Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies
adrianaJohn Streamas, associate professor, critical culture, gender, and race studies, authored “The Descent of Man and Everyone Else” at Akashic Books.com.
John Streamas, associate professor, critical culture, gender, and race studies, authored “The Descent of Man and Everyone Else” at Akashic Books.com.
Vilma Navarro-Daniels, associate professor, foreign languages and cultures, presented on Chilean comic author Marcela Trujillo (a.k.a. “Malki 4-Ojos”) at the International Association of Women’s Studies in Hispanic Literature and Culture’s annual congress in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. A paper from her research is forthcoming in Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos.
Maria Serenella (Sere) Previto, clinical associate professor, foreign languages and cultures, presented on Chilean songwriter, folklorist, ethnomusicologist, singer, poet, visual artist, and social activist Violeta Parra at the International Association of Women’s Studies in Hispanic Literature and Culture’s annual congress in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Vilma Navarro-Daniels, associate professor, foreign languages and cultures, was elected vice president of the International Association of Women’s Studies in Hispanic Literature and Culture (Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica), whose members/voters are from across Latin America, the Caribbean, Canada, Europe, and the United States. Navarro-Daniels also recently presented “Suicide as Cultural Resistance: Sebastián Sepúlveda’s film, ‘The Quispe Girls'” at the 71st Annual Convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association.
Richard King, professor, critical culture, gender, and race studies, was selected to be a Fulbright Specialist for a three-year term.
Enrique Brouwer, instructor, psychology and foreign languages and cultures, WSU Vancouver, received the Students’ Award for Teaching Excellence.
Vilma Navarro-Daniels, associate professor, foreign languages and cultures, authored “De la Península Ibérica a la Península de los Balkanes: Descentramiento de la identidad nacional en ‘Gerreros’ de Daniel Calparsoro” (“From the Iberian Peninsula to the Balkans: Decentering National Identity in Daniel Calparsoro’s ‘Warriors'”) in Cuaderno Internacional de Estudios Humanísticos y Literatura (International Journal of Humanistic Studies and Literature), Universidad de Puerto Rico at Humacao. She also authored “‘De jueves a domingo’, de Dominga Sotomayor Castillo, o ‘el viaje a ninguna parte’ de in país llamado Chile” (“Dominga Sotomayor Castillo’s ‘From Thursday through Sunday’ or ‘The Journey to Nowhere’ of a Country Named Chile”) in Letras Hispanas, Texas State University.
Michael Hubert, associate professor, foreign languages and cultures, authored “Using Writing to Teach Pronunciation: An Experimental Fourth-Year University Spanish Phonetics/Phonology Course” forthcoming in Applied Language Learning.
Richard King, professor, critical culture, gender, and race studies, delivered three presentations: “Understanding Racial Violence and Intimidation: White Supremacist Movements in the Pacific Northwest” as the keynote address for the symposium, Building Respectful Communities: Transcending Hate, at Central Washington University in Ellensburg; “Racists, Hooligans, and Fascists: Depictions of Skinheads and Neo-Nazis in European and North American Cinema” for the Transatlantic Cinema: Production, Genres, Encounters, Negotiations conference at the University of Passau, Germany; and “Refusing to Defend this House: Athletic Insurrection at the University of Missouri and Beyond” at the American Studies Association’s annual meeting in Denver.
King also authored two book chapters: “Listening to Bad Music: White Power and (Un)Popular Culture” in Unpopular Culture (University of Amsterdam Press); and “Look Away: On the Racial, Sexual, and Cultural Politics of the NFL” in Football, Culture, and Power (Routledge), co-edited by David Leonard, associate professor.
Xinmin Liu, associate professor, foreign languages and cultures, published “Making an Ethical Choice in Planetary Habitation: Ecocriticism’s Roots in Existential Philosophies” in Siyi Journal, Critical Stimulations from Drifting Minds (online, Cardiff, UK).