Faculty and Staff Notes

Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Aural Skills Kara Yoo Leaman presented a paper at the Music and the Moving Image XVI Remote Conference. The paper was titled, "Swingin' Bach in Ballet: Musical and Visual Rhythms in Balanchine's Concerto Barocco (1941)."

Visiting Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition Cortney Smith's co-authored essay published in Quarterly Journal of Speech was featured in Communication Currents, the National Communication Association’s online periodical for timely scholarship.

Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Emily Barton contributed to a Yahoo News article on the future of college education.

Allegra Hyde, visiting assistant professor of creative writing, recently published her short story "Afterglow" in Guernica.

Bara Watts, director of entrepreneurship, wrote a guest blog titled "The time to innovate is now" for Crain's Cleveland Business. 

Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Robin Beth Schaer's poem "Holdfast" was chosen by former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith for a National Poetry Month feature on the Academy of American Poets' website.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance Alice Blumenfeld's poem "Trajectories" was published online in Stance on Dance.

Associate Professor of Piano Pedagogy Andrea McAlister gave two webinars for the Frances Clark Center for Keyboard Pedagogy on the topic of teaching during COVID-19. The webinars were titled "Teaching Collegiate Class Piano Online" and "Effective Teaching in Challenging Times and Beyond." McAlister also contributed to the special COVID-19 issue of Piano Magazine.

Assistant Professor of Computer Science Roberto Hoyle and Helen He ’20 published "Privacy and Activism in the Transgender Community" at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Computer-Human Interaction.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance Alice Blumenfeld was interviewed on her artistic practice in flamenco as part of the Ohio Dance Virtual Festival.