wpl/osuwpl_57/ (Summer 2003); and review of The Cambridge History of the English Language, Vol. III, pp. 1476-1776, Roger Lass, ed., General Linguistics, Vol. 39 (2002), pp. 110-113.

Tony Pasquarello, Philosophy, Mansfield, "Antheism and Natheism," American Atheist Journal, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Fall 2003); and program notes on the music of Beethoven for concerts of the Mansfield Symphony Orchestra, Oct. 11-12.

Val Raghavan, Plant Biology, "One Hundred Years of Zygotic Embryo Culture Investigations," In Vitro Cell & Developmental Biology- Plant, Vol. 39 (2003), pp. 437-442.

Jacques Rinchard, Konrad Dabrowski and Joe Ottobre, Natural Resources,"Changes of Plasma Steroid Concentrations Associated with Spontaneous or Induced Ovulation in Yellow Perch Perca flavescens," Fish Physiology and Biochemistry, Vol. 26, No. 3 (2003), pp. 239-248.

G.S. Saroa and R. Lal, Natural Resources, "Soil Restorative Effects of Mulching on Aggregation and Carbon Sequestration in a Miamian Soil in Central Ohio," Land Degradation & Development , Vol. 14, No. 5 (2003), pp. 481-493.

Maurice Stevens, Comparative Studies, "Troubling Beginnings: Trans(per)forming African American History and Identity," Studies in African American History and Culture (New York: Routledge, 2003).

Julia Watson, Comparative Studies, "Ben Franklin, Protector of Americans Abroad," Biography, Vol. 26, No. 3 (Summer 2003), pp. 438-439.

A.R. Weiskittel and D.M. Hix, Natural Resources, "Canopy Gap Characteristics of an Oak-Beech-Maple Old-growth Forest in Northeastern Ohio, Ohio Journal of Science, Vol. 103, No. 4 (2003),pp. 111-115.

Mindy Wright, English, "Being Adjuncts: Strings Attached?," Lore: An E-Journal for Teachers of Writing, (Fall 2003).

Recognitions

Chadwick Allen, English, Blood Narrative, written by Allen, was named as a finalist in the MLA First Book Prize competition.

Jerald Greenberg and Roy Lewicki, Management and Human Resources, were among eight new fellows elected to the Academy of Management, August 2003.

Keith Irvin, Animal Sciences, is the north central regional recipient of the prestigious Excellence in College and University Teaching in the Food and Agricultural Sciences award, from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service, given at the annual meeting of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, New Orleans, Nov. 16.

Brian Joseph, Linguistics and Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, has been made a member of the Policy Committee (national oversight board) of the Slavic and East European Language Resource Center, based at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and Duke University.

Ken Kaiser and Beau Rugg, Recreational Sports, both received the Carlile O. Dollings Award from the Central Ohio Football Officials Association on Nov. 3.

Li Yu, East Asian Languages and Literatures, won the 2003 University Microfilms Institute/Council of Graduate Schools Distinguished Dissertation Award for her work, "The History of Reading in Late Imperial China." 

Service

David Cressy, History, served as National Endowment for the Humanities site visitor (external evaluator) at the National Humanities Center, North Carolina, Nov. 9-11.

Michael Dordick, ESL Composition, was conference chair of the 2003 Ohio Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Conference in Columbus, Nov. 14-15.

Tina M. Henkin, Microbiology, served as an External Review Panel Member, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Laboratory for Molecular Biology intramural research program, Sept. 21-22.

Christopher Phelps, History, was an invited contributor to a symposium on "What Book Most Richly Deserves Greater Attention?" in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Vol. 31 (0ctober 2003), pp. B4-B6.  The book he selected for consideration was David Bradley's historical novel, The Chaneysville Incident (1981).

Susan Williams, English, has been elected chair of the Graduate Associate and Fellowship Committee of the Council on Research and Graduate Studies for the 2003-04 academic year.