LYCOMING COLLEGE SUMMER MAGAZINE 2023

Lycoming College welcomed Betsy Frankel ’06 as director of sexual misconduct prevention and response and deputy Title IX

Lycoming College is pleased to announce the promotion of Len Cagle, Ph.D. , to associate professor of modern language studies (German); promotion with tenure to Julie Yingling, Ph.D. , associate professor of criminal justice/ criminology; and tenure to Andrew Stafford, Ph.D. , assistant professor of modern language studies (French). The following faculty have been appointed endowed professorships at Lycoming College: Cullen Chandler, Ph.D. , the Frank and Helen Lowry Professor of History; Sascha Feinstein, Ph.D. , the Robert L. and Charlene Shangraw Professor of English; Sandra Kingery, Ph.D. , the W. Gibbs McKenney Chair in International Studies; Christopher Kulp, Ph.D. , the John P. Graham Teaching Professor of Physics; and Howard Tran, M.F.A. , the Logan A. Richmond Endowed Professor of Art. Recipients are competitively chosen by their peers from among the full professors at the College and retain their positions for a five-year period. Each nominee receives the support and approval of Philip Sprunger, Ph.D., provost and dean of the faculty, the faculty endowed chair review committee, President Trachte, and the board of trustees. Pamela Gaber, Ph.D. , department of religion/archaeology (2002), and Darby Lewes, Ph.D. , department of English (1993), have been granted emeriti status upon their retirement. Lycoming College extends its sincere gratitude to these outstanding individuals for their dedication and service to the College. Jacob Berger, Ph.D. , associate professor of philosophy, was invited and presented a talk, “Quality-Space Functionalism about Color,” to the department of philosophy at Kent State University

coordinator. In this role, Frankel will serve as the College’s primary Title IX investigator, conduct intake meetings, and

Betty McCall, Ph.D. , associate professor and chair of sociology, accepted a position on the editorial board of Teaching Sociology , a publication of the American Sociological Association. In April 2023, McCall presented along with Nicholas Pytel, M.D., UPMC Medical Director, at the UPMC Live Employer Roundtable. Her presentation focused on a project completed by her Human Services course that addressed programming for United Way’s ALICE (Asset Limited Income Constrained Employed).

David Rife, Ph.D. , professor emeritus of English, recently published “Jazz Fiction: Take Two,” the sequel to “Jazz Fiction: A History and Comprehensive Reader’s Guide” (2008). The earlier work filled a pressing need in jazz studies by identifying and discussing 700 works of fiction with a jazz component. “Take Two” surveys more than 500 newer works of will serve as a trainer for students, faculty, and staff regarding sexual misconduct. She will work closely with the Title IX coordinator, other investigators on campus, the project director to reduce sexual assault and domestic violence, and the Alliance. Frankel holds a bachelor’s degree from Lycoming College (criminal justice major with minors in art and psychology) and a master’s degree in forensic psychology from Arizona State University. She comes to Lycoming with a wealth of expertise she gained from her previous work for the Lycoming County District Attorney’s Office and the Lycoming County Public Defender’s Office.

The chapter essay “Searching for Home in Fatih Akin’s Urban

Heimatfilme,” written by Len Cagle, Ph.D. , associate professor of German, was recently published in “Heimat and Migration: Reimagining the Regional and the Global in the Twenty-First Century,” which was co edited by Cagle, Thomas Herold, and Gabriele Maier. This volume addresses the parallel proliferation of discourses of Heimat (a German word translating to home or homeland) and of migration in contemporary German language culture and demonstrates that the entanglement of migration and Heimat can be productive: it can help us to reframe what it means to have a home, to lose one, find one, or belong to one.

jazz-related fiction that have appeared from the turn of the 21st century to the present. Sascha Feinstein, Ph.D. , Robert L. & Charlene Shangraw Professor and Chair of English, provided this testament for Rife’s newest publication: “With this companion volume to Jazz Fiction, David Rife enhances his position as an indispensable scholar of jazz-related fiction. The copious entries — each

in Kent, Ohio, as part of its departmental colloquium series in February 2023. His paper, “Higher-Order Approaches to Consciousness

The work of Andreas Rentsch, M.F.A. , associate professor and chair of the art department, is currently included in “The Polaroid Project” exhibition at the Fundación Barrié in La Coruna, Spain. This landmark exhibition began in 2017 and has so far been shown in eight museums on three continents.

written not only with deft concision but irresistible linguistic flair — provide the kind of insight that only someone profoundly well-read in the genre

and the Dilemma of Demandingness,” co-authored with Myrto Mylopoulos, Ph.D. (Carlton University), was presented at the annual meeting of The Science of Consciousness Conference in Taormina, Sicily, in May 2023.

could cultivate. One could not ask for a more delightful guide.” Feinstein adds that no such guides existed before Rife’s publications.

Rife and Feinstein co-edited “The Jazz Fiction Anthology”; all three books appeared after Rife’s retirement from Lycoming. “Jazz Fiction: Take Two” can be purchased on www.barnesandnoble.com.

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