Faculty Pursuits: Week of Oct. 20, 2025

An essay by Dr. Desirae Matherly, (English), In Defense of Navel-Gazing, has been republished in the Fall 2025 issue of Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies. This piece was originally published in The University of Iowa’s The Essay Review in 2016, which has since gone offline. Karen Babine and the editors at Assay have devoted this issue, and several more to come, toward making these essays available once more. You can find the 12.1 issue of Assay here.  

Dr. Emily Isaacson (English, Honors) presented her paper, Memefying Shakespeare: Contemporary Fads and Anticipatory Sets for Teaching Gen Z and Gen Alpha, at the annual meeting of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference Oct. 16-18.

Dr. Richard Talbert (Communication/Media) presented his work, Cultural Intelligence, Cultural Sensitivity, and Cultural Competence in a Social Media World, at the 85th Pennsylvania Communication Association Conference Sept. 26-27.  Richard completed his two-year term as Member at Large and was elected Publicity Officer for the PCA.