Recent Professional Activities, Honors, and Publications 2007-2009

ART DEPARTMENT

Manuel Aguilar-Moreno

HONORS AND AWARDS:

Recipient of an American Communities Program Fellowship for the academic year 2008-2009.  This fellowship provides partial funding for the project: “Walls of Passion: The Murals of Los Angeles.” 

Listed in Montclair Who’s Who in Collegiate Faculty, 2007-2008-2009.  This publication recognizes outstanding University professors within the top 5% of the U.S. professors in the educational system.

Member of the American Communities Program (ACP) Faculty Advisory Committee of Cal State LA (2008-2010).             

PUBLICATIONS:

Books and Monographs

Walls of Passion: The Murals of Los Angeles. Catalog of a Photo-Documentary Exhibition held at California State University, Los Angeles.  Edited by Manuel Aguilar-Moreno.  January 2009.

Diego Rivera: A Biography.  Greenwood Press.  Manuscript in process (will be submitted for publication in September 2009).

Markets of Latin America. 2008 Calendar for MASECA Corporation.  It presents a selection of picturesque and folk markets of Latin America and their traditional foods and merchandise.  I was invited to write the text for this calendar and work in the design committee.  May-December 2007.
                       
Élet az Aztékok Foldjén. Translation to Hungarian of my Book Handbook to Life  in the Aztec World.  Budapest: Thomas Kerekes, 2008.

Traditional Toys and Games of Latin America.  2007 Calendar for MASECA Corporation.  It presents a selection of diverse traditional toys like balero and trompo, and folkloristic group games of Latin America.  It also

Articles

“Malinalco: A Place between Heaven and Earth.”  In Sacred Landscapes in Mesoamerica.  Edited by Jessica Christie (In press at Alabama University Press; expected in 2009).

“Colonial Art in Jalisco.” Praesidium.  InterdisciplinaryJournal of the University of San Diego.  Vol. V, 2009 (in press).

“Reflexiones sobre la invasión de Estados Unidos a Mexico (1846-1848).”   Praesidium.  Interdisciplinary Journal of the University of San Diego.  Vol. IV. 2007.

FIELDWORK – ART HISTORY/ANTHROPOLOGY:

+ Leader of the Research Project: “Walls of Passion: The Murals of Los Angeles” that consists in the documentation and analysis of approximately 500 murals of the city of Los Angeles, involving 50 students of Cal State L.A.  The project will produce an art exhibition in February 2009 and a book in 2012.

+ Instructor and field-trip leader for the ENRICHMENT VOYAGE Program organized by the Institute of Shipboard Education.  This program is a voyage in the Brazilian Amazon, St. Kitts and Dominican Republic on board of the ship MV EXPLORER with cultural and academic purposes, in which the teaching is accompanied by fieldwork.  December 2008 - January 2009.

+ Field-Trip for study of art and architecture of Western Mexico: Canyon of Bolaños, Teul, Jerez. September 2008.

+ Instructor and field-trip leader for the SEMINAR AT SEA Program organized by the Institute of Shipboard Education.  This program is a voyage in Yucatan, Belize, Panama, and Jamaica on board of the ship MV EXPLORER with cultural and academic purposes, in which the teaching is accompanied by fieldwork.  December 2007 - January 2008.

+ Field-trip with my students of Cal State LA to study the mural Portrait of Mexico Today  by David Alfaro Siqueiros.  Santa Barbara Museum of Art.  Santa Barbara, California.  Falls 2007, 2008.

+ Field-trip with my students of Cal State LA to study the mural Prometheus by Clemente Orozco. Pomona College. Claremont, California. Falls 2007, 2008.

+ Field-Trip for study of art and architecture of Eastern and Northern Europe. The trip included the visit to the Library of the University of Uppsala (Sweden) to study the Aztec Map of Mexico City of 1550, the Pre-Columbian collections of the Louvre and Quai Branly Museums in Paris, the Altes Museum in Berlin, the Glyptothek and Pinakotek of Munchen, etc. I took 6,000 digital photos as documentary material. July-September 2007.

+ Leader of the third field season of the Ulama Project in Mazatlan, Mexico. March 19-25, 2006.

LECTURES AND COURSES:

Conferences and courses on Art History, Social and Political History, Anthropology, Education, Quality Control and Biblical Interpretation. The principal conferences and courses are listed below:

+ Tequitqui Art and Transculturation: The Posa Chapels of the Monastery of Calpan, Mexico”. International Congress of Americanists (ICA), Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City. July 19-24, 2009.

+ Course: "Civilization of Latin America" for the joint summer program of Fundacion Ortega y Gasset and University of San Diego in Madrid, Spain. June and July, 2009.

+ "The Critical Existence of the Ulama Rubber Ball" and "The Cuauhcalli of Malinalco". in the CSULA International Mesoamerican Conference. May 15-16, 2009.

+ “Stones of Blood: The Aztec Art” and “The Magic of Mexican Muralism”. Lectures for the Department of Art and Art History. University of Nebraska at Lincoln. April 16, 2009.

+ “Transculturation in Art: The Case of Calpan Mexico” in the seminar on Beliefs, Myths, Superstitions and Rituals: Global Languages and Local Adaptations. Lecture presented at the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA). Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. March 26-29, 2009.

+ “Candomble: The Afro Brazilian Religion,” “Art and Architecture of Brazil,” “The Maya Hieroglyphic Writing” and “Art and Architecture of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.” Four lectures given for Enrichment Voyages, a cultural program on board of a ship that traveled to the Amazon Basin and the Caribbean Sea. December 18, 2008-January 8, 2009.

+ “Reflexiones sobre las Causas de la Guerra de Intervención Norteamericana 1846-1848.” Lecture for the Sixth Symposium of Military History at Seminario de Cultura Mexicana, Mexico City. November 21, 2008.

+ “Malinalco: A Place between Heaven and Earth.”. Lecture for the Fall 2008 Meeting of the Mesoamerican Network. Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Los Angeles, CA. November 16, 2008.

+ “Day of the Dead and Mexican Funerary Art Traditions.” Lecture for the Symposium Death and the Idea of Mexico. Organized by Chicano Studies Department of East L.A. College. October 29, 2008.

+ “Walls of Passion: The Murals of Los Angeles.” Lecture in the panel: “Mystical Urban Landscapes: Barrio Murals, Public Art Policy and Service Learning in Los Angeles.” Presented at the Conference: Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. October 2-4, 2008.

+ “Aztec Music and Art.” Lanczyner Cultural Club. Guadalajara, Mexico. September 2, 2008.

+ “Clemente Orozco and the Man of Fire.” Cultural Session of the Children’s Nutrition Organization (ONI). Guadalajara, Mexico. August 28, 2008.

+ “The Origin of the Aztecs.” Lecture for the Cultural Session of San Javier Club. Guadalajara, Mexico. August 14, 2008.

+ “Maya Art and Culture.” Lecture at the Western General Hospital. Guadalajara, Mexico. August 6, 2008.

+ “Reflexiones sobre la Invasión de Estados Unidos a México (1846-48).” Part I: Introduction and Causes. Part II: The conflict and its protagonists. Lectures at the Mexican Society of Geography and History. Guadalajara, Mexico. June 24 and July 29, 2008.

+ “Ulama: The Survival of the Mesoamerican Ballgame – Rules and Scoring.” Lecture presented at the Panel 37: Ethnohistory of the Americas. Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean Conference (ERIP Conference). University of California, San Diego. May 22, 2008.

+ “The Aztec Culture.” Lecture for the Anthropological M.E.S.O. Society of Riverside College. Invited by Professor Rhonda Taube. Riverside, CA. May 16, 2007.

+ “History of Mariachi Music.” Lecture for the History Teachers Association of the San Diego Unified School District. San Diego, Calif. May 8, 2008.

+ “Maya Culture and Apocalypto.” Lecture at the Westfield Residence for UCLA students, Westwood-Los Angeles. February 20, 2008.

+ “Bridge to the Americas: The MoLAA Permanent Colecction.” Keynote Lecture at the Museum of Latin American Art of Long Beach, California. January 27, 2008.

+ “The Maya Hieroglyphic Writing,” “The Art and Architecture of the main Maya Cities” and “History of Mariachi Music.” Three lectures given for Seminar at Sea, a cultural cruise that travels in Central America, and the Caribbean Sea. December 27, 2007-January 5, 2008.

+ “Los Aztecas: Arte e Imperio.” Lecture at the Consulate General of Mexico in Los Angeles. December 6, 2007.

+ “Malinalco: The Indian-Christian Paradise of Fertility.” Lecture at the American Anthropological Association (AAA) in Washington, D.C. November 28, 2007.

+ Undergraduate Research and the Ulama Project.” Keynote Lecture at the Southern California Undergraduate Research conference held in California State University, Los Angeles. November 17, 2007.

+ “Myths of Stone: Aztec Art and Architecture.” Lecture sponsored by the Spanish and Anthropology Departments of the University of San Diego. November 15, 2007.

+ “Portrait of Mexico Today by David Alfaro Siqueiros.” Lecture at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Santa Barbara, California. November 11, 2007.

+ “The Prometheus of Clemente Orozco”. Lecture at Frary Hall of Pomona College, Claremont, Calif. November 4, 2007.

+ “ Tequitqui Art: A Case of Antagonistic Tolerance in Mexico.” Lecture at the Workshop Antagonistic Tolerance: A Comparative Analysis of Competitive Sharing of Religious Sites. Middle Eastern Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey. October 3-9, 2007.

+ “Leyendas de Piedra: La Escultura y Arquitectura de los Aztecas.” Lecture at the Mexican Society of Geography and History, Guadalajara, Mexico. July 3, 2007.

+ “The Aztec World.” Lecture at the Senior Center of South Pasadena, Calif. May 20, 2007.

+ “The Art of Old San Juan, Puerto Rico,” “The Maya Hieroglyphic Writing,” and “History of Mariachi Music.” Three lectures given for Seminar at Sea, a cultural cruise that travels in Central America, the Panama Canal and the Caribbean Sea. December 26, 2006-January 4, 2007.

 

Elizabeth Bryant

ONE PERSON EXHIBITION:

2008 “Selected Works” SolwayJones, Los Angeles

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2008 “Truthiness: Photography as Sculpture”, curated by Tyler Stallings, UCR/California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA

2007 “Incognito”,Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

2008 “Truthiness: Photography as Sculpture”, Exhibition Catalog Essay by Tyler Stallings, Curator, UCR/California Museum of Photography

“Elizabeth Bryant at SolwayJones”, Review by Josef Woodard, Artweek, June, vol. 39, issue 5.

“Elizabeth Bryant at SolwayJones”, Review by Eve Wood, artillery, May/June, vol. 2, issue 5

“Makers and Modelers: Works in Ceramic”, article by Michelle Grabner, X-Tra, Vol. 10,,No. 3

Upcoming CAN I COME OVER TO YOUR HOUSE: The First Ten Years of The
2009 Suburban, published by The Suburban Gallery, Chicago.

 

Jack Butler

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

“Hot Rod Kulture,” Photos and words by Jack Butler, HOP UP magazine, issue #9, Jan 2008

Article May 2008, “HOP UP” magazine Special # 3, “A Photographers Fiver” six photographs

Self published book “Hot Rod” Kulture / Culture by Jack Butler. Over ninety pinhole images of Hot Rod Kulture with statement BLURB.COM, 2008

Self published book “Little” Deserts by Jack Butler. Twenty pinhole images 1/24th scale model cars. BLURB.COM 2008

“Divas” Exhibition, Robert V. Fuller Art Museum , Sept 25 – Dec 13, 2008, California State University, San Bernardino

 

Robert Martin

2008 Soundwalk, Annual Indoor/Outdoor Installations, East Village Arts District, Downtown Long Beach, CA

2008 Curator for “15 Seconds of Fame: An Online Exhibition of Cell Phone Art & Music” for the Luckman Gallery, CSULA
Website Address: http://robertmartin-edu.info/cal_state_la/luckman_gallery.html

2007 California State University Printmaking Invitational, Janet Turner Print Museum at Cal State – Chico

 

Connie Utterback

Forthcoming Group Exhibition

Patterns and Rhythms
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park
November 6 – January 18, 2009

Group Exhibitions

2008

Surface:  Layered
Coconino Community College Gallery, Flagstaff, AZ
May 19 – August 15

Transparencies
Braunstein / Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
July 31 – August 30

Fabulous Fiber
Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ
August 15 – September 21

2007

Stretching the Threads
Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
April 7 – 28

Wichita National 2007
Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS
September 7 – October 21

 

Carol Jeffers

My accomplishments for the period 2007-09 fall into 2 areas: curriculum development and teaching; and scholarship (research and publishing).

Curriculum:
Major modification of Art 209 to become a diversity course that also includes a mandatory service-learning component. This component culminates in a public event held at the Armory Center for the Arts that features a panel of 3 local artists who discuss their work as part of a larger conversation in the community.

The Art 209 students and I have successfully sponsored two of these community events, the first annual event, “Diversity, Identity, and Power: A Community Conversation,” was held on June 2, 2008, and the 2nd annual panel discussion, “Art in a Time of Uncertainty: A Dialogical Palette,” was recently held on June 1, 2009, also at the Armory Center in Pasadena.

The students in EDSE 421R (Secondary Methods of Teaching Art) and I designed and compiled a set of lesson plans for middle/high school students based on the art history students’ research and documentary project, “Murals of Los Angeles.” “Lessons from the Murals Project” was presented during the exhibition of the Murals Project (Walls of Passion,_ and made available to teachers on CD.

Scholarship
During the last two years, my research agenda has focused on empathy and the importance of art in building the human capacity for empathy and the new discoveries of the mirror neuron system as the neurological basis of empathy.

I have given 3 presentations on these topics at the National Art Education Association annual conventions and have published 3 articles. They are:

Empathy, Cultural Art, and Mirror Neurons: Implications for the Classroom and Beyond,” published in the Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education, (Spring 2008),

“Within Connections: Mirror Neurons and Art Education,” published in the
journal, Art Education, March 2009, and “On Empathy: The Mirror Neuron System,” published in the International Journal of Education and the Arts, May 2009.

 

Carole Frances Lung

Solo Exhibitions /Public Interventions
2009 (upcoming) Hired Out, James A. Michener Art Museum, Doyelstown, PA Sewing Rebellion Regional Chapters: Ames, Iowa, Lancaster PA, New Orleans LA, Los Angeles, CA, Chicago IL, Brooklyn NY

SAIC, Fiber and Material studies dept. lecture - see attached

Learning Modern, Sullivan Galleries, Events + Disruption Series, SAIC, Chicago IL  Commissioned work, KO Enterprises: Manufacturing Moholy in Weimar.

Installation  proposal

"Accidental Publics" will be a two-day symposium focusing on temporary public artworks that address an "accidental public" - people, viewers, an audience, or passersby who are not expecting to encounter art. The purpose is to theorize and compare the strategies of projects that attempt to bridge the art and everyday life divide in present tense and real space, and to engage discussion that explores our intentions for, and the effects of, choosing to work in this way.

The symposium is sponsored by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Sculpture, Performance, and Arts Administration Departments and Northwestern University's Department of Art Theory and Practice. It will include presentations by invited artists as well as faculty, students, and alumni of area colleges and universities.

I will be presenting the ReDressing New Orleans project.   2008.

Sewing Rebellion, Bates College, Lewistown, ME; Colton School, Prospect 1, New Orleans, LA;Smockshop, Los Angeles, CA; John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI; Fancy Tiger, Denver, CO; Mess Hall, Chicago, IL, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster PA, Good magazine community center, LA, CA, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY. KO

Enterprises: Labor Behind the Label Trace Materials, North-Austin Branch, Chicago Public Library, Chicago, ILKO

Enterprises: Labor Behind the Label, UIC-Gallery 400, Chicago, IL

2007
           
KO Manufacturing: White Collar Shirt, The Laundry Shop, Bailieborough, IrelandThe Dublin Society of Poplin Sewers, OUT OF SITE, The Liberties, Dublin, Ireland
           
Re-Dressing New Orleans, Gentilly Neighborhood, New Orleans LA

Labor Celebration: garment parade and labor trade show, Mess Hall, Chicago IL

Synchronized Sewing Squad: Sleepless Worker, LOOPTOPIA, Chicago IL

Group Exhibitions / Performance

2010 (upcoming) Gestures of Resistance, Contemporary Craft Museum, Portland OR

2009 (upcoming) Ghetto Biennale, Port-Au-Prince, Haiti

Sewing Rebellion, Makers Faire, San Francisco, CA

Simple Slow = Shade Cloth, Joshua Tree Music Festival, Joshua Tree, CA

Material Afterlife, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI Smockshop, Sprueth Magers Gallery, Berlin Germany

2008

KO Enterprise Trace, CSULA Faculty Biannual, Los Angeles, CA
Public Address, Phaiz, Chicago, IL
How I see Germany, OCM Gallery, Huntington Beach, CA
KO Manufacturing: White Collar-Shirt, Untitled: Threads, Denver Art Museum
Worn Again II, Recycle For the Arts, New Orleans, LA
Vested Interests, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
Waste Not, Want Not, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island, NY
Uniform Couture Pageant, Black Tie/Black Flag, Anarchist Film Festival, Chicago IL
Smockshop, The Suburban, Oak Park, IL, Los Angeles
Contemporary Art Fair, Regen Projects, Los Angles, CA, High Desert Test Sites, Swap Meet, Joshua Tree, CA
Gestures of Resistance: performing craft, Grey Matters Gallery, CAA, Dallas, TX

2007

Plateform II, Knockbride House, Bailieborough, Ireland
Re-Dressing New Orleans: Phase 2: Welcome Home, K67, Weimar, Germany
Pathogeographies: Other Peoples Baggage, Gallery 400 UIC, Chicago IL
Synchronized Sewing Squad, SAIC Graduate Performance, Links Hall, Chicago IL
Talk Labor with Frau Fiber, Radio Show, SAIC Graduate Performance, Chicago IL
Version Fest 07, NFO EXPO, Chicago IL
Pass It On: Connecting Do It Yourself Culture, A + D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago IL
The Everyday, Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, Lancaster, PA

Related Professional Experience

2008

Learning Associate, Bates College, Lewistown, ME
Visiting Artist, Maine College of Art and Design, Portland, ME
Visiting Artist, Writing Department, SAIC, Chicago IL
Visiting Artist, Fiber Department, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL.
Visiting Artist, School of the Art Institute, Fiber and Material Studies Dept., Chicago, IL
Visiting Artist, Residential College, SAIC, Chicago, IL
Instructor, Garment Construction, Lill Street Art Center, Chicago, IL

2007

Visiting Artist, Chicago Teachers Association, Chicago, IL
Teaching Assistant: Drawn to Print, SAIC, Chicago, IL
viral: CULTURE symposium Constructing Workpants, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Instructor, Garment Construction, Lill Street Art Center, Chicago, IL

Awards

Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Emergency Grant, NY, NY
The Arts Council, Artist Commission Grant, Dublin, Ireland
University of Illinois-Chicago, 2007-2008 At the Edge Award, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
School of the Art Institute: Fred A. Hillbruner Artist Book Fellowship, Chicago, IL

Publications

2009

Sewing Rebellion, Sew Hip, Issue 07, April 09
Die Kittelschurze als Kunstobjekt, Welt am Songtag, Mar 01, 09

2008 

On the Road with Frau Fiber, Fiber Arts, NOV/DEC
Frau Fiber and the Synchronized Sewing Squad: Political Theory and Chorography of Labour, Performance Research, 13 (1) 2008
Time Out Chicago, May 17, 08  Baillwik 06, Chicago IL
The Rise of the Haptic: Fiber Art in Chicago, Chicago Artists News, Vol. XXV, July-Aug. 08

2007           

Artists' Books Online, The Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, John M. Flaxman Library
Visual Arts Ireland, Visual Artist News Sheet, HIGH STAKES

Residencies

2009 Piolet Project Groupistate, Berlin Germany

 

COMMUNICATION STUDIES/
TELEVISION, FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES

Mohammad A. Auwal

Awards:

Sabbatical for Winter & Spring 2009
Fulbright Scholarship in Qatar for 2008-09

Kevin Baaske

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.

Chunsheng Bai

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

 

Beryl Bellman

Communication Studies Faculty member Beryl Bellman will be featured as a Keynote Speaker 2009 Summit of the Center for the Advancement of the Enterprise Architecture Profession, to be held June 20, in Las Colinas, Texas.

Faculty Professional Achievements:

1. Invited participant in the DoDAF training working group by the CIO of Office Of Secretary Of Defense
2. Tutorial on the Department of Defense Architectural Framework at the AFEI conference in Orlando, Fl
3. I attending training and passed certification in The Open Group Architectural Framework (TOGAF)
4. I was on the panel for the EGOV conference to select best enterprise architecture awards for federal agencies and also the Department of Defense.
5. I was elected as Vice President of the Association for Enterprise Architecture, California Chapter
6. Nominated and elected as member of the Government Technology Advisory Council, Washington DC

Publications & Productions:

1. The Role & Function of Enterprise Architecture in Government, accepted for publication and in press for chapter in book Advances in Government Enterprise Architecture by Dr. Pallab Saha
2. Invited paper on panel on secrecy by the President and BOD of the American Anthropological Association annual meetings in November; paper title is Secret Societies to Societies’ Secrets
3. Edited FEAC book on Enterprise Architecture and contributed chapter entitled “Enterprise Architecture Planning Edited FEAC book on Enterprise Architecture and contributed chapter entitled “Enterprise Architecture Planning and Design”
4. Member of Prisoner’s chorus in Fidelio, Celestial Opera Company

Conferences & Exhibitions:

1. AFEI conference, Orlando
2. American Anthropological Association annual meeting
3. EGOV conference, Washington DC
4. FEAC symposium, Alexandria VA

Awards:

I was elected as Vice President of the Association for Enterprise Architecture, California Chapter

Nominated and elected as member of the Government Technology Advisory Council, Washington DC.

 

Prof. Jon Beaupre

Promoted to Associate Professor

Grants/Contracts:

New Voices grant from J-Lab, Institute for interactive Journalism, American University

Lab New Voices grant awarded, for development of community journalism.

Fellowships:

East West Center Sr. Journalism Fellow Asia Tour
Galapagos Islands Journalism Training Fellowship

Professional Achievements:

Re-elected secretary of the Los Angeles Press Club
LA Press Club Award for Best Documentary, 2007

Alan Bloom

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

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

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

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.

 

D. Robert DeChaine

Awards:

American Communities Program Fellowship, CSULA, 2006-2007.

Publications:

Book Chapter: “Imagined Immunities: Border Rhetorics and the Ethos of Sans Frontièrisme. Interdisciplinarity and Social Justice: Revisioning Academic Accountability. Ed. Ranu Samantrai, Joe Parker, and Mary Romero. New York: SUNY Press, 2007. [Forthcoming]

Journal Review Article: “Michael Bérubé’s Rhetorical Occasions and Provocations.” Cultural Studies (2007). [Forthcoming]

Presentations:

“Unframing Experience: Limit, Liminality, and the Ludic Imagination,” presented at the Western States Communication Association annual convention, Seattle, February 2007.

“Bodies and Selves in Action: Refiguring Communitas in Everyday Life,” presented at the Western States Communication Association annual convention, Seattle, February 2007.

 

Kristiina Hackel

Professor Kristiina Hackel of Communications Studies received a Webby Award nomination for her webseries "Speedie Date," which she produced and directed. "Speedie Date" was nominated for an award in the Drama Series category, and an individual episode (#2: Amanda and Chad) was selected as a Webby Honoree for Drama Individual Episode. The Webby Awards is the leading international award for excellence on the internet. Members of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences select the nominees in as many as 70 categories.

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.

 

Blake B. Jackson

September/October 2007
Director of Photography, Camera Operator
“The Beginning Of December”
Live action Short, 35mm film
Director: Doug Cwiak
Distributor, Industrial Media Arts

Currently in festivals
http://www.decemberfilm.com/

 

Kelly Madison

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

Publications & Productions:

“Spotlight Hollywood” Producer, Zap Productions

“Dance Vids” iTunes

“Mia Slavenska: a Dancer’s Odyssey” Interview/Camera
(in post-production)

“Goddess” EgoArt (in post-production)

Conferences & Exhibitions:

University Film and Video Association Conference, Presented paper – Teaching Dance For The Camera Screened Film – “Solo”

 

David Olsen

Awards:

CSULA Outstanding Student Organization Advisor

Conferences & Exhibitions:

Presented The Passion of the Christians: Reconciling the Irreconcilable through the Image of the Queer, at the National Communication Association convention, Chicago, Nov. 2007.

 

John Ramirez

Grants/Contracts:

The Walt Disney Company
$5,000 gift to the 2008 Reel Rasquache U.S. Latino Film Festival

Fox Entertainment Group
$5,000 gift to the 2008 Reel Rasquache U.S. Latino Film Festival

Sony Pictures
$5,000 gift to the 2008 Reel Rasquache U.S. Latino Film Festival

Conferences & Exhibitions:

Executive Director – 2008 Reel Rasquache U.S. Latino Film Festival – 5th Annual; May 30-June 1; Intimate Theatre at the Luckman; California State University, Los Angeles

 

Suzanne Regan

Conferences & Exhibitions:

Presented on the International Rivers Project, UFVA Conference, Colorado Springs, Aug 2008

Nov 2008, Premiere of the Rivers documentary, CILECT Conference, Beijing, China

 

ENGLISH

Terry L. Allison

June 2009 Fulbright Scholar, U.S.-Korea International Education Administrators Program

Publications:

Allison, Terry L., “WH20, I Love You,” Love, West Hollywood: Reflections of Los Angeles. Freeman, Chris and James J. Berg eds. Boston: Alyson, 2008.

Allison, Terry L. “Text and Texture,” a section of a "Pipes and Drums: Responses to Black Watch," a special feature of Contemporary Theatre Review 18.2 (Routledge, May 2008) (pages 272-279)

 

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.
Loyola 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:

Dramaturgical note titled “Goethe’s Faust: An Adaptation of a Literary Classic,” printed in the program for the play’s production at Cal State L.A. on July 25-28/August 1-4, 2007.

Prologue titled “Frumioso feminismo fronterizo en Alicia en la cárcel de las maravillas” reprinted in a book of poetry by Estela Alicia Lopez Lomas, Alicia en la cárcel de las maravillas, 2nd edition (Baja California: Consejo de Cultura Mexicana, 2006).

Introduction to a book on Mexican novelists Mariano Azuela and José Rubén Romero, edited by Alvaro Ochoa Serrano (México: El Colegio de Michoacán, 2005): 11-18.

Film Interviews:
Interviewed at home by David Ellis (President of Ellis Productions, Inc.) on October 19, 2007 in relation to a film on Chicano novelist Rudolfo Anaya. This film will be a one-hour program to be televised on PBS and other national channels.

Reviewer of Film Proposals:
Edited and evaluated a film proposal titled “Special Agent” for Ellis Productions, Inc. Santa Fe, New Mexico), on October 22, 2007.

Other:
Reader and reviewer for Cambridge University Press.

 

Elkins, Marilyn

Publications:

Invited guest editor of special volume of College Literature dedicated to the work of August Wilson. Forthcoming, 2008. Will include my introduction.
“Black Text/White Professor: Negotiating Racial Boundaries in the Work of August Wilson.” Approaches to Teaching August Wilson. Ed. Sandra Shannon. New York: Modern Language Association, forthcoming 2008.

“Willa Cather.” In The Student’s Encyclopedia of Great American Writers (1900-1945). Ed. Patricia Gantt. New York: Facts on File, forthcoming, 2008.

“Teaching The Great Gatsby through Examining Gender Roles.” New Approaches to Teaching The Great Gatsby. Eds. Jackson Bryher and Nancy Van Arsdale. New York: Modern Language Association, forthcoming, 2007.

Invited essay for Kay Boyle for the 21st Century. Ed. Thomas Austenfeld. Berlin, Germany: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, forthcoming, 2008.

Awards/Honors/Grants/Professional Appointments:

Joseph A. Bailey II, MD Fellow in the African American Experience. CSULA American Communities Fellowship, 2007-08.
Reader/reviewer for the following journals: African American Review, Calaloo, College Literature, and Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature.
Reader/reviewer for the following presses: Oxford University Press, Ohio State University Press, and University of Illinois Press.
Advisory Board for the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, 2006-present.
Advisory Board for the August Wilson Society, 2007-present.
Advisory Board for the Kay Boyle Society, 2006-present.
Member of the CLEP Test Committee, 2006-present.

Table Leader, AP English Language and Composition Examination, ongoing.

Founder/Director of the Greater Los Angeles Advanced Placement Summer Institute, ongoing.

College Board Consultant, 2000-present.

Author and Principal Investigator for, the CSULA RIAP Grants from the CSULA Chancellor’s Office, 2002-present.

Academic Director for the CSULA EAP, 2003-present.

Presentations:

“Preparing Secondary Students to Enter Academic Discourse.” Anchorage School District, Anchorage, Alaska. September 7-8; October 26-27, 2007.

“Teaching Reading in the College Classroom.” English Department, Rio Honda Community College. October 5, 2007.

“Teaching AP English Language and Composition.” College Board National Conference, Las Vegas, 2007.

“Kay Boyle: Dialogues of Ethics.” Kay Boyle Society Panel. American Literature Association, Boston, May 2007.

“Improving Student Writing.” Alhambra School District. Alhambra, September, 2006.
“Resurrecting the Literary Career of Kay Boyle.” Kay Boyle Society. American Literature Association, San Francisco, May, 2006.

“Helping Students Move beyond Unearned Confidence.” College Board/AVID Collaborative, Chicago, IL, March, 2006.

“Resurrecting the Literary Career of Kay Boyle.” Kay Boyle Society. American Literature Association, San Francisco, CA, May 2006.

“Helping Students Move beyond Unearned Confidence.” College Board/AVID Collaborative, Chicago, IL, March 2006.

 

Ramey, Lauri

Professor of Creative Writing & English and Director of the Center for Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, Lauri Ramey will be a Visiting Fellow in the Drama Department at Goldsmiths College, University of London, June 29-July 8.

2007/08

Publications:

Slave Songs and the Birth of African American Poetry (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).

The Heritage Series of Black Poetry, 1962-1975: A Research Compendium, in consultation with Paul Breman (Ashgate, 2007).

“Freedom in Form: Patience Agbabi.” Sable 11 (Autumn 2007).

Introduction and editor, Selected Poems of Anthony Joseph (Salt, 2008).

Chapters on SuAndi, Patience Agbabi and Anthony Joseph. Dictionary of Literary Biography: 20th Century Black British Literature, ed. R. Victoria Arana (Bruccoli, Clark, Layman/Gale, 2008).

Presentations:

“Dramas and Trauma: Literary Representations of War.” International Videoconference on “Black Watch” sponsored by the British Council, Cal State LA, University of Glasgow and Royal Holloway, University of London.
Conference co-organizer and Cal State LA respondent, 2007.

 

LIBERAL STUDIES

D. Robert DeChaine

(Joint Appointment Department of Communication Studies)

Awards:

• American Communities Program Fellowship, CSULA, 2006-2007.

Publications:

• Book Chapter: “Imagined Immunities: Border Rhetorics and the Ethos of Sans Frontièrisme. Interdisciplinarity and Social Justice: Revisioning Academic Accountability. Ed. Ranu Samantrai, Joe Parker, and Mary Romero. New York: SUNY Press, 2007. [Forthcoming]
• Journal Review Article: “Michael Bérubé’s Rhetorical Occasions and Provocations.” Cultural Studies (2007). [Forthcoming]

Presentations:

• “Unframing Experience: Limit, Liminality, and the Ludic Imagination,” presented at the Western States Communication Association annual convention, Seattle, February 2007.
• “Bodies and Selves in Action: Refiguring Communitas in Everyday Life,” presented at the Western States Communication Association annual convention, Seattle, February 2007.
  

 

Dionne Espinoza

Dionne Espinoza, an Associate Professor of Chicano Studies and Liberal Studies, was featured in a LA Times artixle (Eastside High Schoolers Get a Lesson in Oral History, Mary 29, 2009) for her work with the students of Roosevelt High School in producing an oral history video project, "Las Grandes de East Los Angeles and Boyle Heights: Women as Community Builders." The video debuted at the Southwest Oral History Association Conference at USC in March.

Awards:

• Josephine Miles Literary Award, PEN Oakland—Essays, 2007
• International Latino Book Award, Best Book in History—English Language, 2007 Sabbatical Leave Award, CSU Los Angeles, 2007

Grants:

• “Las Grandes de East Los Angeles: Women as Community Builders,” California Stories Fund, California Council for the Humanities, $9,603, (Project Director and Lead Grant Writer), 2008

Publications:

• "Rethinking La Familia and Cultural Nationalism Through Women’s Communities: Enriqueta Vasquezand Chicana Feminist Thought.” Enriqueta Vasquez and the Chicano Movement: Writings from El GritoDel Norte. Eds. Lorena Oropeza and Dionne Espinoza. Hispanic Civil Rights Series. Houston: ArtePublico Press. 205-231. 2006
• Review of Carlos Muñoz, Jr. Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Movement, Revised and Expanded Edition. Latino Studies Journal 6, 241-2, 2008.
• “Brown Berets.” Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society. Volume I. Sage Reference Publications. Ed. Richard Schaefer. Sage Press. 208-210, 2008 .
• “Chicana Movement.” Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender. Ed. Malti-Douglas, Fedwa. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007.

Presentations:

 

Steven Joes

Screen Credits:

• "Jack Hunter and the Lost Treasure of Ugarit," 2008, American Cinema International, Story and Writing Credit
• "Jack Hunter and the Tomb of Akhenaton," 2008, American Cinema International, Story and Writing Credit
• "Jack Hunter and the Star of Heaven," 2008, American Cinema International, Story and Writing Credit.

 

Alejandra Marchevsky

Grants and Awards:

• 2008 Distinguished Women’s Award, Cal State L.A.
• Joseph A. Bailey II Fellow on the African American Experience of the American Communities Program, CSULA, 2006-07
• Selected in January 2008 by the UCLA Civil Rights Project as one of ten scholars nationwide to contribute to an ongoing research and public policy project entitled, "The Future Rests on Single Moms."
  

Publications:

Patrick Sharp

Publications:

• "Darwin's Soldiers: Gender, Evolution, and Warfare in Them! and Forbidden Planet." Science Fiction Film and Television 1.2 (November 2008).
• "Science Studies 101." SFRA Review 283 (Winter 2008): 4-7.
• Savage Perils: Racial Frontiers and Nuclear Apocalypse in American Culture. Norman: The University of Oklahoma Press, 2007.

Presentations:

• "Ideological Reboot: Gender, Science, and Technology in The Bionic Woman." Science Fiction Research Association Conference. Lawrence, Kansas: July 11, 2008.
• "Genre, Silko's Ceremony, and the Limits of Science Fiction." American Literature Association Conference. San Francisco: May 23, 2008.
• "Darwin's Soldiers: Gender, Technology, and Warfare in American Culture." Invited Presentation to the Klopsteg Seminar Series in Science and Human Culture. Northwestern University, Chicago: February 29. 2008.
• "Gender on the Nuclear Frontier: The Science Fiction Films of James Cameron." Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference. Albuquerque, New Mexico: February 14, 2008.
• "Saving Private Jessica: Gender, Technology, and the Military Damsel in Distress." Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Conference. Portland, Maine: November 3, 2007.
• "Darwin's Soldiers: Gender and the Military in the Early Twentieth Century." American Studies Association Conference. Philadelphia: October 12, 2007.
• "Savage Perils: Racial Frontiers and Nuclear Apocalypse in American Culture." Invited Presentation to The American Cultures and Global Contexts Center Lecture Series. University of California, Santa Barbara. October 5, 2007.
• "Monster's from Darwin's Id: Gender and Evolution in Them! and Forbidden Planet." Science Fiction Research Association Conference. Kansas City, Missouri: July 6, 2007.
  

 

Michael Willard

Grants:

• Grant-Writer, Local History Digital Resources Project on the Compton Communicative Arts Academy Archive, California Digital Library of the University of California, California State Library Local Digital History Resources Project, July 2007 - June 2008.
• Co-Principal Investigator, National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty-Humanities-Initiative Grant on “Cultures of Engagement in an Era of Displacement,” California State University Los Angeles, March, 2007-May, 2008.

Presentations:

 

MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES

Dr. Pablo Baler

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:

Published excerpt from Luisa Valenzuela’s novel La travesia Golden Handcuffs Review, Winter/Spring 2009, Vol. 1 No. 11 (in collaboration with Dr. Matt Losada).

Published translation of poems by Adriana Borga, Luisa Futoransky and Concepción Bertone Golden Handcuffs Review Summer/Fall 2008, Vol. 1, No. 10 (in collaboration with Dr. Matt Losada).

April, 2009, RAMURI magazine (Rumanian cultural and literary magazine founded in 1905) published a selection of short stories chosen from Sujetos a la Nada a book in progress. The stories, “La increíble historia de Jane Stokes”, “Toque Maestro”, “El equilibrista”, “La grulla”, and “Hormiga soluble”, were translated by Spanish-Rumanian translator Tudora ?andru-Mehedin?i.

January, 2009, Baler’s book Los sentidos de la distorsion: fantasías epistemologicas del neobarroco latinomamericano was published by Editorial Corregidor’s Nueva Crítica Hispanoamericana collection (Buenos Aires, Argentina).

January, 2009, Baler’s article “Del perro andaluz al fantasma de la libertad: la evolución del surrealismo en Luis Buñuel” was published by online magazine KARPA. Journal of Theatrical and Visual Culture Criticism. (2.1. January, 2009).

February, 2009, Baler gave a presentation at the Huntington Library in Pasadena. The lecture, entitled “The bionic man, the blind poet, and the utopia of absolute representation” was part of the Powerful Vision Series organized by Cal State L.A.’s College of Arts and Letters. Professors José Cruz González, Suzanne Regan, and Hae-Kyung Lee participated as well.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

October 2008, Baler invited veteran broadcast journalist Pascual Menutti to a two day, highly successful event on campus. Menutti, one of Argentina’s most recognizable radio voices discussed his career and the secrets of his trade during a presentation entitled “Periodismo en Español”. The following day, Menutti offered a workshop on radio journalism skills.

As part of the Spanish 417 class “Latin American Short Story” (offered Spring, 2009), Prof. Baler, in cooperation with students Alicia Joya, Luis Vargas and Laura Escarcega, edited a collection of short stories written by students and published through Blurb.com. The book entitled CUATROCIENTOSDIECISIETE can be acquired through that same website. A presentation of the book is scheduled for Fall 2009.

 

Domnita Dumitrescu

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:

Book:

Aspects of Spanish Pragmatics, Peter Lang, New York (in preparation, final manuscript due in December 2009)

Chapters in books, (peer-reviewed) proceedings volumes, and scholarly journal

(Submitted) What’s wrong with Spanglish, anyway?: An ongoing controversy (invited contribution for a volumen to be published by Cambridge UP, under the title: Building Communities and Making Connections, ed. by Susana Rivera-Mills and Juan Antonio Trujillo).

(Forthcoming) “Estrategias de cortesía y gestión de imagen en entrevistas con jóvenes caribeños”. Estudios sobre lengua, sociedad y cultura en homenaje a Diana Bravo, ed. by Nieves Hernández-Flores and Maria Bernal, to be published by Romanica Stockolmiensia in electronic format.

(Forthcoming): “Sobre la atenuación cortés en español y rumano: unas estrategias comunes.” Proceedings of the 25 th International Congress of Romance Linguistics and Philology, Innsbruck (Austria), to appear in Summer 2010.

“Interrogative allo-repetitions in Mexican Spanish: Discourse functions and (im)politeness strategies.” Special issue (The Discourse of Politeness in Spanish) of Pragmatics, vol 18, No.4 (2008): 659-680.

“El español en los Estados Unidos: La controversia sobre el Spanglish dentro (y más allá ) del mundo académico.” Estudios hispánicos, vol I: Lingüística y didáctica, ed. by Sanda Reinheimer Ripeanu & Mihai Iacob, Bucuresti: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti, 2008, 137-164

“Imagen y (des)cortesía en la comunicación académica por ordenador: un caso concreto.” Cortesía y conversación: de lo escrito a lo oral, ed. by Antonio Briz , Antonio Hidalgo, Marta Albelda, Josefa Contreras & Nieves. Valencia, Estocolmo: Universidad de Valencia, Programa EDICE. 2008, 437-467. (CD-ROM). Also available at: http://www.edice.org/programa/wp-content/files/3coloquioEDICE.pdf

“Usos discursivos del adverbio sí en el español mexicano.” El español de América: Actas del VI Congreso Internacional “El español de América,” Tordesillas, Valladolid, 25-29 de octubre 2005), ed. by César Hernández Alonso & Leticia Castañeda San Cirilo. Valladolid: Diputación Provincial de Valladolid, 2007, 857-872 (available also in CD-ROM). Reprinted in: “Studii de lingvistic? ?i filologie romanic?: Hommages offerts à Sanda Reinheimer Rîpeanu, ed. by Alexandra Cuni??, Coman Lupu & Liliane Tasmowski. Bucure?ti, Editura Universit??ii din Bucure?ti, 2007, 233-244.

“A los 35 años de Renga: Octavio Paz y la universalidad del lenguaje poético.” Actas del XV Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanista ‘Las dos orillas’, Monterrey, México, del 19 al 24 de julio de 2004, vol. IV, ed. by Beatriz Mariscal, and María Teresa Miaja, Fondo de Cultura Económica/AIH/ Tecnológico de Monterrey/El Colegio de México: México, 2007, pp. 135-144.

Book reviews:

(Forthcoming): Enciclopedia del español en los Estados Unidos. Hispania 92 (2009)
Kathleen Wheatly, Sintaxis y morfología de la lengua española. Hispania 90.4 (2007): 717-718.

Diana Bravo (ed.), Estudios de la (des)cortesía en español. Hispania 90.3 (2007): 514-515.

Rosina Márquez Reiter and Maria Elena Placencia, Spanish Pragmatics. Hispania 90.1 (2007): 87-88.

Papers presented (or accepted for presentation) at international, national and regional professional meetings:

(Forthcoming): “Rum, cic? vs. Esp. Dizque: marcadores epistémicos de disconformidad untertextual.” The XII Conference on Dialogue Analysis, September 15-18, 2009, Barcelona, Spain.

“From English influence to English epidemic: Reflections on the Romanian language before and after 1989.” MLA Annual Convention, San Francisco, California, December 27-30, 2008.

“Qué piensan los profesores de español del Sur de California sobre el Spanglish:Una encuesta piloto.”37th Annual Meeting of LASSO, Corvallis, Oregon, October 17-19, 2008.

“Cuando el entrevistador y el entrevistado intercambian sus papeles: gestión de imagen y cortesía valorizante en encuestas con jóvenes caribeños,” IV Coloquio Internacional de EDICE, Rome, September 23-26, 2008.

“El crecimiento del español en los Estados Unidos: Desafíos pedagógicos para el siglo XXI.” 90th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, San José, Costa Rica, July 7-11, 2008.

“El español en los Estados Unidos y la controversia sobre la legitimidad del Spanglish,.” Invited lecture at the University of San José, Costa Rica, July 4, 2008.

“ Spanish in the United States: Lessons from the past and challenges for the future.” President’s Distinguished Professor Talk before the CSULA Senate, on May 6, 2008.

“On Teaching an Upper-Division Spanish Language Courses in WebCT,” poster presentation at the 11th CSU Regional Symposium on University Teaching, Cal Poly, Pomona, April 12, 2008.

“Estrategias de cortesía en un curso de español por computadora.” Fall meeting of the AATSP- Southern California chapter, Cal State San Bernardino, October 20, 2007

“Estrategias de cortesía y gestión de imagen en entrevistas con jóvenes caribeños.” 36th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest, Denver, Colorado, September 21-23, 2007.

“Estrategias de atenuación en la interacción oral en español y rumano." 25th International Congress of Romance Linguistics and Philology, Innsbrück, Austria, September 2-7, 2007.

“Spanglish in California: to teach or not to teach?” at the annual meeting of the American Association of Spanish and Portuguese, San Diego, August 2-5, 2007;

“Estrategias de cortesía y gestión de imagen en entrevistas con jóvenes caribeños." XVI Triennial Congress of the International Association of Hispanists, Paris, France, July 9-13 2007

“La controversia sobre el Spanglish en los Estados Unidos.” Colloquium on “Los estudios hispánicos en Rumanía: 50 años de vida universitaria,” Bucharest, Romania, April 26-28, 2007

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION:

Manuscript reviewer for the EDICE program (May 2008, May 2009)

Manuscript reviewer for Journal of Pragmatics, July 2008.

Revision of the 3rd edition of Introduccion a la lingüística española, by M. Azevedo, for Prentice Hall, January 2008.

External reviewer of the Spanish and Portuguese Department at San Diego State University, November 2007

Member of the Selection Committee for the candidates to the Sigma Delta Pi Order of Don Quijote (2007-2008)

Judge for the Sigma Delta Pi Frida Kahlo Prize to the best chapter website (evaluated and ranked 68 websites) (January 2007)
Sigma Delta Pi National Vice-President for the Western Region until August 2007 (when she withdrew her candidacy for a 5th turn)

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS:

Elected to the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese Executive Council, for the 2009-2011 term (college/university representative)

2007-2008 CSULA President’s Distinguished Professor Award.

Sabbatical leave: Fall 2007

2007 CSULA Nominee for the Wang Family Excellence Award (in the category of Visual and Performing Arts and Letters)

Included in the most recent editions of in Who’s Who in the World; Who’s Who in America; Who’s Who of American Women; Who’s Who in the West; and Who’s Who in America Education.

Her bibliography and the full text of some of her publications have been included in the website of the International Association of Hispanists.

 

KYLIE HSU

Awards and Grants:

CSU discipline research grant, “Assessing Critical Classroom Issues Related to Chinese Language Teaching and Learning,” 2008-10.

Visiting scholar, “A Corpus-based Analysis of Chinese Discourse,” Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Summer 2009.

Travel grant from the CSU Institute for Teaching and Learning to participate in a discipline research workshop, LAX, March 27-28, 2009.

Editorial grant, “Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT),” 2000-09.

CSULA Outstanding Professor Award, September 15, 2008.

Conference sponsorship, Tai Ji Men Qigong Academy and the Federation of World Peace and Love, “Using Eastern Wisdom to Nurture the Body and Mind,” April 14, 2008.

Travel grant from MERLOT to present at the Seventh International Conference on Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching, New Orleans, LA, August 7-10, 2007.

U.S. delegation leadership grant, Shanghai Overseas Returned Scholars Association, China, July 2007.

Books:

Practical Chinese Exercises: Vol. One (Fourth Edition). Learn Perfect Publishing, Los Angeles, CA, April 2008.

Practical Chinese Exercises: Vol. Two (Second Edition). Learn Perfect Publishing, Los Angeles, CA, July 2008.

Practical Chinese Exercises: Vol. Three (First Edition). Learn Perfect Publishing, Los Angeles, CA, February 2008.

Articles:

A review of Sound Systems of Mandarin Chinese and English: A Comparison by Tsung Chin. Invited publication in Academic Perspective, Vol. 4, Fall 2008.

Preparing American college students to become future teachers of Chinese. Invited publication in Academic Perspective, Vol. 3, Fall 2007.

Report on the U.S. delegation’s visit to Shanghai, China. Invited publication in The Chinese American Professors & Professionals Net, Vol. 19, July 2007.

Reviews of Online Teaching-Learning Materials:

“Young and Restless in China” by Sue Williams for PBS’s FRONTLINE, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/youngchina, November 2008.

“ChinaByte” by Chinabyte.com, http://www.chinabyte.com, November, 2008.

“Basic Business Vocabulary” by the Chinese Program, University of Southern California, http://www.usc.edu/dept/ealc/chinese/bsnsword.htm, November 2008.

“Super Chinese Website” by J. Becker, http://www.uni.edu/becker/chinese2.html, April 2008.

“Chinese Business Letters” by the Chinese Program, University of Southern California, http://www.usc.edu/dept/ealc/chinese/Business/let1.htm, April 2008.

“Chinese Character Learning System” by California State University, Humboldt, http://www.humboldt.edu/~cllc/ccls/ccls.htm, November 2007.

“Cultural Interviews with Chinese-Speaking Professionals” by O. Kelm, et al., http://www.laits.utexas.edu/orkelm/chinese/index.html, November 2007.

“Multimedia Chinese Teaching System” by Rutgers Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, http://chinese.rutgers.edu/content_cs.htm, October 2007.

Presentations:

MERLOT 101: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching. Invited presentation at the Faculty Development Workshop on MERLOT and Peer Reviews of Online Materials, May 7, 2009.

Early tenure and promotion experiences. Invited presentation at the Faculty Development Workshop on Early Tenure and Promotion, November 14, 2008.

Peer tutoring and practical training in teaching Chinese for business purposes. International Conference on Translation Studies, Cross-Cultural Communication and Chinese Pedagogy, Portland, OR, October 24-25, 2008.

Asian Pacific American leaders in higher education. Invited speaker at the Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Celebration Roundtable, Los Angeles, CA, May 15, 2008.

Preparing future teachers of Chinese in American schools. Chinese Language Teachers Association International Meeting, San Antonio, TX, November 16-18, 2007.

Multidisciplinary online teaching and learning resources. Invited presentation at the Chinese Scholars Association Academic Convention, Los Angeles, CA, November 10, 2007.

Computer-assisted non-roman character learning. The Seventh International Conference on Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching, New Orleans, LA, August 7-10, 2007.

Conference Organizing and Chairing:

Organizing Committee, Chinese Scholars Association Academic Convention and Spring Gathering, Los Angeles, CA, February 1, 2009.

Organizer and Chair, The International Symposium on Wisdom and Life Treasure: Using Eastern Wisdom to Nurture the Body and Mind in the 21st Century, Los Angeles, CA, April 14, 2008.

Organizing Committee Chair and Program Chair, Chinese Scholars Association Spring Gathering, Rosemead, CA, February 23, 2008.

Plenary and Session Chairing:

Session Chair, “Social Sciences and Humanities,” Chinese Scholars Association Academic Convention and Spring Gathering, Los Angeles, CA, February 1, 2009.

Session Chair, “Teaching/Education,” Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research, Pomona, CA, November 22, 2008.

Panel Chair, “Translation in Language Teaching,” International Conference on Translation Studies, Cross-Cultural Communication and Chinese Pedagogy, Portland, OR, October 24-25, 2008.

Keynote Chair, “Rank-Promotions of Professors in American Universities,” Chinese Scholars Association Spring Gathering, Rosemead, CA, February 23, 2008.

Session Chair, “Analysis of Discourse and Interaction,” American Association for Applied Linguistics International Conference, Costa Mesa, CA, April 21-24, 2007.

Professional Positions:

Editor-in-Chief of Social Sciences and Humanities, Academic Perspective, 2009.

Secretary of the Board of Directors, Chinese Scholars Association, 2008-09.

Reviewer for The Modern Language Journal, 2008-09.

Associate Editor of World Languages, Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching, 2003-09.

Head of the U.S. Delegation to China for scholarly exchanges, summer 2007.

Professional Activities and Outreach:

Chinese Scholars Association donation drive for China’s earthquake relief, May 2008.

Meeting with the President of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, San Gabriel, April 15, 2008.

Outstanding Overseas Chinese Language Teachers award ceremony at the Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China in Los Angeles, February 27, 2008.

Chinese Scholars Association charitable contributions to China’s snow storm relief, Los Angeles, February 7, 2008.

New Year gathering at the Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China in Los Angeles, January 19, 2008.

Oral Proficiency Interview Workshop, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, San Antonio, TX, November 15, 2007.

In the News:

“Fantastic Performances at the CSULA Poetry Recitation Contest,” Sing Tao Daily, May 6, 2009.

“CSULA Holds Its Seventeenth Annual Chinese Poetry Recitation Contest,” People’s Daily, May 6, 2009.

Interviewed by the People’s Daily for a special news report on Chinese programs and textbooks used in American universities, April 28, 2009.

“Kylie Hsu Receives CSULA Outstanding Professor Award,” Chinese Daily News and Sing Tao Daily, September 17, 2008.

“Tragedy in China Strikes Here at Home,” University Times, June 5, 2008.

“Changing the World in One Minute,” Dahua Evening News, Taiwan, May 12, 2008.

“Cal State L.A. Symposium: The Eastern Philosophy of Nurturing the Body and Mind,” Sing Tao Daily, April 16, 2008.

“Super Tuesday: Clinton and Obama in Dead Heat,” Sing Tao Daily, March 5, 2008.

“The Seventh Annual Report on the Shanghai Overseas Returned Scholars Association (SORSA) by Its Board of Directors,” Shanghai Overseas Chinese News [Qiaobao], January 2, 2008.

“Chinese Faculty and Scholars Annual Convention,” Chinese Today, November 11, 2007.

“Shanghai Overseas Returned Scholars Association (SORSA) Receives Taiwanese American Faculty Delegation,” Obridge and SORSA headline news, July 10, 2007.

“U.S. Delegation Led by Professor Kylie Hsu to Visit Shanghai,” The Chinese American Professors & Professionals Net, April 24, 2007.

 

Christophe Lagier

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:

Wrote an article in a pedagogical series for French High School teachers, AP French Literature / Le théâtre: méthodes d’enseignement et d’analyse; Special Focus series (New York: College Board, 2008), a volume he also edited

Presented From Linguistic Deviation to Cultural Re-Identification: the ‘Verlan’ phenomenon in Mathieu Kassovitz’s La Haine,” at Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities in January 2009

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Middlebury College French Language School Associate Director for the Summer 2009

Chair of the AP Language and Literature Exams in French Committee (College Board/ETS)

Vice-President of Alliance Française de Pasadena since 2002

 

Namhee Lee

PUBLICATIONS:

Book: Lee, N., Joaquin, A., Mikesell, L, Mates, A., and Schumann, J. (2009). The interactional instinct: The evolution and acquisition of language. New York: Oxford University Press.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

Lee, N. (2008, April). FOX P2 gene, Language Development, and Pedagogical Implications. Paper presented at AAAL (American Association of Applied Linguistics), Washington DC.

Lee, N. (2007, April). Evolution of Language as Complex Adaptive System. Paper presented at AAAL (American Association of Applied Linguistics), Costa Mesa, California.

CERTIFICATION:

Acquire license to perform ACTFL Korean OPI (2009).

 

Qingyun Wu

PUBLICATIONS:
Books:

A Dream of Glory (Fanhua meng): A Chinese Play By Wang Yun, the Chinese University Press (Hong Kong), 2008. (The press has recently nominated the book for the "Lois Rith Award" organized by Modern Language Association (MLA) under Translation Books category.) This is a Chinese-English bilingual version with a long critical introduction to Chinese women’s drama, Wang Yun and her plays, as well as a comparative analysis of women playwrights in the East and the West. It contains detailed annotation, original prefaces and postfaces, and a foreword by the internationally renowned comparatist A. Owen Aldridge, with comments from prominent Chinese scholars Robert E. Hegel and Paul S. Ropp.

Two Eves in the Garden of Eden & A Male Mother (A Screenplay and a play), Denver: Outskirts Press, 2006.

Recent Discovery. Qingyun Wu’s novel, Clouds and Rain: A China to America Memoir (1994, under the pen name of Edna Wu) has been collected by over 70 major US libraries, including UCLA, UCR, Stanford, Harvard, Harvard (Yeching), Cornell, and Wesleyan. It has been also collected by several major libraries in other countries.

Essays and others:

Two essays on “Chen Duansheng” and “Wang Yun”, published in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, edited by Bonnie G. Smith, The Oxford University Press, 2008.

“Qian Ma. Feminist Utopian Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Chinese and English Fiction: A Cross Cultural Comparison. Burlington.(Book review) published in Utopian Studies Vol. 18. Issue 1 (January 1, 2007): 78-81.

Chinese Essay, “Valentine’s Day and American Woman Poet Emily Dickinson,” published in Xin Dalu (New World Poetry Journal) No. 111 (April 2009), p. 24.

Four Chinese poems by Qingyun Wu (under the pen name of Yi Yun), published in Xin Dalu (New World Poetry Journal) No.111 (April 2009), p. 6.

Chinese Translation of Emily Dickinson’s “Wild Night” and “My Life Is a Loaded Gun,” published in Xin Dalu (New World Poetry Journal) No. 111 (April 2009) p. 23.

Bilingual poem “Deaths,” published on the prestigious online journal Poetry Sky, Issue 18, (May 2009).

PRESENTATIONS:

“Where Is the Voice of Resistance: Nüshu and Lao Tong in Lisa See’s Snow Flower and Secret Fan,” presented at the ASPAC annual Conference in Hawaii on June 15, 2007.

“Huang Chao and Chrysanthemum: Curse of the Golden Flower” presented at the Conference, “Crossing Boundaries in the Asian Pacific,” University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada, June 12, 2008.

“Issues of Cross-dressing and Cross-gender on the Chinese Stage,” at the 33rd Comparative Drama Conference, “Text and presentation,” Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, March 26, 2009.

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION:

Referee for the journal Utopia Studies.

External Assessor, peer reviewing a Canadian National Grant for a doctoral program in the Chinese research area, invited by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), December 2007.

 

Toshiko Yokota

Publication:

“Created Images of Author Buson.” The International Journal of Humanities. (Submitted, May, 2009).

“What Does It Mean to Read Haikai Linked Verse? A Study of the Susuki Mitsu Sequence in Kono hotori ichiya shi-kasen.” Simply Haiku. Vol. 5, No. 1. Spring, 2007.

Conference Paper:

“Japanese Literature for Japanese Language Learners.” Bridging Japanese Language and Japanese Studies in Higher Education: Forum on Integrative Curriculum and Program Development organized by the Japan Foundation, Los Angeles and DePaul University Japanese Studies Program, and endorsed by Association of Teachers of Japanese at DePaul Center in Chicago, March 26, 2009.

“Major Works of Buson and Bunjin Characteristics: A Case Study of His Hokku, The Yodo River and In the Snowy Night” The 12th International Conference of European Association of Japanese Studies at Lecce, Italy, September 20-23, 2008.

“What Could Instructors of Advanced Japanese and Japanese Literature Mutually Learn?” The Annual Meeting of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, Boston, March 22, 2007.

“Created Images of Author Buson.” The Fifth International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, January 13, 2007.

”Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Teaching Peace in Japanese Literature Course.” The Fifth International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, January 12, 2007.

Teaching:

Summer Intensive Japanese course at International Christian University in Tokyo, July and August 2008.

 

MUSIC

Paul De Castro, D.M.A.

May 2007 Master Classes at the Liszt Academy in Budapest, Hungary.

July 2009, CD, Bueno Pá Gozar, on Kipu Records, reached the Top 20 lists in seven major cities including New York, Denver, Tampa, Los Angeles, San Juan P.R.. It was selected as CD OF THE MONTH for September 09 by Latin Beat Magazine.

October 09, gave a lecture on -Omara Portundo and the “Filin” movement- for UCLA Live.

 

Susan W. Kane

Has been invited to give her paper "Bridging the Gap Between the University and the Stage" at the International Congress of Voice Teachers in Paris, France, in July 2009. When she returns, she has been invited to teach in an opera program offered by CSU Summer Arts in Fresno.

 

PHILOSOPHY

Mohammed Abed

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS:

2006. “Clarifying the Concept of Genocide.” Metaphilosophy. Vol. 37, Issue 3-4, pp. 308-330.

2007. “Clarifying the Concept of Genocide.” Reprinted in Card, Claudia and Marsoobian, Armen T. (Eds). Genocide’s Aftermath: Responsibility and Repair (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing) pp. 27-49.

Forthcoming (2008). “Philosophy and Genocide.” In Bloxham, Donald and Moses, Dirk. (Eds). The Oxford Handbook on Genocide (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

Forthcoming (2008). “Review of John K. Roth’s Genocide and Human Rights: A Philosophical Guide.” Journal of Genocide Studies.

Forthcoming (2008). “Review of Martha Nussbaum’s The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India’s Future.” Journal of Genocide Studies.

PAPERS GIVEN:

2006. “The Meaning and Meaningfulness of Terrorism.” Symposium Presentation (American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting).

2006. “A Philosophical Perspective on Academic Boycotts.” Group Program (American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting).

2006. “Two Senses of Fairness in Resolving Ethnic Conflict.” Group Program (American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting).

2007. “Complicity, ‘Human Shields,’ and the ‘War on Terror.’” Main Program - Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on Blacks in Philosophy: Philosophical Perspectives on the “War on Terror” (American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meeting).

2008. “Suicide Bombing and Collective Terrorism.” Mini Conference on Terrorism, Torture, and the Uses of Violence (American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting).

2008. Comment on Steven Patterson’s “Torture, Necessity, and Moral Integrity.” Main Program (American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting).

HONORS AND AWARDS:

Marie Christine Kohler Dissertation Fellowship – University of Wisconsin-Madison 2006-2008 University-wide fellowship for dissertators with an exemplary record of scholarship, leadership, and community involvement. Fellowship funds housing for two years.

Vilas Travel Fellowship, UW—Madison 2006 University-wide fellowship for conference travel and accommodation.

 

Mark Balaguer:

Publications:

BOOK:
Free Will as an Open Scientific Problem, forthcoming with MIT Press, 2009.

ESSAYS:
“Fictionalism, Mathematical Facts, and Logical Facts,” forthcoming in Fiction, J. Woods (ed.), Philosophia Verlag.

“Bare Bones Moral Realism and the Objections from Relativism,” forthcoming in the Blackwell Companion to Relativism, S. Hales (ed.), Blackwell Press.

“Fictionalism, Theft, and the Story of Mathematics,” forthcoming in Philosophia Mathematica, 2009.

“Why There are no Good Arguments for any Interesting Version of Determinism,” Synthese, vol. 168 (2009), pp. 1-21.

“The Metaphysical Irrelevance of the Compatibilism Debate (and, More Generally, of Conceptual Analysis),” The Southern Journal of Philosophy, vol. 47 (Spring 2009), pp. 1-24.

“Realism and Anti-Realism in Mathematics,” in Philosophy of Mathematics
(Handbook of the Philosophy of Science), A.D. Irvine (ed.) Amsterdam:
Elsevier/North-Holland, 2009, pp. 35-101.

Kurt Gödel,” Encyclopedia Britannica, http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/ 236770/Kurt-Godel#, 2009. (Print version forthcoming.)

“Mathematical Platonism,” in Proof and Other Dilemmas: Mathematics and Philosophy, B. Gold and R.A. Simons (eds.), Mathematical Association of America Publications, 2008, pp. 179-204.

“Fictionalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fictionalism/, 2008.

*****“Fictionalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics,” forthcoming in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
“Philosophy of Mathematics,” Encyclopedia Britannica, http://www.britannica.com/
EBchecked/topic/369237/philosophy-of-mathematics, 2007. (Print version forthcoming.)

“Indexical Propositions and De Re Belief Ascriptions,” Synthese146 (2005): 325-55.

“A Coherent, Naturalistic, and Plausible Formulation of Libertarian Free Will,” Nous, 38 (September 2004): 379-406.

“Platonism in Metaphysics,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://plato.stanford.edu . 2004 (updated 2009).

Presentations:

“Fictionalism, Mathematical Facts, and Logical Facts,” read in an invited symposium at the Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Vancouver, Canada, April 10, 2009.

“Free Will as an Open Scientific Problem,” read at Chico State, March 26, 2009.

“An Even Newer Wave Moral Realism: Token-Token Moral Naturalism,” read at Central European University in Budapest, July 22, 2008.


“Mathematical Fictionalism,” invited paper, read at the 2006 EasternDivision APA, Washington DC, December 2006.

"Why There are No Good Arguments for Any Interesting Version of Determinism," Bled Philosophy Conference, Bled, Slovenia, June 1, 2006.

“Indexical Propositions and De Re Belief Ascriptions,” read at the University of California, Irvine, October 22, 2004.

 

Talia Bettcher

Publications:

Berkeley: A Guide for the Perplexed. Thoemmes Continuum Press, 2008.

Berkeley’s Philosophy of Spirit: Ontology, Consciousness, and the Elusive Subject. Thoemmes Continuum Press. Publication Date: March 2007.

Transgender Studies and Feminism: Theory, Politics and Gendered Realities, special issue of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, co-edited with Talia Mae Bettcher, (24:3) Summer 2009.

“Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender/Transsexual Individuals” - Chapter on LGBT issues and public health (co-authored with Emilia Lombardi). Social Injustice and Public Health (eds. Barry Levy and Victor Sidel), New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Invited entries on T.E. Jessop and A.A. Luce in Thoemmes’ Dictionary of Twentieth Century British Philosophers (General Editor: Professor Stuart Brown), Thoemmes Continuum Press, 2005.

“Transphobia, Authenticity, and Sexual Abuse” in Trans/Forming Feminisms (ed. Krista Scott-Dixon), Sumach Press, 2006.

“Evil Deceivers and Make-Believers: Transphobic Violence and the Politics of Illusion,” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, forthcoming 2007.

“Rediscovering the Subject: Berkeley and Hume on the Elusive Self,” in Topics in Early Modern Philosophy of Mind (ed. Jon Miller), Kluwer Publishers, forthcoming 2007.

“Gender, Identity, Theory and Action” in Gender and Power (eds. G. Eisman and G. Stahly), monograph series Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Enduring Societal Issues, Stylus Publications, forthcoming.

Presentations:

“Action Research to Address Gender and Sexuality-Based Violence”, CSU Conference on Community Based Teaching and Research, Cal Poly Pomona, March 3-4, 2006.

“Berkeley on the Privacy of Ideas,” International Berkeley Conference, University of Tartu, Estonia, September 5-8, 2005.

“Transphobia and Authenticity”, Doctor of Public Health Program Series, UC Berkeley, School of Public Health, April 8, 2005.

"Authenticity, Transphobia, and Sexual Abuse", Ninth Annual Southern California Philosophy Conference, University of California, Irvine, October 30, 2004.

Performances:

“True Story,” Afternoon Delight, ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives Institute, August 21, 2005.

Awards:

Distinguished Woman Award, CSULA, 2005

 

Sharon Bishop

Publications:

"Thinking About a Professional Ethics", Language Assessment Quarterly, I (2 &3), 2004, 97-107.



Jenny Faust:

Awards and Recognitions:

Outstanding Professor Award, CSULA 2007-08.

Publications:

Faust, Jennifer. 2008. "The Ethics of Scientific Research Utilizing Race as a Variable" Social Philosophy Today Special Issue on Race and Diversity in the Global Context, volume 24.

Faust, Jennifer. 2008. "Can Religious Arguments Persuade?" International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Special Issue on Ethics of Belief 63 (February), 71-86.

Faust, Jennifer. 2007. "Unreasonable Accommodations?: Waiving Logic Requirements for Students with (Relevant) Disabilities," Teaching Philosophy Special Issue on Teaching Students with Disabilities 30:4 (December), 357-381.

Faust, Jennifer. 2007. "Moving the Academy Closer to Utopia: What All Faculty Can Do to Create LGBT-Friendly Campuses" Teaching Philosophy Special Issue on Teaching in a Climate of Conservatism 30:2 (June), 201-215.

“Unreasonable Accommodations?: Waiving Logic Requirements for Students with (Relevant) Disabilities,” Teaching Philosophy, Special Issue on Teaching Students with Disabilities, 30:4 (Decembern 2007), 357-381.

“Moving the Academy Closer to Utopia: What All Faculty Can Do to Create LGBT-Friendly Campuses,” Teaching Philosophy, Special Issue on Teaching in a Climate of Conservatism, 30:2 (June 2007), 201-215.

Review of Engendering Rationalities, eds. Nancy Tuana and Sandra Morgan. Hypatia 20:2.

Review of Guardians of the Moral Order: the Legal Philosophy of the Supreme Court, 1860-1910, Mark Warren Bailey. Law and Politics Book Review 14:8 (August): 634-638.

Presentations:

“Race as a Proxy for Genetic Ancestry, Revisited” Minnesota Philosophical Society 2007 Annual Meeting, Saturday, October 20th, 2007, Inver Hills, MN. [invited paper]

“The Ethics of Scientific Research Utilizing Race as a Variable” North American Society for Social Philosophy Conference “Race and Diversity in the Global Context,” July 12-14th, 2007, Millersville University, Lancaster, PA.

“Can Religious Arguments Persuade?” 28th Annual Philosophy of Religion Conference on “The Ethics of Belief”, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, February 9-10th, 2007

Awards:

Outstanding Professor Award, CSULA 2007-08.

2007 Sabbatical Leave Project Title: “Naturalizing Culture: The Science of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation” California State University, Los Angeles


Ann Garry

Publications:

Transgender Studies and Feminism: Theory, Politics and Gendered Realities, special issue of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, co-edited with Talia Mae Bettcher, (24:3) Summer 2009.

“Essences, Intersections, and North American Feminist Philosophy,” Oxford Handbook of American Philosophy, ed. Cheryl Misak. Oxford University Press, 2008: 595-625

“Intersections, Social Change, and ‘Engaged’ Theories: Implications of North American Feminism.” Pacific and American Studies 8 (March 2008), 99-111.

“Should Feminist Philosophers Care about Essences?” Philosophical Studies (Tetsugaku-Zasshi, University of Tokyo). Translated into Japanese "Feminisuto tetsugakusha wa honshitsu wo kinikakeru bekika," 122 (2007), 113-139.
Presentations

“Intersectionality: Lugones’ Colonial/Modern Gender System and the Multiplication of Genders,” National Women’s Studies Association, Atlanta, GA, November 2009

Keynote Founders and Authors Panel, Conference on the 25th Anniversary of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, University of Washington, October 2009.

“Intersectionality, Metaphors, and Gender(s),” Feminist Ethics and Social Theory Conference, Clearwater Beach, FL, September 2009.

“Feminist Philosophy and Culture: East-West Dialogue,” panelist and organizer of session, World Congress of Philosophy, Seoul, August 2008.

“Intersectionality and Genders: A Reconsideration,” International Association of Women Philosophers, Seoul, July 2008.

Invited Speaker in “Dialogues among Women Philosophers from Diverse Cultures,” International Association of Women Philosophers, Seoul, July 2008.

“Implications of Intersectionality,” Society for Analytic Feminism, University of Kentucky, April 2008.

“The Relevance of Intersections,” Kyoto Forum on Public Philosophy, Kobe, Japan, March 2008.

“’Difficult Conversations’: Feminist Sexualities and Identities,” panel presentation and moderator, Feminist Ethics and Social Theory Conference, Clearwater Beach, FL, September 28, 2007.

“Should Feminist Philosophers Care about Essences?” Philosophy Department Colloquium, University of Tokyo, July 4, 2007.

“’Intersectionality’ in North American Feminist Philosophy: How to Deal with Gender, Race, Class, Sexual Orientation and More!” Gender Studies and Public Sociology Project Colloquium, University of Tokyo, June 6, 2007.

“Intersections, Social Change, and ‘Engaged’ Theories,” Center for Pacific and American Studies Lecture Series, University of Tokyo, May 9, 2007.

Awards:

Fulbright Scholar, University of Tokyo, Spring 2007.

Ricardo Gomez

Publications:

The Impact of Globalized Neoliberalism in Latin America, editor and co-author, Newbury Park, CA: Hansen Publishing, 2004.

“Revolución, Irracionalidad y Fin de la Historia,” Herramienta, June 2005.

“¿Es el capitalismo insuperable?”Herramienta 26 (2005): 123-140.

“Neliberalism and the end of History,” Proceedings of the Pacific Council Conference of Latin American Studies Association, Whittier, CA, 2005.

“Tendencias contemporáneas en Filosofía de la Ciencia,” in Pensar la Ciencia II. Biblioteca del Congreso de la Nación. Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2006: 1-52.

“Progreso científico y relativismo,” in Cristina Di Gregori, ed. Relativismo y Conocimiento Científico. México, 2006: 130-155.

“Mach vs. Planck: Ni vencedores ni vencidos?”, Analisis Filosofico, 2005. “Tendencias actuales en Filosof’ia de las Ciencias,” Biblioteca del Congreso de la Nacion, Buenos Aires, 2006.

“What is that Thing called Philosophy of Technology,” in EOSS, Unesco, 2006.

Presentations:

“The Impact of Neoliberalism in Latin America”, Cádiz, Spain, October 2004.

‘The Myth of the Value-Neutrality of Economics”, México, March 2005.

 

Henry Mendell

Publications:

“Putting Aristotle’s Physics in its Place: A Discussion of B. Morison, On Location,” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 25 (Summer 2005): 329-366.

“Mathematics in Aristotle,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://plato.stanford.edu. 2004.

“Two Traces of Two-Step Eudoxan Proportion Theory in Aristotle: A Tale of Definitions in Aristotle, with a Moral,” Archive for History of the Exact Sciences, forthcoming.

Review of Theokritos Kouremenos, The Proportions in Aristotle’s Physics 7.5), Isis, forthcoming.

Review of Sherman Stein, Archimedes: What Did He Do Besides Cry Eureka? (Washington, DC: The Mathematical Association of America, 1999). Aestimatio 2 (2005): 39-41: http://www.ircps.org/publications/aestimatio/aestimatio.htm.

 

David Pitt

Publications:

“Conscious Thinking,” forthcoming, internet encyclopedia of philosophy.

“Introspective Availability of Intentional Content,” forthcoming, Cognitive Phenomenology (eds. T. Bayne and M. Montague), Oxford: Oxford University Press.

"Intentional Psychologism," forthcoming, Philosophical Studies.

“Mental Representation,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://plato.stanford.edu. Revised 2004; 2008. (Italian translation, in G.M.Quinto, ed.,Identità, rappresentazione, simulazione: Filosofia e teorie della mente, forthcoming.)

“Jerrold J. Katz,” entry, Lexicon Grammaticorum: Who’s Who in the History of World Linguistics, forthcoming.

“The Phenomenology of Cognition, Or, What Is It Like to Think That P?”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research LXIX (2004): 1-36.

Presentations:

1. “Demonstrative Thoughts”:

Phenomenal Intentionality Research Program Workshop, University of Arizona, October 17-19, 2008

Consciousness and Thought, Dubrovnik, Croatia, August 26-28, 2008

2. “The Introspective Availability of Intentional Content”:

Toward a Science of Consciousness 2008, University of Arizona, Tucson, April 2008;

Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Eleventh Annual Conference, Las Vegas, June 2007;

Northwest Philosophy Conference, Lewis and Clark College, October 2007;

California Phenomenology Circle, November 2007

3. “Cognitive Acuity”:

Toward a Science of Consciousness 2007, Roland Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary, July 2007

4. “Unconscious Intentionality”:

California Phenomenology Circle Annual Conference, San Luis Obispo (sponsored by California Polytechnic University, Pomona, and University of California, Merced), June 2007

5. “Intentional Psychologism”:

Toward a Science of Consciousness 2006, University of Arizona, Tucson, April 2006;

Tenth Annual Southern California Philosophy Conference, California State University, Northridge, October 2005;

UC Irvine, December 2005; Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Ninth Annual Conference, California Institute of Technology, June 2005

6. “The Burgean Intuitions,”:

Ninth Annual Southern California Philosophy Conference, UC Irvine, October 2004

 

Joseph Prabhu

1. My co-edited volume, Indian Ethics: Classical Traditions and Contemporary Challenges is appearing in an Indian edition with Oxford university Press.

2. Also some of the offices below are recent. I am also the Chair of the Philosophy of Religion section of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) 2004-2010

President, Society of Asian and Comparative Philosophy, 2008-2010
website: www.sacpweb.org

Member, Board of Trustees, Parliament of the World's Religions
Program Co-Chair, Melbourne Parliament, 2009.

Publications:

Indian Ethics: Classical Traditions and Contemporary Challenges, co-edited with P. Bilimoria, forthcoming, Ashgate Press, December 2007.

• “The Clash or the Dialogue of Civilizations?” in Gary Kessler, ed., Voices of Wisdom, 5th ed., Wadsworth Publishing Company, 2004, pp. 14-15.
• “The Trajectories of Hindu Ethics,” in The Blackwell Companion to Religious Ethics, William Schweiker, ed. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Company, forthcoming 2004.
• “Panikkar’s Cosmotheandric Intuition,” in The Cross-Cultural Achievement of Ramon Panikkar, Ignasi Boada, ed. Barcelona: UNESCO, 2004.
• “Gandhi’s Religious Ethics as Touchstone, “ in Festschrift for Bettina Baeumer, Indira Gandhi Center for the Arts, New Delhi, forthcoming December 2005.
• “Preface” to Unraveling the Mysteries of Mysticism by Randal Firestone. Atlanta, GA: Mellen University Press, March 2006.
• “Hegel and the Non-European ‘Other’ in Post-Colonial Philosophy of Religion, P. Bilimoria, ed. Routledge, 2006.
• Articles on Samkara, Ramanuja, Upanishadic Philosophy, and Early Indian Educational Philosophy. Encyclopedia of India, Stanley Wolpert, ed. Scribner’s/MacMillan, 2005.
• “Gandhi and the Challenge of Terrorism,” in Gandhi: Prophet of
  the Twenty-First Century, Douglas Allen, ed. Rowman and Littlefield, 2006.

Honors:

Senior Fellow Martin Marty Center, University of Chicago, 2005-2006 Outstanding Professor Award, CSLA, 2005-06

President Elect, Society of Asian and Comparative Philosophy 2007-09

Trustee, Parliament of the World’s Religions 2006-2011

 

Mike Shim

Presentations:

“Husserl on Personal Individuation,” California Phenomenology Circle, Saint Luis Obispo, April 5 2008.

Commentary on Michael Sigrists’s “Husserl’s Account of Ideal Content and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind,” Husserl Circle, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 26, 2008.

Publications:

"On Neo-Husserlianism," online article, http://newschool.edu/GF/phil/husserl/ Future/Part%20Two/Shim.html

“Duality of Non-Conceptual Content in Husserl’s Phenomenology of Perception,” Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 4 (2) pp. 209-229.

“Leibniz on Concept and Substance,” International Philosophical Quarterly 46 (3), pp. 309-325.

Presentations:

“How does Husserl make sense?” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Philadelphia, Oct. 2006.

 

Kayley Vernallis

Publications:

“Bisexuality”, in Sex from Plato to Paglia: A Philosophical Encyclopedia, ed. Alan Soble, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006.

“Gay Marriage and Bisexuality,” American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues (vol. 4, no. 1, Fall 2004).

Presentations:

“Iris Murdoch’s The Sovereignty of the Good and Tom Joslin’s Documentary Silverlake Life” APA Pacific Division Meeting, Portland, Oregon, March 23rd, 2006.

“Symposium on Richard Wollheim” Chair and Presenter, APA Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco, March 23rd, 2005.

Awards:

Distinguished Woman Award, CSULA, 2006.

 

DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE ARTS & DANCE

Theatre Arts and Dance –students, faculty and staff collaborate for successes at 2009 Kennedy Center, American College Theatre Festival

CSULA undergraduate student (double major Music/TAD) Benjamin Caron's short play "10 Minutes" was invited to perform in an evening of new works at the Festival.

Actors Paul Diem, Lexis LaRue, Whitney LaBarge and Kolleen Richards along with technicians Paul Coutinho and Matthew Tsang, stage manager Leticia Gonzalez and A+L Production and Technical Staff Phil VanHest, Jim McFail and Tim Jones, traveled to CSU Fullerton, mounted the show in under two hours, and ran 3 flawless performances for sold-out crowds of over 250 people.

Professors Shiz Herrera and Theresa Larkin each received an Excellence in Education Award at a special dinner at the Festival.

Professor Larkin won the award for her work as an Irene Ryan adjudicator for circuit 2 of our region.

Professor Herrera received the award from the Region's Technical and Design area.

Other faculty participating were Stephen Rothman, as the CSULA Irene Ryan acting coach and Meredith Greenburg, who coordinated the Next Step auditions for the region as well as hosting the STAGE MANAGERS ROUNDTABLE workshop and sitting on the panel for the workshop HOW TO GET A JOB IN THE INDUSTRY.

Shiz Herrera also coordinated the 40 stage managers nominated for the KCACTF National Festival Stage Manager Fellowship as they worked the events at the festival.

Caroline Mercier, visiting professor in the Art Department, is the Region's Vice Chair for Design.

 

Dr. Pamela Dunne

2007:
Presented workshop at the Drama Therapy Institute Abroad Program. Kristiansand, Norway. (June 2007)
“Myth, Mask and Meaning: Affirming Future Paths”

Presented workshop for the International Narrative and Community Work Conference, Kristiansand, Norway. (June 2007)
“Narradrama with Children”

Presented workshop at the Di Teatro Sociale E Di Comunita and Laura Lucchini International Programs, Avigliana, Italy. (July 2007)
“Narradrama Techniques with Adults and Children”

Presented workshop for the NADT (National Association for Drama Therapy) International Conference, Montréal, Canada. (August 2007)
“Narradrama, Media and Photography in Psychotherapy”

Presented workshop for the Participators Conference, Malibu, CA. (Spring 2007), “Drama and Creative Arts in Therapy”

 

José Cruz González

2007:
My play adaptation of Tomás and the Library Lady national tour by Childsplay AZ. It reached between 75,000 – 100,000 audience members

2008:
A separate production of Tomás and the Library Lady presented by Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Theatre of Youth, January 8 –April 11.

Awarded “Excellence in Professional Artistry in Theatre for Young Audiences” from CSU San Diego. February.

My play The Cloud Gatherer selected as regional finalist for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Region VIII, February.

Directed world premiere of Teaching Disco Square Dancing to our Elders for Native Voices at the Autry Museum. February 8 – March 2.

My new play North Country opened at CSU San Marcos from March 27 – 30.

My new play The Blue House premiered at the Adventure Stage Theatre/Chicago Humanities Festival, April 5 – May 3.

The Cloud Gatherer performed at the Los Angeles Natural History Museum, June 14 15, 22, 28, 29. Directed by Dr. Susan Mason and performed by CSULA students.

My play The Heart’s Desire premiered at PCPA (Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts) at Santa Maria, June 12 – 28.

My new play anthology, Nine Plays by José Cruz González: Magical Realism and Mature Themes in Theatre for Children will be published by University of Texas Press, available October, 2008.

 

Meredith Greenburg

2007:
Stage Manager ……………. La Boheme - Los Angeles Opera
Stage Manager ……………. Fidelio - Los Angeles Opera
Producer …………………… Equality California Palm Springs Gala 2007
Stage Manager ……………. Broadway Unplugged at the Ford Amphitheatre
Production Stage Manager ... South Pacific - Hollywood Bowl
Stage Manager …………… Palm Springs Film Festival Gala 2007

2008:
Stage Manager …………… Palm Springs Film Festival Gala 2008
Professional Stage Management Mentor for the Stage Management Mentoring Project, USITT (United States Institute for Theatre Technology) Conference, Houston, TX
Producer ………………..… Equality California Palm Springs Gala 2008
Stage Manager …………… The Fly (American Premier) - Los Angeles Opera

 

G. Shizuko Herrera

2008 :
“Japanese Costumes” (paper presentation). Japan Studies Association Conference (Honolulu, 2008).

Planning Committee Chair, Festival Host for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Region VIII, Festival 40 held at California State University, Los Angeles, February 11 – 15, 2008

Regional Festival comprised of Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, and Utah with over 1500 participants (students/faculty/staff) from over 60 colleges/universities.

 

Theresa Larkin

2007:
Playwright, Director, Producer, Visualist
Miné: A Name For Herself (Co-writer w/Mary H. Curtin) multi-media original historical narrative profiling WWII Japanese American Internment activist and artist Miné Okubo, toured to the Smithsonian Institution as part of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program Day of Remembrance commemorating Japanese and Japanese-Americans interned during WWII. (February 2007)

Adaptor, Director, Visualist
Faust (Co-produced with The Artists’ Collective) multi-media dance theatre adaptation of Goethe’s Faust (Parts One and Two) at Cal State LA. (July/August 2007)

2008:
Adaptor, Director
Bless Me, Ultima (Theatrical Reading, adapted from Rudolfo Anaya’s novel as part of the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read) performed on campus at Cal State LA with guest actress Alejandra Flores, numerous other professionals, and CSLA students. (April

Bless Me, Ultima (Theatrical Reading) toured to The Bilingual Foundation for the Arts (BFA) as one of four new plays invited to perform in the New Works Annual Festival 2008. (June)

Bless Me, Ultima (Theatrical Reading) toured to Dallas, Texas as the final performance of the NEA Big Read for the City of Dallas Cultural Affairs Department and the Latino Cultural Center. (June)

2009:
Bless Me, Ultima invited to tour to Big Read forthcoming Ventura 2009.

Other related professional activities:
The Artists’ Collective (1991-2008) Producing Artistic Director
American College Theatre Festival - Regional Adjudicator, Regional Judge 2007, 2008

 

Susan V. Mason

2009 Fulbright Scholar, Japan, Spring-Summer

2007:
Presentation: “Ma and the Physics of Noh” (paper). Japan Studies Association Conference (San Diego, 2007).

2008 :
Presentation: “Aware and Mujo in Four Films of Hirakozu Kore-eda” (paper). Japan Studies Association Conference (Honolulu, 2008).

Director: The Cloud Gatherer by José Cruz González. Selected as regional finalist for Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Region VIII (CSULA, February, 2008)

Collaboration: panel and workshop with José Cruz González, Michelle Zamora, and Tony Fitzgerald. American College Theatre Festival (CSULA, 2008)

Director: The Cloud Gatherer by José Cruz González. LA Natural History Museum (June 2008)

Publication: “The Playwriting of José Cruz González,” essay in Nine Plays by José Cruz González: Magical Realism and Mature Themes in Theatre for Children, ed. Coleman Jennings. University Texas Press, forthcoming Fall 2008.

2009:
“Ma and the Metaphysics of Noh,” Japan Studies Journal, forthcoming. Jan
2009.

“Verfremdungseffekt in A Doll’s House.” International Ibsen Conference (Shanghai, 2009): In submission.

“Double Nora: Mitsuya Mori’s Noh Adaptation of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House.” Japan Studies Association Conference (New Orleans, 2009): In submission.

Fulbright lecturer: Kyoritsu University and Tsuda College (Tokyo) March–August.

 

Steve Rothman

2007:

Directed the World Premiere of UNDER MIDWESTERN STARS for Kansas City Repertory Theatre

Directed the Pulitzer Prize winning play DOUBT for Kansas City Repertory Theatre

As a Trustee of the Society/League Pension and Health Fund ( the 30 million dollar pension and 5 million dollar health funds that serve the membership of the Society of Stage Director's and Choreographers) attended the New York City spring and winter meetings of the Trustees.

2008:

Directed Harold Pinter's BETRAYAL in Florence, Italy for the Florence International Theatre Company

Directed THE ELEPHANT MAN for Actor's Co-op in Los Angeles, California

Received a sabbatical award from CSULA to direct BETRAYAL in Italy

Continued my service as a Society/League Pension and Health Fund Trustee and attended both the spring and upcoming winter meetings of the Trustees

Continued my service as one of the 125 elected members of the honorary organization, The National Theatre Conference and will be attending their annual national session in October in New York City

Made a presentation to the Friend's of the Florence Theatre on "Creating English Speaking Theatre in Italy"

Made a presentation to the Membership of the Actor's Co-op on " Creating Professional Theatre in a 99 Seat Theatre Environment"