Publications

Margaret Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and professor of humanities, is the author of a chapter in a newly published volume, Fashion and Authorship: Literary Production and Cultural Style from the 18th to the 21st Century, edited by Gerald Egan (Palgrave Macmillan/Springer, 2020). Her essay, titled "Fashioning Modern and Modernist Authorship: Rebecca West in the 1920s and 1930s" (pp. 255-272), analyzes the complicated and sometimes bumpy relationship of British author Dame Rebecca West (1892-1983) to Modernist aesthetics in both literature and design. This was a relationship that played out not only in her novels of the 1920s and 1930s, but in her uses of and attitudes toward dress--including her own‚ as a gendered public figure in the literary marketplace. Stetz's other new publication is on the related topic of the politics of celebrity during an earlier age. It is a review of Critics, Coteries, and Pre-Raphaelite Celebrity by Wendy Graham, for the journal English Literature in Transition, 1880–1920  63:2 (2020), pp. 272-75.

Rudi Matthee, John and Dorothy Munroe Distinguished Professor of History, published “Capitalism in Iran: Exceptionalism and Delayed Development,” in Dilip M. Menon and Kaveh Yazdani, eds., Historical Capitalisms: towards a Global Perspective (Delhi: Oxford University Press), pp. 349-80.

Nicole Long, executive director for planning and strategy in the Division of Student Life, and coauthor Stephanie Smith Budhai of Neumann University have a chapter in Online and Engaged: Innovative Student Affairs Practices for Online Learner Success (NASPA, 2020). The chapter, “Assessing Online Student Affairs Programs and Services for Online Learners,” provides an overview of common types of assessment, offers approaches to conducting assessment and provides applications and examples of assessment in a variety of student affairs functional areas that occur in online learning environments.

Honors

Nature's Best Hope, a new book from Doug Tallamy, professor of entomology and wildlife ecology, has risen to No. 14 on The New York Times Best Seller list for nonfiction, widely considered the preeminent list of best-selling books in the nation. Tallamy sparks a national conversation about the link between healthy local ecosystems and human wellbeing.

David Brinley, associate professor of art and design, had two gallery pieces selected for 3x3 Annual #16 book. Merit winners from the Professional Show will be reproduced in the 3x3 Illustration Annual No.16.

The Investor Protection Unit of the Delaware Department of Justice invited Bruce Weber, dean of the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, to its Fintech Sandbox Working Group to research and discuss the desirability of creating a fintech regulatory sandbox in Delaware. Regulatory sandboxes help Fintech businesses test products’ market viability while ensuring that public interests are adequately protected. Arizona set up the first sandbox in 2018. It allows participants to ‘test-drive’ their products and start financial service activities under regulatory supervision but without the costs of securing traditional licenses prior to operation. Weber joined fellow members from state government, academia and industry.