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

Recent publications include the following:

Publications

Saul Hoffman, professor emeritus of economics, published Women and the Economy: Family, Work and Pay (fifth edition), a textbook for undergraduate economics courses that focus on gender issues. The fifth edition is coauthored with Susan Averett and Laura Argys and is published by Bloomsbury Press.

Heinz-Uwe Haus, professor emeritus of theatre, published under his pseudonym Jean Bodin (for literary and art work) a Collection of Poetry in Chinese, translated by Paul Tseng, in December with Ahkue Publishing House, Taipeh, Taiwan (ROC). It is Haus' first book publication in Asia; both literary and academic texts by the author were occasionally published in journals in Taiwan, India, South Korea and Thailand. Kim Seh's epilogue emphasizes “the penetrating dialectical search and disclosure of human feelings and behaviour.”

Andrew Jenks, educational assessment specialist in the Center for Teaching and Assessment of Learning and adjunct faculty member in the Department of Political Science and International Relations, is the lead author, with Lindsay Onufer (University of Pittsburgh) and Dan Guberman (Purdue University), of "Emergent questions of access: disability and the integration of generative AI in teaching and learning," recently published in Higher Education Research and Development. The article asks how universities are (not) considering the experiences of disabled people in conversations when setting policy on the use of generative AI tools as well as their integration in the classroom. It highlights the ways in which myths about disabled students as being lazy and using these tools to cheat are all too often the dominant considerations of disability and generative AI in higher education, rather than considering the needs of disabled students while highlighting the promise and potential that engaging disabled stakeholders in the creation of AI policy and practice can have.

Ben Yagoda, professor emeritus of English, is the author of Gobsmacked: The British Invasion of American English, published by Princeton University Press. Listed among the best books of 2024 by The Economist, it looks at how and why scores of British words and phrases have been adopted by Americans. Gobsmacked features chapters on the American embrace of British insults and curses, sports terms and words about food and drinks, as well as the American adoption of British spellings, pronunciations and grammar, along with cases where Americans have misconstrued British expressions. A critic in The Wall Street Journal wrote, “...Yagoda shows readers how to delight in the lexical creativity of this ever-changing language."

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