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The Presidential Honors Visiting Scholars Program establishes a permanent relation with distinguished individuals who come to our campus on a regular basis to give public lectures, present guest class lectures, and conduct workshops, as well as supervise off-campus events for our students. These events provide an intense educational and cultural enrichment for our Honors students, and, in many cases, for the general Tarleton community, that would not be otherwise available. These Visiting Scholars can best be described as "public intellectuals"—they have impressive academic credentials and can operate within the academic sphere, but they also interact with the general public and contribute to the public dialogue.
Dr. Marcelle Cedars
Maria Giovanna Domenichini
George Oduor Oloo
Tommy Denton
Mariachiara Russo
Text of Prof. Russo's "Language and Culture: Forms of Interpreting"
Joe Holley
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Dr.
Cedars is one of the top experts in the country on reproductive medicine and
infertility. She has appeared on 60 Minutes, and she is regularly
interviewed by major news organizations about the rapidly developing technology
in the field and some of the social and ethical issues that these developments
raise.
Ms.
Domenichini currently teaches Italian at the University of Rijeka in Pula,
Croatia. Previous appointments as an Italian lecturer include the University of
Nairobi in Kenya, Trinity College at the University of Dublin in Ireland, and
the University of Malaya at Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. She holds an M. Phil. in
applied linguistics from Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, with a thesis on
crosslinguistic influence and a degree in foreign languages and literature from
the University of Pisa in Italy.
Mr.
Oloo, currently on leave from the University of Nairobi, holds a master’s in
linguistics from the University of Nairobi in Kenya. His thesis, Comparative
Study of Western Nilotic Languages, was published in Occasional Papers in
Language and Linguistics, Vol. I, 41-54 (2001). Mr. Oloo’s research
focuses on African languages, with an emphasis on Kiswahili and Luo.
Tommy Denton, an award-winning columnist and editorial
writer, has been the editorial page editor of The Roanoke Times
in Roanoke, Virginia, since 1998. From 1983 to 1998 he worked for
the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, as op-ed page editor, editorial
page editor, and senior editorial writer and columnist. In the
early 1980s, as Executive Assistant for State Affairs, Mr. Denton was in
charge of operations in Texas for U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen. He
is co-author with Frank Anton of Why Didn't You Get Me Out?, published
in June 1997 by Summit Publishing Group. Mr. Denton holds a Master
of Public Affairs from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at
the University of Texas at Austin, a Master of Science in journalism
from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, and a
B.A. from Baylor University. He has taught journalism courses at
Texas Christian University and at Virginia Commonwealth University.
His history with Tarleton goes back to 1987, when he participated in a
symposium at Tarleton on the Vietnam War and the movie Platoon.
Mariachiara Russo is an associate professor at the
Advanced School of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators (Scuola
Superiore di Lingue Moderne per Interpreti e Traduttori) in Forlí,
Italy, an institute affiliated with the University of Bologna. As
a graduate of the Advanced School of Modern Languages for Interpreters
and Translators at the University of Trieste in Italy, Prof. Russo began
her professional career in 1988 as a conference interpreter of English and
Spanish. From 1993 to 2001, before coming to Forlí, she taught
simultaneous and consecutive interpreting from Spanish into Italian at
her alma mater in Trieste. Her research interests include testing
methodology to assess students’ aptitude for simultaneous
interpreting, linguistic contrasts between Spanish and Italian, analysis
of errors in interpreting, simultaneous interpreting of film, and the
effect of language directionality in simultaneous interpreting. Prof. Russo has
published numerous scholarly articles in Italian, Spanish, and English,
and she is co-editor of the widely recognized Interpretazione
simultanea e consecutiva: Problemi teorici e metodologie didattiche
(“Simultaneous and Consecutive Interpreting: Theoretical Problems and
Didactic Methodology”) published by Milan: Hoepli, 1999.
Dr. Shaw is a freelance journalist and speaker with a special interest in the arts. He is a frequent reviewer of music,
art, dance, and theater for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and a number of other publications. Dr. Shaw gives
pre-performance lectures at Bass Hall for all Fort Worth Opera performances, and he has authored program notes
for the Fort Worth Symphony and Fort Worth Opera. He conducts a monthly lectures series on music at Borders
Books and Music called "Meet the Music" which is now sponsored by the Presidential Honors Program at Tarleton.
Dr. Shaw holds a Ph.D. in communications from UT-Austin.
Mr.
Holley is a staff writer for the Washington Post. Previously,
he has been the editor of "Insight," the Sunday opinion section
of the San Antonio Express-News, editorial page editor of the San
Antonio Light and San Diego Tribune, and editor of the Texas
Observer. He has also worked as speech writer for Texas Gov. Ann
Richards and Texas Land Commissioner Gary Mauro. Mr. Holley is co-author
with Tara Holley of My Mother’s Keeper (William Morrow and Avon
Books), 1997, and he is also the recipient of the "The Pulliam,"
a prestigious national award for editorial writing. Mr. Holley holds a
Master’s in English from the University of Texas in Austin and a
Master’s in journalism from Columbia.
Dr. Hull is Professor Emeritus in philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he held a joint appointment
in the School of Medicine. He has published and lectured extensively in the areas of medical ethics and the ethics of
scientific research. Also, Dr. Hull was the Executive Director of the Texas Council for the Humanities from September 1997
to August 1999. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Indiana University.