Languages, Cultures, and Race
adrianaKyle Serrott, doctoral student, languages, cultures, and race, presented “The Politics of Decolonial Abolition” at the 2022 American Studies Association Conference in New Orleans.
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.
Vilma Navarro-Daniels, professor, languages, cultures, and race, presented “Civilization and Mental Illness or the Eternal Conflict between Dionysus and Apollo: An Interpretation of Gabriel García Márquez’s ‘The Happy Summer of Mrs. Forbes’” during the 17th International Conference of Classical Studies at Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación in Santiago, Chile.
Greg Yasinitsky, emeritus professor, music, released two versions of his new holiday song, “It’s Santa!,” on Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube, Amazon, Deezer, and other platforms. One version features emeritus faculty Yasinitsky on saxophone, Horace Alexander Young as vocalist, and David Jarvis on drums, along with current music faculty A.J. Miller and Sarah Miller on trombones, and alumnus David Larsen on saxophone.
Samuel Ginsburg, assistant professor, languages, cultures, and race, authored “Speculating the Future from Our Apocalyptic Present” in American Studies Journal. Ginsburg also presented “Daywalkers: Taking Up Space as Anti-Gentrification Practice in wokitokiteki and Vampires vs. the Bronx” for the American Studies Association.
Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo and Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo, professors, languages, cultures, and race, co-authored “The medicalisation of threats, immigration as contagion, and White supremacy in an age of terror” in Critical Studies on Terrorism.
Yoon Wha “Yuna” Roh, assistant professor, career track, music, won Grand Prize in the London International Music Competition.
Mark Fagiano, assistant professor, politics, philosophy, and public affairs, authored Practicing Empathy: Pragmatism and the Value of Relations, Bloomsbury Press, forthcoming, October 2022.
Samuel Ginsburg, assistant professor, languages, cultures, and race, authored “It Ain’t Easy Being a Robot in the Caribbean: Resisting Utopian Visions of Puerto Rican Techno-Colonialism through Street Art” in Voces del Caribe.
Vilma Navarro-Daniels, professor; María Serenella Previto, associate professor, career-track; and Sonia López-López, assistant professor, career-track, languages, cultures, and race, presented at the CICELI III, International Conference “FEmale Creators in Literary and Intercultural Education” at the Universitat de València, Spain.
Navarro-Daniels presented “Women’s Stories Filmed by Women: A Didactic Experience through Ten Latin American Female Filmmakers of the 21st Century” as the inaugural keynote address. Previto presented “Del oscurantismo a la Ilustración: una interpretación de The Others, de Alejandro Amenábar” (“From Darkness to Enlightenment: An Interpretation of Alejandro Amenábar’s The Others”).“ Lopez-Lopez presented Lupita Mañana o la mirada de la inmigrante indocumentada: una propuesta didáctica” (“Lupita Mañana or the Gaze of the Female Undocumented Immigrant: A Didactic Proposal“).