Saper quoted in The New York Times
April 14, 2010 In the April 11 edition of The New York Times Sunday Book Review, Jennifer Schuessler quotes Craig Saper in her review of Bob Brown’s The Readies. Saper is writing a biography of Brown, who Schuessler calls “a godfather of the reading machine” and “nearly forgotten early-20th-century writer and impresario.” An...
Robinson in Art Calendar magazine
April 08, 2010 Art Calendar: The Business Magazine for Visual Artists recently published two articles by Elizabeth Brady Robinson. “Art Entrepreneur: Attending National Portfolio Reviews” appeared in the April 2010 issue and “Emerging Art at Art Basel Miami Beach 2009” in the following issue.
Mill's documentary to play at Florida Film Festival
April 08, 2010 Lisa Mills’ award-winning documentary, The Young Composers Challenge will make its theatrical debut at the 2010 Florida Film Festival at the Enzian Theatre in Maitland on Sunday, April 11 at 3:45 p.m. and at Winter Park Village Regal Cinema Sunday, April 18 at 1:00 p.m. The Young Composers Challenge is...
Graduate student presents at 19th Century Studies conference
April 02, 2010 Heather Wayne, a student in the Master of Arts in Literary, Cultural, and Textual Studies program, presented her paper “Gazing Women ‘Becoming’ Objects: The Female Artist Performs Subjectivity in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s The Story of Avis” at the Nineteenth Century Studies Association’s annual conference in Tampa, Florida.
Graduate student joins Ph.D. program at USF
April 02, 2010 Jessica Masri, a student in the Master of Arts in Literary, Cultural, and Textual Studies program, has been accepted to the Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition program at the University of South Florida beginning fall 2010.
Isenhour's sculptures featured in University of Maine exhibit
March 03, 2010 The University of Maine Museum of Art features Bio-Permutation, a collection of sculptures by David Isenhour. The exhibition is on view January 15 – April 3, 2010. Isenhour’s sculptures reflect his interest in genetic research, science fiction, cartoons and popular culture. His sculpts his compositions out of polyiso foam and...
Workman's Article Published in Journal
February 25, 2010 Jessica Workman, a student in our Masters in English, Literary, Cultural, and Textual studies program had her article “Forming a National Identity: Reconciling Genres in Susanna Rowson’s Reuben and Rachel” published in the first issue of The Journal of Research on Women and Gender.
Wayne Presents Paper at Conference
February 25, 2010 Heather Wayne, a student in our Masters in English, Literary, Cultural, and Textual studies program has recently presented her paper titled: “Interrupted Subjectivity and the Precession of the Gothic in Northanger Abbey” at the 20th Anniversary Aphra Behn & Women in the Arts Conference held at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee.
Uttich Awarded Iron Horse Prize
February 25, 2010 Laurie Rachkus Uttich, a Spring 2009 graduate of the M.F.A. program in creative writing has been awarded the highly competitive Iron Horse Discovered Voices Prize in fiction for her short story “What We Tell.” Her story appears in the just-released Winter 2009 issue of Iron Horse Literary Review 11.6.
Robinson featured in Emerging Artist Auction
February 09, 2010 E. Brady Robinson’s “Noah’s Ark + Climbing Wall” from the series Scenes from Jesusland was featured in Emerging Artist Auction by Daniel Cooney Fine Art, NY and iGavel. Scenes from Jesusland documents the crossroads of religion with tourism and commodity culture located at a Christian theme park. Humor and irony...
Weremchuk and Marshall at NASA conference
February 01, 2010 George Weremchuk performs Christopher Marshall’s “High Flight” at the North American Saxophone Alliance conference at the University of Georgia on March 4, 2010. The NASA conference features performances, papers, panels, lecture-recitals, master classes, and other presentations that relate to saxophone performance, pedagogy, and research.
Weremchuk performs with the Duke Ellington Orchestra
February 01, 2010 George Weremchuk performs with the Duke Ellington Orchestra on Friday, February 5 at 8:00pm at the Plaza Theatre in Orlando and two shows on February 6 at Largo Cultural Center in Largo, Florida.
Theatre student wins Miss Orlando Title
January 25, 2010 Vicky DiSanto, a junior majoring in Musical Theatre, has been awarded the title of Miss Orlando 2010. She will represent the city at the Miss Florida Pageant in St. Petersburg, FL in July. This was DiSanto’s first time competing in a pageant. Her scholarship winnings, sponsored by the Gracia B....
Giordano wins AATI Distinguished Service award
December 21, 2009 Paolo Giordano, Neil E. Euliano Endowed Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures, is the recipient of the American Association of Teachers of Italian Award for Distinguished Service for 2009. The Award recognizes Giordano’s outstanding merits as a scholar and teacher in the field of Italian studies as well as his...
Knight Winds perform at FMEA conference
December 10, 2009 On Thursday, January 7, the Knight Winds will perform at the Florida Music Educators Association conference in Tampa, Florida, under the direction of Nora Lee Garcia and George Weremchuk.
Spanish M.A. Students' Presentations Well Received at Conference
December 04, 2009 Spanish graduate students William Badillo and Erick Revuelta presented papers on Contemporary Spanish Caribbean Narrative at the 59th Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference (MIFLC) in October. Their presentations were so well received that the organizing committee invited the students to attend the 60th MIFLC meeting scheduled for October 2010. The...
Alumna To Perform as Lead Soprano in Upcoming Productions
November 19, 2009 Michele Brache has been cast for the lead soprano roles of the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro in February 2010 and Marie Antoinette in The Ghosts of Versailles in May 2010.
Milan students explore Gallagher's Phenomenological Mind
November 04, 2009 A group at the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele in Milan has organized a Winter School for graduate students to discuss the Italian translation of The Phenomenological Mind, authored by Shaun Gallagher and Dan Zahavi. More information is available online here
Thad Anderson presents at 2009 PASIC Convention
October 29, 2009 Thad Anderson will present a poster presentation titled “John Cage’s Fourth Construction: An Imaginary Landscape” at the 2009 Percussive Arts Society International Convention in Indianapolis, IN. For more information, visit the PASIC Web site.
Jeff Rupert swings From Memphis To Mobile
October 27, 2009 Random Act Records presents From Memphis to Mobile, a new album from Jeff Rupert. Rupert, a master saxophonist, is featured in quartet and duet settings, with accompaniment from John Jenkins (drums) and virtuoso pianist Kenny Drew, Jr. as well as fellow UCF faculty members Richard Drexler (bass) and Lyman Brodie...