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In Review.
2007-2008 Humanities Center
Grant Recipients
Graduate Student Individual Research
Ramona Ausubel, English (MFA) | The Constellation Makers:
A novel of home and of leaving
Margie Brown-Coronel, History | Beyond the Rancho: The
Del Valle Family, Gender, Social Intimacies and Networks in
Southern California
Christine Maria Connell, English | Sons and Lovers and
The Rainbow: Investigating Biographical Documents and Manuscripts
in D.H. Lawrence’s Generational Passages
Frank D’Amato, English (MFA) | Family History in
Brooklyn
Ivette M. Gomez, Spanish & Portuguese | In Search
of “Lo Cubano”: Cuba’s 1927 First Exhibition
of Modern Art
Giovanni Hortua, History | Bullets, Drugs, and Rock and
Roll: Colombian Punk Rock, Heavy Metal Culture in a Time of
Revolt and Terrorism, 1979-1994
Kim Morrison Weiss, History | Towards the Germ Theory:
Louis Pasteur’s sericultrices and the silkworm malady
in nineteenth century France
Lindsay Puente, Comparative Literature | Locating Blackness
in the Modern National Imaginary: The Legacy of Haiti
Abby Gambrel, English (MFA) | Poetry Workshop: A Master Class
with Gail Mazur at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center
Li Han, East Asian Languages and Literatures | From Historicity
to Fictionality: The Topical Novels in 17th Century China
Collier Nogues, English (MFA) | Attendance at Carl Phillips’
“Revision Art and Strategy” Master Poetry Workshop
at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA
Lauren Johnson, English (MFA) | An Exploration of the
Indigenous Cultures of Washington
Yuka Kanno, Visual Studies | The Image of National Beauty
and Non-normative Subjects: Race and Sexuality in the Wartime
to Postwar Visual Culture, 1941-1955
Laura Knighten, English | Rearing an Irish Child: Citizenship
and Nationhood in an Emerging, Independent Ireland
Alexandra Sartor, Comparative Literature | Treading Water:
Rhetoric and Environment in California’s Owens Valley
Ingrid Wilkerson, History | Strangers in Good Company:
Immigrants in Late Tudor and Early Stuart England
Bahar Zaker, Art History | Andre Breton’s Wall:
Visualizing Memory
Sandra Zito, History | Drawing the Lines of Conflict:
Borders, Immigration, and the Spatial Politics of the European
Union
Faculty Individual Research
Michael Fuller, East Asian Languages and Literatures | 2007
Meeting of the Western Branch of the American Oriental Society
Mark Goble, English | Beautiful Circuits: Modernism and
the Mediated Life
Michelle Hamilton, Spanish & Portuguese | A Thousand
and One Tragedies: Poetry of the Sahara
James Steintrager, English | Writing the Convulsionary Crisis
Ulrike Strasser, History | Consuming Missions: German
Jesuits on the Pacific Rim and the Politics of Colonial Imagination
in the German Empire (17th-19th)
Charles Wheeler, History | Beyond the Bamboo Hedge: Seaports
and the Plural Creation of a Vietnamese Region, c. 1550-1850
Collaborative Graduate Research
2008 Visual Studies Grad Student Association Conference
Chilean Women and the Global Politics of Writing
East Asian Visual Cultures Workshop
2007-2008 UCI/UCSB Annual Grad Student Conference
Play: Towards a Critical Concept
Gender, Connectivity, and Change in the Gulf Arab States
Lawrence Halprin’s Urban Plazas, 1960-1976
Visual Studies | Octopus Journal, Vol. 3: Import/Export
10th Annual History & Theory Conference
Collaborative Faculty Research
Translating Captivity in the Early Modern Mediterranean World
Extended Provocations: New Lectures in Dialogue with the Pioneering
Scholarship of Judith Wilson
Symposium on Ancient Slavery and Human Trafficking
Beautiful Circuits: Modernism and the Mediated Life
Diaspora and Return: Sephardic Jews Beyond Spain
It’s About Time: Shakespeare and Temporality Symposium
Santiago Palavecino at the IX Latin American Film Festival
The Identity Engine: Printing and Publishing in the Creation
of the Knowledge Economy
Dialogues Across the Americas
Queer Film Studies and East Asian Cinemas
Reading the Digital: from Kabbala to Software Studies
The Book, The Brand & The Box: Design in an Age of Research
& Retail
Technologies of Humanity: Bare Lives and Freedom (by Alexander
Weheliye, Northwestern University)
Museums and Modernity: Pacific Rim Urban Futures
Software Culture Lecture Series
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