Janice Xu, PhD, Assistant Professor of Communications, has had her research paper published in The International Journal of Communication, Vol. 8, 2014. The paper is titled “Communicating the Right to Know: Social Media in the Do-It-Yourself Air Quality Testing Campaign in Chinese Cities.” The paper studies the role of social media in the do-it-yourself air […]

Amanda McClain, PhD, Coordinator for Arts & Communications, Assistant Professor of Communications, attended the 2014 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) annual conference in Montreal, Canada in August 2014. Dr. McClain presented a paper titled “The iPad as a Pedagogical Tool: Effective or not?” and served as discussant for a panel titled […]

Patricia Michael, PhD, Professor of English, has been chosen to give a paper at the University of Bordeaux in France. The Conference is on Sidekicks and Underlings in Literature and is scheduled for the first week in October. Dr. Michael’s paper is called “Christopher Fowler’s Bryant and May: A Postmodern Version of the Sidekicks/ Hero […]

Janina Levin, PhD, Lecturer in English, submitted an essay titled “Arrested Development and Empathy in The Golden Bowl” to the Texas Studies in Literature and Language. The Texas Studies in Literature and Language is a scholarly journal devoted to literary criticism and is published quarterly by the University of Texas.

Joseph Stoutzenberger, PhD, Professor of Religious Studies, has co-authored Looking to St. Francis: The Man from Assisi and His Message of Hope for Today, published June 2014 by Word Among Us Press. The book looks at themes found in the life and teaching of St. Francis and explores ways that those themes apply to today’s […]