Faculty and Staff Notes

Visiting Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies Joshua Sperling published an essay, "How to Read Like a Translator," for Public Books.

Assistant Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies Paul Brehm's paper, "Information Asymmetry, Trade, and Drilling: Evidence from an Oil Lease Lottery" has been published in the fall 2021 issue of The RAND Journal of Economics.

Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies Baron Pineda has published a paper, "Internet Governance and Human Rights in a Minor Key: Anthropological Perspectives," that appears in a special issue in Volume 23 of the Yale Journal of Law and Technology. The special issue features a group of scholars that has been convened by the Justice Collaboratory of the Yale Law School to explore issues related to the governance of social media platforms. The special issue is titled "In a New Light: Social Media Governance Reimagined."

Danforth-Lewis Professor of Economics John Duca presented "How New Fed Corporate Bond Programs Cushioned the Covid-19 Recession" at the virtual IFABS 2021 Oxford Conference, September 13-15, 2021.

Professor of Comparative American Studies Wendy Kozol has published “‘Gonna Stomp some Rump’: Embodied Learning and the Politics of Pleasure in an American Studies Classroom” in American Studies Pedagogy: Resources for Teaching American Studies, ed. E. Duclos-Orsello, J. Entin, and R. Hill (University of Kansas Press, 2021). Featuring an impromptu moment in CAST 100 when she made all the students dance, this article explores embodied learning as a pedagogical practice that can foster student interrogations about how power, inequality, and difference operate both in the classroom and beyond.  

Barker Professor of Music Theory Jared Hartt has published a monograph, The Dorset Rotulus: Contextualizing and Reconstructing the Early English Motet. Co-authored with Margaret Bent and Peter Lefferts, the study is the first in over 35 years devoted to the motet in England. Spurred by the recent discovery of an exciting new source of medieval polyphony, the book provides reconstructions and performable transcriptions of several early fourteenth-century motets—some previously unknown—and offers a new evaluation of the richness of the English repertory on its own terms.

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón’s novel, Los días hábiles, has recently been reviewed in Puerto Rican magazines 80grados and El Roommate.

On September 3, Stiliana Milkova, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, co-organized and participated in "Elena Ferrante's Lost Daughters," a round table discussion at the 2021 Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, on the occasion of the premier of the 2021 film "The Lost Daughter" starring Maggie Gyllenhaal. The event was part of the cultural association Isola Edipo.

Associate Professor of Sociology Greggor Mattson was a featured guest on KERA Dallas Public Radio discussing why gay bars matter, how they have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and what their vulnerabilities and resilience tell us about their future.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies Jennifer Blaylock has published the article “‘Who wants a BlackBerry these days?’ Serialized new media and its trash” in the journal Screen. In the article, she looks at seriality and its connection to racial capital by discussing the Nigerian film series BlackBerry Babes (2011-12).