For the Record provides information about recent professional activities and honors of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni.

Recent presentations, publications and honors include the following:

Presentations 

On March 6, 2025, Margaret Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and professor of humanities, gave a paper at the Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) convention in Philadelphia. Her paper, "Re-turning to The Return of the Soldier (1982)," was part of a panel on films of World War I. It analyzed the director Alan Bridges's film of a 1918 novel by the British feminist writer, Rebecca West, highlighting how both centered the experiences of women on the homefront, not merely of men on the battlefield, while also critiquing both the war itself and the unjust social order that it was meant to defend.

Publications

Monica Cameron Frichtel, assistant professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance, co-published with Ellen Gerdes, "Dance Studies," a chapter in the newest edition of Undergraduate research in dance: A guide for students, a book by Lynnette Overby, professor emeritus in the Department of Theatre and Dance, Jenny Olin Shanahan and Gregory Young. The chapter, one of two new chapters to the book, introduces students to the relatively new field of dance studies, a scholarly field that has grown out of dance history, cultural studies and embodied practices of dance. The other new chapter is titled, "Mentoring students to conduct dance research," and is written by Overby and Doug Risner. The book's first edition was published in 2019. and it has been a popular text for undergraduate dance students in the United States and Europe. 

Heinz-Uwe Haus, professor emeritus in the Department of Theatre and Dance, published in the newest issue of COMENIUS, Journal of Euro-American Civilization (New York, 2024, Vol. 11,Nr 2), an article, titled "The United States as a Hate Object." The author argues that "anti-Americanism" cannot be isolated as a consistent phenomenon, since the term originated as a rough composite of stereotypes, prejudices and criticisms that evolved into more politically based criticism. "We deal with an irrational aversion to a presumed ‘American character’ and value system. A standard distinction between America-bashing and rational critique is that between disapproval of what America is and what America does. But the two inevitably become entangled during times of transatlantic friction," Haus writes. In his view it is the mere fact of the presence, in the world, of a society defined in terms of capitalism and democracy that scandalizes sectors of German and old European society. It is not an intrusive imposition of America's democratic capitalism that provokes the protests but the mere temptation that it represents.

Honors

On Feb. 21, 2025, Alice M. Moore, Protection of Minors Program coordinator in the Office of Equity and Inclusion, accepted the Eleanor P. Eells Award for Program Excellence of the American Camp Association for Camp Dream. Speak. Live. Delaware, a free camp for children who stutter offered in July and August 2024 on the STAR Campus.The award honors programs that develop effective, creative responses to the needs of people and/or societal problems using the camp environment or programs that demonstrate the positive contributions the camp experience has on the well-being of individuals and society. 

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