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

Recent exhibitions, presentations and publications include the following:

Exhibitions

Robyn Phillips Pendleton, professor of visual communications in the Department of Art and Design, has co-curated Imprinted: Illustrating Race at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, with Stephanie Haboush Plunkett, the museum’s deputy director/chief curator. Featuring more than 100 artworks and artifacts, the exhibition examines the impact published images have on perceptions of race and culture. Imprinted: Illustrating Race will run from June 11 through Oct. 30, 2022.

Presentations

David Shearer, Thomas Muncy Keith Professor of History, gave two invited seminars at L'École des hautes études en sciences sociales, in Paris, France, on Dec. 13 and 14, 2021. The title of the dual seminar was “Stalinism as Colonization."

Polly Zavadivker, assistant professor of history and Jewish studies and the director of the Jewish Studies Program, took part in the Wiener Holocaust Library of London’s Virtual Panel Discussion: “Antisemitism, Race and Violence in the Russian Empire,” on Dec. 13, 2021. The program is part of the Wiener Holocaust Library’s Racism, Antisemitism, Colonialism and Genocide event series.

Publications

Margaret D. Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and professor of humanities, is the author of a chapter in a new book edited by Jowan A. Mohammed and Frank Jacob, Marriage Discourses: Historical and Literary Perspectives on Gender Inequality and Patriarchic Exploitation (Berlin: DeGruyter, 2021). Thanks to Open Access provided by the University of Nord, Norway, her chapter is available for free download. Titled "'Marriages are just performances': Staging Fashion, Comedy and Feminism in Love, Loss and What I Wore," Stetz's essay focuses on works in two different media: Ilene Beckerman's 1995 bestselling illustrated memoir and the off-Broadway play of the same title, Love, Loss and What I Wore, created by Delia and Nora Ephron in 2008. In explaining their popularity, Stetz considers throughout the relationship of both works to the Second and Third Waves of American feminism.

Mark Adams, assistant professor of instrumental music education, has recently had a book chapter published in Engaging Musical Practices: A Sourcebook for Middle School General Music, Second Edition, edited by Suzanne Burton, associate dean for the arts in the College of Arts and Sciences, director of the Partnership for Arts and Culture and professor of music education. His chapter, “Songwriting and the Importance of Classroom Community,” focuses on suggestions for teaching songwriting to middle school students, as well as how to establish a strong and supportive classroom community to help students feel safe yet challenged while writing and sharing their personal songs with others.

Nancy E. Boyer, affiliated assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences and visiting scholar in the Department of Political Science and International Relations, had a chapter “Building Democracy and Leading a Revolution in Culture: Helen Hoy Greeley and the Campaigns for Woman Suffrage in California, Oregon, New Jersey and New York, 1904-1917, a case study in principled nonviolence,” published as the Chapter One in Revolutionary Nonviolence for Violent Times, Laura Finley and Michael Minch, eds.. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This volume is the first in a series, Peace Studies: Edges and Innovations.  The “Series Introduction” notes, “The  intent of the series is to fill in gaps in the conflict, peace, justice and reconciliation literature while presenting texts that are on the cutting edge of the discipline.”

Heinz-Uwe Haus, professor of theatre, published in the recent issue of Symposium (The Romanian Institute of Orthodox Theology and Spirituality, New York, Vol. XXVIII, Nr. 1, 2021) an essay "From Text to Stage: Experiences Directing Ancient Greek Drama – Notes On European Identity" and a review of Günther Rüther"s book (in German) Heinrich Mann. Ein politischer Träumer. Biographie(Matrixverlag Wiesbaden, 2020), titled "Heinrich Mann: Ein politischer Träumer." The essay(p. 13-24), based on experiences in theatre directing in Greece and Cyprus since 1975, addresses issues of European identity, and it describes how social and political developments have influenced how cultural identity has been defined and conceptualized in recent decades. It reviews theatre making as part of the ongoing debates with respect to its role in intercultural communication within and across European societies. The analysis also reveals a close correspondence of differing conceptions of cultural identity to the societal trend of ideological turn since the 1970s toward pluralism. The book reviev (p.161-164) describes how Rüther succeeds convincingly in correcting the existing Heinrich Mann image of the Cold War time and wresting his work from oblivion. Against the background of the 20 th century challenges, "Rüther rediscovers Mann’s work and life. The result is the complex picture of a European-minded writer. Above all, Mann's journalistic and essayistic work refers to the emergence of a European concept of peace and freedom after the devastation of the First World War. All his life Heinrich Mann appears as a ‘man of the republic’ and advocates a social democracy and a united Europe in which he assigns France and Germany a key role. (...) And he succeeds in both conveying a picture of Heinrich Mann's creative power and in transferring it to the philosophical and political discussions of the first half of the 20th century. He contextualizes the writer's assessments and brings them closer to today's reader."

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