Faculty books: February 2021
Gellar-Goad, T. H. M. (Classical Languages). Plautus: Curculio (Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions). Bloomsbury Academic. 2021.
González, Luis H. (Spanish & Italian). The Fundamentally Simple Logic of Language: Learning a Second Language with the Tools of the Native Speaker. Routledge. 2021.
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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: 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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Gellar-Goad receives Activism Award from Lambda Classical Caucus
T.H.M. Gellar-Goad, associate professor of Classics and Zachary T. Smith Fellow, recently received the Activism Award from the Lambda Classical Caucus (LCC). Also given the award was Boston College Classics professor Christopher B. Polt.
They were presented the award at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in Washington this month.
According to the Department of Classics at Wake Forest, they received the award for their work lobbying the Classical Association of the Middle West and South to better protect LGBTQI+ members of the discipline in connection with the association’s 2023 conference at Brigham Young University.
The caucus’ web site states that the Activism Award is “intended to honor an LCC member who has worked to promote the rights and well-being of sexual minorities in ways that go beyond the usual academic missions of teaching and scholarship.”
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Rallings chairs foreign language conference
Yasuko Takata Rallings, Wright Family Faculty Fellow and associate professor of the practice in Japanese in the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, chaired the 49th Annual Fall Conference of the Foreign Language Association of North Carolina in late October in Durham.
Approximately 700 world language educators from across the state were in attendance. Among the presenters were Wake Forest faculty members Mary Lynn Redmond, professor and chair of education; Mary Pendergraft, professor of classical languages; T.H.M. Gellar-Goad, assistant professor of classical languages; Alyssa Howards, associate professor of German & Russian; and Claudia Vestal, visiting assistant professor of Romance Langues. (Romance Languages).
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