Faculty and Staff Notes

Stephen Crowley recently published "Russian Labour, Economic Hardship and Putin's Fear of Colour Revolutions" in the Global Labour Journal.

Associate Professor of Creative Writing Emily Barton publishes a review of two of Mieko Kawakami's novels in the Times Literary Supplement.

Music composition, programming, and sensor design by TIMARA Visiting Assistant Professor Eli Stine for MUT-AT1-0NS was installed as a Sideshow at the Sideways Festival (@sidewayshel) in Helsinki, Finland, from June 16-18. MUT-AT1-0NS is an immersive sound and light experience which allows participants the ability to coauthor a short piece of music as they move through a physical space, triggering sensors that create a composition, with sampled voices and music.

Assistant Professor of Dance Al Evangelista was recently published in a special issue of the Journal of American Drama and Theatre. "The 'Asian American Dramaturgies' special issue of the Journal of American Drama and Theatre edited by ATDS Vice President Dr. Donatella Galella [is] one of the first journal issues in our field dedicated to Asian American theatre."

Jillian Scudder coauthored a publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, "Galaxy Pairs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey XV: Properties of Ionised Outflows", studying the gas being driven from nearby galaxies.

Assistant Professor of Dance Al Evangelista’s newest creative work, “garden says breathe” was published in you are here: the journal of creative geography. This queer ecologies issue is you are here's twenty-third issue and features “work of thirty-four writers, artists, and intellectuals.”

Professor Christopher Trinacty recently published a commentary on Seneca's Natural Questions through Dickinson College Commentaries. This work provides a guide for Intermediate Latin learners to understand and appreciate Seneca's treatise on Stoic physics. In addition, his chapter " 'Oceans Rise, Empires Fall:' Cyclical Time and History in Seneca’s NQ 3,” has recently been published in the volume Myth and History: Close Encounters (DeGruyter). The paper examines how Stoic conceptions of time inform the Natural Questions.

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón’s most recent novel, Los días hábiles (2020), was the subject of the most recent episode of the podcast De Libro en Libro. The book was discussed by the hosts and their guest, Puerto Rican Independence Party’s gubernatorial candidate, Juan Dalmau.

The podcast is available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. 

Professor of History Annemarie Sammartino published Freedomland, Co-op City and the Story of New York with Cornell University Press. The book uses the affordable housing development Co-op City, located in the Northeast Bronx, as a lens towards writing a new history of New York City that tells the story of race, ethnicity, class, urban crisis, and neoliberalism— but also of community, resistance, and utopia. 

Emeritus Monroe Professor of Politics and Law Ben Schiff presented "Grandfather Roman: a 19th Century Naturalist and 20th Century Photographer," as part of a University of California, Berkeley, Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Culture symposium on Vishniac's work. The entire symposium is available in three Youtube videos on The Magnes's website. Schiff's contribution is on the middle video, beginning at about 38:55 with an introduction by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, University Professor Emerita and Professor Emerita of Performance Studies at New York University, Chief Curator of the Core Exhibition at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, and a Magnes Scholarly Advisor.