On Sabbatical: 2007-08
The following faculty members will be on sabbatical for the 2007-08 academic year.
Doug Anderson, M.F.A., Associate Professor, Business Department (Spring 2008)
Courtney Grim, M.F.A., Associate Professor, Humanities Department (Fall 2007 and Spring 2008)
Brad Hollingshead, Ph.D., Associate Professor & Chair of the Humanities Department (Fall 2007 and Spring 2008)
Robert Johnson, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Mathematics and Sciences Departments (Fall 2007)
Doug Anderson, M.F.A., Associate Professor, Business Department (Spring 2008)
Professor Anderson will continue his work in new media technologies and video production. He will be updating his skills in order to teach Medaille students the latest technology and new media tools, including FLASH and AJAX. In addition, he plans to produce a series of short videos on a variety of subjects—informative, instructional, and professional.
Courtney Grim, M.F.A., Associate Professor, Humanities Department (Fall 2007 and Spring 2008)
Professor Grim will work on a site specific installation, deriving from her current project, En Passant. In addition, she will continue her creative work with structural landscapes, which will involve travel throughout Peru. The sabbatical will also give Professor Grim time to complete a Fulbright application for a lecturing/research position award in Ireland.
Brad Hollingshead, Ph.D., Associate Professor & Chair of the Humanities Department (Fall 2007 and Spring 2008)
Dr. Hollingshead will expand his current work on British Romanticism and Marxist theory, which includes further developing two recent draft essays, “Romantic and Marxist Crises: The Challenge of Theorizing the Place of Literary Interpretation in the Marxist Project of Kritik,”and “Arbitrary Power: Language, Politics, and Culture.” In addition, he will be revising his doctoral dissertation, “‘The Political House that Jack Built’: Romanticism and Marxist Kritik,” which has been solicited Routledge Press for possible publication in the books series, Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory.
Robert Johnson, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Mathematics and Sciences Departments (Fall 2007)
Dr. Johnson will work towards developing and sustaining a collaborative effort with plant/insect ecologists at Cornell University and the Boyce Thompson Institute of Cornell in Ithaca, New York. This relationship will both enhance and sustain professional development in biological discovery and science pedagogy. His research will include conducting a series of experiments investigating the role of inducible chemical defenses in the ecology of native and invasive goldenrod while learning new analytical techniques and equipment operation protocols. In addition, Dr. Johnson will pursue collaborative and individual grants that will lead to a sustainable research program at Medaille.
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