{"id":879,"date":"2016-10-10T12:04:38","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T16:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/?p=879"},"modified":"2016-10-10T12:04:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T16:04:38","slug":"monday-missive-october-10-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/blog\/2016\/10\/10\/monday-missive-october-10-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Missive – October 10, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"dolphin\"<\/a>Personally Speaking\/Scientifically Speaking<\/b> — Our colleague Alan Rauch will deliver a presentation about his book Dolphin <\/i>on Tuesday, November 1<\/span><\/span>, at UNC Charlotte Center City.\u00a0 His presentation will begin at 6:30<\/span><\/span>.\u00a0 A reception and book-signing will follow his presentation.\u00a0 His presentation is part of the Personally Speaking Series, which is co-sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the J. Murrey Atkins Library with support from UNC Charlotte Center City.\u00a0 The series is open to the public without charge, but attendees are expected to register in advance.\u00a0 To register for Alan’s presentation, please click on the following link: \u00a0 http:\/\/bm5150.com\/public\/webform\/render_form\/3trujsrfvrddxuhx0lbtxfwiob8lu\/e0c636a0a0b654955db464ffd7a53301\/addcontact<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In Dolphin, <\/i>Alan combines his expertise in literature and culture with his scientific background in zoology.\u00a0 He discusses the dolphin’s place in mythology, literature, and popular culture, but he also provides a scientific overview of the evolution and biological characteristics of dolphins.\u00a0 Alan is one of several faculty members in the English Department to take a scholarly interest in science and technology.\u00a0 Jen Munroe and Matthew Rowney both study the relationship between the natural environment and culture.\u00a0 Lara Vetter is interested in how the tension between science and religion is reflected in the works of several modernist writers.\u00a0 Katie Hogan has an interest in gender and medical humanities, and this interest is reflected in her book Women Take Care:\u00a0 Gender, Race, and the Culture of AIDS.<\/i>\u00a0 Tony Jackson and Ralf Thiede both work at the intersection of cognitive science, language, and texts, and Boyd Davis is currently working on several research projects that deal with the relationship between Alzheimers and language.\u00a0 Aaron Toscano and Greg Wickliff have both conducted research on the history and rhetoric of technology.\u00a0 Similarly, Heather Vorhies is interested in the history of scientific rhetoric.\u00a0 I could mention several more examples of English faculty members who write about science and technology in their scholarship, but my list list is getting a bit long already.\u00a0 Needless to say, our English Department is very much a player in the emerging field of Science and Technology Studies (STS).<\/p>\n

Kudos<\/b> — As you know, I like to use my Monday Missives to share news about recent accomplishments by members of our department.\u00a0 Here is the latest news:<\/p>\n

Bryn Chancellor<\/b> was featured in a column in the Charlotte Observer <\/i>on local authors.<\/p>\n

Jennie Mussington<\/b> recently received the Golden Nugget Award “for going above and beyond the call of duty” in recognition of her calm and professional response to a student with a medical concern.<\/p>\n

Quirky Quiz Question<\/b>\u00a0\u2014 In Dolphin, <\/i>Alan Rauch writes about the depiction of dolphins in popular culture, including a hit television series from the mid-1960s that features a bottlenose dolphin. Does anybody remember the name of this television show?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Last week’s answer: Mary Wollstonecraft<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, was an important British writer, but so was her famous mother.\u00a0 Does anybody know the name of Mary Shelley’s mother? <\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Personally Speaking\/Scientifically Speaking — Our colleague Alan Rauch will deliver a presentation about his book Dolphin on Tuesday, November 1, at UNC Charlotte Center City.\u00a0 His presentation will begin at 6:30.\u00a0 A reception and book-signing will follow his presentation.\u00a0 His presentation is part of the Personally Speaking Series, which is co-sponsored by the College of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-missive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":883,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions\/883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}