For the Record provides information about recent professional activities and achievements of University of Delaware faculty, students and alumni.

Recent presentations, publications and honors include the following:

Presentations

On April 29, Margaret Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and professor of humanities, gave an invited lecture at the Hudson River Museum in New York. Her lecture, "Neo-Victorian Girls," was a survey of recent representations in art, film and literature of Victorian children and adolescents. It was held in conjunction with an exhibition at the museum titled "The Neo-Victorians: Contemporary Artists Revive Gilded Age Glamour," which featured 21st century ceramics, fabric works, paintings, video installations and photo-collages inspired by Victorian imagery. On May 12, she delivered a paper at a conference on "Curiosity and Desire in Fin-de-Siècle Art and Literature," held at UCLA's Clark Library in Los Angeles. Her paper, titled "'With just the same curious outlook’: George Egerton and Antoinette Funk," reported on transatlantic women's fan culture and literary celebrity in the late-19nth century, using the example of the epistolary relationship between "George Egerton" (the pseudonym of Mary Chavelita Dunne), an Irish "New Woman" writer, and an American woman lawyer from Illinois who later became a suffrage activist. On May 20, she gave an invited lecture at the Hedgerow Theatre in Rose Valley, Pennsylvania, to accompany a professional production of Oscar Wilde's 1895 comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest.  Her talk focused on the topic of pleasure -- how it becomes a subject of discussion in the play itself, as well as how it figured in Wilde's own life.

Trevor A. Dawes, vice provost for libraries and museums and May Morris University Librarian, was a co-presenter with Russell Michalak and Monica Rysavy from Goldey-Beacom College of "The Question of the MLIS: The Need for the Professional Credential" at the April 25 Association of Research Libraries spring meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.  The presentation focused on the educational requirements of library leaders.

Sean Diffendall, Allison Ebner and Shelly McCoy of the Office of the Vice Provost, University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press presented “Intentional Networking for Library Communications and Marketing,” at the Maryland Library Association/Delaware Library Association Annual Conference, Cambridge, Maryland, on May 3.

Publications

Margaret Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and professor of humanities, has published an essay in a new volume on Oscar Wilde. Titled "The Other Love That Dared Not Speak Its Name: Wilde’s Jewish ‘Fans’ in WWII-Era Cinema," her work focuses on how and why Jewish screenwriters and directors in both Hollywood and Britain used adaptations of Wilde's writings to make their case, in the 1940s, for the social acceptance of those with "outsider" identities. Her essay appears as a chapter in Wilde's Other Worlds, edited by Petra Dierkes-Thrun and Michael F. Davis, which has just been issued by Routledge.

Suzanne L. Burton, professor of music education, director of graduate studies, and Music Education Program director in the Department of Music, has published Engaging Musical Practices: A Sourcebook for Elementary General Music, co-edited with colleague Alison Reynolds of Temple University. A compilation of best practices for elementary general music education, the book contains practical and pedagogically oriented chapters written by leaders in the field of elementary general music.