Faculty and Staff Notes

Professor of Hispanic Studies Sebastiaan Faber published "Chronicling the Age of Hobsbawm: A Q&A With Historian Richard Evans" in the Nation. 

Clarinet professor Richard Hawkins was recently named to the 2019 University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre, and Dance Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame was established to recognize and honor individuals who have made outstanding contributions to society, their profession, or the university. Hawkins has been on the Oberlin Conservatory faculty since 2001. In addition to his teaching and performing career, Hawkins has been influential in the design and manufacturing of clarinets and clarinet mouthpieces for the music industry since 1990. 

Professor of East Asian Studies Sheila Miyoshi Jager appeared on a major new documentary, Korea: The Never-Ending War. The documentary, narrated by John Cho, examines the Korean War as part of a conflict that continues to this day.  Jager has served as an advisor of the documentary from its inception in 2015.  It is produced by WETA, the PBS affiliate in Washington, DC, in association with Ark Media and the BBC, and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Arthur Vining Davis Foundation, and PBS. It will be broadcast nationally at 9 p.m. on Monday, April 29 2019 on PBS.

Professor of Medieval Art History Erik Inglis was interviewed about Paris' Notre Dame Catherdral in the wake of the fire on April 15, 2019. Inglis was interviewed about the cathedral's history and importance by NPR's On Point and about its structure by USA Today.

Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Emily Barton published a review of G. Willow Wilson's new novel, "The Bird King," in the New York Times book review.

Associate Professor of Cinema Studies Rian Brown-Orso is collaborating with Cleveland cleric Leah Lewis, an Urgent Art Fund recipient, on a documentary called “Black Buckeyes: A Tale of Two Cities" that will compare and contrast the histories and present day realities of African Americans living in Cleveland and Cincinnati. The project was featured on ideastream.

Associate Professor of Anthropology Cal Biruk gave an invited book talk on April 9, 2019, hosted by Haverford College's Health Studies Program and Anthropology Department.

Professor of Comparative American Studies Gina Perez co-organized an advanced seminar workshop at the School of Advanced Research. The seminar was titled "Ethnographies of Contestation and Resilience in Latinx America."

Professor of Mathematics Robert Bosch designed "Traveling Salesman Problem" (TSP) art pieces that appeared on the Chinese television show, Super Brain (or in Chinese, 最强大脑). On the show, two teams of participants compete to solve a series of puzzles, including puzzles derived from the TSP art Bosch designed for the show. Watch the show here.

Longman Professor of English and Cinema Studies Anuradha Dingwaney Needham recently presented a talk titled "Sites of (Affective) Engagement: Song, Melodrama, and the Making of a Female Subjectivity" for the seminar on Indian Melodrama: Transnational Mobilities, Cross-Pollinations and Cinematic Re-inventions at the American Comparative Literature Meeting (March 7-10, 2019). Needham gave an invited lecture for the India Studies Program at University of Houston titled "Bibi aur Tawaif (Wife and Courtesan): Conformity and Defiance in Representations of Female Agency in Sahib, Bibi Aur Ghulam/Master, Wife, and Servant (1962; dir. Abrar Alvi)." At University of Houston, she also lead the discussion for a round-table on "Women in Post-Millennial Indian Cinema." Both took place on April 8, 2019.