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Category: Faculty Activities

  • Faculty Spotlight: Greg Kaster

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    Greg Kaster (History) was one of 18 college and university faculty from around the nation selected to participate in a seminar on “The American Civil War: Origins and Consequences,” led by Gary Gallagher, the John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War Emeritus at the University of Virginia. Sponsored by…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kristen Lowe

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    Kristen Lowe (Art and Art History) has a new exhibition, Ballad of the Red Fox, that will be open September 16-October 23, 2021, at Form + Content Gallery in Minneapolis.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Henry MacCarthy

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    Henry MacCarthy (Theatre & Dance) was one of 37 Venezuelan artists residing abroad invited to create and present a mobile videoportrait for La Caja de Fósforos in Caracas for their project Casa Imaginaria: Un recorrido por las estancias de las moradas del alma, sponsored by the British Council in Venezuela. The works were presented online…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Glenn Kranking

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    Glenn Kranking (History and Scandinavian Studies) was thanked in the credits of the recent Finding Your Roots (PBS) episode profiling Gretchen Carlson, whose grandparents attended Gustavus and whose ancestors emigrated from Sweden. Glenn provided supplemental research assistance and attempted to track down additional documentation for the research production team.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Denis Crnkovi?

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    Denis Crnkovi? (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Emeritus) has had a collection of verses, “Northern Poems,” published by The Loedengreg Press.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Anna Hulseberg and Michelle Twait

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    Anna Hulseberg (Library) and Michelle Twait (Library) co-presented a session, “The Library as a Growing Organism: Developing Collaborative E-Resources Management During a Pandemic,” at the virtual Electronic Resources & Libraries Conference on March 10, 2021.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Julie Bartley

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    Julie Bartley (Geology), with co-author Patrick Gilliland, published a paper in The Depositional Record, titled “Experimental rain prints and gas escape structures as a framework for interpreting circular imprints in shales of the Pottsville Formation.”

  • Faculty Spotlight: Lisa Ortmann

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    Lisa Ortmann (Education) co-edited the 2021 Annual Annotated Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English, a publication of The National Council of Teachers of English.

  • Faculty Spotlight: María Isabel Kalbermatten

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    María Isabel Kalbermatten (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) was invited to give a presentation about her current scholarship and research by the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Linguistic Association of the Department of Spanish & Portuguese Studies at the University of Minnesota. The title of her presentation was “From Monologuist Theories to a Dialogical Analysis of Verbal…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Dave Stamps

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    Dave Stamps (Music) produced Un[chart]ed Territory, March 18-20 for the International Society of Jazz Arrangers & Composers (ISJAC), of which he is a co-founder. The virtual conference featured performances, panel discussions, masterclasses, and poster sessions and was attended by nearly 1,000 registrants spanning 28 countries.