Faculty and Staff Notes

Lecturer of Creative Writing Amanda Hodes published two new poems, "Fracking Operation" and "Smelting Operation," in the journal DIAGRAM (issue 25.3).

Two professors from the Religion Department traveled to Heidelberg, Germany, to present research at the European Association for South Asian Studies conference. Emilia Bachrach, Associate Professor of Religion and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, gave a talk on "South Asian Women's Innovations of Commercial Sites as Religious Spaces in Barcelona," and Francesca Chubb-Confer, Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion, gave a talk on "World Literatures, World Religions, and the Translation of Islam in South Asia."

 Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Lauren Tess published the poem "She Won't Take Her Medicine" in the journal Rattle (Summer '25, print; September 26, online).

Assistant Professor of English Sarah Jane Kerwin published an article in the latest issue of Western American Literature titled "Temporary Presences on the Mesa: 'Tom Outland's Story' and Mesa Verde National Park."

Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Uche Okonkwo received the 2025 High Plains International Book Award in the First Book category for her short story collection, A Kind of Madness (published in 2024 by Tin House).

Assistant Professor of East Asian Religions Andrew Macomber published the chapter “Corpses as Pathogenic Agents in Early Medieval Japan” for the book Materialities of Disease Across the Medieval World: Images, Objects, and Remains (Arc Humanities Press, 2025).

Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Anthropology Jessica Madison Pískatá authored the article "Radium Palace: Radiation and the Uncanny in the Bohemian Mountains, which was published in the July 2025 issue of Environmental Humanities.

Assistant Professor of German Jessica Resvick co-organized the panel series "Photobooks, Photo Essays, and the Body" at the Annual Conference of the German Studies Association. She also delivered a paper, "Physiognomy and Photography: August Sander's Typological Archive," for which Dlisah Lapidus '26 provided research support.

Lecturer and Program Director for Community-Engaged Research and Learning Jo Line coauthored the chapter “We Do Not Need Leaders, We Need Coactors,” which was published in Reimagining the Gendering of Sport, edited by Vikki Krane and Tanya Prewitt-White.

Professor of Politics Kristina Mani wrote a piece in The Conversation that looks at how recent domestic deployments of U.S. armed forces risk politicizing the military and how U.S. steps reflect harmful ones countries in Latin America took in the past that led to the breakdown of democracy.