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My Journey as a Literary Scholar: From Theory to Archives
Oct. 23, 2023—André Ramos-Chacón is a Mending and Transforming Fellow from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. For five years, as an undergraduate student of literature in Peru, I was formed to understand, appropriate, and apply theory for my study of books. Though, arguably, I was being formed at the margins of the academic establishment —in a...
Ethics of Memory: Remembering the May 18th People’s Uprising in South Korea
Oct. 5, 2023—Seulbin Lee, 2023-24 RPW Center Themed Graduate Fellow. This year’s group is exploring the theme of “The Place of Memory.” The Martyrs of Gwanju During the 2023 national commemoration ceremony of the May 18th People’s Uprising in 1980, held in the city of Gwangju, a small group of activists who had traveled from Seoul raised...
Bad Faith
Sep. 20, 2023—Tan Fireall, 2023-24 RPW Center Themed Graduate Fellow. This year’s group is exploring the theme of “The Place of Memory.” As we are born, we emerge through a kind of rupture. There is blood, tissue, and sometimes wailing from the pain and perhaps the existential quandary of being born to die. I wonder if this...
Mobilizing Legacies: The Vocational Singlewoman and Nineteenth-Century Travel Memoirs
Sep. 7, 2023—Kelsey Rall, 2023-24 RPW Center Themed Graduate Fellow. This year’s group is exploring the theme of “The Place of Memory.” Single Ladies The word “spinster” usually connotes images of older women in dusty houses surrounded by mountains of knitted products, feelings of loneliness and superfluousness, and the derisive language of “old maids,” “shrews,” and “cat...
Common Ground?
Apr. 27, 2023—Rachel Heath is a 2022-23 Graduate Student Fellow from the Graduate Department of Religion. In the fourth quarter of the 2021 Superbowl, a commercial sponsored by Jeep called “The Middle” aired. It begins with a voiceover from Bruce Springsteen: “There’s a chapel in Kansas. Standing on the exact center of the lower-48. It never closes. All...
Literature, Images, and Collections: Assemblages of Settler Colonialism in Latin America
Apr. 25, 2023— Sahai Couso Díaz is a 2022-23 Graduate Student Fellow from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. My current research builds upon the growing engagement by decolonial scholars and public intellectuals with long-lasting, pseudoscientific rhetorics of race. I fold together poetry, natural history, proto-anthropological debates, archival documents, scientific collections, and images to elucidate the local...
My Journey as a Literary Scholar: From Theory to Archives
Apr. 21, 2023—André Ramos-Chacón is a 2022-2023 “Mending and Transforming” Graduate Student Fellow For five years, as an undergraduate student of literature in Peru, I was taught to understand, appropriate, and apply theory for my study of books. Though, arguably, I was being taught at the margins of the academic establishment —in a State University in Arequipa,...