2022 Furman University Faculty Scholarship Reception Program

On February 11, 2020, the Libraries and the Office of the Provost hosted Furman’s fifth Faculty Scholarship Reception. The reception showcased accomplishments from the calendar years 2020 and 2021, highlighting Furman faculty members who have completed a degree, received a grant from an external funding source totaling more than $1,000, and/or published books, book chapters, journal articles, exhibits, recordings, performances, films, or other works.The following faculty provided four-minute presentations on their scholarly or creative works: Adi D. Dubash, Assistant Professor of Biology Gerry Wuben, Adjunct Processor of Art Alyson Farzad-Phillips, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies Veronica L. Flores, Assistant Professor of Psychology Alexander Francis-Ratte, Assistant Professor of Asian Studie

Education Research Gender, Education and Development - A Partially Annotated and Selective Bibliography

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MEN WITHOUT SAWMILLS: MASCULINITY, RURAL POVERTY, AND FAMILY STABILITY

Using ethnographic and interview data, this paper explores the impacts of economic strain and job loss on the construction and experience of masculinity, as well as the effects of threats to masculine identity on family stability in a rural American community. It looks at these issues specifically with reference to the high correlation between poverty and single parenting, in order to better understand the causal mechanisms responsible for this link in a rural setting. It challenges the mainstream argument that it is women�s marriage choices that are mainly responsible for this correlation. Building on and extending the work of previous researchers, the paper argues that men�s experiences with masculinity in times of economic and labor market stress seriously undermine their abilities to sustain functioning relationships.Food Security and Poverty,

Women\u27s Studies at UMass Boston: Celebrates 25 years 1973-1998

What follows is an impressionistic overview of our program\u27s first twenty five years, derived in part from our archives and in part from our collective recollections, and written by the current program director. As with any celebratory institutional history, it makes no claim to objectivity. Our aim is to look back at the main lines of our growth and development, and in so doing to acknowledge many of the individuals who have contributed to the building of the program over time. We gratefully acknowledge the work of our first archivist, UMass Women\u27s Studies / Sociology graduate dian fitzpatrick who, in the mid-1980s, created program archives out of our old files. If we have inadvertently omitted names or contributions in this overview, we hope to be forgiven the lapse of memory and to be reminded of what we have forgotten. We promise to remedy the error on the next appropriate commemorative occasion

Translation Technology and Ethical Competence: An Analysis and Proposal for Translators’ Training

The practice of translation today is inextricably linked to the use of technology, and this is reflected in how translator training is conceptualized, with technologies present in every area of such training. More and more authors have begun to voice their concerns about the ethical issues posed by the use of technology and artificial intelligence systems, and our focus here is to ask whether such concerns are being reflected in pedagogical models and teaching programs in the field of translation. To this end, we analyze a variety of translation and translation technology (TT) competence models, together with a review of the literature on ethics, and a corpus analysis of TT syllabi to explore the different sub-competences addressed in these. The analysis reveals that ethical competence is not specifically addressed in TT classes, or at least it is not reflected in our corpus. The literature review also illustrates a dearth of specific competence models for TT classes, as well as a lack of pedagogical interventions to develop ethical sub-competence, something we aim to address by developing a series of new models and tools. We conclude that the inclusion of ethical issues in the TT classroom is still far from widespread, despite it being a necessary step towards enabling new generations to act critically and professionally.This publication forms part of the research project “Digitisation, processing and online publication of open, multilingual and gender-sensitive terminology resources in the digital society (DIGITENDER)” (TED2021-130040B-C21), funded by Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (10.13039/501100011033) and by the European Union “NextGenerationEU”/Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia

How Wonderful is Wonderland? Negative Emotions in Children’s Literature from an Evolutionary Perspective

This MA thesis seeks to investigate negative emotions and their function in children’s literature from an evolutionary standpoint. Insights from evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology are used to build an evolutionary framework that is then used in a literary analysis that shows how negative emotions are evoked in literature, and what adaptive purpose(s) they have. The main argument is that we feel strong emotions when engaging in story because storytelling has an adaptive function, and that this function is to provide us with low-risk, vicarious input that can be employed as a future guide for behaviour. This argument explains not only the human proclivity for producing and consuming art, but also why we generally feel pleasure and satisfaction when engaging in stories, no matter the form they take

Becoming the New Soviet Woman: Redefining Class and Gender in the Early Soviet Women’s Press

This study investigates changes in an early Soviet women’s magazine’s representations of class and gender to shed light on how the image of the new Soviet woman came into being. As the only non-party women’s magazine of the late 1920s, Zhenskii Zhurnal (1926-1930), better than any other publication, reveals the state-imposed process of transforming female identity. Zhenskii Zhurnal started out as the publication for housewives, but by the end of the decade it was forced to avoid emphasizing traditional female roles and concerns related to private life and the domestic sphere. Achievement of production goals – the new priority for all Soviet citizens – became central to narratives on the proper meaning of femininity. In order to transform a woman into an arduous worker, her female priorities needed to be reconfigured and her devotion to the traditional interests of her sex had to be minimized