PITT-BRADFORD PROFESSORS MAKE PRESENTATIONS, PUBLISH

PITT-BRADFORD PROFESSORS MAKE PRESENTATIONS, PUBLISH AND MORE

BRADFORD, Pa. ? Faculty members at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford published and made academic presentations during the spring semester on topics ranging from special education to Shakespeare.

Dr. Kevin Ewert, associate professor of theater, is co-editor of three new volumes in a series published by Palgrave Macmillan, ?The Shakespeare Handbooks: Shakespeare?s Contemporaries.? The new volumes are on ?The Changeling,? ?The White Devil? and ??Tis a Pity She?s a Whore.?

Ewert also published a review of ?Sleep No More? in the Special Theatre Review Section: Text/Performance/Memory of the spring issue of ?Shakespeare Bulletin.? Finally, Ewert presented a paper titled ?Reading Performance: Shakes and Not Shakes? at the annual meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America in Boston.

Dr. Jessica B. Blackburn, assistant professor of composition, was also busy with several presentations, a publication and workshop.

Her paper, ?Feminist Composition Pedagogy and the Hypermediated Factures in the Contact Zone,? was published in the spring issue of Composition Forum. She later presented a paper, ?Hypermediated Fractures in the Contact Zone? at the 2012 Northeast Modern Language Association Convention in Rochester, N.Y.

In addition, Blackburn made a presentation, ?Digital-Appalachia: Rural Ethos, Online Discourse, and Cyber-frontiers? at the 2012 Appalachian Studies Association Conference at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Earlier, she made a presentation at the 2012 Conference of Digital Collaboration in the Academy and Beyond at Queen?s University in Kingston, Ontario.

She recently led a two-day composition workshop at Seton Hill University and will serve as guest editor of a forthcoming special issue of Across the Disciplines.Blackburn teaches courses in composition, rhetoric, literature, digital media and feminist theory and texts. She joined the faculty in 2010.

Dr. Assad Panah, professor of geology, co-edited a new book, ?Pandemic Influenza Viruses: Science, Surveillance and Public Health.?

The book covers up-to-date information on pandemic influenza with particular focus on the 2009 pandemic H1N1 and the 2005 highly pathogenic H5N1 virus. The surveillance and tracking technology section covers national and international monitoring and surveillance technologies as well as information on novel techniques.

Dr. William R. Schumann III, assistant professor of anthropology, helped organize a panel discussion, ?Globalization and Appalachia? at the 2012 Appalachian Studies Association Conference at IUP, where he also presented his paper ?Neoliberalism and Appalachia.?

He also made a presentation, ?Digital Media and Participatory Development in Appalachia, at the Digital Collaboration in the Academy and Beyond Conference. Additionally, he contributed a personal remembrance, ?Helen Lewis and Wales,? to the new book ?Helen Matthews Lewis: Living Social Justice in Appalachia,? by Lewis and edited by Patricia D. Beaver and Judith Jennings.

Dr. Vaughn Bicehouse, assistant professor of education, made two presentations. The first, ?Leaving Sam Behind: The Need for Dedicated Special Education Teachers,? was made at the Clute Institute Conference.

He presented the second, ?A Portraiture of Nick: Scene one the Early Years,? a case study of a boy with Autism Spectrum Disorder, at the Academic and Business Research Institute in Orlando, Fla.

Dr. Tony Gaskew, associate professor of criminal justice, presented a paper titled ?The Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force Program: Silver Bullet or Smoke and Mirrors in the War on Drugs? at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences 2012 Conference in New York City.

Dr. Helene Lawson published a paper, ?Defining Fish,? in Sociological Viewpoints. She studied human interactions with fish, particularly pets, and explored the various meanings people attach to fish, from viewing them with affection to seeing them as objects of entertainment.

Jeff Guterman, associate professor of communications, moderated a panel titled ?Administrators? Roundtable: Your Turn -- The Challenges of the New Department Chair? at the Broadcast Education Association Convention in Las Vegas.

Finally, Dr. D. Reece Wilson, assistant professor of education, will make a poster presentation on the how students comprehend science material depending on what genre of writing is used to explain it at the National Academy for Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning in Dublin, Ireland, this month.

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