During her fall 2004 sabbatical leave, CATHERINE BURROUGHS presented a keynote address in Bertinoro, Italy, at the conference that concluded a two-year project directed by Centro Interdisciplinare di Studi Romantici at the University of Bologna. Between 2002 and 2004, seven Italian universities concentrated on the subject of English Romantic Theatre and Drama. Professor Burroughs’ address was titled "The Erotics of Home: Staging Sexual Fantasy in British Women's Drama" and was delivered at the conference called "Il teatro romantico inglese 1760/1830: Testi, teorie e pratiche sceniche" ("British Romantic Theatre and Drama 1760/1830: Text, Theory, and Stage Practice"). This talk will be published in the conference proceedings.
Professor Burroughs edited a special section of European Romantic Review, which compiled the responses of academics, professional actors, directors, and dramaturgs to the first professional production of Joanna Baillie's Count Basil (1798). This production was staged by the Washington, D.C. based company, Horizons Theatre, at the Lincoln Center Campus of Fordham University at the annual meeting for the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) in New York City, August 2004. She co-coordinated a one-day conference called "Drama and Theatre History, 1770-1840: The Import of Romantic Drama" at the annual meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism at the University of Colorado at Boulder, in September 2004. Professor Burroughs chaired a panel called "Cosmorama" at the annual meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism at the University of Colorado at Boulder in September 2004. She reviewed New Readings in Theatre History (By Jacky Bratton. Cambridge University Press, 2003) for Theatre Journal and Notorious Muse: The Actress in British Art and Culture 1776-1812. (Ed. Robyn Asleson. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003) for European Romantic Review. She served as a reviewer for manuscripts for: European Romantic Review and Lumen (the Journal of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies). Professor Burroughs consulted for the forthcoming The Broadview Anthology of British Literature. She re-printed an article in the new Gale bibliographical database. "'A Reasonable Woman's Desire': The Private Theatrical and Joanna Baillie's The Tryal," which was originally published in Texas Studies in Literature and Language (38. [1996]: 265-84), and has also been re-printed in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (Ed. Janet Witalec. 71 [1999]: 55-69), as well as in Joanna Baillie, Romantic Dramatist: Critical Essays (Ed. Thomas Crochunis. Routledge, 2004. 187-205).
MARGOT ECKE received a Mellon Foundation Travel Grant and a Puffin Foundation Grant to support a project she is working on in collaboration with Jen Bervin, an artist and writer from Brooklyn. They spent a week at Harvard during the month of January looking at Emily Dickinson's fascicles in hopes of gathering enough information to reproduce a larger facsimile of her poetry.
SARA FRENCH has had an article published in the Winter 2005 edition of the Griswold Family Association of America Bulletin, "The Michael Griswold House, Wethersfield, CT: A Brief History, Part I." It is the first in a series of articles on the architectural and material history of the Michael Griswold House (c. 1690).
DEBORAH GAGNON presented a paper entitled, "A Functional Approach to the Cognitive Psychology Curriculum," at the 27th annual meeting of the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology, in St. Petersburg, Florida, on January 2, 2005.
EDNIE GARRISON’s article, "Metaphorical Retunings: Remodulating Third Wave Feminist Meaning," was solicited for publication in a special issue of Rhizomes on Deleuze and Guattari and Queer Studies, edited by Michael O’Rourke. The issue will be out in the fall of 2005. Her essay, "Are We On a Wavelength Yet? On Feminist Oceanography, Radios and Third Wave Feminism," is published in Third Wave Feminism: Collective Action in A New Millennium, edited by Jo Reger (Routledge, 2005). Professor Garrison will be giving a presentation at the "GenderQueer/QueerGenders: Conversations Among Artists, Academics, and Activists" conference at the University of California, Santa Barbara, February 11-13, 2005. The title of her talk is "Non-Feminine Femme, Or, How Can a Femme Register as Androgynous-Masculine on a Personality Test?" Last fall she presented a paper, "Waving Questions: On Feminist Oceanography, Radio Wavelengths, and Submerged Epistemologies," at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association in Atlanta, Georgia, November 11-14, 2004.
JILL HILL’s article that she co-authored has been accepted for publication in the journal: Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. The title of the article is "A Cultural-Contextual Perspective on the Validity of the MMPI-2 with American Indians."
ETHEL KING-MCKENZIE has been invited by The US Affiliate of International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (IAAACS) to present a paper at the conference to be held April 8-11, 2005, at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
KENT KLITGAARD was appointed as a Visiting Research Scholar at the New York State College of Environmental Science and Forestry for the Fall 2004 semester. He delivered two papers while on sabbatical leave. "Looking Critically at the Doctrine of Comparative Advantage in the Age of Globalization" was presented at the 57th Annual Convention of the New York State Economics Association in Ithaca, NY on October 9, 2004; "The Historical Role of Substitution in Theories of Value, Distribution, and Economic Growth" was delivered at the 8th Biennial Scientific Conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics in Montreal, Quebec, on July 13, 2004.
Upon the invitation of the Chair of the Department of Politics at Ithaca College, TUKUMBI LUMUMBA-KASONGO served as a reviewer of the dossier of one faculty member (Department of Politics) for tenure and promotion in January 2005. He was invited to be the keynote speaker of the Central New York Model United Nations (CNYMUN) Conference held on January 7, 2005, in the Shine Student Center at Syracuse University. The topic of the talk he delivered was " Reflections on New and Future African Development Policies and the UN's Role in these Policies."
During her fall 2004 sabbatical leave, NIAMH O' LEARY spent three months as a Visiting Scientist and Professor at Buffalo State College's Great Lakes Center. Research activities at the Great Lakes Center led to the submission of "Seasonal and Event-Scale Patterns of Solute Exports from a Glaciated Forested Watershed" by Inamdar, O' Leary, Mitchell and Riley to the journal Hydrological Processes in December 2004. "Assessing Water Quality Using Two Taxonomic Levels of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Analysis: Implications for Volunteer Monitors" by O' Leary, Vawter, Wagenet and Pfeffer appeared in the December 2004 issue of the Journal of Freshwater Ecology, and "Uncovering Corn Adaptation to Intercrop with Bean by Selecting for System Yield in the Intercrop Environment" by O' Leary and Smith appeared in the fall 2004 issue of the Journal of Sustainable Agriculture. In October, Professor O’Leary delivered an invited talk entitled "Food for the Future: Developing Crops for a New, More Sustainable Agriculture" to the Association for Continuing Education at Case Western Reserve University. She attended the American Water Resource Association's summer specialty conference on riparian ecosystems and buffers in Tahoe, California, and also the "New Tools, Techniques and Approaches in Watershed Management" conference sponsored by the Finger Lakes-Lake Ontario Watershed Protection Alliance in Geneva, New York, in November. She has also begun a term as Chair of the Cayuga Lake Watershed Network's Community Outreach Committee.
During the 2003-04 academic year, LAURA PURDY published an encyclopedia article, "Sexism," Stephen G. Post, Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 3rd edition. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004. Two other articles were also published: "Should We Add ‘Xeno’ to ‘Transplantation?’" Politics and the Life Sciences, Vol. 19, no. 2 (September 2, 2004), 247-59; "The Politics of Preventing Premature Death," Public Health Policy and Ethics, ed. Michael Boylan, Kluwer, 2004.
JACLYN SCHNURR submitted a grant titled, "Impacts of Urban Environments on Tree Recruitment and Potential Implications for Forest Community Dynamics," to the National Science Foundation, along with colleagues Margaret Carreiro and Chris Tripler from the University of Louisville.
Each January, the Cayuga-Onondaga BOCES Talented and Gifted Committee hosts mini-courses for area students in grades 5 to 8. Every student selects two courses, each of which lasts two days. This year THOMAS STIADLE taught four such courses, the maximum possible. He offered two sections of "Where Are All the Aliens" and two sections of "Platonic Solids." Among other things, students built models, generated group oral presentations, learned about exponential growth and the geometry of trees, and calculated simple probabilities.
