Cultural Studies Purnima Bose, Program Director Newsletter Anne Delgado, Volume 15 Fall 2010/Spring 2011 Graduate Assistant Ballantine Hall 419 Bloomington, Indiana Director’s Note 47405-6601 (812) 855-0088 [email protected] The Cultural Studies Pro- dress by Frances Aparicio. McTaggart, and Dianne gram has had a busy In early March, Cultural Feeley, along with col- spring, collaborating with Studies faculty members leagues from IU, will speak different programs to or- Radhika Parameswaran, on the contemporary Inside this issue: ganize three separate con- Ranu Samantrai, and relevance of Marxist ferences. Vivian Halloran, Purnima Bose, along with analysis. (The conference director of the Asian Susan Seizer and Rebecca schedule is inside). S. Cha- Director‘s Note 1 Manring, organized a con- and Upcoming American Studies Program rusheela will deliver the ference on ―South Asian Events and Cultural Studies fac- keynote on ―Rethinking ulty member, headed an Feminist Studies‖ as part Marxism in Times of Tur- In the Press and 2,3 initiative, with colleagues of an effort to initiate a moil,‖ which considers at the Podium from the American Stud- scholarly dialogue among recent events in Egypt, South Asianists located in Images and Public 4 ies, Asian American Stud- Algeria, Libya, and Wis- ies, Cultural Studies, and the Midwest. Invited par- consin as a conjoining of Culture Native American and In- ticipants included Liz Wil- the crisis of capital accu- In the Press, 5 digenous Studies pro- son, Tithi Bhattacharya, mulation with the crisis in Brantlinger- grams, to organize an Lucinda Ramberg, Srimati legitimacy in governance. Naremore Award ―Ethnic Studies Research Basu, and Rini Bhatta- Believing that the current and Travel Award Workshop‖ for graduate charya Mehta. moment makes cultural Recipients, students on February 18- methods in the Marxist Cultural Studies On April 1-2, 2011, the Graduate 19, 2011. The workshop tradition propitious, S. Students brought together graduate Cultural Studies Program Charusheela will consider students from across the will hold its annual confer- what kinds of alternative Cultural Studies 6 disciplines for a stimulat- ence on this year‘s topic: analyses make sense this Conference ―Cultural Studies and Schedule ing discussion of their time around. works-in-progress, and Marxism.‖ Janet Sorensen, Laura E. Lyons, Ursula Cultural Studies 7 featured a keynote ad- —Purnima Bose Conference Description Upcoming Events April 1-2 Cultural Studies and Marxism Conference (see pp. 6-7). New Faculty 8 April 18 Georges-Claude Guilbert, a professor of American Studies, Gender Studies, and Cultural Studies at University Francois Rabelais – Tours, will give a public lecture, ―Mama Mia!: Dancing Queen Indeed. When Gay Subtext is Gayer than Gay Text‖ on Monday, April 18th, at 4:00 pm in Woodburn 120. Page 2 Cultural Studies Newsletter In Press and at the Podium: Recent Activities of Cultural Studies Faculty Purnima Bose was an essay entitled Michael Dylan Foster invited participant at a sym- "Extraordinary Renditions: recently received the IU posium on ―Academia and Toward an Agency of Outstanding Junior Faculty Activism‖ at Wesleyan Uni- Place," in Shakespeare After 9 Award. versity on February 11, -11: How Social Trauma 2011. She also presented Shapes Interpretation, eds. Ilana Gershon just edited her paper, ―Love Marriage, Julia Reinhardt Lupton and a special issue of the Journal Neo-Liberalism, and Indian Matthew Biberman, Mellen of Linguistic Anthropology 20 American Chick Literature,‖ Press 2010. (2) called Media Ideolo- at the South Asian Feminist Charnes‘s doctoral student, gies. The volume explores Studies Conference at Indi- Maura Smyth, who gradu- how the concept of lan- ana University on March 5, ated in December and who guage ideologies can Nick Cullather’s The 2011. At the annual Cultural Charnes nominated for a be useful for thinking about Hungry World: Amer- Studies Association meeting Fellowship with the Harvard the relationships between ica’s Cold War Battle in March 2011, she will be a Society of Fellows, was the people's beliefs, attitudes against Poverty in Asia speaker on a panel, recipient of this prestigious and strategies about media ―Petroleum Plots and Criti- post-doc, for 2011- and their actual media prac- cal Corporate Studies.‖ She 2014. Maura is the first tices. Gershon‘s article in has been invited to give a IU PhD to receive the Jun- this collection is "Breaking talk at the University of ior Fellowship from the Up Is Hard To Do: Media Washington in May. Bose Harvard Society of Fellows, Ideologies and Media published an essay, ―From according to Provost Karen Switching." Gershon also Humanitarian Intervention Hansen. received the IU Outstanding to the Beautifying Mission: Junior Faculty Award. Afghan Women and Beauty Nick Cullather‘s recent Without Borders‖ in Gen- book, The Hungry World: Jason Baird Jackson has ders, and has an article, America's Cold War Battle recently published an article ―Transnational Resistance against Poverty in Asia, re- on "Boasian Ethnography and Fictive Truths: Viren- ceived two prestigious and Contemporary Intellec- dranath Chattopadhyaya, prizes: the Society of Histo- tual Property Debates" in Agnes Smedley, and the rians of American Foreign the Proceedings of the Ameri- Indian Nationalist Move- Relation‘s Robert H. Ferrel can Philosophical Society and a ment‖ which will be simulta- Book Prize and the Organi- chapter on Native American neously published in The zation of American Histori- dress in The Berg Encyclope- Journal of South Asian History ans‘ Ellis W. Hawley History dia of World Dress and Fash- and Culture and Babli Sinha‘s Book prize. The Ferrel Prize ion. Last year he was elected edited volume on South recognizes ―distinguished to the Executive Board of Asian Transnationalisms. scholarship in the history of the American Folklore Soci- Angela Pao’s No Safe American foreign relations, ety and spoke at a number Spaces: Re-casting Claudia Breger recently broadly defined‖ whereas of conferences, including the Race, Ethnicity, and co-edited Empathie und the Hawley Prize ―is Academix 2010 conference Nationality in Ameri- Erzählung. [Empathy and awarded annually for the organized by Apple Com- can Theater Narrative.] Freiburg/ best book-length historical puter to explore open ac- Breisgau: Rombach, 2010 study of the political econ- cess issues in higher educa- with Fritz Breithaupt. omy, politics, or institutions tion. He is finishing work on of the United States, in its a book about the history of Linda Charnes published domestic or international the Yuchi Nation and editing an essay in the book Shake- affairs, from the Civil War the journal Museum Anthro- speare Studies, Vol. 33, 2010, to the present.‖ pology Review. entitled "Shakespeare and the Gothic Strain"; and an Volume 15 Page 3 In Press and at the Podium: Recent Activities of Cultural Studies Faculty De Witt Douglas Kilgore reproduction as a book Social Justice: Revisioning Aca- and Ranu Samantrai are the chapter in the 2010 volume demic Accountability with Joe co-editors of a "Special Sec- Women Worldwide: Transna- Parker and Mary Romero tion on Octavia E.Butler" for tional Perspectives on Women, (SUNY Press, June 2010). the November 2010 of Sci- edited by Janet Lee and She also co-edited Science ence Fiction Studies. SFS is Susan Shaw. She served as Fiction Studies #112, special the premier peer-reviewed an evaluator at the National section on Octavia Butler journal in its field. Butler Fulbright Screening Com- with De Witt Douglas was a prominent writer of mittee meeting in New Kilgore (volume 37, part 3, science fiction, a winner of York in late fall 2010, and November 2010). the MacArthur Foundation she joined the editorial "Genius" Award, and the boards of the journals Criti- Jon Simons recently pub- first African American cal Studies in Media Commu- lished From Agamben to Ranu Samantrai’s woman to come gain fame in nication and Communication Zizek: Contemporary Criti- Interdisciplinarity and the genre. Monographs. She presented cal Theorists (Edinburgh Social Justice: a paper at the annual cul- University Press, 2010). This Revisioning Academic In 2010, University of Michi- tural studies conference in is the third and final volume Accountability gan Press published Angela Berkeley, California, and of a series that Simons has Pao‘s No Safe Spaces: Re- gave two invited talks, one edited about critical theo- casting Race, Ethnicity, and at University of Texas- rists. For this volume, Nationality in American Thea- Austin and the other at Simons wrote the introduc- ter. Trinity University in San tion. Antonio. Simons has also edited two Radhika Parameswaran other popular guides to has two recent publications In 2010, Phaedra critical theory: From Kant to from fall 2010: a co-authored Pezzullo edited Cultural Lévi-Strauss: The Background encyclopedia essay Studies and the Environment, to Contemporary Critical The- "Women's Movement Media Revisited. London: Routledge ory and Contemporary Critical in India" published in the (previously published as a Theorists: From Lacan to Said. Sage Encyclopedia of Social Special Issue of Cultural Stud- He has also recently been Movement Media and a jour- ies, 22.3-4, May 2008.) awarded an Indiana Univer- nal article "The Rise of India sity, College of Arts and and China: Promising New William Rasch recently Humanities Institute, (2010- Directions for Global Media published two articles: 11) Travel Research grant Studies" in Global Media and "Enlightenment as Religion" for a project on ―Images of Communication. She also has in New German Critique 108 Peace in the Israeli Peace two forthcoming publica- (Fall 2009), 109-31 and Movement.‖ tions: a book chapter ―E- "Justice, Amnesty, and the raceing Color: Gender and Strange Lessons of Indiana University Press Transnational Visual Econo- 1945." Ethics and Global recently published Rakesh mies of Beauty" in the NYU Politics v. 3, no. 3 (2010), Solomon‘s Albee in Perform- Jon Simons’s From Press book Tracking Visibilities 239-54.