LLC Student News

Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:17:40 -0400

1. The following LLC students book reviews appeared in current issue of HyperRhiz http://www.hyperrhiz.net/hyperrhiz10 :

Quinn Slobodian, Foreign Front
Romy Hubler

Stacy Alaimo, Bodily Natures
Christopher Justice

Maurice Berger, For All the World to See
Diane Kuthy

The Third Space and Beyond: H. Campbell, Digital Religion
Laura Rutter Strickling

Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman, Networked
K. A. Wisniewski

Jeffrey Jones, Lighthole
Tymofey Wowk

Hyperrhiz is published yearly in conjunction with our parent journal Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge. We welcome submissions of net art, new media scholarship and criticism, and reviews of media-related books or blogs.

2. Erin Berry's panel paper was accepted for the Africana Studies Conference at James Madison University: REVOLUTION: Reclaiming Traditions, Redefining Change in Africa and the Diaspora.

3. Kevin Wisniewski is publishing the lead chapter in the new anthology Kidding Around: The Child in Film and Media (Bloomsbury, January 2014). The chapter, “Betwixt and Between: Reading the Child in M. Night Shyamalan’s Films,” appears at the start of the first section of the book, “Rites of Passage and Impasse.” Kevin will also present a paper at the upcoming conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) & Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP), Nov. 8-10: “Improving the Art of Paper War: Francis Hopkinson and the Performance of the Press in the Early Republic”.

4. John Fritz (Cohort 12) has been named editor of the "reflective practitioner" section of the new Journal of Learning Analytics published by the Society of Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR). Earlier this year, the Educause Center for Applied Research (ECAR) published Fritz's research bulletin "Using analytics at UMBC: Encouraging student responsibility and identifying effective course design" (free Educause login required until October 30, publicly available thereafter). Fritz is starting his 5th year in the LLC program, passed comps this summer, and is working on his proposal.