Faculty and Staff Notes

Visiting Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies and Creative Writing Joshua Sperling's book A Writer of Our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger has been translated into Korean.

Clayton Koppes, professor of history, presented a paper "I Feel Your Pain: Bill Clinton, AIDS, and the Politics of Disappointment" at the American Historical Association annual meeting in New York City on Jan. 3, 2020. His co-author and co-presenter was David L. Kelly, an independent scholar from Palm Springs, California.

They will present another paper, "The Plague and the Presidents: Reagan, Bush, Clinton and AIDS Avoidance" at the Organization of American Historians annual meeting in Washington, D.C., on April 3.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing and Communication Hal Sundt's story "Pythons of the Everglades" was published in the Bitter Southerner. The story was made possible by funding through a grant-in-aid from Oberlin College.

Associate Professor of Music Theory Megan Long gave an invited talk titled "What Do Signature Signify: The Curious Case of Seventeenth-Century English Key" on February 21, 2020 at the University of Chicago.

Professor of Theater and Africana Studies Caroline Jackson Smith served as a panelist at the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage for a discussion about black theater, with a focus on the history of African-American theater in Northeast Ohio. The talk was held in connection with the Maltz's special exhibit Leonard Music: The Power of Music .

Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing and Communication Hal Sundt ’12 published a story about the future of amusement parks for the Ringer. The story was also recognized on Longform, an aggregator of top literary journalism stories.

Associate Professor of Sociology and Comparative American Studies Rick Baldoz published the essay "Migration and the Remains of US Empire" in the digital magazine, Public Books.

Assistant Professor of History and Comparative American Studies Tamika Nunley gave a talk on Feb. 22 titled, “(Freed) Women: Mobilizing Emancipation, Citizenship, and Self-making in Wartime Washington, DC” at the American Civil War Museum. The talk airs on C-span in spring 2020.

Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Emily Barton reviewed Kiran Millwood Hargrave's novel "The Mercies" for the New York Times.

Associate Professor of Anthropology Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway gave an invited lecture titled "Figure (of Personhood) Drawing: Pictorial Representations of Signing and Signers in Nepal" on February 15, 2019 at The University of Michigan.