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tings and professional musicians, Trinity’s choir wasn’t drowned out, says Gary Seighman, music professor and director of Trinity’s choral program. “We’ve been singing with the San Antonio Symphony for the past seven years,” Seighman says. “That’s why we keep getting invited to these kinds of things: We perform next to professionals, and that professionalism shows.” Having faculty as experts in their field is one thing. But at Trinity, having faculty who are willing to provide their expertise in the field can be a game changer. Alongside Heller, a talented organist and keyboardist with a staggering breadth of knowledge on baroque and classical-era instruments, professor and skilled pianist Carolyn True assisted with accompaniment and noted she “wore several hats during rehearsal” in Austria. Joseph Kneer, conductor of Trinity’s symphony, performed adroitly on violin, while mezzo-soprano Jacquelyn Matava dazzled as a soloist during Beethoven’s “Mass in C Major.” And Seighman, a smooth tenor vocalist and acclaimed conductor, helped mold the Trinity choir’s sound into a force worthy of even Beethoven or Haydn’s masterpieces. True says the trip was a textbook example of experiential learning. “There are some things you can read about in books,” she says. “But it’s not being here, being immersed in the culture, having rehearsals in the same place where Haydn conducted, the same instruments they used. To be able to see that and experience that, we’ll all come back changed.”
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CURTIS SWOPE / Modern Languag-
Classical Studies was invited to publish “Classical Desires in Call Me by Your Name (dir. Luca Guadagnino 2017)” in Antiquipop in 2018.
es and Literatures published Building Socialism: Architecture and Urbanism in East German Literature, 1955-1973 with Bloomsbury in 2018. The book is part of Bloomsbury’s “New Directions in German Studies” series. Also in 2018, Swope contributed “Modernity and the City in Christa Wolf’s Oeuvre of the 1960s” for Christa Wolf: A Companion with De Gruyter.
CLAUDIA STOKES / English published “Novel Commonplaces: Quotation, Epigraphs, and Literary Authority” in American Literary History, 2018, Vol. 30, Issue 2. She also contributed “Hymns by the Fireside: Religious Verse and the Rise and Fall of the Fireside Poets” for Above the American Renaissance with the University of Massachusetts Press in 2018. In November 2017, Stokes presented “Novel Commonplaces: or, Why DO Nineteenth-Century American Writers Quote So Much?” at the Inaugural Humanities Texas Speakers Series and C19 Circuit Event in Corpus Christi, Texas.
HEATHER SULLIVAN / Modern Languages and Literatures contributed “Goethe’s Concept of Nature: Proto-ecological Model” for Ecological Thought in German Literature and Culture with Lexington Books in 2017. She also published the invited essay “Goethe’s Colors: Revolutionary Optics and the Anthropocene” in Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2017, Vol. 51, Issue 1. In 2017, Sullivan co-authored “Hybrid Environments in the Anthropocene: Recent Fiction” for Readings in the Anthropocene: The Environmental Humanities, German Studies, and Beyond with Bloomsbury. She also published a review of Umwelt-engagierte Literatur aus Island und Norwegen: Ein interdisziplinärer Beitrag zu den Environmental Humanities in Ecozon@, 2017, Vol. 8, Issue 2. In November 2017, Sullivan was invited to participate in the presidential forum on “Reorientations around Goethe” at the Atkins Conference of the North American Goethe Society in State College, Pa. She also gave one invited lecture and three conference presentations.
ANGELA TARANGO / Religion contributed “Hunting Buffalo in Oklahoma: Native American Casinos, Constructed Identities and Portrayals of Native Culture and Religion” for The Business Turn In American Religious History with Oxford University Press in 2017. Tarango also contributed “Native American Religions in the Twentieth Century” for The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Race in American History with Oxford University Press in 2018. Additionally, Tarango was an invited speaker at two conferences: the Religion and the American Normal Conference at Princeton University in Princeton, N.J., in February 2018; and the Religious Movements: Migration and Belief in the Americas conference at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va., in April 2018.
CARLOS X. ARDAVÍN TRABANCO / Modern Languages and Literatures co-edited Meditaciones orteguianas, a volume on Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset, with Nexofía in 2018. Ardavín also published Poesía española en la transición, a monograph on Spanish poetry during the country’s transition to democracy, with Aula lírica in 2018.
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