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Faculty / Staff News
Suzanne Cheriy, assistant professor of English, had ??Help Can't Wait?: Connecting South Carolina Schools and the American Red Cross? published in the S.C. Association of Teacher Educators Journal in September. She also gave a panel presentation, ?E=MC (Energy is Making Connections),? at the National Council of Teachers of English convention in Milwaukee in November, along with seven other teacher consultants for the Swamp Fox Writing Project, including Rebecca Flannagan, assistant professor of English. In addition, Cherry presented ?Weaving a Web? at the Writing Improvement Network conference in Columbia on Oct. 12, and ?How to Help Your Child Become a Better Writer? with Karen Medley at the Darlington High School Parents? Fair on Oct. 7.
Eileen A. Joy, assistant professor of English, presented a paper titled ?Beowulf, John Mitchell Kemble, and the Floating Wreck of History? at the 26th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association in Asheville in September.
Bill Bessenger of Building Maintenance spent time during the week of Oct. 9 to promote Fire Prevention Week.
Bessenger is a member of Windy Hill Volunteer Fire Co. where he serves as lieutenant, president and certified instructor. His most recognized job at Windy Hill, however, is playing Bucket the Clown. Bucket visits schools in the area and teaches fire education. Bessenger has been with the fire department for more than 18 years.
David Peterson, Department of Chemistry and Physics chairman, and Derek Jokisch, assistant professor of physics, attended the American Radiation Safety Conference and Exposition (Health Physics Society's 45th Annual Meeting) from June 25-29 in Denver, Colo. Peterson presented a poster titled ?Changing Demographics in the Undergraduate Health Physics Program at Francis Marion University.? Jokisch gave a talk on ?The Effects of the Bone-Marrow Interface in Trabecular Bone Dosimetry of Beta-Particles Utilizing Voxel-Based Transport.? Jokisch was also a co-author on two additional presentations at the conference.
Lisa Eargle, assistant professor of sociology, had her paper, ?Models of Local Economic Structure and Individual Positional Rewards,? published in Sociological Imagination.
De Montluzin?s 5th book on English press published
Emily Lorraine de Montluzin, a professor of history at FMU, has published her fifth book on the English periodical press.
Attributions of Authorship in the ?European Magazine,? 1782-1826, has just been published by the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia and is accessible electronically at the society?s web site: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/bsuva/. The reference work is a comprehensive electronic database of identifications of the authors of anonymous and pseudonymous contributions to the European Magazine, an important English period-
ical whose 89 volumes cover major developments in English and European history during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Attributions of Authorship in the ?European Magazine,? 1782-1826, is designed to make available in one electronically searchable and fully brows-able list all known attributions of authorship of anonymous, pseudonymous, or incompletely attributed articles, letters, reviews, and poems appearing in the European Magazine over its 44-year history. Encompassing 2,074 items from 160 contributors, the database (approximately 140 pages of
browsable text) is searchable electronically by volume number, page number, date, title, author, pseudonym, and key word. All attributions are cross-referenced, appearing first in a chronological listing and then in a synopsis by contributor, so that users may easily examine each attribution of authorship in its chronological context.
De Montluzin, who has taught at FMU since 1974, is a specialist in 18th-and early 19th-century British press history. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. history degrees from Duke University, and her bachelor?s degree from Newcomb College of Tulane University.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Rick Bragg to speak at FMU on Nov. 13
Rick Bragg, a Pulitzer Prize-winningjoumalist with The New York Times, will present a public reading from his bestselling memoir, ?All Over But the Shoutin?,? on Nov. 13 at Francis Marion University.
The reading will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Cauthen Educational Media Center lecture hall on the FMU campus. Admission is free.
The memoir recounts Bragg?s early life of poverty and his gradual realization that he could make a living by writing. He briefly attended Jacksonville State University in Alabama before taking a succession of jobs in print journalism. He was a reporter with The Birmingham News, The St. Petersburg Times, The Los Angeles Times and other newspa-
pers before going to work in 1994 for The New York Times.
Now, he is a national correspondent for The Times, generally covering stories in the Southeast. He has taught writing at workshops around the country and in 1992 earned a Nieman Fellowship, a prestigious award for a year of study at Harvard University.
Bragg has won more than 40 journalism awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 1996. Recently, a collection of Bragg's newspaper stories, ?Somebody Told Me,? was published by The University of Alabama Press.
The public reading is presented by the Jones Thomas and Carolyn Stroman Hunter Chair in English Literature at FMU.
Patriot Digest, Oct. 31, 2000
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