Faculty Accomplishments
Department of Art & Art History
Anne D'Alleva served as a discussant at two scholarly symposia, one sponsored by the Honolulu Academy of the Arts and the other by the Harvard University Art Museums. Prentice Hall is publishing the second edition of her textbook, Look! The Fundamentals of Art History, in Summer 2006. A British edition is forthcoming from Laurence King Publishing.
Kelly Dennis chaired a two-panel session at the College Art Association annual meeting titled “Defining the Digital Canon.” Her article “The Hegelian Implications of the Museum of Sex: or, Does MoSex Mean No Sex?” is forthcoming in the Art Journal.
Jean Givens published Observation and Image Making in Gothic Art with Cambridge University Press in 2005. Her co-edited volume, Visualizing Medieval Medicine and Natural History is due from Ashgate Publications in September 2006; it includes an essay by Dr. Givens entitled “Reading and Writing an Illustrated Book of Medical ‘Simples.’” The Samuel H. Kress Foundation provided a grant in support of the publication of this work. Dr. Givens received a National Endowment for the Humanities Research Grant in 2006-07 and is currently on leave to work on her current book project Picturing the Healing Arts: Word, Image, and the Illustrated Tractatus de herbis. In February, 2006, she held the Orion Visiting Lectureship at the University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada.
Yale University Press has published Robin Greeley’s Surrealism and the Spanish Civil War (2006). Dr. Greeley will be a fellow of the UConn Humanities Institute in 2006-07. She is at work on a co-edited volume, Mexican Muralism: A Critical History, to be published by the University of California Press.
In 2006, Kathryn Myers has had solo exhibitions at Aurodhan Gallery, Pondicherry, India; Fundacao Oriente, Panjim, India; and the faculty gallery at the M.S. University of Baroda in Vadadora India. She gave lectures on Indian art in the Diasora at Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharata University, Santiniketan, India and the Kanoria Centre for Arts, Ahmedabad, India. Her work was also included in a group show titled "War is Over" at Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
Department of Dramatic Arts
Gary English recently designed Julius Caesar for the Pioneer Theatre Company, Salt Lake City, Utah, in February, 2006. He is in the process of designing a world premiere of a new translation and adaptation of Georges Feydeau’s farce The Ladies Man, which will premiere at the Pioneer Theatre in January, 2007.
Laura Crow’s recent credits include her award-winning designs for The Taming of the Shrew (Berkshire Eagle “Best Costume Design” 2005), at Shakespeare and Company in Lennox, Massachusetts; Terrence McNally’s newest play Dedication, or the Stuff of Dreams, in New York City, starring Nathan Lane and Marian Seldes; Ephemera, a new play by John Yearly for Ariel Tepper’s Summer Play Festival in NYC; and the Connecticut Repertory Theatre’s premiere of Prudence. Professor Crow’s designs have once again been chosen for the 2007 Prague Quadrennial, an international exhibition of Theatre Design. Laura Crow is the costume curator and photo editor for the 250 page color catalogue of the exhibit, published by USITT. Four UConn graduates, all former students of Professor Crow, are also represented among the fifty designers participating in the USA Exhibit for the Prague Quadrennial. UConn was also selected among the top 15 Theatre Design Programs in the USA to be represented in the Non-Professional Academic exhibit for the USA in Prague.
Prudence, a play by Dr. Carlton Molette and Barbara Molette, premiered at the Connecticut Repertory Theatre in February 2006. Prudence tells the story of Prudence Crandall, Connecticut’s state heroine, who started New England’s first school for African American girls in Canterbury in 1833.
Department of Music
The London Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of internationally known conductor JoAnn Falletta, featuring soloist Thomas Stacy, English hornist of the New York Philharmonic, recently recorded three works by music department head Kenneth Fuchs. The disc, Kenneth Fuchs: An American Place, Eventide, Out of the Dark, was released by Naxos on the “American Classics” label in August 2005 to positive critical acclaim in both the U.S. and Europe. The National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences honored the disc with two 2006 Grammy Award nominations in the categories “Best Instrumental Soloist with Orchestra” and “Producer of the Year, Classical.” The LSO will record a second disc of Dr. Fuchs’ music in November 2006.
The UConn chapter of the American Association of University Professors has honored
Earl MacDonald with its 2006 Excellence Award for Teaching Innovation.
Eric Rice received the University of Connecticut New Scholar Award in April 2006.
In 2006, Dr. Rice has performed with Exsultemus, a period vocal ensemble for which he serves as Music Director, in Aachen, Germany, and Liège, Belgium, as well as Boston and Andover. In 2005 he delivered a paper titled “Choirboys, Memorial Endowments, and Education at Aachen’s Marienkirche” at the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, England and another paper entitled “Liturgical Responses to the Protestant Reformation at the Collegiate Church of Saint Mary in Aachen, 1570-1580” at a meeting of the New York Liturgy Group.
Glenn Stanley’s essay “Beethoven and Italy” appeared in Proceedings of the Easter Beethoven Festivals, 2002-2005, ed. M. Tomasewski (Warsaw, 2006), pp. 210-237. He also published a review of William Kinderman and Katherine Syer’s A Companion to Wagner's Parsifal in Opera Today online. Dr. Stanley delivered papers at the International Symposium on Felix Mendelssohn, Trinity University, Dublin, Ireland 2005; the International Conference on “Music and Social Protest 1968,” Dortmund, Germany, in 2006; and the Tenth Annual Easter International Symposium on Beethoven, Warsaw, Poland, in 2006.
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