ScholarWorks@Towson: Recent submissions
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Lost cause and memory in America: then and now
(2019-05)[From paper:] As the Civil War came to an end, America found itself in a strange state, one it had never experienced. For the last four years, the country had been torn in two, fighting a deadly, historically significant ... -
The effects of computer-mediated communication in military families during a deployment
(2018-12)The rapid advancement of technology has impacted society in countless ways from transportation to the way one communicates. Computer-mediated communication (CMC), for instance, has allowed individuals to interact through ... -
"I Should Have Done Target Practice": Why Valerie Solanas Missed
(Sage Publishing, 2011-02)Through performative writing, this article seeks to tell the story of Valerie Solanas. Solanas, the woman most notoriously known as the shooter of Andy Warhol, has had little media exposure that does not frame her outside ... -
Troubling violence: a performance project (Book review)
(Taylor & Francis, 2010-10-09)The article reviews the book "Troubling Violence: A Performance Project," by M. Heather Carver and Elaine J. Lawless. -
Valerie Solanas and the queer performativity of madness
(Sage Publications, 2011-05-20)Accusations of madness have long been hurled at queer and feminist bodies, and typically when people are deemed mad, they are granted little agency.This article attempts to read madness as potentially agentic when it ... -
The performative possibilities of new media
(Taylor & Francis, 2012-01)We understand new media as performative - a medium that is an active participant in a political dialogue. It is political in its iterability; it performs, over and over, passing as/with information. We see this in our ... -
The critical lede: new media and ecological balance
(Taylor & Francis, 2012-01)As co-hosts of the podcast The Critical Lede (TCL), we find ourselves at a moment where new media projects are bursting onto the scene of not only communication/ performance studies but also all fields of academe. That we ... -
The (dis)appearance of Up your ass: Valerie Solanas as abject revolutionary
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-03-14)Through performative writing and using Cixous' notion of écriture feminine, this piece explores how the archival and treatment of Valerie Solanas' ‘lost’ manuscript Up Your Ass marks her as an abject body. Further, this ... -
Please don't use the restraints: forgetting, failure, and childbirth
(Sage Publications, 2016-07)The end of the story is all you care about. So, let’s get that out of the way first. Penelope Jane was born on March 23rd. She was healthy. The trauma of that day still resonates within my body, called into being through ... -
Professional development for online faculty: supporting conceptual change through conceptual conflict activities
(2019-09-06)Despite the increasing demand for online courses, skepticism by faculty and administration regarding the legitimacy of online education continues to exist. To address this skepticism, institutions have turned to professional ... -
Recording reviews of Frederick Converse, American Sketches, Song of the Sea, and Festival of Pan. BBC Concert Orchestra, Keith Lockhart, conductorDutton Epoch CDLX 7278, 2011./George W. Chadwick, Adonais, Cleopatra, A Pastoral Prelude, and Sinfonietta in D Major. BBC Concert Orchestra, Keith Lockhart, conductor. Dutton Epoch CDLX 7293, 2012
(Cambridge University Press, 2015-02-04)[From review]: On this enterprising pair of compact discs, U.S. conductor Keith Lockhart leads the BBC Concert Orchestra in world-premiere recordings of six symphonic works by George Whitefield Chadwick (1854–1931) and ... -
Active Listening, Aural Imagination, and 19th-Century Program Music: An In-Class "Experiment"
(RILM, 2014)[From essay]: When teaching 19th-century Western art music to both music majors and general-education students alike, the debate between advocates for program music versus proponents of absolute music is a fundamental ... -
The Commutation Test and Chris Bacon’s Score for Source Code as a Framework for Film Music Pedagogy
(2018-05-10)This article lays out a theoretical foundation for the use of the commutation test as a film music-based pedagogical tool. The main titles sequence of Source Code (2011, directed by Duncan Jones) provides an effective ... -
Multimedia Review of The National Jukebox: Historical Recordings from the Library of Congress
(Cambridge University Press, 2012-05)[From review]: The National Jukebox is the Library of Congress’s latest addition to its growing list of online digital collections. Even in its initial release (the site went “live” at the start of May 2011), the wealth ... -
Civic Engagement and Gentrification Issues in Metropolitan Baltimore
(Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities, 2009)Since the fall of 2006 a number of Towson University students concentrating in the discipline of anthropology have been part of a civic engagement and service-learning project focusing on an historic African-American ... -
A usability study of a data-driven health information portal: the extensibility of DHIS2
(2019-07-30)Although technology in healthcare has increased greatly over the past decade, the user experience of the combined available resources unquestionably can be improved especially when using large datasets such as District ... -
Technology-based interventions for anxiety disorders in youth: a meta-analysis
(2019-06-17)Anxiety disorders are one of the most common disorders among children and adolescents (Beesdo, Knappe, & Pine, 2009), but often go untreated due to barriers such as time and cost (Salloum, Johnco, Lewin, McBride, & Storch ... -
Analyzing the urban heat island effect in the city of Westminster, Maryland, with attention to mitigative and adaptive measures
(2019-06-19)Urban Heat Islands (UHI) have many negative health effects on vulnerable populations in urban areas. This research investigates the UHI hazard in the City of Westminster, Maryland by documenting the UHI effect and social ... -
Teaching Baltimore Together: Building Thematic Cooperation Between Classes
(Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities, 2017-05-17)One year ago, Baltimore citizens took to the streets to protest not only the death of Freddie Grey, but the structural inequalities and structural violence that systematically limit the opportunities for working-class ... -
Evaluating the effects of dereverberation techniques on speech understanding in different reverberant environments
(2019-04-15)Reverberation and background noise is present in almost all everyday listening situations. Reverberation times in real rooms vary widely from nearly several milliseconds up to several seconds based on the absorptive ...