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.
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.
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.
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.