Faculty and Staff Notes

Assistant Professor of Dance Al Evangelista performed in New York City’s The Tank with alum, Nikaio Thomashow ’18. Together, they debuted Echoes, Professor Evangelista’s newest dance theater work incorporating augmented reality, dance, and motion capture to explore themes of history and queerness.

Visiting Assistant Professor Katie Berta published three new poems from a manuscript in progress in the Fall/Winter 2024 issue of the Colorado Review and a poem from her book, Retribution Forthcoming, in Verse Daily. Retribution Forthcoming was published by Ohio University Press in March.

On December 2, Associate Professor of Art History Matthew Rarey delivered the Distinguished Alumni Lecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Art History, where he earned his PhD in 2014. Rarey's lecture, "Renaming the Fetish in the Eighteenth-Century African Atlantic," was simulcast on Zoom and is publicly available on the Department's YouTube channel.

Associate Professor of Art History Matthew Rarey published his essay, "A Cartographer of the Long Eighteenth Century: Anastácio de Sant’Anna’s Guia de Caminhantes" in a special issue of Arts dedicated to “Black Artists in the Atlantic World." The essay is available open-access and under a Creative Commons license.

Caroline Val of Teen Vogue interviewed Yveline Alexis for an article about the impact of anti-Haitian rhetoric.

Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies Sergio Gutierrez Negron cofounded the small literary press La pequeña, proyecto editorial. The inaugural Fall 2024 catalog includes a memoir about Montserrat’s volcanic explosion in the 1990s written by author Yvonne Weekes; a novel by a 25 year-old Puerto Rican novelist, Daniel Rosa Hunter; and a literary travelogue by Mexican writer, Luis Felipe Lomelí. La pequeña will publish three books a year, spanning Puerto Rican, Caribbean, and Latin American literature.

Visiting Assistant Professor in English and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Postcolonial World Literature Asif Iqbal’s article, entitled “The East Pakistan-West Pakistan Entanglement: Gender, Politics and Postcolonial Development in Shawkat Ali’s Dhakkhinayoner Din,” has been published in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. The article grew out of the British Academy Writing Workshop “Pakistan to Bangladesh, 1947–71.”

Assistant Professor of German Jessica Resvick gave a paper at the Atkins Goethe Conference in San Antonio, Texas. Her talk, "Goethe's Invisible Hands: Art, Craft, Chirognomy," analyzed the role of hand anatomy and manual gesture in Goethe's final novel, Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, tracing out the religious, aesthetic, and medico-scientific significance of manuality within nineteenth-century thought.

Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Joshua Sperling published "The Power of a Brand: Paramount, Heartland Narrowcasting, and Taylor Sheridan's Yellowstone" in the Journal of Literary Studies. Sperling was interviewed on the topic by the French cultural magazine Télérama.

Professor of Politics Stephen Crowley's opinion article, "What Explains Trumpism? It's Capitalism, and it's Global," appeared in The Nation.