Kudos
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Steven DeCaroli
Goucher Professor of Philosophy Steven DeCaroli has been awarded a fellowship from Taiwan’s National Science Council, which will support a yearlong appointment as a research fellow at National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei.
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Kratz Summer Writing Fellows
The Kratz Center for Creative Writing at Goucher College has announced the new 2013 Kratz Summer Writing Fellows. They are: Corinne Bennett ’13, Lisa Charron ’13, Hannah Fenster ’15, Alexandra Kessler ’15, Timothy Proser ’14, Raychel Rapazza ’14, Anna Richardson ’13, Inga Schmidt ’13, Laura Tims ’14, and Sierra Troy-Regier ’13. Each year the Kratz Center offers writing fellowships for the summer. Qualified sophomores, juniors, and seniors who are fiction writers, poets, creative nonfiction writers, and playwrights can apply to awards ranging from $1,000 to $3,000. The fellowships fund worthy projects falling within the following areas: travel and/or research connected to and culminating in a work of creative writing; a writing-related internship at a literary magazine or book publisher; and/or attendance at a summer conference or workshop.
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Christina Murphy
Christina Murphy’s ’12 paper "La force critique du cinéma: La Vida Perra de Juanita Narboni et le Maroc contemporain," written in French 351 – Special Topics in Francophone Literature and Cinema: the Cinemas of the Maghreb in fall of 2011, was recently published in Proto: An Undergraduate Humanities Journal.
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Nancy Magnuson
On May 20 Goucher College Librarian Nancy Magnuson will deliver a keynote address at the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Library Association, College and Research Division. In “Booking the Athenaeum” she will discuss how books informed the design and enrich the ongoing programming of the Goucher College Library, opened in 2009 and designated the No. 1 Library Journal New Landmark Library in 2012.
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Inga Lea Schmidt
Inga Lea Schmidt ’13 won the Intro Journals Project, sponsored by the Associated Writing Programs, for her poem “Saint Petersburg.” The poem will appear in the literary journal Puerto del Sol.
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Elizabeth Ahearn
Elizabeth Ahearn, chair of the Dance Department, is one of 28 authors who penned Voices of Classical Pilates, a new book of accomplished second-generation classical Pilates teachers writing about their lives and work. In the book, the professionals share ideas and experiences that show diversity among those devoted to Joseph Pilates’ traditional method of mental and physical conditioning.
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Alvin Eng
Alvin Eng, assistant professor of theatre at Goucher, enjoyed a successful Off-Broadway New York production of his play Three Trees, a production about artist Alberto Giacometti and Philosopher Isaku Yanaihara. Staged by the Pan Asian Repertory Theater, the show closed on April 14, and was reviewed in The New York Times here.
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Carol Pippen
Carol Pippen, assistant professor of English at Goucher, recently gave a series of lectures on Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice to audiences attending a dramatization of the novel by the Annapolis Shakespeare Company.
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Kelly Brown Douglas
OnlineSchoolsMaryland.com has included Kelly Brown Douglas, , Goucher College professor of philosophy and religion, in a list of the Top 25 Women Professors in Maryland. The goal of the top professors list is to highlight post-secondary educators who have been awarded recently for excellence in the classroom, on campus, and/or in the community.
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Philosophy Annual Undergraduate Conference
The Goucher philosophy program held its annual undergraduate conference on Saturday, April 20. The conference, which showcases papers presented by undergraduates from Goucher as well as from other colleges and universities, is entirely organized by students. Over the past 10 years the conference has featured keynote presentations from some of the most influential philosophers in the country. This year's keynote, titled "Revolutionary Declarations: The Status of Human Rights," was delivered by Professor Peg Birmingham of DePaul University. A list of past keynote speakers can be found here.
