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2009

In July 2009, Robert Gundlach published "Reflections on the Future of Writing Development" in The SAGE Handbook of Writing Development. During the 2009-10 academic year, he continues to serve as Northwestern's faculty athletics representative to the NCAA and Big Ten Conference, as chair of the Northwestern University Press Board, and as a member of the Humanities Council in Northwestern's Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities.

John Anderson led writing workshops for a summer undergraduate research program sponsored by the National Science Foundation through the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC). Students submitted papers based on their summer work to Nanoscape, a peer-reviewed undergraduate research journal sponsored by the center.

In addition, Anderson worked with Prof. Lincoln Lauhon (McCormick Materials Science) to design a pilot writing workshop for graduate students in the Hierarchical Materials program. Students discussed examples of effective and ineffective scientific writing with Lauhon and advanced students in the program, and worked on their own fellowship applications and manuscript drafts.

In June Fran Paden attended the Trobada Bertran de Born, held at the Château de Hautefort, France. She recently learned that "Swollen Woman, Shifting Canon: A Midwife's Charm," an essay written collaboratively with Bill Paden (French and Italian), has been accepted for publication by PMLA.

Charles Yarnoff was named a Charles Deering McCormick University Distinguished Lecturer for 2009-2010, an award recognizing faculty members who “have consistently demonstrated outstanding performance in classroom teaching.”  At the award ceremony, he spoke on the most influential teacher he had, a professor at Oberlin College who taught him the value of listening.

Phyllis Lassner has been appointed to the Northwestern University Press Board. Her most recent scholarly essays are "Life Writing and the Holocaust," which appears in the Cambridge Companion to the Literature of World War II and "The Necessary Jew: Modernist Women Writers and Contemporary Women Critics," published in the volume, Varieties of Antisemitism: History, Ideology, Discourse.

Prof. Lassner delivered a keynote address at the International Conference for the Study of the Middlebrow at Strathclyde University in Glasgow in July, titled "Testing the Limits of the Middlebrow: The Holocaust for the Masses." In October, she will be the keynote speaker at the event sponsored by the Japanese Consulate commemorating the heroism of Chiune Sugihara, the diplomat in Lithuania who saved over 2,000 Jewish lives.

Penny Hirsch and Charles Yarnoff co-authored a paper with Elizabeth Gerber and Ann McKenna of the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science that was presented at the Mudd Design Workshop at Harvey Mudd College in May 2009, “Learning to Waste – Wasting to Learn? – Changing the Environmental Footprint of Teaching Design.”

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