SU Celebrates Recent Faculty Successes
SALISBURY, MD---Salisbury University celebrates the following recent faculty achievements:
Caviglia-Harris Series Examines Issues Through Economics
Nineteenth-century Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle nicknamed economics “the dismal science,” but for Dr. Jill Caviglia-Harris, SU professor of economics, the field is Anything But Dismal.
Hosting a new YouTube series by that name, Caviglia-Harris and her economics colleagues from around the U.S. delve into many of the challenges facing Americans today, with the goal of exploring innovative solutions. Topics include racial bias and many issues related to COVID-19, such as unemployment, virtual learning and food consumption.
Filmed at SU with the help of the University’s Information Technology Office and PAC 14 community access channel, the series is available via the Anything But Dismal website.
Stock Appointed Kierkegaard Library Senior Research Fellow
Dr. Timothy Stock, associate professor of philosophy and chair of the SU Philosophy Department, has been appointed as a senior research fellow at the Howard and Edna Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College in Minnesota.
Stock is collecting his research into a manuscript on the library’s namesake philosopher’s theory of comedy titled Laughter’s Martyr: Kierkegaard and the Failures of the Comic. The project proposes Kierkegaard’s dramaturgical thinking to be a mode of philosophy itself: a satirical embodiment of — or “weak” martyrdom to — the human world and the present age.
Stock previously has published articles on the Danish philosopher in national and international peer-reviewed journals including Kierkegaard Research, the Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook and Bietrange zur nordischen Philologie.
Wenke Publishes New Short Story Collection
Dr. John Wenke, SU professor of English, explores a roadmap of America as his characters tangle with fraying family ties, while anticipating disasters about to erupt on the post-contemporary tundra in his latest short story collection The Critical List.
“What’s so attractive about Wenke’s stories is their stare-you-down directness — Wenke’s unflinching, deft (and welcome) conviction about the transportive and redeeming power of what we used to call good old American realism,” said Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize-winning contemporary fiction author.
Telling stories of people teetering on the edge — a former jailbird under house arrest, a would-be teenage parricide, a former philosophy professor now homeless — Wenke’s collection dramatizes what it means to push up against the boundaries of desire, even when one often is turned away.
The book is available online via Amazon and Target, or directly from its publisher, Regal House Publishing.
For more information call 410-543-6030 or visit the SU website.