Prof. Alexander Featured in Podcast

Posted on 04/10/2025 by mbrowning

With co-editor Daniel Wolff and Danny Alexander was featured on an episode of the Rock’s Backpages Podcast regarding their Dave Marsh anthology and the legacy of Curtis Mayfield. Rock’s Backpages is the most extensive database for music journalism (which historically has often been published underground or in commercial formats that long went uncollected in academic archives). The Billington Library carries it for music research. the only one of our databases focused on popular music journalism.

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Prof. Jaskowski’s “Fantastic” Presentation

Posted on 04/08/2025 by mbrowning

Mark Jaskowski, adjunct professor in English, presented a paper on March 22 at the International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts titled “Uneven and Combined Nightmares: Architecture and Modernism in Ligotti.”

 

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Prof. Rollins Gets Oriented

Posted on 04/06/2025 by mbrowning

This January Ted Rollins gave a presentation titled “Reimagining New Faculty Orientation: Lessons Learned” with Megan Doyle (College Success) and Farrell Jenab (Faculty Development) at the Lilly Conference themed “Teaching for Active & Engaged Learning.”  The presentation was a great opportunity for them to collaborate with peers.  They  shared their experiences at JCCC with revising the New Faculty Orientation (NFO) program.  Also, they offered participants (faculty representing colleges across the country) some recommendations for creating or revising their programs.

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Prof. Ganguly Puckett Makes Epic Presentation

Posted on 04/05/2025 by mbrowning

On April 2, Sayanti Ganguly Puckett discussed the foundational Indian epic, The Mahabharata, as part of the Great Books series in the CoLab.

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Prof. Sykora is a Poet!

Posted on 03/31/2025 by mbrowning

Bob Sykora’s debut poetry collection, Utopians in Love, was published this week from Game Over Books.  

He’ll be doing some readings around Kansas City in the next few weeks:

  • Sunday April 13th at Flagship Books, 3 PM
  • Tuesday April 15 at Raven Books in Lawrence, 7 PM
  • Saturday April 18 at New Materials Books, 7 PM

He’ll also be presenting on poetry that uses historical research at the Scissortail Creative Writing Festival at East Central University on Friday April 4th.

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