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Several Women's Studies affiliated faculty win in the Research Enrichment Fund Grant Competition:

Dr. Laura Beard, Associate Professor of Spanish & Portuguese in CMLL, has published Acts of Narrative Resistance: Women’s Autobiographical Writings in the Americas with the University of Virginia Press, in the American Literatures Initiative Series.  The book is an exploration of women’s autobiographical writings in the Americas, focusing on three specific genres: testimonio, metafiction, and the family saga used to tell the story of a nation.  With sample texts from women writers of Argentina, Brazil and Indigenous Canada, she focuses on how in these genres of resistance, women resist the cultural definitions imposed on them in an effort to speak and rename their own experiences. Dr. Beard is also an invited speaker at I ENCULT, a conference on literature, culture, and translation at the Federal University of Paraíba in João Pessoa, Brazil, in September.  She will be presenting a talk entitled “Translating Cultures: Ethical Issues in Teaching Life Narratives from Other Cultures.”

Dr. Stefan Estreicher, Horn Professor of Physics, will give the opening plenary talk at the 25th International Conference on Defects in Semiconductors in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Drs. Karen Meaney and Kent Griffin, Department of Health, Exercise, and Sport Sciences, and former graduate student Heidi Bohler recently published a paper entitled "Service-Learning: A Venue for Enhancing Pre-Service Educators' Knowledge Base for Teaching." The study was published in the International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

Dr. Sara Spurgeon, Associate Professor of Literature of the Southwest in the Department of English, has published the article "Miracles in the Desert: Literature, Water, and Public Discourse in the American West" in the Summer 2009 issue of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE).
 
Dr. Victoria Surliuga, Assistant Professor of Italian in the Department of CMLL,
has published an article on the relationship between the cinema of Federico Fellini
and the Venetian poetry of Andrea Zanzotto, “Simulation and Ekphrasis: Zanzotto’s
Poetry in Fellini’s Casanova,” in Literature and Film Quarterly 37.3 (2009): 224-233.
 
Dr. Barbara P. Weinlich, Assistant Professor of Classics in the Department of CMLL, presented a paper at the Pacific Rim Roman Literature Seminar 2009 “Utopia and Dystopia in Roman Literature,” hosted by University College London (UK), 7-9 July 2009. The title of her talk was “The Dimension(s) of Utopia in Moralistic Discourse: Mythic Past and Contemporary Rome in Propertius 3.13.”
 
Dr. Barbara P. Weinlich, Assistant Professor of Classics in the Department of CMLL, presented a paper at “Asterisks and Obelisks: Classical Receptions in Children’s Literature,” an international conference hosted by the Department of Classics, University of Wales Lampeter (UK), 6-10 July 2009, in collaboration with the Department of Classics at the University of Nottingham. The title of her paper was “Greece! Rome! Monsters! – Uncanny Encounters in the 21st Century.”

A Ph.D. student in Creative Writing from the Department of English received the 2009 TACWT (Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers) award for graduate poetry and graduate nonfiction writing: Jessicca Vidrine (poetry: "Shadows of Winter in the Laundry," nominated by Dr. Jacqueline Kolosov-Wenthe).

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