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NEWS FOR Alumni & Friends of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies & The Graduate Center for Literary Research Fall 2016–Winter 2018

UC SANTA BARBARA CHAIR OF THE PROGRAM UNDERGRADUATE ADVISOR NEWSLETTER CO-EDITORS Comparative Literature Program Catherine Nesci Elizabeth Fair Catherine Nesci [email protected] [email protected] Christene d’Anca 4206 Phelps Hall Arpi Movsesian Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4130 Information: (805) 893-3161 VICE CHAIR STUDENT SERVICE MANAGER DESIGN & PRODUCTION Elisabeth Weber Carol Flores Ocean o' Graphics Fax: (805) 893-8341 [email protected] [email protected] Marine Science Institute Comparative Literature UC Santa Barbara

01 Notes from the Chairs and Directors Catherine Nesci, Chair, Comparative Literature 01 Didier Maleuvre, Chair, French and Italian 01 Elisabeth Weber, Chair, Germanic and Slavic Studies 01 Suzanne Jill Levine, Director, Translation Studies 02 02 Scholar at Risk Dr. Hassan Almohammed 03 The Graduate Center for Literary Research 04 Introducing New Faculty and New Affiliates Christina Vagt, Germanic and Slavic Studies 04 New Affiliates from English and Film & Media Studies 05 06 Staff Update: Welcome, Iryna! 08 Affiliated Faculty Awards & Honors 09 Updates from Affiliated Faculty 13 New Books by Affiliated Faculty Catherine Nesci and Devin Fromm on American Mysterymania 13 Elisabeth Weber on Kill Boxes 14 Sara Weld on An Ecology of the Russian Avant-Garde Picturebook 14 15 Graduate Alumni News 16 Doctoral Student Arpi Movsesian on Her New Book 17 New doctors: Michael Grafals, Shari Sanders, Inez Zhou 17 New Doctoral Candidates ABD Alvaro Luna Gets Chateaubriand Fellowship 17 18 Welcoming New Graduate Students 19 Other Graduate Students Updates 22 Summer Language Studies/Summer Research 23 Comparative Literature Honors Reception Notes from Chairs and Directors Catherine Nesci Chair, Comparative Literature

Comparative Literature continues to and Social Change, taught a course cross-listed with an provide students and scholars with Honors seminar on the philosophies of literature; Dr. Ofra an interdisciplinary crossroad for Amihay (Religious Studies) taught her two courses From innovative explorations across fields Superman to Spiegelman and Hebrew Literature, both and methodologies. Our program cross-listed with Religious Studies; Dr. Rick Benjamin, has been offering a record number of new Adjunct Professor in Comparative Literature, and appealing courses in world literature, a well-known poet, has been teaching community- Translation Studies, literary and critical centered courses on poetry as well as on literature and theory, cognitive sciences, film and media studies, and the environment. Our graduate students benefited visual culture. In Winter 2018 Professors Dominique Jullien from the generous mentoring of colleagues from many (French and Italian) and Sowon Park (English) created departments in the Humanities and Social Sciences. In and taught an innovative seminar on world literature addition to the ongoing contributions by colleagues from and cognitive sciences. “Hit” courses such as Children the Departments of French and Italian, Germanic and Literature, Fantasy and the Fantastic, Les Misérables, Slavic, and Spanish and Portuguese, our program and its Middle Eastern Literatures, Postcolonial Narratives, students have enjoyed close collaborations with Black Sexuality and Globalization have been attracting more Studies, Feminist Studies, Chicana/o Studies, and Global and more students. Colleagues also taught new seminar- Studies in the Division of Social Sciences as well as Art, format courses: Dr. Pierre Fasula, a Postdoctoral Fellow East Asian Studies, English, Linguistics, and Religious with UC Santa Barbara’s new Center for Humanities. Studies in the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts.

Didier Maleuvre Elisabeth Weber Chair, French and Italian Chair, Germanic and Slavic Studies

The big development this year In fall 2017, we welcomed our new in French involves offering a new colleague Dr. Christina Vagt, Assistant suite of undergraduate courses that Professor of German and European complement the studies of students Media Studies who was hired after majoring in biology, psychology, a national search in collaboration economics, political science as well with our colleagues in French and as global studies. To emphasize the Italian. New graduate students were role of the Francophone world in recruited, thanks to the generous the international marketplace, we are debuting courses Fellowships from the Kade Foundation and the Atkins such as French for the Life Sciences, Bioethics in the Fellowship, including Dr. Elena Festa, Margarita Delcheva, Francosphere, Literature and Cognitive Science, Literature and Sofie Thomsen; continuing students were also offered and Economics, Public Speaking and Communication Fellowships from the Kade Foundation and the Atkins Strategies, Medicine and Comedy, or Urban and Fellowship to free them off from teaching, among them: Economic Development in the Francophone South Dustin Lovett, John Schranck, and Wendy Sun. Numerous (alongside such popular offerings as Business French). students were also able to conduct research in Germany The purpose of this new set of courses is to give students and Austria in the summer 2016 and 2017, thanks to Kade tools to operate in French-speaking and international Foundation Travel Grants. Our Visiting Kade Professors, professional environments, and to devise successful also supported by our Division of Humanities and Fine Arts, strategies of communication whether in international taught 2 graduate seminars and 2 large-division courses relations, science and technology, education, economics, on the making of the modern world; we thank the Kade business, management, non-profits, government as well Foundation for allowing us to bring Professor Anselm as Humanities and Fine Arts. Haverkamp (New York University/University of Munich) and Alexander Honold (Basel University).

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 1 Suzanne Jill Levine Director, Translation Studies

We welcome Professors Aline Ferreira 139, cross-listed with East Asian Studies), taught by (Spanish & Portuguese), Thomas Tom Mazanec; Introduction to Translation (Comparative Mazanec (East Asian Language Literature 102A, cross-listed as Spanish 115), to be & Cultural Studies), Sowon Park taught by Viola Miglio; and Introduction to Interpreting (English), and Sven Spieker (Germanic (Comparative Literature 102B, cross-listed as Spanish 116), & Slavic Studies) as new members to be taught by Aline Ferreira in winter 2019. On March 1, of our Advisory Board in Translation 2018, Ricardo Pau-Llosa and Enrico Mario Santí presented Studies. Continuing members include their bilingual volume of poetry, Intruder between Rivers/ Suzanne Jill Levine (Spanish & Portuguese), Yunte Huang Intruso entre ríos, with Pau-Llosa’s English originals and (English), Dominique Jullien (French & Italian), Viola Miglio Santí’s translations of “Cuban” poems—poems with (Spanish & Portuguese), Jon Snyder (French & Italian), and Cuban or Cuban exile themes. Other visiting Translation Sara Pankenier Weld (Germanic & Slavic Studies). With Studies speakers this year include Catalan translator Mara over twenty graduate students registered, the Graduate Lethem (March), Ricardo Munoz Martin (UCSB graduate Emphasis in Translation Studies has become the most and Professor of Translation Studies in Spain) and prize- popular optional emphasis in the Division of Humanities winning poet-translator Stephen Kessler (May). and Fine Arts. Our undergraduate Minor in Translation Visit our web site to keep current on events and Studies now counts over thirty students. New courses developments in Translation Studies at UCSB. have been added to the roster of electives for the Minor, www.complit.ucsb.edu/translationstudies/home such as China in Translation (Comparative Literature

Scholar at Risk Dr. Hassan Almohammed

In Winter-Spring 2018, in conjunction with our campus’s participation in the New-York based Scholars at Risk Network, which was approved by UC Santa Barbara’s Faculty Legislature in 2016, Comparative Literature, French and Italian, and Religious Studies welcomed Dr. Hassan Almohammed. As Visiting Scholar, he taught a course on the Syrian uprising and civil war in Religious Studies, a large course on Torture (French 154D), a course on French poetry in French (French 147A), and a fourth course on Documentary Filmmaking and Democracy (Comparative Literature 186DF). In 2009, Dr. Almohammed received his doctoral degree in modern French literature from one of France’s best universities and a leader in interdisciplinary research, the University Blaise Pascal, in Clermont-Ferrand, France. His doctoral thesis dealt with an important group of French poets in the second part of the twentieth century, and their approach to death, time, and the environment. Dr. Almohammed had also earned an MFA in Photography at the prestigious School of Social Sciences in Paris, France (the EHESS). In addition to this multiple trainings in literary and visual studies, and in photographic art, Dr. Almohammed is also a master of the oud, the most important musical instrument in the Middle East. He has given concerts combining music and the reading of poets from the Middle East, from the Syrian Abu Tammam to the Iraqi Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayati and the Palestinian Fadwa Toqan. We are delighted that Dr. Almohammed has been selected as the Madeline Haas Russell Visiting Professor for the 2018-2019 academic year at Brandeis University’s Islamic and Middle East Studies Program. www.complit.ucsb.edu/translationstudies/home

2 UC SANTA BARBARA The Graduate Center for Literary Research

After Dominique The 2017-18 application process Studies and Cultural Studies). Jullien’s yearlong was an unqualified success, as our The academic year played host sabbatical, during five applicants (Jeffrey Bellomi, to two major events. The GCLR which Professor Linshan Jiang, Dustin Lovett, Arpi was pleased to host Christopher Wolf Kittler was Movsesian, and Wendy Sun) were Prendergast in October 2016, for interim faculty all accepted and are on their way a three-day visit, which included a director with John to Tokyo in July 2018. Pooling graduate student seminar, “History Schranck as resources from the GCLR, the Dean’s and Periodization: the Invention Student Coordinator, Professor office, the Graduate Division, the of the Century,” and a public Jullien returned as Director this year, Comparative Literature program lecture entitled “Culture, Politics assisted by third-year Comparative and the Department of East Asian and Comparative Philology in the Literature student Dustin Lovett. Now Languages and Cultural Studies, we Nineteenth Century.” In Winter in its fifth year, the Graduate Center were able to raise enough funds to 2017, the Graduate Student Board for Literary Research continues to fully cover their expenses. We wish planned the annual conference, grow and thrive. New members have our five candidates an exciting and settling on “Resonance” as title joined the Faculty Board: Sowon Park productive summer at the Harvard and theme. “Resonance” explored and Glyn Salton-Cox (English), IWL-Tokyo, and we hope that many configurations of the graphic, textual, William Fleming (East Asian Studies), more UCSB students will follow in and sonic, among and between and the Student Board has expanded their footsteps in future years. cultures, literatures, languages, to almost 20 members, including For more information on the Harvard media, musics and inter(subjects). newcomers Benjamin Chaffin, Rachel IWL: iwl.fas.harvard.edu Professor Ashon Crawley (Religious Feldman, Elena Festa, Linshan Jiang, Studies and African American Arpi Movsesian, Sofie Thomsen, and Studies, University of Virginia) gave Xiuhe Zhang. Doctoral student the keynote address, building on his Three new students received GCLR John Schranck book Blackpentecostal Breath: The Recruitment Fellowships upon joining (Comparative Aesthetics of Possibility. UCSB in fall 2017: Sebaah Hamad Literature) served We thank Patricia Lino (Spanish (Comparative Literature), Xiuhe as Coordinator & Portuguese) for her wonderful Zhang (Film and Media Studies), for the Graduate poster art and Caragh Barry (Spanish and Benjamin Chaffin (Spanish Center for & Portuguese) for her seamless and Portuguese). These fellowships Literary Research presentation tech facilitation. Finally, are granted to incoming graduate (GCLR) in 2016– we thank John Majewski, our Dean students from various humanities 2017. The GCLR is unique in the of Humanities and Fine Arts, for departments who demonstrate opportunities it affords graduate providing opening remarks and clear interdisciplinary interests. It students to help one another refine supporting the GCLR. is expected that these students their work. Each quarter, the GCLR will participate in the various GCLR student board, comprised of activities and opportunities. graduate students from across the A major new item this year was humanities, selects three graduate the affiliation with the Harvard students’ abstracts based on Institute for World Literature, interdisciplinary appeal and promise. which offers students from around Papers selected for the workshop are the world a month-long session of eligible for travel grants should the paper be selected for presentation at seminars and workshops taught by The GCLR Distinguished Guest a future conference. Winners included a wide range of scholars working Professor for 2017-18 was Dame Jeremy Chow (English), Lisa Han (Film across disciplines. Dean John Marina Warner, the world-renowned & Media Studies), Rachel Feldman Majewski, persuaded of the unique and award-winning cultural historian (Comparative Literature), Kajsa opportunity that the Harvard IWL from Oxford and Birkbeck College. A Philippa Niehusen (Film & Media program offered humanities graduate specialist of fairy tales, The Thousand Studies), Tegan Raleigh (Comparative students, generously agreed to and One Nights, and early media, Literature) and Susie Wu (East Asian affiliate UCSB with the Harvard IWL. among other subjects, Marina Warner

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 3 spent a week on our campus, meeting that divide us. Professor Amanda a large number of faculty and Petersen (University of San Diego) students. She gave a public lecture gave the opening lecture, and on her current project on storytelling Professor Jahan Ramazani (University and the current refugee crisis, and of Virginia) delivered the keynote taught a Graduate seminar on her lecture on the place of poetry in Egyptian childhood. She also took world literature. For more information part in a post-screening discussion of on the Borderlines conference, please the classic animation filmThe visit: http://www.complit.ucsb.edu/ Adventures of Prince Achmed at the gclr/conference UCSB Pollock Theatre, and a curated Another major GCLR event was visit to the Werner Nekes “Devices of the fifth annual GCLR conference, The GCLR continued its mission Wonder” collection at the Getty “Borderlines,” which brought of providing opportunities for Research Institute in Los Angeles. together faculty, graduate and conversations across disciplines. Two Round tables brought together For more information on Marina undergraduate students from various From left to right: Prof. Jahan Ramazani (U West Coast institutions for a day-long presenters from various humanities Virginia); Dustin Lovett (UCSB); Prof. Michael Warner’s visit: www.complit.ucsb. departments, and four travel grants Bryson (CSUN); Ricardo Friaz (U Oregon); Cesar meeting on the issue of borders, edu/gclr/news/announcement/272 were awarded to presenters whose Osuna (CSUN); Prof. Thomas Manzanec (UCSB) providing a forum for a range of From left to right, first row: Prof. Amanda critical voices on the questions raised papers were subsequently accepted Petersen (USD); John Schranck (UCSB); Modje at major conferences. Taavon (CSUN) by the borders, real and imagined, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, May 2018 Credit: The Graduate Center for Literary Research at UC Santa Barbara Introducing new Faculty & New Affiliates

Christina Vagt Germanic and Slavic Studies

Christene d’Anca (CD) interviewed Christina Vagt (CV), new Faculty Member in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies. CD: This is your first academic CV: I wasn’t actually looking for a job in the U.S. However, appointment in the United States. How when I read the job description for a tenure track has the transition been for you? Is there professorship at UCSB for European Media Studies it fit my any advice you would like to offer to academic profile so well that I started to seriously consider other faculty members or students the possibility. In the end, it was a career decision since embarking on the same journey? UCSB simply provides a better support system for junior faculty than any university in Germany, especially if you CV: I might actually still be in transition since I arrived only want to pursue research on an international level. Also, six months ago. What was truly wonderful about moving I had a really good impression during my interview and here was the way I was welcomed by my new colleagues at campus visit. At first I was worried that the move to the UCSB, and the support I received from my friends, both in West Coast would cut me off from my German networks, Germany and the U.S. Among the more difficult parts of the but so far the opposite has happened—German scholars transition was dealing with governmental conduct. However, really love to come to California, and whereas German the department put in so much effort to get me here as academia felt a bit cramped over the last few years, I really soon as possible, that it made the situation much easier, enjoy taking part in it from a distance. Maybe geographic and I am feeling grateful for their support. I think national distance can produce academic proximity? politics should not keep people from pursuing academic appointments or studies abroad. Quite the opposite—I CD: Your scholarship is incredibly interdisciplinary. Is there a think it is more important than ever to pursue, and provide particular subject/area you enjoy working in more than others? a means for, academic exchange beyond national borders. How do you approach your research in so many varied fields? My advice would be: If you get the chance to work or study in your academic field abroad, take it! CV: My research has always been more problem-oriented than disciplinary. But that is not just me as it was already CD: When you accepted to come to UCSB, what were the part of my master’s program. Kulturwissenschaft in Berlin reasons that factored into your decision? At that point, how around the year 2000 was a rather wild mix of postmodern did you envision your future? Has anything changed? philosophy, literature, history of science, critical theory,

4 UC SANTA BARBARA aesthetics, gender studies, and media studies. I don’t feel teach something like Media Histories of the Pacific. Right particularly prone to a single academic discipline, but I now I don’t particularly know a lot about it, but I would like have always been interested in interferences between to better understand where I am, especially since I basically technology, historiography and matter, and theories that live on the other side of the world from where I used to be. try to translate between them. I would like to teach graduates from different departments such as Film & Media, History of Science, Global Studies, CD: What projects are you currently working on? maybe Environmental Studies, and even Marine Biology. CV: I am writing an article about the genealogy of artificial Imagine the Pacific as an entity that is subject to data, intelligence and the distrust in the intellect, and co-editing history, literature, technology, power structures—and at a collection of German essays on behavioral design in the the same time has its own spatial and temporal agency 1960s and 1970s. And I am also working on a small book that interferes with classical European or Western concepts project on media and physics with colleagues from France of knowledge. I am thinking in terms of Fernand Braudel and Germany. and his project on the Mediterranean that started when he finally saw the Mediterranean from the coast of Northern CD: If you could teach any graduate course at UCSB what Africa, and not just from France. But I am talking more would it entail? Who would be your target demographic? about a space of possibility than of reality, as Robert Musil would put it. However, I certainly couldn’t do it on my own. CV: If I could teach ANY graduate course at UCSB, I would

NEW AFFILIATES FROM ENGLISH AND FILM & MEDIA STUDIES

Welcome to Professor Bernadette Andrea and Associate Professor James Kearney, from English, as well as Associate Professor Greg Siegel, from Film and Media Studies, who are already mentoring our graduate students and serving in doctoral committees.

Bernadette Drama, and the Wider World, is transformation in early modern England Andrea’s research forthcoming from the University of and one that addresses ethics and and teaching Nebraska Press. economics in Shakespeare’s plays. interests include Renaissance/early James Kearney is Associate Professor Greg Siegel modern studies, of English. His teaching and research researches and women’s studies, interests include: early modern teaches in media and literary/cultural literature and culture; Shakespeare; history and theory, theory; early literature and economics; early modern science and modern Anglo- and postmodern ethics; the history technology studies, Islamic relations and representations; of reading; early modern theology critical and cultural and contemporary Middle Eastern and hermeneutics; and literary theory. theory, and sound women’s writing. She is the author His first book,The Incarnate Text: studies. He is the of The Lives of Girls and Women from Imagining the Book in Reformation author of Forensic Media: the Islamic World in Early Modern England (University of Pennsylvania Reconstructing Accidents in British Literature and Culture (University Press, 2009) was the winner of the Accelerated Modernity (Duke UP, 2014). of Toronto Press, 2017) and Women Conference on Christianity and His essays have appeared in Cabinet, and Islam in Early Modern English Literature Book of the Year award Communication and Critical/Cultural Literature (Cambridge UP, 2007); editor for 2009; it explores how the book Studies, Discourse, Grey Room, of English Women Staging Islam, was imagined during the crisis of Rethinking Disney: Private Control, 1696–1707 (Centre for Reformation and representation occasioned by the Public Dimensions (Wesleyan UP), and Renaissance Studies [University of Reformation’s simultaneous faith in Television: The Critical View, 7th ed. Toronto], 2012); and co-editor of Early text and distrust of material forms. He (Oxford UP). He is currently writing a Modern England and Islamic co-edited a special issue of the journal book on the theory and cultural history Worlds (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). Her Criticism addressing “Shakespeare of strange, unexplained sounds. co-edited collection, Travel and Travail: and Phenomenology” (Summer Early Modern Women, English 2012). He is working on two research projects: one that addresses reading as

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 5 Staff Update: Welcome, Iryna!

Iryna Zdanovich is our new Financial law. Upon graduation, Iryna was hired at Uspekh Ltd. as an and Personnel Coordinator for the accountant, where she worked for seven years. More Comparative Literature Program as well recently, after winning the US Green Card lottery, Iryna as the Departments of French and moved to the US in 2014, and worked as a personal Italian and Germanic and Slavic assistant for a book dealer in Santa Barbara, assisting with Studies. She graduated from Brest personal finances, budget and coordinating with vendors State Technical University, Belarus in and scheduled deliveries before coming to UCSB. Iryna’s 2005 with a double major: Master of work has been making an enormous difference to all of us, Science in Economics with a greatly reducing reimbursements for travel and research concentration in Finance, and a expenses. Her lovely smile, energy, and organization are Bachelor’s Degree in Custom Law, pertaining to Belarus much appreciated.

Affiliated Faculty Awards & Honors

Swati Chattopadhyay, 2009-2015. These events range from Foundation grant for 1.1 million for his from the Department the declaration of colonial reparations 4Humanities “WhatEvery1Says” of History of Art and to be paid by Italy to Libya in 2009 to project, for which he was the principal Architecture, was the Arab Spring of 2011, to the so- investigator. inducted as a Fellow of called refugee emergency of 2013-15 the Society of caused by a mounting number of The volume Architectural Historians Africans and non-Africans crossing edited by Elina in 2018 for a lifetime of the Mediterranean from Libyan ports. Druker and significant contribution to the field of These events are inextricably linked to Bettina architecture and urban history. http:// the transnational history of the Italian Kümmerling- www.sah.org/conferences-and- nation, which has been remarkably Meibauer, programs/award-programs/sah- suppressed for decades, but which Children’s fellows includes Italy’s simultaneous role as Literature and the an “Emigrant Nation” and a colonizer Avant-Garde (John “Empire State” in the first half of the Benjamins, 2015) that included Sara 20th century. Their project is to verify Pankenier Weld’s essay on “The if below the “memory aphasia” and Square as Regal Infant: The Avant- “dyslexia” of official, cultural, and Garde Infantile and Early Soviet institutional memory in Italy, there have Picturebooks” received the 2017 surfaced in social media mnemonic Children’s Literature Association bytes that may be considered both Edited Book Award and the 2017 triggers and symptoms of a submerged International Research Society for Claudio Fogu (French & Italian) and postcolonial and transcolonial Children’s Literature Edited Book Dr. Elena Festa, now a doctoral memorial culture. The Metadata 2.0 Award. Weld’s book Voiceless student in Comparative Literature, grant has allowed them to meet with Vanguard: The Infantilist Aesthetic of have received a UCHRI Metadata digital experts at UC Irvine and begin the Russian Avant-Garde 2.0 grant for their digital humanities a fruitful collaboration with them to (Northwestern UP, 2014), which research project entitled Social Media implement their digital humanities received the 2015 International and Transcolonial Mnemonics. This project. Research Society for Children’s project aims at scraping, assembling, Literature Book Award, was a Long List and analyzing digital data gathered Alan Liu, Professor Finalist for 2016 Historia Nova Prize for from Facebook, Twitter, and other social of English and Best Book on Russian Intellectual and media / web accounts of Italian citizens Digital Cultural History and was nominated related to key events characterizing Humanities, for AATSEEL 2016 Best Book in the relationship between Italy and received the Literary/Cultural Studies. its ex-colony off Libya, in the period Andrew W. Mellon

6 UC SANTA BARBARA Updates from Affiliated Faculty

In addition to three invited talks: “Les Publics des pp. 43-59); “On Being Called Out of publishing two Œuvres de Pierre Gringore: Auteur et One’s Name: Indexical Bleaching as a books (see below), Imprimeur, Texte et Paratexte.” Technique of Deracialization,” in Professor Silvia Colloquium on “Tensions à l’âge de Raciolinguistics: How Language Bermúdez, from l’imprimé : la construction conflictuelle Shapes Our Ideas about Race. Ed. H. the Department des publics à la Renaissance en Samy Alim, John R. Rickford, and of Spanish and France,” Université Lumière – Lyon 2, 7 Arnetha F. Ball (Oxford UP, 2016, pp. Portuguese, July 2017; “Artificial Boundaries: 273-290). Her co-authored articles gave lectures at Crossing Century Borderlines in Early include: “Not in Our Stars, but in Our the Portuguese Modern France.” Medieval and Selves,” with Dolores Inés Casillas and Cultural Center Camões in Vigo, 16th-Century Forum on “Propaganda, Jin Sook Lee in In Her Own Words: Galicia, Spain in April 2018, and at Polemic, Persuasion: Changing Media Collected Writings of Robin Tolmach Colby College in Maine in April 2018. and Modes,” Modern Language Lakoff. Ed. Laurel A. Sutton (Oxford Association Conference, New York UP, 2017, pp. 81-83); “Embodied Cynthia Brown, City, 7 January 2018; “Pierre Gringore: Sociolinguistics,” with Kira Hall, in Professor of Staging Power and Figures of Sociolinguistics: Theoretical Debates. French and Power,” presentation at the “Gringore, Ed. Nikolas Coupland (Cambridge UP, Medieval Studies, écrivain, homme de théâtre et son 2016, pp. 173-197); “Beyond edited a volume rapport au pouvoir” Roundtable, Empowerment: Accompaniment and of articles Renaissance Society of America, New Sociolinguistic Justice in a Youth titled Manuscript Orleans, 23 March 2018. Research Program,” with Dolores Inés to Print, Print to Casillas, and Jin Sook Lee, in Digital: Editions in Performance and Linguistics Sociolinguistic Research: Application Performance in Editions in Late Professor Mary and Impact. Ed. Robert Lawson and Medieval and Renaissance France Bucholtz had Dave Sayers (Routledge, 2016, pp. (1400-1550), forthcoming with Brepols numerous 25-44). Publishers in a special issue of Le publications in the Moyen Français. She published last year, including Pierre Fasula, a “Family Female Networking in Early co-editing Feeling French philoso­ Sixteenth-Century France: The Power It: Language, pher and of Text and Image.” In Women and Race, and Affect in Postdoctoral Power at the French Renaissance Latinx Youth Fellow with Court, 1483-1563. Ed. Susan Broomhall Learning, with Dolores Inés Casillas, UCSB’s new (Amsterdam UP, September 2018). She and Jin Sook Lee (Routledge, 2018). Humanities and delivered two plenary lectures: She co-authored “‘How My Hair Social Change “Paratextual Cues in Late Medieval Look?’: Linguistic Authenticity and Center, co-edited, with Y. Erard, M. Books: Detecting Family Female Racialized Gender and Sexuality on Motta, and J. Stebler, L’Éducation et la Networks.” Plenary Address of the The Wire,” with Qiuana Lopez. Journal figure de l’enfant chez Wittgenstein et Mid-America Medieval Association of Language and Sexuality 6.1 (2017): Cavell, in A Contrario, Revue 41st Conference, University of 1-29. She authored articles, including: Interdisciplinaire de sciences sociales, Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, 16 “Why Bodies Matter,” in Language 2.25 (2017); these are the proceedings September 2017; “Fifteenth-Century and Materiality: Ethnographic and of the conference “Education and the French Versions of Ovid’s Heroides: Theoretical Explanations. Ed. Jillian R. Figure of the Child in Wittgenstein Textual and Visual Translations of Cavanaugh and Shalini Shankar and Cavell,” organized at the Departures.” Plenary Address of the (Oxford UP, 2017, pp. 260-264); University of Lausanne on March 11 Conference “Many Will Travel: Travel “Language and Culture as and 12, 2016. He published and Translation in Early Cultures,” for Sustenance,” in Culturally Sustaining translations: Hilary Putnam’s “Preface,” the Group for the Study of Early Pedagogies: Teaching and Learning “La corrélation psychophysique” and Cultures, School of Humanities, for Educational Justice in a Changing “Causation et explication,” for The University of California, Irvine, 13-14 World. Ed. Django Paris and H. Samy Threefold Cord: Mind, Body, and October 2017. She also delivered Alim (Teachers College Press, 2017, World (Vrin, 2017). His articles include:

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 7 “L’éducation morale des enfants et the interface between illusionistic series of conferences in anticipation of des adultes / Children and Grown-ups’ spectacles, optical devices, and the the release of Cruelty Free, the newest Moral Education.” A Contrario 2.25 memoirs of Chateaubriand. She also publication to which Larue has (2017): 145–158; “Politique étudiante published an homage to her former contributed. de traduction / Student Politics of Columbia University colleague and Translation.” A Contrario 1.24 (2017): friend Gita May: “On reading Gita Suzanne Jill 75-90; “L’éthique de Putnam : une May’s Last Book,” A Tribute to Gita Levine, the ‘mixture bigarrée’ au carré / Putnam’s May (1929-2016), Romanic Review Director of the Ethics: a Motley Squared.” Archives de 107:1 (2017). Translation Studies philosophie 76/4 (2017): 721-738. Jullien also organized panels Program, along and presented papers at various with Aviva Kana, a Claudio Fogu ACLA meetings: “Dystopian PhD Candidate in (French and Babels: imaginary languages and the Department of Spanish and Italian) recently multilingualism in dystopian fictions” Portuguese, produced a translation of published “We (Harvard University, 2016); and “The Cristina Rivera Garza’s The Taiga Have Made Case of the Animals against Allegory: Syndrome, forthcoming in Fall of 2018, Mediterraneans; Modern Animal Fables and the Anti- published by Dorothy Project. Now We Must allegorical Turn” (U. of Utrecht, 2017). Alan Liu, Make Her work on the 1001 Nights in 19th- Mediterraneans,” Professor of century French culture was presented English, has had in Critically at two seminars at the Université de Mediterranean, ed. Yasser Elhariri and an incredibly Paris-Sorbonne (March 2016). Her lucrative year with Edwige Tamalet Talbayev (Palgrave interest in cognitive approaches to Macmillan, 2017, pp. 181-199). four publications literature led her to organize a panel and eighteen Dominique on Oliver Sacks, where she delivered conferences. He Jullien was on her paper “Oliver Sacks, storytelling published three sabbatical leave and romantic science” (May 2016). book chapters: “N + 1: A Plea for during 2016-17, The Santa Barbara Network for World Cross-Domain Data in the Digital Literature, of which she is a founding primarily Humanities,” in Debates in the Digital member, held its sixth conference completing a Humanities, ed. Matthew K. Gold and book about at Stockholm University on “World Lauren F. Klein (University of Literature and the Vernacular,” where renunciation tales in Borges: Borges, Minnesota Press, 2016, pp. 559-568); she presented her paper titled Morphology and World Literature, to “Hacking the Voice of the Shuttle: The be published by Palgrave-Macmillan “Vernacular and spiritual code” Growth and Death of a Boundary (August 2017). in 2019. She also published several Object,” Social Media Archeology and articles on French and Comparative As presented Poetics, ed. Judy Malloy (MIT Press, literature: a study of the political uses below, Renan 2016, pp. 261-271); “Teaching of storytelling, entitled “La guérison Larue, Assistant ‘Literature+’: Digital Humanities par l’exemple: morale, politique et Professor of Hybrid Courses in the Era of MOOCs,” exemplarité dans les Mille et une French, the Teaching Literature: Text and Dialogue nuits et leur hypertexte,” Féeries: recipient of the in the English Classroom, ed. Ben Études sur le conte merveilleux XVIIe 2017 “La Bruyère Knights (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, pp. – XIXe siècle, dedicated to tales and Prize” from the French Academy, 133-153). He also has one journal ethics (2016); an article on the new co-wrote Le Véganisme with Valéry article: “Is Digital Humanities a Field? English translation of Proust, “The Giroux (Presses Universitaires de — An Answer from the Point of View Way by Lydia’s,” Untranslatability France, 2017). He has been invited to of Language,” Journal of Siberian Goes Global, ed. S. Jill Levine and speak at myriad universities and Federal University: Humanities and Katie Lateef Jan (Routledge, 2017); functions, including the VegFest held Social Sciences 7 (2016): 1546-1552. and “Le Sourire de Marie-Antoinette: in San Luis Obispo in February 2018, His five most recent conferences la mort en surimpression dans les and the “Vegan America: Race, Food, include: “Overview: Open, Shareable, Mémoires d’outre-tombe,” and Politics” conference hosted by Reproducible Workflows for the Digital Nineteenth-Century French Studies New York University in March 2018. In Humanities.” Panel on “Open, (Spring–Summer 2018), an essay on Spring 2018 he is touring France with a Shareable, Reproducible Workflows

8 UC SANTA BARBARA for the Digital Humanities: The Case of flânerie au feuilleton? Journal et Space, ed. Robert T. Tally Jr the 4Humanities.org ‘WhatEvery1Says’ modernité critique chez Siegfried (Routledge, 2017, pp. 60-69). His Project.” Digital Humanities 2017 Kracauer.” French Politics, Culture & papers include: “Assemblages of conference, 11 August 2017, Montreal; Society 35. 1 (Spring 2017): 19–33. Sound, Symbol, and Sentiment in “WhatEvery1Says About the Nathaniel Mackey’s Bass Cathedral,” Humanities.” Panel on “What Crisis?: Sowon Park ACLA Annual Conference, Utrecht, Mobilizing the Humanities Through from the English July 2017; “Reconceptualizing West- Data.” National Humanities Department was African Urban Space with Tierno Conference, 3 November 2017, a recipient of the Monénembo (World Literature sous les Boston; “What Infrastructure Faculty Career pavés)” at the 20th/21st-Century Assumes.” The Futures of Literature, Development French and Francophone Studies Science, and Media: A Symposium Award in 2017. International Colloquium, Brown Honoring Professor N. Katherine She published University, April 2018. He gave the Hayles. Duke University. 17 November “Big Brother! keynote address on “Literature and 2017; “Digital Humanities Diversity as Dear Leader!: On Transparency and the Rhetorics of Urban Informality” for Technical Problem.” Modern Emotional Policing,” Policing Literary the Conference of the International Language Association convention, Theory, ed. Takayuki Murakami Yokota Association for Literary Urban Studies, New York, 5 January 2018; “Open and (Brill, 2018). She was the co-editor of University of Tampere, Finland, August Reproducible Workflows for the Digital “Situated Cognition and the Study of 2017; and the keynote address and Humanities–A 10,000 Meter Elevation History,” in a special issue of Poetics seminar “Informal Urbanism and the View.” Digital Humanities in the Today Summer 2017 (with Ben Morgan Hard Question of the Anthropocene” Nordic Countries Convention 2018. and Ellen Spolsky). She provided an for the NEH “City/Nature” Summer University of Helsinki, 7 March 2018. entry in the Oxford Bibliographies in Institute, at the University of Literary and Critical Theory, titled Washington, Seattle, July 2017. Prieto In addition to the “World Literature,” ed. Eugene is one of four founding editors of the online volume O’Brien (Oxford UP, 2016). Web. With “Literary Urban Studies” series at American Jernej Habjan, DOI: 10.1093/ Palgrave-Macmillan, which will be Mysterymania, obo/9780190221911-0025. Two of her releasing its first volumes later this presented below, works were translated into Hungarian year. On May 31, 2018, he gave a talk and many and Slovenian. Her talks include: at UCSB’s Interdisciplinary Humanities international talks, “Unconscious Memory Across the Two Center on his current book project, Catherine Nesci Cultures,” for Mind in the World: “World Literature, Urban Theory, and (Professor of Cognitive Approaches to World the Informal City,” which was funded French) published four articles and two Literature, ACLA, March 2018; “Writing by an Interdisciplinary Faculty book chapters: “‘Françoise Désirée- and the Human Brain,” Scriptworlds: Fellowship. Liberté’: la politique des genres dans an International Workshop, UCSB; la caricature et l’illustration (1780- “Script as a literary issue,” “Crafts of Dwight Reynolds 1848).” Romantisme 179 (2018): 36–57; World Literature: Materials, Genres, of the Religious “Fragments d’un discours séditieux. Forms” Panel, MLA, January 2018; Studies Satire politique et iconoclasme sous la “Further Reflections on Theory of Department spent monarchie de Juillet.” Hommage à Mind.” Mind Fields of Language, the first three Nicole Jacques-Lefèvre, ed. Cognitive Futures in the Humanities, months of 2018 in Christophe Martin (Presses de l’ENS Stony Brook University, June 2017; and Abu Dhabi as a Lyon, 2007, pp. 413–430); “Le “A Shape or a Shade of You: Theory of Senior Fellow at terrorisme antiavortement aux Etats- Mind in Lily Briscoe’s Vision.” Literature the New York University Abu Dhabi Unis: Un état des lieux de la désunion and Mind Seminar, UCSB. campus working on a translation of sur le corps reproducteur à l’ère de selections from a 10th-century Arabic Trump.” L’Homme et la Société Eric Prieto literary masterpiece titled The Great 203–204 (2017/1-2): 271–86; “The Poet published Book of Songs. Then in April he was a as Journalist: Teaching Baudelaire’s “Phenomenology, visiting professor at the EHESS in Paris Prose Poems with the History of the Place, and the and gave a series of five lectures amidst Press,” Approaches to Teaching Spatial Turn,” The railway strikes and student protests, Baudelaire’s Prose Poems, ed. Cheryl Routledge and also managed to meet with several Krueger (MLA, 2017, pp. 166–175); “La Handbook of French graduate students on whose Literature and

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 9 dissertation committees he serves. A “Altérité et différences à l’aube des Adolescent Girl in Vladimir Nabokov’s hectic schedule, to be sure, but who temps modernes” for the periodical Writings,” Discourses of Gender and can complain about spending April in French Forum (forthcoming). Adolescence, UC Davis Feminist Paris? He recently published “Abū Zayd Research Institute, March 9-10, 2018; al-Hilālī: Trickster, Womanizer, Warrior, Elisabeth Weber “Visual and Verbal Self-Referentiality in Shaykh,” in a special issue of the (Germanic and Russian Avant-Garde Picturebooks,” Journal of Arabic Literature in honor of Slavic Studies) AATSEEL Annual Conference, Pierre Cachia 49 (2018): 1-28, with participated in Fall Washington, DC, February 1-4, 2018; Elizabeth Holt as Guest Editor. His five 2016 in the Panel “Fir Trees and Samovars: Literature for recent conference presentations and “Islam and Children in the Post-Revolutionary talks include: “De l’oral à l’écrit et de Psychoanalysis” at Moment,” ASEEES Annual Convention, l’imprimé au numérique: collecter et the Annual Washington, DC, November 9-12, 2017; conserver une épopée orale arabe,” Meeting of the “Impossible Infants: Catherine the LACNAD-CREAM, Paris, April 4, 2018; Society for Phenomenology and Great’s Writings for Children,” “Juifs, chrétiens et musulmans dans le Existential Philosophy, with a International Research Society for monde musical de al-Andalus," presentation on “Fethi Benslama’s Children’s Literature (IRSCL) 2017 INALCO, Paris, April 5, 2018. “Le rôle Recent Interventions.” Her two most Congress, York, Canada, July des chansonniers en tant que sources important publications are 29-August 2, 2017; “Cultural Dialogue des traditions modernes de la musique “Nightblack: Formatting Love,” in a through Children’s Literature,” for the andalouse,” RESMED, Paris, April 11, volume dedicated to Friedrich Kittler, conference “Meeting the Other: 2018; “L’Histoire écrite et tradition The Technological Introject. Friedrich America in Russian Children’s orale dans l’épopée des Banou Hilal,” Kittler between Implementation and Literature. Critical Approaches to AHLOMA, Paris, April 12, 2018; the Incalculable, ed. Jeffrey Champlin Cultural Dialogue,” Illinois Wesleyan “Autobiographies médiévales, arabes and Antje Pfannkuchen (Fordham UP, University and Heartland Community et européennes,” séminaire des 2018), and “Literature Calls Justice. College, February 10, 2017; “Iconic Médiévistes/CIHAM, Lyon, May 3, 2018. Deconstruction’s ‘coming-to-terms’ Images of a Child at War: Andrei with literature,” in After Derrida. Tarkovsky’s Ivanovo detstvo,” ASEEES Professor Bhaskar Literature, Theory and Criticism in the Annual Convention. Washington, DC, Sarkar, Chair of 21st Century, ed. by Jean-Michel Nov. 17-20, 2016; and “The Tales of the Film & Media Rabaté (Cambridge UP, 2018). She is Empress Catherine: Catherine II and Studies, co-edited also participating in the preparation of the Literary Fairy Tale as Genre.” with Joshua Neves the first critical edition of Hannah Re-Framing the Folktale Symposium, Asian Video Arendt’s works. UCSB, Oct. 31, 2016. Cultures: In the Penumbra of the Global (Duke UP, Sara Pankenier Our affiliated faculty come from 2017). His recent articles and book Weld’s new book, diverse scholarly backgrounds in chapters include: “The Pedagogy of An Ecology of the Western and Eastern European the Piratical,” in Teaching Russian Avant- languages as well as South Transnational Cinema. Ed. Katarzyna Garde Picturebook American, African, Middle Eastern, Marciniak and Bruce Bennett (see below) came and Asian literatures and cultures. (Routledge, 2016); “Media Piracy and out in 2018 with John Benjamins. She Their works form a rich mosaic the Terrorist Boogeyman: Speculative has also published “Fir Trees and of specialties across cultures, Potentiations,” positions: asia critique Samovars: Literature for Russian temporalities, and disciplines: 24.2 (2016): 343-368. Sarkar is also Children in the Post-Revolutionary Greek and Latin philosophy, finishing up a collection of articles, Moment,” Detskie chteniia 12 (2017); medieval European and Arabic coedited with Bishnupriya Ghosh, and “Udvoennaia auditoria i dvoinoe literatures, African-American addressing risk, uncertainty and videnie: Ezopovskie glubiny Dvukh literature, transpacific cultures, speculation from humanities tramvaev Osipa Mandel’shtama,” avant-garde literatures as well as perspectives: the Routledge Lifshits/Losev/Loseff. Sbornik pamiati Black Studies, feminism and gender Handbook of Media and Risk L’va Loseva. Trans. Vladimir studies, film and media studies, (forthcoming late 2018). Kutcheriavkin, ed. M. Gronas and B. Scherr (Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe performance studies, children's This year Cynthia Skenazi, Professor obozrenie, 2017, pp. 183-209). Her talks literature, world literature, and of French, co-edited a special issue on include: “Nabokov’s Nymphs: The continental philosophy.

10 UC SANTA BARBARA New Books by Affiliated Faculty

Silvia Bermúdez Colin Gardner Renan Larue co-edited A New (Art) published published Le History of Iberian two new books, Véganisme in Feminisms, with co-edited with 2017, co-authored Roberta Johnson Patricia with Valéry Giroux, (University of MacCormack: as part of the Toronto P, 2018). Deleuze and the academically The volume was Animal. Edinburgh acclaimed French born at one of the UP, 2017; series Que sais-je? conferences of Ecosophical [What do I know?]. the UC Iberianists Research Group Aesthetics: Art The book not only foreshadows that has been meeting for the past six Ethics and veganism as a mainstream way of life, years every May. Bermúdez and Ecology with but also interrogates the reasons for its Johnson were very happy to present Guattari. growing popularity while the volume at the 7th Annual UC Bloomsbury predominantly focusing on issues of Iberianists Research Group Academic, 2018. social justice. It brings into question Conference at UC-Santa Cruz in May current practices that rely on the 2018. She also published Rocking the exploitation of animals on multiple Boat: Migration and Race in levels, and argues that these modes of Contemporary Spanish Music existence are outdated and (University of Toronto Press, 2018). unsustainable. Using a series of psychologically steeped arguments it counters the current cultural norms CATHERINE NESCI AND DEVIN FROMM ON AMERICAN and the quotidian excuses brought MYSTERYMANIA forth by parties from the farming and food industries to individual Published in open access(http:// consumers. Through staunch and www.medias19.org/index. exhaustive research the book debunks php?id=23807), American the ideological myth of eternal Mysterymania focuses on cultural carnism, and outs the truth of the transfers between France and the pervasive system in place. In return, it US, following the North American offers a solution to the plight of both adaptations of Eugène Sue’s animals and human society. Larue bestseller, The Mysteries of Paris started Vegan Studies at UCSB, which (1842-1843), which provided a is a unique course of study that modern narrative matrix for new explores the intersectionality between modes of inquiry into poverty and crime. The volume examines the competing veganism, philosophy, economics, translations of Eugène Sue’s Mystères de Paris in New York in the 1840s, the religion, and psychology. Throughout transformation of the French narrative matrix in New England mysteries, its 2017 and 2018 he has brought spread into the American ethnic press (most notably German and Italian, with innumerable guest speakers to his astonishing Mysteries of New Orleans in German), and the transmediations of classroom, and to the community at the mysteries in the twentieth-century Noir and Steampunk. Articles include large, in an effort to heighten contributions by Michael Grafals (UCSB alumnus, Florida International awareness of the increasingly University), with a chapter on the Mysteries of New Orleans; by Eliza Smith globalized vegan movement, its (UCSB alumna, University of Colorado-Boulder) on argot in Sue, Ned Buntline benefits, and the impact it has on the (Mysteries and Miseries of New York), and Lermina (author of Mysteries of New environment. York under an American pseudonym); by Chris Newfield (English, UCSB) on Lippard’s Quaker City. Devin Fromm (UCSB alumnus, PhD, 2016) wrote an essay on Poe’s alternative model of detection. David L. Pike (American University) wrote on film noir and Steampunk. We thank the Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation for supporting our project.

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 11 ELISABETH WEBER ON KILL BOXES

The Chilean playwright Ariel Dorfman wrote that torture destroys the social fabric. If our work as humanists concerns the community, we need to address torture. As a society, as a community, we have not acknowledged being addressed by the hooded man from Abu Ghraib, nor by the hundreds of Muslim men illegally imprisoned for years, often decades, in Guantánamo Bay Prison camp. As a society, we also hardly ever acknowledge being addressed by those on the receiving end of the drone war that is ours. Therefore, my book proposes reflections on torture in two of its chapters, on indefinite detention, especially in Guantánamo Bay, in the next two, and finally on drone warfare and its asserted surgical, tele-technological precision in the last two chapters. I attempt to do this partially directly, through referencing analyses by social studies and legal scholars, investigative and mainstream journalists, but also obliquely, through the close reading of art works, literary and philosophical texts or, rather, under their aegis, because that is a somewhat more familiar terrain for me. Looking up the word aegis, one finds that in Greek mythology, it is the mirror-like shield the goddess Athena gave the hero Perseus to help him fight and kill Medusa: by looking at the Gorgon’s reflection on the shield, and not directly into her eyes, Perseus wouldn’t be petrified. Indeed, the literary and philosophical texts help me not to be petrified, but also, they dis-place US sponsored torture, indefinite detention and drone warfare, all conducted either in far-away countries or in the extra-legal space of Guantánamo, and all conducted against mostly Muslim people, into a Western context, where they become readable differently. In the words of Veena Das, “denial of the other’s pain is not about the failings of intellect, but the failings of spirit. In the register of the imaginary, the pain of the other not only asks for a home in language, but also seeks a home in the body.” Art works and literary texts, as if all goes well, even philosophical texts, such as Jean Améry’s text on torture, help us do that, to find a home for the other’s pain in imagination and even the body.

SARA WELD ON AN ECOLOGY OF THE RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE PICTUREBOOK

My second monograph, An Ecology of the Russian Avant-Garde Picturebook, appeared as the eighth volume in John Benjamins Publishing Company’s series on Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, which has already garnered multiple awards, and aims to promote new theoretical approaches to children’s literature while encouraging a non-Anglo-American focus and demonstrating an international scope. The book takes a new approach to interpreting 1920s and 1930s picturebooks by prominent Russian writers, artists, and intellectuals by examining them within the ecological environment that, first, made them possible and, then, led to their demise. It argues that naturalistic models of the complex interactions of dynamic systems offer effective tools for understanding the fraught interrelations of art and censorship in the early Soviet period. Through illustrative case studies, it mounts a close analysis of word and image and their synergistic interplay in avant-garde picturebooks, while also recontextualizing them within the ecology of their original environment where extraordinary countervailing forces played out a drama of which these books survive as telling artifacts. Ultimately, it argues that the Russian avant-garde picturebook offers a uniquely illustrative example of literary ecology that sheds light on issues of creativity and censorship, politics and art, more broadly as well. The book owes its origins to my dissertation research in libraries, museums, archives, and private collections in Russia and at Princeton University Library’s Cotsen Collection, which uncovered a number of rare books by remarkable Russians that went beyond the focus of my dissertation or first book, but merited further scholarly attention. The book’s focus on picturebooks as works of word and image allowed me to delve deeply into the visuality of these picturebook iconotexts, so I am particularly thrilled that the book contains 65 color illustrations of these rare materials.

12 UC SANTA BARBARA Graduate Alumni News

Our Alumnae are on the move, Other news we receive: 2017). “Voyeurism, surveillance, having secured new positions in courtship, feminism, authorship, and Research I Institutions: Mary Delgado the vanishing distinction between Garcia: “I am now public and private lives are all raised in Kristie Soares a Lecturer in this novella.” https://www.peterlang. (PhD, 2015), who Structured Liberal com/view/product/80838 was Assistant Education at Professor of Stanford Lily Wong (PhD, Latinx Literature University. I 2012; emphases in and Culture continue to do research in 20th- and East Asian Cultural in the Spanish 21st-century Latinx and African Studies, English, Department at the University of American literature within the and Film and Massachusetts, Amherst, moved to interdisciplinary fields of Latinx Studies Media Studies) is the University of Colorado, Boulder and Black Studies, with interests in Assistant Professor as Assistant Professor of Women and critical race theory, decoloniality, and in Literature at Gender Studies in January 2018. the sociology of race.” American University. Her In Fall 2018, Katie Michael Grafals research focuses on the politics of Kelp-Stebbins (PhD, 2017): “I affect/emotion, gender and sexuality, (PhD, S 2014), finished my first comparative race, and media currently Assistant year teaching as formations of transpacific Chinese, Professor of a full-time Sinophone, and Asian American English at Palomar Lecturer in communities. Her work can be found College, will move English at in journals including American to the University Florida International University in Quarterly, Asian American Literary of Oregon as Assistant Professor of Miami. I’m in love with this city and so Review, Asian Cinema, China Review Comics and English. thrilled to be teaching courses dear to International, Journal of Chinese my heart, including courses on Claudia Yaghoobi Cinemas, and Pacific Affairs, among Caribbean, Latinx and African others. She has (PhD, 2013) moved literatures. This summer I’m heading from Georgia published book to Havana, Cuba for the Caribbean chapters in World State College and Association Conference to present on University to the Cinema and the Puerto Rican theorist Iris M. Zavala. I’m Visual University of North currently writing an article on the Carolina at Chapel Arts (2013), Queer affinities between the cross-cultural Sinophone Hill, as Assistant poetics of Wilson Harris and Gloria Professor of Persian Studies. Cultures (2014), Anzaldúa.” and Divided Lisa Swanstrom Marta Wilkinson Lenses: War and (PhD, 2008) moved (PhD, 2006; Film Memory in from Florida Associate Asia (2016). She is the author Atlantic University Professor at of Transpacific Attachments: Sex Work, to the University Wilmington Media Networks, and Affective of Utah as College) Histories of Chineseness (Columbia Associate published her UP, 2018). Wong served as a Delegate Professor of translation of Assembly Representative of the English and Digital Humanities. Delphine de Middle Atlantic Region for the Modern Language Association (2015-2018). We extend our heartfelt Girardin’s 1836 congratulations to all on their new witty novella, La Canne de M. de positions. Balzac as Balzac’s Cane (Peter Lang,

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 13 Doctoral Student Arpi Movsesian on Her New Book

Doctoral Student Arpi Movsesian, who just finished all her qualifying examinations and will be writing her prospectus in fall 2018, answered our questions on Love and Its Critics. Q: Why write a book on love and literature from the Bible to Milton? We wanted to tell a story, of both poetry and criticism, A: and their relations to each other as well as to structures of secular and clerical authority. From the earliest comments on poetry in the West, poetry has been under attack, in what Socrates calls the “ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry” (Republic, 607b5–6). The first defenses of poetry adopted an unfortunate technique, which has since been turned against poetry: the claim that the surface meaning was not true, and should be disregarded. Anaxgoras, among others, argued for an approach to poetry based on hyponoia, or suspicion, claiming, for instance, that Penelope’s shroud in the Odyssey wasn’t to be taken as an actual shroud, but as the warp and woof of rhetoric itself. This kind of interpretation-as-rewriting can be seen in more pronounced form in the readings of the shir hashirim, or the Song of Songs, by Rabbi Akiba and Origen of Alexandria, which argue that a poem which gives every indication of being an erotic human love poem, is actually a description of God’s love for humanity. In our era, this kind of reading is aligned with what Paul Ricœur has called une herméneutique du soupçon (a hermeneutics of suspicion), a form of reading that denies poetry, particularly love poetry, the ability to serve as a challenge to the structures of authority in the societies within which it is written. The examples chosen focus on the subversive nature of love Michael Bryson and Arpi Movsesian, Love and its Critics: From poetry: from Ovid’s wry defiance of Augustus; to the Troubadour/ the Song of Songs to Shakespeare and Milton’s Eden. Open Book Trobairitz challenges to the increasing power of the Gregorian- Publishers, 2017. reforms era church on marriage, love, and sexuality; to the rise of a church-compliant form of poetry with the dolce stil novo the sources in the footnotes when available, to revising and poets in Italy; to the renewed challenges to this compliant ethos negotiating for additions and omission, to choosing appropriate in Medieval and Early Modern English poetry and drama. By the pictures that support the written word. time the book comes to Shakespeare and Milton, the pattern reaches dramatic intensity and clarity: lovers reject authority in the What do you consider as the important points of the name of a loyalty and bond to and between each other, whether Q: book? that authority is that of a father, or of God himself. In a more general sense, the book is a celebration of love A: and love poetry, love as an end itself. One of the points that How did you manage the process of collaborative Q: we make about sensual love poetry is that literary criticism (to writing? some extent) has tried and is trying to stifle the voices of the poets, Dr. Bryson and I would undertake the research and writing characters (especially female voices). We engage with modern A: of the different periods and subjects that the book covers, criticism that aligns itself with extreme hermeneutics of suspicion, which then, after several drafts, we pieced together to make the that the written word absolutely cannot be trusted, that the critic book. These, of course, were not disparate research projects, is superior to the text, and point out that this kind of treatment of but all along, we had in mind the thread that ties them all poetry is part of an over two-millennia-long tradition of reshaping together—the challenge love offers to law, custom, and church poetry and its understanding by readers in ways that serve the or state edicts. Communication with the press has also been a interests of power, making poetry conform or be cast out. collaborative project in its own right, from formatting, to digitizing

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14 UC SANTA BARBARA New doctors: Michael Grafals, Shari Sanders, Inez Zhou

In spring 2017 In June 2017 They both completed the Doctoral Dr. Michael Dr. Inez Zhou also Emphasis in Translation Studies. Grafals defended defended her his dissertation dissertation In September 2017, Dr. Sharalyn entitled Detoured entitled Slippage Sanders filed her dissertation entitled Island: Diaspora between Garbage Being Imaginary: Responsibility and and the Traversal of and Language: the Literary Animal. Her committee Fantasy in Puerto Rican Literature. His Degeneracy, Abjectionism,­ and Poetic included: Carl Gurierrez-Jones Committee Chair was Leo Cabranes- Perception. Her Committee Chair (Chair, English), Mireille Miller-Young Grant (Spanish and Portuguese); was Professor Yunte Huang (English); (Feminist Studies) and Barbara Professors Juan Pablo Lupi (Spanish Professors Maurizia Boscagli (English), Tomlinson (Feminist Studies). and Portuguese) & Eric Prieto (French Colin Garner, Camilo Dos Santos and Italian) were the other members of (Spanish and Portuguese), and Nuno ABD ALVARO LUNA this committee. Judice (University of Lisbon) were the GETS CHATEAUBRIAND other readers. FELLOWSHIP

Alvaro Luna was awarded a 2018-2019 New Doctoral Candidates Chateaubriand Fellowship to conduct research at the Centre interdisciplinaire Five graduate students became Doctoral Candidates between Spring 2017 and d’étude des littératures (CIELAM) Winter 2018, with colleagues from the Departments of Classics, English, French of Université Aix-Marseille. As a and Italian, Germanic and Slavic, Spanish and Portuguese as well as Religious Chateaubriand Fellow, his research Studies serving as their dedicated advisors and mentors. will focus on examining literary productions that document the 1983 Dave Hur is writing his Maghrebi and Chicano/a March for Equality and Against Racism dissertation entitled Narratives.” Committee: that started in Marseille and ended in “Living in Sound: Korean Ellen McCracken (Spanish Paris. Luna is writing his dissertation American Poetics and & Portuguese) and Eric on the relationship of postmigration Appropriated Forms.” Prieto (French & Italian) literature with socio-historical phenomena and cultural practices such as linguistic His doctoral committee as co-Chairs; C. Nesci and spatial hybridism, and the strategic includes Yunte Huang as (French & Italian). use of historical revision through a Chair, Stephanie Batiste, and Sowon Park, Moving between comparative study of Franco-Maghrebi all from the English Department. and Chicanx narratives. Luna’s New Comparative Literature and Weltliteratur approach allows an Katie Lateef-Jan’s Classics, Deepti Menon exploration of postmigration literature dissertation is entitled: is writing her dissertation through a tapestry of rich topoï from “Rewriting Girlhood: entitled “Staging the which narratives develop alternative Representations of Foreign Imaginary: the representations of ethnicity, literary Coming of Age in James, ‘Other’ on the Plautine genres, and the nation-state. Luna Woolf, Ocampo, and Stage.” Committee: Dorota Dutsch presented on Franco-Maghrebi Harki Lispector.” Committee: (Classics) as Chair; Francis Dunn (Classics), narratives at the Association for the Suzanne Jill Levine (Spanish & Portuguese) Jon Snyder (French & Italian). Study of Modern and Contemporary and Sara Pankenier Weld (Germanic & France; on the representation of Los Slavic) as co-chairs: Dominique Jullien Ali Rahman’s dissertation Angeles in Chicanx literature at the (French & Italian). is entitled: “Digital Islamic 2017 international interdisciplinary Traditions: Authority, conference on the City at Universidad While a Lecturer at the University of Authenticity, and the de Madrid Carlos III; on linguistic Paris-8, Alvaro Luna is conducting his Tensions of the Information practices in Franco-Maghrebi and research on French and Francophone Age in Muslim America.” Chicanx Bildungsromane at the 11th International Conference on Chicano literature of the banlieue. His dissertation Committee: Kathleen Moore and Latino Studies at Universidad de is entitled: “The Post-Migration Experience and Dwight Reynolds, from Religious Salamanca (2018). in French and American Literature and Studies, are his co-Chairs; Ahmad Ahmad Film: A Comparative Study of Franco- (Religious Studies), Alan Liu (English). CONGRATULATIONS, ALVARO!

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 15 Welcoming New Graduate Students

Ghassan M. promoting dialogue, cross-cultural Jordan J. Tudisco Aburqayeq holds learning, collaboration, and interaction specializes in his BA in English amongst diverse ethnic and faith Transgender Language and groups. Sebaah presented at the Studies, Queer Literature from GCLR’s Borderlines Conference. The Studies, 19th/20th Al-Hussein Bin title of her presentation was “Literary century French Talal University, Colonialism and the Mirage of Fidelity: and Francophone and MA from New Mexico Highlands The Ethical Role of Translators.” A Literature, Sociocultural Linguistics, University. He has taught ESL in recipient of a GCLR Fall Fellowship, and Porn Studies. More specifically, Jordan, and Arabic at various colleges Sebaah also received a grant from Jordan is currently examining how and universities in the United States. the Center for Middle Eastern Studies French trans and non-binary speakers His research interests include Trauma to help support her language study construct their identities within the Theory, Postcolonial Literatures over the summer. She will be studying gender binary imposed by the French and Theory, English Romanticism, Arabic during the summer of 2018 language. Jordan has presented and Classical Arabic literature and at Birzeit University in Ramallah, in the results of his research at the philosophy. the Palestine and Arabic Studies 25th Lavender Languages Conference (PAS) program. Her picture is from a in Providence, Rhode Island. In Dr. Elena recent interview about her experience addition, Jordan is also exploring Festa received her studying Arabic and Hebrew (credits: how trans identities are represented, doctoral degree Araceli Villanueva). performed, and embodied in literature in Comparative and on film, especially in pornographic Cultures and Naz Keynejad movies. Jordan holds a BA in English Literatures received her and Russian Language, Literature from Università MA in English and Translation as well as an MA in degli Studi Roma Tre in Rome in Literature in 2016. English Literary Translation and an 2011. She is interested in adding Her research looks MA in Digital Humanities, Literature the Global Studies Emphasis to to investigate the and Creative Writing from Université her doctoral training, and plans to underlying Paris-8 Vincennes Saint-Denis. A develop her new doctoral work on mythology of religious texts in both writer and a translator, Jordan also media, multidirectionaly memory, and the literature of the East and the has several writing projects and the European migration crisis. She West, determining how it has fed, translations forthcoming. published two book-chapters, one and continues to feed, into literary on the postcolonial city; the other exegesis and also the ties between on postcolonial translation in J.M. Eastern and Western traditions that LEAD TEACHING ASSISTANTS Coetzee. foment literary and cultural acts of rebellion. She is seeking to expand In 2016–17, Rachel Feldman and Sebaah Hamad the conversation on these acts by Bozhou Men were our co-Lead completed her BA examining the role of faith in literature Teaching Assistants. They greatly in English at Le and its effects on social, political, and helped improve the performance Moyne College cultural sensibilities. Her fields of study of our Teaching Assistants and (Syracuse, NY) as are British literature, Religious Studies, organized, in addition to the fall an Honors student and (classical) Persian literature. She Teaching Orientation Workshop, 3 in May 2017. As an presented her paper “The Imperialist additional workshops on “Effective MA/PhD student Other: Hybridity and Post-Colonialism Grading Practices”; “Leading she plans to pursue in Battlestar Galactica” at the 2018 Dynamic Discussions"; “Teaching her work in Arabic Studies, Jewish Pop-Cultural Association (PCA/ACA) Philosophy." Thanks to Rachel and Studies, Black Studies, and Translation conference in Indianapolis. Naz also Bozhou for their exceptional work, Studies. Her research interests include published a review of Jane Austen's and congratulations to Rachel, who trauma theory, the dynamics of race, Transatlantic Sister by Sheila Johnson was awarded her MA (on French and the interrelationship of shame Kindred for the Journal of Eighteenth- Holocaust literature) in winter 2018. and guilt. She is also interested in Century Studies (forthcoming).

16 UC SANTA BARBARA Other Graduate Students Updates

Jeffrey Bellomi taught twice, and with Margarita Delcheva, a Writing and great success, Comparative Literature Literature Fellow at the College of 101, Introduction to Literary and Critical Creative Studies in 2017 and 2018, has Theory, as an Associate in S2016 and 2018. had two anthologized poems: “Great of In 2017-18, he made even faster progress Praises.” Brooklyn Poets Anthology. Eds. on his dissertation, thanks to a central Jason Koo and Joe Pan. Brooklyn Arts continuing fellowship (the Graduate Press, 2017, p. 59; “PSA.” Brooklyn Poets Humanities Research Fellowship). He is enhancing his Anthology. Eds. Jason Koo and Joe Pan. fluency in Japanese in preparation of his summer 2018 trip Brooklyn Arts Press, 2017, p. 60; and an anthologized to Tokyo where he will attend the Harvard Institute of World piece of performance art: “The Drug of Childhood.” Literature. He is also working on his Russian in relation to Emergency (Performance) INDEX 2016. Ugly Dickling his doctoral research. Presse, 2017. She has also taught courses in literary publishing, creative writing, and mail art at the College of Christene d’Anca has had four Creative Studies. publications this year: “The Accidental Hero: Forcing Masculine Identity in In Fall 2017 Dr. Elena Festa, participated Lybaeus Desconus.” Significations in a two-day meeting at UC Irvine with 22 (2017), pp. 71-83; “Distinct experts in the field of metadata within the Aesthetics – Objects of Art as Political UCHRI Metadata 2.0 training program. Markers.” RSAA Journal 1.1 (2017), In addition, Elena and Dr. Claudio Fogu pp. 1-20; “Cultural Hermeneutics: recently received a “UCHRI Metadata Andrei Codrescu as ‘The Romanian who translated 2.0” grant for their digital humanities himself into an American.’” Transnational Narratives research project entitled “Social Media of Englishness in Exile. Eds. Catalina Florescu and and Transcolonial Mnemonics.” In Winter 2018, she was the Sheng-Mei Ma. Rowman and Littlefield, 2017, pp. 79- recipient of a Max Kade Fellowship, by recommendation of 94; and “’umbra unei lumi’: Mediating a Loss of History the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies. in Doina Rusti’s Fantoma din moara.” Journal of European Studies 48 (2018), forthcoming in November. Christene also Founding member and current officer has five book reviews on post-communist Romania in the of the Asian Pacific Islander Graduate RSAA Journal (http://thersaa.org/journal-reviews). She is Student Alliance at UCSB, David Hur currently working on a project on medieval tournaments advanced to candidacy in Winter 2018, and their political implications, which she originally and has resumed his study of the presented at the ACLA conference at UCLA in March 2018. Chinese language. He is also a recipient Her conference papers include: “Restoring Romania’s of the Graduate Research Mentorship Medieval Heritage: Conservation Efforts, Objects, and Fellowship for 2017-2018, awarded by Plans.” Medieval Association of the Pacific, Los Angeles, UCSB’s Graduate Division. In winter 2018 David joined California, 2017; “Marguerite de Valois as La Reine the Scriptworlds project—second part of the Prismatic Margot, Revisited.” Popular Culture Association. San Translation project based at Oxford University and funded Diego, 2017; “Transmitting Ideologies, One Translation at by the British AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research a Time,” at the “Many Will Travel”: Translation and Travel Council)—as Graduate Associate Researcher, led by core in Early Cultures Conference, UC Irvine, 2017; “Extracting Investigators Professor Sowon Park (UCSB) and Professor Memory from the Dead.” Medieval Conference of Matthew Reynolds (Oxford). the Pacific, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2018; “Death and its During the 2016-17 academic year, Dustin Aftermath in the Middle Ages.” Medieval Congress at Lovett completed his first field exam in Kalamazoo, 2018. She was also the co-organizer of the spring 2017 on the relationship between 2018 Medieval Studies Graduate Student Conference at Siegfried Kracauer’s Marxist politics and UCSB, “The Politics of Pleasure: Social Networking in the his journalistic work, for which he received Middle Ages.” his Master’s degree. In Fall 2017, Dustin chaired a “Literature and Religion” panel, and presented a paper entitled “Sympathy for the Devil: Mephistopheles from the Chapbooks to Goethe” at the PAMLA conference

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 17 in Honolulu. After spending part of summer 2018). Bozhou presented a Summer 2017 in Paris, furthering his paper entitled “Changing the ‘One- research on 1920s German journalism Way Street’ of Cultural Globalization: for future publications, he completed The Use of ‘Ideolect’ in Lin Yutang’s his second field exam in Spring 2018 Translation Practices” at “Brave on the concept of taste in 18th- and New World: A Multidisciplinary 19th-century French translation. As Graduate Conference” hosted by Graduate Coordinator for the GCLR in McGill University (Winter 2017) and 2017-18, he organized a guest lecture another paper entitled “The Taming and seminar by Marina Warner and of the Pidgins” at The 5th Asia-Pacific the Borderlines graduate student Forum on Translation & Intercultural Tegan Raleigh’s recently publications conference, both in Spring 2018. His Studies (Fall 2016). Along with Rachel include: “Women in Pieces: Fairy translation of Ulf Ziegler’s “Detroit” Feldman, Bozhou Men was co-Lead Tales, Gender, and Translation in a will appear in the upcoming Best Teaching Assistant in Comparative Contemporary Conte by Assia Djebar,” European Fiction 2019 anthology by Literature in 2016-17. in Turning the Page: Gendered Dalkey Archive Press. Arpi Movsesian Identities in Contemporary Literary and Daniel Martini was recently co-authored Visual Cultures. Ed. Kata Gyuris, Eszter the recipient of the a book with Szép. 2018; “The Thousand-and-First Regent’s Fellowship Dr. Michael Bryson, Author: Thomas-Simon Gueullette’s in Comparative entitled Love and Repeating Fictions.” The Canadian Literature in 2016- its Critics: From Review of Comparative Literature 44.4 2017. He presented the Song of Songs (2017), pp. 701-717; “Les Migrations three conference to Shakespeare de ma mère l’Oye: La première papers in 2017: and Milton's Eden traduction des Histoires ou contes “‘The Subjective (Cambridge: OpenBook, 2017), as du temps passé de Charles Perrault,” Methodology,’ Tools of Transgression.” presented above. Arpi presented a Francofonia: Studie Richerche Sulle Comparative Literature Graduate paper at the PAMLA conference in Letterature di Lingua Francese 73 Conference, UC Davis, October 2017; 2017, “Post Fin’amor English Poetry: (2017); “Untranslatability: Ravens “Bodies as Creative Experience: Living Mocking ‘Auctoritee’ in Chaucer's and Tigers and Camels, Oh My!” Our Way Out Of the Anthropocene,” Wife of Bath,” and chaired a panel, Exchanges Literary Journal (2016). Graduate Center for Literary Research, “Literature & Religion” at PAMLA Her recent published translation is UCSB, May 2017: “I Have Decided 2017. Arpi also gave a guest lecture “Prologue” from Stand-by-the-Hour, To Stick With Love: The legacy at UCSB in Winter 2017, “The Fool in from the French text by Gauz, Best, in of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the the Margins: Mikhail Bakhtin and His European Fiction 2017, ed. Nathaniel Peace Builders of Our Time,” Martin Rabelais and His World.” Arpi is the West. Tegan also presented at three Luther King, Jr. Committee of Santa recipient of the D. Barton Johnson conferences: “Fairy Tales as World Barbara and SGI-USA, Santa Barbara, Award for academic excellence and Literature: The Adventures of Finetta.” January 2017. In 2018 Daniel also best critical or scholarly essay in Children’s Literature Crossing Borders joined the Scriptworlds project led by Russian, East European, or Eurasian panel at the ACLA Annual Meeting, core Investigators Professor Sowon literature art, and culture (Spring Utrecht University, July 2017; “Ce Park (UCSB) and Professor Matthew 2017). She also recently passed her n’est pas moi qui parle, je traduis: Reynolds (Oxford). second major field examination in La pseudotraduction et l’innovation Russian literature, which focused on de Marie-Antoinette de Fagnan,” Bozhou Men’s the holy fool in 19th-century Russian Les Imaginaires de la Traduction English translation works, especially in the novels of Conference at Université Paris- of Shi Zhecun’s F.M. Dostoevsky, and in addition, Sorbonne, March 2017; and “Dirty short story Miss de completed her minor (and final) ‘Sales’ and Global English in Translation Luxe (Telv xiaojie) examination on Dostoevsky and from the French of Gauz’s Stand- will be published Martin Heidegger. In Spring 2018, Arpi by-the-Hour,” Modern Language in Metamorphoses: received the Outstanding Teaching Association Convention, Philadelphia, A Journal of Assistant Award in the Slavic Program. Pennsylvania, January 2017. Literary Translation In Fall 2016, Tegan was awarded (forthcoming in early an Atkins Dissertation Fellowship

18 UC SANTA BARBARA by the Department of Germanic of Silence: Moving and Listening Imperial Literature,” 2018 Association and Slavic Studies, as a matching through Cricket Sounds in William of Asian Studies Annual Conference, grant for her grant awarded by the Faulkner’s Light in August.” Washington DC, April 22–25, 2018; Internationale Jugendbibliothek “Tracing Past Hospitality: Jewish for dissertation research at the Wendy Sun Diaspora in Shanghai,” 5th Annual international youth library in Munich, completed her first Interdisciplinary Conference of The Germany. In Winter 2017, Tegan was field examination Graduate Center for Literary Research a recipient of a UC Santa Barbara’s on gender and at the University of California Santa Interdisciplinary Humanities Center sexuality in classical Barbara. Santa Barbara, May 10, 2018. Predoctoral Fellowship; in Spring Chinese Literature 2017, Tegan was the recipient of a Max in Spring 2017; her At the Fall Kade Foundation Fellowship on the committee included 2017 UCLA recommendation of the Department Professors Yunte Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies. Huang (English), of French & Xiaorong Li (East Asian Studies) and Francophone Mayfair Yang (East Asian Studies & Studies Religious Studies); in spring 2017, she Graduate did not teach, thanks to a generous Student Atkins Fellowship from the Germanic Conference, and Slavic Department. She gave David Vivian many papers: “In Knowing the White presented his paper entitled “Creole to Safeguard the Black: A Translation Space, Creole Text: Urbanization and Study on Keywords and Cultures in Literature in Patrick Chamoiseau’s Heidegger’s first Chapter of Being and Texaco.” He was the recipient of a Time,” 2017 Annual Conference of Delattre Fellowship in Fall 2016 and the American Comparative Literature a Jean Belin Fellowship in Summer John Schranck was Graduate Association, Utrecht University, 2017. David spent five weeks in France Coordinator of the Graduate the Netherlands, July 6–9, 2017; last summer improving his language Center for Literary Research in “Homosexual Desire and Heterosexual skills. He just completed his MA 2016–2017, and in this capacity Marriage: A Comparative Analysis thesis in Spring 2018, entitled: “La he chaired its fourth annual of ‘The Lovers’ Tomb’ and ‘A Male ville aux cent mille romans.” Flânerie conference, “Resonance,” as well Mencius’s Mother,’” 2017 RMMLA and Modernity in French Literature as organized events for the year’s Annual Conference, Spokane, from Balzac to Breton. His committee distinguished visiting professor, Washington State, October 12–14, comprised Catherine Nesci, Chair; Christopher Prendergast. John also 201; “The Secret Codes of Female Maurizia Boscagli (English) and co-organized a seminar panel at Same-Sex Intimacy in Chinese Late Dominique Jullien (French and Italian). the 2017 ACLA Annual Meeting in Utrecht, Netherlands, “Sounding the Hemisphere: Music, Literature and Power Relations in the Americas,” where he presented his paper, “Between Composing and Writing: Alejo Carpentier’s La música en Cuba and Los pasos perdidos.” At the American Literature Association’s Symposium on Regionalism and Place in American Literature in New Orleans in September, 2017, John gave a paper titled “Imagining Souths: New Orleans in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!” At the 2018 ACLA Annual Meeting at UCLA, John gave a sound studies paper: “Little Island A copy of the Frankfurter Zeitung held by the National Library of France in Paris. The Zeitung's feuilleton published seminal philosophical & sociological essays by Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, among other intellectuals in Weimar Germany.

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 19 Summer Language Studies/ Comparative Literature Summer Research Honors Reception

At our Honors reception, held at the Library of the Mosher Alumni House on Monday, May 22, 2017, Amira Sweilem did a beautiful reading of her Dustin Lovett: “I Wendy (Xiaoxue) Sun translation of “Identity spent much of June received a Summer Card” by Mahmoud and July 2017 in Paris 2017, Max Kade Travel Christene d’Anca: Darwish. We were delighted to recognize the “While conducting at the Bibliothèque Grant Award, from the dedication and excellence of many students at all research for my Nationale de France Kade Foundation and levels of the Comparative Literature curriculum. field exam last year, researching the role of the Department of ‘Medieval Mausoleums, translation in German Germanic and Slavic Monuments, and periodicals of the Studies, UC Santa Manuscripts: Paving Weimar era as part of a Barbara: “In Summer the Path of Women’s Max Kade Foundation 2017, I went to Austria, Patronage,’ I spent travel fellowship to Germany, and the three weeks in Paris further understanding Netherlands. I took a visiting the Bibliothèque of German culture. The one-month seminar Nationale de France, BNF has complete sets entitled ‘Schlüsselwerke and the Basilica of Saint of periodicals from the der deutschen Literatur Outstanding Students in a Comparative Denis. In the process 1920s and 1930s, which von der Klassik bis zur Literature lower-division section include: Pablo I improved my oral were either destroyed Gegenwart’ in German Arias-Benavides, Tara Habibi, Jesse Hannawalt, by the Nazis or later communication skills in at Freie Universität Andy Le, Zemon Lu, and Anthony Narayana. French, and took the dispersed in postwar Berlin and studied opportunity to learn Germany.” German Literature, Certificates of Excellence for outstanding more about the culture from Goethe to work in a Comparative Literature course were while visiting many contemporary German given to: Kianna Bowers, Elaine Borden authors. I improved of the historic sites, Chandler, Daniela Capone, Erika Carlos, Jesse my German abilities including the fabulous Hannawalt, Bianca Nabarrete-Lopez, Konrad Versailles Palace, in speaking, reading, Neithercutt, Maximilian Ochoa, and Amira Louvre, Orsay, and of and writing. I also Sweilem. course the Eiffel Tower.” conducted research on German-speaking Distinction in the Translation Studies Minor was women authors and presented to James Harrington. on women-penned Sofie Thomsen: Holocaust memoirs for Paige Livermore (Summer 2016) received “Thanks to the generous my second and third Distinction in the Comparative Literature Major support of the Max Kade field examinations.” for a student completing a Senior Honors Foundation, I was able to spend two months Project. during the summer at Kianna Bowers received the award for the Goethe Institute in Distinguished University Service for Comparative Hamburg. While there, I attended daily intensive Literature Majors. language classes, and Distinguished Graduating Seniors in Tegan Raleigh: “I worked to improve both Comparative Literature were Daniela Capone, was a participant in my written and spoken the Goethe Institute German. This has aided Andrea Dehnke, Alice He, and Irene Yoon. intensive German not only in my academic Doctoral Candidate Alexandra Magearu was language study in research, but also my recognized as Outstanding Teaching Associate Munich over the continued work as a TA summer of 2017.” for Germanic & Slavic in 2016-17. Studies.”

20 UC SANTA BARBARA COMPARATIVE LITERATURE BOARD

Julie Carlson, PhD (English) Didier Maleuvre, PhD (French and Italian) Nadège Clitandre, PhD (Global Studies) Catherine Nesci, PhD (French and Italian) Francis M. Dunn, PhD (Classics) Dwight F. Reynolds, PhD (Religious Studies) Bishnupriya Ghosh, PhD (English & Global Studies) Katherine Saltzman-Li, PhD (East Asian Languages & Cultural Dominique Jullien, PhD (French and Italian) Studies) Xiaorong Li, PhD (East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies) Roberto D. Strongman, PhD (Black Studies) Juan P. Lupi, PhD (Spanish and Portuguese) Elisabeth Weber, PhD (Germanic and Slavic Studies)

AFFILIATED FACULTY

Gerardo V. Aldana, PhD (Chicana and Chicano Studies, Esther Lezra, PhD (Global and International Studies) Anthropology) Xiaorong Li, PhD (East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies) Ofra Amihay, PhD (Religious Studies) Sara Lindheim, PhD (Classics) Bernadette Andrea, PhD (English) George Lipsitz, PhD (Black Studies) Paul Amar, PhD (Global and International Studies) Francisco A. Lomeli, PhD (Spanish and Portuguese, Stephanie Batiste, PhD (English) Chicana and Chicano Studies) Rick Benjamin, PhD, Adjunct Professor (Comparative Literature) Alan Liu, PhD (English) Silvia Bermúdez, PhD (Spanish and Portuguese) Juan P. Lupi, PhD (Spanish and Portuguese) Michael Berry, PhD (East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies) Didier Maleuvre, PhD (French and Italian) Heather Blurton, PhD (English) Harold Marcuse, PhD (History) Maurizia Boscagli, PhD (English) David B. Marshall, PhD (English) Cynthia J. Brown, PhD (French and Italian) Ellen McCracken, PhD (Spanish and Portuguese) Mary Bucholtz, PhD (Linguistics) Mireille L. Miller-Young, PhD (Feminist Studies) Leo F. Cabranes-Grant, PhD (Theater and Dance, Catherine Nesci, PhD (French and Italian) Spanish and Portuguese) erin K. Ninh, PhD (Asian American Studies) Julie Carlson, PhD (English) Elide V. Oliver, PhD (Spanish and Portuguese) Thomas A. Carlson, PhD (Religious Studies) Sowon Park, PhD (English) Swati Chattopadhyay, PhD (History of Art and Architecture) Sara G. Poot-Herrera, PhD (Spanish and Portuguese) Nadège Clitandre, PhD (Global and International Studies) Eric Prieto, PhD (French and Italian) Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook, PhD (English) Rita M. Raley, PhD (English) Susan Derwin, PhD (Germanic and Slavic Studies) Dwight F. Reynolds, PhD (Religious Studies) Andrew E. Duffy, PhD (English) Katherine Saltzman-Li, PhD (East Asian Languages & Francis M. Dunn, PhD (Classics) Cultural Studies) Dorota Dutsch, PhD (Classics) Russel Samolsky, PhD (English) Jody Enders, PhD (French and Italian) Chela Sandoval, PhD (Chicana and Chicano Studies) Claudio Fogu, PhD (French and Italian) Bhaskar Sarkar, PhD (Film and Media Studies) Aranye O. Fradenburg, PhD (English) Greg Siegel, PhD (Film and Media Studies) Colin R. Gardner, PhD (Art) Cynthia Skenazi, PhD (French and Italian) Bishnupriya Ghosh, PhD (English) Jon Snyder, PhD (French and Italian) Giles B. Gunn, PhD (English, Global Studies) Sven Spieker, PhD (Germanic and Slavic Studies) Carl Gutiérrez-Jones, PhD (English) Swati Rana, PhD (English) Richard Hecht, PhD (Religious Studies) Roberto D. Strongman, PhD (Black Studies) Ellie D. Hernandez, PhD (Feminist Studies) Barbara Tomlinson, PhD (Feminist Studies) Barbara Holdrege, PhD (Religious Studies) Candace J. Waid, PhD (English) Jocelyn Holland, PhD (Germanic and Slavic Studies) Janet R. Walker, PhD (Film and Media Studies) Yunte Huang, PhD (English) William B. Warner, PhD (English) Dominique M. Jullien, PhD (French and Italian) Elisabeth Weber, PhD (Germanic and Slavic Studies) James Kearney, PhD (English) Sara Weld, PhD (Germanic and Slavic Studies) Wolf D. Kittler, PhD (Germanic and Slavic Studies) David Gordon White, PhD (Religious Studies) Suzanne J. Levine, PhD (Spanish and Portuguese) Kay Young, PhD (English)

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