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

Recent presentations, honors and publications include the following:

Presentations

Philip Goldstein, professor emeritus of English, University of Delaware – Wilmington, presented a paper on aesthetic theory at the Reading Now conference, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Shiva, Israel, June 28, 2018. The paper, entitled “Aesthetic Theory: From Theodor Adorno to Reception Study,” criticized Adorno's realism and showed that readers of art matter more than art's aesthetic autonomy.

Abigail J. Molen, a staff member in the Office of Graduate and Professional Education, gave a presentation titled “Managing Slate with a Small Staff: Tips and Tricks from the Processing Perspective” at the Technolutions Slate Innovation Summit in Chicago on June 28, 2018. The presentation covered best practices in automating daily processes for graduate admissions staff within the Slate CRM system. 

Honors

The Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation (WUDPAC) is one of 51 programs highlighted on “Humanities for All,” a new website produced by the National Humanities Alliance. The site, which showcases publicly engaged humanities research, teaching, preservation and programming, lists more than 1,400 projects at institutions of higher education across the U.S., including 11 at UD. The site features a detailed profile of WUDPAC, describing the master’s degree program’s outreach work in such areas as treating damaged photographs and operating a community conservation clinic. The profile also recognizes the work of WUDPAC director Debra Hess Norris, the Unidel Henry Francis du Pont Chair in Fine Arts, who leads professional conservation workshops around the world.

Publications

Theodore E.D. Braun, professor emeritus of French and comparative literature, is the author of "An Enemy of Voltaire: Jean-Jacques Le Franc de Pompignan", in XVIII New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century, Volume 15, Number 1, Spring 2018, pp. 3-13.

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