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Vol. 36, No. 5 - Whole No. 206, Eleanor M. Farrell

Mythprint

Mythprint is the monthly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. To promote these interests, the Society publishes three magazines, maintains a World Wide Web site, and sponsors the annual Mythopoeic Conference and awards for fiction and scholarship, as well as local and written discussion groups.

Vol. 36, No. 4 - Whole No. 205, Eleanor M. Farrell

Mythprint

Mythprint is the monthly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. To promote these interests, the Society publishes three magazines, maintains a World Wide Web site, and sponsors the annual Mythopoeic Conference and awards for fiction and scholarship, as well as local and written discussion groups.

Vol. 36, No. 3 - Whole No. 204, Eleanor M. Farrell

Mythprint

Mythprint is the monthly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. To promote these interests, the Society publishes three magazines, maintains a World Wide Web site, and sponsors the annual Mythopoeic Conference and awards for fiction and scholarship, as well as local and written discussion groups.

Vol. 36, No. 2 - Whole No. 203, Eleanor M. Farrell

Mythprint

Mythprint is the monthly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. To promote these interests, the Society publishes three magazines, maintains a World Wide Web site, and sponsors the annual Mythopoeic Conference and awards for fiction and scholarship, as well as local and written discussion groups.

Vol. 36, No. 1 - Whole No. 202, Eleanor M. Farrell

Mythprint

Mythprint is the monthly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. To promote these interests, the Society publishes three magazines, maintains a World Wide Web site, and sponsors the annual Mythopoeic Conference and awards for fiction and scholarship, as well as local and written discussion groups.

Intersections: Belief, Pedagogy, And Politics [Dialogue, Volume 3, Issue 2 (Fall 2016)], Lynnea Chapman King, Anna S. Cohenmiller

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

Intersections: Belief, Pedagogy, and Politics [Dialogue, Volume 3, Issue 2 (Fall 2016)]

Editorial: New Horizons, Lynnea Chapman King and Anna S. CohenMiller

Articles

The Pedagogy and Politics of Racial Passing: Examining the Role of Visual Literacy in Turn-of-the-Century Activist Media, Tara Propper

Eastern Imaginaries Erika Quinn More Than Simple Plagiarism: Ligotti, Pizzolatto, and True Detective’s Terrestrial Horror, Jonathan Elmore

Hyping the Hyperreal:Postmodern Visual Dynamics in Amy Heckerling’s Clueless, Andrew Urie

Applications in the Classroom

Four Decades, Three Songs, Too Much Violence: Using Popular Culture Media Analysis to Prepare Preservice Teachers for Dealing with School Violence, Edward Janak and …

Review: The Design Museum, London, And “Fear And Love: Reactions To A Complex World.”, Michael Samuel

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

Review of the Design Museum in London, United Kingdom and the exhibit “Fear and Love: Reactions to a Complex World,” available from November 24, 2016 to April 23, 2017.

Using Popular Culture In The Classroom In High Schools And Universities, Laurence Raw

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

Reviews of:

Edward Janak and Ludovic A. Sourdot, editors. Educating through Popular Culture: You’re Not Cool Just Because You Teach through Comics. Lexington Books, 2017. Hardback, 341 pages. ISBN: 9781498549372.

David Buckingham, editor. Teaching Popular Culture: Beyond Radical Pedagogy. Routledge, 1998. Paperback, 207 pages. ISBN: 1857287932.

Elana Reiser. Teaching Mathematics Using Popular Culture. McFarland, 2005. Paperback, 235 pages. ISBN: 9780786477067.

Lan Dong, editor. Teaching Comics and Graphic Narratives: Essays on Theory, Strategy, and Practice. McFarland, 2012. Paperback, 272 pages. ISBN: 9780786462462.

Review: Copyright For Scholars: Osmosis Doesn’T Do The Trick Anymore, Janet Brennan Croft

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

Reviews of:

Kevin L. Smith. Owning and Using Scholarship: An IP Handbook for Teachers and Researchers. American Library Association, 2014. 240 pages. ISBN: 978-083898747-6.

Kenneth Crews. Copyright Law for Librarians and Educator: Creative Strategies and Practical Solutions, 3rd edition. American Library Association, 2012. 192 pages. ISBN: 978-0-8389-1092-4.

Rebecca P. Butler. Copyright for Academic Librarians and Professionals. American Library Association, 2014. 278 pages. ISBN: 978-0-8389-1214-0.

Russell, Carrie. Complete Copyright for K-12 Librarians and Educators. American Library Association, 2012. 172 pages. ISBN: 978-0-8389-1083-2.

Applications In The Classroom: Teaching Disney/Pixar’S Inside Out Within The Tradition Of Allegorical Personification, Jason John Gulya

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

Several years ago, I noticed that the widespread distinction between high and low culture was wreaking havoc on my classroom. My students would read and analyze texts like Robinson Crusoe and Pride and Prejudice with little to no prompting because (in their minds) these texts were already part of the recognized canon and it was therefore permissible to pick them apart and analyze them closely. But I would get strange looks when I asked undergraduates to think critically about how the mock-news programs The Daily Show and The Colbert Report worked or when I asked them to discuss how the …

Four Decades, Three Songs, Too Much Violence: Using Popular Culture Media Analysis To Prepare Preservice Teachers For Dealing With School Violence, Edward Janak, Lisa Pescara-Kovach

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

Since teacher education has morphed from normal schools into colleges of education, the goals of preparing teachers have expanded. While it is essential to prepare teachers to utilize scientifically proven methods as well as to read and use research in the field, there are ever-expanding other goals that must be met as well. For one example, with the increase of school violence taking place in the United States, it is imperative to include preparation for preservice teachers on how to prevent bullying and how to handle traumatic events, such as school shootings, with their future students. However, broaching such a …

Hyping The Hyperreal: Postmodern Visual Dynamics In Amy Heckerling’S Clueless, Andrew Urie

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

An iconic staple of 1990s Hollywood cinema, director-screenwriter Amy Heckerling’s Clueless (1995) is a cult classic. This article examines the film’s postmodern visual dynamics, which parody hyperreal media culture and its connection to feminine teen consumerism amidst the image-saturated society of mid-’90s era Los Angeles.

More Than Simple Plagiarism: Ligotti, Pizzolatto, And True Detective’S Terrestrial Horror, Jonathan Elmore

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

Of course, True Detective is neither a philosopher’s bedtime story nor supernatural horror, and yet there remains a productive affinity between Ligotti’s work and the HBO series. Where Ligotti provides substantial portions of the hallmark character’s identity and dialogue, True Detective puts Ligotti’s thought experiment to far more practical uses than does Ligotti himself. By intertwining hurricanes and flooding alongside industry and pollution into the background and negative space of the setting, the series implicates the urgent material reality of climate change and environmental collapse into the setting: “all of this is going to be under water in thirty years” …

Eastern Imaginaries, Erika Quinn

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

Orientalist tropes shaped Western ideas about the East in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries through travelogues and fiction, and have persisted into the twenty-first. One central set -piece of these stereotypes is the imaginary Eastern European country, “Ruritania.” The advantages and drawbacks of such an imagined place are explored more thoroughly through two recent pieces of pop culture, Wes Anderson’s film “The Grand Budapest Hotel”, and China Miéville’s novel The City and the City. While Anderson’s film entertains and sustains Orientalist stereotypes, Miéville’s novel demands the reader go deeper to empathize with characters and grapple with key issues about …

The Pedagogy And Politics Of Racial Passing: Examining Media Literacy In Turn-Of-The-Century Activist Periodicals, Tara Propper

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

This article explores how we can use African American activist media to theorize the role of pedagogy in the public sphere. Focusing on how racial passing stories expose the limiting (and often tropic) binaries through which racial identity is deciphered, this analysis further highlights the extent to which these binary constructions of identity are learned through media narration.

Using the December 1912, issue of W. E. B. Du Bois’s Crisis Magazine as a touchstone for investigation, this analysis considers how pedagogy is taken up as both a theme and project in the magazine. Foregrounding the degree to which Crisis critiques …

Editorial: New Horizons, Lynnea Chapman King, Anna S. Cohenmiller

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

Editorial for Volume 4, Issue 1 of Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy (Winter 2017), and issue devoted to the intersections of belief, pedagogy, and politics.

Finding The Frontier: How To Identify Engineering Hot Papers And Research Gaps, Ibis Anette Moreno-Lozano, Ricardo Arencibia

Day Family Research Lab Workshop Series

This workshop will empower participants to identify "hot papers" that are shaping the future of the field. Also, participants will learn strategic methods for analyzing research landscapes, spotting innovative topics, and uncovering gaps that can spark new research projects.

Human Resource Practices And Employee Outcomes: An Examination Of Performance, Satisfaction And Diversity Climate In The Hospitality Sector Of Saudi Arabia, Tareq Al-Jammaz

Thesis/ Dissertation Defenses

Tourism and related industries have become essential economic activities that play a significant role in the development, prosperity, and well-being of a country. The tourism and hotel sector in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is currently undergoing significant development to diversify the national economy in line with the KSA Economic Vision 2030 Initiative. To align this sector with international standards in terms of job satisfaction and performance, human resource management practices (HRMPs) play a key role in determining the job satisfaction of employees in their various work environments. HRMPs include various job-related activities, training and development (T+D) programs, rewards, …

Permission Recommendation For Android Applications: Leveraging Natural Language Processing On App Descriptions, Saeed Salem Al Shebli

Thesis/ Dissertation Defenses

This study develops an NLP-based system to recommend essential permissions for Android apps by analyzing app descriptions. It leverages advanced models, including LSTM and ensemble techniques, to align permissions with app functionality while minimizing unnecessary requests.

Somi Nagaraj, Somi Nagaraj

Faculty Research Mixer

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Deborah King, Deborah King

Faculty Research Mixer

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Genomics Insights Into Anti-Platelets Therapy: Unraveling Of Variants And The Implementation Of Clopidogrel-Guided Therapy In The United Arab Emirates, Lubna Qasem Khasawneh

Thesis/ Dissertation Defenses

Anti-platelet therapy is a cornerstone in the management of cardiovascular diseases such as acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and stroke. These medications are essential for reducing the risk of thrombotic events by preventing platelet aggregation. However, variations in cardiovascular pharmacogenes can significantly impact the metabolism, efficacy, and safety of anti-platelet therapies, making personalized medicine increasingly important for optimizing treatment outcomes. Pharmacogenomic testing has emerged as a crucial tool in tailoring anti-platelet therapy, particularly for patients with subtherapeutic responses due to genetic factors. While extensive research has been conducted globally to identify and study the effect of the pharmacogenomic variants that influence …

Blended Work/Life Relationships: Organizational Communication Involving Workplace Peers, Friends, And Lovers, Sean M. Horan, Rebecca M. Chory, Erin S. Craw, Hannah E. Jones

Communication Research Trends

No abstract provided.

Physiochemical Characterization And In-Vitro Investigation Of The Effect Of Commercial And Novel Non-Digestible Fiber/Prebiotics On The Growth Of Probiotics, Shaikha Salem Al Ameri

Thesis/ Dissertation Defenses

Probiotics and prebiotics play a major role in enhancing the gut microbiota and, consequently, human health. Non-digestible dietary fibers (prebiotics) are selectively fermented and induce specific changes in the composition and/or activity of the gastrointestinal microbiota (probiotics), thus conferring benefit(s) upon the host's health. The consumption of prebiotic products has been extended from diet supplementation to clinical application in various health complications, emerging as a potential therapeutic to manipulate several diseases. Different pharmaceutical companies normally use a blend of many fibers from various sources to prepare commercial prebiotic products. Currently, no data is available to what extent the components of …

Measuring Pre-Licensure Nursing Students' Perceptions Of Safety Culture, Kristi Miller

Biennial Convention (CONV)

The presence of a safety culture in healthcare organizations has been shown to reduce medical error; however, little is known about the state of safety culture in schools of nursing. This presentation provides a reliable and valid instrument to measure safety culture in schools of nursing.

Artificial Intelligence Driven Pile User Interface For Selection And Triage Of Digital Content, Ajay Prasad, Sunil Samuel, Sanika Barve

Defensive Publications Series

The current process of selecting and managing photos via digital galleries is cumbersome and inefficient because users must manually scroll through a large number of photos, assess each photo by opening it individually, and decide relevant actions. This process can detract from the enjoyment of viewing and sharing photos. This disclosure describes techniques for streamlining the selection and organization of multiple photos into a virtual pile by dragging and dropping them into an AI-powered dynamic UI element on screen. Generative AI is applied to the photos in the pile to automate various photo-related edits and tasks. Users can expand the …

Generative Artificial Intelligence Supported Collaborative Photo Editing Based On Auxiliary Information, Ajay Prasad, Ramprasad Sedouram, Gulmohar Khan

Defensive Publications Series

Digital photos not only provide an archive of cherished memories, but also serve as a form of self-expression when shared within a user’s social circles. Enhancing photos using digital tools allows users to express themselves in the context of the photo, to illustrate the full context and richness of the moment and environment in which a photo is captured. This is currently a tedious manual process. This disclosure describes techniques that, with user permission, automatically analyze photos and auxiliary information using a generative artificial intelligence backend to provide photo editing suggestions via a collaborative GUI to enhance photos. Collaborating seamlessly …

Automatic Speaker Prioritization During A Video Conference, Karthik Srinivas, Ramprasad Sedouram, Ajay Prasad

Defensive Publications Series

In virtual meetings, hand raise gestures are used by participants to indicate their desire to speak. When multiple participants provide hand raises, it is difficult for moderators to assign priority to different participants. This disclosure describes the use of artificial intelligence techniques, implemented with user permission, to analyze meeting content and participant actions to automatically determine priority for different speakers. The determined priority is indicated to all participants via suitable visual indicators such as color-coded user interface elements and/or adjusting a size, color, or other attribute of participant video thumbnails.

Latency Reduction In Grid Ui By Using Transformer Decoder For Next Item Prediction, D Shin

Defensive Publications Series

Photo library applications enable users to preview photo thumbnails in a grid or photo wall. A user can scroll through or down the photo wall to view previews of different photos and select any photo to view it in a larger size. When the user performs scrolling actions that go across a large number of photos, thumbnails may not be preloaded in time (e.g., due to disk or network delays) to support the photo wall view, resulting in an empty square or other user interface artifact. This disclosure utilizes a custom transformer encoder-decoder model to estimate the next most likely …

In Their Honor Art That Speaks For The Missing, Douglas And Judith Krupp Library

Campus Events

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