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Portuges edits book on post-Cold War cinema in former East Bloc

Comparative Literature professor Catherine Portuges and Peter Hames are the editors of “Cinemas in Transition in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989,” published by Temple University Press.
 
The cinemas of Eastern and Central Europe have been moving away from earlier Cold War perspectives and iconographies toward identifications more closely linked to a redefined Europe.

Ceccagnoli co-edits new translation of Milo de Angelis poetry

Patrizio Ceccagnoli, lecturer in Italian in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, is the co-editor and translator of “Theme of Farewell and After-Poems: A Bilingual Edition” by Milo de Angelis, published this month by the University of Chicago Press.
 
De Angelis, born in 1951, is one of the most important living Italian poets.

Three named to editorial team of Comparative Education Review

The editorship of the Comparative Education Review will be transferred to the School of Education’s Center for International Education as of July 1 for an initial five-year term.

Three School of Education associate professors have been named to editorial positions: Bjorn Nordtveit has been named editor; Cris Smith has been named one of the co-editors, and Jacqi Mosselson will serve as the book review editor.

Sullivan, Turner present research at science teaching conference in Puerto Rico

Florence Sullivan, associate professor, and K.C. Nat Turner, assistant professor, both of the School of Education’s  Department of Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies, presented together on April 7 at the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) conference in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico.

The spoke on “Multiple Representations, Collaboration and Student Reasoning: Designing Online Environments for Learning About Global Heat Transfer,” which covered National Science Foundation-funded research with M.I.T., the School of Computer Science, the Massachusetts Green High

Beemyn keynotes Rutgers conference on LGBTQ inclusion

Stonewall Center director Genny Beemyn was a keynote speaker April 18 at “Trans Politics: Scholarship and Strategies for Social Change,” the first conference sponsored by the new Tyler Clementi Center at Rutgers University.
 
Beemyn’s address, which he gave with Sue Rankin of Pennsylvania State University, focused on “Creating a Gender-Inclusive Campus.” 
 
Beemyn and Rankin co-wrote “The Lives of Transgender People” and serve as lead researchers for the LGBT-Friendly Campus Climate Index, which aims to set forth a national standard of LGBT and ally-inclusive policies, program and practices.

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