Faculty and Staff Notes

Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater Jason Dorwart's column about disability representation and actor training was published in the Denver Post.

Danforth-Lewis Professor of Economics John Duca attended the Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Conference in Florida. John participated in the workshop session/roundtable discussion, "What Should Policymakers Be Doing to Help Entrepreneurs?"

Sandy Zagarell, Donald R. Longman Professor of English, has been elected to a three-year term as President of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW). SSAWW has more than 400 members, national and international. It sponsors a triennial conference and numerous other activities. SSAWW is committed to diversity in the study of American women writers — racial, ethnic, gender, class, sexual orientation, region, and era — as well as of scholars participating in the Society.

Associate Professor of Anthropology Cal Biruk published an article titled "The Politics of Global Health" in Political and Legal Anthropology Review. 

Professor of Comparative American Studies Wendy Kozol published the paper "Radical Plurality and Visual Witnessing."

Assistant Professor of Physics Jillian Scudder presented research on January 7, 2019 at the American Astronomical Society annual meeting in Seattle, WA.

The Association des Collectionneurs d'Instruments de Musique à Vent—France’s Association of Musical Wind Instruments Collectors—recently held a competition for "the most beautiful wind instrument of its members." Michael Lynn, Oberlin Conservatory professor of recorder and Baroque flute, won the award for his Buffet Coché conical Boehm flute on January 23. The instrument will be featured in an upcoming issue of the association's journal, Le Larigot. Lynn will also be giving a presentation on this flute at the conference on Artistic Research in the Field of Early Wind Instruments at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels on February 17. To read more about his research and to hear this rare instrument in performance, visit his website www.originalflutes.com. 
 

Professor of Classics Kirk Ormand recently delivered two talks. On January 5, he presented "Did Imaginary Cinaedi Have Sex with Women?" at the annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in San Diego, as part of a panel titled "Searching for the Cinaedus in Classical Antiquity." On January 25, Ormand delivered the John P. Sullivan Lecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara.  Ormand's paper was titled "Mollis or Intersexed? Ovid's Hermaphroditus and the Figural Tradition." The Sullivan Lecture honors J.P. Sullivan, who taught in the Classics Department at UCSB until his untimely death in 1993.

Professor of Physics Yumi Ijiri co-authored a paper titled "Spin waves across three-dimensional, close-packed nanoparticles" in the New Journal of Physics.

Professor of English Yago Colás gave a lecture titled “Technologies of the Basketball Body: Adventures between the Science of Moving Dots and Somaesthetics” at the conference, Bodies of Design: Somaesthetic Perspectives on Technology, hosted by the Center for Body, Mind, and Culture at Florida Atlantic University. The lecture draws on research Colás is doing for his book, Numbers Don’t Lie! Adventures in Counting and What Counts, which will be published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2020.