Three members of the English department presented papers at the 64th annual meeting of the South Central Modern Language Association meeting last week in Memphis. Raymond-Jean Frontain read a paper titled “The Return to Cosmic Ritual: D. H. Lawrence’s David as Total Theater” on the Modern Drama panel. Jay Ruud read a paper called “A Great Flash of Understanding: The End of Dante’s Quest,” and Dwayne Coleman read a apper entitled “Malory’s Guenivere: A Search for Identity,” both at the Old and Middle English Language and Literature session. Frontain also chaired a special session on poet Rupert Brooke.
Victor A. Puleo, Jr., CFP?, assistant professor of Insurance and Risk Management and CFP? Program Director in UCA’s College of Business recently had an article entitled ?Dividend Policy Determinants in the Insurance Industry? published in the Journal of Academy of Business and Economics. He presented the article last month at the 2007 International Academy of Business and Economics (IABE) Annual Conference in Las Vegas. The paper is co-authored with Mike Casey, professor of Finance and chair of the EFIRM Department, and Frank Smith, visiting assistant professor at Henderson State University.
Chenyi Hu, chair of UCA’s computer science department, is listed as co-author of an article entitled “Studying interval valued matrix games with fuzzy logic” in the Journal of Soft Computing (12(2), 147-155, 2008) www.springerlink.com/content/l6311g0254n173r2/fulltext.pdf. The article was adapted from a thesis completed by UCA applied computing master’s student Dwayne Collins, who was advised by Hu.