Faculty and Staff News (Continued from page 4) entitled “Communicating Across Differences: LGBTQ and Allies Peer Education.” Dr. Mazaris was selected by students of The Vagina Monologues as a Vagina Warrior. Michelle Voss Roberts (Divinity) has had several publications in 2011 and 2012. “Fear and Women’s Writing: Choosing the Better Part,” in Women, Writing, Theology: Transforming a Tradition of Exclusion, edited by Emily A. Holmes and Wendy Farley for Baylor University Press, 2011: 11-32. She also published “‘The Body Gains Its Share: The Asceticism of Mechthild of Magdeburg,” in Perceiving the Divine through the Human Body: Mystical Sensuality, edited by June McDaniel and Thomas Cattoi (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, in 2011:159-174) and another essay entitled ‘“Who Is My Good Neighbor? Classical Indian Dance in the Prophetic Work of the Church” in Exchange 41.2, 2012: 103-119. Her book, Dualities: A Theology of Difference (2010), was named the Best Book in Hindu-Christian Studies—Theology/Philosophy (2008-2011) by the Society for Hindu-Christian Studies. Dr. Voss Roberts also coauthored with Bauman, Jones, Pennington, and Prabhakar an entry on “Christianity and Hinduism” for Oxford Bibliographies Online (May 23, 2012). Judith Madera (English) presented her paper, “Circuit and Flow: Process Geography and the Creole Writing of Alice Dunbar Nelson” at the Modern Language Association Annual Convention in Seattle in January 2012. She also presented “Cartographic Confluence: African American Counter-Maps and the Question of Cuba, 1849-1861” at The Conference of the Society for NineteenthCentury Americanists in a panel sponsored by the Society of Early Americanists (SEA) held in UC Berkeley on April 4, 2012. Dr. Madera was the organizer and chair for a panel, “Geography/Topos/Literature” at the 2011 Biennial Meeting of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) in Bloomington, Indiana in June 2011. Her recent publications include “Floating Prisons: Dispossession, Ordering and Colonial Atlantic States” in Buried Lives (U. of Georgia, 2012). An essay on AfricanAmerican novelist William Wells Brown’s collected writing was invited for a collection, Imagining Locality: Regionalization in U.S. Literature and Culture Before the Civil War. Dr. Madera has a book in progress entitled, Black Atlas: Geography and Flow in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature. In spring 2012 she developed and taught a new upper-division class, "The Black Atlantic," and designed a new course, "Literature of the Caribbean" (ENG 356). She participated in the WFU–based Transnational Feminism and Diaspora Humanities Institute faculty seminar in spring 2012. She participated in the Project P sustainability summer workshop, sponsored by the Office of Sustainability and CEES in summer 2012. Dr. Madera served on the review committee for American Ethnic Studies, fall 2011 and spring 2012. She is currently a reader for the following journals: ESQ: Journal of the American Renaissance, PMLA, College Literature and JSRNC (Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture). Shannon Gilreath (Law School) has two new books, The End of Straight Supremacy: Realizing Gay Liberation, published by Cambridge University Press, 2011, and Sexual Identity Law in Context, 2nd Edition, published by Westlaw Books in 2011. Dr. Gilreath was nominated to receive the 2011 Law and Society Association Article Prize. His paper “Why Gays Should not Serve in the United States Armed Forces: a Gay Liberationist Statement of Principle” was part of a special issue of the William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law and it was published in December 2011. Dr. Gilreath presented “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Publish: Reflections on the Repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” as part of the Z. Smith Reynolds Library Lecture Series on October 27, 2011. J.K. Curry (Theater) edited vol.19 of Theater Symposium, a publication of the South Eastern Theatre Conference. The volume was entitled “Theatre and Film” and was issued by the University of Alabama Press in October 2011.
Dean Franco (English) has a new book: Race, Riots and Recognition: Jewish American Literature Since 1969. It was published by Cornell University Press in June 2012.
Wanda Balzano (Women’s and Gender Studies) is currently working on a book entitled The Veiled Subject: Women and Religion in Irish Literature, which will be published by Irish Academic Press. She was invited to contribute to two books that are going to be published by Manchester University Press. Her essays are respectively entitled: “Beginning History Again: Gendering the Foreigner in Emer Martin’s Baby Zero,” in Celtic Others: Irish Literary Representations of the Migrant (ed. P. V. Argaiz), and “Transtextuality, Gender, and the Italian Imaginary through William Trevor’s Writing,” in William Trevor: A Collection of Critical Essays (eds. P. Delaney and M. Parker). “Culture, Politics, and Human Rights in Waiting for Godot” is coming out in a book edited by Ranjan Ghosh for Lexington Books. In November 2011 she participated in the NWSA annual conference, in Atlanta, with a paper on “Penelope and Her Sisters: Weaving Tradition and Modernity in Transnational Italian Settings.” At the South Atlantic MLA conference in Atlanta she presented “ ‘They all speak at once’: Waiting for Godot and the Language of Subcultures,” November 2011. On March 14-17, 2012, at the national ACIS meeting in New Orleans, Balzano delivered a paper on Kate O’Brien’s Vergilian influences entitled “Erin in Arcadia: Irish Versions of the Pastoral.” At the end of March she presented “Refugees in Multicultural Ireland: Salad Bowl Ingredients or Pickles in a Jar?” at the Wake Forest Symposium on Where Are You From? Immigration, Mobility, and Citizenship. With Silvana Carotenuto, Balzano is presently co-editing the special issue of the international interdisciplinary journal Anglistica, on the theme of “Women and Exile.” In addition to other College and University assignments, Balzano has been recently elected to the Committee on Orientation and Lower Division Advising, and has been appointed to the Diversity and Inclusion Executive Advisory Council. Mary Dalton (Communication) has been named Professor of Communication and WGS. She has also been elected Secretary of the University Film and Video Association. Although based in the U.S., the Association has members throughout the world. Lauren Pressley (ZSR Library) has been promoted to Head of Instruction at Z. Smith Reynolds Library. Lauren presents a wide range of technology and instruction topics at the national level.
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