Tiffany Bourelle and co-author Evan
Ashworth announce the publication of their article "Utilizing Critical
Service-Learning Pedagogy in the Online Classroom: Promoting Social Justice
and Effecting Change?" within the peer-reviewed journal Currents
and Teaching Learning. This article details using critical service-learning
in the online classroom, questioning how much change an instructor can expect to
occur within students. You can read the article at the following link:
Thursday, March 5, 2015
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Daniel Worden on “The Politics of Comics”
Daniel Worden’s essay “The Politics of Comics: Popular
Modernism, Abstraction, and Experimentation” has just been published in the
February 2015 issue of the academic journal Literature Compass. The
essay is available at the Wiley Online Library,
and the essay’s abstract follows.
Comics and graphic novels are now widely accepted to be
legitimate aesthetic and literary texts, suitable for study in all manner of
university classrooms and scholarly projects. Comics studies scholarship was
often preoccupied with arguing for the aesthetic legitimacy and literary
complexity of comics and graphic novels, and now that this debate is more or
less over, comics studies scholarship has begun to consider not just why and
how we should read comics but what comics might mean. The question of meaning
is an inherently political question, as it asks us to think of comics in
relation to our social world. This essay traces two ways that comics can be
read politically: as part of popular modernism, and as a medium for
experimentation with genre, narrative, and visual conventions.
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Professor Jesse Alemán named visiting scholar
University of New Mexico American Literary Studies Professor Jesse Alemán has been named the 2015 Jim and Linda Burke Visiting Scholar in Literature at Oklahoma State University’s Doel Reed Center for the Arts in Taos, N.M.
Alemán will be in residency in Taos in May and June to participate in a two-week summer seminar on “The Nuclear Bomb and the Land of Enchantment,” taught under the auspices of OSU’s Doel Reed Center summer program. As the Burke Visiting Scholar, Alemán will interact with students enrolled in the class, give a public presentation in Taos, and visit OSU’s main campus for a lecture event during the academic year. The Jim and Linda Burke Visiting Scholar in Literature is also awarded a $5,000 honorarium.
Named after the internationally acclaimed graphic artist, the Doel Reed Center offers classes characterized by cross-disciplinary approaches to teaching, research and outreaching focusing on the Southwest. Alemán’s participation as Burke Visiting Scholar comes in preparation of his own graduate seminar, “The Nuclear Southwest,” which he’ll be teaching for the Bread Loaf School of English’s summer graduate program in Santa Fe.
Crossdressing, Confederate soldier movie, 'Rebel,' airs at UNM
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| English Department Chair Gail Houston, History Professor Elizabeth Hutchison. Film Director Maria Agui Carter, and English Professor Jesse Alemán screening "Rebel" |
February 04, 2015
Director, researcher to discuss the life of soldier turned Union spy following screening
Film director Maria Agui Carter screens her 75-minute film, "Rebel," on Thursday, Feb. 19, from 6:30 - 9 p.m. in the UNM SUB Ballroom C. The film is the amazing story of Loreta Janeta Velazquez, who crossdressed as a Confederate soldier turned Union Spy.
Following the screening, the director will discuss Velazquez with UNM’s Dr. Jesse Alemán, who has studied and written about her. The event is free and open to the public.
Who was Loreta Janeta Velazquez? And what made her so dangerous she has been virtually erased from history? A 19th century woman of many disguises who was born in Havana and raised in New Orleans, Velazquez was a rebel from the start, a precocious Cuban tomboy who idolized Joan of Arc. One of the 1,000 women said to have fought in the Civil War, she altered her sex, her ethnicity and her very identity in order to become a Confederate soldier, under the alias Lieutenant Harry Buford, to spy for the Confederacy. She then become a double agent for the Union, and then exposed her secret in a memoir, "The Woman in Battle," which chronicled her often tragic life.
Yet for the last 150 years, her story has been dismissed as a hoax. "Rebel" unlocks this mystery with a non-traditional approach that plays with form and style to create an impressive body of evidence.
The presentation of "Rebel" and the discussion to follow are made possible by: the American Studies Department, the College of Arts & Sciences, the Center for Regional Studies, the Department of English Language and Literature, the English Graduate Student Association, the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, the Feminist Research Institute, the History Department, and the Philosophy Department.
Professor Finnie Coleman to lead post-performance discussion Sunday, February 15th, at The Vortex Theatre
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| http://vortexabq.org/ |
The Whipping Man
Written by Matthew Lopez
Directed by Barbara
Geary
February
6th- March 1st
Publicity Liaison:
Leslee Richards
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December
7, 2014
The
Civil War has just ended and Confederate soldier Caleb DeLeon returns from the
war to find his family missing and two former slaves, Simon and John, living in
the ruins of their once fine home. It is Passover - a time to celebrate the
freeing of slaves in ancient Egypt. As the 3 wait for the family’s return, they
struggle with their shared Jewish faith and roles as Master and Slave,
confronting new and long buried secrets.
At its core, The Whipping Man is a tragedy of love, privilege and crushed expectations. The role of Judaism in the culture of American slave ownership has rarely been examined and the play’s resonance for the audience comes from its examination of a time and circumstance in history that, while on the surface is deeply familiar to us, is told through the lives of 3 men whose faith colors their actions and relationships in unforeseen ways. As the revelations of the play accumulate, the expectations each man has for his future are peeled away to reveal the truths of his true nature and current circumstance.
At its core, The Whipping Man is a tragedy of love, privilege and crushed expectations. The role of Judaism in the culture of American slave ownership has rarely been examined and the play’s resonance for the audience comes from its examination of a time and circumstance in history that, while on the surface is deeply familiar to us, is told through the lives of 3 men whose faith colors their actions and relationships in unforeseen ways. As the revelations of the play accumulate, the expectations each man has for his future are peeled away to reveal the truths of his true nature and current circumstance.
Show & Ticket
Info: Performances
are Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 pm and Sundays at 2 pm. Tickets are $22 for
general admission and $15 for students with ID. Pay-What-You-Will is on Sunday,
February 8. Thursday, Feb 5 is an open
Final Dress Rehearsal. Discussion of the play with the cast and audience, led
by Rabbi Paul Citrin is on Feb 8th after the performance. Discussion
with the cast and audience led by Professor Finnie Coleman, UNM Departments of
English and Africana Studies is on Feb 15th after the performance.
Reservations and ticket purchases can be made online at www.vortexabq.org or by
calling 505-247-8600. For further information, contact Publicity Liaison Kathleen
Welker at kathleenwelker@gmail.com or director Barbara Geary at
blumonky@gmail.com.
About the Director: Barbara Geary has appeared in NM as
Miss Stephanie in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD,
Anna in CLOSER, Darcy Snelgrave in ONE FLEA
SPARE, Tiresias in ANTIGONE,
Sunny Jacobs in THE EXONERATED and as
Stage Director of the opera THE LANGUAGE
OF BIRDS for Santa Fe New Music. Most recently, she directed the epic rock
opera MURDERCASTLE for The Baltimore
Rock Opera Society also known as the B.R.O.S. A graduate of the Dell’Arte
International School of Physical Theatre, Barbara has been performing,
directing, and teaching in movement, mask, film, and ensemble theatre
nationwide and beyond since 1981.
About the Vortex
Theatre:
The
Vortex is Albuquerque’s oldest continuously-running Black Box Theatre, a
pioneering venue for classic, contemporary, and cutting-edge theatre since
1976. This 501(c)3 non-profit community playhouse entertains audiences
year-round with some of the city’s finest productions, including our annual
Summer Shakespeare Festival. The Vortex is located at 2900 Carlisle Blvd NE.
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Dr. Helen Damico inducted as a Fellow to the Medieval Academy of America
 Medieval
Academy
of
America
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19 January 2015
To the Members of the
Medieval Academy:
I am very pleased to
introduce the 2015 Class of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval
Academy of America:
FELLOWS:
Helen Damico (Univ. of
New Mexico)
Sharon Farmer (Univ.
of California, Santa Barbara)
Margot Fassler (Univ.
of Notre Dame)
Robin Fleming (Boston
College)
Richard Kaeuper (Univ.
of Rochester)
Maureen Miller (Univ.
of California, Berkeley)
David Nirenberg (Univ.
of Chicago)
Katherine O'Brien
O'Keeffe (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
Anders Winroth (Yale
Univ.)
CORRESPONDING FELLOWS:
Paul Brand (Univ. of
Oxford)
Constant Mews (Monash
Univ.)
Felicity Riddy (Univ.
of York)
I hope you will join me in honoring these accomplished
scholars during the Fellows' Plenary Session of the upcoming Annual Meeting.
Lisa Fagin Davis
Executive Director, Medieval Academy of America
Secretary to the Fellows
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Daniel Worden on “B-Side Modernism” and Joe Brainard’s experimental comics
Daniel
Worden’s essay “Joe Brainard’s Grid, or, the Matter of Comics” has just been
published in the “B-Side Modernism” issue of the online journal nonsite.org. The essay is available here: http://nonsite.org/article/joe-brainards-grid-or-the-matter-of-comics
With
the support of the Mellon Foundation, the special issue’s release coincides
with an exhibition of rare materials from the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library
and a two-day “B-Side Modernism” symposium at Emory University. Find out more
and peruse an online exhibition of materials from the Raymond Danowski Poetry
Library here: http://nonsite.org/issue-15-b-side-modernism
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