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Faculty Activities

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NEH Challenge Grant in American Communities

 

American Communities Program

 

Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities

 

Reel Rasquache

 

Center for the Study of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

 

Recent Professional Activities, Honors, and Publications

 

ART Department

 

Barb Boyer

 

Director of Curriculum and Educational Research for National Security Agency Online courses.  Recently one on Colombia and currently on  Mexico .  They cover the life, culture, history and arts of the country.(P.I.,Dr Penny Semrau, Charter College of Education)

 

Following are research presentations and papers:

 

Refereed (2007) Collaborating On An E-Learning Course: focus on Authentic Learning Accepted for publication and presentation at E-Learn 2007. World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education, Quebec, Canada

 

Refereed (2007). Preparing University Students for Working in Tomorrow's World. Annual Tech Ed Conference, Ontario, California

 

Invited (2006) Author of Curriculum and Education Research. NSA Mexico Online Course and Text. Presentation to National Security Agency Officials, California State University-Los Angeles

 

Research and Online Course, "Colombia" (2006) Completed for NSA and third project was awarded.

Refereed (2005). The aftermath of developing an e-learning course:Lessons Learned. Paper accepted for publication and presentation at E-Learn 2005 International Conference. Vancouver, B.C.

 

 

Manuel Aguilar

 

Book: Handbook to Life in the Aztec World.  First Edition: Facts on File, 2006; Second Edition: Oxford University Press, 2007.

 

Co-founder of the MINOR IN MESOAMERICAN STUDIES, a joint program of Chicano Studies, Art History, Anthropology, and History at Cal State L.A. .

 

Ulama Project Research completed 2003-2007.  We are in the process of writing the manuscript for publication.

    

Participation in two History Channel Programs:  Engineering an empire: The Aztecs (2006), and Digging the Truth: Aztec Human Sacrifice (2007).

 

Created the Section of Aztec Art and Architecture for the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies (FAMSI), one of the most important institutions for scholarly Pre-columbian research in the world. 2007.

 

Discussant in the NSF Interdisciplinary Project: Antagonistic Tolerance, composed of scholars of 7 different countries who will be investigating the sharing of religious spaces in diverse regions of the world.  Conference held in Turkey, October 2007.

 

Working as Latin American consultant in a comprehensive research project about “Regional Security in Latin America ”.  The project led by Dr. Penny Semrau and Dr. Barbara Boyer was commissioned by the National Security Agency of the U.S. Government (2007).

 

 

 

Luis Bermudez

 

Exhibitions

2006   "Scripps College 62nd Ceramic Annual 2006 Exhibition", Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Claremont, CA

2006   "Beatrice Wood Ceramic Annual", Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts, Ojai, CA

2006   "Soaring Spirits: Feet of Clay", Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR

2007   "2007 Faculty Exhibition", Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles

2007   "Hausguests", Sponsored by Haus Gallery, The Brewery Project, Los Angeles , CA

 

2007   "kilnopening.edu", American Museum of Ceramic Art , Pomona , CA

 

 

 

Jack Butler

 

One person show “Kulture/Culture” at Sherry Frumkin Gallery in Santa Monica April 29th – June 10th 2006

Review of “Kulture/Culture” exhibition published in NY ARTS magazine Vol10 Sept-Oct 2006

Images from “Kulture/Culture” publish in ZYZZYVA literary magazine. XXII.3

Work from ”Kulture/Culture” series included in article in afterimage , A Journal of  Media Arts and Cultural Criticism on photography in Southern California 2007

A six page article including an interview with Greg Escalante “The Second Coming of Jack Butler”for JUXTAPOZ magazine January 2007

Curator “Simultaneous Ideas, Simultaneous Projects”, The Photographic Works of Thomas McGovern. Exhibition held in Fine Arts Gallery, California State University Los Angeles, Sept 29th – Oct 20th  2007

 

Tony Longson

Nominated for the inaugural annual "d.velop digital award", Digital Art Musuem, Berlin . (Five nominations internationally)

 

2006 Presentation to the Planetary Collegium, Plymouth, "Art and Memory"

 

EXHIBITION: Scratch Code, Daelim Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea 

EXHIBITION DATES: October 16 – December 31, 2006 

 

Referenced in "Art of the Digital Age",  Bruce Wands, Thames and Hudson

 

Exhibition:  Ex Machina - Fruhe Computergrafik bis 1979, Kunsthalle,  Bremen

Date:  June-August 2007

 

Chapter in "White Heat and Cold Logic: British Computer Arts 1960-1980, An Historical and Critical Analysis." ed. Paul Brown.  (MIT Press in publication)

2007 CSU Printmaking Invitational, Janet Turner Print Museum at Cal State, Chico

 

 

COMMUNICATION STUDIES/ TELEVISION, FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES

Mohammad A. Auwal, Ph.D. 

Ninth National Communication Ethics Conference: "Globalization and Provinciality:  Communication Ethics and Culture."  Duquesne University .        June 8-11, 2006.  Panel Chair:  Communication Ethics in a Global Market.

 

 

Kevin Baaske, Ph.D.  

 

Dr. Kevin Baaske, Communication Studies, accompanied two American debate students, selected through an open competition, on a three week tour of Japan and South Korea in June, 2005.  The American students participated in audience debates at each of the campuses they visited and Dr. Baaske presented talks on two topics: Argumentation and Debate in a Civil Civic Society and Substance and Style: The Role of Debates in the 2004 US Presidential Campaign. 

 

Waveland Press published the second edition of Thomas A. Hollihan and Kevin T. Baaske's Arguments and Arguing: The Products and Process of Human Decision Making in 2005 accompanied with an extensive Instructor's Manual/CD authored by Baaske.

 

Bai, Chunsheng, Ph.D.


Conducted a seminar in January 2006 in China entitled “Globalization and Media Development” in the Tianjin Economic Development Area and attended by over one hundred media executives and professionals.

 

Jon Beaupre, M.F.A.

 

Throughout the year as NPR affiliate KPCC FM-Pasadena radio fill-in host for Kitty Felde’s Talk of the City and Larry Mantle’s Air Talk, all for which his performance received high station marks.

 

An invited guest media expert at VisionQuestLive - Re-Inventing Capitalism:  Putting Soul in the Machine.  December 3-4, 2005, GNB Studios, New York City .

 

 

Beryl Bellman, Ph.D.

 

L. Ertaul, T. Braithwaite, B.L. Bellman, Enterprise Security Planning” Proceedings of EURO mGOV 2005 (The First European Mobile Government Conference), July, University of Sussex , Brighton , UK .

 

"Enterprise Architecture and Government Transformation"  Presented at Management Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change Management, Rhodes Greece and accepted for publication in the International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management

 

"Cultural Modeling and Views in the Department of Defense Architectural Framework" presented to the Association for Enterprise Architects, West Coast Chapter, Santa Clara California , Lockheed Martin

 

Academic Director of the FEAC Institute – an organization for the education and certification of enterprise architects in the Federal Enterprise Architecture and Department of Defense Architecture Frameworks for federal and state agencies, the DoD and their contractors.

 

 

Alan Bloom, M.F.A.

 

Bobby McFerrin Video “ Opportunity ” (Written, Produced, Directed and Edited by Alan Bloom)  Published by Capitol Records on the iTunes Online Music Store

 

Designed: August 2005-May 2006: Digital Film Program for Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota , FL   66 units (15 original courses). NASAD (National Association of Schools of Art and Design) accreditation May 2006

 

July 2005.  Served as a Guest Artist in the International Dance Workshop for CSU Summer Arts on the Fresno State campus working with the Kannon Dance Company from St. Petersburg, Russia.

Steve Classen, Ph.D.

Publications:

 

“Lawyers Not in Love:  The Defenders and Sixties TV,” Television and New Media, 8, 2 (2007), 144-68.

 

“Surf TV.”  Invited Column for FlowTV: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture. http://www.flowtv.org/

 

Conferences :

 

“Telling Stories: Oral Histories, Popular Media, and Historiography.”  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, October 2006, Oakland, CA

 

“Does Media Policy Matter?” Presented at the Conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, March 2007, Chicago .

 

Editorial Board:

 

Journal of    e-Media Studies. Published by Dartmouth College.

 

Anthony Cox, M.F.A.

 

A contributing author to forthcoming edited textbook, Race and Media (SAGE, Ed., Dr. Lena Chao).

 

 

Ivan Cury, M.F.A.

 

(Forthcoming in Fall 2006)  The third edition of Directing & Producing for Television: A Format Approach will include a new chapter on multiple camera remote broadcasts.

 

(Forthcoming Fall 2006)  Serving on the editorial board of the Princeton Review and working in conjunction with the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences on a joint project to create a guide to institutions that deal with television, film, and media studies.

 

 

Kristiina Hackel, Ph.D.; M.F.A.

 

2005 University Film and Video Conference, Professor Hackel presented one scholarly paper, one of her short scripts, was a respondent to two dramatic scripts and one documentary script, and had her film, The Trojan Newsreels

showcased.

 

Directed and co-wrote the feature film, Northern Lights, which is currently in post-production.  She is in pre-production on her next writing/directing project, Flags.

 

For the second consecutive year, she served as a faculty mentor for the prestigious Cannes International Film Festival’s Pavillion student internship program.

 

 

Kelly Madison, Ph.D.

 

At radio station KPFK-Pacifica, she is co-creator, producer and on-air host for the weekly African American public affairs program, Beautiful Struggle, which is one of Southern California’s more successful (40,000+ weekly listeners) radio news forums.

 

 

Bridget Murnane, M.F.A.

 

Innovated the first “Dance for the Camera” video podcast carried by iTunes.

 

In October 2005 she was a member of the Film/Video Futures Review Committee for the Philadelphia University of the Arts.

 

An invited consultant for the 2006 International Dance for the Camera Festival at the University of Utah.

 

An invited Juror for the Dance Camera West Dance Film Festival (June 2006 at the Hammer Museum and the Disney Center’s Red Cat).  For this same Festival she has been invited on to a panel on “The Future of Dance Film.”

 

David Olsen

June 2006  Los Angeles as Trans-National Crossroads Symposium

and  2004-2005 Rockefeller Humanities Residency Fellowship

California State University, Los Angeles

 

Presentation/Research: "The Passion of the Christians: Reconciling the Irreconcilable."

November 21, 2005.  NPR affiliate KPCC FM-Pasadena radio, on-air radio interview on Kitty Felde's Talk of the City.  Paris Update”:  Paris was burning and the French government’s response, which many would call incendiary, is doing more to highlight the racial tensions that ignited riots that began last month. We’ll hear from Dr. David Olsen, Professor of Communication Studies at Cal State L.A. and currently living in Paris, Pierre Larrieu, Consul General of France and Dr. Dominic Thomas, Chair of UCLA’s Department of French and Francophone Studies.

Professor of the Year, G.E. Honors Program

President of the Board of the Pennington Dance Group.

Editorial Board of the American Communication Journal.

Editorial Board of Qualitative Research Reports in Communication.

John Ramirez, Ph.D.

Director.  3rd Annual Reel Rasquache U.S. Latino Film & Art Festival.  May 5-7, 2006.  Luckman Intimate Theater, California State University, Los Angeles.

Co-Director (with Alejandra Marchevsky and Ricardo Ortiz).  Los Angeles as Trans-National Crossroads Symposium.  June 1-2, 2006.  California State University, Los Angeles.

 

 

 

ENGLISH

Calabrese, Michael

 

2007/08

Publications:

Articles:

 

“Being a Man in Troulus and Criseyde and Piers Plowman.  Masculinities in Troilus and Criseyde, ed. Tyson Pugh and Marcia Marzec. Also co-author of the “Introduction: The Myths of Masculinity in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde” with Tison Pugh and Marcia Smith Marzec. Boydell and Brewer. Forthcoming.

 

“From Troy to 95 Lincoln Place, Irvington, NJ: A Virgilian Reading of the Sopranos Underworld.  Considering David Chase: Essays on The Sopranos, Northern Exposure, and The Rockford Files.  Ed. Thomas Fahy (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland Press, 2007).  Forthcoming, September 2007.

 

I have been credited with a “special contribution” in a number of volumes in the William Belan English Madrigal Choral Series: Gibbons, Orlando. The Silver Swan; Farmer, John. Fair Phyllis I saw; Dowland, John. Come again sweet love (Los Angeles: Gentry Publications, 2007).

 

I am also credited with a “special contribution” in William Belan.  A Handbook for the Performance of English Madrigals. (Los Angeles: Gentry Publications, 2007). For this book I wrote critical analysis of the madrigals and provided an overview of English prosody and a guide for reading].

 

 

Book Reviews:

 

The Writings of Julian of Norwich. Edited by Nicholas Watson and Jacqueline Jenkins. The Medieval Review. Forthcoming.

The Legend of Good Women: Context and Reception. Edited by Carolyn P. Collette. JEGP. In Press.

Ovid’s Art and the Wife of Bath: The Ethics of Erotic Violence.  Marilyn Desmond. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 2006. In Press.

 

 

 

Presentations:

 

“Will and Troilus.”  Medieval Association of the Pacific Annual Meeting. UCLA, March 3, 2007.

            “Sexual Stamina and Competition in Boccaccio and Chaucer.” 122nd Annual MLA Convention, Philadelphia PA, December, 2006.

 

Teaching Piers Plowman to a 21-st Century Student Body. Layola Marymont University, October 15, 2007.

Contemporary Masculinity Studies and Alliterative Wombs. University of California at Riverside, 2007.

 

 

Cantú, Roberto

 

2007/08

Grant Proposals

“Workshops to Build Digital Humanities Programs at Hispanic Serving Colleges and Universities (HSCUs),  Proposal to the National Endowment for the Humanities (pending).

 

Publications: 

 

      Editor of Journal and Editorial Assignments

 

General Editor, Campo Libre:  Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, to be launched in Spring 2008 with a special issue on the 1968 Chicano Student Walkouts, edited by Dr. Carlos Pérez and Dr. Maria Aparecida S. Lopez (CSU Fresno).  The journal’s editorial board includes CSU faculty in Depts. of Mexican American/Chicano Studies and Latin American Studies. 

 

     Member of the Editorial Board of the Mexican scholarly journal Relaciones     

      (Colegio de Michoacán), 1996-Present.

 

Articles:

 

“Love is Elemental:  Legacies of Self-Destruction in ‘Why Women

Burn,’ by Helena María Viramontes,” in Revista de Estudios de Norteamérica (Spain), forthcoming in 2008.

 

 

    “Octavio Paz and Blanco:  Ancient Civilizations, Modernity, and the

      Poetics of Simultaneism.” Cien Años de Lealtad:  Essays in Honor of   

     Dr. Luis Leal, ed. Sara Poot-Herrera (Mexico City:  Bellas Artes, 2007):

      965-979.  

       

“Points of Convergence: Ancient China, Modernity, and Translation in the Poetry and Essays of Octavio Paz, 1956-1996.” Alternative Orientalisms in Latin America and Beyond, ed. Ignacio Lopez-Calvo (UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007):  2-28.

 

“Images of War and Combat in Alfredo Véa’s Narrative Trilogy, 1993-1999.”  Violence and Transgression in World Ethnic Literatures, ed. Karin Ikas (Germany:  University of Wurzburg, 2005):  151-174.

 

Headnotes

 

Headnote on the narrative of Helena María Viramontes, to appear in The Thomson Anthology of American Fiction, ed. Henry Hart (forthcoming, 2008).

 

Introductions, dramaturgical notes, and prologues