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Monday, February 5, 2018

Faulkner publishes ‘Real Women Run’ | Composer Jennifer Higdon wins Grammy

‘REAL WOMEN RUN’
FAULKNER BOOK URGES A MORE PHYSICAL FEMINISM

In a way, Dr. Sandra Faulkner has been preparing for her new book, “Real Women Run: Running as Feminist Embodiment,” her whole life. Since childhood she has been either running or wanting to run, and that desire to experience the physicality of herself has fed her personal and scholarly explorations of embodiment, identity and feminist theory.

Knitting all these threads into a coherent whole required an innovative approach. Published by Routledge, “Real Women Run” calls upon Faulkner’s personal experiences as a runner and a poet along with her expertise in poetic inquiry, ethnography and feminist analysis.

“I wanted to use my personal ethnography and connect it to larger societal influences, taking the personal to the public,” said Faulkner, a professor in the Department of Communication and director and graduate coordinator of the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies program. She includes journal entries from throughout her life, linked essays, haikus and poems, and stories of women who run, encompassing feminist, queer and running identities in a call for a more physical feminism.

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Jennifer Higdon accepts the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition.

ACCLAIMED COMPOSER
JENNIFER HIGDON ’86 SCORES AGAIN AT 2018 GRAMMY AWARDS

It’s another Grammy Award for composer Jennifer Higdon, a 1986 BGSU alumna. Higdon won the Best Contemporary Classical Composition award for her composition "Viola Concerto."

“Viola Concerto” was co-commissioned by the Library of Congress and the Curtis Institute of Music. It was performed by soloist Roberto Díaz with the Nashville Symphony and conducted by Giancarlo Guerrero.

The record it appeared on also won an award. “Higdon: All Things Majestic, Viola Concerto and Oboe Concerto” won in the Best Classical Compendium category.

Higdon’s first Grammy came in 2005, when her album of her compositions “Cityscape” and “Concerto for Orchestra” was named the Best Classical Engineered Album. She won again in 2009 when her “Percussion Concerto” was named Best Contemporary Classical Composition. That year she also received the Pulitzer Prize in Music for her “Violin Concerto,” composed for soloist Hilary Hahn.

OBITUARIES
Linda Snyder, 64, died Jan. 23 in Bowling Green. She retired in 2014 as an administrative assistant in Student Financial Aid, and had earlier worked in areas including the provost office and the University bookstore.

Neal Carothers, 65, professor emeritus of mathematics and statistics, died Jan. 29 in Bowling Green. He joined the Department of Mathematics and Statistics in 1987, served as chair from 1999-2007, and retired in 2012.

Truc Truong Nguyen, 70, professor emeritus of mathematics and statistics, died Dec. 16, 2017, in McKinney, Texas. He taught at the University from 1982-2007.