This will be our last newsletter for the year. The first 2023 issue will be distributed on January 11.

Lunch Colloquium -- TUESDAY, January 17, 2023

“Staying Alive in Little Five: Confronting Stigma and Promoting Harm Reduction in a Graphic Novel Intervention”

Sarah Febres-Cordero

Postdoctoral Fellow, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing



The opioid epidemic continues to impact communities across the US. Despite the availability of naloxone (an opioid antagonist), overdose deaths continue to rise. Naloxone and other harm reduction strategies, such as fentanyl test strips for illicit drug use, are gaining popularity and are more accessible now than ever. However, the stigma surrounding opioid use, naloxone distribution, and fentanyl testing persists despite evidence that these tools effectively decrease opioid overdose. Service industry workers (bartenders, servers, baristas, clerks, etc.) are on the frontline of the opioid epidemic. The community of service industry workers is uniquely positioned to intervene in opioid-related overdose, educate on naloxone distribution and administration, and would benefit from testing personal drug supplies with fentanyl test strips. However, there is a dearth of research on opioid-involved overdose that engages and tailors evidence-based interventions to fit their needs. By creating culturally appropriate interventions for service industry workers, there is potential to train a vast workforce as first responders to opioid-involved overdoses.



About Sarah Febres-Cordero:

Dr. Sarah Febres-Cordero, a post-doctoral fellow at Emory’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, is a PhD prepared registered nurse trained in community health and public health nursing. While a doctoral student, she created a graphic medicine novel with input from community members, to address opioid-involved overdose identification and naloxone administration by laypeople. This work was recently highlighted in Emory University’s Science Gallery Atlanta first exhibit entitled, HOOKED: When Want Becomes Need.

In addition to participating in the post-doctoral program at the School of Nursing, Dr. Febres-Cordero serves as an ambassador for the Atlanta Harm Reduction Coalition, where she has built working relationships with people who use drugs to better understand their needs, the needs of their families, and their communities. She is also the founder of the Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution (OEND) lab at the School of Nursing. The mission of this program is to educate people who use drugs, lay people, and service industry workers across Atlanta about safer drug use, opioid-involved overdose identification, and naloxone distribution.



Emory Volunteer Opportunity

If you’re interested in participating in governance in the larger Emory community, standing committees of the University Senate are a good way to do so without a large time commitment. These committees may meet a few times per semester, often on Zoom, and the term is one year. In the past, I have enjoyed my experience on the Committee on the Environment.

Committees are open to faculty with emeritus status, and openings for 2023-2024 and the application procedure are listed below in the email from Alicia Ory DeNicola. Select one that sounds interesting and go for it! It’s a great way to share your institutional wisdom and also contribute to the visibility of EUEC. Application deadline is January 15, 2023.

Best wishes,

Holly York, EUEC delegate to the University Senate and Faculty Council

Dear members of the Emory community,

This email goes out to you soliciting applications for various standing committees of the University Senate.

The University Senate, comprised of Emory faculty, staff, and students from across all schools of the University, is an essential component of university governance. Senate members are called on to consider and make recommendations regarding all matters of general interest at the University level, to review all new policies and changes to existing ones, to submit recommendations to the University President on any matter affecting the interests of the organization, and to make recommendations regarding honorary degree recipients.

During the academic year, the University Senate holds seven monthly meetings and shares minutes online, while committees address issues related to specific topics and report back before the full University Senate. Membership on these committees is not limited to elected or appointed members of the Senate.

The standing committees of the University Senate for which we are soliciting applications to serve 1-year terms as committee members are as follows:

• Athletics and Recreation
• Campus Development
• Campus Life
• Environment
• Fringe Benefits
• Governance
• Honorary Degrees
• Library Policy
• Open Expression
• Prevention of Sexual Violence
• Transportation and Parking

Learn more about the work of the University Senate's standing committees and find related contacts and information here.

Those interested to serve on one (or more) of these committees should upload HERE a short statement of interest and a CV by January 15, 2023.

Thanks for your willingness to serve and to participate in the shared governance of our University!

Yours sincerely,

Alicia Ory DeNicola

Associate Professor of Anthropology

   Oxford College of Emory University

President, University Senate

Chair, Faculty Council

REMINDER: Seeking Nominations - EUEC Faculty and Service Awards

Each year, the Emory University Emeritus College (EUEC) offers two categories of awards: the EUEC Faculty Awards of Distinction and the Distinguished Service Award. Please know we are now beginning to accept nominations for 2023. 

For the 2023 awards, completed nominations must be submitted by no later than 5:00 p.m., Wednesday, March 1, 2023. Please submit nominations by email to Dianne Becht, EUEC Program Coordinator, whose email address is Dianne.becht@emory.edu. 

Please consider nominating one or more of your colleagues. And please know that self-nominations are also permitted and encouraged. Too often, retired faculty are not fully aware of the achievements of their colleagues, and we must rely on self-disclosure. 

The eligibility requirements are as follows: 

 EUEC Faculty Award of Distinction (formerly Distinguished Emeritus/Emerita Award):  

• All retired Emory faculty who have been members of EUEC for at least two years. 
• Significant professional contributions since retirement to Emory University or its affiliated institutions, as well as contributions to local, state, regional, national, or international communities or professional organizations that reflect the “spirit of Emory.”   
• A maximum of four awards are given annually. 
• This award may be conferred only once. 

Distinguished Service Award:  

• All members of the EUEC, including those who have received the Distinguished Faculty Award of Distinction. 
• Membership in the EUEC for at least two years.
• Significant service to Emory University or its affiliated institutions, as well as to local, state, regional, national, or international communities or other organizations that reflect the “spirit of Emory.”  These contributions must have been made since retirement and are beyond those used to support a previous Distinguished Faculty Award. 
• No requirement that an award will be given each year. 

When you make your nomination, please include the following: 

• Name of nominee 
• Department or unit with which the nominee is associated. 
• Contact information (email, phone number, and mailing address of nominee). 
• Name of nominator 
• Department or unit with which the nominator is associated. 
• Contact information (email, phone number and mailing address of nominator). 
• Description of why the nominee should receive this honor, in no more than two pages. Please do not exceed this limit, but be certain to include enough information for the selection committee to make an informed decision. Please include a curriculum vitae if possible. 

Please let us know if you have questions about this process. Thank you in advance for your participation. 

Sincerely,  

Glenn Kellum 

Chair, EUEC Honors and Awards Committee  

Senior Associate Vice President, Retired, Foundation and Corporate Relations

Member Activities

On December 6, 2022, nine members of the Emeritus College were honored at the annual Feast of Words, held in the Jones Room at the Woodruff Library. Below is a list of our Emeritus members who published a book between September 1, 2021 and August 31, 2022. Congratulations to everyone!

For more information and a link to the complete list of honorees please click here.

• Abdullahi A. An-Naim (Law), Decolonizing Human Rights. Cambridge UP.



• Samiran Banerjee (Economics), ed. The Collected Papers of Leonid Hurwicz, Vol. 1. Oxford UP.

• William J. Carney (Law, Emeritus) and Robert T. Miller. Mergers and Acquisitions, Cases and Materials, 6^th ed. Foundation.

• Lucas Carpenter (English, Oxford, Emeritus), Mother Medusa, Poets’ Choice.

• Mel Konner (Anthropology, Emeritus), Mujeres Ante Todo: Sexo, Evolución y el Fin de la supremacía masculine. Trans. Almuzara.

• Mel Konner (Anthropology, Emeritus), La Especie Espiritual: Por Que Las Creencias Son Parte de la Naturaleza Humana. Trans. Almuzara.

• Rosemary Magee (Libraries, Emerita), Family Impromptu: Collected Stories. Conrad.

• Carol Newsom (Theology, Emerita), The Spirit within Me: Self and Agency in Ancient Israel and Second Temple Judaism. Yale UP.

• Russell Richey (Theology, Emeritus), A Church’s Broken Heart: Mason-Dixon Methodism. New Room.



• Larry Taulbee (Political Science, Emeritus) and Gerhard von Glahn. Law Among Nations: An Introduction to Public International Law, 12th ed. Routledge.

In Memoriam

Jonathan Goldberg

Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English

Jonathan Goldberg, died on February 9. In addition to being on the faculty of the Department of English, Jonathan was affiliated faculty in the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and he was a cofounder and first Director of the Studies in Sexualities Program.

From Carla Freeman in the College of Arts and Sciences:

It is with great sadness that I write to share the loss of our friend and colleague, Jonathan Goldberg, who died on December 9. 

Jonathan was a friend and great supporter of intellectual life at Emory College over many

years. He was a cofounder and first Director of the Studies in Sexualities Program (2007-2012). Under his leadership, the program hosted exciting conferences such as Risky Sex (2010) and Queer Worlds and Global Positions (2011), as well as lectures by José Muñoz, Valerie Traub, Robert Rheid-Pharr, Cathy Cohen, Vernon Rosario, and Gayle Rubin, among many others. Jonathan’s efforts created an important space for queer community among graduate students,

undergraduates, and faculty at Emory. 

A highly influential scholar of early modern literature, Jonathan helped create the now

burgeoning field of queer early modern studies. He was the author of seventeen monographs whose subjects ranged from Spenser to Shakespeare, Willa Cather, Lucretius, Alfred Hitchcock, Patricia Highsmith, Sappho, Douglas Sirk, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Todd Haynes, Saint Mark, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. His most recent book, published in 2022 by Fordham University Press, is Being of Two Minds: Modernist Literary Criticism and Early Modern Texts. His edited

volumes include work on queer early modern studies, sodomy, and Milton. A 2012 Brown University conference in his honor, “Writing Sex and Other Matters with Jonathan Goldberg,” which resulted in an edited volume about the worldmaking power of his work on early modern literature. He also edited Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s posthumous The Weather in Proust (2011). He was a gifted close reader and a formidable theorist who was as adept at negotiating the psycholinguistic moves of queer negativity as he was with the Lucretian swerve. Jonathan’s life and work were worldmaking, in the queer sense of the Old English world he brought out in Spenser: the making of “something like subjective experience, the meaning of a life” that cannot be captured as the

“totality that sums up a life.” His worlding was “sapphic,” a creative process he described in Sappho: Fragments as the beautiful “pairing of love and writing” where “love is bittersweet–bitter and sweet.” 

Jonathan joined the Emory faculty in fall 2006 as Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor in the Department of English. He was affiliated faculty in the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. He received his BA, MA, and PhD from Columbia University, and was a 1984 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. He previously taught at Johns Hopkins University, where he was Sir William Osler Professor of English Literature; he also has held positions at Temple, Brown, and Duke Universities. 

We will remember him for being our fearless colleague, teacher, and friend. Our thoughts and love go out to Michael Moon, his partner of 38 years, and his daughters Julia and Abby. 

To view an obituary please click here.



The beautiful, meditative spot from our last walk can be found in Hahn Woods, located at 880 Houston Mill Road, not far from the Luce Center. It's connected to Lullwater Preserve via a trail that goes underneath Houston Mill Road at the bridge near the old water mill waterfall.

The 4.7 acre woods are named after T. Marshal Hahn, Jr. who was an Emory Trustee and CEO of Georgia-Pacific. There is a half-mile trail that traverses a shady flood plain along the South Fork of Peachtree Creek. If you look closely through all of the vines and undergrowth you may find remnants of an old, water-powered grist mill that was built in 1863.

Note: The last time I took a walk through this area, the trail between Lullwater Preserve and Hahn Woods was closed for sewer line repairs. I've been told it will reopen sometime in the new year.

That's it for 2022! We will resume walking the campus in January -- until then, stay safe, healthy, and enjoy the Holiday Season!!