tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25653320033869834032024-03-05T23:24:24.456-05:00GW English NewsDepartment of English, George Washington Universityhdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13474249132108134020noreply@blogger.comBlogger1314125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2565332003386983403.post-35504361670514681742021-10-07T10:16:00.005-04:002021-10-07T10:16:56.700-04:00Jenny McKean Moore Reading - Nonfiction Writers: David and Margaret Talbot<p><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series presents two nonfiction writers: David and Margaret Talbot, on October 14th at 6:30 pm. Their book is </span><u style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">By the Light of Burning Dreams: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Second American Revolution.</u><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">They will be in conversation with Professor Virginia Hartman.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiiRq5dL3g1V4jZIwAPAcODXMYzy_fw98Pql_S4s8C02EhIEsm6lCiksvnygbq9t0zQ2Bf79YAR8juNeK6rFRwOhli6GpY6YzQmtz00PkFXdu2KwBrk0D_S_7_-0dZROPQH4qH2PUF1l49r_B1P3TP933_tmHKgua2TXuEraK9f33n0qrfzawfb5Mkx=s1566" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1566" data-original-width="1210" height="526" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiiRq5dL3g1V4jZIwAPAcODXMYzy_fw98Pql_S4s8C02EhIEsm6lCiksvnygbq9t0zQ2Bf79YAR8juNeK6rFRwOhli6GpY6YzQmtz00PkFXdu2KwBrk0D_S_7_-0dZROPQH4qH2PUF1l49r_B1P3TP933_tmHKgua2TXuEraK9f33n0qrfzawfb5Mkx=w406-h526" width="406" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Osvaldohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08915409100120792976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2565332003386983403.post-79511893277886054372021-10-05T10:23:00.003-04:002021-10-05T10:24:24.395-04:00Forum: Race and Immigration in Ethnic American Comics<p><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; font-size: 14px;">Join us on October 15th from 3-5pm to hear about two path-breaking graphic narratives on ethnic American experiences from WWII to the present. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; font-size: 14px;">This Fall panel brings together scholars and practitioners who are innovatively representing race, citizenship, and immigration through the medium of comics. </span><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; font-size: 14px;">Professors Kavita Daiya and Patricia Chu will be moderating t</span><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; font-size: 14px;">his event that will expand GW’s conversation on race and immigration through the medium of comics through this conversation. </span></p><p><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; font-size: 14px;">Frank Abe and Tamiko Nimura will discuss stories of Japanese Americans who challenged their incarcerations during WWII. NPR editor Malaka Gharib will reflect on her memoir about being a Filipino-Egyptian American in contemporary America.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #262626;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-size: 14px;">Use the following link for registration: </span></span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/forum-race-and-immigration-in-ethnic-american-comics-tickets-178871287837">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/forum-race-and-immigration-in-ethnic-american-comics-tickets-178871287837</a></p><p><a class="notranslate" href="https://www.instagram.com/wgss_gwu/" style="border: 0px; 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This is an entry level position, and all training will be provided. However, English or humanities majors are preferred. </div><div><br /></div><div>Tasks may include: formatting and providing uniformity to manuscripts, creating an index for a book, collecting data and compiling an annotated bibliography. Students may also help provide information for literature reviews and draft summaries. Other duties may be assigned related to specific faculty needs.</div><div><br /></div><div>To apply, <a href="https://gwu-studentemployment.peopleadmin.com/postings/7510">use this link to the GW Student Employment Website.</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="George Washington University Logo" src="https://www.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs2226/f/downloads/gw_monogram_2c_process_110.jpg" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" /><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #033c5a; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #033c5a; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">English Department</span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;">Columbian College of Arts & Sciences</div><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;">The George Washington University</div></span><span style="font-family: AvenirLT-Heavy, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>Phillips Hall</b> </span><span style="font-family: AvenirLTStd-Roman, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><b>Suite 643</b></span></div></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0073aa;"><b>Office:</b></span> <span style="font-family: AvenirLTStd-Roman, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">202-994-6180</span></div></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="mailto:email@gwu.edu" style="color: #0073aa; font-family: AvenirLTStd-Roman, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">engldept@gwu.edu</a></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div><span style="display: inline-flex; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/GWUenglish/" style="color: #0073aa; font-family: AvenirLTStd-Roman, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" target="_blank"><span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><img alt="logo-facebook_sm" src="https://www.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs2226/f/downloads/logo-facebook_sm.png" style="border: 0px; height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; width: 20px;" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><a href="https://www.instagram.com/gwuenglish/?hl=en" style="color: #0073aa; font-family: AvenirLTStd-Roman, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" target="_blank"><img alt="logo-instagram_sm" src="https://www.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs2226/f/downloads/logo-instagram_sm.png" style="border: 0px; height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; width: 20px;" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><a href="https://twitter.com/gwengl?lang=en" style="color: #0073aa; font-family: AvenirLTStd-Roman, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" target="_blank"><img alt="logo-twitter_sm" src="https://www.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs2226/f/downloads/logo-twitter_sm.png" style="border: 0px; height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; width: 20px;" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><img alt="logo-linkedin_sm" src="https://www.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs2226/f/downloads/logo-linkedin_sm.png" style="border: 0px; height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-align: center; width: 20px;" /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="display: inline-flex; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: medium;"> </span></div></span></div></div>Osvaldohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08915409100120792976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2565332003386983403.post-46582865829925216872021-08-24T14:01:00.001-04:002021-08-24T14:01:49.937-04:00Welcome Back!<p> <span face="verdana, sans-serif">Dear English Department students,</span></p><div style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Welcome back, and a special welcome to first-year and newly declared English majors just joining us for the first time! It feels exciting (and a bit intimidating) to contemplate gathering again in our classrooms for the first time since the pandemic erupted. As we’ve prepared to re-open our suite on the 6th Floor of Phillips Hall and to begin planning for events, both in-person and virtual, we’ve been galvanized by a sense of the energy you bring to campus and by our shared commitment to make your experience in English a truly valuable one.<br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">We have already on the docket a series of readings, sponsored through our Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series program, that you’ll want to put on your calendars. All will be offered via zoom, something that we learned last year makes it easier for more people to attend. This series brings incredibly talented writers to our community for readings and vibrant conversation. Please do join us! Here is the line-up for Fall 2021.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><b>September 22nd, 5:30 pm</b>: A reading by Airea Dee Matthews (poetry)<br /><b>October 14th, 6:30 pm</b>: A reading by Margaret & David Talbot (creative nonfiction)<br /><b>November 18th, 6:30 pm</b>: A reading by James Han Mattson (fiction)<br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">In addition, Professor Annie Liontas and some of our current Creative Writing majors are organizing an event called <b>Thunder & Lightning</b> to showcase student writing and cultivate lively exchange. It will be fun! This event is scheduled for<b> Dec. 2nd</b>, and more details on location and timing will come later this semester.<br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">We are also in the midst of planning a community event around a production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” that will be live-streamed by the Globe Theater on <b>Saturday, September 25th at 2:00 pm</b>. Be on the lookout for more information on this and a planned “talkback” session as we work out arrangements.<br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">On that note, we will use many tools available to us to communicate to share information, but we rely on you to check your email regularly and, if possible, to follow us on <a href="https://gwenglish.blogspot.com/">our blog (https://gwenglish.blogspot.com/)</a>, on twitter (<a href="https://twitter.com/gwengl?lang=en">@gwengl</a>), on facebook (<a href="https://m.facebook.com/GWUenglish/">@GWUEnglish</a>) and on Instagram (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/gwuenglish/?hl=en">@gwuenglish</a>). I am always available the old-fashioned way, too! Contact me at <a href="mailto:mfrawley@gwu.edu">mfrawley@gwu.edu</a> with any questions or concerns or to schedule a phone call or meeting, whether face-to-face or via zoom.<br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Although we are going into the semester full of energy and optimism, the past year has shown us how quickly things change, in matters of public health and much more. I was so pleased to see in recent messaging from Interim Provost Christopher Bracey a call that we at GWU work together toward a culture of empathy during our transition back to campus. He also emphasized the need to foster a diverse and inclusive environment and encouraged all of us “to work together to provide space and support for each other as we fight for justice and accountability.” Worthy and inspiring goals for all of us!<br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">All the very best for a safe and rewarding academic year. <br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Sincerely, <br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Maria Frawley</div><div style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></div>Osvaldohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08915409100120792976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2565332003386983403.post-70887535480336018282021-06-21T08:26:00.002-04:002021-06-21T09:41:01.443-04:00Event: Five Questions with GW English Major & Screenwriter Jason Filardi, CCAS BA '93<p> </p><h2 style="border: 0px; color: #033c5a; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 1.75em; margin: 1em 0px 0.5em;">Location</h2><p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 1.65; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.8em;">Online via Zoom </p><h2 style="border: 0px; color: #033c5a; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 1.75em; margin: 1em 0px 0.5em;">Event Description<br /><table align="right" border="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0.25em 0.5em;"> </td></tr></tbody></table></h2><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">Join CCAS for the next installment in the series </span><em style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif;">Five Questions with GW Alumni</em><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">, featuring GW English Major </span><strong style="color: #555555; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif;">Jason Filardi, CCAS BA'93</strong><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">. Jason Filardi will share insights on being a Hollywood screenwriter, as well as reflect on how his GW experiences influenced his career. Filardi will be interviewed by </span><strong style="color: #555555; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif;">Patricia Phalen</strong><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">, Assistant Director and Associate Professor at GW's School of Media and Public Affairs. </span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;">Filardi made his debut in Hollywood with the box office hit <em>Bringing Down the House, </em>which starred Steve Martin and Queen Latifah. That film went on to become one of the highest grossing comedies of 2003, grossing over $130 million in the United States alone.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;">Since then, Filardi has become one of the industry's go-to screenwriters. He has worked on a variety of high-profile projects including <em>Beverly Hills Chihuahua</em>, the ensemble comedy <em>Wild Hogs</em> starring Tim Allen, Martin Lawrence, and John Travolta, <em>The Pacifier, </em>starring Vin Diesel, <em>Eight Below </em>starring Paul Walker and <em>The Proposal </em>starring Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock. In 2018, Jason wrote Status Update starring teen heartthrob Ross Lynch. <br /><br />Currently, Jason and his brother, Peter Filardi, adapted Stephen King’s short story <em>Jerusalem's Lot </em>for television. The 10-episode series stars Academy Award winner Adrien Brody and will air on Epix Entertainment in August 2021.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;">Our discussion with Jason Filardi will take place via Zoom. <a href="https://secure2.convio.net/gwu/site/Calendar/1174276372">Please RSVP in advance to receive login credentials</a>. This event will take place at 3:00pm PT/6:00pm ET. </div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="font-size: 10pt;"><br /></em></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="font-size: 10pt;"><br /></em></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="font-size: 10pt;">The George Washington University’s bicentennial is an incredible, historic milestone. With 27,000+ students from more than 135 countries, a worldwide community of 300,000+ living alumni, and thousands of faculty and staff, the GW community is coming together to celebrate 200 years of phenomenal growth.</em></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></div></div>Osvaldohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08915409100120792976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2565332003386983403.post-92107667295008268972021-06-04T09:17:00.001-04:002021-06-04T09:17:40.227-04:00Senior Spotlights: Rebecca Radillo<p><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">"Raising High & Saying Goodbye: Rebecca Radillo is a graduating senior majoring in English. She</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> currently has an internship with <a href="http://thedailyfandom.org/">TheDailyFandom.org</a> where she writes on pop culture with an academic lens--she already has an article published analyzing Doctor Strange through an Orientalist and disability lens. She will be attending Boston College in the fall for an MA in English, where she hopes to deepen her love of Shakespeare and the Romantics. She wrote my honors thesis on how political figures in William Shakespeare's history plays self-legitimize their power through rhetorical devices and linguistic images in their political speeches, and also how they are deployed in film adaptations. The work she has been most proud of as an undergraduate are her essays analyzing Moby Dick through an ecofeminist lens and viewing Ralph Fiennes' Coriolanus through a queer lens. We are all so proud of you Rebecca, and know you will go on to do even more inspiring work!"</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRAF9bsTiOv2XvB-dh0NP4LeUjU6xv-ICtMRkhm71xCcjQrNTz-Dfu_fONVtj_-isi2z4O0H0ZS1kAFXVWCPMOcmER5qso2rApxj5OlQF-1LT5RDWXAzMpZeYVwf6UYa7vSjbYEAcDXTk/s1080/1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRAF9bsTiOv2XvB-dh0NP4LeUjU6xv-ICtMRkhm71xCcjQrNTz-Dfu_fONVtj_-isi2z4O0H0ZS1kAFXVWCPMOcmER5qso2rApxj5OlQF-1LT5RDWXAzMpZeYVwf6UYa7vSjbYEAcDXTk/s320/1.png" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl_-T43sIH3RE9AC8HaiPqmLkjCuvT3v9JDB1RQBVz1c_nrxqhLi2ElM65JYgSEUAJ0OGCX436Fb0scugt8mDVEm4xTQ_JNldsWXAEjZPuC2maWWogruE4INDxIOPVKeAL3ceVAi3y_1A/s1080/2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl_-T43sIH3RE9AC8HaiPqmLkjCuvT3v9JDB1RQBVz1c_nrxqhLi2ElM65JYgSEUAJ0OGCX436Fb0scugt8mDVEm4xTQ_JNldsWXAEjZPuC2maWWogruE4INDxIOPVKeAL3ceVAi3y_1A/s320/2.png" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUNJxA7EBKa700FtQ5bnxaKMOS_OVETTkyp5PKV5xDf6NKaBXAztgR16Lcbo20QlqnhGRIQy6uXXXF-qW2-A2rTtlI6mebsXvSfOc83_tPjGktXU6WMujhUzV_THFAoC8e8_si5gMSVmQ/s1080/3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUNJxA7EBKa700FtQ5bnxaKMOS_OVETTkyp5PKV5xDf6NKaBXAztgR16Lcbo20QlqnhGRIQy6uXXXF-qW2-A2rTtlI6mebsXvSfOc83_tPjGktXU6WMujhUzV_THFAoC8e8_si5gMSVmQ/s320/3.png" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqtDhlIWKmRfJN_aOCNqS_5sA9-kEVAlSd_mSVnXM28Rc7wPEMk23aiJzT29DrjewVS495aIz7GcJ8OOt4wDnA-AgSgiWbYMPYJLKKGpiY_9nEgxposxaJpA831kK5d0SVoCc5ScHpPGs/s1080/4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqtDhlIWKmRfJN_aOCNqS_5sA9-kEVAlSd_mSVnXM28Rc7wPEMk23aiJzT29DrjewVS495aIz7GcJ8OOt4wDnA-AgSgiWbYMPYJLKKGpiY_9nEgxposxaJpA831kK5d0SVoCc5ScHpPGs/s320/4.png" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDNF6pQmuMAWcmbMW9G2oo0Q5NJItsfTLRoUOUR5QTs7jPayazlZWMRWgS-PT7GsXKx38MpsZrfz2uhyCt6Q9a_WvVllcR8mfiw0QugUrPV3QGr389hliH2E1p375NGiwoj0Xg63Qu9pQ/s1080/5.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDNF6pQmuMAWcmbMW9G2oo0Q5NJItsfTLRoUOUR5QTs7jPayazlZWMRWgS-PT7GsXKx38MpsZrfz2uhyCt6Q9a_WvVllcR8mfiw0QugUrPV3QGr389hliH2E1p375NGiwoj0Xg63Qu9pQ/s320/5.png" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Osvaldohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08915409100120792976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2565332003386983403.post-22696517099827248932021-06-01T09:06:00.003-04:002021-06-01T09:06:19.772-04:00Senior Spotlights: Izzy Cassandra-Newsam<p><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Raising High & Waving Goodbye: Izzy Cassandra-Newsam graduates with a degree in Creative Writing & English, after completing her fiction thesis under the guidance of Professor Annie Liontas. After this summer, she will return to her native Los Angeles to pursue a career in television. Thank you, Izzy, for everything you've provided the department, and we hope to see your work on our screens soon!</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcqGext2L93YxxowcVzGO6mqMSEH1dkqLxQnfj7KpZ7qKFXOAQ1yMP-ylJkgs_zl2Ut2VFzGwnitpP7IzeJ9T7d2W5vvO9SKEPMGS0tw6nvm0c3znHRYtrIHIeWG4EGDGNPOoAbO0rtuQ/s1080/+1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcqGext2L93YxxowcVzGO6mqMSEH1dkqLxQnfj7KpZ7qKFXOAQ1yMP-ylJkgs_zl2Ut2VFzGwnitpP7IzeJ9T7d2W5vvO9SKEPMGS0tw6nvm0c3znHRYtrIHIeWG4EGDGNPOoAbO0rtuQ/s320/+1.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKxseH5kyna1Wn5OUqD6RlEYkuocNZ7CMNq0OcuES0Bspxgdo-oAmBk692jDCN4ClkIEmW7MyWk8KcCSVVvoGQn8nKVtBHISgJy7QFM682aEj2wx9uY8a8SiDjXyxsUWai7wln7Jao2sA/s1080/4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKxseH5kyna1Wn5OUqD6RlEYkuocNZ7CMNq0OcuES0Bspxgdo-oAmBk692jDCN4ClkIEmW7MyWk8KcCSVVvoGQn8nKVtBHISgJy7QFM682aEj2wx9uY8a8SiDjXyxsUWai7wln7Jao2sA/s320/4.png" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNAjS5zwj6Iz64NJ0KZpTT0q2dj22pL5VDLeFZQINVUsLhkEAovotKTbpb5IrNBqrmgNTv-7B5t2E4eoNdJ0z6Eosl4InkmYEbMTdnX6OtIQvjyfgEH-sJ603tEZu5YwVi0XtPQhEcZvM/s1080/3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNAjS5zwj6Iz64NJ0KZpTT0q2dj22pL5VDLeFZQINVUsLhkEAovotKTbpb5IrNBqrmgNTv-7B5t2E4eoNdJ0z6Eosl4InkmYEbMTdnX6OtIQvjyfgEH-sJ603tEZu5YwVi0XtPQhEcZvM/s320/3.png" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3KxEKthzyrv8qgAv3_hBoEa26lVhL4fgbi_dLEmKXnqSt-TDbsY61hEe2n2JjqhU-d5LUatLTju8f4WgJuffuxlZOKdnYriTOadIUjY7h-TPxVMo1Ierx6JWV3akIrJxOV4p3quUkzQQ/s1080/2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3KxEKthzyrv8qgAv3_hBoEa26lVhL4fgbi_dLEmKXnqSt-TDbsY61hEe2n2JjqhU-d5LUatLTju8f4WgJuffuxlZOKdnYriTOadIUjY7h-TPxVMo1Ierx6JWV3akIrJxOV4p3quUkzQQ/s320/2.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg49AWoEjKzWB8_m5IGw92t3Tidn5rDoE0kcCLC3BcEk7n_nI6Do721rsPr2sC6rXZtSU0GZCGn-Dn5H0cfTaz0Ue6ucUIy5BpigtOWMF9KQcqWh5YhV19LI7kISqj5VuOWuNqVKsLUeck/s1080/5.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg49AWoEjKzWB8_m5IGw92t3Tidn5rDoE0kcCLC3BcEk7n_nI6Do721rsPr2sC6rXZtSU0GZCGn-Dn5H0cfTaz0Ue6ucUIy5BpigtOWMF9KQcqWh5YhV19LI7kISqj5VuOWuNqVKsLUeck/s320/5.png" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></p>Osvaldohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08915409100120792976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2565332003386983403.post-15013743778730255402021-05-26T14:03:00.003-04:002021-05-26T14:25:47.891-04:00Senior Spotlights: Maryam Gilanshah<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12px;">Raising High & Waving Goodbye:</span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12px;"> </span><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Maryam Gilanshah is a Creative Writing/English graduate, specializing in fiction. Her work has been published in Paper Shell Review, Catfish Creek, & Zeniada. This semester, she produced "Fine Girl," a collection of short stories centered around isolation, identity, & daughterhood for her thesis. Following her graduation, Maryam will study fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop summer session before pursuing a career in media writing and production! She is incredibly thankful for her family, classmates, and professors in providing her the immense support that has enabled her to grow as a writer and individual.</span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiawt0RuQT-yYNfQoxRcX_H8KZTAJSZafRzBGATmmtaTtHgZYEKL_37lDBJ1NaIgi8_iwfj7FBXyPw6ZZ-9DHwoz3Ut03ucOpDTqvjzA5513Qese5fyaBvJmQJ-c4RK7RHAwgvcyRoQJg4/s1080/774A186A-3582-42A2-830D-45A052985634.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiawt0RuQT-yYNfQoxRcX_H8KZTAJSZafRzBGATmmtaTtHgZYEKL_37lDBJ1NaIgi8_iwfj7FBXyPw6ZZ-9DHwoz3Ut03ucOpDTqvjzA5513Qese5fyaBvJmQJ-c4RK7RHAwgvcyRoQJg4/s320/774A186A-3582-42A2-830D-45A052985634.png" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI17fJy4pTIDUz6KIh5M228hdXjyZPL4yBB0P-9Z0GDsy5c5Km2avnAFwBricctsWoZix9ZXJshlORs_tRFEsT3cHQjyoWPWLZCPcap_gx_nH0yZ2YZQSnVGJNnmhIm-zrs3aO9WNMacA/s1080/52CCB548-F96F-4002-9906-1B90AE93EEDC.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI17fJy4pTIDUz6KIh5M228hdXjyZPL4yBB0P-9Z0GDsy5c5Km2avnAFwBricctsWoZix9ZXJshlORs_tRFEsT3cHQjyoWPWLZCPcap_gx_nH0yZ2YZQSnVGJNnmhIm-zrs3aO9WNMacA/s320/52CCB548-F96F-4002-9906-1B90AE93EEDC.png" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8o-rpdrnAZ7avmbI-9o8y2wZaHD0GKiVybCNT03eKOpriGZAbxlEnZiYM0v2BmRDblxXiXTMDyEbxS1VuAiOVluGjk5WtG1Qe7fbYgttm6ZEChXKGEvN2DoS9Xk0OUfi5bUI9Ky75ar0/s1080/16B5A6DD-6F80-49D6-8568-8A26C6628D1B.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8o-rpdrnAZ7avmbI-9o8y2wZaHD0GKiVybCNT03eKOpriGZAbxlEnZiYM0v2BmRDblxXiXTMDyEbxS1VuAiOVluGjk5WtG1Qe7fbYgttm6ZEChXKGEvN2DoS9Xk0OUfi5bUI9Ky75ar0/s320/16B5A6DD-6F80-49D6-8568-8A26C6628D1B.png" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoa9n9o8IAJtf2J30hCojJ4iNEGSpP9o_JcZS4sgCdCqLrQHlx01bUfsSthRNtXWnmGeAniGoZwbhYzPzehjvQCvgqu-jUklbzPGXAJI4CoxtB28fXuEjkpFTvsxlx77u92tgV08TidD8/s1080/A8996B25-CF85-408A-AA78-9E1DAB4F10C3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoa9n9o8IAJtf2J30hCojJ4iNEGSpP9o_JcZS4sgCdCqLrQHlx01bUfsSthRNtXWnmGeAniGoZwbhYzPzehjvQCvgqu-jUklbzPGXAJI4CoxtB28fXuEjkpFTvsxlx77u92tgV08TidD8/s320/A8996B25-CF85-408A-AA78-9E1DAB4F10C3.png" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz7c2i3M-Toie6Y9gCZX6EUgcqK9NHsLRPaGmTGiY0wx2FPUlgJiVgHb8yOBbCufJeqaCqT4P8J82qQxyA6vQ7dJE3vZ1KlmpejuYQsm10dvLHJJ8cZqyZofrZOSFRrOSjecLwuwIJnTc/s1080/F5A4673C-1963-4160-9257-D69E9412AAAB.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz7c2i3M-Toie6Y9gCZX6EUgcqK9NHsLRPaGmTGiY0wx2FPUlgJiVgHb8yOBbCufJeqaCqT4P8J82qQxyA6vQ7dJE3vZ1KlmpejuYQsm10dvLHJJ8cZqyZofrZOSFRrOSjecLwuwIJnTc/s320/F5A4673C-1963-4160-9257-D69E9412AAAB.png" /></a></div><br /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p>Osvaldohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08915409100120792976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2565332003386983403.post-85559080132227003872021-05-24T09:04:00.000-04:002021-05-24T09:04:14.009-04:00Senior Spotlights: Kat Kirman<p><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Raising High & Waving Goodbye: </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">After completing her undergraduate degree in English at GW, Kat Kirman will continue her studies as an MA student in American University's Film Production program. Her love of cinema and writing has been profoundly enriched by GW's English curriculum, and she hopes to continue this growth during her graduate career!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjebuTlmmDB_CuYRTt6R9Tt7i5mn7b3Y9PhcXQ1Az79O43kj6vDChSgT2Dr1Ro2DvFkGpqDB8H-60UWk1ehYfRmhC7JdS-1-ALyIUySNVrdPVIFlU6DWlS0rEp7iE77f06re-zZYDioj8I/s1080/480DC348-1F90-4B9A-BD37-CB18A99B0E39.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjebuTlmmDB_CuYRTt6R9Tt7i5mn7b3Y9PhcXQ1Az79O43kj6vDChSgT2Dr1Ro2DvFkGpqDB8H-60UWk1ehYfRmhC7JdS-1-ALyIUySNVrdPVIFlU6DWlS0rEp7iE77f06re-zZYDioj8I/s320/480DC348-1F90-4B9A-BD37-CB18A99B0E39.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioe3EGMpu-tvqVoBcFR_XgJiKuLDCTfhB2fq3M2gWQGQB6KgPR4DuRgBjANAOvKsNmrUk2-0aoFKt_A3HVsDdhtKRTOtZVPH8S3d7cgmxxMBJBbqdBiMdutuJwefMfn0GYjbT_3sr7MrE/s1080/7B27D46B-8E8C-47CC-95E6-8298CD5E3DF5.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioe3EGMpu-tvqVoBcFR_XgJiKuLDCTfhB2fq3M2gWQGQB6KgPR4DuRgBjANAOvKsNmrUk2-0aoFKt_A3HVsDdhtKRTOtZVPH8S3d7cgmxxMBJBbqdBiMdutuJwefMfn0GYjbT_3sr7MrE/s320/7B27D46B-8E8C-47CC-95E6-8298CD5E3DF5.png" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikCrtPM3jeQ5RtRpMCQcugg3wu6n37tF2QKsJ40HCjf2fmNZ-nS8g-tRsueoplJjAGg4MqWuZOBrLEkuvkXHZ4Kwa1v35Iq0YOxEgSahj-GhzrLYH-WZLTjnqxP-nW09pc5Wxq5L5800s/s1080/E360B6EA-8DE2-4D72-BA28-134C6B810B44.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikCrtPM3jeQ5RtRpMCQcugg3wu6n37tF2QKsJ40HCjf2fmNZ-nS8g-tRsueoplJjAGg4MqWuZOBrLEkuvkXHZ4Kwa1v35Iq0YOxEgSahj-GhzrLYH-WZLTjnqxP-nW09pc5Wxq5L5800s/s320/E360B6EA-8DE2-4D72-BA28-134C6B810B44.png" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWPZW-1XEMGulZCC8ZFlXDtSsHQGJq9AQZuoZbcFpWEsNCSHDxehIBCtF7aGoqVTfIPIH62VK1JjEckTNeJKwmbUEjMTL2kLV387Qk-Y3OJqK6F6HteSTc4eyOlpvFcS-JfiqzBko2rHg/s1080/1073F3F5-1174-437C-8930-D502E6348020.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWPZW-1XEMGulZCC8ZFlXDtSsHQGJq9AQZuoZbcFpWEsNCSHDxehIBCtF7aGoqVTfIPIH62VK1JjEckTNeJKwmbUEjMTL2kLV387Qk-Y3OJqK6F6HteSTc4eyOlpvFcS-JfiqzBko2rHg/s320/1073F3F5-1174-437C-8930-D502E6348020.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwJe_BCC1amTzYiFsZ7Mi-NhwsRt5cwSvzG7-HsXJJoe0hfAmsp4IA3KcnjZ4w3_cr5iUhf_bAvb9E71HPiHXx8RHTDVvrJqz-5xalq-_lK0hrioVLwK3I6DJVz74GY6fncC7p0nknJ9Q/s1080/7CA147E8-4A9F-466A-A5A2-7D46DB449819.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwJe_BCC1amTzYiFsZ7Mi-NhwsRt5cwSvzG7-HsXJJoe0hfAmsp4IA3KcnjZ4w3_cr5iUhf_bAvb9E71HPiHXx8RHTDVvrJqz-5xalq-_lK0hrioVLwK3I6DJVz74GY6fncC7p0nknJ9Q/s320/7CA147E8-4A9F-466A-A5A2-7D46DB449819.png" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Osvaldohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08915409100120792976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2565332003386983403.post-68939410002386035342021-05-21T08:46:00.003-04:002021-05-21T08:48:47.553-04:00Senior Spotlights: Jordan Hutchinson<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12px;">Raising High & Waving Goodbye: Jordan Hutchinson, a 2021 GW English graduate, is </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12px;">currently working as an Editorial Intern for the New Jersey Digest (<a href="http://thedigestonline.com/" target="_blank">thedigestonline.com</a>) and she will be putting out regular articles through mid-May. 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The event is free and <a href="https://twitter.com/Fulbright_SD/status/1393971165979283464" target="_blank">open to the publi</a>c. <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NETYyN-ZHtOhMMhWWWLNRCExNk777IvSZFiDuAJuWlE/" target="_blank">Sign up here</a>. </p><p>Direct <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88354790175?pwd=aGlYTk9rTE1UWUdoODJsbnlMUWZkZz09 " target="_blank">Zoom</a> link. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NETYyN-ZHtOhMMhWWWLNRCExNk777IvSZFiDuAJuWlE/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Alexa Alice Joubin on anti-Asian racism" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTpsFBYb7wPrjAZHoyUM1UO0Eu7YMxJpOxwXj64040sCjWEMNjAIjJYew_q69R10gaLszR1c0PoZ8_Ea357Dg-5GiL_4-7-z2yQDyURSG-AhHLavHIatzBlvjfqPNwZCmWsfAqqpHWOCmX/w640-h640/Fulbright+Lotus+Joubin+poster.jpg" title="Alexa Alice Joubin on anti-Asian racism" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">To mark the AAPI (Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders) Heritage Month, <a href="https://fulbrighternetwork.com/news/407305" target="_blank">Fulbright Alumni Ambassador</a> and GW English professor <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alexa-Joubin" target="_blank">Alexa Alice Joubin</a> will be speaking to us in an interactive session about how to fight anti-Asian racism through film and television. Obviously, this is timely with the recent Oscar wins by Asian filmmakers and actors drawing attention to Asian (American) film as a genre. We will watch short clips from different films and TV series and discuss their common tropes. We will discover how racist language and misogyny intersect. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Case studies of films, television, and documentaries include <i>Minari, Blackkklansman, Ex Machina, Crazy Rich Asians, Double Happiness, When East Meets East, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Sense8, Falling Down, Farewell, Fresh Off the Boat, Parasite, Saving Face, Searching, The Wedding Banquet, Memoir of a Geisha</i>, Bruce Lee's <i>Fist of Fury, </i>and <i>Seeking Asian Female</i>. We will also discuss the uses of Asian motifs in dystopian science fiction films such as George Lucas' <i>Star Wars, The Blade Runner, The Fifth Element, Altered Carbon, </i>and <i>Cyberpunk 2077</i>. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Joubin is a film studies and critical race studies scholar, and is passionate about fighting racism and misogyny. She co-authored a book called <i><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331000481_Race_Routledge_New_Critical_Idiom_series" target="_blank">Race</a></i>, a compelling study of ideas related to race throughout history.</div><p><br /></p>Alicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06873513653883919075noreply@blogger.comWashington, DC, USA38.9071923 -77.036870710.596958463821153 -112.1931207 67.217426136178844 -41.880620699999994tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2565332003386983403.post-71303297236475979742021-05-10T10:28:00.000-04:002021-05-10T10:28:00.430-04:00Meet Our Alumni: Zeina Mohammed<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSiHbZlVFXCVVZVV5aCD-IjCxglEaaKgK3Le-gcUiG07sUDs1iOfnAXaZLJfNDWe0b25rUtobbIxjkEy5ziVGgdEw1ql907QPm5yVMa1EjoaWvQ4GrXMFDDHK30oNivhGEvlyKguTPXeU/s1080/E83F0D0D-7102-4134-B364-16D2DF3AC2E3_1_102_o.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSiHbZlVFXCVVZVV5aCD-IjCxglEaaKgK3Le-gcUiG07sUDs1iOfnAXaZLJfNDWe0b25rUtobbIxjkEy5ziVGgdEw1ql907QPm5yVMa1EjoaWvQ4GrXMFDDHK30oNivhGEvlyKguTPXeU/s320/E83F0D0D-7102-4134-B364-16D2DF3AC2E3_1_102_o.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;">“People Need English Majors”: Sitting Down with GW English Alumna Zeina Mohammed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> <i>as told to Maryam Gilanshah, Creative Writing 2021<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Times;">Why did you choose GW and Washington, D.C.? Why make that switch?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Z: So my family actually lives in Washington DC. We've bounced between Washington and different locations all my life because my dad is based here. So when I made the decision to go to St. Andrews, they were still living abroad. And I really liked St. Andrews, and I went in not really knowing what I wanted to do. And it was my first time living in a small town, and it was really cute for about three seconds. And then I was like: “okay, time to go back to the city.” And so they didn't have a journalism program. But during the second half of my first year, I realized that I, I've always been interested in English. And so that's what I did. At St. Andrews, I realized that I'd also like to tack on media journalism, if I could. So I wanted to go to a school that was a little bit more modern. St. Andrews is a very kind of like, older, traditional institution, which is really great for literature, if you want to study Chaucer, but not so much if you want to study anybody, not white from, you know, 20th century onward. So I picked GW because I had always lived in the DC suburbs. And so I'm very fond of the DMV area. But also, because both in my English work, and in my journalism work, I have a big international focus. And I was hoping that since GW is so well-known for international relations, and kind of like looking at that, you know, that would leak into other majors that aren't an Elliot. And I did find that to be true. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Times;">That's so interesting, I didn't really think about how I kind of like finds its way into the other majors and how it's kind of ubiquitous, insidious, and that kind of way.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Yeah. And I think even in extracurriculars, like, I wasn't necessarily looking to study international affairs, but just by virtue of the fact that so many of your friends are and a lot of the events and you know, clubs, kind of have that leaning, like you do learn so much. And I think university is the time when, like you will observe everybody else's perspectives. So I wanted to make sure that there were diverse perspectives. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Times;">Do you think that diversity kind of manifests itself in the student body?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;">I do think that like, just by virtue of the fact that the students are diverse, the curriculum does kind of have to tailor to that. Because if I come from somewhere, and my friend comes from somewhere else, and that friend comes from somewhere else, we're all looking to see how this applies to our particular culture. I think with homogenous societies, like we, for example, if I went to school, and we all grown up in the same town, there are things that we'd accept as the norm without necessarily challenging that. So I think like a place like GW will really have you understanding that almost nothing is objective. Like there's different ways to see everything, even things that you think are so mundane and like, set in stone.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Times;">That's important in English, too, because it is so subjective. Like there's no like science to it.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;">That's especially important because I think majors like English, like history, have traditionally had such strict gatekeepers. And so in a lot of universities, they tend to move a lot slower than majors like media or engineering that have to be very fast paced and keep up because they're linked to real world industries. So you can literally have English department [where] their curriculum hasn’t changed since the 1600s. It was really nice to see that the GW faculty is kind of committed to diversity and inclusion, but also to like modernizing and adapting to what their students want.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Times;">Did you see that in any particular way in your English classes? Or did you feel like it was more in the journalism classes because they have to keep up, they're more about like production than English, which can, as you were saying, rely more on the history of it?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Yeah, I think, um, I was so journalism was my minor and I didn't really commit to it until junior year. So like, English was the majority of like what I did, and I was really pleasantly surprised to see that there the faculty was more diverse than I was expecting, coming from a school where it was all white men. And it was really cool to see that even if they were teaching traditional books, it would be with the new and modern lenses that were focused on. Either like race or gender or sexuality. And so even if we're reading a text that people have been reading for hundreds of years, we’re reading it within the context of what's happening today. And also the department head was so receptive to changes in curriculum when they felt a little old. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;">And I was paired with Kavita Daiya, who taught postcolonial studies and I think she's one of the most brilliant scholars that I've ever met. And her work is so interesting, and so different than anything anyone's doing. And then I had Tony Lopez overseeing the honors department and he was doing a lot of stuff with Chicano literature and the 21st century. I just thought it was so fascinating that professor to professor, everybody had such a different focus. It gave you such a wide variety of things to choose from when it came to studying. And then Professor Chu, I think that was one of my first professors. When I took Children’s Lit with her, you’re like, wow, everything I've read in childhood is so problematic. Throw it away. Everyone, everything is bad for you. But like in the best way possible, like I think, I think people are too forgiving to historical literature. Because it is always like, you have to, you have to consider the times; but at the same time, that was also like painfully misogynistic, and like a remnant of colonial history, or whatever. And Children's Lit was such an interesting class, because we read things like <i>The</i> <i>Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe</i>. And there are just so many things that you miss when you're a child. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;">I was always interested in literature because I'm very interested in how narrative shapes bias, and shapes identity and stereotyping. I think growing up, it was so easy for me to see how the work that I was consuming, shaped my, how I view the world. I went to middle school here for a little bit, say, fourth to sixth grade, and then I moved to Kuwait to finish seventh and eighth grade. And when I was in Kuwait, I was still an American school. So it was still largely an American curriculum. But what we read was a little bit more tailored to that region. And I think it was the first time that I was able to exist outside of kind of the American lens. And it was interesting for me to see how much that changed the way that I saw other people, the way I conceptualize things.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;">And then it was easy to see, based on what like, my white peers were reading outside of school, their inability to understand me and where I came from, because I'm from Sudan. So I think my goal was to work in publishing to make sure that like more diverse books were published, because I think it's important not just for people to see themselves identified, which is really important, especially when you're a child, but also because we become what we read, and what we consume. And if that's not reflective of the world done, we're not able to engage with it in like an honest and accurate way.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Times;">So I know that you did your thesis on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s </span></i><span style="font-family: Times;">Half of a Yellow Sun<i>. Was that at all inspired by the experiences you were just talking about? How examining how media, especially literature influences you in that kind of way? <o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;">So I'd read </span><a href="https://bookshop.org/books/half-of-a-yellow-sun-9781400095209/9781400095209" style="color: #954f72;"><i><span style="font-family: Times;">Half of a Yellow Sun</span></i></a><span style="font-family: Times;"> in high school, and I enjoyed it, but I don't think I was quite there yet. To be able to fully understand it. And so in my first semester, I took Black Woman Writers with Professor Jennifer James, and we read that book again. And I just thought it was such an important piece of work. Because it highlighted the kind of things I was talking about but in such an artistic way.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;">I am interested in like societal hierarchies, and how that dictates who gets to speak, who gets ownership and authorship over history, and then how that kind of trickles down into society. So I chose that particular topic because I think we do a good job of looking at intersectionality as it exists in the domestic space. But I wasn't always satisfied with the conversations that we had about things like post-colonialism, how intersectionality plays out.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Something that I really wanted to speak to is how, in particular in Anglophone African countries that had settler communities how does race play out differently than it does in a US context. How is class play out differently in a US context? And then what does that mean for wartime coverage? Because I always found myself really annoyed about the scholarly research that was available, not just for Sudan, but for non-Western spaces in general. And that's because I think diversity isn't just looking at other countries, it's looking at other countries through the perspective of the people who really live those experiences. And unfortunately, the authorship generally does not go to them for reasons of race and class.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Biafra [and] Rwanda, those are the two I think, like, African conflicts that the West loves to continuously speak on without a right and without a full understanding of what happened. And so I just wanted to look at the reasons why that was, and that text very beautifully offered me an avenue to do that.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Times;">Was the thesis part literary analysis, part like scholarly research, bringing in related scholarship on the topic?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;">So I picked two characters that I thought represented the two different things I was trying to speak on. And then I looked at the ways that she utilized literary devices to illustrate the oppression that was happening in real world in real time. So it was more literary analysis than it was like, like a historical analysis on the conflict itself; I engaged mostly with the literature itself, and the devices that she used to convey the issues that she was saying, than, you know, the historical media coverage of the Nigerian conflict.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Times;">I know you're at American University studying journalism for your Master’s. What was that decision going from journalism as a minor? How did you decide to pivot and more focus on journalism?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Coming into uni, I, my goal was to work in publishing, because, I'd always wanted to diversify narratives about certain parts of the world. So I thought that publishing would be a good avenue to do that. And then the more that I engaged with both English and journalism at GW, I found that media is probably a better fit for me and what I want to do, especially considering the fact that I'm very concerned with international coverage. So as I started to take my minor classes, and I picked up journalism as a minor because I wanted to become a stronger writer. Because I think usually when you're writing in an article for an English class, you're trying to make it as long as possible. And then you go to journalism and you have 15 words. But I wanted to be able to do both. And I found that I really, really did enjoy journalism writing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;">So when I graduated, my goal was to find work in media. And there were a lot of fellowships and internships that I was looking at that unfortunately got canceled because of the pandemic. And so I decided very last minute in June to apply to the AU program that started in August. I was desperate for work experience in the fields. And so you know, AU has a really, really brilliant program. And luckily, journalism masters tend to be a year only, because I wasn't trying to spend too much time in school. I think I was just looking for something to tide me over and build my resume while the world was on a COVID standstill. I always love being in school, but I was looking for something that was practical and so luckily there's not too much theory in journalism even now. I think the course feels more like a training program. I go in and my professors are like, so we're gonna pretend we're in a newsroom, just go out and do it. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;">But what really drew me to AU is the fact that they have three different tracks for their programs. There's broadcast, investigative, and international. I was always interested in doing investigative work. But again, the fact that they just had an international program just signaled to me that it would probably be a good place that would allow me to be more globally minded. And like, I think that that has been true.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Times;">Do you see any huge differences between GW and AU in journalism or with your classmates, since you talked about GW's more international base?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;">So I think both schools are understandably, politically leaning. So SMPA and AU, both are great places for people who want to cover the White House or want to cover domestic politics. It's hard for me to compare the two because I wasn't a full major SMPA. And also now I'm a graduate student. So things are a little bit more specific, but I do feel like AU's program allows you to specialize a lot more. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Times;">Do you have any professional or personal heroes that inspired either you studying English or GW and picking the particular classes you did? Or in deciding to go to graduate school or study investigative and more international leaning journalism?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Yeah, so I think there are actually two people that I can pinpoint. And I've actually gotten to meet and get to know them both personally during my time as an undergrad. One of the first pieces of literature that I ever read that I felt lik, accurately spoke to my experience as a person, was the work of a Sudanese American poet called </span><a href="https://twitter.com/mafiasafia?lang=en" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Safia Elhillo</span></a><span style="font-family: Times;"> who released a book of poetry called <i>The</i> <i>January Children</i> and even before that was doing stand-up. I'd never necessarily engaged with any literature that was specific to my particular diaspora group, on top of the fact that I think she's one of the most brilliant writers that I've ever read. Seeing how much that had an impact on me really solidified the importance of representation and literature. And so I almost wrote my thesis on her, and kind of wish I had. I was able to actually meet her by my sophomore junior year at GW, and like, we're, like, casual fans now. She's like, absolutely brilliant. She's continuing to write absolutely wonderful things. So I think like, she was a very big inspiration for me and choosing to pursue English, because I was able to see how much her work really helped validate my experiences in a lot of ways.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;">And then on a on a professional level, there are two, again, Sudani, there are two sisters. </span><a href="https://twitter.com/nimaelbagir?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Nima Elbagir</span></a><span style="font-family: Times;"> is the older one. And I grew up seeing her. She was a CNN reporter when I was growing up – still is – and she was the only person that I saw on TV that looked like me. I didn't know she was Sudanese for the longest time, and then when I found out it was even more like special for me. And so she's done, absolutely amazing reporting and is responsible for a lot of the really powerful and more accurate coverage that my country's gotten on the international stage. So I think she's an absolute giant, and her younger sister is a pretty prominent journalist. Now, I think two or three years ago, in my junior year, there was a revolution in my country, and she almost single handedly covered it. And I just thought it was so amazing that like one well placed, culturally specific person can dictate whether or not the most important event in the country's history gets covered or not, because if she hadn't been there, like, I don't know that we would have necessarily had news coming out of the country. And especially towards the beginning, there wasn't a lot of international interest.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Times;">And so I got to meet her as well in December 2019 the last time I went back home. And she gave me a lot of career advice that has that I've kind of used as a guiding compass, when it came to like going to graduate school and picking my courses. Even now, like applying to jobs, and things like that. And I think that also, again, speaks to like representation, where, like, if I hadn't necessarily seen these two people doing these things, I might not have even thought that to do them. Because I'm like, growing up, I'm like, somebody needs to do a better job at this or that, but I wouldn't have necessarily thought that I would be that person if I hadn't seen somebody that you know, look like me or came from the same place as me doing it and doing it honestly, better than anyone in my opinion, in my unbiased opinion. I think especially meeting </span><a href="https://twitter.com/YousraElbagir?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Yousra</span></a><span style="font-family: Times;">, the [other] journalist, is what really committed me to the field. Because I think I just need to see somebody who shared the same goals as me do it and do it with the confidence. And so I'm like, “Okay, well, if you say so then I'm done.” And there are already 30 people who also that came before me who are already paving a bit of leeway for me to be able to exist and do the work that I want to do without having to sell out once I got to middle management. Because I mean, journalism, the gatekeepers of the industry have a certain bias that you know, is harmful to a lot of communities that are not dominant. So I think seeing her be able to produce the kind of news coverage that does break a lot of stereotypes and be able to be applauded by so many dominant news agencies and published in so many dominant news agencies gives me actual hope that that bias doesn't need to be present in my work for me to work at news giants.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Times;">Are there media sources that you turn to that you're particularly fond of? Whether it be an actual news source, a book, a writer or a TV show —something you turn to and you're like, this is an example of what I want things to be?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;">In terms of new organizations, I'm really fond of al Jazeera. I think particularly when it comes to East Africa, al Jazeera, more than other news organization, tends to have more accurate coverage. And I think it's because they're one of the only bigger news organizations that's not based and owned by a Western country. And so I think a lot of the Islamophobic tendencies that tend to seep into news coverage aren’t present, because they're a state owned organization in a Muslim-majority country. And that's not to say that they're perfect, but at least when it comes to their reporting about Sudan, they have more robust reporting, I guess, because we're geographically closer, so we're actually an interest region for them. And there are a lot of Sudani reporters present at Al Jazeera, which I think for me just proves that like, you need to have people from different countries in your newsroom because there's no other way that you will accurately be able to cover and evenly cover things that are happening all across the world that goes to many countries.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;">There's a podcast called </span><a href="https://www.thismediatribe.com/" style="color: #954f72;"><i><span style="font-family: Times;">Media Tribe</span></i></a><span style="font-family: Times;">, by a reporter named <span style="background-color: white;">Shaunagh Connaire</span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #1c203c;"> </span>. She's an Irish reporter from Channel Four news, I believe. And every episode, she will interview a journalist or a storyteller, and get them to speak about their craft and their experiences. And her goal is to kind of illustrate how important media and storytellers are, especially in this age of increased distrust of media and storytelling. And so I think it's, it's an interesting podcast for me, because even career-wise, like, there's a lot that I'm learning and they give a lot of advice, but it's also so cool for me to see the breadth of things that people can do. Like media doesn't just in need to be writing an article. There's so many ways to present both the news and stories in general, whether it's fiction or nonfiction. There's so much more that you can do if you're a storyteller. And it can involve STEM...we can do STEM things to like be storytellers. So it's really, really cool. I think it's helping me realize that I don't necessarily have to stay in such a tight box. If I want to tell stories, I can do that in so many different avenues. And people come in from so many different backgrounds as well and tell sorts of stories, for all sorts of reasons. And so I think it's absolutely fascinating podcast for anyone who wants to go on later and tell stories.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;">The rise of podcasts is like a really good example of people diversifying the way in which they communicate material, especially if you're trying to humanize a story. It’s so crucial now to adapt to like the technology age, because you keep hearing that journalism is dying. It's not dying, traditional journalism is. Or it might not exist in the way that it's traditionally looked. It's just adapting as it needs to the changing world. But I think like now, more than ever, it's important for us to broaden idea of what a storyteller is, and how they how they do their job.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Times;">Do you have anything that you want to plug?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;">All of the stuff that I'm working on doesn't come out until the summer, so Google Alerts, guys.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;">I think one thing that I didn't necessarily not take seriously, but local news was never necessarily something that I'd consumed. And it was never something that I thought to do either. I think anything journalism, you think like CNN, BBC, like war, coverage, all of this stuff. But last semester, as part of our program, </span><a href="http://thewash.org/author/zmohammed/" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="font-family: Times;">graduate students publish articles on <i>the Wash</i></span></a><span style="font-family: Times;">. And we're tasked with picking a particular neighborhood in DC, so I covered the Shaw-U Street area and Silver Spring, and then having to build sources in that community and cover what's happening. I think it was probably the most important class, I feel like I've taken to date, because a lot of times we're looking at what's happening in like, Malaysia, or in Namibia, or in Argentina. But the most important thing to us is what's happening in our own backyard and I think a lot of times that gets overlooked and so that was a really cool classroom to begin to learn to value and to cover my community and not just like what's happening halfway across the world. I think to date that's the project that I've been the most proud of. I think I wrote eight articles covering that area and then covering DC at large when the elections happen so I was like, such a cool time to be a baby journalist. Because you know, COVID was happening the election happened insurrection happened and like to be in DC and to have my eye on what's going on. Like that was the most valuable learning experience ever.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt;">I think it was an issue at first because I felt so much internal pressure to find a niche. But my professor said don't pigeonhole yourself because you'll largely be pigeonholed into doing something in the actual industry. I think I was so focused on what I like to do that I didn't realize that naturally, as you move, you find out what you don't like to do. And over time you'll find yourself covering this niche that you actually like...it's important to have a focus, to not be directionless, but at the same time, don't limit yourself. That even extends to...English. If you study English, you don't necessarily have to be an author. Take the classes you think are interesting. We're not groomed for a particular job. English is more about understanding and analyzing information. And that's valuable for anything. People always need English majors.</span></p>Osvaldohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08915409100120792976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2565332003386983403.post-89587710498122073182021-04-18T08:24:00.002-04:002021-04-18T08:24:24.491-04:00K. Tyler Christensen Reads April 28<p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaNIppTRpR2Q9_J_OUDuVdcONAWIlG_SH-Ld4KNnfTMO3LqiTx_0HDNlj4LRJBXLTP9uQLEWG22BqjIMISERMsqUzi7DCAnDhtxwTcCqFmYDFe1qHr3U5su3m5M3iw6zF6nmvJqeEXEQw/s993/KTC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="993" data-original-width="929" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaNIppTRpR2Q9_J_OUDuVdcONAWIlG_SH-Ld4KNnfTMO3LqiTx_0HDNlj4LRJBXLTP9uQLEWG22BqjIMISERMsqUzi7DCAnDhtxwTcCqFmYDFe1qHr3U5su3m5M3iw6zF6nmvJqeEXEQw/s320/KTC.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">K. Tyler Christensen</td></tr></tbody></table></p><p><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">The final event in Contemporary LGBT Literature, following Jordy Rosenberg's visit on April 22 (details <a href="https://gwenglish.blogspot.com/2021/04/jordy-rosenberg-join-students-in.html">here</a>), is GW English's own K. Tyler Christensen! Join students in the class on April 28 at 7 PM for an evening with Tyler. This is the final in a series of four "live" public events featuring authors students are reading this semester. Please register for this free event using EventBrite <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/k-tyler-christensen-reading-tickets-151360739045">here </a></span></span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">and you will receive Zoom links both the day before and the day of the event.</span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b>K. Tyler Christensen </b>is a PhD Candidate in American Literature & Culture in the English Department. Currently, he is an instructor of Literature, American Studies, and Sexuality Studies in the Critical Race, Gender, & Culture Studies Collaborative (CRGC) at American University (AU). From Stonewall to <i>Pose</i>, the expanse of his doctoral work is concerned with literature that emerges from the HIV/AIDS crisis and is tentatively titled: <i>In Order to Survive: AIDS Literature, Alternative Genealogies & Queer Intimacies</i>. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from American University where he was a merit fellow and was also an editorial staff member of <i>Folio. </i>He is the author of the chapbook, <i>THAT BOY FROM IDAHO</i>, which was chosen for publication as part of Ghost City Press’s Summer Series 2020. Poet Amy Lawless (<i>Broadax) </i>raves, “K. Tyler Christensen is an unabashed archivist of queer heartbreak who iterates and reiterates the phenomenology of a life through anaphora and these single-take, deeply imagistic scenes.” In addition to completing his dissertation, Tyler is working on a memoir: <i>A History of the Problem</i>, which tells the story of his experience in conversion therapy.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">You can find him on Twitter: @k_tylerc or at his website: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://ktylerc.com&source=gmail&ust=1618834586516000&usg=AFQjCNHab3cC1KYdRtnE2nF3ZDPGXg8D1w" href="http://ktylerc.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">ktylerc.com</a></span></p></div>Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04300736245327882739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2565332003386983403.post-31871542819165483322021-04-09T11:32:00.004-04:002021-04-10T08:31:15.176-04:00Jordy Rosenberg Reads April 22<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDlqAuOcl0uZ9Kt6YO07w2NzJjb8hKFKaCB-UYrX11h9LWIbELs1UZ3ZLZ4YN0hWxHOn2Ts-g4RpzCxcvmICP3LlrEkMyTP6gUBcGtRGi7APsMdG2q6CpriSJxPsbBqO-ebKImDDRI0Jc/s1120/author%252Bphoto.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1120" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDlqAuOcl0uZ9Kt6YO07w2NzJjb8hKFKaCB-UYrX11h9LWIbELs1UZ3ZLZ4YN0hWxHOn2Ts-g4RpzCxcvmICP3LlrEkMyTP6gUBcGtRGi7APsMdG2q6CpriSJxPsbBqO-ebKImDDRI0Jc/s320/author%252Bphoto.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jordy Rosenberg</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Join students in Contemporary LGBT Literature April 22 at 7 PM for a reading with Jordy Rosenberg. This is the third in a series of "live" public events featuring authors students are reading this semester. Please register for this free event using EventBrite <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jordy-rosenberg-reading-tickets-150201551885">here</a> </span><span style="text-align: justify;">and you will receive Zoom links both the day before and the day of the event.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jordy Rosenberg is the author of the forthcoming hybrid work <i>The Day Unravels What the Night Has Woven</i>, the novel <i>Confessions of the Fox </i>(which GW students are reading), and a scholarly monograph about 18th-century religious enthusiasts. <i>The Guardian </i>notes that <i>Confessions </i>revolutionizes the historical novel, offering up the figure of Jack Sheppard as a "trans hero for the 18th century." <i>Confessions </i>was a <i>New York Times </i>Editors Choice selection, shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, a Lambda Literary Award, a Publishing Triangle Award, the UK Historical Writers Association Debut Crown Award, and longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award. <i>Confessions </i>has been recognized by <i>The New Yorker </i>and other venues as one of the Best Books of 2018.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jordy is a professor at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.</span></p><p><br /></p>Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04300736245327882739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2565332003386983403.post-60257594311297666042021-04-08T09:33:00.001-04:002021-04-08T09:33:03.633-04:00New Event: Migration, Gender, and Rights in Comics and Literature<p> <span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 12px;">Join the GW community on </span><b class="" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 12px;">Thursday, April 15th from 12pm-2pm EST </b><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 12px;">for the "</span><span class="" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">Migration, Gender, and Rights in Comics and Literature: </span><span class="" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">Linking the World" symposium! Hosted by GW's Department of English and the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) program, this symposium will </span><span class="" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">explore how contemporary graphic narratives and fiction about South Asia, Syria, and the Caribbean offer new insights into the experience of displacement, gender, citizenship, conflict, and human rights. </span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="" style="color: black; font-family: georgia, serif;"><br class="" /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="color: black; font-family: georgia, serif;"><span class="" style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">This symposium will feature: </span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><span class="" style="color: black; font-family: georgia, serif;"><span class="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b class=""><br class="" /></b></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><span class="" style="color: black; font-family: georgia, serif;"><span class="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b class="">Lopamudra Basu</b> (University of Wisconsin, Stout), “Graphic Representations of the Syrian Refugee Crisis: Witnessing and Cross Border Solidarity in </span><span class="" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Strange,</span><span class="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span class="" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Welcome to the New World</span><span class="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span class="" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Escape from Syria”</span><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><span class="" style="color: black; font-family: georgia, serif;"><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="" /></span></span></div><span class="" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-5624be09-7fff-6e9c-258a-4c31b0515c20" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="color: black; font-family: georgia, serif;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span class="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b class="">Pramod K. Nayar</b> (University of Hyderabad) </span><span class="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The Human Rights Graphic Novel”</span></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span class="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b class="">Asha Nadkarni </b>(University of Massachusetts-Amherst), </span><span class="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“</span><span class="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Queerness of No Return’?: Competing Diasporic Imaginaries in Shani Mootoo’s </span><span class="" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He Drown She in the Sea"</span></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><br class="" /></div><span class="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><span class="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><b class="">Amit Baishya</b> (University of Oklahoma), </span><span class="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">"Dogs of War: Afterlives of Manto in Kashmiri Graphic Productions"</span></div></span></span></span><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="" style="color: black; font-family: georgia, serif;"><br class="" /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b class=""><span class="" style="color: black; font-family: georgia, serif;">About the Panelists</span></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="color: black; font-family: georgia, serif;"><span class="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><b class="">Lopamudra Basu</b> is Professor of English at University of Wisconsin-</span></span><span class="gmail_default"></span>Stout<span class="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. She is the author of </span><span class="" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ayad Akhtar, the American Nation and its Others After 9/11: Homeland Insecurity</span><span class="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Lexington Books, December, 2018). She is the co-editor of </span><span class="" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Passage to Manhattan: Critical Essays on Meena Alexander</span><span class="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, 2009. </span></span><span class="" style="color: black; font-family: georgia, serif;"><span class="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her current scholarly interests include trauma studies, post 9/11 American literature. and postcolonial poetry.</span><span class="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span class="" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her poetry has also been published in </span><span class="" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Postcolonial Text, Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies</span><span class="" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span class="" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Barstow and Grand, The Hitchlit Review</span><span class="" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and the </span><span class="" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Poetry Calendar</span><span class="" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="color: black; font-family: georgia, serif;"><br class="" /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="" style="color: black; font-family: georgia, serif;"><b class="">Pramod K. Nayar </b>teaches at the Department of English of the University of Hyderabad in India. His most recent works are <i class="" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ecoprecarity: Vulnerable Lives in Literature and Culture </i>(2019), <i class="" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Brand Postcolonial: 'Third World' Texts and the Global</i> (2018), <i class="" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bhopal's Ecological Gothic: Disaster, Precarity and the Biopolitical Uncanny</i> (2017), <i class="" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Human Rights and Literature: Writing Right </i>(2016) and the edited collection, <i class="" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Indian Travel Writing 1830–1947</i> (2016). His essays have appeared in <i class="" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Modern Fiction Studies</i>,<i class="" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> South Asia Review</i>,<i class="" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> South Asia</i>,<i class="" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Narrative</i>,<i class="" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Celebrity Studies</i>,<i class="" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Asiatic</i>,<i class="" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Journal of Postcolonial Writing</i>,<i class="" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Prose Studies, a/b: auto/biography studies, Biography, Image and Text and Postcolonial Text, among others.</i>
</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="color: black; font-family: georgia, serif;"><span class="" id="gmail-m_-2436441977649467025gmail-m_-9153581989807385483m_-8079431631404731805gmail-docs-internal-guid-a8053939-7fff-fa14-2753-0fdb3d7765df"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><b class="">Asha Nadkarni’s</b> research and teaching interests include postcolonial literature and theory, transnational feminist theory, and Asian American studies, with an emphasis on the literatures and cultures of the South Asian diaspora. In addition to many articles and book chapters, she is the author of </span><span class="" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Eugenic Feminism: Reproductive Nationalism in the United States and India</span><span class="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> (University of Minnesota Press, 2014), which traces connections between U.S. and Indian nationalist feminisms.</span> <span class="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">She is also the co-editor (with Cathy Schlund-Vials) of the forthcoming </span><span class="" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Asian American Literature in Transition, 1965-1996 </span><span class="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">(Cambridge University Press, 2021).</span><span class="" style="font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></div></span></span><span class="" style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><div class="" style="color: black; text-align: left;"><br class="" /></div><div class="" style="color: black; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><b class="">Amit R. Baishya</b> is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Oklahoma. He teaches courses on postcolonial studies, animal studies, cinema, cultural studies and on special topics like zombies, dogs and mutants. His monograph Contemporary Literature from Northeast India: Deathworlds, Terror and Survival was published by Routledge in 2018. He is also the co-editor (along with Yasmin Saikia) of a collection of essays titled Northeast India: A Place of Relations (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and Postcolonial Animalities (co-editor Suvadip Sinha, Routledge, 2019). </span></div><div class="" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="color: #500050; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/migration-and-rights-in-comics-and-literature-from-southasiaasian-america-tickets-149755967129" target="_blank">Read more about the panelists and register on EventBrite</a>. </span></div><div class="" style="color: #500050; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="color: #500050; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="" style="background-color: white;"><a class="" href="mailto:engldept@gwu.edu">For any questions, contact the English department.</a></span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><u><br /></u></span></span><span class="" style="background-color: white; color: #500050;"><a class="" href="mailto:engldept@gwu.edu"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a class="" href="mailto:engldept@gwu.edu"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhExbVgPV_OO1fif5Yosg2BMiPVDsyRvKiAklJQPXd1tv6prPpi4rWSud3In3nJZlKqhnkXiCO4ZIVZVx2TfGK5bzvNHB1_axGaHv6nnbw1Y2sllItd738G_jggqFPYE72-9vjjlQdtibA/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="814" data-original-width="816" height="503" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhExbVgPV_OO1fif5Yosg2BMiPVDsyRvKiAklJQPXd1tv6prPpi4rWSud3In3nJZlKqhnkXiCO4ZIVZVx2TfGK5bzvNHB1_axGaHv6nnbw1Y2sllItd738G_jggqFPYE72-9vjjlQdtibA/w505-h503/Screen+Shot+2021-04-08+at+09.32.38.png" width="505" /></a></div><br /></span></div></span></span></div>Osvaldohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08915409100120792976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2565332003386983403.post-68223503616263166592021-04-07T08:42:00.000-04:002021-04-07T08:42:29.654-04:00PhD Student Spotlight: Turni Chakrabarti<p><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGbqbNViWd_-UQk4VSxlaa8N3ogKJqKdi2uL7PYRZSzdMmoYMhVAc-xHLDAsNgjoGXmKbdGaSxYrZaYjhEVIGGYK9Ge3PAePGeA598X8jRNAKi9c58BCpZ4zrJRE3_ZpW5yGsO2jZbRqY/s1080/39F54B3F-F5C1-4203-B6C6-2439C24658A6.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGbqbNViWd_-UQk4VSxlaa8N3ogKJqKdi2uL7PYRZSzdMmoYMhVAc-xHLDAsNgjoGXmKbdGaSxYrZaYjhEVIGGYK9Ge3PAePGeA598X8jRNAKi9c58BCpZ4zrJRE3_ZpW5yGsO2jZbRqY/s320/39F54B3F-F5C1-4203-B6C6-2439C24658A6.png" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Meet Turni! She's a Ph.D. candidate in the English department, who loves Arundhati Roy, our amazing GW English faculty, and presenting her work! If you haven't caught her jumping from conference to conference, whether it be with the American Comparative Literature Association or Northeast Modern Language Association, swipe to learn more!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7pUc1X46dw7hk3spDNkezFSjjAYjmlpVL29k_HLlDjIXT3AbgJQ0JJqeB24uvaeZRAHkVH24nBPPxOeRD3Y_1lmtOPRWwYRax76ts817bgvg7NpzSJfzJgtHas3DIItZOJ1a1dK1Q47c/s1080/72CCD42F-C95E-4AEF-8B57-3024C0FB57E4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7pUc1X46dw7hk3spDNkezFSjjAYjmlpVL29k_HLlDjIXT3AbgJQ0JJqeB24uvaeZRAHkVH24nBPPxOeRD3Y_1lmtOPRWwYRax76ts817bgvg7NpzSJfzJgtHas3DIItZOJ1a1dK1Q47c/s320/72CCD42F-C95E-4AEF-8B57-3024C0FB57E4.png" /></a></div><p></p>Osvaldohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08915409100120792976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2565332003386983403.post-56874213726485589292021-03-31T11:12:00.002-04:002021-03-31T11:15:00.397-04:00PhD Student Spotlight: Joanna Falk<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinSUKDViOk6Pqqi_QclsTTHVHGce0YtAGylDoQVQRG8y0lYTL3Km09XLQHV8UgFUiXQDVT6afEKGlP2s8EtBX5Dow8M2nBfYJ0n0kq8S0UsSKv1iDdJDuEvnrUN9tkCWdIfHqL6SuY_pI/s1080/28127815-369A-48AD-B4A7-2DDAE34ED361_1_102_o.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinSUKDViOk6Pqqi_QclsTTHVHGce0YtAGylDoQVQRG8y0lYTL3Km09XLQHV8UgFUiXQDVT6afEKGlP2s8EtBX5Dow8M2nBfYJ0n0kq8S0UsSKv1iDdJDuEvnrUN9tkCWdIfHqL6SuY_pI/s320/28127815-369A-48AD-B4A7-2DDAE34ED361_1_102_o.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">What is the subject of your dissertation and how did you decide what your topic would be?<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;">My dissertation is about paratexts – all the stuff that’s not technically part of the “main” text but that serves to present it in some way. Titles are paratexts, as are introductions, footnotes, endnotes, appendices, etc. More specifically, I decided to focus on texts that play with the idea of paratextuality by formatting part of the “main” text so that it <i>looks</i> like paratext but actually isn’t. I’m calling that practice “paratextual guise.” The course I’m teaching in Fall 2021 will be about this topic, so, if you’re reading this and you’re interested, please enroll in ENGL 3810: Reading the Margins!<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;">The way I decided to write about paratexts is kind of a strange story. In Fall 2015, I was in my first semester of graduate school, in the University of Maryland College Park’s English MA program. I had to write a paper about <i>Heart of Darkness</i>, and I had to choose to write about some aspect of its reception history or its publication history. I decided to go with publication history and stumbled upon this Author’s Note that Joseph Conrad wrote in 1917 to preface a new edition of the book. I thought the Note was doing some really fun, exciting rhetorical work, and I decided to choose that as my topic. Then I discovered that there was no research on it; no one had written about this Author’s Note. I panicked, thinking that must mean I should choose another topic, and Brian Richardson, who is a professor at UMD and also a member of my dissertation committee, said to me, “You know, it’s actually a good thing when you want to write about something no one else has written on.” I tried in 2015 and failed, in my opinion; I wasn’t really ready to do that kind of theoretical work. Fast forward 3 years and I’m in my first semester of the PhD program at GW, vacuuming my apartment, wondering what to write about, and I suddenly remembered that failed project. <o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">What book do you think everyone should read? Why?<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;">What a tough question! I don’t know about prescriptive reading, but I certainly have recommendations. In 2017, I went under general anesthesia for a medical procedure, and when I was waking up – all loopy – I was telling the nurse over and over again that she should read <i>Ghana Must Go</i> by Taiye Selasi. It’s arrestingly beautiful, the prose. So, there’s one. Another one is Joan Didion’s <i>The Year of Magical Thinking</i>. I think that book changed me the most – as a person – because it changed the way I relate to people. She’s so shocked by the sudden death of her husband; she can’t really process the loss. Ever since I read that, I thought, “One day I will go through this. It will be just as shocking, even though I’ve read this book and know to expect the shock.” Now I can’t help but think of all my relationships as temporary, transient, impermanent. (I know that’s pretty depressing and kind of cliché, but it’s also just a reminder to cherish all the people I love in my life and make sure I let them know – now – how much I love them.)<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">How has your experience with teaching informed your own independent work? <o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;">When I started solo-teaching, I assumed I’d learn a lot about pedagogy, which I have, but the biggest surprise has been that teaching has changed the way I read. Knowing that I need to be ready to facilitate a conversation about whatever aspect of the reading resonates with the room (and also be ready to steer the conversation in certain directions. if need be) has made me read more comprehensively: breadth over depth. My usual way of reading is to find some little detail that fascinates me and hone in on that, tracking its every appearance in the text and ignoring most everything else that seems irrelevant. <o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Aside from your “10 Things I Hate About You” article, do you have any upcoming work you would like us to highlight/promote?<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I’m presenting a paper about my dissertation topic at the International Conference on Narrative in May. It’s a four-day conference, sponsored by the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN), so I’m really excited. It’ll be virtual, and my paper is titled “Paratextual Guise, the Logic of Supplementarity, and the Rhetorical Poetics Project.” I also had a book chapter proposal accepted about Sylvia Plath’s poem “Tulips,” in conversation with her novel, <i>The Bell Jar</i>, and disability studies. It’s called “’My Body is a Pebble to Them’: Resisting Medicalization in ‘Tulips’ and <i>The Bell Jar</i>.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>Osvaldohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08915409100120792976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2565332003386983403.post-78804330154821287212021-03-30T11:07:00.006-04:002021-03-30T11:34:25.932-04:00Jenny McKean Moore Reading - Creative fiction writer Kali Fajardo-Anstine<p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJDmrEgSBm-rivsv9_DJbm9sN4Cvw645LZsKat_YDzBf-ILgDrXMd4FP17iT3dwf_WAtB_Cw9wJSudDdqpMD7rhHZRzwXX-mXISDwYMdzqd2CiEDnUvu6e1qR5sCTdMRVROKVDzz-GUzA/s2000/C09E1710-46F7-4D0A-9036-4C22CA542D09.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1294" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJDmrEgSBm-rivsv9_DJbm9sN4Cvw645LZsKat_YDzBf-ILgDrXMd4FP17iT3dwf_WAtB_Cw9wJSudDdqpMD7rhHZRzwXX-mXISDwYMdzqd2CiEDnUvu6e1qR5sCTdMRVROKVDzz-GUzA/s320/C09E1710-46F7-4D0A-9036-4C22CA542D09.png" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Helvetica;">Kali Fajardo Anstine is the author of the short story collection, </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Helvetica;">Sabrina and Corina</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Helvetica;">, a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of an American Book Award. Her work has appeared in Harper's Bazaar, The American Scholar, Boston Review, the Oprah Magazine and elsewhere. Please join us for a virtual reading and Q&A on April 23rd at 5:30pm EST. The zoom link is available below!</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;">Join Zoom Meeting</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://gwu-edu.zoom.us/j/96405944805?pwd=ZXJaa1ExTXliVW5QQnR3ei9tSUZIdz09">https://gwu-edu.zoom.us/j/96405944805?pwd=ZXJaa1ExTXliVW5QQnR3ei9tSUZIdz09</a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Meeting ID: 964 0594 4805</p><p style="text-align: center;">Passcode: 720369</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Osvaldohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08915409100120792976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2565332003386983403.post-60393342181646403282021-03-23T21:11:00.003-04:002021-04-05T13:08:52.437-04:00The Roots of Anti-Asian Racism in the U.S.: The Pandemic and "Yellow Peril"<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B7-mJ1up9Oy/?hl=en" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="855" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiExWU1mUGMpWzUhN6dnI8ZRBRC1dgpjnAtCo7UWaw2Lp7RaI3LS-t9k_6BDXJCRmZwyNfjS3nkEolL5u6lNBXtp2RZMRMyRR2K64SvpvRaCsRacRyLRsvw49cWQ8O0B7IhED5DKjTHWZnR/s320/Not+Virus.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />COVID-19 has exacerbated anti-Asian racism—the demonization of a group of people based on their perceived social value—in the United States in the cultural and political life. <div><br /></div><div> Professor <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alexa-Joubin" target="_blank">Alexa Alice Joubin</a> recently published an <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348521874_The_Roots_of_Anti-Asian_Racism_in_the_US_The_Pandemic_and_'Yellow_Peril'_Global_Social_Security_Review_Vol_15_Winter_2020_50-59_migug-ui_ban-asia_injongchabyeoljuuiui_geun-won_paendemiggwa_'hwanghwalo" target="_blank">article</a> that analyzes the language of racism and misogyny. Her article also offers strategies for inclusion during and after the pandemic. </div><div><div><br /></div><div> In light of the recent racist and misogynistic murder of several Asian-American women in <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/22/us/metro-atlanta-shootings-monday/index.html" target="_blank">Atlanta</a>, the least we can do is to read up on Asian-American history as the first step to fight racism and to <a href="https://stopaapihate.org/" target="_blank">#StopAsianHate</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div> The image above first appeared on the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B7-mJ1up9Oy/?hl=en" target="_blank">Instagram</a> account of Korean-Swedish cartoonist Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom. Through her series of one-panel comics, she addresses anti-Asian racism during the COVID-19 global pandemic.</div><div><div><br /></div><div> Racialized thinking is institutionalized as power relations. Racial discourses take the form of political marginalization of minority groups, and cause emotional distress and physical harm. </div><div><br /></div><div> Here is an abbreviated version of Alexa Alice Joubin's article. For footnotes, please refer to the published version of her peer-reviewed article in <i>Global Social Security Review </i>via the link above. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Introduction</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnEUYnhBTwxw7KrokPfpZGT079Wm6W16i2Q8vfurF47zvXp49CLuOd1s_S0YX-28h53slVODlhiEawRyzoz6MDLbhS7hxxXwFub_Cm_LqHfMavsjCF1uZ6W7qedfMAzolO7iIK8WAJrgNx/s1400/Lockdown.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnEUYnhBTwxw7KrokPfpZGT079Wm6W16i2Q8vfurF47zvXp49CLuOd1s_S0YX-28h53slVODlhiEawRyzoz6MDLbhS7hxxXwFub_Cm_LqHfMavsjCF1uZ6W7qedfMAzolO7iIK8WAJrgNx/s320/Lockdown.jpg" /></a></div> Racists have always associated racialized differences with a language of illness and inferiority. The outbreak of the global pandemic of COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus) in early 2020 has exacerbated anti-Asian racism in the United States that was already brewing in previous years during the Trump administration. By late April 2020, 54% of the global population (4.2 billion people) were subject to complete or partial lockdowns, according to the <a href="https://covid19.who.int/" target="_blank">World Health Organization's statistics</a>. Due to the stay-at-home order, more people found time to tune into social media to connect with like-minded individuals for socialization and venting. By the end of May, 2020, there were more than four hundred COVID-related subreddits on Reddit.com, among them the anti-Asian group /r/China_flu. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> The stay-at-home orders have accelerated anonymous hate speech online. The lockdown has slowed down time, slowed down the spread of virus, and turned back the clock on human rights by inadvertently curtailing the rights of minority groups.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><b>The Toxic Spread of Pandemic-Fueled Racism</b> </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1XMH46feIEyobf54ps2mtznk65GrXcwwhktNUVNfKPMNrTjXS5GDv-INnQ5HNSqgUzWRUgv0DbCcd0739eRA0NWMRRyY8yTwWnIWK2adCAHGXlLjFY9d_XZBRR394bgd8H6KQVeNRPYqX/s1200/Stop+AAPI+hate.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1XMH46feIEyobf54ps2mtznk65GrXcwwhktNUVNfKPMNrTjXS5GDv-INnQ5HNSqgUzWRUgv0DbCcd0739eRA0NWMRRyY8yTwWnIWK2adCAHGXlLjFY9d_XZBRR394bgd8H6KQVeNRPYqX/s320/Stop+AAPI+hate.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Anti-Asian sentiments rose with Donald J. Trump’s use of the term “Chinese virus.” There are 72,000 active users in this group who, compared to the 542,000 users in the official /r/Coronavirus group, overlap more frequently with extreme communities. These users demonstrated anti-Asian, and more specifically Sinophobic behaviors, on Reddit, Twitter, and 4chan during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.<div><br /></div><div> Hate speech on social media fueled violence in real life. In Los Angeles County alone, 245 incidents of hate crime were reported, between March 20-October 28, 2020, to Asian Pacific Planning and Policy Council, the leading aggregator of COVID-19-related hate incidents against Asian Americans in the U.S. 90% of individuals believed they were discriminated against due to their race, and Chinese-Americans experienced the highest rates of hate (35%). </div><div><br /></div><div> Nationwide, by late April, more than 1,500 incidents of racism (125 of which were physical attacks) were reported to the <a href="http://www.asianpacificpolicyandplanningcouncil.org/" target="_blank">Asian Pacific Planning and Policy Council</a>. Not surprisingly, 58% of the incidents took place in New York and California, regions with large Asian-American populations. The increase in anti-Asian racist incidents is evident when we consider that hate crimes against Asian-Americans actually dropped 30.8% from 2014-2018, according to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>COVID-19 and racism in the U.S.</b></div><div><br /></div><div> There is a long history behind racism. To better understand the current toxic sentiments, we need to take stock of the history of race in the United States. First, historically there were many incidents linking perception of people of East Asian descent to deceases, forming precedents to the current wave of pandemic-induced anti-Asian racism. </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B7-mJ1up9Oy/?hl=en" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="855" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Jt2SgsoGU5QgaK0Yexqz2Pa9w0szuNrkytvUbARRgCjqKAvpKNFw8lsmz5GwrcKmgZ576P_biXIceJ6tQzPFDWwBarkgFvlcY5SdnUbPzrQ1g3OnNKPNgjVFX0jRlfMJ2PIjTt7G2Kht/s320/Not+Virus.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> Since the first Chinese immigrants and railroad workers arrived in the U.S. in the nineteenth century, there has been anti-Asian racism that, over time, has taken multiple forms, many of which are precedents to the current demonization of people of East Asian descent. Historically, Chinese-Americans were accused of eating vermin and associated with disease and unhygienic practices. </div><div><br /></div><div> During COVID-19, wearing face masks—validated by the latest scientific research—is used widely as a measure to contain the pandemic. </div><div><br /></div><div> To raise awareness of anti-Asian racism, particularly the biases against the use of face masks as a mitigating measure against the spread of the virus, Korean-Swedish cartoonist <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B7-mJ1up9Oy/?hl=en" target="_blank">Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom</a> created the image above as part of her series of one-panel comics. </div><div><br /></div><div> However, in spring, 2020, ironically, Asian-Americans were vilified when they wore face masks to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus. A good hygienic practice during the pandemic was used in hate speech to frame Asian-Americans as the source of the disease.</div><div><br /></div><div> COVID-19 does not discriminate, but racial discrimination adds undue stress to the society as a whole. This global public health emergency threatens our ability to concentrate and our cognitive resources for important information. To combat anti-Asian racism in the wake of COVID-19, rather than serving up a harangue or diatribe, I propose we can increase our cognitive bandwidth by learning more about histories of racism.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Features of Racial Discourses</b></div><div><br /></div><div> In contemporary American culture, race has multiple and contradictory meanings. </div><div><br /></div><div> On the one hand, race commonly refers to heritable traits of skin color and hair type. </div><div><br /></div><div> On the other hand, race is associated with culturally inflected mannerisms, such as what one eats, how one speaks, and how one carries herself or himself. </div><div><br /></div><div> In current American cultural discourses, race often brings to mind people who are not white, while whiteness remains unmarked and serves as a benchmark category—as if white is not a race. </div><div><br /></div><div> The second feature in American racial discourses is the alignment of a race-based social group with innate or inner qualities rather than class. </div><div><br /></div><div> Third, the focus on blackness and whiteness (for good reasons) sometimes obscures other groups within the United States, such that Hispanics, Latinos, Chicanos, and Native Americans often fall under the rubric of ethnicities rather than “race.”</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Metaphors of Illness: Yellow Danger</b></div><div><br /></div><div> At the core of racial discourses lie the metaphors of illness, which is ideologically linked to the current forms of racism fueled by COVID-19. These metaphors often describe an entire people, because “the body [is seen as] a model for political community” in the metonymic frame of understanding race. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.loc.gov/resource/pga.02758/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="“The magic washer, manufactured by Geo. Dee, Dixon, Illinois. The Chinese must go” (Chicago: Shober and Carqueville Lith Co., 1886). Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division." border="0" data-original-height="1318" data-original-width="974" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA_JcuDCfdxERDgqCWs6m-h0ThAFJYK3RpQDpqaONOnTic_OoyUqAFm6XhhctMSHvRuppGSBiDw_GwueAAK7bM58O4ZSN_bnfTUsUIok0QCo1My7A0k5_NOXjPhUYv-qu9mTZ8nFHRyv4l/w236-h320/Soap.png" title="“The magic washer, manufactured by Geo. Dee, Dixon, Illinois. The Chinese must go” (Chicago: Shober and Carqueville Lith Co., 1886). Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division." width="236" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div> One thing we notice in our current climate is that the language of disease is intimately connected to racism. This is not a new phenomenon. </div><div><br /></div><div> An example is this advertisement from 1886. The cartoon shows Uncle Sam holding a proclamation and a can of <a href="https://www.loc.gov/resource/pga.02758/" target="_blank">Magic Washer</a> (a soap) while kicking Chinese out of the U.S. The caption reads “The Chinese must go." The implications are that the Chinese are the origin and carriers of virus and germs.</div><div><br /></div><div> The Chinese only became "yellow" during the process of modernization. </div><div><br /></div><div> In 1895, after China’s defeat in the first Sino-Japanese War (1894–1895), both Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and the Chinese scholar Yan Fu used the phrase yellow peril and the metaphor of a “sick man” (<i>die gelbe Gefahr</i> in German and <i>bingfu </i>in Chinese) to describe East Asian and particularly Chinese people.</div><div><br /></div><div> In 1898, the concept became the title of British novelist M.P. Shiel’s short story <i>Yellow Danger</i>.</div><div><br /></div><div> The phrase has been used in the Chinese colonial history as a symbol of Western bullying. In the 1972 Hong Kong film <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmANp3i_v9A&ab_channel=bananabanana" target="_blank">Fist of Fury</a> </i>(released as <i>The Chinese Connection</i> in the U.S.<span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-size: 16px;">, </span>directed by Wei Lo), Bruce Lee's character tears apart a banner that says "Sick Men of Asia." This is one of the most prominent references to the phrase in the twentieth century, a "century of humiliation."</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmANp3i_v9A&ab_channel=bananabanana" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="394" data-original-width="925" height="273" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL1p0-ONugMDFD-7g3yHZDFetgIRCIydvpClTl_qDm3vzkpolOMJlg9L9Bzm65R7CXC4lB9PkWvrA5j9jqAhv87YswZapajgjnzDDCzdrBhfj5U0JyuJkyA1ibCIH4w8jjjNDNI7K4CN7n/w640-h273/Bruce+Lee+Fist+Fury.png" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NmANp3i_v9A" width="320" youtube-src-id="NmANp3i_v9A"></iframe></div><br /><div><br /></div><div> Resistance of this metaphor of an ill race took center stage in an anonymous poem in Chinese that was very widely circulated over the Internet in the months leading up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Entitled “To the West,” the poem self-consciously comments on the contradiction behind the image of a threatening sick man: “When we were called the Sick Man of Asia, we were also called the yellow peril. Now when we are billed as the next superpower, we are called a threat.” </div><div><br /></div><div> The biopolitics and the colonial history of the metaphor continue to inform modern day encounters between Asian and Western epistemologies of race.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Misogyny and Yellow Peril</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div> There is a long legal and institutional history behind the idea of yellow peril.</div><div><br /></div><div> The United States’s often self-contradictory, love–hate relationship with female Asian immigrants can be traced back to the era of the Chinese Exclusion Act, which was in force from 1882 to 1943, a time when whiteness became the dominant racial norm in the United States.</div><div><br /></div><div> It was also a time when, as Frank Dikköter observes, the country’s “Anglo-Saxon foundation coalesced with other ‘assimilable’ European immigrant ethnicities.” Chinese immigrants were both the desirable other in service of the United States and a codified threat. </div><div><br /></div><div> For example, female Chinese immigrants were assumed to be sex workers unless proven otherwise under the Page Act (1875) which was enacted under the guise of anti-trafficking laws. Similar restrictions were imposed on Indian women in British colonial Caribbean.</div><div><br /></div><div> At work here are both the “yellow peril” discourse and an imperial civilizing rescue mission. Before 1922, if a female U.S. citizen married a foreign man, she would assume the citizenship of her husband and lose her U.S. citizenship. The Cable Act of 1922 partially amended the situation by allowing married women to retain their U.S. citizenship if their husbands were “aliens eligible to naturalization.” Asians were not eligible for U.S. citizenship, and American women who married Asian men would not be protected by the Cable Act.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Yellow Fever</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div> The idea of yellow peril intersects with the gender stereotype known as yellow fever. The racialized myth about Asian women provides a partial explanation of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/06/opinion/sunday/alt-right-asian-fetish.html" target="_blank">the baffling phenomenon of white supremacists in the U.S. exclusively dating Asian women</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div> The exceptionalism that white nationalists have granted to Asian-Americans falls neatly along a gendered fault line. While Asian-Americans are often seen as the hard-working model minority who assimilate well into North American society, it is specifically, and only, Asian women who the white nationalists embrace.</div><div><br /></div><div> These cases show that the discourse of Asian-Americans as a model minority only go so far; they disproportionately bear the brunt of racism in times of national crisis.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>The <i>M. Butterfly </i>Complex</b></div><div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.davidhenryhwang.com/work-1/2019/6/4/m-butterfly" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1129" data-original-width="1693" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEoevVIoLIQHNZ_RW1HGz7X3_MQsTcPySQKc9-DAMMSWFvzOA-JZR4Tz5MygUVr3uTq0kPLltDJI92sceGebjxMmlHzKyVUHJk85BJ-E2eBWy262new0oTPk9u52phvG6E0oDhLnHcAXts/s320/M+Butterfly.png" width="320" /></a></div> Punning on the disease of the same name, <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/1145993?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents" target="_blank">David Henry Hwang</a> uses yellow fever in his play <i><a href="http://www.davidhenryhwang.com/work-1/2019/6/4/m-butterfly" target="_blank">M. Butterfly</a></i> (1988) to describe white men with a sexual fetish for East Asian women who are imagined to be subservient, dainty, and more feminine than their Western counterparts.</div><div><br /></div><div>Here is a photo of Nathaniel Braga as Song Ling in Hwang’s <i>M. Butterfly</i>, a production directed by Charles Newell for the Court Theatre in Chicago, 2014.</div><div><br /></div> In contemporary American media and popular discourse on dating, the term is used to identify and sometimes to critique the social phenomenon of white men exclusively preferring East Asian women. </div><div><br /></div><div> This Orientalist tendency is captured in Debbie Lum’s 2012 documentary film, <i><a href="https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/seeking-asian-female/" target="_blank">Seeking Asian Female</a></i>, in which the director interviews white men who exhibit “yellow fever” in San Francisco. The fetish makes Asian women interchangeable. East Asian women are seen as erotic because they are perceived to be exotic in physique and manners.</div><div><br /></div><div><div> The interviewees pointed to East Asian women’s facial features: “it’s the long black hair that is really eye catching.” They also mentioned their love interests’ perceived submissive personalities: “they are kind of subtle and kind of quiet,” as reasons for their dating preference. The intersecting racial and sexual discourses turn Asian identities from colonial subjects to consumable, Asian female bodies.</div></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ApisqCa5Cm8" width="320" youtube-src-id="ApisqCa5Cm8"></iframe></div><br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/seeking-asian-female/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="2002" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwr9BAkJk6ommYEZudmSjXx_xycJqwe2OLSjB9OVj4vJTrfIMC93NxIBwa_KjhvqVhJ2Ka0KL5GYz0OO2r-2ARqRXn5Yq-TRG9MxL3bWQQwjgQAOsUfC9tqVdT8aT1pZNWd5mIR3nbN5qJ/w640-h360/Seeking+Asian+Female.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Being versus Becoming</b></div><div><br /></div><div> Is one born “yellow,” or does one become Asian?</div><div><br /></div><div> As is often the case, without contact with or the threat from other groups, there is generally no perceived need for self-definition.</div><div><br /></div><div> In pre-modern China, peoples of many ethnicities and cultural origins “became” black in the Chinese consciousness. Increased cross-cultural contacts seemed to have only broadened the idea of blackness. Numerous peoples were given the label “black.” </div><div><br /></div><div> Initially the Nam-Viet peoples and Malayans, China’s Southeast Asian neighbors, were designated black in the Tang dynasty, but with China’s increased encounters with slaves from Africa (modern-day Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania) from the seventh to the seventeenth centuries, the “blacks” in Chinese consciousness expanded to include peoples from various parts of the world, including Bengali peoples of the Indian subcontinent, who were deemed different from the local population. </div><div><br /></div><div> Likewise East Asians became “yellow” after the eighteenth century physician Johann Friedrich Blumenbach categorized them as such. The pseudo-scientific classification of human features during the enlightenment and epistemologies of race derived from them formed a mutually validating and energizing synergy.</div><div><br /></div><div> The system of knowledge that emerges from this combination is then put to political use. As <a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691140315/becoming-yellow" target="_blank">Michael Keevak</a> observes, “there was something dangerous, exotic, and threatening about East Asia that yellow … helped to reinforce, [as the term is] symbiotically linked to the cultural memory of a series of invasions from that part of the world.” In many contemporary societies across the globe, skin color “as a biological concept,” as K. Anthony Appiah notes, is shorthand for racial identification along with “a few visible features of the face and the head." </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Double Consciousness</b></div><div><br /></div><div> Living in a time of hate, Asian-Americans experience a duality of racialized existence between two communities, which has been articulated by various critics, most notably by W.E.B. Du Bois. In 1897, Du Bois used the term “double consciousness,” or a double life, to describe the black experience in the United States a “peculiar sensation … of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.” </div><div><br /></div><div> Du Bois speaks of the black community’s two irreconcilable strivings and compares the “history of the American Negro” to a history of the struggle between “two souls, two thoughts, two warring ideals in one dark body … [as one attempts to be] both a Negro and an American without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows.” The repression of black identity in the United States has made it difficult for African-Americans to unify their black and American identities.</div><div><br /></div><div><div> The double-consciousness of the Asian-American community is sometimes captured in code switching and choices between the dominant language and one’s native tongue. For people in the diaspora, in exile, and in minority communities, language is both a unifying force and an unbearable burden as they oscillate between the imperialist tradition and a resistance tradition.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Accents and Race</b></div><div><br /></div><div> Asian accents are depicted as interchangeable and can be consolidated into one unifying identity, as in the film <i>Falling Down </i>(directed by Joel Schumacher, 1993). The white-collar worker William “D-Fens” Foster lashes out at a Korean shopkeeper:</div><div><br /></div><div></div><blockquote><div>D-FENS: You give me seventy “fie” cents back for the phone. What is a fie? There is a “V” in the word. Fie-vuh. Don’t they have “v”s in China? </div><div><br /></div><div>SHOPKEEPER: Not Chinese. I am Korean. </div><div><br /></div><div>D-FENS: Whatever. What differences does that make? You come over here and take my money and you don’t even have the grace to learn to speak my language. </div></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote><div>Watch <a href="https://youtu.be/a2YRMixW9u8?t=85" target="_blank">the dialogue in this scene here</a>. </div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/a2YRMixW9u8?t=85" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1099" data-original-width="2048" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNzSfLyk5STzEN9VCjw-v05kEdtonS7yTUfwMhyphenhyphenCKWqNudIJtUoXy-Rfcw2SlZEgD2fJX-QkpgeFsVtjn8GzH2T3IoFqDfsZiFjCP2JNEhPjZVxoWZ6Vgh0U94yKRSlidAprx8a_GWwgQP/w640-h344/Falling+Down.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>Here is the full scene: </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/a2YRMixW9u8" width="320" youtube-src-id="a2YRMixW9u8"></iframe></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Accents, particularly those that distort the predominant language in a community, are intimately connected to racial thinking, and identities become collapsible. As this scene shows, the burden of communication is typically placed on the non-native speaking diasporic subject who exists between two accents and two cultural realms. </div><div><br /></div><div> The protagonist has been unemployed, and his family has disintegrated. His life story is a snapshot of the breakdown of society. The final shoot-out on the pier enacts a perverse fantasy of the American dream, the kind of death-wish that is there at the end of Willy Loman’s life in <i>Death of a Salesman</i>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div><b>Conclusion: Strategies for Inclusion</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div> These case studies reveal that we need cognitive abilities to survive the global pandemic, and yet racism depletes our bandwidth for cognition. An example of the perils of losing one’s bandwidth for cognition during a crisis would be the people who run in the wrong direction when the house is on fire. </div><div><br /></div><div> In high stress situations people rely more on their intuition rather than analytical reasoning. However, our intuition is influenced by our implicit biases that hinder deep thinking about issues.</div><div><br /></div><div> Moving forward, in addition to developing and safeguarding our bandwidth for cognition by learning more about history, political coalition and legislation could contribute to decreasing racist sentiments. Such terms as the “Chinese flu” should be outlawed as much as words such as negro. </div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicbEgFP9e8HjNtCxFjJENVf4d0D7A9BlQ5BXPDQGxodOfdzVnUuTAUc6xbu0Mkp7Cw44FRrf-c2FpRges5xERCwf9d6Sqjh_RHBntjQ4yXka6i1aRxLk26mRFUF78_QghNyFXcWp_-q6Od/s468/Stop+AAPI+hate+mask.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="461" data-original-width="468" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicbEgFP9e8HjNtCxFjJENVf4d0D7A9BlQ5BXPDQGxodOfdzVnUuTAUc6xbu0Mkp7Cw44FRrf-c2FpRges5xERCwf9d6Sqjh_RHBntjQ4yXka6i1aRxLk26mRFUF78_QghNyFXcWp_-q6Od/s320/Stop+AAPI+hate+mask.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> In the U.S., the House of Representatives passed, in September, 2020, a resolution <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolution/908?overview=closed" target="_blank">condemning “all forms of anti-Asian sentiment as related to COVID-19”</a> in a 243-164 vote. This is the House’s first measure to address anti-Asian discrimination related to the pandemic.</div><div><br /></div><div> Race, like many identity markers, is social shorthand for articulating differences. Thinking through race estranges what is taken for granted. We study race historically not only to find roots of modern racism, but also to discover other views that may have been obscured by more dominant ideologies such as colonialism. </div><div><br /></div><div> Reading histories of race may be a passive act, but if it leads to recognition of one’s self in others, then it is an important step forward for our society as a whole.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331000481_Race_Routledge_New_Critical_Idiom_series" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="452" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAUw81sOXcrAhmU110zcxQ6vMjPwmQuAJvFYGZdmQpiKh4LyDUCtk2W84KE6eYLczyGVAJkm_x440JZUdiCNAI8lHluzMD7xgo1iDljPbYAZaaC0ZGNipWT_oy2ftG3UEmqN9RZk6qFrIN/s320/Joubin+Race.png" /></a></div><br /><b>Further Reading: </b></div><div><br /></div><div>Alexa Alice Joubin, "<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331000659_Race_and_the_Epistemologies_of_Otherness_chapter_5_of_Race_by_Alexa_Alice_Joubin_and_Martin_Orkin_New_Critical_Idiom_series_London_Routledge_2019_pp_193-227" target="_blank">Race and the Epistemologies of Otherness</a>," chapter 5 of <i><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331000481_Race_Routledge_New_Critical_Idiom_series" target="_blank">Race</a></i>. </div><div><br /></div><div>This is a single-authored (by Joubin) chapter in a co-authored book:</div><div><br /></div><div>Alexa Alice Joubin and Martin Orkin, <i><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331000481_Race_Routledge_New_Critical_Idiom_series" target="_blank">Race</a>. </i>New Critical Idiom Series (Routledge, 2019), pp. 193-227. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><p></p></div></div></div></div>Alicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06873513653883919075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2565332003386983403.post-1075782264227620032021-03-17T09:36:00.002-04:002021-03-17T09:37:21.231-04:00Manuel Muñoz Reading March 31<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi39PRuKGblWGbgNIxFXalL7pZ-BcWIfFlj5Gsj95Z4wAy6VjJxsJbqaR7zwWcv1j-V4O00iaWfM-4AY5cECUpBBG3Yaq9Ls_RFslg-X4YhoxXuQU43JFT1kE6cw1B_wqdIDfq7ALUa1O4/s2048/munoz.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1722" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi39PRuKGblWGbgNIxFXalL7pZ-BcWIfFlj5Gsj95Z4wAy6VjJxsJbqaR7zwWcv1j-V4O00iaWfM-4AY5cECUpBBG3Yaq9Ls_RFslg-X4YhoxXuQU43JFT1kE6cw1B_wqdIDfq7ALUa1O4/s320/munoz.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Manuel Muñoz</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="font_7" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_15)); line-height: 1.67em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="color_15" color="rgb(var(--color_15))" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Join students in Contemporary LGBT Literature March 31 at 7 PM for a reading with Manuel Muñoz. This is the second in a series of "live" public events featuring authors students are reading this semester. Please register for this free event using EventBrite <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/manuel-munoz-reading-tickets-146759620977">here </a>and you will receive Zoom links both the day before and the day of the event.</span></span></span></p><p class="font_7" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_15)); line-height: 1.67em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="color_15" color="rgb(var(--color_15))" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="font_7" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_15)); line-height: 1.67em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="color_15" color="rgb(var(--color_15))" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Manuel Muñoz is the author of a novel, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What You See in the Dark</span>, and the short-story collections <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Zigzagger</span> and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue</span>, which was shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He has been recognized with a Whiting Writer’s Award, three O. Henry Awards, and an appearance in <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Best American Short Stories</span>. </span></span></p><p class="font_7" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_15)); line-height: 1.67em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="font_7" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_15)); line-height: 1.67em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="color_15" color="rgb(var(--color_15))" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">His frequently anthologized work has appeared in <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The New York Times</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Epoch</span>, and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Glimmer Train</span>. Recent work has appeared in <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">American Short Fiction</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Southwest Review</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ZYZZYVA</span>, and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Freeman’s</span>. </span></span></p><p class="font_7" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_15)); line-height: 1.67em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="font_7" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_15)); line-height: 1.67em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="color_15" color="rgb(var(--color_15))" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">A native of Dinuba, California, and a first-generation college student, Manuel graduated from Harvard University and received his MFA in creative writing at Cornell University. He currently lives and works in Tucson, Arizona.</span></span></p>Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04300736245327882739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2565332003386983403.post-67456913752217333732021-03-15T10:30:00.016-04:002021-03-15T10:30:00.135-04:00New Summer Course: Shakespeare on Film<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggaMGWjoe1QwMZvIkq4vnHzMochfEp6n7i23YR_mcK70DYts9T0_zvYX_i9y77Dyx91ONkT3F58NdaWTrgcZ1-iA_R3yEnVafna0ODuimcX-9ucBMCfx8yIkCivmqU2YNCgUEc0oJcvw94/s2048/Summer+ENG3440W+Joubin+flyer.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="Shakespeare on Film, summer 2021" border="0" data-original-height="1583" data-original-width="2048" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggaMGWjoe1QwMZvIkq4vnHzMochfEp6n7i23YR_mcK70DYts9T0_zvYX_i9y77Dyx91ONkT3F58NdaWTrgcZ1-iA_R3yEnVafna0ODuimcX-9ucBMCfx8yIkCivmqU2YNCgUEc0oJcvw94/w400-h309/Summer+ENG3440W+Joubin+flyer.jpg" title="Shakespeare on Film, summer 2021" width="400" /></a>Take a course this summer, learn to analyze films, and fulfill the Writing-in-the-Disciplines (WID) requirements! </p><p>Professor <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alexa-Joubin" target="_blank">Alexa Alice Joubin</a> is offering ENGLISH 3440W Shakespeare on Film in the first summer session (May 17 - June 23, 2021). See the <a href="https://my.gwu.edu/mod/pws/courses.cfm?campId=1&termId=202102&subjId=ENGL" target="_blank">course catalogue</a>. </p><p><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">SPECIAL FEATURES </span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Films by people of color, women, and disability / LGTBTQ-identified actors</li><li>Relevance to our contemporary cultural life</li></ul><p></p><p>----------------------------</p><p>Through the lenses of social justice, critical race and gender theories, this course examines cinematic representations of Shakespeare’s Roman plays, histories, tragedies, and comedies, with a focus on the themes of race, gender, sexuality, class, and colonialism. </p><p>In particular, we will focus on racialized bodies, performance of gender and sexuality, disability narratives, feminist interventions, religious fault lines, class struggle, and intersectional identities. Collectively we will reflect on our embodied vulnerability.</p><p>Themes -- </p><p>Race, gender, sexuality, colonialism</p><p>Key components of Shakespeare's plays</p><p>Essential tools for enjoying the plays as films</p><br /><p><br /></p>Alicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06873513653883919075noreply@blogger.com2121 I St NW, Washington, DC 20052, USA38.8997145 -77.048599210.589480663821156 -112.2048492 67.209948336178854 -41.8923492tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2565332003386983403.post-30107054851738150452021-03-11T13:21:00.002-05:002021-03-11T13:21:42.137-05:00Thunder & Lighting: T-Shirt Logo Contest<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAnEDEEPniuTfn-2PvZ8Qavj5hqTqFmTpHcuG3T-W4j8aRXOcPoNojTzEs5BScLho19yiQwUJQZO1feR-baNWfxlo4kn9GpgrQ9-VerVnHgLspgDJAMcIdsI85TOA2E8G89-Dd2vsu6VE/s1080/65A8E94A-A9FF-4F5E-B4B5-E8ACC766785E_1_102_o.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAnEDEEPniuTfn-2PvZ8Qavj5hqTqFmTpHcuG3T-W4j8aRXOcPoNojTzEs5BScLho19yiQwUJQZO1feR-baNWfxlo4kn9GpgrQ9-VerVnHgLspgDJAMcIdsI85TOA2E8G89-Dd2vsu6VE/s320/65A8E94A-A9FF-4F5E-B4B5-E8ACC766785E_1_102_o.jpeg" /></a></div><p><a href="https://emojipedia.org/cloud-with-lightning/" style="font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-decoration-line: none;">🌩️</a><span style="font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"> </span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Submit your T-shirt logo designs for a chance to win $100! Next semester, the GW English Department is hosting Thunder & Lightning, an event for Creative Writing AND English students/alumni to share their writing amongst fellow writers. </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">All forms are accepted, whether they be short fiction, poetry, essays </span><span style="font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">—</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> if you wrote it, we want to hear it! Stayed tuned for more details about how to sign-up for the event itself; for </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">now</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">, visit the link in our bio to submit your design </span><span style="font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">— t</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">he chosen graphic will be featured on the inaugural T-shirts, to be handed out during the event! </span></p><h3 class="gmail-LC20lb gmail-DKV0Md" style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline-block; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 4px 0px 0px;">⚡</h3>Osvaldohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08915409100120792976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2565332003386983403.post-59187877797421233292021-03-05T11:28:00.000-05:002021-03-05T11:28:09.814-05:00Familiar Ambiguity: The Value of the Humanities in a Globalized World<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_ADCuKO7Y6DMbckWkfjHTIEp3p5WpPloCPhfN8C6H4kgjccMJfvSBiaTHmyvopOMOvOWIImVEBo8XkLLYEKrRrxdB8iaMlSdKsOakts5xgPBZVrqu45yG8KdxWHKlz08-85Rwl69uxdBN/s1024/GlobalFace2-1024x683.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_ADCuKO7Y6DMbckWkfjHTIEp3p5WpPloCPhfN8C6H4kgjccMJfvSBiaTHmyvopOMOvOWIImVEBo8XkLLYEKrRrxdB8iaMlSdKsOakts5xgPBZVrqu45yG8KdxWHKlz08-85Rwl69uxdBN/s320/GlobalFace2-1024x683.png" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;">In Professor <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alexa-Joubin" target="_blank">Alexa Alice Joubin</a>'s recent <a href="https://www.signalhouseedition.org/issue-10-essay" target="_blank">op-ed</a>, she championed the value of the humanities in a globalized world. </p><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">The world needs good question askers as much as it needs good problem solvers. Before solving problems, we need to first identify the problems. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Great stories are often strangers at home. The best of them defamiliarize banal experiences and everyday utterances while offering something recognizable through a new language and form.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">And stories, like people, travel far and wide. They can connect us to other times and places. When Shakespeare’s plays move through different cultures, they reveal unexamined assumptions about human nature and tell surprising stories about globalization. Take, for example, a slice from Hamlet’s inquisitive mind: “To be or not to be, that is the question.” The versatile verb “to be” is as ambiguous in English as it is in many other languages. It has been translated into Russian, German, and Arabic as “to do,” “to die,” and “to have” (but to have, or not to have, what!?). Translating this speech into Japanese will require substantial rewriting, because Japanese does not have the verb “to be” without semantic contexts. Working with Japanese, a language more complex than English from a sociolinguistic point of view, a translator would have to wrestle with more than 20 first- and second-person pronouns to maintain the ambiguity.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Literary ambiguity is our friend. The ambiguity is a welcome gift for the uninhibited mind, for it has been an ally of oppressed peoples in the Soviet Union, Tibet, South Africa, Poland, and elsewhere. Literary ambiguity allowed theatre makers and audiences to express themselves under censorship. When ambiguity is deliberately eradicated, when only one version of a story is permissible, when things are painted black and white, it is usually during a dark moment of history: the Holocaust, the Cultural Revolution, lynching, the Scottsboro boys incident in the post-Reconstruction South of the Unites States. When history is held hostage by politics, when human rights are violated, the humanities help restore dignity to what it means to be human.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Works translated into foreign languages, such as the case of Hamlet, compel us to rethink what we assume to be familiar about our own culture. The humanities in a global context enrich our mind as we pause to ask some fundamental questions. To be whom? To do what?</span></p><p class="font_8" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #676767; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 27px; vertical-align: baseline;">As my students at George Washington University tell me, the humanities and especially imaginary literature helps them put human faces on globalization. There are social implications of the fact that today’s college students improve their understanding of globalization through the humanities. There are clear benefits to being able to relate to international trade partners and strategic allies on a human level with compassion and not treat them as statistics. Knowledge of cultural globalization can help us avoid cultural imposition and move towards cultural sharing and building common ground. Story-telling helps us understand the human condition in different contexts.</p><p class="font_8" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #676767; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 27px; vertical-align: baseline;">Recent history has shown that the humanities are greater than the sum of its parts. An eccentric topic for an obsessed researcher may not seem to matter in light of national security or to the general public until we are caught off guard in a crisis when, as in the wake of the Tian’anmen Square Massacre, the global pandemic of COVID-19, and the 2021 U.S. Capitol riot, we are pressed to learn about who we are, how to come to terms with atrocities, where we as a nation are headed, and why. There will be no national security without an in-depth understanding of our own culture and the cultures of others. In this context, the humanities are not a luxury; they are the very foundation on which meaningful lives are built. Skills in critical thinking, civil debate, and understanding narratives are vital to the values of liberty and social equality, and a democratic society founded upon the government’s accountability and rational citizen participation. This is why public support for the humanities should be crucial.</p><p class="font_8" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #676767; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 27px; vertical-align: baseline;">Over the past few years, it has been both challenging and rewarding to teach Shakespeare and globalization in downtown Washington, D.C., three blocks from the White House. The nation’s capital attracts international and local students alike. The American nation was founded upon basic principles of humanistic thought, including the concepts of justice and universal humanity. Capitol Hill is a proud host to institutions that foster these ideas, including the Supreme Court, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Library of Congress, the oldest federal cultural institution. America clearly values humanities thought: its Library of Congress is the largest library in the world. Today its collection includes over 155 million books and a vast collection of photographs, sheet music, sound recordings, and films on over 838 miles of shelves. The library provides a record of how people lived and expressed themselves in daily life and through the arts.</p><p class="font_8" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #676767; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 27px; vertical-align: baseline;">Shakespeare has helped shape powerful thinkers around the world, including the founding fathers of the United States. Thomas Jefferson kept a commonplace book that featured Shakespearean passages. Abraham Lincoln could recite soliloquies from Richard III. Imaginative literature, in this context, has the power to move the world.</p><p class="font_8" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #676767; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 27px; vertical-align: baseline;">In our age of globalization, understanding other peoples’ stories means the difference between being a window shopper and being an informed decision maker in international arenas. Here are two inspiring stories of Shakespeare in South Africa and in China.</p><p class="font_8" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #676767; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 27px; vertical-align: baseline;">A smuggled copy of The Complete Works of Shakespeare inspired Nelson Mandela while he was in the Robben Island jail. The South African prisoners there signed their names next to passages that were important to them. The passage Mandela chose on December 16, 1977, was from Julius Caesar, just before the Roman statesman leaves for the senate on the Ides of March in act 2, scene 2:</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #676767; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 27px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Cowards die many times before their deaths;<br />The valiant never taste of death but once.<br />Of all the wonders that I yet have heard.<br />It seems to me most strange that men should fear;<br />Seeing that death, a necessary end,<br />Will come when it will come.</div></blockquote><p class="font_8" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #676767; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 27px; vertical-align: baseline;">These lines taught Mandela how to dream and how to rise from the ashes. Through imaginative literature, we, like Jefferson, Lincoln, and Mandela, are able to rehearse multiple scenarios and histories without having to endure the costly consequences of going to war or taking one’s own life in a political prison. The humanities can show us the future of the history we are making.</p><p class="font_8" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #676767; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 27px; vertical-align: baseline;">We are defined by stories we tell. At the same time, stories liberate us from the prison house of a relatively short life span in the infinite universe. Great stories can also give us courage, insight, and vision. In one of my classes, I discuss with my students the impact of the joint project of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Department of Defense to tour the Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s production of Macbeth to thirteen U.S. military bases in 2004. What does it mean to read Shakespeare through peace and war?</p><p class="font_8" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #676767; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 27px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wu Ningkun has a moving story to tell. The mainland Chinese intellectual returned from the University of Chicago to join Mao Zedong’s New China in 1951. A decade later, he was sent to reform himself in a labor camp during the Chinese Cultural Revolution because of his alleged association with the capitalist West. Although he was under close surveillance, he still managed to smuggle a copy of Hamlet into the camp to read whenever “the prisoners had to spend the day cooped up in a cell when a blinding blizzard blew from Siberia” in northeastern China. Of this experience, he later wrote in his memoir A Single Tear: A Family’s Persecution, Love, and Endurance in Communist China:</p><p class="font_8" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #676767; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 27px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixGuard" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p><div class="_1Z_nJ" data-testid="richTextElement" id="comp-kljaj1d2" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #676767; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="font_8" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 27px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hamlet was my favorite Shakespeare play. Read in a Chinese labor camp, however, the tragedy of the Danish prince took on unexpected dimensions. . . . The Ghost thundered with a terrible chorus of a million victims of proletarian dictatorship. The real question I came to see was neither “to be, or not to be,” nor whether “in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,” but how to be worthy of one’s suffering.</p><p class="font_8" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 27px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixGuard" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p><p class="font_8" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 27px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is interesting to note what Wu elides from the Hamlet quote: “or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them.” On the one hand, it could mean that he wishes to counter the unfortunate condition of Cultural Revolution by not taking on a Hamlet-like passivity. On the other hand, it could imply that Wu seeks justice on a more transcendent level and is not seeking revenge upon those who unjustly imprisoned him. Shakespeare helped Wu survive in the labor camp, and reading Wu’s story helps us understand a crucial moment in the making of post-Mao China as the nation emerged from the Cultural Revolution.</p><p class="font_8" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 27px; vertical-align: baseline;">Thinkers and leaders such as Lincoln, Mandela, and Wu have drawn inspiration from their reading and built stronger, interconnected communities through the humanities.</p><p class="font_8" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The world needs good question askers as much as it needs good problem solvers. Before solving problems, we need to first identify the problems. Thoughtful and engaged citizens are the foundation of a democratic, civil society. The humanities enrich the creativity of the business world, enhance the adaptability of workforces, and promote crucial cross-cultural understanding.</p><p class="font_8" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p class="font_8" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p></div><div class="_3Mgpu" id="comp-kljaj1d7" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #676767; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" data-mesh-id="comp-kljaj1d7inlineContent" data-testid="inline-content" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div data-mesh-id="comp-kljaj1d7inlineContent-gridContainer" data-testid="mesh-container-content" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">=================</div></div></div><div data-mesh-id="comp-kljaj1d7inlineContent-gridContainer" data-testid="mesh-container-content" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #676767; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><p class="font_8" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #676767; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 27px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wixGuard" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p><p class="font_8" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #676767; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 27px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #676767; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 27px; vertical-align: baseline;">Originally published as <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alexa-Joubin" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #993333; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Alexa Alice Joubin</a>, “<a href="https://www.signalhouseedition.org/issue-10-essay" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #993333; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Familiar Ambiguity: The Value of the Humanities in a Globalized World</a>,” <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Signal House </em>10 (March 2021): <a href="https://www.signalhouseedition.org/issue-10-essay" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #993333; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">https://www.signalhouseedition.org/issue-10-essay</a></p><p><br /></p>Alicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06873513653883919075noreply@blogger.comWashington, DC, USA38.9071923 -77.036870710.596958463821153 -112.1931207 67.217426136178844 -41.880620699999994tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2565332003386983403.post-10934031356717822232021-03-01T09:17:00.003-05:002021-03-01T09:18:30.516-05:00EGSA Symposium: Decay and Regeneration This Friday, March 5th!Please join us <b>virtually</b> this Friday, <b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-KeO6B0MNYr6vg0TFriCuboCXfv40U_0DOXMXy2nAWLbih72OwC3zO8rUPMGL5sPDC-nd_iU9pVQyGRbSrXRfyr_rqfhhtOQaDbjlZ3uz4NEPQhVcYWzeWWGP2uTNMWRzmsTQGqnCE-g/s600/decayandregeneration.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-KeO6B0MNYr6vg0TFriCuboCXfv40U_0DOXMXy2nAWLbih72OwC3zO8rUPMGL5sPDC-nd_iU9pVQyGRbSrXRfyr_rqfhhtOQaDbjlZ3uz4NEPQhVcYWzeWWGP2uTNMWRzmsTQGqnCE-g/s320/decayandregeneration.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>March 5th, 2021</b> for the annual symposium hosted by the English Graduate Student Association! Our theme this year is<b> Decay and Regeneration </b>and features a full day of events including panels, a featured speaker, a keynote by Anna Mollow, and a virtual happy hour and performance. The full schedule is below and you can register to attend by following <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/142693545235">this Eventbrite link.</a> <br /><div><br /></div><div>We hope to see you there!</div><div><br /></div><div><b>SCHEDULE OF EVENTS</b></div><b>8:15AM to 8:45AM EST </b><div>Optional Coffee Hour / Meet & Greet<br /><br /><b>8:50AM to 9AM EST </b></div><div>Opening Remarks from Maria Frawley, English Chair<br /><br /><b>9AM to 10:15AM EST Panel #1</b><br />Writing Resistance, Reading Resistance<br /><br />An Infinite Play of Shattered Mirrors: How Postcolonial Narratives can Avoid the Fetishization of Oppression<br /><i>Ragavendra Maripudi </i>(he/him/his) | The George Washington University | English<br /><br />Through the Eyes Of Black Children: Dissemblance & African American Literature<br /><i>Kevin A. Blanks </i>(he/him/his) | The George Washington University | English<br /><br />The Representation of Yellow Woman in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony: A Translation of Mythology from Laguna Oral Storytelling into the Written English Language<br /><i>Juana Tarralbo</i> (she/her/hers) | Washington University in St. Louis | Germanic Language and Literature<br /><br />Overcoming Bondage with Bodily Autonomy<br /><i>Tanya Barnett </i>(she/her/hers) | The George Washington University | Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies<br /><br /><b>10:30AM to 11:30AM EST Panel #2</b><br />Pandemics and Ecological Disaster<br /><br />How Qajar Iranian Princess Taj al-Saljana Saw a 19th Century Global Pandemic<br /><i>Amanda Caterina Leong </i>(she/her/hers) | University of California, Merced | Interdisciplinary Humanities<br /><br />Real and Imagined Villains: HIV/AIDS and the Literary Imagination<br /><i>K. Tyler Christensen</i> (he/him/they/them) | The George Washington University | English<br /><br />‘No longer ever hungry but forever hungry’: Food and Realism in Tara June Winch’s Risk Narrative The Yield<br /><i>Liu Lurong (Cora)</i> (she/her/hers) | Chinese University of Hong Kong | English<br /><br /><b>11:45AM to 12:30PM EST Featured Speaker</b><br />At the Heart of Tragedy’s Darkness: Examining the Tragic Genre’s Impulse for Empire-Building in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness<br /><i>Areeba Ahmed </i>(she/her/hers) | Texas A&M University | English Literature and Culture<br /><br /><b>12:30PM to 1:15PM LUNCH BREAK</b><br /><br /><b>1:15PM to 2:15PM EST Panel #3</b><br />(Re)Memorialization and Space<br /><br />Dessa Rose and Beloved as Fictionally Localized Spaces of Demonization-Driven Statelessness: Arendt, Foucault, and Cixous in Conversation<br /><i>Ashley Carpenter</i> (she/her/hers) | The George Washington University | English<br /><br />To Build a Ruin<br /><i>Brady James Forrest (he/him/his)</i> | The George Washington University | English<br /><br />The Pickrick Protests: An Interactive Geo AR Experience<br /><i>Yuchen Zhao</i> (she/her/hers) | Georgia Institute of Technology | Digital Media<br /><br /><b>2:30PM to 3:45PM EST Panel #4</b><br />Crip/queer Regeneration and Crip/queer Decay<br /><br /> “…don’t you know that I’m decaying, completely decaying, like something that ceases to exist?” The decaying self and self-constitution in Rahel Varnhagen’s letters to David Veit<br /><i>Franzi Finkenstein </i>(she/her/hers) | Washington University in St. Louis | German & Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies<br /><br />Ecopoetic Practices of the Non-Human: Recounts of Gary Snyder, Michael McClure and Allen Ginsberg<br /><i>Natallia Valadzko </i>(they/she) | University of Warsaw | English Studies<br /><br />Media BDSM: Seeking Healing and Closure Through the Media We Consume<br /><i>Bri Sikorski </i>(they/them/he/his) | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Folklore<br /><br />Creating Impossible Futures: The Apocalyptic Queer/Crip Optimism of NieR:Automata<br /><i>Ren Koloni</i> (they/them/their) | The George Washington University | English<br /><br /><b>4PM to 5PM EST Keynote</b><br />Decay is Life. So is Disability. </div><div><i>Anna Mollow</i> (she/her/hers)<br /><br /><b>5:30PM-7PM EST Optional Happy Hour</b><br /><br /><b>5:30PM-6:15PM EST </b></div><div>Invited Speaker & Performance (occurring concurrently)<br />We Carry the Feeling: On Rootedness and Growing Out of Southern College Punk Scene<br /><i>Theodore Hilton</i> (he/him/his) | Tulane University | Cultural Anthropology</div>Matt Stiglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02311316166873314198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2565332003386983403.post-67722206644337595412021-02-26T15:15:00.001-05:002021-02-26T15:15:10.350-05:00Jenny McKean Moore Reading - Creative nonfiction writer Honor Moore<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwU1DfCW28_VilFTS50hI_9RawfQpdlj3-JGewofMbJ6UFWIBE-wuvXslURIcco6XQ_MsQvhx8Ux1hhko-dhIYkAmC3ci4ekAQzXRDEliFmj_-pFf4Xogsa9sXsZ_apSl1i9FLoqEOHbU/s1052/7BAA66ED-D177-4BB2-9BD3-2D9A0A635650_1_201_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1052" data-original-width="759" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwU1DfCW28_VilFTS50hI_9RawfQpdlj3-JGewofMbJ6UFWIBE-wuvXslURIcco6XQ_MsQvhx8Ux1hhko-dhIYkAmC3ci4ekAQzXRDEliFmj_-pFf4Xogsa9sXsZ_apSl1i9FLoqEOHbU/s320/7BAA66ED-D177-4BB2-9BD3-2D9A0A635650_1_201_a.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Our next Jenny McKean Moore reading is Thursday, March 4th at 6:30 pm. It will be a special evening, featuring the daughter of Jenny McKean Moore, Honor Moore, reading, from her memoir, about her mother. Virginia Hartman will be introducing and moderating the evening.</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br /></div><div class="" style="color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><div class=""><span class="" style="color: black;"><br class="" /></span></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><span class="" style="color: black;">Join Our Event:</span></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><a class="" href="https://gwu-edu.zoom.us/j/97827956788?pwd=Vis1a3lwREl0a0dEWFNYb28wTExMdz09">https://gwu-edu.<span class="gmail-il">zoom</span>.us/j/97827956788?pwd=Vis1a3lwREl0a0dEWFNYb28wTExMdz09</a></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;">Meeting ID: 978 2795 6788</span></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><span class="" style="color: black;">Passcode: 932588</span></div></div>Osvaldohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08915409100120792976noreply@blogger.com