Bowie State University - Faculty Accomplishments

Isaiah Ayafor	“Code Switching in the Works of Patrick Obsenson.” Cameroon Writers and Readers Conference. Greenbelt, MD. Feb. 3, 2007. Linguistic Links and Relationships Among Africans and African Americans.” Southern Interdisciplinary Round Table on African Studies. Kentucky State University. Frankfort, KY. April 12-14, 2007.
Dr. Gerri Bates	“HooDoo, Hexes, and Priests: Spirituality, Meaning, and Significance of Priesthood Initiation in Zora Neale Hurston’s Mules and Men.” College Language Association 70th Anniversary and 67th Annual Convention. Miami, FL. April 18-21, 2007.
Dr. Hardy M. Cook	Seminar Participant. International Shakespeare Conference Seminar on “Shakespeare and Action.” Stratford-upon-Avon. Aug. 2006. Colloquium Presenter. Tufts Department of Drama and Dance Graduate Student Colloquium. Paper Presented: “Online Publication and The SHAKSPER Listserv’s Role.” Tufts University. Boston, MA. March 14, 2007. Panel Moderator. Shakespeare Festival. “Some Fading Glimmer Left: Shakespeare's Enduring Legacy on the Arts.” Shirlington Library. Alexandria, VA. April 15, 2007.
Dr. Anne L. Gaskins-Nedd	Co-Presenter (with Dr. Joan Langdon). “Faculty Diversity: Implications for The Classroom.” University System of Maryland Diversity Network Conference. College Park, MD. Oct. 2006.
Hoke Glover	Moderator. “State of the Black Poet.” Karibu Book Pavilion. Spring 2007.
Dr. Monika Gross	“Teacher Dispositions: Main Ingredients in Teacher Preparation.” Conference on English Leadership. Nov. 2006.
Dr. Kaplan Harris	“From Airmail to Email: Editing a Multigenerational Correspondence.” College English Association–Middle Atlantic Group Conference. Montgomery College. Rockville, MD. March 10, 2007. "Reading Ted Berrigan after Viagra.” Northeast Modern Language Association Convention. Baltimore, MD. March 2, 2007. “New Narrative and the Making of Language Poetry.” 20th-Century Literature and Culture Conference. University of Louisville, Kentucky. Feb. 22, 2007. “Gender Performance, Performance Enhancement, and Poetry,” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention. Charlotte, NC. Nov. 11, 2006.
Dr. David Kaloustian	“Sisyphus’s Rock and the Pilgrimage to Aftonland: Absurd Humanism in the Fiction of Camus and Lagerkvist.” Annual College English Association—Middle Atlantic Group Conference. Montgomery College. Rockville, MD. March 10, 2007.
Prof. Irmagard Langmia	Session Chair. AKO-AYA Conference. Greenbelt, MD. Feb. 3, 2007.
Prof. Kala K. Richardson	Invited Presenter. “Encuentro de profesionales afro-colombianos primero africano americano.” Universidad de Santiago de Cali. Cali, Colombia. Feb. 15, 2007.
Dr. Richard L. Sterling	“The Relation Between Frenchness and Francophonie: Forms of Ethnic and Linguistic Nationalism” at The Oxford Roundtable. Lincoln College, University of Oxford, England. March 20, 2007.
Prof. Nabie Y. Swaray	Invited Guest Lecturer. “Black Theater: What Has Happened to African Theater Coming to America.” Invited by Dr. Carlton Molette, coordinator of the Theater Program. University of Connecticut at Storrs. Spring 2007.
Dr. Kokahvah Zauditu-Selassie	“Women Who Know Things: African Epistemologies, Spiritual-Ecology, and Female Ritual Authority in the Novels of Toni Morrison.” Sixty-Seventh Annual Convention of the College Language Association. Miami, FL. April 18, 2007. Lecturer. “WE All Make It Happen.” Senegalese-American Bi-lingual School. Dakar, Senegal. January 17, 2007. (Examination of the injurious effect of the caste system in modern Senegal).

FACULTY PUBLICATIONS

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Prof. Hoke Glover	Published poetry in the African American Review and The Smartish Pace.
Dr. Kaplan Harris	“Susan Howe’s Art and Poetry, 1968-1974.” Contemporary Literature 47.3 (Fall 2006): 440-471. “Robert Creeley, ‘Wow. I called it and why not’: 7 letters, 1950–1961.” Co-edited with Peter Baker and Rod Smith for Robert Creeley memorial feature. Jacket Magazine 31 (2006).
Dr. Mary Martin	“The Epic Strand in W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk.” College English Association Magazine.
Prof. Kala K. Richardson	Los Afrobetos: Black Spanish-Speaking Heroes from A-Z Volume 1. Thomson Publishing. Cincinnati, OH. 2007
Dr. Renee H. Shea	“New Frontiers in Fiction: A Profile of Helena Maria Viramontes.” Poets & Writers Magazine. May/June 2007. Co-author. The Language of Composition: Reading, Writing, Rhetoric. Bedford/St. Martin’s Press.
Dr. Kokahvah Zauditu-Selassie	“Women Who Know Things: African Epistemologies, Ecocriticism, and Female Spiritual Authority in the Novels of Toni Morrison.” Journal of Pan African Studies 1:7. March 2007.

ACComplishments

Dr. David Basena	Elected to a four-year term of the Alpha Chi National Council by the Alpha Chi Scholastic Honor Society. March 16, 2007.
Dr. Gerri Bates	Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers. 10th ed. 2006. Member. Distinguished Scholar Lectures Planning Committee, Spring 2007. The first lecturer, Wole Soyinka, visited the Bowie State University campus on April 4, 2007. Book Signing. Alice Walker: A Critical Companion. Morgan State University. Baltimore, MD. May 19, 2007.
Dr. Hardy M. Cook	Team Member. Middle States Self Study Evaluation Visit to University of the Virgin Islands. Middle States Association. April 22-26, 2007. Peer Reviewer. Three papers for Early Modern Literary Studies: An Electronic Journal of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century English Literature. Sheffield Hallam University. United Kingdom. Owner/Editor/Moderator. SHAKSPER: The Global Electronic Shakespeare Conference . Member. Editorial Group of Early Modern Literary Studies: An Electronic Journal of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century English Literature. Sheffield Hallam University. United Kingdom. Member. Editorial Board for the Internet Shakespeare Editions. University of Victoria. British Columbia, Canada. Member. Editorial Board for Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance. University of Lódz. Poland. Member. Advisory Board for Digital Renaissance Editions. University of Western Australia. Australia.
Dr. Anne L. Gaskins-Nedd	Named chairperson, Department of English and Modern Languages. August 2006. Co-chair of Steering Committee. HBCU Summit on Retention. March 2007-March 2009 Member. Distinguished Scholar Lectures Planning Committee, Spring 2007. The first lecturer, Wole Soyinka, visited the Bowie State University campus on April 4, 2007
Prof. Hoke Glover	Featured Reader. Bus Boys and Poets. Aug. 2006. Smartish Pace Reading, which launched Issue 15 in April 2006. Wole Soyinka Lecture,.Bowie State University. Bowie, MD. April 4, 2006.
Dr. Monika Gross	Woman of the Year Award presented by the Women’s Forum. Bowie State University. Bowie, MD. March 30, 2007. Member. Committee on Teacher Preparation and Certification. National Council of Teachers of English. November 2006. Member. Committee on Racism and Bias in Teaching English. National Council of Teachers of English. November 2006.
Kaplan Harris	Member. Maryland PreK-16 English Composition Task Force. Co-curater. Monthly poetry reading series at Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center. Silver Spring, MD.
Dr. David Kaloustian	Board Member. College English Association—Middle Atlantic Group. Editor. CEAMAGazine. Reviewer. Write Reasoning: Critical Elements of Argument published by McGraw-Hill College, and Inquiry, Argument, and Change, published by Kendall/Hunt.
Prof. Irmagard Langmia	Reviewer. The Little Brown Reader by Marcia Stubbs, Sylvan Barnett, and William Cain. Published by Pearson and Longman. Spring 2007.
Dr. Renee H. Shea	Recipient. Faculty Regents Award in Public Service from the University System of Maryland. Spring 2007. Member. Development Committee for the AP English Language and Composition Examination. Presentations at the College Board International Conference for AP Teachers of English Language and Literature (held in Bratislava for teachers from Eastern Europe). Member. NCTE Commission on Literature. Member. Educational Advisory Committee and Liaison to Literary Series. National Museum of Women in the Arts.
Prof. Nabie Y. Swaray	Member. Distinguished Scholar Lectures Planning Committee, Spring 2007. The first lecturer, Wole Soyinka, visited the Bowie State University campus on April 4, 2007. Worl’ Do For Fraid by Nabie Y. Swaray. Reviewed, approved, and recommended as required reading by the Curriculum Development Center and the Ministry of Education for the school systems in Sierra Leone and all universities and colleges.