Faculty and Staff Notes

Professor of Studio Art Julia Christensen was invited to present at the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University on March 23 about her non-profit, The Space Song Foundation, and her global public art project/space mission, The Tree of Life. Christensen will also present the project at the Interplanetary Small Satellite Conference at CalTech in May, on the panel, "Incoming planned missions and innovative mission concepts."

“Music Received Column," a bibliography of recently published music scores in Notes: The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association. Compiled by Kathleen A. Abromeit.

Recent columns have included:

• Vol. 77, No. 3, Works by BIPOC composers and women with Jake Balmuth ’23.
• Vol. 77, No. 4 and 78, No.1, Works by LGBTQIA composers with Jake Balmuth ’23.
• Vol. 78, No. 2, Works by Latin American women with Jake Balmuth ’23.
• Vol. 78, No. 3, Works for solo guitar by women composers with Eliza Balmuth ’23.
• Vol. 79, No. 1, String quartets by Black composers with Jake Balmuth ’23.
• Vol. 79, No. 3, Musical settings of Black poetry with Gwen Gemmel ’23.

Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón wrote and translated an audio fiction story for the new season of La Brega: Stories of the Puerto Rican Experience, hailed as one of the “Best Podcasts of 2021” by The New Yorker and The New York Times. Following host Alana Casanova Burgess' prompt about taking the classic Puerto Rican anthem "Boricua En La Luna” literally, the story speculates about what would happen if someone Puerto Rican were actually born on the moon? A Zoom conversation about the podcast and the episode, hosted by the Center of Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (CENTRO) took place on March 16.

On October 24, 2022, Ideastream Public Media named The Oberlin Trio's June 2022 album their Recording of the Week. The release on Naxos includes Haydn’s piano trios from his very first, written around 1765, to his 33rd, composed about 30 years later. The trio's members are Oberlin Conservatory faculty—pianist Haewon Song, violinist David Bowlin, and cellist Dmitry Kouzov.

Assistant Professor of Philosophy Amy Berg's article "Do Good Lives Make Good Stories?" has just been published in the journal Philosophical Studies.

Associate Professor of Computer Science Cynthia Taylor published an interview with Barbara Ericson in Inroads Magazine. The interview discusses Professor Ericson's work on online CS textbooks and Parson's Problems, and is part of a series on how education researchers can encourage faculty adoption of educational innovations.

Creative Writing Professor Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers has published a new poem, "Parent," in the newest issue of Mississippi Review. The poem is from Rogers's newest poetry manuscript, a poetry collection currently titled Bad Cell.

Emeritus Professor of English Robert Pierce recently had two articles published, "Viola's Telemachy," in Shakespeare Survey 75 and "Consenting as an Ethical Act: On the Meaning of a Word."

Professor Wendy Beth Hyman has been elected to serve as a Trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America. She has also given three invited talks this spring: “Why the Renaissance Matters Now: Teaching the Early Modern with Integrity” (Stanford University), “Shakespeare and the Ingenious Machine” (Huntington Library), and “Intellectual Wellness: The Commonplace Book Tradition” (Cleveland Humanities Festival/Cuyahoga Community College).

Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Allegra Hyde was interviewed by Gulf Coast about her forthcoming story collection The Last Catastrophe.