College of Liberal Arts

Publications and Presentations

Susan M. Shaw, Director of Women Studies, Oregon State; Mina Carson, Associate Professor of History, Oregon State; and Tisa Lewis, Professor of Human Development and Christian Education, Montreat College; were recently recognized for their co-authored book Girls Rock!: Fifty Years of Women Making Music. The Amelia Bloomer Project, sponsored by the Feminist Task Force of the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Library Association, selected Girls Rock! for its 2005 list of recommended feminist books for young readers because it provided "excellent quality reading with strong female role models."

Shiao-ling Yu, Associate Professor of Chinese, presented a paper entitled "New Interpretations of a Classic: Two Recent Productions of The Orphan of Zhao" at the conference on Chinese Oral and Performing Literature, held in conjunction with the Association for Asian Studies annual meeting in Chicago, March 31-April 2, 2005. This special session was dedicated to the memory to James I. Crump, a well-known scholar of classical Chinese drama.

Christian P. Stehr, Professor of German, completed Luther: Handbuch zum Film, the secular German version of the Leader's Guide to the motion picture Luther. It is being published in cooperation with Mark U. Edwards, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Toen Edwards, Science Curriculum Developer at TERC in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Handbuch is intended to help lead activities and discussions related to the film. It will be made available to all U.S. German teachers, with the generous support of New Film Production Berlin.

Jose-Antonio Orosco, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, presented a paper at the first meeting of the Josiah Royce Society at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee on April 9-11. Royce helped to establish the prestigious philosophy department at Harvard University in the late 19th Century. The paper is entitled "Defending the Great Community: Royce on Humanitarian Intervention."

Charlotte Headrick, Professor of Theatre/Speech Communication, presented a paper at the Double Visions conference at University College, Dublin on March 18 in Dublin, Ireland. Her paper was on Treehouses by Elizabeth Kuti. Headrick also directed the American Premiere of Treehouses in April.

Erlinda Gonzales-Berry, Chair of Ethnic Studies, recently wrote a column entitled "Fixing Immigration: Some Things to Consider" that was featured in the April 25 issue of The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education.

Research

Richmond Barbour, Associate Professor of English, has won support from the General Research Fund to conduct research in London next year. The grant will support his new book project, Shakespeare at Sea: Players, Pirates, and the East India Company.

Frank Bernieri, Associate Professor of Psychology, was recently cited in two issues of the American Psychological Association's publication, Monitor on Psychology. In the January 2005 issue, Bernieri contributed to a dialogue on charisma, where his research adeptly highlighted that high-rapport interactions often have high synchrony and expressivity. In the March 2005 issue of the publication, Bernieri's expertise in first impression research was consulted to decipher what first impressions can reveal. As Bernieri states, "I believe that personality is truthfully encoded within the first 30 seconds of behavior, but that doesn't mean we're going to accurately get all of it all the time." To check out the full text of the articles click here: January 2005 or here: March 2005.

Marlan Carlson, Chair of the Music Department and Music Director of the Corvallis-OSU Symphony, was recently in Sweden where he rehearsed the Lunds Stadsorkerster Symphony Orchestra for a concert entitled "Hands Across the Sea." The concert included Aaron Copland's Outdoor Overture, George Gershwin's Piano Concerto featuring Alexander Tutunov, Professor of Piano at Southern Oregon University, and Swedish composer, Wilhelm Stenhammar's Second Symphony.

Mei-Ching Lien, Assistant Professor of Psychology, recently authored a study, which found that when switching from one task to another, people's performance often slows because they fail to fully prepare to perform the new task. Such findings fly in the face of previous research and are compelling researchers to re-assess this problem, which is confronted by anyone who uses their cell phone while driving. Lien's research is part of a larger program designed to help NASA crews perform better when multitasking and was highlighted in the April 2005 edition of the American Psychological Association's publication, Monitor on Psychology. For more information on Lien's research click here.

Additional examples of research conducted by the faculty in the College of Liberal Arts: click here.