Author: snowell

  • Jill Locke (Political Science)

    Jill Locke delivered a keynote lecture, “‘His Majesty the Baby’: Donald Trump as the (Shameless) Child in Chief,” for the Shame and Democracy Workshop at the University of Amsterdam in October.

  • Justin Knoepfel (Music)

    Justin Knoepfel (was invited to conduct the Iowa Junior High Festival Orchestra at Iowa State as part of the Iowa Music Educators Association (IMEA) annual conference on. Top string students from across the state of Iowa were hand selected to perform in this prestigious event.

  • Blake Couey (Religion)

    Blake Couey presented an invited paper, “Poetry and Redaction in the Book of Isaiah,” at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. The paper will form the basis for a book chapter in a forthcoming volume on the formation of the Book of Isaiah, to be published with Mohr Siebeck. He also…

  • Debra Pitton (Education)

    Debra Pitton presented a session at the 2017 Association of Teacher Educators National Conference. Along with Laura Pitton Guerreo, a fourth grade Spanish immersion teacher in Eden Prairie; and Angela Pitton Abdo, a licensed art therapist and youth counselor at Headway Schools, she shared information on managing extreme behavior in the K-12 classroom. This presentation…

  • Martin Lang (Communication Studies)

    Martin Lang and Noah O’Ryan ’17 released their new short documentary film “(Mid)west of Somalia” for community screenings and film festival consideration.

  • Thia Cooper (Religion)

    Thia Cooper published a book, A Christian Guide to Liberating Desire, Sex, Partnership, Work and Reproduction (Palgrave, 2017).

  • Angelique Dwyer (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures)

    Angelique Dwyer published her article “De broma en broma la verdad se asoma: Lotería y dicotomía cultural en ‘Sístole, diastole’ de Carlos Cuarón” in a book entitled Literatura a través de las culturas edited by Williams, Raymond L. & Ponce de León, Gina through Diente de león publishers in Bogotá, Colombia. 2017. She also published…

  • Lisa Heldke (Philosophy) was invited to deliver the Carus Lecture at Concordia College, Moorhead. Her talk was entitled “Stuck on You: Thinking Parasitically.”

  • Blake Couey (Religion)

    Blake Couey was interviewed about his book, Reading the Poetry of First Isaiah, for the podcast OnScript: Conversations on Current Biblical Scholarship.

  • Anna Hulseberg, Jeff Jenson, and Michelle Twait (Library)

    Anna Hulseberg, Jeff Jenson, and Michelle Twait presented a session “More Than Just a Job: Student and Supervisor Perspectives on Mentoring” at the 2017 Brick and Click: An Academic Library Conference in Maryville.