Tim Thornes, assistant professor of writing and linguistics at UCA, was invited to the third annual Workshop on Syntactic Complexity at the University of Sonora, Hermosillo, Mexico, where he presented the paper “The development of complexity in Northern Paiute verb structure.” He will also be presenting the paper “Polyfunctionality and the Northern Paiute middle voice marker” at the annual international conference of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas in Chicago in January.
Stephanie Vanderslice, associate professor in UCA’s Department of Writing, has published a featured essay, “Storming the Garrett: An Open Letter to My Students,” in a special issue of the British journal Writing in Education to be distributed at the Associated Writing Programs Conference in New York City in January. Writing in Education is the journal of the National Association for Writers in Education, a British creative writing organization. Vanderslice also published a personal essay, “History Lessons,” in volume 9 of the Arkansas Literary Forum.
Brian Campbell, an anthropologist in UCA’s Department of Sociology, recently was invited to present his research at the American Anthropological Association annual meeting in Washington, D.C. His presentation was entitled “Learning from the Past: Agricultural Anthropology and Agrarian Traditions in the Ozarks.”
Hui Wu, associate professor in UCA’s Writing department, had her research result “Writing and Teaching behind Barbed Wire: An Exiled Composition Class in a Japanese-American Internment Camp” published in the December issue of College Composition and Communication, a leading journal in the study of writing instruction. This article examines Arkansas camp schools? curricula and writing assignments and an English teacher?s response to student essays to show how racially profiled students and their Caucasian teacher negotiated the political meanings of civil rights and freedom. Also, another article by Wu, “Lost in Translation: Modern Conceptualization of Chinese Rhetoric,” has been accepted for publication in the symposium of College Composition and Communication.
Jacki McMurtrey, an associate professor of Speech-Language Pathology at UCA, recently had an article entitled, “Oxygen Saturation and Heart Rate during Feeding in Breast-Fed Infants at 1-Week and 2-Months of Age”, accepted for publication in the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. The article is co-authored with Debra Suiter of the University of Memphis.
Conrad Shumaker, professor of English, has published a book with Peter Lang Publishing titled “Southwestern American Indian Literature: In the Classroom and Beyond.” The book, intended for instructors, deals with challenges of teaching literature of Southwest American Indians, and “suggests innovative ways of teaching the material,” according to the book jacket.
