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Portrait 2025 Spring
Full text linkPortrait is Buffalo State University ’s student-run and edited biannual literary arts magazine. We publish a range of student work including poetry, short stories, nonfiction, flash fiction, interviews, photography, graphic designs, personal essays, artwork, and more. Fall issues appear online, while spring issues are available both digitally and in print.
The magazine showcases the artistic diversity of our campus while providing students an opportunity to formally submit and publish their creative work.
Many thanks to Dr. Kara Maloney, Portrait instructor, for her guidance; Dr. David Ben-Merre, chair of the English department, for his support.https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/portrait/1012/thumbnail.jp
Beyond the Book Cover: Learning about Peritextual Features in a Book Club
Full text linkHolding conversations about setting, character, and plot are important conversations in a book club, but just as important are conversations about book features. This classroom practice article describes our experience teaching about peritextual features during a book club with children with learning difficulties
Centering BLACK Girl Love: Unearthing Black Girls’ Truths in a Predominantly White, Loveless Elementary School
Full text linkThis study examines the transformative power of literacy as a tool for healing, resistance, and revolutionary love in the lives of BLACK girls navigating predominantly white elementary school spaces. Revolutionary love is conceptualized as practices of care, affirmation, and joy that challenge systemic oppression while fostering belonging and possibility. Conducted in an elementary school in upstate New York, this research follows eleven participants from kindergarten through fourth grade, exploring their lived experiences and literacy practices during English Language Arts (ELA) instruction.
Drawing on Brian Street’s (1984) assertion that literacy is a social practice shaped by cultural and power dynamics, this study interrogates the power of BLACK girl literacy practices. Anchored in the frameworks of Cultural Intuition (Delgado Bernal, 1998), Critical Race Theory (Bell, 1992), and Intersectionality (Crenshaw, 1989), literacy is framed as an emancipatory practice—a sanctuary, a site of resistance, and a generator of BLACK girl love. Through storytelling, play, and multimodal literacies, participants reimagined themselves, critiqued oppressive systems, and envisioned pathways toward healing and justice within a school they described as “loveless”—a space that failed to affirm their identities and brilliance.
The findings illuminate the intricate relationship between the structural violence these girls endured and their literacy-based meaning-making. Literacy emerged as a tool of emotional and political liberation, empowering participants to critique anti-Blackness and to imagine justice-centered futures. This research underscores the urgent need for transformative educational practices that honor Black girlhood, positioning literacy as a means to cultivate spaces where the petals of their identities and genius can bloom freely, unthreatened by the cutting hands of systemic oppression
CIS131
No full textAn investigation into computer programming including variables, control structures, lists, arithmetic and recursive functions, and composition of functions, in preparation for developing algorithms and writing computer programs. Arithmetic, geometric, searching, and sorting algorithms will be explored and programmed using a low-syntax programming language
ENT342
No full textMethods of DC electrical-circuit analysis, DC transient-circuit analysis, Laplace Transforms and applications to electrical circuits and sinusoidal (AC) steady state analysis, transfer functions and networks, frequency response and Bode plots, waveform analysis, and Fourier analysis
FTT327
No full textFocus on 3D design and patternmaking; avatar customization; application of digital materials, top stitching, and findings to 3D garment design; advanced garment design and construction techniques; transforming the garment design into a virtual fashion show presentation; implementation of surface design techniques into digital garment projects and assignments
FTT350
No full textFocus on fashion analytics and its application in fashion retailing; types of fashion-related data and data management principles; experience with spreadsheet packages and databases; data visualization to form data insights; and data-driven decision-making process through effective story telling in written report and presentation
HTR385
No full textA comprehensive overview of the private club industry. Emphasis on unreasonable hospitality for changing demographic member services such as social spaces and athletic activities including dining and culinary, special events, tennis, swimming, golf and other sports. Leadership of complex facilities, finance, capital improvement, board governance and structure will be analyzed
Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs. Thrale) (1741-1821) An Annotated Bibliography of her Published Works together with Biography, Criticism, and Appearances in Fiction
Full text linkThere is no such field as “Piozzi Studies”—at least, not yet. For 250 years, scholarship on Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs. Thrale) has been desultory at best and at worst non-existent. Scholars who first undertook to analyze her life or edit her works were generally interested only in her relations with Samuel Johnson and James Boswell. Once feminist scholars began to champion the Bluestocking Circle, of which Mrs. Thrale was a peripheral member, Piozzi’s life and writings came to be taken more seriously. A significant milestone was reached in 2021 with the conference Celebrating Hester Thrale Piozzi (1741–1821). Still, while Piozzi has been the subject of three excellent biographies since 1940, there is no book-length analysis of her diverse and remarkable writing. Such scholarship as exists is broadly scattered among academic journals and collections.
This bibliography offers a comprehensive listing of published works by and about Piozzi, supplying a brief description of the argument of each essay or book and often a comment on its value to scholars. It is a work in progress that will be updated each January. Addresses of works available online will be added. Apart from dissertations and translations of HLP’s works into Italian and German, this bibliography includes only books and articles that I have read.
Advice and corrections are welcome, as is information about works on Piozzi not yet included
CRJ402
No full textAdvanced course in management concepts and issues applicable to the administration of criminal justice agencies. Emphasis on a systems model of organizational analysis. Exploration of policy creation and enforcement. Facilitators and barriers to workplace efficacy