RIT FACULTY SCHOLARS SERIES
With an increased focus on scholarship at RIT, RIT Libraries will shine a light on some of the Institute's finest by sponsoring "RIT Faculty Scholars" series. This ongoing series spotlights the scholarship work of a different faculty member for each showcase. The sessions will generally be two hours in length, with content that will vary from session to session. Typically, each event may include poster sessions, multimedia presentations, or some type of interactive component. Each program will be followed by a question and answer period and will allow time for meeting the featured guest. Below is a complete listing of upcoming events as well as a link to past showcases.
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UPCOMING SESSION (TBA):
SPRING QUARTER 2008
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
3:00 - 5:00 pm
The Idea Factory
(Wallace Library; Bldg. 5; 1st floor)
This event is FREE and OPEN to ALL!
Featured RIT Faculty Scholar for April 2008:
Professor Vincent F.A. Golphin
Department of English, RIT’s College of Liberal Arts
Presentation title:
"Story"
Description:
“Story” is the title and substance of a presentation of the academic pursuits of Vincent F. A. Golphin. Personal stories chart the basic elements of human lives and societies, and in that sense, are a glue that holds disparate parts into a structure. Stories are what Professor Golphin deals with in various forms in the classroom, speeches and publications as a poet, fiction writer, essayist, commentator, memoirist, cultural analyst and ethnographer.
As April's featured Faculty Scholar, he will discuss the role of stories in society and culture and share how they are used in a recent memoir, poetry collection and ethnographic study.
Professor Golphin's Bio :
Vincent F. A. Golphin is an award-winning writer and journalist, who is an assistant professor of Creative Writing and Literary Cultural Studies in the Department of English at RIT. He is frequently sought as a national speaker and consultant on African American history, literature, and culture. Outside academia, his skills and insights are used, as managing editor, to produce about…time Magazine, a 35-year-old, national publication that chronicles the black experience.
Since 1980, Golphin’s features and commentaries have appeared in the National Catholic Reporter and a wide range of newspapers through news services that include Religious News Service, United Methodist News, Southern Baptist News, Newhouse, and the New York Times American News. Those kinds of writing, as well as reviews, poems and short stories, are included in popular magazines such as Christianity Today, Emerge, Washington Living, Upstate New Yorker, about…time Magazine, and literary journals such as Bridges, Drylongso, Fyah, Ishmael Reed’s Konch Magazine, Mental Satin; and the Southern Poetry Review. His books include Life and Other Things I Know: Poems, Essays and Short Stories; Take Two, They’re Small; African-American Children’s Anthology; Grandma Loves You: A First Primer; African American Stories: A First Primer; and Like A Dry Land: A Soul’s Journey Through the Middle East.
PREVIOUS SESSIONS:
Dr. Amit Ray presenting to an enthusiastic audience in February, 2006.
PREVIOUS "RIT FACULTY SCHOLARS":
2008:
JANUARY 22, 2008: Professor Marla K. Schweppe; "From the World Stage to the Virtual Stage: The Life of a Designer"
2007:
SEPTEMBER 2007: Dr. Neil Hair and Dr. Victor Perotti; The Value of Online Social Networks: A Business Perspective
APRIL 2007: Jorge L. Diaz-Herrera, Ph.D.;Cyberinfrastructure: Supporting Scientific Discovery and Innovation in the 21st Century
MARCH 2007: David Pankow; Typographical Allegories and Erotic Ambiguities: The Strangest Book at RIT
FEBRUARY 2007: Dr. Uli Linke, Fascinating Bodies: Visual Culture, Pornography, and Violence in the Modern Museum
2006:
OCTOBER 2006: Andrew Phelps; A Nexus of Education, Inspiration, Research and Play
APRIL 2006: Dr. Chance Glenn; When the Artistic Meets the Scientific
FEBRUARY 2006: Dr. Amit Ray; WWW/ Wiki, Wacky Web?: Wikis, Authority and the Public Sphere
2005:
OCTOBER 2005: Frank Cost; Twilight of the Gatekeepers
APRIL 2005: Dr. Abi Aghayere; Enhancing Student Learning Through Continuous Course Assessment
MARCH 2005: Dr. Nabil Nasir, Innovative Technologies for a Sustainable Future
FEBRUARY 2005: Dr. John Schott, The Evolution of Remote Sensing at RIT
2004:
OCTOBER 2004: Dr. Ryne Raffaelle; Nanotechnology
