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Dr. Paula Barnes had her article "Buchi Emecheta" published in Magill’s Survey of World Literature, revised edition.
Ms. Shonda Buchanan presented "Landscapte and the Black Author: The Location of the Hero in Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned Through the Lens of Henry Louis Gates’ Signifying Monkey at the Southern Conference on African American Studies.
Dr. Amee Carmines presented a paper on Shakespeare’s Othello and the film "O" at the Popular Culture Association of the South conference.
Dr. Bryan Herek presented a paper "John Donne and the Intelligent Agent" at the John Donne Society Conference.
Dr. Karima Jeffrey presented a paper, "George Lamming’s ‘G’ and Jamaica Kincaid’s ‘Annie’: Two Littoral Figures and Their Confrontation with Sea, the Self, and the Birth of an Authorial Language," at the Caribbean Philosophical Association’s annual conference. Dr Jeffrey has completed her scholarly research on Jamaica Kincaid and her use of littoral figures in "Annie John" and "Antigua Crossings".
Dr. Margaret Lee had an article published in Names: A Journal of Onomastics entitled "Selling Decency and Innocence: Names of Singing Groups in the Malt Shop Memories Collection".

Mr. Kwabena Ampofo-Anti had a one person exhibition of ceramic sculptures and works on paper entitled "Ancestral Vessels: Sacred Links" at the Millennium Arts Salon, Washington, D. C.
Dr. Robin Boisseau presented an article "Stability and Change: The Impact of Annie Horniman’s Theatre Management in the Early Abbey Theater," at the Communications Association Conference, and presented a paper to the American Conference for Irish Studies entitled "Making the Invisible Women Visible: The (Un)seen Women of J. M. Synge’s Riders to the Sea".
Dr. C. Perry Otto presented a paper entitled "Rhetoric, Science, and Global Warming" at the Southern States Communication Association conference and was recognized as having a Top Ten paper in the theory area.
Dr. Anne Pierce exhibited her photos at the Charles Taylor Gallery in the Virginia Artists 2009 show, and was awarded Fulbright-Hays Summer Faculty Fellowship to study Senegalese photography and fine arts at the West Africa Research Center, Dakar, Senegal.
Ms. Jamantha Watson appeared in the movie "Flicker".

Dr. Jacques Digbeu, Modern Foreign Languages, completed his article on "Kracauer Critique de la Literature de la Jeunesse," for the Journal Germanistik.

Dr. Marvin Western presented a workshop on the "Pedagogy of Practicing and Learning Music," at the Virginia Music Educators Association meeting.

Dr. Joy Hendrickson, Political Science and History, presented a paper entitled "Two Women Writing Africa: A Reassessment of the Works of Adelaide Casely Hayford and Nana Asma’u" at the annual meeting of the African Studies Association.
Dr. Natalie Robertson, Political Science and History, delivered a slide presentation on her book The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Making of Africa Town, U. S. A: Spirit of Our Ancestors at the Library of Congress as a special guest of Blacks in Government.

Dr. Leona Johnson presented a paper on "Mental Illness in the Academy: Crisis Intervention" (with Dr. Sherree Davis, Sociology) at the National Association of African American Studies and presented a paper on the Implications of Psychosocial and Cognitive Competencies on Culture, Pedagogy and Social Justice at the Multicultural Conference and Summit .
Dr. Linda Malone-Colon presented a paper on African American Marriages at the African American Healthy Marriages Initiative Conference.

Dr. Zina McGee continues her research on crime, violence and victimization with a published article "Assessing Crime Patterns and Victimization among Mothers in Prison," in It’s a Crime: Women and Justice.