Arts & Humanities
Newsletter
December 2011February 2012
Volume 4, Issue 3
TENURE AND PROMOTION
Inside this issue:
Tenure/Promotion
M’Bayo
Hodson
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Grants
1
Mellon Scholars
2
Dance Department
2
Theatre Department
2
Art Department
3
Music Department
Japinga
Dr. Tamba M'bayo, Department of History - tenured and promoted to
associate professor
Dr. Rob Hodson, Department of Music - promoted to full professor
Dr. Lynn Japinga, Department of Religion - promoted to full professor
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English Department
3-4
History Department
5
Modern/Classical Languages 5
Philosophy Department
5
GLCA NDI Grants Awarded
André
Petit
Maria Claudia André (DMCL) was awarded a grant for summer research and travel in Mexico to develop a
digital project on, "Explorations in Surrealism: Myth, the Occult, and Experimental Writing in the Works of
Mexican and European Surrealist Women Artists of the 1930's and 1940's."
Jeanne Petit (History) was awarded a grant for summer travel to four American cities to work on, "The
Community House Project: Catholic Women in WWI America."
Katherine Sullivan (Art) was awarded a grant, "Open Studio Lithography Residency," to support her new
exploration in printmaking. Over the semester break, Katherine completed a four-week artist’s residency in
Toronto at Open Studio, Canada’s leading fine art print making center, where she worked on a series of
large-scale lithographs. The lithographs are part of a collaborative project that combines the language poetry
of State University of New York- Albany poet Christopher Rizzo with Sullivan's abstracted images of the body.
Katherine's also been invited to the Helene D. Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New Mexico, for a three-month
Artist in Residence program for summer 2012.
2012 JACOB E. NYENHUIS FACULTY DEVELOPMENT
GRANT RECIPIENTS
Sullivan
Individual Research Grants
Cooperative Faculty/Student Research Grants
ART- Anne Heath, Katherine Sullivan
MUSIC- Brian Coyle and Michael Reynolds
MUSIC- Christina Hornbach
DMCL- Claudine André and Joey Carty
ENGLISH- Heather Sellers
HISTORY- Jonathan Hagood and Kevin Wonch
HISTORY- Jeanne Petit
RELIGION- Steve Bouma-Prediger and
PHILOSOPHY- Joe LaPorte
Heath
Hornbach
Sellers
Lauren Madison
LaPorte
Coyle
Hagood
Bouma-Prediger
News from the Mellon Scholars
Junior Katie Callam's research on "The Compositional Process of Clara Schumann's Piano Trio
in G Minor, op. 17," advised by Julia Randel, was accepted for presentation at the National
Conference on Undergraduate Research in Ogden, Utah, and Posters on the Hill in Washington,
D.C.
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Randel
Junior Daniel Owen's "The Hybridization of Peacekeeping: The United Nations Mission to Liberia
Revisited," advised by Tamba M'Bayo, was also accepted for presentation at NCUR.
Mellon Scholars will give 22 presentations at the Celebration for Undergraduate Research
and Creative Performance at Hope College. Athina Alvarez' artwork was chosen for the
abstract book's cover.
M’Bayo
Hope’s resident jazz/tap company, IDT (formerly InSync Dance Theatre), performed in the windy
city with the renowned Chicago Tap Theatre (CTT). This is the fifth consecutive year that CTT has
welcomed IDT to share in their annual December concert, “Tidings of Tap,” a prestigious honor for the
Hope dancers. IDT performed “Season’s Greetings,” choreographed by senior Molly Vass. Ranya Betts,
a junior in the Hope music department, composed the music and performed live. IDT performers included
Arianna Cappuccitti, Helen Gay, Helen Grdina, Sophia Hart, Faith Koleczek, Jamie Kreindler, Chloe
Rose, Molly Vass and Emma Zagar. IDT is directed by faculty member Amanda Smith.
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Zach Porter ‘10 serves as program director of dance for a YMCA near Chicago. He is also teaching
dance "to kids who live in "bad areas," who are too poor to take dance class at a studio and whose family
home situation is...not very good." Zach has started a business that helps people spread love and
appreciation through sending cards and that also helps bring clean water to Haiti and Honduras. It's the 1
for 1, Toms shoes idea. For every person they get that decides to join their movement and spread the
love, they send out 1 water filter. It's called Dance Like Zach and they use dance to celebrate the lives we
impact. "In your class we talked how dance isn't just a performance art, but it's so much more. I am super
glad about that because we use dance to celebrate, and a person doesn't need to have years of training
and performing." - (Z. Porter on Linda Graham's Dance History Survey course)
Katherine Moore ’10 officially decided to stick it out in NYC for another year; she survived the first year
blues - a re-cap: In May she performed with Jenny Rocha Dance Theater as part of the LaMama Moves
Festival. One of the dancers she worked with asked her to jump in on a project with Naomi Goldberg
Haas/Dances for a Variable Population for a performance in Chatham, NY at the end of August.
She's still working at the front desk at DANY studios, and took a second job as a theater usher at the
West Side YMCA (Anna Pillot works there, too). AND she's looking into doing some freelance dance
writing, blogging, marketing type stuff. She takes classes like a maniac and goes to all sorts of auditions.
She doesn't know how long that will last, but for the present, she's happy. "Between all of the
organizations I've worked for, I feel VERY well-connected in the dance community, so if there are any
Hope students who are visiting or have questions about dancing/living/working in NYC, please send them
my way and give them my information. I would not have been successful this year if I hadn't allowed
people to help me, and really, I think it's the only way to survive all the craziness that being a dancer in
New York entails." - Katherine Moore
Annie Snow ’08 has completed her course work for a Master’s in Dance Therapy at Columbia in
Chicago, IL and currently working on her thesis: Discovering the crossroads between dance and
dance/movement therapy through the process of intentional self-reflection: A Heuristic Study. She has
also been working with the children's musical theatre as choreographer and more recently, director: "I
cannot deny that I am directing this show through the lens of a dancer and a mover but that is what
makes it so interesting. I also love that my vocal director is also a Hope College grad, Jonathan Weppler:
he was a Music Ed major and just graduated this past May. He and I also attended the same high school,
so to be working professionally together is SO fun. I’d like to think we are making Hope College proud,
especially the dance and music departments... I was so blessed to attend such a wonderful school and
receive the best tutelage I could have asked for. In some ways I am living the dream of an artist because
I get to do what I love each day as my work. Where all this will lead me I am not sure, but in the
meantime, I feel fulfilled." - Annie Snow
Link of a montage from her production of Hairspray is at the top of the page:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmIWgOvc6Bg&feature=related
Smith
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Theatre Department
The Theatre Department production of Gone Missing, directed by Daina Robins, was
chosen by the Selection Committee of Region III of the American College Theatre Festival
to perform at the regional festival in January at the University of Illinois CampaignUrbana. The production was performed at the Playhouse Theatre on Friday, January 6th
at 1 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Robins
Gone Missing was written by Steven Cosson, artistic director of The Civilians, from
interviews conducted and compiled by his company members. The Civilians, founded in
2001 and based in New York City, create original work, often using interviews as the
initial source material for their plays. Music and lyrics for Gone Missing are by Michael
Friedman, a prolific young composer whose musical "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson"
recently appeared on Broadway.
“Gone Missing” is a piece that grapples with loss as an inescapable facet of the human
condition but does so with comedy and musical panache," said Dr. Daina Robins.
"Throughout the production, characters speak and sing about loss, about something
'gone missing'--be it a dog, a shoe, a piece of jewelry. The stories surrounding these
missing objects convey the concrete experience of losing something but also point to
larger issues of loss and grief. In a surprisingly fun and inventive way, Gone Missing
explores the temporal nature of our existence."
Art Department
Stephanie Milanowski designed the
new logo for CASA in collaboration with
Center for Faithful Leadership's ASI
program and ASI student
Stephanie Skaff/Business Major.
Music Department
Milanowski
Mihai Craioveanu performed several
concerts and served on the faculty at the
Illinois Chamber Music Festival in July.
He also performed with the Montecristo
Piano Quartet on the Vivace concert
series in Detroit in November.
Craioveanu
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
Lilly Summer Seminar in Northern Ireland
Dr. Ernest Cole was among the 15 scholars nationwide chosen to participate in the 2012 Lilly
Fellows Program Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, “Teaching Peace and
Reconciliation: Theory and Practice in Northern Ireland.” The July 7-28 event will be based at
the Corrymeela Centre for Peace and Reconciliation in Ballycastle, Northern Ireland, and is
sponsored by Aquinas College of Grand Rapids through the Lilly Fellows Program in
Humanities and the Arts, which is housed at Christ College of Valparaiso University in
Indiana. The seminar will address the history of the Anglo-Irish conflict in Ireland and the
move to a post-conflict society, with emphasis on the theory and practice of peace and
reconciliation in a Christian context.
Ernest teaches Post-Colonial Literature, with an emphasis on Sub-Saharan Anglophone Africa,
the Caribbean and India. In his research he has been interested in the topics of peace,
forgiveness and reconciliation in conjunction with a focus on post-civil war Sierra Leone,
where he has been documenting the experiences of survivors of punitive amputation used as a
military strategy during a 1991-2002 civil war that saw neighbor pitted against neighbor.
Cole
English Department (continued)
Clover Adams book released by Natalie Dykstra
Dykstra
On February 8, 2012 Natalie Dykstra launched her new biography Clover Adams: A
Gilded and Heartbreaking Life at the Massachusetts Historical Society. Jim Boelkins,
David and Pat Klooster (and their son Ben) were at the launch. The evening also
previewed the gallery show at the MHS of Clover's photographs that Natalie has guest
curated these past several months. The gallery show opened to the public on February
9 and runs through June 2. If any of you are coming to or near to Boston in the
coming months, Natalie would be delighted to show you around. Here's a link to
Natalie’s website and the Mass. Historical Society:
http://nataliedykstra.com/
http://www.masshist.org/
To the English Department Natalie writes, “I can't thank the department enough for all
the support I've received over the years in my efforts to tell this story. You've shown
me grace and forbearance, for which I'm very grateful.”
Susanna Childress presented a
paper on January 31 at Michigan
State University for Michigan
Campus Compact's 2012 Service
Learning & Civic Engagement
Institute. The title of her
presentation was "Writing &
Researching to Make a
Difference: How First Year
Students Can (& Do)!” This was
based on her service learning
ENG 113 course here at Hope
College, which she has now
taught for 8 semesters.
She was also a keynote presenter
at the Windhover Writer's
Festival on Feb 9-11 at the
University of Mary HardinBaylor in Belton, TX.
Bill Pannapacker publications since December:
"We're Still in Love with Books," The Chronicle of Higher
Education, 4 December 2012. Print and online.
"An Emerging Consensus in the Humanities," The Chronicle of
Higher Education, Brainstorm Blog, 6 January 2012. Online.
"The Come-to-DH Moment," The Chronicle of Higher
Education, Brainstorm Blog, 7 January 2012. Online.
"Alt-Ac is the Future of the Academy," The Chronicle of Higher
Education, Brainstorm Blog, 8 January 2012. Online.
"Twitter is Scholarship," The Chronicle of Higher Education,
Brainstorm Blog, 10 January 2012. Online.
"Invisible Gorillas Are Everywhere," The Chronicle of Higher
Education, 23 January 2012. Print and online.
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History Department
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Gloria Tseng had an article, Botany or Flowers? The Challenges of
Writing the History of the Indigenization of Christianity in China, that
appeared in the January 2012 issue of the International Bulletin of
Missionary Research. The bulletin is both in print and
online: http://www.internationalbulletin.org/.
Tseng
MODERN AND CLASSICAL LANGUAGES
André
Claudine André received GLCA New Directions Initiative and Jack Nyenhuis grants to conduct research in Mexico and to create a
digital archive with the Mellon Scholars. Claudine’s proposal is entitled, Explorations in Surrealism: Myth, the Occult, and
Experimental Writing in the Works of Mexican and European Surrealist Women Artists of the 1930’s and 1940’s. Research will be
conducted on surrealist artists Leonora Carrington (England), Remedios Varo (Spain), Kati Horna (Hungary) Nahui Olin, Frida
Kahlo, Lola Álvarez Bravo, María Izquierdo (Mexico), Angelina Beloff (Russia), Bridget Bate Tichenor and Alice Rahon (French),
and Tina Modotti (Italy). The objective of this research is to develop a digital archive on the lives and works of these artists,
examining their significance and impact in the feminine surrealist movement in Europe, Latin America, and the US. In addition to
studying the expression of surrealism in their artistic and literary production, the archive will also include information on imagery
used, paying particular attention to the influence of esoteric traditions and myths in both European and Mexican artists.
The archive will also include the literary works of these creative women, and a portion will be devoted to examining the
relationship between art, literature, and creative writing. The co-authored works of Carrington and Varo, novels and short stories by
Carrinton, the diary of Kahlo, and the poetry of Nahui Olin are only a few examples of the influence of surrealism in experimental
writing and literature.
The project will be done in collaboration with five Hope students, some of whom will be selected from the Mellon Scholars
Program. Each student will write a different piece of the archive under Claudine’s supervision, and then meet as a group to discuss
their research, the archive’s format, the content to be included, and the graphic design of the site. Claudine envisions the archive to
contain an introduction to the surrealist movement (ideology, techniques, styles, and themes), the biographies of each of the artists,
a critical analysis of the paintings in relation to the artists’ literary works, an outline of the historical development of the surrealist
movement, information on the major historical and political events of the times, and for visuals, it will include maps, photographs,
YouTube videos, related links, and of course, the art and the literary works (originals if possible) of the painters, newspaper
clippings, brochures, and other relevant documents pertinent to the times and lives of these notable women.
Philosophy Department
Carol Simon’s book Bringing Sex into Focus: The Quest for Sexual
Integrity was published in January by InterVarsity Press of Downers
Grove, Ill. The book was designed to help guide readers in
achieving a clearer perspective on sexuality in the midst of the
myriad—and sometimes conflicting—messages that surround them.
Simon