A weekly listing of submitted presentations and publications by UCA faculty and staff.
Dr. Stephanie Vanderslice, Department of Writing and Speech, was recently invited to speak on the “State of Play: Creative Writing at Universities in the US and the UK” at the Great Writing Creative Writing Conference at Portsmouth University, in Portsmouth, England.
Vanderslice appeared via compressed video from Stamford, Conn. She also recently published “The Power to Choose: The Case for the Concept-based Multigenre Creative Writing Course” in the inaugural issue of New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, published out of Great Britain.
She has also accepted an appointment to the editorial board of the journal. Other colleges and universities with representatives on the editorial board include Harvard, Princeton, Oxford and the University of Michigan.
Mark Mullenbach, Department of Political Science, has been invited to give a paper at a University of North Texas Conference on Conflict Resolution, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding in January 2005.
The aim of the two-day conference “is to bring together several leading scholars in the field to discuss efforts to limit violence in the international system, resolve issues under dispute, and reconstruct societies following conflict.? Conference participants will present a draft of an original work that will then be produced in an edited volume.
