For the Record, Oct. 2, 2015
University community reports appointments, exhibitions, publications
10:53 a.m., Oct. 2, 2015--For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni.
Recent appointments, exhibitions, presentations and publications include the following:
People Stories
'Resilience Engineering'
Reviresco June run
Appointments
David Legates, professor of geography in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment, has been appointed to a four-year term on the Board of Certified Consulting Meteorologists (CCM) of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), the nation’s premier scientific and professional organization promoting and disseminating information about the atmospheric, oceanic, and hydrologic sciences. Legates’ term will officially begin at the conclusion of the AMS Annual Meeting in New Orleans in January 2016. “The society appreciates David’s willingness to give his time and energy to maintain the quality of AMS programs to benefit the profession, the society and the general public,” said Jay Trobec, AMS commissioner on public affairs. The principal purpose of the CCM program is to enable users of meteorological services to select consultants with greater confidence in the quality and reliability of the products and services they will receive.
Exhibitions
Joseph Coniff, a master’s degree student in fine arts, is featured in a solo exhibition titled “Stuff Like Air” at the new RULE Gallery in Marfa, Texas, that will open Oct. 9 and run through Dec. 5. The exhibition includes de- and re-constructed, tailored fabric works, as well as smaller works on paper. The tailored fabric works explore Coniff's reaction to the assumed dichotomies within a binary worldview, focusing on the perceptual possibilities inherent in relationships such as the figure and the ground. Coniff challenges the polarities of these relationships and looks with equanimity on what we might consider the foreground and the background, and the "empty" space between. Through these works, Coniff views the broken pattern as a line at which we can awake from malaise and gain a greater understanding of being. Coniff, who received his bachelor of fine arts degree from the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in 2011, has been included in such publications as New American Paintings, Creative Quarterly, Studio Visit Magazine and Vogue Espana. He was named one of Denver’s top up and coming artists in 2012.
Presentations
Philip Goldstein, professor emeritus of English, University of Delaware-Wilmington, presented two papers at the Reception Study Society conference on Sept. 25-26 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, one on "Toni Morrison's A Mercy: The Critique of Patriarchy and History's Lost Opportunities," and the other on "Mark Twain's Detective Fiction: From Pudd'nHead Wilson to the Double-Barrelled Detective Story."
Publications
Margaret Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and professor of humanities, is the author of a 3,500-word article for Wiley-Blackwell's new The Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature, edited by D. F. Felluga, P. K. Gilbert, and L. K. Hughes (Blackwell Publishing, 2015). Her contribution to this two-volume reference work, which was published in print and issued online in September, is titled "Fashion." It is a survey of the roles that fashion played in Victorian literature, as well as of important writings on the subject of dress by 19th-century writers such as Thomas Carlyle, Oscar Wilde and Eliza Haweis.
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