Professional Achievements
of the
Nazareth College Faculty
April 19, 2013
Shults Center Forum
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
ART
Ms. Doot Bokelman
Brush Creek Artist's Residency. Wyoming. May 2012
Dr. Shannon Elliott
NYSATA Conference: Art Teacher of the Year Award, Tarrytown, NY. November 2011
Author: NYS Art Shifts for ELA & Math, NYSED document. March 2012
Petition: Art Ed Advocacy, 1400+ signatures, ROCO. September 2011
NYSATA Region II Chair (8 NYS counties), Facilitated 11 regional mtgs, 9 workshops, 1 regional student exhibition, professional development, elections
Ms. Tracie Glazer
Presented: "Special Education Law Reforms in the United States", Americas Week Conference 2012, University of Pannonia, Hungary. March 2012
Presented: "Using Skype to Extend the Classroom", NYSATA 2011 Annual Conference, Tarrytown, NY. November 2011
Recipeint: Art Educator of the Year Award for Region #2 in NYS, NYSTA 2011 Annual Conference, Tarrytown, NY. November 2011
Co-presented: "Making the Contemporary Relelvant", NYSATA 2011 Annual Conference, Tarrytown, NY. November 2011
Co-presented: "Using the Contemporary in High School Art Rooms", NAEA Conference 2012, New York City. March 2012
Presented: "Art Room Assessment in the Age of the Common Core", Newark Public School's 2012 Superintendent Conference Day, Newark NY. April 2012
6X6X2012 Exhibition, ROCO, Rochester, NY. May-June 2012
Art Awake Exhibition, Rochester, NY. April 2012
Ms. Catherine Haven Kirby
Reviewer: American Institute of Graphic Design Upstate, Design Student Porftolio Review at RIT. April 2012
Participant: Rochester Contemporary Art Center – 6x6x2012: Global. Rochester, NY. July 2012
Mr. Mitch Messina
Presenter: Idea Development in Ceramics, RIT School for American Crafts, Metals Department. February 2012
Presenter: Developing Artistic Integrity, RIT School for American Crafts, Ceramic Department. March 2012
Exhibitor: Solo exhibition entitled "Conveyor", Saratoga Clay Art Center. June 2012
BIOLOGY
Dr. Carol Roote
Poster: “Comparing Student Learning Outcomes in Onsite Versus Online Delivery”, American Society for Microbiology Conference for Undergraduate Educators (ASMCUE): The 18th Annual Conference for Undergraduate Educators 2011, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. June 2011
Participant: The 2011Project Kaleidoscope Summer Leadership Institute, Baca Campus of Colorado College, Crestone, CO. July 2011
Dr. Brian Witz
Manuscript reviewer: American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
CHEMISTRY and BIOCHEMISTRY
Dr. Richard Hartmann
Participated: The 243rd ACS National Meeting & Exposition
Dr. Kelly Hutchinson-Anderson
Presented: “Thinking Big about Nano: Inquiry-based Nanoscience Lessons in the Classroom”, 2011 Professional Workshop for Central Western Section of Science Teachers Association of New York State, Nazareth College. February 2012
Faculty sponsor: Thirteen SCI 101 students presenting research, CARS 2012, Nazareth College. April 2012
Awarded Faculty Scholarship and Innovation Grant for: Dissemination of Research Projects, Nazarth College. April 2012
Reviewer: Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER)
MSP-Start Partnership: Boundary Crossing Teams for Science and Mathematics Education Enrichment. Researcher on this NSF funded grant between RIT, Nazareth, and Rush-Henrietta School District
Dr. Lynn O’Brien
Presented: “Engaging Noyce Scholars Beyond the Classroom”, Northeast Regional Robert Noyce Program Conference, Philadelphia, PA. October 2011
Workshop participant: McNair Grant Writing Workshop, Washington, DC. July 2012
ENGLISH
Dr. Clare Counihan
Published: “Childless Mothers and Motherless Children: Fantasies of Postcolonial Reproduction in The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency.” In Global Positioning in Contemporary World Cinema, edited by Delia and Matthias Konzett (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, under contract)
Published: “Desiring Diaspora: ‘Testing’ the Boundaries of National Identity in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory.” Small Axe 16.1 March 2012
Published: “Detecting Outside History in The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency,” Mosaic 44.2 June 2011
Participant: “Decolonizing Knowledge and Power: Postcolonial Studies, Decolonial Horizons; Center of Study and Investigation for Global Dialogues”, Barcelona, Spain. July 2011
Reader: NWSA’s 2012 national conference, National Women’s Studies Association. Read and evaluated paper and panel proposals. March 2012
Presented: “Between Disciplines: A Literary Scholar Teaching Social Science Students in the Women’s and Gender Studies Classroom”, Northeast MLA Conference, Rochester, NY. March 2012.
Presented: “A Question of the Future: The Quiet Violence of Dreams’ Tender Brotherhood”, American Comparative Literature Association, Providence, RI. April 2012
Dr. Carlnita Greene
Invited participant: “Conversing on Diversity of Women Faculty: Quo Vadis? Where are You Going?”, AAUW House, Rochester. April 2012
Invited Talkback panelist: "Passionate Representations Film Series" Women's History Month, Rochester, NY March 2012
Radio interview: 1370 Connections with Bob Smith, "Passionate Representations Film Series" for Women's History Month, Rochester, NY. March 2012
Reviewer: National Communication Association, Mass Communication Division-reviewer for the 2012 NCA Conference
Dr. Suhail M. Islam
Presented: Lecture “Bang Karno’s Indonesia: Bandung Stories and other academic observations.” Spring 2012 Faculty Colloquium, Dept. of English. February 2012
Presented: Lecture “From Rhetoric to Critical Discourse Analysis” Faculty of Literature and Communication Science. Universitas Padjadjaran (Fikom Unpad), Jatinangor campus, Sumedang, West Java, Indonesia November 2011
Conducted workshop: English Literature and Communication, Faculty of Literature and Communication Science, Universitas Padjadjaran (Fikom Unpad), Jatinangor campus, Sumedang, West Java, Indonesia November 18-22, 2011
Dr. Mark Madigan
Presented: "'Paestum': An Unpublished Poem from Willa Cather's Grand Tour of Italy" in a plenary session at Cather Seminar: Northampton, MA. June 2011.
Chaired: Session on Cather and her Precursors: Jewett and Wharton at International Cather Seminar: Northampton, MA. June 2011.
Published: "'Paestum': An Unpublished Poem from Willa Cather's Grand Tour of Italy", Willa Cather Review. Fall 2011
Dr. Adrielle Mitchell
Paper: "Melancholic Morphing: Aging Male Protagonists”, Modern Language Association annual conference, Seattle, WA. January 2012
Panelist: “Reading the World through ImageTexts”, Comics, Libraries and Education conference, Rochester Public Libraries. April 2012
Participant: Nazareth College/Monroe Community College Summit, Nazareth College. March 2012
Book Chapter: "Exposition and Disquisition: Nonfiction Graphic Narratives and Comics Theory in the Literature Classroom ", Teaching Comics and Graphic Narratives: Theory, Strategy and Practice, ed. Lan Dong, McFarland Press. 2012
Dr. Lisa Perks
Presented: “Making prejudice palatable: Narrative revulsion and resolution on The Office”, National Communication Association, New Orleans, LA. November 2011
Panel chair and respondent: Eastern Communication Association, Boston, MA. April 2012
Published: “The ancient roots of humor theory”, HUMOR: The International Journal of Humor Research 25(2), 119-132. 2012
Published: “Three satiric television decoding positions” Communication Studies 63(3), 291-309. 2012
Ad Hoc reviewer: Critical Studies in Media Communication
President and reviewer: Eastern Communication Association, Media Communication Interest Group
Dr. Joseph Pestino
Awarded: "The Joe D. Thomas" Distinguished Service Award" by the College English Association, Richmond, VA. March 2012
Chaired: “Working Space and State of Mind" Association Conference, the 43rd Annual College English Association Conference, Richmond, VA. March 2012
Consultant: After the CEA Treasurer resigned, served as consultant to the interim Treasurers. Ran 43rd annual CEA conference. 2011-2012
Served: Executive Board of the New York College English Association. Deliberated on issues related to running of the organization (regional conference scheduling, policiy procedures, and nominations of new officers)
Dr. Virginia Skinner-Linnenberg
Presented: “Finding America Again: Minor League Baseball Trips as Education”, Baseball and American Culture Conference, Cooperstown, NY. May 2011
Reviewed: Website for Cengage Publishing
Dr. Joseph Viera
Special panel organizer: Latin @ Literature, College English Association 43rd Annual Conference “Borders”, Richmond, VA. March 2012
Developed and proposed: Special sessional panel on "Cuban Nationalism", Modern Languages Association 127th Annual Convention, Seattle, WA. January 2012
Reviewer: U.S. Latino/a liberatures for MELUS (The Society for the Study of Multi-ethnic Literatures of the United States)
Member: Editorial Board, MELUS (The Society for the Study of Multi-ethnic Literatures of the United States)
Member: Diversity Committee, CEA (College English Association)
Dr. Monica Weis
Member: Board of Directors/Program Committee: International Thomas Merton Society. 2013
Designed, recurited and moderated: Two panels, College English Association Annual Conference on “Borders”, Richmond, VA. March 2012
Published full-length book: The Environmental Vision of Thomas Merton. University Press of Kentucky. June 2011
Reviewed: "Dark Green Religion: Nature, Spirituality and the Planetary Future" by Bron Taylor (Berkeley: U of Calif. Press, 2010). ISLE (Interdiscipinary Studies in Literature & Environment). Summer 2011 (696-98)
Fulbright Lecture Award: University of Pannonia, teaching American literature, Veszprem, Hungary. Fall 2011
3 presentations: The University of Pecs, Hungary: Thomas Merton, the writing process; Af-Amer slave narratives, Pecs, Hungary. October 2011
Public lecture: "Loving Creation Around Us: Thomas Merton's Spiritual Legacy at Hittudomanyi Foiskola, Veszprem, Hungary. November 2011
Response: To Morgan Atkinson's documentary on John Howard Griffin, Eastman House, Rochester, NY. March 2012
Dr. Edward Wiltse
Presented: “‘My job quit me’: Unemployment, Crime, and Masculinity in K.C. Constantine’s Mario Balzic Novels” Northeast Modern Language Assocation, Rochester, NY. March 2012
Published: “Doing Time in College: Student-Prisoner Reading Groups and the Object(s) of Literary Study”, Critcal Survey. 2011
FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Dr. Candide Carrasco
Presented: “Tuer ou ne pas tuer sa mere? Voila la question. Dans les oeuvres de Michel Tremblay, Michel Marc Bouchard, et Xavier Dolan” CIEF Congres Mondial de la Francophonie, Thessaloniki, Greece. June
Wrote and directed: a play in two acts and four languages “Casablanca”, Nazareth College Arts Center. March 2012
Dr. Hilda Chacón
Presented: “The Graphic Novel of Latin America”, panel organizer and chair at the 2012 MLA Annual Convention, Seattle, WA. January 2012
“Reflexionando sobre la guerrilla urbana en la era global: historia de una mujer combatiente en Guatemala,” [Reflecting Upon Urban Guerrilla in the Global Era: History of a Combatant Woman in Guatemala] International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), San Francisco. May 2012
Presented: “Visual Era: Cyberspace, Graphic Novels and Political Cartoons in Latin America”, 2012 NeMLA Annual Convention, Rochester, NY. March 2012
Published: “Rituales” [Rituals] Ámbitos feministas 2012, Revista Crítica Multidisciplinaria de la Coalición Feministas Unidas Print. Fall 2012
Published: “Exilio y cárcel” [Exile and Prison], Diálogo 15:1; Exile and Dislocation. Saint Paul University, Chicago, IL. Fall 2012
Published: “Maneras de irse” [Ways to Leave] Letras Femeninas. Winter 2012, Number 2, vol. XXXIX Tempe: Arizona State University Press.
2012 Chair: MLA Division Executive Committee on Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature. 2009-2014
Member: MLA Division Executive Committee on Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature. 2009-2014
Presentation: “What is New (and Good) in Culture, Health, Politics, and Literature of Latin America?”, NYSAFLT, Nazareth College, Rochester, NY. March 2012
Member: Lake Erie Latin American Cultural Studies Group (LELAC), which gather scholars on Latin America from higher education institutions in the area: Cornell U, U of R, U Buffalo, SUNY-Brockport, SUNY-Geneseo, Ithaca College, etc
Dr. William Hopkins
Organizing committee: New York State Association of Foreign Language Teachers (NYSAFLT) 42nd Rochester Regional Conference, Nazareth College March 2012
Rochester Chapter Testing Chairperson: American Association of Teachers of German, Nazareth College. Spring 2012
Facilitator: Summer Faculty Seminar: Studienforum: Germany after 20 Years of Reunification, Berling Germany. June-July 2012
Campus Director: Berlin Residential Program, Study Abroad. Fall 2012
Dr. Mireille LeBreton
Presenter: 26th Annual World Convention: Congrès International d’Etudes Francophones (CIEF). Title of my presentation: Gérard Etienne’s Un ambassadeur Macoute à Montréal. Thessaloniki, Greece. June 2012
Edited: two articles for the CIEF publication “NEF” upon request by editor Eloïse Brézault December 2011 and February 2012
Panel organizer: “Identités multiples, citoyenneté et banlieues françaises” Conseil International d’Etudes Francophones (CIEF) Aix en Provence, France. May 2011
Presenter: “Re-penser la francité dans le roman contemporain” Conseil International d’Etudes Francophones (CIEF) Aix en Provence France. May 2011
President: Alliance Française de Rochester. January 2011
Published book chapter: “Un Ambassadeur Macoute à Montréal de Gérard Étienne ou l’expression exorcisante des démons duvaliéristes du passé" Paris: L’Harmattan. 2011
Published book chapter: “Re-penser l’identité et la citoyenneté dans le roman de Mohamed
Razane 'Dit-Violent' et de Faïza Guène 'Kiffe Kiffe Demain”. Sefar, Academia Bruylant Press, 2011.
Article: «La représentation de l’Islam dans la littérature maghrébine: le cas Yasmina Khadra», accepted for publication at l’Harmattan Press
Elected member: LEF-E’s editorial board of Referees “L’Erudit franco-espagnol” an electronic journal of French and Hispanic Literatures. January 2012
Dr. Edward M. Malinak
Conference Planning Committee: NYSAFLT Rochester Regional Foreign Language Conference, Nazareth College. March 2012
Presented: “The Significant Impact of the Italian Theatre on Spn Dram”, 10th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii. January 2012
Organizer/director/moderator: Careers in Foreign Languages, Casa Hispana, for 4 Panelists in a variety of careers, Nazareth College. February 2012
Dr. Zhansui Yu
Presented: “Mechanisms of Control in Chinese Film Production”, Association of Asian Studies, Toronto, Canada. March 2012
HISTORY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
Dr. Isabel Cordova
Chair and discussant: Women’s History panel, Annual Phi Alpha Theta undergraduate student conference, Cansius College, Buffalo, NY. April 2011
Teaching American History Action Research Project for Social Studies Teachers:
§ "Setting the Stage for US Empire", Rochester, NY. November 2011
§ "US Empire: Initial Debates and Controversies", Rochester, NY. December 2011
§ "Identity", Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY. March 2012
§ “Latino Immigration to the US: Demographics and Characteristics”, Monroe High School, Rochester, NY. April 2012
Guest speaker: Four 8th grade social studies classes, “Latinos and Puerto Ricans", School 58, Rochester, NY. January 2012
Guest speaker: International Marketing Class, "Overview on Latinos and Latin America", Nazareth College, Rochester, NY. February 2012
Dr. Nevan Fisher
Public lecture: "9-11: A Ten Year Retrospective, View from Abroad", Nazareth College, Rochester, NY. September 2011
Dr. Timothy W. Kneeland
Presented: "The Blizzard that Buried Buffalo", Researching New York, Albany, NY. November 2011
Attended: THAT Camp: The Humanities and Technology, OAH/NCPH, Milwakee, WI.
April 2012
Presented: “Shovel Off to Buffalo”: The Blizzard of ’77 and the Significance of Snow Removal as Public Policy” Professional Organization: Policy History Conference, Richmond, VA. June 2012
Published: “Millard Fillmore and the Crisis of 1850”, Chronology of US Presidency (ABC Clio, 2012)
Reviewed: "Negroes to Hire”, Educational Media Reviews Online July 2011
Reviewed: "Pricele$$”, Educational Media Reviews Online. July 2011