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Mary Dalton elected to University Film and Video Foundation Advisory Council

Mary M. Dalton, professor of communication, has been elected to the Advisory Council of the University Film and Video Foundation (UFVF). Headshot of Mary B. Dalton, Wake Forest University professor of communication UFVF is a nonprofit affiliated with the University Film and Video Association. It engages in and promotes worldwide education, research, innovation and charitable activities in the arts and sciences of moving images and other media.

The UFVF Advisory Council is a group of education and industry leaders who work to shape the future of the Foundation and advance UFVF initiatives.

Mary has been a member of UFVA since 1996 and participates in the organization’s annual conference presenting papers, screening films, and workshopping screenplays; Mary won the UFVA Teaching Award in 2013. She has previously served on the UFVA Board of Directors and in the office of Secretary, and she is currently co-chair of the UFVA History and Theory Caucus.

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Faculty books 2020: A year in review

The following is the 2020 annual Wake Forest University faculty book publication report.

January 2020

Anover, Véronique, & Rémi Fournier Lanzoni. (Spanish & Italian). On tourne! French Language and Culture through Film. Georgetown University Press. 2020.

Gengler, Amanda. (Sociology). Save My Kid: How Families of Critically Ill Children Cope, Hope, and Negotiate an Unequal Healthcare System. New York University Press. 2020.

February 2020

Gellar-Goad, T. H. M. (Classics). Laughing Atoms, Laughing Matter: Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura and Satire. University of Michigan Press. 2020.

Virgil, Steven M. (Law). A Handbook for Transactional and Small Business Clinics. Carolina Academic Press. 2019.

Wood, John H. (Economics). Who Governs?: Legislatures, Bureaucracies, or Markets?. Palgrave Macmillan. 2020.

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Faculty books: June and July 2020

Dalton, Mary M., & Linda R. Linder. (Communication). Teacher TV: Seventy Years of Teachers on Television, 2nd ed. Peter Lang. 2020.

Koscak, Stephanie E. (History). Monarchy, Print Culture, and Reverence in Early Modern England: Picturing Royal Subjects (Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies). Routledge. 2020.

Morosini, Roberta. (Spanish & Italian). Il mare salato. Il Mediterraneo di Dante, Petrarca e Boccaccio. Viella. 2020.

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Dalton's 'Sharing Gratitude,' a collection of reflections, available now

Several years ago, Professor of Communication Mary Dalton (’83) got an idea. Wouldn’t it be great to have a book of daily reflections on gratitude by different authors with diverse perspectives and reflecting different themes and emotional tones? The type of book you could pick up upon waking or before going to sleep to get a little inspiration?

She was busy with other projects and pushed the idea aside. But it just wouldn’t go away. She sent out a bunch of emails two-and-a-half years ago asking people to share their best story about gratitude in a few hundred words, and while the response was enthusiastic among initial contributors from the Wake Forest community, she was nowhere close to getting 366 stories.

Still, she kept going. “People had trusted me with their stories. In some cases, these were the most personal, painful, or defining stories of their lives, and I had to find a way to share them,” says Dalton. “I cast a wider net and looked beyond my colleagues and students–past and present–to my other friends, family members, professional colleagues outside of Wake Forest, classmates, and even some friends of friends to collect additional stories.”

The project was more difficult and time-consuming than Dalton imagined it would be, but her desire to share gratitude and her faith in Bill Kane and Library Partners Press (the publisher for her Critical Media Studies series of student essays on films and television series) kept her from calling it quits. She knew that if she could collect and edit all of the stories, Bill Kane would work his magic on the publishing end of things.

What is Dalton’s takeaway from the project? She sums it up in the introduction to the book, “We create the world around us with our thoughts and interactions. I believe our fundamental purpose here is to take care of one another. Pause for just a moment and think about how the world would look and feel if everyone, or at least more of us, approached daily life from this perspective – taking care of ourselves, others and the planet that sustains us – and if we did so with limitless gratitude.”

How can we make the world a better and more hospitable place? Maybe it starts with sharing stories that model a different way forward. Sharing Gratitude: Daily Reflections is available at Amazon for purchase in print and Kindle editions. The Kindle edition is free for members of Kindle Unlimited.

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August 2016 faculty milestones

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