January 2012 comings & goings
See a list of employees joining and leaving the University in January 2012:
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Curry edits published volume
J.K. Curry, associate professor chair of theatre history, edited the volume Theatre Symposium, v. 19, Theatre and Film, which has been published by the University of Alabama Press. [ISBN 978-0-8173-7006-0]
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Innovative ideas for engaged teaching
Register now for the Fellows & Friends Engaged Teaching Luncheon Series, which is led by inspired faculty. The next event will be Tuesday, Jan. 24, at 11 a.m. in 301 Reynolda Hall. Lunch will be provided. The Institute for Public Engagement promotes engaged teaching […]
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Provost search committee appointed
Wake Forest has named an interim provost and formed a search committee to seek a replacement for Provost Jill Tiefenthaler. Tiefenthaler was named president of Colorado College in Colorado Springs earlier this month. Her resignation as provost will be effective June 30. President Nathan O. […]
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It takes a village to put on ‘The Grapes of Wrath’
Sharon Andrews and her colleagues in the theatre and dance department would like to make the University Theatre the community’s theatre. Andrews, an associate professor of theatre, is directing the University Theatre’s current production of “The Grapes of Wrath” on the Mainstage Theatre. The […]
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It takes a village to put on ‘The Grapes of Wrath’
Sharon Andrews and her colleagues in the theatre and dance department would like to make the University Theatre the community’s theatre. Andrews, an associate professor of theatre, is directing the University Theatre’s current production of “The Grapes of Wrath” on the Mainstage Theatre. The […]
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The Prop’s the Thing: Stage Properties Reconsidered
Props are often vital to a play’s storyline, but no one ever really thinks about them — until the gun doesn’t fire at the right time. “We tend to not pay much attention to props until they’re not working,” says Curry, who argues for a […]
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The Prop’s The Thing for stage shows
The suitcases in “The Grapes of Wrath.” The gun in the climactic scene of “West Side Story.” The small glass animals in “The Glass Menagerie.” The bottles of alcohol in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” Props are often vital to a play’s storyline, but […]
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Cindy Gendrich: Why do we laugh?
Professor of Theatre Cindy Gendrich is one of those people who can’t stop herself from laughing, sometimes too loudly and at inappropriate times. “I adore it when people tell funny stories at funerals, for instance, since it seems to me to be a way […]
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Fulbright specialist Sam Gladding to discuss ‘a slice of Turkey’
Chair and Professor of Counseling Samuel T. Gladding shared his expertise of family counseling with educators and students in Turkey during a month-long stay there last summer as the University’s first Fulbright Specialist scholar. Gladding (’67, MA ’71) will share his experience with colleagues […]
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