September 4, 1998

Faculty/Staff Footnotes

Mary Garvey Algero, associate professor of law and director of the legal research and writing program, spoke at the Legal Writing Institute’s biennial conference at the University of Michigan in June. The title of her presentation was “Improving Legal Analysis: Teaching Techniques to Strengthen Students’ Application of Law to Fact.”

Barbara Brainard, professor of drawing in visual arts, was represented in three exhibitions–the national juried “ANA 26” at the Holter Museum of Art in Helena, Montana; in “Sheroes,” a juried exhibition sponsored by the National Organization of Women at the Hansen Gallery; and in “Women’s Rights: A Visual Journey,” an invitational exhibition sponsored by Southeastern Louisiana University. Her solo exhibition, “Monotypes” was shown at Artwalk at New Orleans’ Ochsner Hospital. She was featured in “Fresh Art/ Fresh Prints,” a WDSU TV interview on local printmaking sponsored by the Arts Council of New Orleans. A series of her illustrations was published in Louisiana Literature.

Professor of computer-based imaging and electronic multimedia Gerald Cannon’s work was selected by the Century Club of the Contemporary Arts Center to be produced as their annual collector’s edition print.

Eileen J. Doll, associate professor of Spanish, participated in a special symposium celebrating the centennial of the Spanish Generation of 1989 held at the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio. In April, her paper, “Arniches en la Segunda República,” was published in the proceedings of the symposium, Nuevas Perspectivas Sobre el 98. Doll has an article forthcoming in Estreno, “El teatro madrileño de los 90: Una encuesta,” which is composed of interviews she conducted in Madrid in 1996 with contemporary Spanish playwrights.

Helen Ball Eames, assistant professor of photography, co-hosted the Society for Photographic Education’s South Central Regional Conference in Loyola’s Danna Center.

Barbara Ewell, professor of English, organized a roundtable on “Teaching Southern Literature: What Courses Shall We Take?” at the biennial conference of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature in Charleston in April. Her presentation was on the uses of computers in southern studies classrooms. As part of the Crossroads Research Project, Ewell also contributed a case study, “Developing On-line Courses,” to the Crossroads Electronic Expo, a month-long, on-line event on new approaches to teaching and learning, sponsored by the American Studies Association and Georgetown University.

Mark F. Fernandez, associate professor of history, was the recent recipient of an The American Association for State and Local History Certificate of Commendation for the Summer Teacher Institute New Orleans Through its Sources.

Barbara J. Fleischer, director of the Institute for Ministry, presented a lecture on “Future Issues in Ministry” in Edinburgh, Scotland, and led a workshop on “Emerging Trends in Lay Ministry” at the National Conference on Pastoral Planning and Council Development last spring. Fleischer also met with Cardinal Thomas Winning of Glasgow, Scotland, to develop plans for the start-up of the LIMEX program there.

Visual arts professor Alan Gerson’s exhibition of recent paintings titled Child’s Play opened at the LeMieux Galleries on Julia Street in March.

Karen Greenstone, an instructor in Loyola’s Intensive English Program, was recently elected secretary of the Louisiana Chapter of the Teachers of English as a Second Language (LaTESOL).

Visual arts department chair Mark Grote’s most recent solo exhibition was at the Sylvia Schmidt Gallery on Julia Street.

Kimberly Hebert is the new director of the Whelan Children’s Center. She is a former preschool teacher at the center.

Erika Heppner and Ruth Harman, instructors in Loyola’s Intensive English Program, presented “A Video Production Workshop for ESL Instructors” at the 1998 International TESOL Conference in Seattle.

Craig Hood, associate professor of biological sciences, was a featured speaker at the annual Wildlife Garden Symposium held at the Louisiana Nature Center in New Orleans earlier this summer. Hood presented a workshop, “Attracting Bats to Wildlife Gardens,” which discussed bat ecology, management of urban habitats to support wildlife, and conservation of bats. Also, Hood presented a paper with undergraduate co-authors Nga Vu and Nicole Lorenz titled “Fluctuating Asymmetry in Louisiana Muskrats (Ondatra zibethicus): traditional and geometric morphometric approaches to studying cranial and mandibular form” at the annual meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists in Blacksburg, Va. In addition to presenting the paper, Hood served as a section moderator in Technical Session 4 Genetics and participated as a committee member of standing committee on Informatics.

Maureen King, who has served as an administrative assistant in the Division of Institutional Advancement, was promoted to advancement writer.

Bill Kitchens, professor of printmaking, was represented in the “Los Angeles Printmaking Society Juried Membership Exhibition 1997” at the Brand Library Art Galleries in Glendale, Calif. His work was published in The Best of Printmaking/The International Edition. He participated in Drawn to Stone, a national portfolio exchange celebrating the 200th year anniversary of the invention of lithography by Alois Senefelder. Kitchens will exhibit at the Kennedy Museum of American Art in Athens, Ohio, during the 1998 Southern Graphics Council Conference.

Carol Leake, professor of painting and drawing, was represented in “Artists of Mardi Gras 1870­1930,” at the New Orleans Museum of Art, curated by Henri Schindler, author of the recent publication Mardi Gras, New Orleans. The mainly historical exhibition included a selection of work by recent and contemporary artists who have addressed the Mardi Gras theme. She also was included in “The Louisiana Landscape,” at New Orleans’ Contemporary Arts Center, a group invitational exhibition curated by Don Marshall, and in “Naked Lunch,” a group exhibition of works depicting the nude, curated by Mario Villa for the Sapphire Restaurant. Leake and Villa organized and participated in the Loyola Faculty Exhibition at the Positive Space Gallery in May. She co-produced the undergraduate symposium “Icons and Images in Contemporary Culture” with Irina Costache, professor of art history, at the Contemporary Arts Center.
While in New York in June, Leake served as consultant for a poster design competition for current and former residents of transitional housing sponsored by Information for Families, Inc., the American Council for Drug Education, and the Tier II Coalition in New York City. She has been invited to serve as a member of the newly formed Mentorship Program in the Visual Arts of the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts and served on the Contemporary Arts Center’s search committee to establish a National Advisory Board for the center. She also was selected as a trustee of the Angela Gregory Foundation.

Bernard Lee, S.M., professor of theology in the Institute for Ministry, gave the keynote address, “Small Christian Communities: Scribblings in the Margins of a Text Called ‘Church’” at the Association of Pastoral Musicians convention. He presented a workshop, “The Dynamics of Base Communities” at the Catechetical Conference and “Scripture and Catholic Identity: Changing Patterns” at the Convocation for Priests of the Diocese of Alexandria, La.

Chris Lockard, S.J., is the new student pro bono coordinator in the School of Law.

Professor of Mathematics and Science, Antonio M. Lopez’s review of the software product EXP: The Scientific Word Processor was published in Mathematics Teacher. He was the referee for three articles: on the use of Chi-square analysis on Titanic passenger data submitted to Mathematics Teacher, on computer learning disabilities submitted to Mathematics and Computer Education, and on learning needs in the context of computer-based instruction submitted to the Journal of Educational Computing Research. Also, Lopez presented a three-hour workshop, “Graphing Calculators: An Algebra Introduction,” to participants at the second annual SECAC meeting sponsored by the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory.

Theresa Meek is the new assistant to the dean for the College of Music, Edward Kvet. Meek most recently was a data coordinator assistant in the Division of Institutional Advancement.

William A. Neilson, associate professor of law, presented “Federal Tax Law: The Impact of Recent Legislative Changes and Jurisprudence” to the Louisiana State Bar Association. Neilson also appeared on “It’s the Law” on Cox Cable relating to the various tax changes that have recently been passed and those proposed to the Internet Revenue Code of 1986.

Rosary H. O’Neill, professor of drama, received a writing fellowship to Kunstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf, an artists residence located on the site of an historic castle and surrounding grounds outside of Berlin, Germany. O’Neill was one of two Americans nominated by the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts to receive this scholarship and developed her latest play, “A Woman of Property,” during her residency.
In June, O’Neill was in Paris to attend a French production of her play, “Un Gentleman de Louisiana” (A Louisiana Gentleman) presented by Atelier-Theatre Paris IV-Sorbonne, in the Amphitheatre Richelieu. While in Paris, she also lectured at the Conservatoire Superieur de Paris on acting and playwriting.

Leslie Parr, assistant professor of communications, published a book titled A Will of Her Own: Sarah Towles Reed and the Pursuit of Democracy in Southern Public Education. Also, she received a grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities to teach “Picturing the South: Southern Photography, Culture, and History” as part of the Summer Teachers Institute.

William Quigley, associate professor of law and director of the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center and the Law Clinic, announced his candidacy for the Louisiana Supreme Court. Elections will be held on October 3.

Alex Reichl, assistant professor of political science, presented “Unmaking Public Housing in the 1990s: The St. Thomas Community in New Orleans” at the annual meeting of the Urban Affairs Association in Forth Worth in April.

W. Steve Rucker, associate professor of ceramics, presented his sculptural installation “Fish Farm Blues” at the Contemporary Arts Center in November. He also was represented in the group exhibition at the Arthur Roger Gallery in March. Rucker opened a one-person exhibition in August which occupied the entire Arthur Roger Gallery in conjunction with “White Linen Night.” Most recently, Rucker opened an exhibition at the Arthur Roger Gallery which includes two installations, “Hot House” and “Subverse,” as well as a series of recent paintings. The “Hot House” installation was supported in part by a Summer Faculty Research Grant. The exhibition continues through September 19.

Liz Scott, communications instructor and advisor to The Maroon, received a first-place award for her column, “Chronicles of Recent History,” from the Press Club of New Orleans in May. Scott’s column, which focuses on New Orleans news events of the last few decades, appears monthly in New Orleans Magazine.

Erik Vogt, assistant professor of philosophy, edited, translated, and introduced the book, Neue Amerikanische Philo-sophInnen in Selbstdar-stellungen (Vienna: 1998), which will be presented at the Frankfurt Book Fair. He also published a translation of the “Pulping Fiction With Eco and Derrida” and completed a translation of the book, Filmen, Kapital und Urteil (Vienna: 1999). Vogt contributed to the first volume of the Reihe Oesterreichische Phaeno-menologie and made several entries to the book, Encylopedia Europe After 1945. He also prepared article-long entries for the Enzuklopaedie fuer Phaeno-menologie on “Imagination” and “le regard.” In July, he presented two lectures in the context of LEH for poetry and presented a paper on “Sartre/Benjamin: Imageries of History” at the International Association for Philosophy and Literature.

Thomas P. Weatherall was selected director of alumni and parent relations. Most recently, he was assistant to the president for development at Bishop Perry School in New Orleans. He also served as alumni director at St. Peter’s College in New Jersey.