Faculty and Staff Notes

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").

Associate Professor of Music Theory Megan Kaes Long participated in the Robert Samels Visiting Scholar Program at the Jacobs School of Music at IU Bloomington in September. As part of the Five Friends Master Class series, Long delivered two lectures, led a workshop for graduate students, and met with students and faculty during her three-day residency.

Oberlin College and Conservatory Faculty and Staff Abby Aresty, Larissa Fekete, Abe Reshad, and Al Evangelista presented the multi-year collaboration, “ArtiFACT Project” at the 2021 Engineering and Liberal Education (E&LE) Symposium. As part of the Building Partnerships panel, they discussed Oberlin community partnerships and collaborations, highlighting technological innovations and Covid-19 pivots including digitation, technologies from Cooper Language Learning Lab, dance department films, and technologies from TIMARA. The E&LE Symposium provides a forum for educators and professionals to discuss the role of engineering at a liberal arts college and liberal arts in an engineering education.

Visiting Assistant Professor of French Nathan H. Dize publishes an excerpt of  I Am Alive, a novel he is translating by the Haitian writer Kettly Mars. Dize's translation appears in the September issue of Words Without Borders, which is presenting new fiction to honor the centenary of PEN International, an association dedicated to the support of global literature and letters in spite of political or international upheavals. I Am Alive is about a wealthy Haitian family thrown into chaos by an unexpected return and is set for release in Fall 2022.

Assistant Professor of Comparative American Studies and Gender, Sexuality, & Feminist Studies KJ Cerankowski's essay, "The 'End' of Orgasm: The Erotics of Durational Pleasures" won the 2021 Symonds Prize and was published in the most recent issue of Studies in Gender and Sexuality.

Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies Ana María Díaz Burgos' book, Tráfico de saberes: agencia femenina, hechicería e Inquisición en Cartagena de Indias (1610-1614) (Iberoamericana —Vervuert, 2020) has been reviewed in Edad de Oro XXXIX (2020), Revista de Estudios Colombianos 56 (2020), and Colonial Latin American Review 30:3 (2021).

Danforth-Lewis Professor of Economics John Duca has published "What Drives House Price Cycles: International Experience and Policy Issues," in the Journal of Economic Literature, and "What Drives House Prices: Lessons from the Literature," as a short and accessible article in VoXEU. Also accepted for publication by the Journal of Government and Economics is the article, "An Overview of The Fed’s New Credit Policy Tools and Their Cushioning Effect on the COVID-19 Recession."

Robert S. Danforth Professor of History Renee Romano is quoted at length in a long-form article on the return of "patriotic" history in the United States and Europe, published in the Spanish magazine CTXT. The article is authored by Professor of Hispanic Studies Sebastiaan Faber.