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c) International Conference on Romanticism in the Mediterranean (Athens, Greece) George Handley was an invited guest to a special international symposium sponsored by the Patriarch Bartholomew of the Orthodox Church in Athens, Greece on religion and the environment in June. Carl Sederholm was appointed to edit the Journal of American Culture in January 2018. Julie Allen was selected as the recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers for the 2019-2020 academic year. She will be working with Dr. Vinzenz Hediger at the Goethe Universität Frankfurt and the Deutsches Filmmuseum. She also had a couple of articles come out, one is in Danish in the literary magazine Spring and the other is available online.
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At the biennial Rhetoric Society of America conference in Minneapolis this summer, Greg Clark was given the George E Yoos Distinguished Service Award. At the same time, he was made a Fellow of RSA. Greg has been invited to help develop a statement about ethical public discourse that will be disseminated through op-eds and journalists in major news outlets next year as an attempt to educate the American public on how political rhetoric ought to proceed. Keith Lawrence received a 2017-18 Fulbright Scholar Teaching Award; he just returned from teaching at Beijing Normal University. He taught MA and BA courses (in English) focused on nineteenthcentury American literature, twentieth-century American literature, and American culture and guest lectured at other Chinese universities.
