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In this Issue: Graduate Studies Office 1 GRADUATE LIBERAL Department & Faculty News 4 Faculty Profiles 9 ARTS & SCIENCES NEWS Student News 10 Student Profiles 13 A newsletter by and for the graduate programs of Liberal Arts & Sciences Theses & Dissertations 14

Spring 2011 | Volume Fifty, Issue Two

An Update on the Graduate Studies Office The Graduate Studies Office has spent the last 18 months on a number of initiatives designed to update technology, improve the application process for prospective students, and enhance support for faculty, staff and current students in the College’s graduate programs. “Villanova cannot afford to fall behind in the rapidly changing world of post-baccalaureate educational technology; prospective and current students expect ready access and integrated processes, while the faculty are increasingly familiar and comfortable with such tools as online recommendations,” said Adele Lindenmeyr, Ph.D., dean of Graduate Studies. “Moreover, in the highly competitive market that is graduate education, we need to know about and use the recruitment and marketing techniques, like mobile access, that technological innovations make possible.” Following is an update on those initiatives and an Adele Lindenmeyr, Ph.D., Dean of Graduate Studies, with Justin Clark, introduction to the talented and experienced staff that have a graduate student in her History and Biography course this semester. been hard at work implementing these many improvements. Online Application The Graduate Studies Office is moving towards a fully online application process that will eventually be completely paperless. This will ultimately involve the acquisition of new software for Constituency Relationship Management (CRM) and Application Management Technology (AMT), which will interface with Banner. Until that is in place, there is a pilot program for paperless application review with six graduate programs in the College utilizing the Nolij software program. The programs participating in this test are: Applied Statistics, Biology, History, , Theatre and Theology. In this test program all elements of the application, including letters of recommendation, transcripts and writing samples, are stored electronically in a file for each applicant, and the program directors and faculty then review the materials in an online folder. You will be hearing more about this as the project progresses. The new Graduate Studies home page, introduced in fall of 2010. New Web Site The Graduate Studies web site, www.gradartsci.villanova.edu , has been completely revamped to better serve its

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The Graduate Studies Office staff, left to right, Marita Podder, Linda Buonanno, Suzanne Tobin, Dr. Adele Lindenmeyr, Susan Jacobs, Woo Cheng, Sandra Essery and Fr. John Betoni. constituencies: prospective students, to stop by Kennedy Hall and say hello,” the College. She has taken a lead role in current students, alumni, faculty and said Dr. Lindenmeyr. improving and streamlining admissions staff. Navigation was redone to address in order to make the process easier for each constituency directly and make it Susan Jacobs prospective students and the program easier to find the necessary information. Director of Graduate Operations directors and departments. She is A video of current students has been As director of Graduate Operations in currently working on the conversion added in order to communicate the the Graduate Studies Office, Susan to a fully online application process unique aspects of the Villanova graduate Jacobs has played a leading role in many and also implemented the application student experience. of the new initiatives underway. Susan portion of the new online degree brought years of recruiting and program in Human Resource The Graduate Studies Office Team organizational experience to the Development (HRD). The Graduate Studies Office is Graduate Office when she joined in the Susan earned a Bachelor of Arts in fortunate to have an experienced team summer of 2009, having worked as English from Shippensburg University of professionals who work every day assistant director of the MBA program and a Master of Arts in Humanities helping students, faculty and staff with a at St. Joseph’s University and associate from Arcadia University. When not at myriad of issues. “The Graduate Studies director of Enrollment Management at Villanova, she and her husband Brian staff is not only extremely efficient, they Arcadia University. run around after their three-year-old also are one of the friendliest and most Susan oversees all the administrative son Basil. harmonious offices on campus. I’d like issues related to graduate admissions in to extend an open invitation for anyone

2 • Linda Buonanno review application materials online. She email regarding their application status. Executive Administrative Assistant also assists Susan Jacobs with technology Sandy also coordinates faculty and staff Linda has been executive administrative support for the online review of all participation in recruitment events assistant to the dean of Graduate applications for the new online HRD and provides general administrative Studies for 12 years. Prior to this, she program. support in the office. worked in the College of Nursing for Woo earned a Bachelor of Science in Marita Podder Exercise Physiology with a concentration four years. Linda assists the dean in a Administrative Assistant variety of ways from appointment in Sports Management from East Marita has been with Villanova scheduling, preparation of proposals Stroudsburg University. She is trying to University for 22 years. Prior to joining and monitoring the budget, to essential motivate her coworkers to walk more at the Graduate Studies Office five years administrative support for the graduate lunch time. ago, she worked in the Bursar’s office student summer fellowship and faculty Fr. John P. Betoni, O.S.A. and in telecommunications. She is the research award competitions. Villanova Administrative Assistant receptionist in the Graduate Office and graduate students could not receive their is the first to greet students and other degrees without Linda, who manages Fr. Betoni has been at Villanova since visitors when they arrive. Marita everything connected with thesis 1976. He worked in the office of the supports the admissions process for submission and application for dean of Liberal Arts & Sciences, the six graduate programs, Counseling, graduation. Last but not least, she is registrar’s office and financial assistance Education, History, Psychology, Political an experienced event organizer, with prior to joining the Graduate Studies Science and Public Administration. Diploma Recognition Ceremony at Office five years ago. Fr. Betoni Marita manages the Bachelor/Master Commencement, award luncheons, and downloads the online application programs by expertly tracking students’ staff birthday celebrations to her credit. materials for all programs except the online HRD program, and distributes progress and course completion. She Linda is also a current Villanova them to the appropriate person in the also works with accepted students on student in the Part-Time Studies office. In addition, he supports the issues ranging from transfer credits to program, where she is pursuing an admissions process for the following comprehensive examinations. Marita Associate of Arts degree in General programs: Mathematics, Applied also organizes office outings to the Arts. Statistics, Communication, Biology, Villanova Theatre and Restaurant Woo Cheng Chemistry, Human Resource Week. Technical Coordinator Development (campus based program), Suzanne Tobin Philosophy and Theology. Woo Cheng joined the Graduate Admissions Coordinator Fr. Betoni is originally from St. Rita Studies Office last December in a new Suzanne has been with Villanova for 10 parish in South Philadelphia. He has a position, technical coordinator. Woo years and has been in the Graduate Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, and a has been with University for five years, Studies Office since she joined the Master of Arts in Theology, both from having worked previously in the office University. With a History degree from The Augustinian College in Washington of Financial Assistance as a financial aid Rosemont College, she is admissions D.C. He was ordained at the Basilica of counselor and then as an assistant coordinator and oversees the application the Immaculate Conception in director. Prior to joining Villanova she process for the following programs: Washington D.C. worked in the office of Financial Classical Studies, Computer Science, Assistance at the University of Sandy Essery Liberal Studies, Hispanic Studies, Pittsburgh. Administrative Assistant Software Engineering and Theatre. Woo has been working with Susan Sandy Essery has been at Villanova for Suzanne ensures that applicants to all Jacobs in researching and interviewing eight years – all of them in the Graduate the programs except the online HRD technology vendors who can supply the Studies Office. Over the last year she receive the appropriate notification software needed for the online has worked on coordinating the fully of the decisions on their applications. application project, and she has been online applications for the new online She provides essential administrative working closely with the six graduate Human Resource Development support for for all of the graduate program directors who are testing the program. She prepares the online assistantships and tuition scholarships. transition to the online application this application files by ensuring all Finally, she is the staff expert on year (Theology, History, Biology, information is complete before sending international students, for whom Applied Statistics, Mathematics and to Robert Stokes, Ed.D. director of the she is one of their primary contacts at Theatre). Woo has trained faculty from online HRD program, for review. She Villanova. She may frequently be found these six departments on the Nolij also communicates with students via communicating by email or Skype with software system which allows them to applicants halfway across the globe.

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Biology 2011. Another article entitled the Profession Conference at the Aaron M. Bauer, Ph.D. , and Todd R. “Photochemical processing of aldrin and University of North Carolina - Jackman, Ph.D. , have published several dieldrin in frozen aqueous solutions Geensboro, in September 2010. papers on African reptiles with recent under Arctic field conditions,” co- Heather Hicks, Ph.D. , presented a paper graduates of Villanova’s master’s authored with Dr. Rowland and former entitled “The Postmodern Post- program (see Student News page 10). undergraduate researcher Alexandra Apocalypse” at the ASAP/2 Symposium Drs. Bauer and Jackman, along with Bausch, was recently published in the in Trier, Germany in October 2010. journal Environmental Pollution . Both collaborators, also published “Coming to Lauren Shohet, Ph.D. , has been named America: multiple origins of New World studies were based on fieldwork an External Senior Fellow at the geckos” in Journal of Evolutionary Biology. conducted in Barrow, Alaska. Freiburg (Germany) Institute of During the fall 2010 semester Dr. Bauer Education Advanced Studies during her current conducted field work in Australia, India , coauthored an research leave. Her book, “Reading and South Africa and presented papers Connie Titone, Ed.D. article with a former Master’s Plus Masques: The English Masque and at the meetings of the Japanese student (see Student News page 10) Public Culture in the Seventeenth Herpetological Society in Yokohama, entitled “Fashioning the Thinking Century,” appeared in August 2010 the Argentinian Herpetological Female Through Fiction: Catharine from Oxford University Press. She Association in Buenos Aires, where he Macaulay’s Curricular Vision of ‘Don recently published an article on “Usable was a plenary speaker, and at a Quixote’ and ‘Joseph Andrew’” that was Archives” in Shakespeare Studies , and her symposium at the Museum Koenig in published in December 2010 in Vitae essay on Early-Modern Women’s Elegy Bonn, Germany. Dr. Bauer and a current Scholasticae: The Journal of Educational was published in 2010 in the Oxford master’s student presented papers at the Biography . Handbook of the Elegy. Recent invited Herpetological Association of Africa lectures include “The Medusa and the , recently Conference in Cape Town, South Africa Deborah Schussler, Ed. D. Apple Tree: Literary Adaptation and the published a book entitled “Teaching as a (see Student News page 10). Dr. Bauer Lightness of History” at the Freiburg Moral Practice: Defining, Developing, was recently named the new editor of Institute for Advanced Studies in and Assessing Professional Dispositions,” Hamadryad , the leading herpetological January 2011 and “Vision, Re- which she co-edited with Peter Murrell, journal of India and South Asia. Mediation, and the Fall from Paradise,” Jr., Mary Diez and Sharon Feiman- , published an part of the Bryn Mawr Lectures on Dennis Wykoff Ph.D. Nemser, Harvard Ed Press. article with former students in the Visual Culture in November 2010. journal Genetics in November of 2010 John Durnin, Ph.D. , recently had a paper Dr. Shohet led a national seminar on (see Student News page 10). The article, entitled “Some interpretations from “Rethinking Romance: Comparative entitled “Novel Acid Phosphatase in three KR’s” published in Technology, Contexts,” for the Shakespeare Candida glabrata Suggests Selective Instruction, Cognition and Learning . Association of America in April 2010. , has been Pressure and Niche Specialization in the Edward Garcia Fierros, Ph.D. Megan Quigley, Ph.D. , presented a paper Phosphate Signal Transduction invited to serve on the Equity Assurance entitled “Eliot, Bertrand Russell, and the Pathway,” describes a novel gene in a Panel for the Pennsylvania Department Vague” at the 2010 T. S. Eliot annual human commensal yeast species that of Education’s New Pennsylvania Society Meeting in St. Louis, MO. She causes genetic isolation from the related Educator Certification Tests program. also presented a seminar paper at that brewer’s yeast. This work is beginning to The Equity Assurance Panel reviews same conference entitled, “Objecting to define the genes required for speciation. draft test objectives to ensure that the Woolf: Eliot’s Analytic Virtues.” In materials are free from potential bias, Chemistry November 2010, Dr. Quigley attended and also provide recommendations for the Modernist Studies Association Amanda Grannas, Ph.D. , coauthored revisions. Meeting in Vancouver, Canada where a paper with Glenn Rowland, Ph.D. , entitled “A solid-phase chemical English she presented a seminar paper entitled actinometer film for measurement of James McAdams, Ph.D. , had a paper “Joyce, Wittgenstein and Pragmatic solar UV penetration into snowpack” entitled “David Foster Wallace and Vagueness” and participated in a round- that was published in the journal Cold Post-Postmodern Ethics: You Are table discussion on pedagogy and Regions Science and Technology in January Loved” published at the Writing Into modernist studies.

4 • Hispanic Studies September 2010 at the III Congreso Mark Sullivan, Ph.D. , published five Adriano Duque, Ph.D. , presented papers Internacional Francisco de Quevedo, entries in the new Grove Encyclopedia entitled “Garden imagery and social Fundación Francisco de Quevedo, Torre of American Art (NY, 2011). His review interaction between Muslims and de Juan Abad, in Ciudad Real, Spain. of Elisabeth Hodermarksy’s book “John Christians in Spanish Frontier Ballads,” Silvia Nagy-Zekmi, Ph.D. , and Dr. Karyn La Farge’s Second Paradise: Voyages in at MLA in January 2011; and “La Hollis co-edited “Truth to Power: Public the South Seas, 1890-1891” appeared in libertad de Castilla o Fernán González, Intellectuals In and Out of Academe” the February 2011 issue of Choice de Lope de Vega y la edición de 1603: Newcastle: U. K.: Cambridge Scholars Magazine. el héroe en su contexto” Conference: Publishing, 2010. Marc Gallicchio, Ph.D. , led an all-day Identidades confesionales y www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Truth-to-Power-- workshop for middle school and high construcciones nacionales en Europa, Public-Intellectuals-In-and-Out-of- school teachers on the League of siglos XV-XIX. Alcalá de Henares, in Academe1-4438-2260-4.htm Nations and United Nations at the November 2010. Dr. Nagy-Zekmi also published an Montgomery County Intermediate Mercedes Julia, Ph.D. , had the most article entitled “Memoria escatológica e Unit in January 2011. . His review of recent edition of her book “‘Don historias apócrifas del Sur” in Anales de Roger Dingman’s “Deciphering the Quijote’ y la narrativa posmoderna” Literatura Chilena about the award- Rising Sun: Navy and Marine Corps (“‘Don Quixote’ and postmodern winning work of Christian Formoso; Codebreakers, Translators, and narrative”) selected as book of the week and presented a paper entitled “El Interpreters in the Pacific War” was by the Instituto Cervantes. This book orientalismo como método: alteridades published in the February 2011 issue contains the contributions of the latinoamericanas y su crítica” at Latin of Pacific Historical Review. conference titled “Don Quijote at 400” American Studies Association (LASA) Tim McCall, Ph.D. , is spending the 2010- www3.villanova.edu/conferences/cervante in Toronto, Canada in October 2010. 2011 school year in Florence, Italy as the s/index.html organized by the Carlos Trujillo, Ph.D. , traveled to the Robert Lehman Fellow at Villa I Tatti, Department of (then) Classical and Dominican Republic in October 2010 The Harvard University Center for Modern Languages in 2004. The to participate in the release of the Italian Renaissance Studies; he recently foreward for the book is written by bilingual Spanish-Portuguese edition of presented the paper “Beauty, Brilliant celebrated Spanish author, Antonio his collection of poetry “Palabras/ Bodies, and Signorial Sexuality in Muñoz Molina. Palavras” translated by the prominent Fifteenth-Century Courts,” at the Carmen Peraita, Ph.D. , presented several Brazilian poet, Cristiane Grando, Ph.D. Villa I Tatti. papers including “Énfasis tipográfico y The launch was celebrated in the Catherine Kerrison, Ph.D. , presented a textura visual: la legibilidad de la página auditorium of the Brazilian Institute paper entitled “A Paradigm of Gender impresa en el Edad Moderna” in of Culture in Santo Domingo. in the Early Republic: History and November 2010 at Queens University, The new issue of Naufragios , the journal Synthesis in the Thought of Martha Belfast; “Monumentos de papel: of the Hispanic Studies graduate Jefferson Randolph” at the conference tipografía y espacio urbano en los program, is now available at of the European Early American Studies proyectos historiográficos sobre Madrid” www.publications.villanova.edu/naufragios Association in Paris in December 2010. in October 2010 at Grupo de /index.html Elizabeth Kolsky, Ph.D. , published an Investigación Siglo de Oro, Universidad article entitled “The Rule of Colonial de Navarra and University of History Indifference: Rape on Trial in Early Pennsylvania, Department of History; Paul Rosier, Ph.D. , chaired a panel at Colonial India, 1805-1857” in The “Like a portable house: The Culture of the American Society for Legal History Journal of Asian Studies , November 2010. tapado and the Politics of Anonymity in annual meeting in November 2010; and Following her two-year stint as co-chair Urban Spaces” in October, 2010 at the he gave a Native American Heritage of an international research Sixteenth Century Society Conference Month presentation at the U.S. Housing collaborative on South Asian legal in Montreal, Canada; and “Quevedo y and Urban Development office in history, sponsored by the Law and Ana de Castro Egas: el proyecto de la Philadelphia. Society Association, Dr. Kolsky served as Eternidad del rey Felipe III” in the guest editor of a Special Forum in

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• 5 Graduate Liberal Arts & Sciences DEPARTMENT & FACULTY NEWS the November 2010 issue of Law and Lost? The Transition to Late Antiquity” Ginamarie Ligon, Ph.D. , and several History Review entitled, “Maneuvering at the symposium “Cleopatra and the current graduate students had two the Personal Law System in Colonial End of the Hellenistic World,” research studies accepted at the 2011 India.” Dr. Kolsky delivered a paper at sponsored by the Franklin Institute and Industrial/Organizational and the AHA in January 2011 entitled the University of Pennsylvania Museum Organizational Behavior (IOOB) “Taming the Turbulent Pathan: Crime of Archaeology and Anthropology, held conference that was held in San Diego, and Control on British India’s North- in conjunction with the exhibit at the California in March 2011 (See Student West Frontier.” In addition, Dr. Kolsky Franklin Institute, “Cleopatra: the News page 11). The studies are entitled was the chair and discussant of a panel Search for the Last Queen of Egypt,” “Baby Boomer Engagement of Senior entitled, “From Common Law to Philadelphia, in October 2010. Leaders in Innovative Organizations” Colonial Law: Legal Administrations in Kelly Diamond, Ph.D. , published her and “Best Practices for Performance the British Empire, 1600-1900,” at the book “Transporting the Deceased to Management in Innovative Positions.” North American Conference on British Eternity: The Ancient Egyptian Term Mathematical Sciences Studies in November 2010. Finally, Dr. Hai” in the series British Archaeological , and Kolsky delivered a paper entitled “To Reviews with Archaeopress, 2010. She Timothy G. Feeman, Ph.D. Osvaldo , published a paper burn or not to burn?: Controlling also presented her most recent field Marrero, Ph.D. entitled “Ratios of volumes related to ‘Murderous Outrages’ on the North- research on the decoration of New the odd extension of a power function” West Frontier of British India” at the Kingdom Theban Tombs in April 2010 in the November 2010 issue of the Annual Conference on South Asia, in Oakland, California at the American Mathematical Gazette . University of Wisconsin-Madison in Research Center in Egypt’s Annual October 2010. Meeting. Dr. Diamond spoke about her Professor Andrew Woldar attended the 80 th Anniversary Celebration of the Jeffrey Johnson, Ph.D. , was chair and work in December 2010 in Luxor, Egypt commentator for a session entitled with the Mummification Museum Institute for Advanced Study in ‘Scientific Organizations and Research Lecture Series. She was invited by the Princeton, New Jersey in November Practices in Nationalist Times” at the Pennsylvania Chapter of the American 2010. Woldar is a member of the History of Science Society annual Research Center in Egypt to lecture at Institute and the celebration was meeting in Montreal, Canada in the University of Pennsylvania’s featured lectures given by , November 2010. He also presented an Archaeology and Anthropology Jean Bourgain, , invited lecture, ‘World Wars and the Museum in January 2011. This spring and Freeman Dyson. Transformation of the German Dr. Diamond is also teaching a new David Sprows, Ph.D. , had an article Chemical Industry,’ to the Philadelphia course on Cleopatra, looking at the entitled “Using the Chain Rule as the regional chapter of American Society of famous queen from the eyes of the Key Link in Deriving the General Rules Mechanical Engineers (ASME) meeting ancient Egyptians right through to her for Differentiation” published in a at Villanova. In January 2011, Dr. portrayal in Hollywood films. recent issue of the journal PRIMUS . Johnson began a four-year term as MPA president of the Commission on the Human Resource Development David Bush, Ph.D. , director of Graduate Richard M. Jacobs, O.S.A., Ph.D. , had History of Modern Chemistry an article entitled “Academic freedom (CHMC), a unit of the Division of Programs in Human Resource Development and professor of in classroom speech: A heuristic model History of Science and Technology for U.S. Catholic higher education,” within the International Union of psychology, serves on the Society for Human Resource Management published in a recent edition the History and Philosophy of Science, Journal of Catholic Higher Education . one of 26 scientific unions belonging (SHRM) Metrics Taskforce. The , to the International Council of International Organization for Christine Kelleher Palus, Ph.D. co-authored an article with Jennifer Scientific Unions, the world’s leading Standardization (ISO) recently ratified Wolak entitled “The Dynamics of non-governmental organization in a proposal by SHRM to lead a group Public Confidence in State and Local the field of science. charged with creating global HR standards. Dr. Bush will be working on Government” that was published in State , delivered the Christopher Haas, Ph.D. the Metrics standards for this global Politics and Policy Quarterly . Her article concluding paper entitled “Alexandria initiative. “There is No Line: The City Avenue

6 • Special Services District” was published in Paris, France in fall 2010. He has awarded to APS members who in the fall 2010 issue of the Drexel Law also published three articles recently: have made sustained outstanding Review . “Modernism as a Misnomer: Godard’s contributions to the science of Craig M Wheeland, Ph.D. , published Archeology of the Image” in a special psychology in the areas of research, an article entitled “The Greater issue on Godard and French Philosophy teaching, and/or application. Other Cheltenham Avenue Business in the Journal of French Philosoph , 2008- APS fellows in the Department of Improvement District: Fostering 2010; “A Specter Is Haunting Psychology are Michael Brown, Ph.D. Business and Creating Community Globalization” in Cognitive Architecture: and Gerald Long, Ph.D. Across City and Suburb” in the Fall From Bio-politics to Noo-politics . Eds. Charles Folk, Ph.D. , recently published 2010 issue of the Drexel Law Review . Deborah Hauptman and Warren two articles with a MS alumnus (see Dr. Wheeland also participated in a Neidich, 010 Publishers, 2010; and Student News page 11). The article panel presentation on “Next Generation “Recent Developments in Aesthetics: entitled “Target uncertainty effects in Initiatives” at the Association for Badiou, Rancière and Their attentional capture: Singleton detection Pennsylvania Municipal Management Interlocutors” in The History of mode or multiple top-down control Association’s Winter Workshop in Continental Philosophy. Ed. A. Schrift. settings?” appeared in Psychonomic January 2011 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. New Developments. Ed. T. May. Bulletin and Review ; the article entitled He discussed graduate education in London: Acumen Press, 2010. “Variations in the magnitude of public administration and the ways local Psychology attention capture: Testing a two-process account” appeared in Attention Perception governments can partner with , published a Michael F. Brown, Ph.D. & Psychophysics . Dr. Folk also recently universities to prepare college graduates paper entitled “Precedence of spatial presented a paper at the annual meeting for careers as professional municipal pattern learning revealed by immediate of the Psychonomic Society in St. Louis managers. reversal performance” in the latest issue entitled “How singular is singleton Catherine E. Wilson, Ph.D. , presented of Behavioral Processes . The paper was detections mode?” The paper was a paper entitled “We the People: coauthored by Bradley Sturz, Ph.D., of coauthored by Brandon Ashinoff and Grassroots Mobilization of Nonprofits Armstrong Atlantic State University and Howard Egeth of Johns Hopkins for Comprehensive Immigration Villanova M.S. alumna and current M.S. University. Reform in Philadelphia” at a conference students (see Student News on page 11). held by the Association for Research on The paper was published in a special Irene Kan, Ph.D. , recently published an Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary issue of the journal in honor of Donald article in the journal Memory & Cognition , Action (ARNOVA) in Alexandria, A. Riley, Ph.D., Dr. Brown’s dissertation entitled “Implicit memory for novel Virginia in November 2010. advisor at the University of California, associations between pictures: Effects of Berkeley. Dr. Brown coauthored an stimulus unitization and aging.” This Philosophy introductory essay for the special issue research was done in collaboration with , was a visiting Gabriel Rockhill, Ph.D. along with Thomas Zentall, Ph.D., researchers at the Memory Disorders scholar at Atelier-Centre Franco- University of Kentucky, and Robert Research Center and Wellesley College. hongrois en Sciences Sociales, Eötvös Cook, Ph.D., Tufts University. Dr. John Kurtz, Ph.D. , and Patrick Markey, Loránd University in Budapest, Brown recently presented a paper at Ph.D. , are co-authors of an article titled, Hungary in fall 2010. He was the annual meeting of the Psychonomic “Validity of the PAI Interpersonal nominated Chercheur associé or Research Society in St. Louis, coauthored by Dr. Scales for Measuring the Dimensions Associate, Centre de recherches sur les Sturz, entitled “Precedence of spatial of the Interpersonal Circumplex,” arts et le langage (CRAL) at the Centre pattern learning revealed by immediate published recently in the Journal of national de la recherche scientifique reversal performance”. Personality Assessment . The first author is (CNRS) and the Ecole des Hautes an alumna of the Villanova Psychology Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) Charles Folk, Ph.D. , and Thomas Toppino, Ph.D. , recently were selected as Fellows MS program (see Student News in Paris, France in fall 2010. He was also page 11). elected Directeur de Programme à l’étranger of the Association for Psychological or program director (based abroad), Science (formerly the American Collège International de Philosophie Psychological Society). Fellow status is

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Alumni Medallion Awards Presented The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences presented the Alumni Medallion Awards on Friday, November 12, 2010. This year’s recipients participated in a panel discussion in which they shared their views on the value of the liberal arts education they received and how it shaped their personal and professional lives. The Alumni awards, which are presented annually, recognize graduates who have excelled in their profession or demonstrated service to their community and the University. The Award recipients are selected by department chairs in the College. Dr. Philip W. Davidson, this year’s Graduate Alumni Medallion winner, earned his master’s degree in Psychology from Villanova in 1967, and is currently professor of Pediatrics, Environmental Left to right, John A. Doody, Ph.D., Dean, College of Liberal Arts & Medicine and Psychiatry at the University of Rochester’s School Sciences, Adele Lindenmeyr, Ph.D., Dean, Graduate Studies, medallion of Medicine and Dentistry. recipients, James J. Murray ’60, English, Kathleen M. Krackenberger ’05, Honors, with majors in Political Science and Sociology, Candace J. Robertson-James ’98, Biology, Dr. Philip W. Davidson ’67, Psychology, and Rev. Peter M. Donohue, O.S.A., Ph.D., University President.

Online HRD Programs Complete Successful First Year The fully online graduate program in Human Resource Development is concluding a highly successful first year of operation. The program, which is delivered online by Villanova University with support from University Alliance, is under the direction of Robert Stokes Ed.D., utilizes Villanova faculty who teach students online in interactive, live class sessions and is supplemented by lectures taped by other faculty. This program attracts students from throughout the United States and includes military personnel serving in Iraq. “The enrollment for the program has been significant,” said Dr. Stokes. “We have enrolled over 300 graduate students who met both academic and relevant human resource work experience requirements and anticipate the First Row: Dean Adele Lindenmeyr, Barbara Davidson, Annette Girondi, John Garber, James program will continue to grow in the coming Houston, Lawrence Cozzens Row Two: David Bush, Allen McMillen, Melodie Dorminy, Deborah Hormann, Kevin Kelley, academic year.” Students are enrolled in 8-week Melissa Ksenak, Angela Francesco, Megan Mulka, Diane Lirio intense class sessions that start in March, May, Back Row: Robert Stokes, Angie Nader, Richard Powell, Ron Adler. July, August, October and January. More information about the online graduate degree as well as Villanova non-credit professional development certificate programs at www.villanovau.com .

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Krista Malott, Ph.D., moved from the nation. She and other colleagues Colorado in 2005 to step into her role developed a whiteness course (premised as an assistant professor in the upon the same model) that has been Department of Education & Counseling introduced as a basic course requirement at Villanova. As an educator, Dr. Malott at a master-level counseling program on trains both community and school the East Coast. An adapted whiteness mental health practitioners, while course will be applied by Dr. Malott for teaching a human services course at the the first time at Villanova in the spring undergraduate level that is related to of 2011 with master-level counselors. her principle area of research, working To date, outcome assessments from all with diverse populations. She also is whiteness courses (quantitative and the director of a community service qualitative measures, short-term and program that provides basic counseling longitudinally) are examining changes in and support for clients seeking legal students’ levels of racial awareness and services at any of the four pro bono antiracist advocacy for mental health Villanova Law Clinics. clientele. Krista Malott, Ph.D. Dr. Malott’s primary focus in Any free time is spent enjoying her Assistant Professor, Department of scholarship relates to ethnic and racial high-energy two-year-old, seeking Education & Counseling identity development. Based on her own opportunities for international travel, and others’ empirical findings, she has and the maintenance of her Spanish- developed a group intervention for language skills. She enjoys cooking and Latino youth that is currently being reading and occasionally playing guitar applied in several school settings across (albeit badly).

Ken DeCarlo teaches graduate-level Southern Company, PHI, and courses in recruitment and workforce GlaxoSmithKline. planning for Villanova University’s Prior to joining DoubleStar, Mr. graduate Human Resource DeCarlo served as HR Director for Development program. He is also a a rapidly growing global division of vice president on the Advisory Board M&M Mars, and Staffing Director of the HRD program. With 20 years at The Vanguard Group, where he of recruitment, staffing management, managed a team of 25 staffing and HR experience, and as a 10-year specialists and a support staff of 10 veteran of the recruitment agency responsible for delivering 2,500 hires DoubleStar, Mr. DeCarlo brings annually across the entire enterprise. considerable national and global Mr. DeCarlo holds a Master’s in staffing expertise to Villanova. Human Resources, an M.S. in He has planned, organized, Psychology from Villanova University, resourced, and executed complex and a Bachelor’s in Psychology from recruitment process outsourcing Millersville University. Ken DeCarlo projects for leading employers Adjunct Faculty, Graduate Human including SAP Americas, Pepco Resource Development Holdings, Inc., and Siemens Medical Solutions, among others. He has also led consulting and training engagements with Munich Reinsurance America, AstraZeneca,

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Biology News page 4). Orkwis is currently “Fashioning the Thinking Female Edward Stanley, M.S. ’09 , published teaching classes in biology at the Through Fiction: Catharine Macaulay’s a paper with Aaron M. Bauer, Ph.D., Philadelphia Institute of Technology Curricular Vision of Don Quixote and and Todd R. Jackman, Ph.D., entitled and Davies is attending medical school Joseph Andrew” that was published in “Between a rock and a hard polytomy: at UMDNJ. December 2010 in Vitae Scholasticae: The Rapid radiation in the rupicolous Journal of Educational Biography (See Chemistry Girdled Lizards (Squamata: Faculty News Page 4). Ustaris, who was Chemistry graduate students Cordylidae)” which appeared in Brittany Dr. Titone’s graduate assistant at the and both Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution Pierce Vanessa Boschi time they wrote the article, is currently presented research results at the (see Faculty News page 4). an English teacher in a Philadelphia national meeting of the American Charter School. Daniel Portik, M.S. 09 , also published Geophysical Union, held in San an article with Drs. Bauer and Jackman Francisco in December 2010. Pierce History entitled “The phylogenetic affinities gave a talk entitled “Photochemical Kelly Weber , Dana Kellogg-Repash , and of Trachylepis sulcata nigra and the degradation of Persistent Organic Brian Taylor, alumnus of the M.A. intraspecific evolution of coastal Pollutants: A study of ice program, recently presented research in melanism in the western rock skink” photochemistry mediated by dissolved a session entitled “In Pursuit of which appeared in African Zoology organic matter” and Boschi gave a poster Freedom: African American Court and (see Faculty News page 4). entitled “Getting to the ‘core’ of Prison Stories in Nineteenth-Century Amanda Cottone, M.S. 07 , recently environmental change: Analytical Philadelphia” at the Pennsylvania published an article with Dr. Bauer advances for the analysis and Historical Association annual meeting entitled “Sexual dimorphism, diet, characterization of dissolved organic held at Susquehanna University in reproduction and their geographic matter in ice cores using high resolution Selinsgrove, Pa., variation in sympatric psammophiids, FTICR-MS” Psammophis crucifer and Hispanic Studies Psammophylax rhombeatus Computing Sciences Christian Formoso , M.A. ’08, was rhombeatus, from southern Africa” Kristin Raudonis , current graduate recently awarded the Pablo Neruda in Copeia (see Faculty News page 4). student in Computer Science, presented prize, the most prestigious poetry prize her research results on wireless networks in Chile sponsored by the Neruda Heather Heinz , a current master’s student, and Dr. Bauer recently with directional antennas at the Foundation. Each year the prize is given presented papers at the Herpetological International Conference on to a nationally and internationally Association of Africa Conference in Combinatorial Optimization and recognized poet under 40 years of age. Cape Town, South Africa (See Faculty Applications, held during December Víctor Martín Iglesias recently published News on page 4 and Student Profile 2010 on Oahu, Hawaii. Under the his first book of poetry, entitled “Cómo on page 13). guidance of her research supervisor, hemos llegado a esto.” He presented his Mirela Damian, Ph.D., Kristin settled a Former B.S./M.S. student book at a reception in November 2010. Brianne long standing open problem in and former B.S. student Iglesias is a member of the literary Orkwis Danielle computational , showing that a published an article with Dennis workshop Pinzon 9, coeditor of Davies particular neighboring graph is a Wykoff Ph.D., in the journal Genetics in Naufragios and is a teaching assistant for spanner. This neighboring graph can be November of 2010. The article entitled the Department of Romance Languages realized with directional antennas and “Novel Acid Phosphatase in Candida and Literatures. therefore can serve as an efficient glabrata Suggests Selective Pressure and A portion of Carolina Yancovic Bustos wireless routing topology. Niche Specialization in the Phosphate second novel in progress, entitled Signal Transduction Pathway,” describes Education “Domingo Franulic,” was recently a novel gene in a human commensal Lorraine Ustaris , a former graduate published in Naufragios #3 , the Hispanic yeast species that causes genetic isolation student in the Master’s Plus Teaching Graduate Program journal. Her first from the related brewer’s yeast. This Certification program who graduated in novel, “Tras esos muros” (Behind these work is beginning to define the genes 2008, co-authored an article with Walls), was published in Chile in 2005. required for speciation. (See Faculty Connie Titone, Ed.D., entitled

10 • Human Resource Development Lakshmi Balaji who won the Elizabeth currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program Current graduate students Kate Cady Stanton Graduate Student at Johns Hopkins University. , and Research Award at the 21st Annual ECS Dembroski Robyn Mapp Bianca Philosophy , along with Ginamarie Ligon, Conference held by the Gender and Zongrone Several current doctoral students Ph.D., and undergraduate student Women’s Studies Program at Villanova attended the Society for Christine Smith recently attended the University in spring 2010 for her paper: Phenomenology & Existential 2011 Industrial/Organizational and “[Fe](Male): Gender Stratification Philosophy (SPEP) in November 2010 Organizational Behavior (IOOB) within the Queer Community in India.” in Montreal, Canada. conference for two separate research Lakshmi also presented this paper at the Rachel Aumiller presented a paper entitled studies: Baby Boomer Engagement of NCA convention. “Philosophical Thresholds: Crossing of Senior Leaders in Innovative Psychology Life & World.” presented a Organizations and Best Practices for Raoni Padui Villanova M.S. alumna, paper entitled “The Pre-Categorial Performance Management in Innovative Katherine and current M.S. students Being of Nature in the Early Heidegger.” Positions. The conference was held in Andriole and , San Diego, CA in March 2011. Shaina Hardesty Margaret Place Sarah Vitale also attended the SPEP coauthored a paper with Michael F. conference and presented a paper , Pennsylvania Colonel George Schwartz Brown, Ph.D., and Bradley Sturz, Ph.D. entitled, “Revolutionary Subjectivity & Army National Guard, was awarded the (Armstrong Atlantic State University). Temporality in Walter Benjamin.” In Masters in Strategic Studies by the U.S. The paper, entitled “Precedence of addition, Vitale participated in a panel Army War College upon graduating in spatial pattern learning revealed by discussion at the Radical Philosophy June 2010 where he was a student in the immediate reversal performance,” was Association conference entitled Advanced Strategic Arts Program. He published in the latest issue of Behavioral “Cultural & Environmental Violence in is currently the commander of the Processes. ( See Faculty News page 7.) Alberta’s Tar Sands” in Eugene, Oregon National Guard’s 55 th Heavy Brigade , Yale in November 2010. Combat Team which has been alerted Dr. Emily Ansell, M.S. ’99 University School of Medicine, was for a deployment to Southwest Asia Christopher Ruth presented a paper at the first author of an article entitled in 2012. Colonel Schwartz is a 1995 the SPEP conference entitled “Locating “Validity of the PAI Interpersonal graduate of the M.S. program and the Human in Heidegger & Marx.” Scales for Measuring the Dimensions was formerly with Rohm and Haas Ruth also attended The Radical of the Interpersonal Circumplex.” Company and General Electric. Philosophy Association conference and The article was co-authored with John presented a paper entitled “Cultural Communication Kurtz, Ph.D., Patrick Markey, Ph.D., & Environmental Violence in Alberta’s Several students presented papers at the and recent alumna, Rebecca DeMoor Tar Sands.” . The article was recently annual NCA convention in November M.S. ’10 John Bova attended SPEP’s annual 2010. Chelsea Hampton presented a published in the Journal of Personality conference and presented a paper that paper entitled “The Visible Monarch: Assessment . (See Faculty News page 7.) was part of a Villanova Panel entitled Power, Politics and the Image of Villanova alumnus, Brian Anderson , “Participation and Chorism: On the Thailand’s King.” Khaila Edward also coauthored and published two articles Significance of the Topos Formalism for presented a paper entitled “The with professor Charles Folk, Ph.D. Phenomenological Ontology.” He also Rhetoric of Starbucks’ Visual Culture as “Target uncertainty effects in attentional traveled to the Institute for Cultural Manifested Through Facebook.” David capture: Singleton detection mode or Inquiry in Berlin in July 2010 to present Penyak also made a presentation at the multiple top-down control settings?” a paper entitled “Negation and convention. appeared in Psychonomic Bulletin and Incommensurability: On the Lakshmi Balaji , Khaila Edward , Maureen Review . The article “Variations in the Metalogical Kernel of Platonic Masters and Elise Scioscia , current magnitude of attention capture: Testing Dialectic.” a two-process account” appeared in M.A. students, presented a panel on John-Patrick Schultz attended the “Advertising and The Female Body” Attention, Perception & Psychophysics . (See annual SPEP conference and presented at the annual NCA convention in Faculty News page 7.) Anderson is a paper entitled “Profane Time and November 2010. Apocalyptic Revolution: Lowith,

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Benjamin Negri.” Schultz also attended Sovereignty of the Good: On the magistro and the Annunciation” at the The Radical Philosophy Association Relationship Between Theory and Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance conference and presented a paper Practice in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Conference in October 2010. entitled “Cultural & Environmental Ethics.” Gower also attended the Society Violence in Alberta’s Tar Sands.” for Ancient Greek Philosophy annual Graduate Student Council Michael Kim attended the SPEP conference and presented his paper at conference and presented a paper Fordham University –Lincoln Center Elects Officers for 2011/2012 entitled, “For a Critique of Appearance: Campus in New York. Logic at the Limit of Phenomenology” Amrit Heer attended the Historical that was part of the Villanova panel. In Materialism conference in November addition, Kim attended Northeastern 2010 at the University of London, Political Science Association 42 nd England and presented a paper entitled Emily Morse, annual meeting in Boston and “Is there a break between young and graduate student presented a paper entitled “Dialogue mature Althusser?” in Psychology, will serve as and Democracy: Philosophy & Politics Sarah Vitale attended the Society for GSC President in Plato.” Social & Political Philosophy in in 2011/2012. Michael Olson attended the SPEP and February 2011 at Texas A & M presented a paper entitled “A Materialist University. Vitale presented a paper A new slate of officers was elected to Transcendental: On the Onto-logy of entitled “The Commodity as the Graduate Student Council the Logics of Worlds.” He also attended Unknowable Object: Epistemology and week of March 14, 2011. The following the Modern Language Association Ideology in Marx’s Capital “during the students will serve in the 2011/2012 conference in October 2010 and discussion “Roundtable on Marx’s academic year: presented a paper entitled Capital.” Emily Morse “Transcendental Materialism and Christopher Ruth also attended the Psychology Materialist Dialectic.” Society for Social & Political Philosophy President Christopher Noble presented a paper at in February, 2011 at Texas A & M the Leibniz Society of North America University and presented a paper Alexander Bench conference held in Houston, Texas in entitled “Alienation in Marx’s Capital. “ History Vice President of Academics December 2010. His paper was entitled Katie Grosh traveled to Loyola “Leibniz’s Comments on Spinoza’s University in New Orleans in February Jessica Maiberger Philosophy.” 2011 and presented a paper entitled History Jeffrey Gower attended the Fairfield “A Lecture on Friedrich Holderlin Vice President of Communications University Classical Studies Speaker and Nature.” Gerry Celeste Series in October 2010 in Connecticut. Erika Kidd presented a paper entitled Software Engineering His topic of discussion was “Against the “Verbum et Vita: Augustine’s De Vice President of Finance Himali Gandhi M.S. in Human Resource Development Psychology Vice President of Social Activities students recently attended the Please visit the GSC website for Eastern Psychological details on all end of year activities Association at www.villanova.edu/gsc annual meeting in Cambridge, Massachusetts in March 2011.

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Sometimes the “science bug” bites young summer Heinz and her labmates will minds and hearts literally: Heather Heinz once again present their findings at the was barely into grade school the first time annual Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists she caught—and was subsequently bitten and Herpetologists, reporting the by—a snake. Undaunted, she has allowed discovery of several new species. her passion for reptiles to grow, leading Following a successful defense of her her from science summer camp to thesis to the Villanova Department of museum internship in a lifelong quest for Biology, Heinz will continue toward a knowledge. career in academia; she has been accepted Heinz’s past is a mix of her passions— into multiple doctoral programs in travel, teaching, and science—and Evolutionary Biology for fall 2011. includes a two-year stint as an English Always remembering her beginnings teacher in Japan, field research in Belize as a curious girl chasing snakes in the and Ecuador, and, most recently, a two- woods, she aspires both to maintain month trip to Zimbabwe, Swaziland, and international collaborations in research South Africa where she collected geckos Heather Heinz and to instruct the next generation of as part of her master’s thesis. scientific investigators during her future Graduate Biology Under Aaron Bauer, Ph.D., and Todd career as a professor of Biology. Jackman, Ph.D., she is investigating the evolutionary relationships of several gecko species in southern Africa, working to understand patterns of biodiversity on this reptile-rich subcontinent. This

Victor Martin Iglesias is a graduate incentive for my personal and student of Hispanic Studies and also intellectual development,” Iglesias said. works as a Teaching Assistant for the “The department is constantly department. encouraging the students to investigate Iglesias was born in Spain, where he and offering them opportunities for studied Theory of Literature and publication, conference presentations, Comparative Literature. Thanks to the and more.” European Union he had the chance to Iglesias has published a poetry book, spend two years studying abroad: One in “Cómo hemos llegado a esto,” and he is the United Kingdom, at the University working on a second one, “Suplicaréis of Cardiff and another in , at Clemencia.” He considers reading his the University of Liège. main interest, especially Latin American Two years ago, Villanova University literature, including the novels of offered Iglesias the opportunity to study Roberto Bolaño, Piglia and Vargas- and work in the United States, and he Llosa, and the poetry of Nicanor Parra. Victor Martin Iglesias says that so far, it has been one of the best decisions he has ever made. “The Graduate Hispanic Studies extraordinarily high academic level of all professors and my classmates, the literary workshop Pinzón 9 and my collaboration with the digital literary magazine, Naufragios, have been a huge

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Thesis Listings Name Thesis Title Advisor(s) & Department John Breedlove Trying Out the Wheelchair: The Prosthetic Political Body in Shakespeare’s Dr. Lauren Shohet, English Early History Plays Elizabeth C. Coppola The Effect of Race on Psychiatric Diagnosis in Mental Health Courts Dr. Lance Hannon, Sociology and Criminal Justice Christina Marissa D’Emma Improvising Self: The Composition of Identity in Moby-Dick and Invisible Man Dr. Crystal Lucky, English Lauren-Elise Kadel “Look where your hands are. Now.” Morrison’s Encounters with Textual Traditions Dr. Crystal Lucky, English and Re-membering the Past Ryan Langan Reducing the Synonym Effect: The Impact of Increased Engagement on Children’s Dr. Pamela Blewitt, Psychology Word Learning during Book Reading Kelly Madden Drama and Framing: Applying a Burkean Perspective to the Cynicism of Political Dr. Emory Woodard, Communication Reporting Mary E. Paliwoda The Identification of Faks in the Chick Embryonic Brain Neuroepithelium and Their Dr. Mary E. Desmond, Biology Response to Pressure Amy Marie Pastva Evaluating the Relationship between Self-Concept Differentiation and Psychological Dr. John E. Kurtz, Psychology Maladjustment using Self- and Informant-Ratings Daniel Popernack Sifting Through the Madness: Two Models of Determinism as a Means for Understanding Dr. Crystal Lucky, English Prison Literature Tammy Stump A disease stigma scale grounded in Weiner’s attribution theory Dr. Nicole Else-Quest, Psychology Alexandra Mae Turner Fabrication and Characterization of UV-Emitting Defect Free Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles Dr. Temer S. Ahmadi, Chemistry Jonathan R. Vaitl Monstrosity of the Soul: Confession and Terror in James Hogg and Edgar Allan Poe Dr. Michael Berthold, English Stephanie Gene Wright Vocalizations in Black-Capped (Poecile Atricapillus) and Carolina (P. Carolinensis) Dr. Robert L. Curry, Biology Chickadee Hybrids: Temporal Changes and Responses to Playback in Southeastern Pennsylvania Andrew René Zodda Analysis of Tmem170 Function by RNA Silencing Dr. Janice Knepper, Biology

Annual Outstanding M.S. Thesis Award Villanova Psychology Department Since 2006, the psychology department has awarded the Ingeborg L. and O. Byron Ward Outstanding Thesis Award to an M.S. student judged by the faculty to have produced a particularly excellent M.S. thesis. The award is named in honor of emeritus professors Ingeborg and Byron Ward. Winners are chosen based on the quality, creativity & scientific merit of the student’s thesis project, the quality of the written thesis, and the spoken thesis proposal seminar given at the time the thesis project is proposed. Thanks to recent generous gifts by alumni/ae of the program, the honor now includes a monetary award. Year Award Winner Thesis Title 2006 Edward Ester Spatial Capture Following Attentional Engagement: Particular to Certain Classes of Stimuli 2007 Michael Cohen How Do Subjects Use Judgments of Item Difficulty to Guide Study Strategies in Selection of Spaced or Massed Practice?: A Comparison of Theories 2008 Wendy Eichler Relationship Quality and the Complementarity of Interpersonal Behaviors among Parent-Child Dyads 2009 Brian Anderson Explaining Variations in the Magnitude of Attentional Capture: New Tests of a Two-Process Model 2010 Allison Kurti An Investigation of the Potential Role of the Nucleus Accumbens in Interval Timing Processes

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Philadelphia Theatre Symposium Held at Villanova Villanova hosted their fifth annual Philadelphia Theatre Symposium on March 14, 2011. The theme of this year’s conference was “The work of Anna Deavere Smith, Critical Cultural Performance, Performance Ethnography and Autoethnography.” The day-long event culminated in a performance by Anna Deveare Smith, a world-renowned playwright, artist, and performer, and was co- sponsored by a multitude of departments from across Villanova’s campus. The over-arching goal of the Philadelphia Theatre Research Symposium is to provide a forum for theatre scholars and practitioners to share their research and enter into a dialogue about current trends in theatrical practice and scholarship. Four Villanova graduate students in Theatre presented papers in the “Emerging Second year Theatre graduate students Valerie Eichelberger and Alex Frangoulis served Scholars” portion of the program. Heather Lucas, as contributors during the “Emerging Scholars” panel at the Fifth Annual Philadelphia Theatre Research Symposium. Eichelberger presented an academic paper on gender a second-year graduate assistant, presented a paper and drama while Frangoulis performed an original, slam-poetry inspired solo performance entitled “Driving In Today’s Word: Sex, Feminism, piece. and the Resistance to the Oppression of Women in Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive.” Cassandra Lovering’s presentation was entitled “Creating an Aesthetic: Using Camp to Decipher Bat Boy: The Musical.” Lovering, a research scholar, recently served as the dramaturg for Villanova Theatre’s widely acclaimed production of Bat Boy: The Musical. Alex Frangoulis, a second-year graduate assistant, performed an original solo performance piece entitled “Gotta Slam,” inspired by the art of slam poetry and his experience in Michael Hollinger’s Solo Performance course, which is offered yearly by the theatre department. Valerie Eichelberger, a second-year graduate student, presented a paper entitled “Gentle Power and Powerful Weakness: Location the Phallus in Mark O’Rowe’s Terminus.” The Villanova students were joined by artists, scholars, and practitioners from across the country. The event also featured contributions from a group of artists based out of Canada. Second year Theatre research scholar Cassandra Lovering presents “Creating an Aesthetic: The Using Camp to Decipher ‘Bat Boy: The Musical.’” Lovering, who served as the dramaturg for Villanova Theatre's recent production of “Bat Boy: The Musical,” consults with Heather Lucas, the production’s assistant director and fellow scholar.

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Villanova Theatre Closes Season with “Bat Boy: The Musical” Villanova Theatre concluded its 10/11 and loads more. Part “Little Shop of Season with the “outrageously silly and Horrors,” part “Les Miserables,” part totally charming” cult-classic, “Bat Boy: “Dracula,” Bat Boy: The Musical is a The Musical.” Ripped from the masterpiece of issue-strewn, big- hilarious headlines of the supermarket hearted, comic horror. tabloid Weekly World News , this off- According to director Valerie Joyce, Broadway Musical of the Year details “The script and storyline are brilliantly the discovery of a curious creature — funny; the music is intense and witty; half-human, half-vampire bat — found and best of all, this is a show that is able deep within a West Virginia cave. The to laugh at itself while warming your Parker family decides to adopt and heart. Directing a musical that can civilize the well-meaning Bat Boy; but achieve all of those things at once is a soon, all hell breaks loose as jealousy, rare joy.” Joyce directed a cast of 13 Jessica O'Brien (as Meredith Parker) teaches betrayal, murder, and other hysterical powerhouse actors who sang, danced Michael Kane Libonati (as Bat Boy) to behave like a “normal” boy. Photo by Paola Nogueras. happenings turn the small town of and acted their way through 20 gender- Hope Falls completely upside down. bending roles and 30 musical numbers The title role of Bat Boy (or “Edgar” With story & book by Keythe Farley in their madcap race to the finish. The as he is re-named by his adoptive & Brian Flemming and music & lyrics award-winning creative team behind family) was played by an up-and- by Laurence O’Keefe, this tongue-in- Villanova Theatre’s production coming young actor named Michael cheek tale boasts an exuberant score included Peter Hilliard (Musical Libonati, who was last seen as Tommy that integrates the best of rock, pop, Direction), Shannon Murphy Keeler in “Annie Get Your Gun.” Broadway, gospel, and country music. (Choreography), Janus Stefanowicz Playing opposite Michael as Edgar’s In between howls of laughter, Bat Boy (Costume Design), Jerold Forsyth star-crossed love interest/adoptive wrestles with the notion of American (Lighting Design), John Stovicek sister is the wide-eyed Sarah Moya prejudice, the fierceness of modern (Scenic Design), and Bill Hayward as Shelley Parker. religion, the idea of genetic engineering, (Sound Design).