IPRH Tenth Annual Conference — "Rupture" |
BIOGRAPHIES OF CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS Michael Bérubé is the Paterno Family Professor in Literature at Pennsylvania State University. His books, as author or editor, include Life As We Know It: A Father, A Family, and an Exceptional Child , What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts?: Classroom Politics and “ Bias ” in Higher Education, The Aesthetics of Cultural Studies, and, with Cary Nelson, Higher Education Under Fire: Politics, Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities. Bérubé has written over 150 essays for a wide variety of academic journals such as American Quarterly, the Yale Journal of Criticism, and the minnesota review, as well as more popular venues such as Harper’s, the New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and the Nation. Matti Bunzl is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Program in Jewish Culture & Society. His publications include Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: Hatreds Old and New in Europe and Symptoms of Modernity: Jews and Queers in Late-Twentieth-Century Vienna. He has also co-edited volumes on the transition from state socialism to a market economy in Eastern Europe and the history of German anthropology. He specializes in the anthropology and modern history of Europe, with particular research interests in Jewish culture, gender and sexuality, nationalism, ethnicity, and memory. Christine Catanzarite is the Interim Director of the IPRH, and served as Associate Director of the program from its inception in 1997 through 2007. She is an assistant professor in the Unit for Cinema Studies, and her research areas include the history of the Hollywood studio system, the musical film, censorship and the ratings system, and popular rituals. Kevin Coe is a graduate student in Speech Communication. He is the co-author of The God Strategy and has published articles in the Journal of Communication and Political Communication. His dissertation project is entitled “Why We Fight: Presidential Justification for War from WWII to Iraq.” Jonathan H. Ebel is an assistant professor in the Program for the Study of Religion. He is a contributor to On Common Ground: World Religions in America and is at work on a book project, “‘Heroes in the Cause of God’: The Great War, Trench Religion and American Reillusionment.” Professor Ebel received his Ph.D. in the History of Christianity at the University of Chicago in 2004. Jed Esty is an associate professor in the Department of English and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. He is the author of A Shrinking Island: Modernism and National Culture in England and a co-editor of Postcolonial Studies and Beyond. Currently, he is at work on his second major book project, entitled “Tropics of Youth: The Bildungsroman and Colonial Modernity.” Professor Esty received his Ph.D. in English from Duke University in 1996. Melissa Free is a graduate student in the Department of English. She has published in Book History, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, and has contributed to Victorian “Freaks”: The Social Context of Freakery in the Nineteenth-Century. Her project title is “Selective Memory: Africa’s Overlooked Influence on British Identity, 1883-1915.” Andrea Goulet is an associate professor of French and of Criticism and Interpretive Theory. She has published articles in such venues as Romantic Review and French Forum and her book is entitled Optiques: The Science of the Eye and the Birth of Modern French Fiction. She is currently working on the geographies of violence in French detective fiction. Philip Graham is a professor in the English Department. His publications include: The Vanishings; The Art of the Knock: Stories; Parallel Worlds: An Anthropologist and a Writer Encounter Africa; How to Read an Unwritten Language; and Interior Design: Stories. He is also the author of numerous works of short fiction and non-fiction, and the recipient of a wide variety of grants and fellowships. His latest work is the forthcoming Braided Worlds. Dianne Harris is a professor of Landscape Architecture, Architecture, Art History, and History. Her publications include The Nature of Authority: Villa Culture, Landscape and Representation in 18th-Century Lombardy and Maybeck’s Landscapes: Drawing in Nature , and her current book project is entitled “Little White Houses: Race, Class, and the Ordinary Postwar House, 1945-1960.” Julilly Kohler-Hausmann is a graduate student in the History Department. She has published in the Journal of Social History and her project is entitled, “The Rise of a Punishing Logic: The Punitive Turn in American Criminal and Social Welfare Policy, 1968-1980.” Laurie Hogin is an associate professor in the School of Art & Design and chair of the Painting and Sculpture Program. She has numerous publications in news and contemporary culture periodicals based in Milwaukee, New York, Chicago, and Boston, to name a few, and has had solo exhibitions of her work in, among other places, New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. William Hope is a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology. He has published in Illuminations: An International Magazine of Contemporary Writing, and his project is entitled, “‘Donde nace lo cubano’: Aesthetics, Nationalist Sentiment, and Cuban Music Making.” Brett Kaplan is an assistant professor in Comparative and World Literature and the Program in Jewish Culture & Society. Her book is entitled Unwanted Beauty: Aesthetic Pleasure in Holocaust Representation and her current project is on landscape and Holocaust postmemory. William J. Maxwell is an Associate Professor of English and Interpretive Theory. He is the author of New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism Between the Wars, and the editor of Claude McKay, Complete Poems. His current project is entitled “FB Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover’s Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature.” W. J. T. Mitchell is Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago. He is editor of the interdisciplinary journal Critical Inquiry, a quarterly devoted to critical theory in the arts and human sciences. A scholar and theorist of media, visual art, and literature, Mitchell is associated with the emergent fields of visual culture and iconology (the study of images across the media). He is known especially for his work on the relations of visual and verbal representations in the context of social and political issues. Ellen Moodie is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, International Studies, and the Unit of Criticism and Interpretive Theory. She has contributed to Landscapes of Struggle: Community, Politics and Society in El Salvador and has published in American Ethnologist and Michigan Feminist Studies. Her current book project is entitled, “‘It’s Worse Than the War’: Crime, Talk and Transition in El Salvador’s Postwar Era.” Professor Moodie received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan in 2002. Lisa Nakamura is an associate professor of Speech Communication and Asian American Studies. She is the author of Visual Cultures of the Internet and Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity and Identity on the Internet, and is a co-editor of Race in Cyberspace. She is at work on a book manuscript tentatively entitled “Networked Cinematics.” Dr. Nakamura received her Ph.D. in English at the CUNY Graduate Center in 1996. Jin-kyung Park is a graduate student in the Institute of Communications Research. She has published articles in Cultural Studies, Critical Methodologies and the Harvard Education Review. Her dissertation is entitled “Constructing Racial “Backwardness”: Colonial Governance, Medicine, Female Reproductive Physiology, and Conjugality in Colonial Korea.” Anthony Perman is currently a doctoral candidate in ethnomusicology where he is completing a dissertation on the emotional, spiritual and historical roles of Ndau musical practices in Zimbabwe. He received his MMus in ethnomusicology from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. Marc D. Perry is an assistant professor in Anthropology and African American Studies. He has contributed to The Black International: From Toussaint to Tupac and Diasporic Racisms. His book manuscript in preparation is entitled “Crical Blackness and the State: Hip Hop in Late Socialist Cuba.” Professor Perry received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004. Victor Pickard is a graduate student in the Institute of Communications and Research. He has contributed articles to the Journal of Communication, Critical Studies in Media Communications, and Media Culture and Society. His project is entitled “Media Democracy Deferred: Rupture and Resolution in US Communications Policy, 1945-1949.” Michael Rothberg is an associate professor in the Department of English and the Director of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. He is the author of Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation and co-editor of The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings. He has published in such venues as History and Theory, Critical Inquiry, and History and Memory. Renée R. Trilling is an assistant professor in the Department of English. She is a contributor to The Bishop Reform: Studies in Episcopal Power and Culture in the Central Middle Ages and is at work on a book manuscript entitled “The Aesthetics of Nostalgia: Historical Representation in Medieval English Verse, c. 850-1200 AD.” Professor Trilling received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Notre Dame in 2004. James H. Warren is a graduate student in the History Department. He has published in the New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies. His dissertation is entitled, “Empire and Anxiety: Colonial Revolutions, Public Men, and the Idea of Authority in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain.” Deke Weaver is an assistant professor in New Media in the School of Art & Design and a performance artist. His award-winning original performance work has been presented throughout the US and the UK, and has been screened and broadcast in film/video festivals and on public television stations in the US, Russia, Brazil, Australia, and Europe. Commissions, fellowships, and grants from the City of San Francisco, the State of New York, the National Endowment for the Arts, and other public and private foundations have supported his work. Richard Wheeler joined the Department of English at the U of I in 1969 and has been on the Illinois faculty ever since. His scholarship has been centrally concerned with identifying key psychological pattern that shape the development of Shakespeare's work and, more recently, plausible links between the plays and the life of their author. From 1987 to 1997 he was Head of the Department of English, and in 1999-2000 he was Acting Head of the Department of Anthropology. He became Dean of the Graduate College in 2000. Hui Xiao is a graduate student in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. She has contributed to From Camera Lens to Critical Lens and Globalization and Chineseness: Postcolonial Readings of Contemporary Culture. Her dissertation project is “Rupturing Modernity, Engendering Interiority: Divorce in Post-Mao Chinese Literature and Culture.” |