Mark Spitzer, assistant professor of writing, recently had his memoir After the Orange Glow published by Monkey Puzzle Press, Boulder, CO. Spitzer has published five book since April 2010.
Tim Thornes, assistant professor of linguistics in theDepartment of Writing, has a chapter in the just published book Multi-verb Constructions: a View from theAmericas edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and Pieter C. Muysken. BrillPublishing: Leiden and Boston. He also participated in the second International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation at the University ofHawai’i at Manoa from February 9-13. http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC/2011. Two linguistics minors from UCA (Laura Berbusse, Writing andKatie Butler, Mass Communication/Journalism), now in the graduate program in linguistics, participated as part of the steering committee for the conference and are two of just four students working as associate copy editors for the international peer-reviewed online journal entitled Language Documentation and Conservation,also sponsored by UH-Manoa. http://www.nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/
Stephanie Vanderslice, associate professor in the Department of Writing, spoke on three panels at the Associated Writing Programs Conference in Washington DC February 3-5: What Do Writers Do All Day: Articulating Our Work in the Discipline, Getting to the Core: Creative Writing in the Core Curriculum, and Reinventing the Workshop. In addition, her two-part essay with fiction writer Cathy Day (Ball State University) and poet Anna Leahy (Chapman University), “Where Are We Going Next?: A Conversation About Creative Writing Pedagogy” was recently featured in the online publication, Fiction Writer’s Review ( http://fictionwritersreview.com/essays/where-are-we-going-next-a-conversation-about-creative-writing-pedagogy-pt-1). Vanderslice, Day and Leahy have also published, “A Zetabet of Creative Writing Theory and Pedagogy” in the new UCA publication the Toad Suck Review, which debuted at the AWP conference to great fanfare.
An essay by Dr. James W. Hikins, professor and chair of Speech and Public Relations, will be published in a forthcoming issue of the journal Social Epistemology (Issue 3, Volume 25, 2011). “On The Ontological and Epistemological Dimensions of Expertise: Why ‘Reality’ and ‘Truth’ Matter and How We Might Find Them” is co-authored with Professor Richard A. Cherwitz of the University of Texas, Austin.