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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 and...
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,...
Black Queer and Trans Anthropocenes
Apr. 6, 2023—Cameron Clark is a 2022-23 Graduate Student Fellow from the Department of English. The Anthropocene has come to define a corpus of accumulated threats to species life, ranging from global warming and climate change; to environmental toxicity and pollution; to extinctions, loss of biodiversity, and the subsequent collapse of various ecosystems across the planet. Yet,...
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A Philosophy of Class in the Twenty-First Century
Apr. 3, 2023—Emerson Bodde is a 2022-23 Graduate Student Fellow from the Department of Philosophy My research works within the overlap between social and political philosophy, which study normative and descriptive arguments and concepts pertaining to collective human engagement, and the history of philosophy, which organizes research by contextualizing philosophical arguments in terms of their social, political,...
Narrative Nomads: Resistance in the 21st-century African Hispanophone (Equatorial Guinea and the Western Sahara)
Mar. 29, 2023—Caroline Colquhoun is a 2022-23 Graduate Student Fellow from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese For many, the phrase “Spanish Empire” calls up notions of Spain’s colonies in the Americas and the Caribbean—places that were decolonized by the end of the 19th century. In Africa, however, Spain’s imperial influence lingered far longer. Equatorial Guinea and...
