Faculty and Staff Notes

Professor Kirk Ormand recently delivered a paper at the Celtic Classical Conference, held at the University of Coimbra (Portugal), July 11-14. Ormand's paper, "The Materiality of Class in Greek Invective" examines the way that archaic Greek poets use bodily imagery in insult-poetry to attack, change, or deny the class status of their intended targets.

Professor of East Asian Studies Sheila Miyoshi Jager was interviewed on her new book, The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia, on the New Books Network podcast.

On June 21, Associate Professor of Art History Matthew Rarey gave the closing talk at "The Art and Architecture of Mapping: Visual and Material Approaches to Cartographic Objects," a symposium organized at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. Rarey spoke on recent works by the contemporary Brazilian artist Jaime Lauriano, material derived from Rarey's current book project.

Professor Emeritus of English Robert B. Pierce published an article "Can I Talk About Shakespeare?" in the April 2023 issue of Philosophy and Literature.

Kathleen Abromeit completed the Mindfulness for Effective Leadership certificate through Case Western Reserve's Weatherhead Executive Education with Founding Director of the Executive Mind Leadership Institute Jeremy Hunter.

Stephen Crowley participated in the Plenary Roundtable entitled “Putin’s War: What Future for Russia?” at the Seventh Annual Tartu Conference on Eurasian Studies, at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He also served on the conference program committee, and presented a paper entitled "Sanctions, Economic Hardship, and Social (In)Stability in Russia."

Greggor Mattson published the book Who Needs Gay Bars? Bar-Hopping through America's Endangered LGBTQ+ Places (Redwood Press 2023). The book was launched at The Stonewall Inn in New York City on May 30 hosted by Murray Hill, and it received press in The Washington Post, Eater, Passport Magazine, and GayCities.

Curator of Academic Programs Hannah Wirta Kinney and former Assistant Curator of European and American Art Alexandra Letvin, now at Princeton, published, “Interpretation as Introspection: Transforming Narratives of American Art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum” in Journal Panorama's spring 2023 issue. The essay discusses a number of interpretative projects at the AMAM and collaborations with faculty and community members.

Professor of East Asian Studies Sheila Miyoshi Jager published "Korea, the Kingmaker" based on her recent book, The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia, in the July 2023 issue of the British magazine, History Today.

Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy Jillian Scudder published an article in Nautilus summarizing a new paper discussing the youth of Saturn's rings - "Saturn's Rings Could Be Younger Than Flowers."