Gregory Gilbert (Art and Art History) has published the essay “Federal Art in the Midwest in the 1930s and the Meeting of Rural and Urban Cultures: A Challenge to Grant Wood’s ‘Revolt Against the City’” in A Scattering Time: How Modernism Met Midwestern Culture, Hastings College Press, 2018.

The essay examines the historical ironies associated […]

The undergraduate journal PURSUE published a research article by Uduak-Obong I. Ekanem ’17 and Ole J. Forsberg (Mathematics). The research utilized statistical techniques, including binomial-based generalized linear models, to test for unfairness in the 2015 presidential election in Nigeria.

The publication is the culmination of an extensive collaboration between Mr. Ekanem and Dr. Forsberg that […]

Sara O’Brien (Psychology) and Jeremy Schmidt ’17 published an article titled “The Role of Disgust in Body Image Disturbance: Incremental Predictive Power of Self-Disgust” in the journal Body Image. The article can be accessed here: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1XjHB6BgRtpzFY

Narrative has published Gina Franco’s (English) poem, “Annunciation of the Self-Enclosed God.” A preview of the poem is now live with Narrative Backstage alongside poems by Bob Hicok, Ted Kooser, and Sharon Olds. The full version of the poem will be released on Narrative’s homepage this winter.

https://www.narrativemagazine.com/

https://www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/narrative-backstage/poetry/annunciation-self-enclosed-god-gina-franco

https://www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/narrative-backstage

A recent musical work by Pierce Gradone (Music) has been published by Fat Rock Ink. The piece, entitled The Watching, is scored for alto flute, viola, and harp, and is inspired by a particular sleeping pattern practiced during the 18th and 19th centuries in which a night’s sleep was interrupted by a time of quiet […]

The Earth is Not For Sale: A Path Out of Fossil Capitalism to the Other World That is Still Possible, authored by Peter Schwartzman (Environmental Studies) and his father David, was recently released by World Scientific Publishing. A description of the book and its authors can be found at WSP’s website: https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/10827.

Springer-Verlag, Inc. has published “History of Cryptography and Cryptanalysis: Codes, Ciphers and their Algorithms” by William and Marilyn Ingersoll Professor Emeritus of Computer Science John F. Dooley
https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319904429

Tim Kasser (Psychology) and Sofia Tagkaloglou’18, recently had an article published in Journal of Environmental Psychology. The article is titled “Increasing collaborative, pro-environmental activism: The roles of Motivational Interviewing, self-determined motivation, and self-efficacy.” The project is based on a series of independent studies that Tagkaloglou completed with Kasser during her junior year at Knox.

Neil Blackadder (Theatre) was an invited participant in the “rencontres de traduction” seminar in Montreal, part of the Dramaturgies en Dialogue festival organized by the Centre des Auteurs Dramatiques.

Jessie Dixon-Montgomery (Spanish) presented a paper at ALARA conference–Afro-Latin American Research Association–in Houston, TX on August 9, 2018. The title of her presentation was “Afro-Hispanic Aesthetics and Identity through the Cuban Underground Hip Hop of Los Paisanos and Obsesión.” In her presentation, she analyzed two songs by Los Paisanos and Obesión, that proudly assert blackness […]