Three USF instructors in the College of Arts and Sciences were recently published in academic journals in their respective fields of study.
Dr. Jackie Wittke-Thompson, professor of biology, had two articles published in notable journals in the biology education community. She is a member of FlyCURE and the Genomics Education Partnership.
“FlyCURE is a group of geneticists from across the USA who are working to locate specific mutations that were created in the fruit fly by Dr. Jacob Kagey (PI). All the research work is done by undergraduate students under the supervision of a faculty member. USF students in my BIOL 151 Beginning Investigative Experiences in Biology and BIOL 255 Genetics courses have been part of this project,” she explained.
“The Genomics Education Partnership is a group of geneticists, bioinformaticists, biochemists, and more who are working together to annotate genes in different eukaryotic organisms, such as fruit fly, parasitoid wasps, and the Puerto Rican parrot. All the work is done by undergraduate students under the supervision of a faculty member. USF students in BIOL 255 Genetics, BIOL 322 Molecular Biology, and BIOL 375/376 Advanced Investigative Experiences in Biology have been part of this project,” she added.
Both publications are focused on the impact of these course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) on undergraduate students.
Dr. Laura Honegger, associate professor of social work, co-authored a journal article with former USF professor Stacy Dewald and several members of the Will County Problem-Solving Court. Honegger and her team have been working together for the past few years and were thrilled the article, about their collaborative research partnership and lessons learned, was published.
“The article describes an interdisciplinary researcher-practitioner partnership between the Will County Problem-Solving Courts and the University of St. Francis’ Departments of Criminal and Social Justice and Social Work. Collaborators reflect on the mutually beneficial relationship that produced policy-informed research, new internships, and enriched classroom experiences,” Honegger said.
Dr. Anna Ioanes, assistant professor of English at USF, authored a journal article titled “Everybody’s Kathy: Acker, Laing, and the Autofictional Turn,” published in the journal Women’s Studies. The article was about the literary influence of novelist Kathy Acker on contemporary autofiction.
“This work analyzes the contemporary attention being paid to late 20th Century feminist avant-garde author Kathy Acker. Critical and creative attention to Acker’s work is taking shape in conversation with the development of auto-fiction and auto-theory as important contemporary genres,” Ioanes said.
“Analyzing one particularly significant example, Olivia Laing’s auto-fictional novel Crudo, the essay demonstrates Acker’s paranoid disposition and appropriative aesthetic techniques meet a contemporary moment shaped by digital media, resurgent white supremacist political violence, and debates about the relationship between critics and artworks,” Ioanes added.