Administration and scholarship to mix during Brown Bag Lecture on campus

Virginia Horvath

John Kijinski

SUNY Fredonia will present a discussion of the ways two of its academic administrators engage in scholarly practice and see their roles in supporting and engaging others’ scholarship. The event on Wednesday, March 4, at noon, is part of the Brown Bag Lecture series and will be held in Room S104 of the Williams Center.

After a brief overview, Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities John Kijinski and Vice President for Academic Affairs Virginia Horvath will each share some of their scholarly work.

The Brown Bag Lecture series, sponsored by the College of Arts and Humanities, offers informal talks on the first Wednesday of each academic month, October through May, featuring new creative and scholarly work by members of the SUNY Fredonia faculty. Each talk and/or presentation is followed by a brief discussion. Refreshments are served and all members of the campus and community are welcome to attend.

Vice President Horvath is also a professor in the Department of English. Formerly, she served as Dean of Academic and Student Services at Kent State University and Special Assistant to the President for Strategic Planning. A recipient of Kent State’s prestigious Distinguished Teaching Award, Dr. Horvath has specialties in medieval literature, children’s/young adult literature, poetry, and issues in higher education. She spent a year as a Visiting Professor at Shimane University in Japan, and was selected as an American Council on Education Fellow. Dr. Horvath is the author of publications on a range of subjects and has presented many papers and workshops across the U.S. and internationally. In addition, she has been a consultant for universities and organizations on such topics as documentation of faculty work, promotion and tenure policies and issues, peer review, strategic planning, and syllabus and course design. A native of Western New York, she earned a B.A. in English from the State University of Buffalo and an M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Kent State University. She is married to Dr. Brooke Horvath, and they have four daughters.

Dr. John Kijinski is also a professor in the Department of English. Formerly, he served as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and as chair of the Department of English and Philosophy at Idaho State University. His specialty is Victorian literature and culture, a topic on which he has published articles in a variety of journals. A native of northern Ohio, he earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and lived in Idaho for 20 years before returning to the area in 2007 to take his current position.