Dr. James W. Hikins, professor and chair of the Department of Speech Communication and Public Relations, made聽a 聽presentation on Nov. 15 聽at two panels at the 2010 National Communication Association annual conference in San Francisco. They were titled: “The State of Rhetorical and Communication Theory in the Twenty-First Century: Two Provocations” and “@font-face {聽 font-family: “Arial”;}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: “Times New Roman”; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }鈥淏urke鈥檚 Theoretical Omnipresence: Finding Solacein His Relativised Realism.鈥�
Mark Spitzer, assistant professor of writing, recently returned from Paris where he presented his paper 鈥淧olemic: The History of Pirated English-Language Translations of Jean Genet鈥檚 Poetry (with Chronology)鈥� at the Jean Genet–La Censure dans la Traduction Litteraire panel at the international Genet conference at the Odeon Theatre sponsored by the Federation of International Translators. Spitzer, who is considered the world expert on the poetry of Genet, also spoke in the Ecrire c鈥檈st Lever Toutes les Censures panel. Meanwhile, Spitzer鈥檚 article 鈥淏ob Dylan’s Tarantula: An Arctic Reserve of Untapped Glimmerance Dismissed in a Ratland of Clich茅s鈥� is being republished in the catalogue for the Richard Prince exhibition at the Bibliotheque Nationale in France. Spitzer also had scholarship on American authors published on the websites for Princeton University Press and the Kenyon Review.