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Member Awards
Robert
Arellano
2010 Award for Outstanding Academic Contributions
University of New Mexico, Taos
Sherrie
Barr
2011 Excellence in Diversity Awards-Emerging Progress
Michigan State Universtiy
Ezra
Cappell
Named Center for Effective Teaching and Learning Fellow
Universtiy of Texas, El Paso
Lisa
Graley
2010 Excellence in Teaching Award
University of Louisiana, Lafayette
Rosanna
Lauriolla
Certificate of Excellence in promoting academic integrity, intelligent
living and meaningful learning
University of Idaho
Debra
H. Sowell
Alcuin Fellowship, 2011-2013
Brigham Young University
Shawn
Tucker
NEH grant to develop an "Enduring Questions" course dealing with
pride, humility and the good life
Elon University
Mary
Ann Wilson
Women Who Mean Business Award, sponsored by the Lafayette, La Independent
(newspaper) for her work in establishing a women's studies curriculum
University of Louisiana, Lafayette
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Annette C.
Allen
Editor
Clinical Ethics and the Necessity of Stories:
Essays in Honor of Richard M. Zaner
(Springer 2010)
"This collection of articles honors the work of Richard Zaner, a distinguished
philosopher who has worked for over twenty years as an ethics consultant at
Vanderbilt University Medical Center. His work in the clinical setting, especially
the use of narrative in understanding what is going on in this setting is
the focus of some of the papers, others relate his methodology and phenomenological
approach to the more standard bioethical problemata and approaches. The essential
questions: what then is the role of the philosopher turned medical ethicists?
Is medical ethics a form of applied philosophy, or is it also a form of therapy?
distinguish Zaner's phenomenology from hermeneutical philosophy"-Amazon.com
Robert
Arellano
Havana Lunar
(Akashic Books, 2009)
"One hungry, hallucinatory night in the dark heart of Havana, Mano Rodriguez,
a young doctor with the revolutionary medical service, comes to the aid of
a teenage jinetera named Julia. She takes refuge in his clinic to break away
from the abusive chulo who prostituted her, and they form an unlikely allegiance
that Mano thinks might save him from his twin burdens: the dead-end hospital
assignment he was delegated after being blacklisted by the Cuban Communist
Party and a Palo Monte curse on his love life commissioned by a vengeful ex-wife.
But when the pimp and his bodyguards come after Julia and Mano, the violent
chain-reaction plunges them all into the decadent catacombs of Havana's criminal
underworld. Inspired by fifty years of Cuban literary noir, from Cold Tales
by Virgilio Piñera to Reinaldo Arenas' Before Night Falls, Robert Arellano's
Havana Lunar intertwines an insider testimony on the collapse of socialist
Cuba with a psychological mystery" -Amazon.com
Vita Fortunati
Editor
Travelling
and Mapping the World: Scientific Discoveries and Narrative Discourses
(I Libri di Emil, 2011)
"Investigates the interfacing between the development of scientific discourses
and the re-configuration of old paradigms of knowledge both in literature
and science that started in Europe in the age of the Great Discoveries and
continued throughout the 17th and the 18th century. The book brings together
various disciplinary areas, and a variety of scientific terms of reference,
as well as points of observation from several European contexts. At the centre
of the volume is travel literature, a genre of a hybrid kind from its very
beginnings, of somewhat indefinite contours. It has been for centuries at
the interface of fields of knowledge and disciplines such as cartography,
cosmogony, astronomy, physics, zoology, ethnology, and ethology, and also
the history of medicine and pharmacology. But travel literature, as the essays
in this book demonstrate, was and still is a fertile field of enquiry for
theoreticians, philosophers, anthropologists and historians of ideas in which
to trace the history of paradigms and Western culture’s founding cognitive
categories such as gender, identity, otherness, race and ethnicity" --Ilibridiemil.com
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Geoffrey Green
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publisher
Voices
in a Mask - Based on images of disguise in literature, theater, and
opera, this short-story cycle explores themes of identity and subterfuge in
a fictional fugue that ranges from comic to poignant. Into the librettos of
Don Giovanni, Tosca, Rigoletto, and other operas, Green weaves the authentic
biographies of their singers and composers, modern-day settings, and his own
imaginative twists. Throughout Voices in a Mask, characters obscure
and reveal themselves as art mimics life and life, art. Ultimately the very
acts of masking and projecting reveal a truth about the power of art and its
inherent deceptions.
"This is a wonderful
book... The combination of artistic skill and critical acumen involved is
astonishing, and the historical research involved is seriously done and superbly
deployed in a creative manner." --Robert Scholes, Brown University
Geoffrey Green's
Voices in a Mask is an operatic tour de force of a 'novel' involving
(among other things) grand opera--a subject on which the author is impressively
and entertainingly knowledgeable."--John Barth
Geoffrey Green
Editor
Scholes Loves a Story: A Book for Bob
(Scholesbook)
To celebrate Robert Scholes, writers created this secret book of stories about
him as a tribute to his generosity of spirit, his time, his friendship, &
hispersonality.
Stephen Husarick
Editor
Sounds of the Future: Essays on Music in Science
Fiction Film
(McFarland,
2010)
"Covering titles ranging from Rocketship X-M (1950) to Wall-E (2008),
these insightful essays measure the relationship between music and science
fiction film from a variety of academic perspectives. Thematic sections survey
specific compositions utilized in science fiction movies; Broadway's relationship
with the genre; science fiction elements in popular songs; the conveyance
of subjectivity and identity through music; and such individual composers
as Richard Strauss (2001: A Space Odyssey) and Bernard Herrmann (The
Day the Earth Stood Still)" --amazon.com
Samuele F.S.
Pardini
Editor
The
Devil Gets His Due: The Uncollected Essays of Leslie Fiedler
(Berkeley: Counterpoint Press)
Pardini edited and wrote an extended introduction to the collection.
This collection
of essays from National Book Critics Circle Lifetime Achievement Award winner
Leslie Fiedler reveals a powerful mind critiquing whole aspects of culture
and uncovering lessons therein that remain timely today.
“No other student
of the American novel has such fascinating and on the whole right things to
say.” —Washington Post
Henry M. Sayre
Discovering the Humanties
(Prentice Hall, 2009)
"Discovering the Humanities helps students see context and make
connections across the humanities by tying together the entire cultural experience
through a narrative storytelling approach. Pearson Prentice Hall is proud
to offer Discovering the Humanities–the new brief version of The Humanities:
Culture, Continuity, and Change adapted by author Henry Sayre himself.
Discovering the
Humanities continues to help students see the big picture and make important
connections through Henry Sayre’s captivating narrative that has made the
comprehensive text successful at schools across the nation. Henry Sayre took
the introduction to the humanities course as a sophomore and was inspired
to devote his life to the study of the humanities. He has always wanted to
write a book that passes along the important and compelling stories of the
humanities. Henry believes that students learn best by remembering stories,
not by memorizing facts. What makes Discovering the Humanities special is
that it tells the stories and captures the voices that have shaped and influenced
human thinking and creativity" --amazon.com
Discovering the
Humanties is just one of the titles authored by Sayre. Other works include,
Writing About Art and A World of Art.
Debra
H. Sowell,
co-author
Il Balletto Romantico
(L'Epos,
2004)
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