Faculty Kudos (Spring 2023)
Center for Information Assurance (CfIA)
Mar - Dr. Dipankar Dasgupta, Hill Professor in Cybersecurity and director of the Center for Information Assurance (CfIA), has contributed a chapter on “An Empirical Study of Algorithmic Bias” in the “Handbook on Computer Learning and Intelligence” (Vol. 2, Chapter 23).
Mar - Dr. Dipankar Dasgupta, Hill Professor in Cybersecurity and Director of the Center for Information Assurance (CfIA), recently gave an invited talk on “Adversarial Machine Learning and Defense Strategies” at the University of South Carolina for the Computer Science and Engineering Department. He also toured their AI Institute and engaged in research discussions to explore collaboration opportunities.
Mar - A Research paper has been finalized under the direction of Dr. Dasgupta entitled "Insider Threat Detection and Prevention Protocol: ITDP (2021)." ITDP is a protocol utilized by authenticating a user's security questions to authenticate the user.
Mar - Center for Information Assurance (CfIA) staff member Tony Pinson recently served as a speaker at a K-12 STEM conference. He provided cybersecurity workshops on Internet Safety and Data Encryption in support of the CfIA's Community Outreach Program. The STEM conference was sponsored by the NSBE Memphis Professionals and held at the Macon Campus of Southwest Tennessee Community College.
Political Science
Mar - Dr. Nicole Detraz, Department of Political Science professor, has published a new book with the MIT Press titled, "Women and Climate Change: Examining Discourses from the Global North." When you think "climate change," who comes to mind? In Women and Climate Change, Detraz asks where women in the Global North figure in the picture, what that means and why it matters. Her answers fill critical gaps in what we know about the politics of climate change and gender.
Psychology
Mar - Dr. Roger Kreuz, professor of psychology and associate dean for the College of Arts & Sciences continues with his second writing for Psychology Today. The blog, "Small Talk and Big Ideas,” centers on language and communication and will be updated once a month. The second entry titled, "How We Talk When We Talk About January 6: The way we refer to an event can affect our later memory for it," can be found here.
Mar - The spring GeoMorFORUM was a success! It represents a great way to initiate interdisciplinary research teams with a common thread of geomorphology. We hope to see everyone with some new faces in the fall! Many thanks to @paleo_ray in the Department of Earth Sciences for organizing!
World Languages and Literatures
Mar - Monika Nenon, Professor of German, served as moderator on February 20 for the first international Lessing-Workshop (on-line) organized by the Lessing-Akademie and the Lessing Society. Jonathan Blake (Brown University) discussed his new project on the public impact of the Fragments Controversy in Europe.
Mar - Diana Ruggiero, Associate Professor of Spanish, and Dr. Steven Sacco (San Diego State University) co-edited the special issue "World Languages for Specific Purposes: The Future is Blended," Global Advances in Business Communication, vol. 10 (2022). Here is the link to access the volume: https://commons.emich.edu/gabc
Mar - Melanie Conroy, Associate Professor of French, was appointed to the governance board of centerNet, an international network of digital humanities centers formed for cooperative and collaborative action to benefit digital humanities and allied fields.
Mar - Ivan Ortega-Santos, Associate Professor of Spanish, published the paper "Educational Interpreting of Spoken Languages in the U.S." in the Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Social Communication, Santiago de Cuba.
Mar - Diana Ruggiero, Associate Professor of Spanish, received one of the Faculty Research Grants for Academic Year 2023-2024. The title of the project is “A Social Justice Learning and Community Engagement Project Addressing Latinx Women’s Mental and Emotional Health Needs in Memphis, Tennessee”.
Mar - Ralph Albanese, Emeritus Professor of French, has an article entitled "Les Enjeux du discours oblique dans Le Misanthrope" that has been accepted for publication by Papers in French Seventeenth-Century Literature.
Mar - Melanie Conroy, Associate Professor of French, was appointed to the Editorial Board of H-France, a scholarly organization promoting the study of French and Francophone history and culture online, as Web Editor.
Mar - Errol M. O'Neill, Associate Professor of French, has written the chapter "The fine line between digital literacy and academic dishonesty in online WLI" which has been accepted for The Routledge Taylor & Francis Handbook of Research on World Language Instruction, edited by Victoria Russell, Kathryn Murphy-Judy, Francis Troyan, Ali Moeller, and Krishauna Hines-Gaither (expected publication: Summer 2024).
Mar - Diana Ruggiero, Associate Professor of Spanish, was featured on Fox 13 News on February 20, 2023 in a segment entitled "Afro-Latino Week Celebrates Black History in Hispanic Community." Access the segment by clicking here.
Mar - On Wednesday, February 22, Maika Yamaoka (Japan Outreach Initiative Coordinator) led a Japanese tea ceremony demonstration at University High School. She has been the club advisor of the Japanese Club since last year. Shinobu Watanabe (Assistant Professor of Teaching, Japanese) assisted during the club meeting, and the high school students had the opportunity to prepare and drink ceremonial matcha tea and enjoy authentic sweets.
Feb - Melanie Conroy, Associate Professor of French, was elected to a three-year term as the deputy treasurer and then treasurer of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO).
Feb - Robert Kelz, Professor of German and Department Chair, Patty Joyner, Assistant Professor of Teaching for Spanish, and Joshua Nave, Assistant Professor of Teaching for Spanish, were featured on WKNO's "Checking on the Arts" on February 15, 2023 to promote the 2023 UofM Language Fair.
Feb - Yuki Matsuda, Professor of Japanese, presented her paper, "Multimodality in the writing of NieR: Automata," at a meeting of the Association of Japanese Texts and Scripts (online) on January 28, 2023.
Feb - Joshua Nave, Assistant Professor of Teaching for Spanish, was a an invited co-presenter at the 2023 DREAM Annual Convening in Chicago, IL on February 16, 2023. The session was entitled "State-Led Effort to Support Open & Equitable Education Practices in Tennessee." His co-presenters included Rebecca Griffiths from SRI International, Richard Sebastian from Achieving the Dream, Judith Westly from Columbia State Community College, and Dustin Williams from Southwest Tennessee Community College.
Feb - Errol M. O'Neill, Associate Professor of French, gave the invited talk “Online Machine Translation in L2 Learning: The Good, The Bad, and The Unknown” via videoconference for the School of Applied Language & Intercultural Studies at Dublin City University on November 17, 2022.
Feb - Diana Ruggiero, Associate Professor of Spanish, and Wilson Chiluiza Vasquez’ s article “Eva Perón a través de las lenguas de fines específicos: Identidad, habla y corporalidad humana” has been accepted for publication at the Revista Científica Educ@ção 7.12 (2022): 1442-1452.
Feb - Will Thompson, Associate Professor of French, is the principal investigator on a grant awarded by the Tennessee Department of Education for the Governor’s School for International Studies in the amount of $238,245. The GSIS is a program for Tennessee high school students that will take place on the UofM campus in June of 2023.
Feb - Lan Zhang, Associate Professor of Chinese, and Hang Zhang co-authored and published Introducing Chinese Linguistics: A Handbook for Chinese Language Teachers and Learners, 2022. John Benjamins. https://www.benjamins.com/catalog/scld.16
Jan - Vania Barraza, Professor of Spanish, has been invited to serve on the editorial committee for Alba de América, an open-access journal hosted by California State University, Dominquez Hills, founded in 1982.
Jan - Yuki Matsuda, Professor of Japanese, has an article that has been accepted for publication: Matsuda Y (In Press) “Script-Switching” in Japanese Pop Culture: A Social Semiotic Multimodal Approach. Visual Communication.
Jan - Diana Ruggiero, Associate Professor of Spanish, Dr. Steven J. Sacco, and Dr. Martha Pereszlenyi-Pinter’s article "Any Time, Any Place, Any Path, Any Pace: A Curricular Design for the Teaching of Languages for Specific Purposes in the Pandemic Era and Beyond" has been accepted into Global Advances in Business Communication for publication on November 29th, 2022.
Jan - Vania Barraza, Professor of Spanish, published the article "Historia, cine y montaje en Rey (2017) de Niles Atallah," in Estéticas del desajuste. Cine chileno 2010-2020. Eds. Iván Pinto and Carolina Urrutia Neno. Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Metales Pesados, 179-197.
Jan - Monika Nenon, Professor of German, presented the paper "Productive Reception. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Julie, ou La Nouvelle Héloїse and Sophie von La Roche’s Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim" at the Women in German Conference (WIG), Portland, Oregon, November 10-13, 2022.
Jan - Robert Kelz, Professor of German, published "Fleeting Hope in Foreboding Times: The 1932 Goethe Year in Argentina," Goethe Yearbook Vol. 29 (2022): 95-117.
Jan - Heike Polster, Associate Professor of German, published the book chapter "The Heterochronic Narrative of Christa Wolf," in What Remains: Responses to the Legacy of Christa Wolf, eds. Gerald Fetz and Patricia Herminghouse (New York: Berghahn, 2022): 99-109.
Jan - Diana Ruggiero, Associate Professor of Spanish, was featured on La hora de Sazón with Talia Palacio on WYXR on Oct. 29, 2022. In the interview, Dr. Ruggiero shared her research, her latest book, and her experiences with Día de los Muertos.
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