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

Recent presentations, publications and honors include the following:

Presentations

Margaret Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and professor of humanities, gave the keynote address at a (virtual) conference sponsored by King's College, London, United Kingdom, on June 23, 2021. The conference was on the topic "Women and Humour in the Long 19th Century," and her lecture analyzed the subject of "forgotten" British women's comic writing of the Victorian period by focusing on a particular example--a 1901 volume of short stories (Sirius) by Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler. On June 25, 2021, Stetz was also an invited speaker at a virtual symposium, “A Golden Story: The Digital Futures of Works and Days,” about the ongoing digital transcription and annotation of the extensive diaries of “Michael Field” (the collaborative pseudonym of two Victorian writers, Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper) housed at the British Library, London. This event was sponsored by Dartmouth College, which is now the host of the website for the digitized diaries. 

Publications

Wendy Bellion, Sewell C. Biggs Chair in American Art History, and alumna Anna O. Marley, who earned her doctorate in art history in 2009, have co-edited the June 15 issue of Panorama, the online journal of the Association of Historians of American Art. The edition features a new set of essays on American art and politics, including an article by current doctoral student Thomas Busciglio. The essays center on the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and its implications, examining how the art and architecture of the Capitol shape our understanding of America, past and present

Honors

Jesse R. Erickson, coordinator of Special Collections and Digital Humanities for the UD Library, Museums and Press, assistant professor in the Department of English and associate director of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Research Center, has been named editor of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (PBSA) alongside book historian Sarah Werner. The Bibliographical Society of America is the oldest scholarly society in North America dedicated to the study of books and manuscripts as physical objects. The PBSA is the society's quarterly journal, which covers topics including book and manuscript production, publication, distribution, collecting, and reading in all periods, geographical regions and media. It also features editorial and textual scholarship across all disciplines.

Art history doctoral candidate Michael Hartman has been awarded a Research Travel Grant from the Decorative Arts Trust. In early 2022, Hartman will spend a month traveling through Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina to visit archives and study collections related to his dissertation, "Art, Technology, and Aesthetics within Landscapes of Enslavement in the Colonial South, 1740-1810."

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