Outstanding Faculty Publications 2022
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Outstanding Faculty Publications 2022
Description
The publications featured in this exhibit were chosen by their departments as outstanding examples of the research, scholarly, and creative work being done at Fresno State in 2021. The Library is proud to highlight these outstanding contributions by Fresno State faculty.
Collection Items
The Committee of Union and Progress: Founders, ideology, and structure
Five probing papers that were first presented at a conference entitled, "The Committee of Union and Progress: Founders, Ideology, and Structure" organized by the Armenian Studies Program at California State University, Fresno, between October 12-13,…
Captive nights: From the Bosphorus to Gallipoli with Zabel Yessayan
This new collection of translations from Zabel Yessayan’s (1878 – 1943?) internationally renowned body of work presents three of her least-known and most revealing stories: Meliha Nuri Hanum, The Veil, and Enough! Written between 1914 and 1928, these…
Querétaro engalanado: Identidad, pompa e indumentaria en la aclamación del monarca Felipe V y el príncipe Luis de Borbón (1710)
In November 1710, the Novohispanic city of Santiago de Querétaro organized a double celebration for the first two Spanish Bourbons, King Felipe V and his heir, recently sworn in as Prince of Asturias, Luis Fernando. The event, narrated in an …
Virtual exhibit design: The UX of student BFA design shows in Social VR
Creating exhibitions in virtual reality offers unique user experience design challenges. This paper examines a case study of a past VR exhibit and discussions on future UX and usability research for VR exhibitions. Due to COVID19, student BFA shows…
Collaborative design of augmented flashcards for design history class
This case study looks at augmented reality (AR) flashcards used in a university-level classroom. The collaborative design effort used RtD and pulled from the outcomes of three prior case studies using AR in the classroom. This poster focuses on the…
The iconography of a Toltec monument from El Cerrito
This contribution represents a case example of how mythology and literature from post-conquest sources might be used for framing hypotheses about the meaning of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican iconography, and the problems of this approach. It focuses on…
Fifty years later—The Fresno feminist art program and nobody promised you tomorrow
Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising—a six-day clash between police and civilians ignited by a routine raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York…
Visual impairment in the virtual workplace: Exploration, experience, and interpretation
Introduction: This study utilizes interpretive phenomenology to understand the experiences of people with visual impairments in the virtual workplace. As virtual work is becoming increasingly common, this investigation is timely for employment…
How to wrestle a girl: Stories
Venita Blackburn’s characters bully and suffer, spit and tease, mope and blame. They’re hyperaware of their bodies and fiercely observant, fending off the failures and advances of adults with indifferent ease. In “Biology Class,” they torment a…
Spain, U.S. Whiteness Studies, and María Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s “Lost Cause.”
The relationship between the United States and Spain evolved rapidly over the course of the nineteenth century, culminating in hostility during the Spanish–American War. However, scholarship on literary connections between the two nations has been…
Love is an ex-country: A memoir
Randa Jarrar is a fearless voice of dissent who has been called “politically incorrect” (Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times). As an American raised for a time in Egypt, and finding herself captivated by the story of a celebrated Egyptian belly…
Yellow rain: Poems
In this staggering work of documentary, poetry, and collage, Mai Der Vang reopens a wrongdoing that deserves a new reckoning. As the United States abandoned them at the end of its war in Vietnam, many Hmong refugees recounted stories of a mysterious…
Consonant voicing in the Buckeye corpus.
Many claims about the prevalence of phonetic voicing in English obstruents have been made in the literature over the decades, particularly concerning the stops and affricate [b, d, ɡ, ʤ]. An examination of this literature reveals that many of these…
No stress system requires recursive feet
A recursive foot is one in which a foot is embedded inside another foot of the same type: e.g., iambic (iaσ(iaσσ́)) or trochaic (tr(trσ́σ)σ). Recent work has used such feet to model stress systems with full or partial ternary rhythm, in which stress…
Broadcast news in the digital age: A guide to reporting, producing and anchoring online and on TV
Written by two award-winning broadcast journalists, this book offers a practical, hands-on guide to the modern digital TV newsroom.
Pulling from extensive industry experience, the authors provide a comprehensive look at the key journalistic skills…
Breve historia de nuestro neoliberalismo: Poder y cultura en México
Un fantasma recorre México: el fantasma del neoliberalismo. Todas las fuerzas del actual gobierno han lanzado una cruzada contra ese fantasma: lo ven en las pasadas administraciones -panistas y priistas-, en los medios de comunicación y las ong, en…
Machiavelli in contemporary media
Gives new life to Machiavelli’s thought by exploring the influence of his ideas on contemporary American politics and popular culture
Examines an undeniable and persistent fascination with Machiavelli in almost all fields of popular…
Examines an undeniable and persistent fascination with Machiavelli in almost all fields of popular…