Faculty Scholarship and Professional Engagement

Jeff Pooley , professor of media and communication, was awarded an Invited Professorship at the 'Ecole normale sup'erieure Paris-Saclay, and will be in residency in June and December.

Ted Schick , philosophy, had the 7th ed. of "Doing Philosophy: An Introduction through Thought Experiments" & the 9th ed. of "How to Think about Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age" published by McGraw-Hill. "How to Think about Weird Things" has also been translated into Japanese and Chinese.

Joshua Barsczewski organized and spoke on a panel entitled "'Don't Say Gay': Disclosure, Identity Affirmation, and Trauma in Desperate Times" at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in Chicago on Feb 18, 2023.

Douglas Ovens , music emeritus, presented his composition "Improvisation 10 or Why The Beatles Stopped Touring" at the Center for New Music in San Francisco on Sat Feb 11. Ovens' cello work, "Shhh...." was included in 15 Minutes of Fame, Craig Hultgren, cello at Lewis University in Romeoville, IL on Feb 21.

Sue Curry Jansen , professor emerita, media and communication, has published a book review of The Constitution of Knowledge in the current issue of the International Journal of Communication. Read More

Roland J Kushner , Professor of Business, published "The Invisible Balance Sheet" in the Spring 2023 issue of Stanford Social Innovation Review 21(3), pp 30-37.

William Raillant-Clark , chief comms officer of International Civil Aviation Organization, visited BUS 383 International Management on Mar 3 to discuss global cooperation in civil air transport, ICAO's role, work in the UN system and how current global circumstances are affecting aviation.

Carol Heft , Part Time Lecturer, has been awarded a Fulbright Specialist grant to do a workshop at Palacky University in Olomouc, Czech Republic, in Nov 2023. She will help train professionals in art and art education. Carol has been teaching in the art department at Muhlenberg since 1999.

Jim Bloom participated in the ROTH@90 Conference at the Newark Public Library on Mar 15 & 16, presenting a paper titled "DYLAN WON: The Nobel Prize-Who Cares?" at a session on Roth (Un)Canceled and moderating a session on Philip's Roth's many historical representations and misrepresentations of Newark. More info

Beatrice Bradley presented the paper "'Thy Spirit Intimate': Unlimited Intimacy in Donne's Devotions" at the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) conference in Puerto Rico on March 10, 2023.

Kathleen Bachynski, assistant professor of public health, co-authored the peer-reviewed article "A Helmet of Her Own? A Qualitative Study of Key Stakeholder Perspectives on Headgear in Girls' Lacrosse" with Muhlenberg alum Shivani Iyer. It is now published and available online. Read More

Michael Buozis, assistant professor of media and communication, published "Targeting the trades, press associations, and J-schools: Tobacco industry mapping and shaping of metajournalistic discourses" in the journal Journalism. Read More

Elena FitzPatrick Sifford, Ph.D., associate professor of art history, will be giving a talk and leading a related workshop today on anti-racist pedagogy at Columbia University. Read More

Roland J. Kushner, Ph.D., professor of business, published "The Invisible Balance Sheet" in the Stanford Social Innovation Review Spring 2023 issue. The article includes an exercise to apply to a nonprofit you're interested in. Read More

Frederick Wright Jones An exhibit at Allentown's Soft Machine Gallery begins January 14, with a 6 p.m. opening reception. Read More

Michael London , associate professor of business administration, was featured in an article that described the teaching methodology used in his Leadership, Organizational Behavior and Management classes. Read More

Beatrice Bradley , assistant professor of English, presented at the 2023 MLA on January 6. The paper was titled "Obscene Heroics in Antony and Cleopatra."

Tom Cartelli , english, had his essay "Medium Specificity, Medium Convergence and Aliveness in the Chromakey (2018) & Big Telly Zoom (2020) Macbeths," published in the essay collection Early Modern Liveness: Immediacy and Presence in Text, Stage, and Screen (Bloomsbury, 2023).

Tom Cartelli , english, had the poem, "Some Trees," published in the Avalon Literary Review.

Jacqueline Antonovich , assistant professor in History, was an invited speaker for a roundtable on Reproductive Rights and Contemporary Challenges at the 2023 American Historical Association's meeting in Philadelphia.

Linda McGuire , Truman Koehler Professor of Mathematics, gave the paper "Mathematics at Play: Patterns of Representation in Contemporary Theatrical Productions" in the AMS Session on Mathematics and the Arts at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Boston, MA.

Linda McGuire , Truman Koehler Professor of Mathematics, was on the panel Fostering an Equitable Classroom Environment through Course Design at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Boston. Co-panelists were Nathan Alexander (Morehouse), Lauren Keough (Grand Valley State) and Mike Weimerskirch (U. of Minnesota).

Jeff Pooley, professor of media & communication, published open-access book chapter "The Declining Significance of Disciplinary Memory: The Case of Communication Research" in Handbuch Kommunikationswissenschaftliche Erinnerungsforschung [Handbook of Communication Memory Studies]. Read More

Jefferson Pooley , professor of media & communication, published an open-access book chapter, "The Declining Significance of Disciplinary Memory: The Case of Communication Research" in the Handbuch Kommunikationswissenschaftliche Erinnerungsforschung [Handbook of Communication Memory Studies](Berlin: de Gruyter). Read More

Daniela I. Quiroz won the Jonathan Oppenheimer Editing Award at this year's 2023 Sundance Film Festival. She graduated from Muhlenberg in 2010 with a degree in media & communications.

Dr. Daniel Carrillo Jara, visiting assistant professor of Spanish, organized the special session on Latin American Literature & Digital Humanities: Theory, Practice & Pedagogy at the MLA Convention in San Francisco. He also presented Accumulations of Literary Capital: Visualizing Anthologies of Peruvian Poetry (1910-2008) as part of this well-attended panel.

Dr. Erika M. Sutherland, associate professor of Spanish, attended the MLA Convention, taking part in Approaches to Teaching the Works of Benito P'erez Gald'os in Engaging Gald'os in 21st Century Classrooms & presented The View from the Other End of the Speculum: Spanish Women on Public Health on the Medical Humanities in Contemporary Iberian Studies panel.

Rachel Hamelers (Trexler Library) and Hannah Rempel (Oregon State) edited the two volume book set "Teaching Critical Reading Skills : Strategies for Academic Librarians" published by Association of College and Research Libraries Press.