Faculty and Staff Notes

Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Chanda Feldman is one of 25 fellows selected from more than 900 applicants for an artist residency at Loghaven Artist Residency in 2022.

Assistant Professor of Dance Holly Handman-Lopez has been awarded a 2022 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for Choreography. Her prize-winning work was created during the pandemic and performed by Oberlin College students. This is Holly's second such prize from the Ohio Arts Council.

Assistant Professor of Physics Jillian Scudder has released a new, fully illustrated edition of her book, Astroquizzical: Solving the Cosmic Puzzles of our Planets, Stars, and Galaxies—The Illustrated Edition (MIT Press). The book was released in the United States and Canada on February 2.

Visiting Assistant Professor of French Nathan H. Dize has been elected to the Modern Language Association's CLCS Caribbean executive forum for a five-year term.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian Vladimir Ivantsov has published a chapter in the book Goncharov in the Twenty-First Century (Academic Studies Press, 2021) dedicated to the prominent 19th-century Russian writer Ivan Goncharov. In his chapter, Ivantsov explores themes of Plato’s philosophy in Goncharov’s most famous novel Oblomov (1859), offering a new interpretation of the Russian classic. 

The Society of Women Organists in London has selected three organ works by Visiting Professor of Organ Christa Rakich for inclusion in their Anthology of Women Composers for Organ. The Royal College of Organists and the American Guild of Organists will join in the SWO's celebration of Play-a-Woman-Composer Sunday on March 6. Church organists are encouraged to play works by women, record, and upload to social media with the hashtags #WomanComposerSunday and #SWomenOrganists. Rakich's works are available here.

Associate Professor of Geology Amanda Schmidt is coauthor of a blog post, "Living IN the Greenland ice sheet: The story of Sites I and II, Camp Century’s older, smaller siblings," on the European Geophysical Union website.

Assistant Professor of East Asian Religions Andrew Macomber published two book reviews, one on a Korean deity in Japanese Buddhism for Monumenta Nipponica, and another on Buddhism and medicine in premodern in Japan for Asian Medicine.

Nathan Dize, Visiting Assistant Professor of French, interviewed Haitian writer Kettly Mars about the influence of the 2010 earthquake on her life and literature for Words Without Borders. Dize's translation of Mars's novel "I Am Alive" has been named a 'most anticipated book of 2022" by Words Without Borders and will be released by the University of Virginia Press in Fall 2022.

Jennifer Blaylock, visiting assistant professor in cinema studies, contributed an article about her globally oriented media archaeology course, When Old Media Were New, to the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies Winter Teaching Media Dossier "Teaching 'the Global' in Media Studies," edited by Juan Llamas-Rodriguez.