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Dr. William Condee , Professor of Theater
Book and book chapters:
Coal and Culture: Opera Houses in Appalachia . Ohio University Press, 2005. "Architecture for the Twentieth Century: Imagining the Theatre in the 1920s." In Experimenters, Rebels, and Disparate Voices: The Theatre of the 1920s Celebrates American Diversity. Westport : Praeger, 2003. "Castles in the Air with a Shifting Foundation: Indeterminate Space in Little Eyolf." In Ibsen and Modernity: The West and China , ed. Wang Ning. Tanjing: Baihua, 2001.
Published articles:
"The Future Is Interdisciplinary." Theatre Survey Special Issue: "Theater History in the New Millennium: A Forum," 45 (2004): 235-40. "'A Step a Scene': A Cross-Cultural Analysis Using Chinese Landscape Architecture to Understand Western Theater Space." Beginning of the New Century: Comparative Literature in a Cross-Cultural Context. Nanjing : Yilin, 2003. "Play and Place: Getting the Class Out of the Classroom." Association for Theater in Higher Education Pedagogy Website (peer reviewed), April 2003. Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance, ed. Dennis Kennedy, 2003. Four entries.
International papers:
"'A Step A Scene': A Comparative Analysis Using Chinese Landscape Architecture to Understand Western Theatre Space." Seventh Triennial Congress of Chinese Comparative Literature Association, Nanjing , August 2002. "[Per]Forming Memory at the Opera House." International Federation for Theatre Research Quadrennial Congress, Amsterdam , July 2002. "Opera Houses in Appalachian America ." Institute for American Studies, Univ. of Leipzig , June 2001. "Why Theatres Work." Institute for Theater Studies, University of Leipzig , June 2001.
Grants:
U.S. Dept. of Education Title VI Grant (Southeast Asian Studies Program), 2004.
Teaching Awards:
Presidential Teacher Award, 2003 Excellence in Education Award, Ohio Magazine, 2003 Class of 1950 Faculty Excellence Award, 2002 Outstanding Tutor Award, Honors Tutorial College, 2001 College of Fine Arts Outstanding Senior Teacher Award, 2000.

Dr. Dora Wilson, Director of Interdisciplinary Arts and Professor of Music, presented papes, "Jean Baptiste Martin as Costumer for the Paris Opera," at The Annual Meeting of the Midwest American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies,Indiana State University, Terre Haute, October 27-30, 2005, "Art, Music and Poetry in Place: Machaut's Remede de Fortune, Medieval Renaissance Music Conference, Centre d'Etudes Superieures de la Renaissance, Tours, France, July 2005 and "Comic Elements in Eighteenth-Century Musical Variations," at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Chicago, Illinois, November 6-9, 2003.

Dr. Marina Peterson, Assistant Professor
Publications:
Peterson, Marina. 2007. Translocal Civilities: Chinese Modern Dance at Downtown Los Angeles Public Concerts. In Deciphering the Global: Its Scales, Spaces and Subjects. Saskia Sassen, ed. New York: Routledge.
Peterson, Marina. 2006. Patrolling the Plaza: Privatized Public Space and the Neoliberal State In Downtown Los Angeles. Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development. 35(4):355-386.
Invited lectures:
“’Los Angeles at its Best’: The daKAH Hip Hop Orchestra, Public Concerts, and the Multicultural City.” Bethel College. Bethel, Kansas, November 10, 2006.
Conference papers:
"Improvising in Beirut: Nation-State Making and Cultural Diplomacy in a Post 9-11 World." Presented at the International Association for the Study of Popular Music – U.S./Canada Conference. Boston, Massachusetts, April 26-29, 2007.
“Garden, City, World: Los Angeles’ Multicultural Arts Festivals.” Presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. San Jose, California, November 15-19, 2006.
Concerts:
The Tabadol Project, Chicago, Philadalphia, and New York, February 2007
Openport Festival, Chicago, February 2007
Performances in Karlsruhe, Germany and Lucerne, Switzerland, March 2007

Dr. Charles S. Buchanan , Associate Professor, has recently published the following: "Spiritual and Spatial Authority in Medieval Lucca: Illuminated Manuscripts, Stational Liturgy and the Gregorian Reform," Art History vol. 27, no. 5 (November, 2004); "Evidence of a Scriptorium at the Reformed Canonry of S. Frediano in Lucca," Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relatives aux manuscrits vol. 57, no. 1 (Paris, 2003). Scheduled for publication in Manuscripta in 2005 is his article entitled: “Methods and Modes of Romanesque Manuscript Illumination at the Scriptorium of S. Frediano in Lucca .” He is presently working on a book entitled "The Illustrated Manuscript as Partisan Implement during the Gregorian Reform."

Recent papers include: “The Bibbia atlantica as Manuscript Type: Decoration, Reception, Interpretation,” The Ohio Medieval Colloquium (October, 2004); "The Bible of Henry IV: The Illustrated Manuscript as Polemical Tool during the Investiture Struggle," Thirty-Ninth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (May, 2004); and "The Illustrated Manuscript as Polemical Weapon during the Gregorian Reform," Index of Christian Art, Department of Art and Archeology at Princeton University (November, 2003). Dr. Buchanan will present at the Fortieth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo , MI (May, 2005) his paper, entitled: "The Palatine Bible (Biblioteca Vaticana: Pal. lat. 3, 4, 5): Active Agent of Eleventh-Century Gregorian Thought."

Dr. Vladimir Marchenkov , Assistant Professor. Dr. Marchenkov's translation of A. F. Losev's 1930 book The Dialectics of Myth was published in 2003 by Routledge, London , UK . The book includes the translator's introduction titled "Aleksei Losev and His Theory of Myth." During 2003, Dr. Marchenkov presented the following: "Orpheus: The Myth of a Learned Singer," Seventeenth Annual Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists: The Educated Artist, School of the Visual Arts, New York, October 2003 (the paper is available at the School of Visual Art's website) and "Poiesis, Praxis, and the Romantic Fallacy of Modern Aesthetics," Beauty, Truth, Goodness: Eighth Annual Conference of the International Society of Phenomenology, Aesthetics and the Fine Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, May 2003. This latter essay is now forthcoming in the journal Phenomenological Investigations. In 2004 Dr. Marchenkov co-edited with Professor Robert Bird ( University of Chicago ) an issue of the journal Studies in East European Thought that featured, along with selected papers from the 2002 Conference on A. F. Losev and Twentieth-Century Human Sciences, his paper on "Mythos and Logos in Losev's Absolute Mythology." In 2004 Dr. Marchenkov also presented two conference papers: "Monteverdi's Orfeo and Rimsky-Korsakov's Sadko: Operatic Transformations of Myth," at the 28th Comparative Drama Conference to be held at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; and "Myth and Life vs. Art and Play" at the School of Visual Arts' annual conference on Art and Education of the Artist: Art and Story, New York.

Dr. Norma Humphreys , Assistant Dean of the College of Fine Arts presented papers at two conferences in the Fall of 2000. The first paper, entitled, "Lady of the Lake : 19th Century Connections" was presented at the Interdisciplinary conference on Bonds Between Women and Water in Duluth , Minnesota on September, 30. The second paper presented was entitled "Architectural Follies: Creative Madness or Blissful Obsession?" at the International Conference on Madness and Bliss in Atlanta, Georgia on November, 4. She presented a paper entitled "Conceptual and Contextual Imitation in Peter Eisenman's Wexner Center for theVisual Arts" at the 16th Intermational Conference on Parody and Imitation, Atlanta Georgia, November, 2001. A paper entitled "The Vice of Gluttony: A Feast of Imagery" was presented at the 2nd Interdisciplinary and Multicultural Conference on Food Representation in Literature, Film and the Other Arts, San Antonio, Texas, February, 2002.

Laura Dobrynin, doctoral student, will be presenting a paper entitled "The Spectacle of the Violated Body in Renaissance Tuscany: The Sermons of San Bernardino and the Lives of Saints" during the Plymouth State University Medieval and Renaissance Forum Plymouth State University, New Hampshire, April 2008, as well as a paper entitled "In the Company of Lady Barbers and Rogues: Cecco Angiolieri's Comedy and the Palazzo Comunale, San Gimignano" during the Forty-third International Congress on
Medieval Studies Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 2008. She also has a article, "Bulgarin's Saint Francis: A New Sienese Depiction" under review for publication in volume 25 of the Rutgers Art Review.

Chip LInscott, doctoral student, presented the paper “Trajectories in Interdisciplinary Research: Inside The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” at the European Cinema Research Forum Conference in Columbus, Ohio, at The Ohio State University, April 27-29, 2007. He also presented a paper entitled “The Heuristic Value of the Arts” at the Crossing Boundaries Conference, an international conference investigating the nexus of the arts, education, and community, held at the University of Regina in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, May 9-12, 2007.

Erin Schwartz, doctoral student, has a paper under consideration for publication in the Journal
for the International Conference on Arts in Society, the title of the article: "The Labyrithine Man: Roland Barthes, Photography and the Subjective Experience". In July she will be attending the International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities in Paris, France where she will be presenting a
paper: "Waldeinsamkeit: German Romanticism and 'Subjective Realism'". Erin has also written a book review for FOCUS magazine on Josh Cohen's "Interrrupting Auschwitz", FOCUS is a newsletter for the German Studies department of the University of Cincinatti, this will be published some time this year.
In the meantime Erin Schwartz continues to pursue her studio and digital art and looks for local venues to exhibit.

Phillip Morris, doctoral student, will be submitting a paper titled "Time, Space and Anti-fun: Carsten Holler's Amusement Park" to the 5th International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities in
Paris, July 2007. His short story "The Layover" was published in the winter 2007 issue of NEW WELSH
REVIEW. He was Assistant Director for the OU theater department production of "Observe the Sons of
Ulster Marching Toward the Somme" by Frank McGuinness, and acted in Judith Thompson's "Lion in the
Streets," also for OU Theater.

Henry MacCarthy , Ph.D. Candidate,has presented the following papers at international conferences: “Visualizing the Americas: Spanish Musical Theater and the Colonial Imagination” at the Royal Musical Association 42nd Annual Conference: Music and Visual Culture. University of Nottingham. Nottingham, UK (July, 2006); “(Post)Colonial Identities and the Cuban Stage” at the Song, Stage, and Screen: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Musical Stage International Conference, held at the University of Portsmouth in Portsmouth, UK (April, 2006), and “The Angry Mob: Performance Traditions and the (Mis)Appropriation of Authorship in Opera” at the I International Theater Conference: Directing and Authorship in Western Drama in Nova Scotia , Canada (October 2003). In the United States he has presented the following papers: “Spectacular Representations of the Internal Other: The Mulata in Cuban Zarzuela” at the Mid America Theater Conference in Kansas City (March, 2005); “Homoerotic Resistance: The Performance of Queer Sexualities in Rap Music” at the American Society for Theater Research Annual Conference at a seminar entitled “Vanguard Sex: Sexualized Subcultures, Sexual Practice, Social Change, and Avant-Garde Performance”(Las Vegas, NV, Nov. 2004), and “The Politics of Queer Gangsta Rap”October at the Popular and American Culture of the South Conference, in New Orleans, LA (October, 2004).

He was a full grant recipient for the Summer Institute on Performance Studies: Caught in the Act: The Body in Performance held at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (August, 2006). During April, 2006 he participated in London Metropolitan University’s Performance symposium entitled 'Happily ever after...?' The Place of Narrative within 21st Century. While in London, he also participated in The Institute for the Study of the Americas’ Latin American Music Seminar (University of London, May 2006). In December 2005, he was in residence at the University of Miami ’s Cuban Heritage Collection (Coral Gables, FL) conducting research on Cuban zarzuela, the subject of his dissertation entitled: “Cuban Zarzuela and the (Neo)Colonial Imagination: A Subaltern Historiography of Music Theater in the Caribbean.” Other research residencies have included Biblioteca Nacional de España in Madrid, and the Archivo General de Indias in Seville, Spain.

While at Ohio University, he has collaborated with OU’s School of Music directing Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro and Stravinsky’s L’histoire du Soldat.

Carissa Massey, Ph.D. Candidate, is Assistant Professor of Art History in the History Department at Bemidji State University and taught art history this past year for Ohio University’s School of Art in the same capacity. Upcoming projects include “Mountain Mamas: Images of Appalachian Mothers in American Visual Culture,” Article in progress for a Feminist Anthology. “Mary and Eve, Virgin and Whore, Jessica and Lynndie: Moralizing Visions of Appalachian Women in American Visual Culture,” The Women of Appalachia: Their Heritage and Accomplishments Conference, Ohio University at Zanesville, OH. (20 October, 2006) “Dirty Flesh and Artistic Ego: Tension between the Real and the Ideal in Jean-Desiri-Gustave Courbet’s Female Nudes,” Women’s Studies Colloquium Lecture, Ohio University. (15 September, 2006)

She has presented the following papers:““Politically-Correct (?): Stereotyping Appalachians in American Visual Culture,” “Battleground States Conference,” American Culture Studies Graduate Conference, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH. (1 April 2006). “White Trash America: Appalachian Stereotypes and Politically-Correct Discrimination,” Athens Public Library Lecture Series. (28 February, 2006). “The Real Ideal in/of Jean-Désiré-Gustave Courbet’s Female Nudes,” 5th Annual Art History Symposium, School of Art, Ohio University, Athens, OH. (20 May, 2005) “Renée Cox: Identity Discourses,” 4th Annual Student Research and Creative Activity Fair, Office of the Vice President for Research, Ohio University, Athens, OH. (12 May, 2005) “Disidentification through Plurality: A Queer Perspective of the Photography of Renée Cox,” “Feminists on the Verge: Resisting Cultural Denial,”4th Annual Graduate Conference, Women’s Studies Graduate Organization, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. (8 April, 2005) “Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Lodovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso: An Exploration of Depiction, Interpretation, and the Characterization of Women,” Interdisciplinary Arts’ Second Annual Symposium, School of Interdisciplinary Arts, Ohio University, Athens, OH. (14 May, 2004) “Gender Distortion in selected Works by Caravaggio and Artemisia Gentileschi,” 4th Annual Art History Symposium, School of Art, Ohio University, Athens, OH. (16 April, 2004).

College of Fine Arts, Please click on the following to see information regarding the Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowships, 2007.

Steven Rybin, doctoral student, is the author of The Cinema of Michael Mann, a study of the director?s films in relation to issues of film style, criticism, genre, and authorship, forthcoming from Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield (August 2007). He has presented the following essays at conferences: ?Godard?s Aesthetic Reconstruction: The Aura in the Digital Age and Eloge de l?amour,? at
the European Cinema Research Forum in Columbus, Ohio (April 28, 2007); ?The World?s Wound: Terrence Malick?s Heideggerian Adaptation of James Jones? The Thin Red Line,? at the Midwest Popular Culture\American Culture Association Convention in Indianapolis, Indiana (October 28, 2006); and ?Ousmane Sembene's 'Mandabi' and 'Xala': Character Interiority and Film Adaptation," at the 14th annual Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language, and Media at Northern Illinois University in Dekalb, Illinois (March 31, 2006). His writing on film has also appeared in the online web journal Senses of Cinema.

Ovgu Gokce, Ph.D. Candidate, presented a paper entitled "From Pathos to Nostalgia: Yavuz Turgul's Cinema of Sentiments" at the Screen Studies Conference, Glasgow University, July 2005. Her most recent publication is an article entitled as “Çek Yeni Dalgasý: Parlak Bir Kuþaðýn Temsilcileri”, ToplumBilim Avrupa Sinemasý Özel Sayýsý (“Czech New Wave: Pioneers of a Brilliant Generation”, Toplumbilim European Cinema Special Issue), Istanbul: Baglam Yayinlari, 2005. Her first short film, "Sleep and Then" (Uyku Sonra) is awarded Best Experimental Film Award from Ankara International Film Festival (Turkey), got a special mention in New York Short Film Festival, and the third prize in experimental film in 2005 Athens International Film+Video Festival. The film has been screened in several film festivals in Turkey, France, Italy, Spain, Mexico, U.S. and most recently is invited from Campinas Festival,Brazil. Ovgu Gokce is one of the founders and a member of editorial board of Altyazi, one of the two monthly film magazines in Turkey, and contributing with monthly reviews and critiques since 2001. She will present her paper entitled "A Possible Transnational/Cross-Cultural Life in the Universe" at the 2006 Association for Cultural Studies Crossroads Conference in Istanbul.

Ron Jones, Ph.D., wrote an article entitled, "The Art Market", that can be accessed by using the following link: http://www.frieze.com/column_single.asp?c=343.

Christopher Koch , doctoral student, presented a paper entitled "American Attitudes, Evolving Kabuki: Theatre under the Occupation of Japan" at this year's SETC Theatre Symposium in Auburn , Alabama .

Jo Sager, Ph.D., presented at the Midwest Graduate Music Consortium's 7th annual meeting at Northwestern University in Illinois during 2003. The title of the presenation was "Webern and Seurat: Science and Innovations."

Matthew Turner, Ph.D., published a paper entitled “Cowboys and Comedy: The Simultaneous Deconstruction and Reinforcement of Generic Conventions in Western Parody. ” in Film & History 33.2 (2003). He has presented the following papers: “Forgetting the Past: An Examination of the Representation of Roman Architecture in Italian Neorealist Films.” Art and Material Culture. University of Iowa . Iowa City , Iowa . ( February 28-29, 2004 ). He presented an earlier version of the paper at the Art History Symposium. Athens , Ohio . ( May 16-18, 2003 ). “Clowns in the Sky: A Comparative Analysis of Bertolt Brecht and Mystery Science Theater 3000.” The 27th Comparative Drama Conference. Columbus , Ohio . ( April 24-26, 2003 ). “Cowboys and Comedy: The Simultaneous Deconstruction and Reinforcement of Generic Conventions in Western Parody.” The American West(s) in Film, Television, and History. The Film & History League, Kansas City , Missouri . ( November 7-10, 2002 ) He is also scheduled to present the following papers: “Goodnight, Goodnight Moon: A Semiotic Analysis of Berkeley Breathed’s Goodnight Opus.” With Pen in Hand: Writing, Literature, and Culture. Virginia Tech. Blacksburg, Virginia . ( March 19-20, 2004 ). “The Ludicrous and the Mechanical: Philosophical Theories of Comedy in Arthur Schopenhauer and Henri Bergson.” The 14th Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture Conference. Binghamton University . Binghamton , New York . ( April 16-17, 2004 ). “The Philosophy of Comedy: Drama and the Comic Aesthetic in the Writings of Plato and Aristotle.” The 28th Comparative Drama Conference. Columbus , Ohio . (April 29 - May 1, 2004 ). “A Grail-Shaped Beacon: Semiotics and Satire in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” (Re) Creating Arthur: An Interdisciplinary International Conference. King Alfred's College. Winchester , England . ( August 4-7, 2004 ). Matthew is the recipient of a Houk Grant.

Rachel Westwood , doctoral student, will be presenting a paper entitled "Ibsen and the Box Set" at this year's Comparative Drama Conference in Columbus from April 29- May 2.

Aaron Chiu, Ph.D., pubished the following:

CHIU, Chih-Yung(2002) ¡¥Vanishing Humanities in the Age of Cloning: From Contact, A. I. to Minority Report'. In Con-Temporary Monthly (180), Taipei , Taiwan . Pp. 82-91.
CHIU, Chih-Yung(2003) ¡¥Spectacle China , Chinese Spectacle,and Ang Lee¡¦s Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.¡¦ In Con-Temporary Monthly (189), Taipei , Taiwan . pp. 68-83.
CHIU, Chih-Yung (2003) ¡¥The Third World Film Theory and Taiwanese Film Industry: An Historical Examination.¡¦ In Con-Temporary Monthly (189), Taipei , Taiwan . pp.44-55.
CHIU, Chih-Yung (2003) ¡¥Transcending the Evil Soul: The Appearance of the Gorgon Medusa in Archaic Greece.¡¦ paper presented at Art History Symposium. College of Fine Arts , Ohio University, Athens , Ohio.
CHIU, Chih-Yung (2003) ¡¥Oriental Spectacle: Ang Lee¡¦s Trilogy and Chinese Melodrama.¡¦ paper presented at Premiere Interdisciplinary Arts Symposium. School of Interdisciplinary Arts, Ohio University , Athens , Ohio.
CHIU, Chih-Yung (2003) ¡¥Back to the Authenticity: The representation of art imagery in the Cyberspace.¡¦ In Con-Temporary Monthly (190), Taipei , Taiwan.pp.14-29.

Pamela Rossi Keen, Ph.D., presented her paper "Peering Through the Window: Divergent Treatments of Evil in the Works of Olivier Messiaen and Georges Roualt" in March, 2003 at the fourth annual international conference Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness in Prague , Czech Republic . Her paper will be published in the e-book collection Considering Evil and Human Wickedness available from Rodopi in 2004, of which she is the co-editor. Rossi Keen was the recipient of grants from Houk and the Institute for Applied and Professional Ethics.

Haeyoung Youn, Ph.D. candidate, has published the article “Considering Do-ho Suh’s Installation Art in Asian democracy” in the International Journal of Arts in Society and presented articles in international conferences:
“The Understanding of the Digital Image in the Perspective of T.W. Adorno’s Concept of Mimesis,” International Conference on Fear &Awe in Literature and the Visual Arts, Including Cinema, State University of West Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia, 2006.
“The Ambiguous Boundary Between Individual and Public Spaces in Asian Democracy,” Hawaii International Conference on Art and Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2006.
“The Effect of the Transverse of the Actual and the Virtual in New Media Art” Conference on Transversalities: Crossing Disciplines, Cultures and Identities, The University of Reading, England, 2005.
“Kamro-do: Buddhist Negotiation and Compromising with the Chosun Dynasty,” Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2005.

Rihab Bagnole, Ph.D., Isabel Graziani, Ph.D., and Heather Stark, Ph.D., displayed their artwork in an exhibit entitled "Displaced Memories" at the Lindley Cultural Center 's Art Gallery from January 11 to February 2, 2001 . Photograph of the Three Artists

Rihab Bagnole , Ph.D., Visitnig Assistant Professor in the School of Art at Ohio Unviersity
Publications:
For the Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Culture. Greenwood Publishing Group.
“Music in the Middle East and North Africa”, “Love, Sex, and Marriage in the Middle East and North Africa”, and “Radio and Television in the Middle East and North Africa” are accepted for The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Culture. Greenwood Publishing Group. (Forthcoming Summer 2007).
Presentations:
“Presenting Middle Eastern Dance to Western Audiences.” Denison University Faculty Luncheon. Granville, Ohio (2006)
“The Role of the Musicals of Farid al-Atrash in Popularizing Belly Dancing.” Popular Art Association National Conference, Atlanta, Georgia (2006)
“Delacroix’s Introduction to the East through the Death of Sardanapalus and the Abduction of Rebecca.” Art History Symposium, Ohio University (2003)
Performances:
(2006)Tour De Monde concert, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
“Under the Sky of Old Damascus”based on a dance from Damascus. (Fall)
(2005) The Creole Africaine concert, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
"Melaya Dance” based on an Egyptian baladi dance. (Spring)

Mike McKeon , Ph.D., presented a paper entitled, "The Philosophical Foundation of Neo-Classical Art" at the 2001 Art History Graduate Student Symposium sponsored by the Ohio University School of Art on Saturday, May 19.

Caroline Quinlan and Ching-Fang Chiang , doctoral students, along with Edward Schocker presented a Multimedia Installation entitled, "Within the Walls", at the Lindley Cultural Center Gallery January 14-25, 2002 .

Heather Stark , Ph.D., presented a paper entitled "William Morris and the Pre- Raphaelites: Boundaries of Visual and Literary Utopias" at the Ohio University Art History Symposium, May 2002. She will also present the same paper at the conference "Image and Imagery: Borders, Frames, Limits" in October 2002 at Brock University in St. Catherines , Ontario .

Isabel Graziani , Ph.D., presented a paper entitled "Al Andalus and the Apocalypse: Understanding the Morgan Beatus" with Jonathan Maffay at the 27th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Art History Society in Tulsa , Oklahoma in April, 2000.

Jonathan Maffay , Ph.D., presented a paper entitled "The Issue of Ethnicity in the 'Merchant of Venice': The Moor and the Jew" at the Fourth National Symposium on Theater in Academe at Washington & Lee University in March, 2000. Two other papers were presented at the 27th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Art History Society in Tulsa , Oklahoma in April, 2000. They were entitled "Velazquez's 'Christ in the House of Martha and Mary:'Mystery and Sacrament" and "Al Andalus and the Apocalypse: Understanding the Morgan Beatus". The latter paper was presented with Isabel Graziani.

Kuei-lan Anna Ma , Ph.D., published a conference paper entitled, "Prospero's Books vs. The Tempest: A Synthesis of Shakespeare's Ideas and Style into Film Form" in Part 4: "From Page to Screen" in chapter 15 of the book entitled, "Literary Texts & the Art: Interdisciplinary Perspectives". The book is edited by Corrado Federici & Esther Raventos-Pons and published by Peter Lang Publishing, Inc, New York , 2003. ISBN: 0-8204-6134-2.