Faculty and Staff Notes

An essay by Professor of English T.S McMillin, was recently published in the Review of International American Studies. His contribution, "Strangers Still More Strange": The Meaning of Rivers Bedeviled, is part of a special issue on Rivers of the Americas. A meditation on steamboats, rivers, and Herman Melville's The Confidence-Man, McMillin's article proposes that literature, and especially fiction, can play an important role in sorting out truth, even in a supposedly post-truth world.

Assistant Professor of Politics Jenny Garcia has been appointed to the editorial team of Political Research Quarterly, the flagship journal for the Western Political Science Association.

A commissioned musical adaption of Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Robin Beth Schaer's poem “Holdfast” was composed by Matthew Recio and was  performed on October 23 and 24 by the vocal chamber choir Stare at the Sun in Chicago.

Associate Professor of Creative Writing Emily Barton contributes to a NJ Monthly article on author G. Willow Wilson.

The story “Pythons of the Everglades” by Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing and Communication Hal Sundt ’12, which was published in The Bitter Southerner, was long-listed as a notable essay in "The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2021." This story was made possible in part because of a Grant-in-Aid from Oberlin.

Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Comparative American Studies Yveline Alexis was a guest on the Haitian Diaspora show, Tele Lacaye (At Home)." Professor Alexis discusses her book, Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Peralte, with host Jimmy Jacques. The interview is available here.

Assistant Professor of Sociology Alicia Smith-Tran ’10 recently published the article “Black Girls RUN! and the Importance of Finding a Fitness Community” in Engaging Sports, an official publication of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport. 

Visiting assistant professor of comparative literature Anna Levett published a review of Under the Dome: Walks with Paul Celan, translated by Rosmarie Waldrop, in Reading in Translation. 

TIMARA Technical Director Abby Aresty and Oberlin alum Rachel Gibson '20 presented their “Crafting Sound Workshop” exploring the intersection of sound, hybrid technologies, and critical making at Union College's Engineering and Liberal Education Symposium.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing and Communication Hal Sundt ’12 has received a book deal from Lyons Press for his first book of nonfiction, tentatively titled Go Ugly Early: A Story of Survivable Design and the Air Force's Un-Killable Jet, which will chronicle the design, development, and service life of the A-10 Thunderbolt II (a.k.a "The Warthog").