Samuel Ginsburg, assistant professor, languages, cultures, and race, presented “Daywalking: Gentrification and Making Space in Vampires vs. the Bronx and wokitokiteki” at University of California San Diego’s Latin American Studies/Department of Literature.
Faculty, staff, students, and alumni of English regularly present and publish great work—find many of their achievements in the department’s 2021-22 newsletter.
John Streamas, associate professor, languages, cultures, and race, authored the essay “An End of Closure” in Time’s News, a publication of the International Society for the Study of Time.
Melanie-Angela Neuilly, associate professor, criminal justice and criminology, authored “Sources of bias in death determination: A research note articulating the need to include systemic sources of biases along with cognitive ones as impacting mortality data,” which the Journal of Forensic Sciences named among its most noteworthy articles of 2022.
William Lipe, emeritus professor, anthropology, was named a 2023 distinguished alumnus of the Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma in recognition of his leadership on several major projects of national significance.
Vilma Navarro-Daniels, professor, and Maria Serenella Previto, associate professor, career track, languages, cultures, and race, presented their paper, “Motherhood as Tragedy: A Reading of Pedro Almodóvar’s Julieta,” as part of the panel “Maternal Portraits in Spanish and Chilean Cinema” at the 31st International Conference of the Association of Gender and Sexuality Studies hosted by the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso in Valparaíso, Chile.
Numerous publications, presentations, and other accomplishments of criminal justice and criminology faculty, staff, and graduate students can be found in the department’s 2022 newsletter.
L. Buddy Levy, professor, English, read from his new book, Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk at Kenworthy Kenworthy Performing Arts Center in Moscow, Idaho.
Kyle Serrott, doctoral student, languages, cultures, and race, presented “The Politics of Decolonial Abolition” at the 2022 American Studies Association Conference in New Orleans.
Samuel Ginsburg, assistant professor, languages, cultures, and race, authored “Catfish and Nanobots: Invasive Species and Eco-critical Futures in Alejandro Rojas Medina’s Chunga Maya” in Posthumanism and Latin(x) American Science Fiction.