Susan Koshy is the guest editor with Christopher Cannon of the latest issue of PMLA (137.5) on “Monolingualism and Its Discontents.” The introduction offers an incisive recontextualization of monolingualism as a "a category assumed more than it is named and named more than it is examined." Featuring essays by Taoufik Ben Amor, Eric Calderwood, Susan Choi, Rey Chow, Sarah Dowling, Juliet Fleming,...
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The HMS Challenger began a four-year voyage 150 years ago to explore the deep sea and the creatures that lived in it. The scientists aboard the ship discovered thousands of new species and recorded massive amounts of data about the oceans. The treasure trove of information they gathered is now available online in the first comprehensive database of the Challenger findings. A new ...
From Anustup Basu, Hindutva as Political Monotheism (Duke, 2020) Basu offers a genealogical study of right-wing Hindu nationalism, demonstrating how a modernization project subsumed a vast array of polytheistic, pantheistic, and henotheistic cults...
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- Susan Koshy (Asian American Studies/English), has been named Faculty Fellow (Humanities, Arts, and Related Fields) in the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation (OVCRI) and the Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute (IHSI). The Fellows Program supports faculty members...
- Each year LAS selects up to seven recipients across the entire college. Mrs. Helen Corley Petit, a deceased alumna of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, provided an endowment for the development of the scholarship and teaching of early career faculty members in the College. ...
- Alex Shakar is professor in the Department of English. He’s an invaluable member of the Creative Writing Program and has appeared on the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent a total of 10 different semesters during his time at...
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