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William Kennedy is a Professor in the English Department at the University at Albany, State University of New York. For over 40 years, he has crafted a body of literature centered on Albany, New York, creating what is known as the "Albany Cycle" of novels. His work has established Albany as a significant place in American literature, comparable to Joyce's Dublin and Bellow's Chicago. His educational background includes a BA from Siena College, following attendance at Public School 20 and Christian Brother's Academy. Professor Kennedy's creative work focuses on American fiction, particularly historical and urban narratives rooted in Albany's cultural and political landscape. His writing explores machine politics, family sagas, and the interplay between individual lives and historical events, rendering Albany's "outcasts and machine politicians, lowlifes and swells" with profound humanity. His narratives transform the city into a mythic capital of national memory. His publications consistently draw from Albany's history, with recurring themes of political corruption, redemption, and the resilience of marginalized communities. The "Albany Cycle" demonstrates his mastery in blending local history with universal human struggles across multiple literary forms. William Kennedy's distinguished honors include: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship Election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Regents Medal of Excellence from SUNY Governor's Arts Award Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in France Election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences As an educator, Kennedy taught creative writing and journalism at the University at Albany from 1974-1982 and Cornell University in 1982-83. His MacArthur Fellowship directly funded the creation of the New York State Writers Institute at Albany, with matching funds from the university and legislative support from Governor Cuomo. He has served on the New York State Council for the Humanities board and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. William Kennedy co-founded the New York State Writers Institute in 1984, which has grown into a major literary hub conducting statewide cultural and educational activities. The Institute remains central to his legacy, fostering literary arts through readings, workshops, and educational programs across New York.

• Fiction
• Creative Writing
• American Literature
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Auritro Majumder is Associate Professor of English at the University of Houston's College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, holding a courtesy appointment in the India Studies Program. His academic profile spans literary scholarship, critical theory, and intellectual history with a focus on non-Western perspectives. His educational background includes a Ph.D. in English from Syracuse University (2014), a Certificate in Critical Theory from Cornell University (2012), an M.A. (First Class) in English from Jadavpur University (2009), and a B.A. (First Class Honours) in English from Jadavpur University (2007). Majumder's research centers on peripheral internationalism and decolonial knowledge production , examining literary traditions across India, the Soviet Union, China, Latin America, and the United States. His work bridges literary theory , critical race studies , and global political movements , with particular emphasis on Bengali literature, caste-race intersections, and South-South cultural networks. His monograph Insurgent Imaginations: World Literature and the Periphery (Cambridge University Press, 2020) redefines world literature through non-Western frameworks. Analysis of his 15 most recent publications reveals consistent engagement with decolonial aesthetics , transnational solidarity , and subaltern epistemologies . His scholarship demonstrates interdisciplinary reach spanning literary studies, political theory, film criticism, and comparative intellectual history, with increasing focus on contemporary debates around planetary consciousness and peripheral modernities. His scientific recognition includes: Project Completion Grant, CLASS (2019) William Lee Pryor College Professorship (2018-2019) Research Progress Grant (2017) CLASS Research Funds (2016) New Faculty Summer Research Grant (2015) Majumder actively contributes to academic service as Executive Committee member of the Modern Language Association’s South Asian and South Asian Diasporic Language, Literature and Culture Forum, editorial board member for Mediations , jurist for the National Endowment for the Humanities, and reviewer for multiple international journals. He has lectured globally across North America, South Asia, Europe, and Brazil. His teaching portfolio includes courses on postcolonial literature, modern Indian literature, and graduate seminars in postcolonial theory. Current projects include a monograph titled The Global South in Literature and Theory and a co-edited anthology Cultures of the Cold War in South Asia .

• Literary and Critical Theory
• Postcolonial Studies
• World Literature
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Anindita Banerjee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences, with cross-appointments in the Environment & Sustainability Program, History of Art and Visual Studies, Literatures in English, and Romance Studies. She serves as SAP Core Faculty for the South Asia Program and has been instrumental in establishing Cornell's Environmental and Sustainability Program, where she built and chaired the environmental humanities concentration for four years. Her research explores the relationship between imagining and making futures across diverse contexts, focusing on the evolving interfaces between science, technology, and culture; natural and built environments; media and information systems; and the migration of people, things, ideas, and images. Spanning Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and Latin and African Americas, her work examines networks of exchange, innovation, production, and consumption that emerge outside conventional coordinates of the modern world. Her scholarship has been featured in BBC Culture, Radio Free Europe, Medium, and Meduza. She has authored multiple books including the award-winning We Modern People: Science Fiction and the Making of Russian Modernity (2013), which won the Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies book prize, and is currently working on Reactionary Worldbuilding (MIT Press, 2026) and Border Environments (Cornell, 2026). Her research demonstrates consistent engagement with science fiction as a critical lens for examining global environmental, technological, and social transformations. Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies book prize Ivy+ Mellon Leadership Fellow (2024-25) Academic Venture Fund grant from Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability Social Sciences and Humanities Research Fellowship Banerjee serves as a faculty fellow of the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and is a participating member of cross-college programs in Biology and Society, Media Studies, and Visual Studies. She co-led a workshop series and engaged-learning course on border spaces and environmental justice supported by a grant from the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. As an Ivy+ Mellon Leadership Fellow, she serves as Special Assistant to the Dean of the Cornell School of Continuing Education, focusing on academic leadership and governance with an emphasis on diversity and inclusion.

• Science Fiction
• Environment and Sustainability
• Migration and Borders
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Dr. Daniel Matlin is a Reader (equivalent to Associate Professor) in the History of the United States since 1865 at King's College London, affiliated with the Faculty of Arts & Humanities and the Department of History. He joined King's in 2012 after previous academic positions at Queen Mary University of London (as Leverhulme Early Career Fellow) and Cambridge University, where he served as Director of Studies at the Centre for History and Economics. His research examines the intersection of race, intellectual life, and urban space in 20th-century America, with specializations in: African-American intellectual/cultural history Civil rights and Black Power movements Historical constructions of race and Black diasporic identity Urban history (particularly Harlem and New York City) Jazz history and cultural expression Publication analysis reveals consistent focus on Harlem as both physical space and cultural symbol, with interdisciplinary approaches bridging history, visual culture, musicology, and urban studies. His works critically analyze racial representation, community formation, and the politics of space. Awards & Honors: Arthur Miller Centre First Book Prize for On the Corner: African American Intellectuals and the Urban Crisis Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship He actively supervises PhD students in African-American history, civil rights, black nationalist thought, and 20th-century cultural history. Grant-funded projects include 'Race Capital? Harlem as Place and Symbol since 1900.' Matlin engages extensively with public history through lectures at institutions like the National Theatre and Black Cultural Archives.

• African-American History
• Intellectual History
• History of Race
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Will Norman is a Reader in American Literature and Culture at the University of Kent’s School of English. He holds a BA from Nottingham and a DPhil from Oxford. His research focuses on mid-20th-century American literature and culture, particularly modernism, complicity in post-war intellectual history, and intersections between literature and Cold War geopolitics. Norman has held prestigious fellowships, including a Leverhulme Research Fellowship and a Fulbright Scholarship at Yale University. He co-edits the Journal of American Studies and has authored major works such as Transatlantic Aliens: Modernism, Exile and Culture in Midcentury America and Nabokov, History and the Texture of Time . His upcoming book Complicity in American Literature after 1945 (Oxford University Press, 2025) explores race, liberalism, and colonialism in postwar texts. His research spans modernist authors, Cold War cultural apparatuses, and crime fiction. Recent projects examine psychological warfare and national security narratives. Norman has supervised PhD students on topics like graphic novels, gender and medicalization in Cold War fiction, and Nabokov’s engagement with historical trauma. Norman’s publications include over 30 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, with work featured in Comparative Literature Studies , American Literature , and Journal of American Studies . He is a co-editor of special journal issues on complicity and cartographic imagination in postwar America.

• American Literature
• 20th-Century Literature
• Modernism
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Ana Paulina Lee is an Assistant Professor of Writing and Digital Humanities in the Comparative Literature, English, and Creative Writing Department at the American University of Paris. She joined AUP in 2025 after teaching Latin American literature and culture at Columbia University for eight years and serving as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Tulane University. Her interdisciplinary scholarship bridges literature, history, law, and urban studies with particular focus on marginalized narratives in the Americas. Ph.D. from University of Southern California M.A. from New York University B.A. from Binghamton University Professor Lee's research examines how stories—archival, fictional, oral—shape legal imagination, social life, and urban experience in the Americas. She specializes in the intersections of magic, law, and literature in Latin America, with particular focus on Asian and African diasporas in Brazil. Her work traces how narrative functions as both historical record and catalyst for social transformation, exploring themes of slavery, emancipation, colonial legacies, and urban memory. She approaches these topics through interdisciplinary lenses combining literary analysis with histories of labor, migration, and performance. Lee's recent publications reveal a consistent focus on marginalized narratives and their impact on social structures. Her scholarship connects legal history with cultural production, showing how magical thinking and narrative practices shape urban spaces and social relations. Works like 'Urban Sorcery, Segregation, and Spectacle in Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro' and 'Black Magic City' demonstrate her innovative approach to understanding the relationship between occult logics and legal frameworks in Brazilian contexts. Her research on diasporic communities, particularly Chinese and Japanese experiences in Latin America, contributes significantly to transnational and comparative race studies. David B. Larson Fellowship in Health and Spirituality, Kluge Center, United States Library of Congress (2025-2026) National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2025) Social Sciences Research Council, Inaugural Recipient of Interdisciplinary Projects in the Social Sciences (2020-2023) Institute for Ideas and Imagination Fellowship, Columbia University in Paris, France (2021-2022) Provost's Tsunoda Senior Fellowship, Visiting Scholar, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan (2019) Heyman Center Fellow, The Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University (2017-2018) Fulbright, Lisbon, Portugal (2013-2014) Professor Lee's scholarly activities have been generously supported by major research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Sciences Research Council, and the Library of Congress. Her work demonstrates a commitment to interdisciplinary approaches that bridge humanities and social sciences, particularly through projects examining intersections of race, migration, and cultural production in the Americas. Her publication 'Socially Engaged Oral History Pedagogy Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic' indicates a strong commitment to innovative teaching methods and community-based research. While specific details about current advisees aren't provided, her research program suggests engagement with graduate students interested in diaspora studies, urban history, and literary-cultural analysis. Though not explicitly mentioned in the available information, Professor Lee's research on urban spaces, magic, and law in Brazil likely involves collaborative work with scholars across disciplines. Her participation in centers like the Institute for Ideas and Imagination at Columbia University suggests engagement with interdisciplinary research communities focused on global cultural production and social transformation. Her work contributes to ongoing conversations about how narrative practices shape legal frameworks and social structures in the Americas, particularly regarding racial formation and diasporic experiences.

• Literature and the social imagination in the Americas
• Slavery, emancipation, and the legacies of colonialism
• Magic and the state in Latin American cultural texts
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Judith Lyon-Caen is Director of Studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) and a member of the Center for Historical Research (CRH), where she leads the Interdisciplinary Research Group on the History of Literature (GRIHL). Based in Paris at 54, boulevard Raspail, she specializes in the intersection of literature and history, with particular focus on 19th century France and Holocaust historiography. Former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (B/L 1992) History graduate (1995) Lecturer at EHESS (2007-2018) Director of studies at EHESS-CRH since 2018 Doctoral thesis (2002): 'Readings and uses of the novel in France, from 1830 to the advent of the Second Empire' (under Alain Corbin) Accreditation to direct research (2019): 'Making history with literature' Judith Lyon-Caen's research focuses on the social and political uses of literature in 19th century France, experiences of social mobility, and the history of social observation. She has made significant contributions to Holocaust historiography, particularly examining literary testimony in early Shoah documentation. Her work bridges literary studies and historical methodology, exploring how literature functions as both historical source and analytical tool across different historical periods from the 19th century to contemporary testimonies. Her recent publications reveal a clear intellectual trajectory from 19th century French literary history toward Holocaust studies, demonstrating how her methodological approach to literature as historical evidence has evolved to address questions of testimony and memory. This evolution reflects a deepening engagement with how historical experience is mediated through literary forms across different historical contexts, particularly in Eastern European Jewish communities during and after the Holocaust. Judith Lyon-Caen actively participates in research teams and academic networks, particularly through the GRIHL (Interdisciplinary Research Group on the History of Literature) and HHS (History and Historiography of the Holocaust). She co-organizes research workshops and seminars, including the GRIHL 'Autumn School in History and Literature' for master's and doctoral students. Her collaborative work with scholars across Europe and North America demonstrates the international scope of her research impact, particularly in Polish-French academic exchanges on Holocaust studies and literary history.

• History of Literature
• 19th Century French History
• Social History
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Patrick Dove is a Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University Bloomington, affiliated with the College of Arts & Sciences. His research focuses on intersections between literature, philosophy, and political thought in Spanish America, particularly addressing modernity, conflict, and cultural artifacts. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from SUNY Binghamton (2000), an M.A. in Philosophy from SUNY-Binghamton (1996), and a B.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin (1992). His current research project examines Central American conflicts in contexts of narco-capitalism and migration, analyzing historical legacies and contemporary challenges. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on topics like Latin American political thought, continental philosophy, and cultural studies. Dr. Dove has received notable awards, including the Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need Grant (2012–15) and multiple fellowships. His work spans literary criticism, political theory, and interdisciplinary humanities, with a focus on Latin America's socio-historical dynamics. His research also explores global war, sovereignty, and cultural representation, with publications in journals like CR: The New Centennial Review and Culture, Theory and Critique . He is actively engaged in academic leadership and interdisciplinary initiatives, including the Center for Theoretical Inquiry in the Humanities.

• 20th Century Spanish American Narrative
• Political Thought
• Continental Philosophy
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Eric Wertheimer is a Professor of English and American Studies at Stony Brook University’s College of Arts & Sciences. Previously, he spent 23 years at Arizona State University, where he founded and directed the Center for Critical Inquiry and Cultural Studies. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania (1994) and a B.A. from Haverford College. His research focuses on early and nineteenth-century American literature and culture, cultural and literary theory, popular political discourses, new media, and poetry. He has authored influential books like *Imagined Empires* (1998) and *Underwriting* (2006), and co-edited *Critical Trauma Studies* (2016). His poetry has been published in journals such as *Exquisite Corpse* and *Tupelo Quarterly*, with collections like *Mylar* (2012) and *Regulus* (2018). Wertheimer’s work has been recognized with a Barrett Honors College Faculty Fellowship and two nominations for ASU Professor of the Year. He has led interdisciplinary projects funded by the Mellon and Luce Foundations. His professional roles include serving on the MLA’s Publication Committee, editorial board of *Early American Literature*, and NEH review panels. His academic contributions span teaching, research, and creative writing, reflecting a commitment to bridging literary analysis with broader cultural and historical contexts.

• early and nineteenth-century American literature and culture
• cultural and literary theory
• popular political discourses
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Celia E. Naylor is a Professor in the Department of Africana Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University, where she has been a faculty member since 2010. She previously served as Assistant Professor and then tenured Associate Professor of History at Dartmouth College (2002–2010). Her academic home is in the College of Arts and Sciences, where she contributes to interdisciplinary scholarship across history, gender studies, and the African diaspora. B.A., Cornell University, Summa Cum Laude (Africana Studies with concentration in Women's Studies) M.A., UCLA (Afro-American Studies) M.A., Duke University (History) Ph.D., Duke University (History) Her research focuses on African-American, Caribbean, and Native American histories, with deep engagement in women’s and gender studies in the African diaspora, colonialism, and the cultural memory of slavery. She examines how race, gender, and power intersect in historical narratives and public representations. Her work critically analyzes the reconstruction of slavery in modern cultural forms, particularly in tourism and literature. The majority of her recent publications revolve around the history of enslaved people at Rose Hall Plantation in Jamaica, culminating in her 2022 monograph UnSilencing Slavery and a companion digital humanities project. These works combine microhistory, interdisciplinary critique, and digital storytelling to recenter the lives of the enslaved. Earlier works explore Black-Indian relations in U.S. history, particularly among the Cherokee Nation. Her publications span journals and edited volumes in history, ethnic studies, and cultural theory. Columbia University, Black Students Organization, Professor of the Year Award, May 2024 Barnard College, Digital Humanities Center Summer Fellowship, 2019 The Heyman Center for the Humanities, Faculty Fellowship, 2017–2018 Barnard College, BOSS Professor of the Year Award, May 2015 Columbia University, Black Students Organization, Professor of the Year Award, May 2012 Dartmouth College, Jack E. Thomas 1974 Family Fellowship, 2008–2009 Dartmouth College, John M. Manley Huntington Teaching Award, July 2008 Dartmouth College, Arthur M. Wilson Faculty Research Fellowship, 2005–2006 Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship (Alternate), 2005–2006 Nelson A. Rockefeller Center Research Scholars Program, 2004–2006 Professor Naylor advises student research through senior thesis seminars and mentors emerging scholars in Africana and women’s studies. She has received grant support from prestigious institutions including Columbia, Barnard, and Dartmouth. Her work with the Institute for Strategic and Equitable Development (ISED), where she serves as President of the Board of Directors, reflects her commitment to racial equity and community-centered development. She leads initiatives such as Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity in Environmental Philanthropy (InDEEP) and the Presidents' Forum on Racial Equity in Philanthropy. She also collaborates with organizations like Keecha Harris & Associates and InPartnership Consulting. Her digital humanities project (Un)Silencing Slavery serves as both a research archive and public educational tool, launched on the 60th anniversary of Jamaica’s independence. She regularly presents her work at major academic conferences including the American Historical Association, Association of Caribbean Historians, and Berkshire Conference on Women’s History. Her scholarship is deeply collaborative, often involving interdisciplinary teams across history, anthropology, and digital media.

• African-American history
• Caribbean history
• Native American history
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Professor Jose Jouve-Martin is a faculty member in the Department of Hispanic Studies at McGill University. His research focuses on the intersection of history and literature in colonial Latin America, particularly exploring themes of slavery, literacy, and colonialism. He has held significant academic roles including Director of Undergraduate Programs in Hispanic Studies and has been funded by major grants such as SSHRC and FQRSC. His work spans monographs, peer-reviewed articles, and edited volumes, with notable publications like Esclavos de la ciudad letrada (2005). He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on colonial literature, the baroque, and Afro-Hispanic studies. Education: Ph.D. in Hispanic Literature, Georgetown University (2003) Licenciatura in Philosophy, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (1994) His research interests include the cultural history of opera, funerary rituals in the Spanish Empire, and the role of writing among enslaved populations. He has advised numerous graduate and undergraduate students on topics ranging from colonial drama to modern Latin American literature. His international collaborations include membership in the MCRI 'The Hispanic Baroque' and Brown University's research groups. Prof. Jouve-Martin’s scholarly contributions have been recognized with awards such as an honorable mention for the Franklin Pease G.Y. Memorial Prize (2007). He actively participates in academic service roles, including editorial boards for Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos and Latin American Research Review .

• Hispanic Studies
• Colonial Latin American Literature
• Slavery and Literacy in Colonial Latin America
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Alberto Fabris is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage , Ca' Foscari University of Venice . His research focuses on the History of Philosophy , particularly Renaissance Political Thought , Giordano Bruno studies , and Machiavelli's historiography . He holds a PhD from École Normale Supérieure de Lyon and has received significant grants including the PNRR Young Researchers Funds and a Seal of Excellence from the European Commission. Education: PhD in Philosophy (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 2014-2018) Previous appointments: Johns Hopkins University, Université Libre de Bruxelles, ULB-Mons His research integrates Psychoanalysis , Political Philosophy , and Renaissance Cultural History , with a focus on desire theory , urban political structures , and mnemonic systems . Recent publications analyze Francesco Ingoli 's global political thought and Machiavelli's urban metaphorics. Key Projects: 'Francesco Ingoli (1578-1649) as Political Thinker and Global Theorist' Professional Memberships: Renaissance Society of America (RSA), NeMLA, AAIS Scientific recognition includes the Seal of Excellence (2022) and French University System Qualification (2020). He has organized international conferences on Renaissance political thought and Machiavelli's works.

• History of Philosophy
• Renaissance Philosophy
• Political Philosophy
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Sujin Eom serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages at Dartmouth College. Her academic journey includes a PhD in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, with a Designated Emphasis in Global Metropolitan Studies, complemented by advanced degrees in Architecture from Seoul National University. Ph.D in Architecture, University of California, Berkeley M.S. in Architecture, Seoul National University B. Arch (Bachelor of Architecture), Seoul National University Eom's research program centers on the intersection of race, migration, and the built environment through historical inquiry. Her work interrogates colonial architecture and urbanism, empire studies, migration and diaspora, race and racism, Asian/American architecture, infrastructures, and archives. She approaches race and empire as inherent in contemporary global urbanism, situating East Asia's colonial space within global circuits of urban ideas and forms that circulate race and racism across continents. Her scholarship examines transnational connections of ideas and things that have received little scholarly attention in architectural and urban history. Eom's publications reveal consistent engagement with transnational urban phenomena, particularly focusing on Chinatowns as material and imaginative spaces that connect Asia and the Americas through histories of empire, labor migration, and violence. Her work demonstrates how architectural forms travel across regions while acquiring new meanings, with particular attention to how race shapes urban space. Her articles collectively trace the movement of people and ideas across port cities, treaty ports, shophouses, elevated highways, cemeteries, and mosques as sites where racial imaginings are both reflected and transmitted. Korean Literature Association Article Prize (2025) Alice Ross Carey Fellowship from UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design Society of Architectural Historians IDEAS Research Fellowship Academy of Korean Studies Fellowship International Planning History Society Best Postgraduate Paper Award Eom actively contributes to expanding postcolonial urban studies through her work with the Society of Architectural Historians and Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum on the project "Rediscovering Asian American and Pacific Islander Architects & Designers." Her teaching portfolio at Dartmouth College includes courses on Urban Asia, Travel and Migration in the Transpacific Asias, and Asian American Art and Architecture, where she examines how Asian American and diasporic artists define identity and imagine their place in the world through case studies including Japanese internment camps, Chinatown, and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Her ongoing research projects include the book manuscript "Traveling Chinatowns: Migration, Proximity, and Violence across the Pacific" which situates Chinatown within the global history of empire and anti-migrant violence, and "Asian American Midcentury Modern," a monograph foregrounding race and racism in modernist discourse by centering American architects of Asian descent in midcentury architecture history.

• colonial architecture and urbanism
• migration and diaspora
• race and racism
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Deniz Göktürk is a Professor in the Department of German at the University of California, Berkeley, with extensive cross-disciplinary affiliations including the Department of Film and Media, Berkeley Center for New Media, Digital Humanities, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Center for Race and Gender, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, and Program in Critical Theory. She previously taught at the University of Southampton (1995-2001) and has served as graduate adviser and department chair at Berkeley since joining in 2001. Her educational background includes a Dr.phil. from Freie Universität Berlin (1995), focusing on literary and cinematic imaginations of America in early twentieth-century German culture. She also worked as a certified Turkish translator for legal and medical institutions prior to her academic career. Göktürk's research centers on cultural and media studies with emphasis on moving images, multilingual literature, and migration theories within global frameworks. Her work critically examines social interaction and aesthetic intervention across transnational contexts, bridging film studies, migration theory, and cultural geography through interdisciplinary methodologies that challenge conventional national narratives. Her publications from 1991-2020 reveal consistent engagement with German-Turkish cultural dynamics, cinematic traditions, and urban identities. Key patterns include transnational perspectives on migration, deconstruction of national cinemas, and analysis of aesthetic forms in social transformation—particularly evident in her edited volumes on German cinema, Istanbul's cultural positioning, and integration narratives. Major recognitions include: DAAD fellowship ESRC grant (UK) Institute for European Studies support Townsend Center for the Humanities funding Center for Cinepoetics fellowship (Berlin) Digital Humanities at Berkeley initiative As graduate adviser and department chair, she has shaped German studies curricula while leading cross-campus collaborations like 'Cultural Forms in Transit' and the 'Circulation' working group. Her grant portfolio reflects sustained institutional support for transnational humanities research spanning migration studies, media theory, and cultural geography. She co-founded TRANSIT (Berkeley German Department's electronic journal, 2005) and coordinates the Multicultural Germany Project, establishing platforms for critical discourse on migration, media, and cultural identity through digital humanities frameworks and international scholarly networks.

• Cultural Studies
• Media Studies
• Migration Theory
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Kathleen Woodward is a Professor of English and Director of the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington, holding the Lockwood Professorship in the Humanities. She specializes in 20th-century American literature, discourses of emotions, technology studies, and age studies. Her work bridges literary criticism, cultural theory, and interdisciplinary humanities. Affiliations: Simpson Center Director since 2000, former Director of UW’s English Department, and former President of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes. Education: B.A. Economics (Smith College, 1966), Ph.D. Literature (UC San Diego, 1976). Research: Explores intersections of emotion, technology, and aging through publications like Statistical Panic (2009) and Aging and Its Discontents (1991). Current projects include risk analysis in global aging contexts. Grants & Leadership: Secured grants from Mellon, NEH, and Rockefeller. Served on boards of Imagining America, National Humanities Alliance, and HASTAC. Co-edited Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture (1986–1995). Labs/Initiatives: Founded and led the Center for Twentieth Century Studies at UW-Milwaukee (1981–2000). Active in campus-community partnerships and digital humanities collaborations.

• Twentieth-century American Literature
• Discourses of the Emotions
• Technology and Science Studies
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