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  • Ryan Cordell

    Mellon Foundation supports project to study anti-Black violence in newspapers

    A project to examine the circulation of newspaper reports about anti-Black violence in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century U.S. newspapers could provide context to the spread of white supremacist ideologies in social media today. "The Virality of Racial Terror in US Newspapers, 1863-1921" (VRT) is a partnership between the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Northeastern University, and...
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    Susan Koshy is the guest editor of the latest issue of PMLA (137.5) on “Monolingualism and Its Discontents”

    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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    New website compiles ocean data from landmark 19th-century scientific voyage

    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 ...
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  • New Faculty Books in Literary Studies
    From Anustup Basu, Hindutva as Political Monotheism (Duke, 2020)  Basu offers a genealogical study of right-wing Hindu nationalism, demonstrating...
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  • Susan Koshy appointed as Faculty Fellow, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation (OVCRI) and Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute (IHSI)
    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...
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  • Irvin Hunt named 2022-33 Helen Corley Petit Scholar for an extraordinary record of scholarship and teaching.
    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.  ...
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