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

Recent presentations, publications and honors include the following:

Presentations

Thomas M. Powers, associate professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Biden School of Public Policy and Administration, will present "Machine Ethics: Philosophical Approaches" on Tuesday, April 23, at a weeklong seminar on “Ethics and Trust: Principles, Verification and Validation,” organized by Schloss Dagstuhl at the Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics). Schloss Dagstuhl  "is the leading conference venue for computer science. It is home to the Dagstuhl Seminars, where the world's best-known scientists meet to present and discuss their research. Powers is director of the Center for Science, Ethics and Public Policy and is a faculty affiliate of the Delaware Biotechnology Institute and the UD Data Science Institute.

Margaret Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and professor of humanities, gave an invited lecture at the Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion in Philadelphia on April 13, 2019. This event was part of the historic house's "Wilde Year of Theatre" celebration. Her talk, titled "Oscar Wilde Gone Wild," was an examination of the current trans-Atlantic obsession with both Oscar Wilde and his works and a survey of some of the many forms this has taken (biographies, exhibitions, operas, ballets, films, graphic novels, children's books, material culture, etc.).  

Meredith K. Ray, professor of Italian in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, was a featured speaker at the “Women As Writers of Heroic Poetry in Renaissance Italy” symposium at the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in Los Angeles on April 5, 2019. Her talk, “Statecraft and the Politics of Knowledge in Margherita Sarrocchi’s Scanderbeide,” discussed the influence of political theorists such as Machiavelli and Giovanni Botero on Sarrocchi, the first woman to publish an epic poem in Italy.

Publications

Margaret Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and professor of humanities, is the author of an essay that has just been published in Literary and Cultural Alternatives to Modernism: Unsettling Presences (Routledge, 2019). edited by Kostas Boyiopoulos, Anthony Patterson and Mark Sandy. Her contribution to this collection, titled "Richard Le Gallienne: A Jongleur Strayed into the Modern World," presents the British poet Richard Le Gallienne (1866-1947) as a transitional literary figure who, while adhering in the early 20th century to the principles of the Aesthetic movement and openly rejecting Modernism (especially in his 1922 volume, A Jongleur Strayed), nevertheless both adopted and adapted Modernist techniques and themes in a number of his works.  

Honors

The UD Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, Chapter 5, is one of only 16 chapters among 300 nationally to be selected for recognition with a Circle of Excellence Platinum award. The national Phi Kappa Phi society, founded in 1897, is one of the nation’s premier honor societies and the oldest honor society open to all academic disciplines. Its annual Circle of Excellence awards, announced in March, are given to the society’s top chapters that excel in recognizing and promoting academic excellence on their local campuses and engaging the community of scholars in service to others. The Delaware chapter of Phi Kappa Phi was founded in 1905.

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