Faculty and Staff Notes

Assistant Professor of Economics Chris Cotter had two articles accepted for publication: "Electrification, Telecommunications, and the Finance-Growth Nexus: Evidence from Firm-level Data" in Energy Economics;  the second article, "Off the Rails: The Real Effects of Railroad Bond Defaults Following the Panic of 1873," will be published in the 2021 edition of AEA: Papers and Proceedings. Cotter is presenting this paper during the ASSA meetings on January 5, 2021.

Sandra Zagarell, visiting Donald R. Longman emerita professor of English, presented a talk titled “Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s Political Artistry: What The Archive Tells Us” in the virtual symposium “If I Had Known: Education, Performance, Activism," which honored the life and legacy of Alice Dunbar-Nelson. The symposium, which took place on November 6, 2020, and was recorded, was sponsored by the University of Delaware Library Museums and Press. Tt will be available to the public in 2021.

Yorki Encalada Egúsquiza, faculty in residence at La Casa Hispánica and lecturer in Hispanic Studies, published "El Bildungsroman femenino catalano-marroquí en El último patriarca (2008)" in the scholarly journal Polifonía. The article studies how Moroccan-Catalan author Najat El Hachmi constructs a transnational Bildungsroman to highlight her protagonist's Catalan identity.

Anna Levett, visiting assistant professor of comparative literature, published an article, ‘‘Ecstatic Communities: Sufism, Modernism, and Political Possibility in Abdelwahab Meddeb's Talismano,’’ in the winter 2020 issue of Expressions maghrébines. This special issue is devoted to the work of Tunisian writer, translator, and public intellectual Abdelwahab Meddeb (1946-2014).

Christ Jenkins, conservatory associate dean for academic support, published an article on African American violists from the 20th century in the fall 2020 volume of the Journal of the American Viola Society.

Associate Professor of Voice Katherine Jolly has been accepted into the 2021 cohort for the Higher Education Leadership institute (HERS/HLI). She is one of 20 women in academia throughout the nation who will engage in an intensive four-month program, beginning in January 2021, designed to challenge and train the next generation of higher education leadership. Jolly’s work in HERS will culminate in a self-designed capstone project involving the conservatory.

The National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD) hired Yveline Alexis, associate professor of Africana studies and Comparative American studies, as one of its coaches for is faculty success program for 2021.

Md Rumi Shammin is currently collaborating with Professor Enamul Haque of East West University (Bangladesh), Professor Pranab Mukhopadhyay of Goa University (India), and Mani Nepal of the South Asian Network of Development and Environmental Economics (Nepal) as coeditors of a volume called Climate Change and Community Resilience: Insights from South Asia.

The book will be published by Springer Nature in 2021 and includes several chapters coauthored by Prof. Shammin that represent a decade of fieldwork and research in climate-vulnerable communities of Bangladesh.

Metaphor and Symbol published an article by Associate Professor of Sociology Greggor Mattson, "Weaponization: Ubiquity and Metaphorical Meaningfulness."

Music theory professor Bryan Parkhurst has been included in the Society for Music Theory's (SMT) 2020 award for Outstanding Multi-Author Collection. This was given for The Oxford Handbook of Critical Concepts in Music Theory, for which Parkhurst coauthored the lead chapter, "Pitch, Tone, and Note." In the citation for the award, SMT provided, "The eloquent essays gathered together in this volume reflect the unique insights of the contributors as well as the coalescence of a shared vision of its editors. With uniform excellence in depth and clarity, the essays demonstrate that, if we understand and teach these so-called fundamentals as immutable entities, we bypass essential disciplinary questions."