Summer Residents of the National Humanities Center, 2018–2026

Susanneh Bieber, Texas A&M University
Ecologies of Air: Inflatable Art and Architecture

Jackie Burek, George Mason University
Memory and History in Twelfth-Century England and Wales

Aparna Chaudhuri, Ashoka University
Writing Obedience: Forms of Submission in Medieval English Literature

Randall Childree, Furman University
A Commentary on Manilius’s Astronomica 4

Sarah Cullinan-Herring, The University of Kansas, Hall Center for the Humanities
Performing Pain: Epigenetic Trauma in Greek and Roman Tragedy

Kylie Fisher, Furman University
Bodily Ambiguity: Queer- and Otherness in Early Modern Art

Jenny Flaherty, Duke University
The Unsocial Society: Russian Literature’s Peasant Question

Na’imah Ford, Florida A&M University
Yere-Wolo: Coming of Age in African Diaspora Literature

Amy Frishkey, The University of Texas at San Antonio
Navigating Neo-Traditionalism within Garifuna Popular Music

Denva Gallant, Rice University
Projected Images: Blackness and the Visual Imagination in Late Medieval Italy

Brad Garvey, Brandeis University
Poems to Open Palms: A Moral Economy of Praise in the Sultanate of Oman

Óscar Gil, University at Buffalo
Legacies of Forced Migration: Photographic Testimonio of Indigenous Maya in the Americas

Tamara Harvey, George Mason University
Fantastic Leaps: Women’s Global Imagination in the Seventeenth Century

Eduardo Herrera, Indiana University Bloomington
Sounding Fandom

Jennifer Iverson, The University of Chicago
Synthesizing Ourselves: The Black Box that Changed Music Forever

Lauren Jarvis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mobilizing for Equality: A History of Economic Disparity in South Africa and the World

Vivian Laughlin, Wake Forest University
The Appropriation of the Ancient Egyptian Isis and Osor-Hapi

Susan Laxton, University of California, Riverside
Cut Together: Surrealist Photomontage and the Structure of Dissent

Devoney Looser, Arizona State University
The Stunning Gunnings: How Two Generations of Eighteenth-Century Women Riveted the Public and Spun Their Scandalous Lives into Bestselling Fiction

Yolanda Mackey-Barkers, Stony Brook University
Editing the Black Renaissance: Black Women Editors and the Making of a Movement, 1915–1945

Sophia Mao, Bryn Mawr College
Feeling Onwards: Model Minority Affects in Contemporary Asian American Literature

Deonnie Moodie, The University of Oklahoma
Business School Hinduism: An Imperial Genealogy

Richa Nagar, Smith College
Salty River: Stories Flowing in Neighborliness

Caitlyn Olson, Bucknell University
Creed for the Common Folk: Ignorance and Orthodoxy in Early Modern Morocco

Rachel Patt, University of Notre Dame
Intimate Encounters: The Solace of the Portrait in the Premodern Mediterranean

Cary Peñate, Syracuse University
Scoring the Cuban Mulata: Music, Film, and Transnational Constructions of Race and Gender

John Pippen, Colorado State University
Working to Play: The Contradictions of Contemporary Classical Music

Sonya Ramsey, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
“I Will Never Quit:” Black Women Workers and Family in the Desegregated South, Learning, Training, and Working after 1964

Sitara Sadler, Johnson C. Smith University
Centering Interiority: Black Women, Visibility, and the Narrative Politics of Screenwriting.

Linsey Sainte-Claire, Rice University
Creole Epistemologies of Madness

Matt Sakakeeny, Tulane University
Marching On: Music and Hope in the Time of Crisis

Rico Self, North Carolina State University
Quare Worldmaking in The Color Purple (2023)

Shelby Sinclair, University of Virginia
Black Women Workers & the U.S. Occupation of Haiti (1915-1934)

Jenny Suchland, The Ohio State University
Accountable to Freedom: Settler Imperial Feminisms in the Time of Modern Day Slavery

Justin Tackett, North Carolina State University
The Sound Era: Poetry’s Machinery in the Long Nineteenth Century

Noël Valis, Yale University
The Wounds of Poetry: Elegy in Federico Garcia Lorca and Luis Cernuda

Ninon Vessier, Davidson College
Deep Cuts: Reading African Ecologies with Collage Art

Joel Winkelman, Hamilton College
A Working Democracy: Progressivism and the Politics of Work

Blaire Zeiders, Augusta University
The Arthurian Catechism: Reading Literature as Liturgy in Early Modern England

Tamar Zinguer, The University of Oklahoma
Sandbox: An Architectural History of Play

Ali Atabey, The University of Texas at San Antonio
Boundaries Drawn and Crossed: Negotiating Identity, Religion, and Space in Early Modern Istanbul

Jamal Batts, Swarthmore College
Enfleshed: Black Queer Erotics and the Art/Work of Risk

Brooke M. Bauer, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Interpreting the Indigenous South

Josefina Bittar, University of California, Santa Cruz
Language Use and Change among Paraguayan Immigrants in Spain

Gretchen Braun, Furman University
Evolutionary Subjectivities: Narratives of Selfhood in Victoria’s Age and Beyond

Cynthia Turner Camp, University of Georgia
The Prayerbooks of Henry V’s Knights

Leonardo Cardoso, Texas A&M University
Hearing Like a State: Sound-Politics in Brazil

Vanessa Castaneda, Davidson College
Tabuleiros of Resistance: A Reconceptualization of Brazil’s Baianas de Acarajé

Alex E. Chávez, University of Notre Dame
Sound City: Place, Poiesis, Xicago

Kevin Coe, The University of Utah
New Coverage of Mass Shootings in the U.S.

Michael Dango, Rice University
What Are Our Categories Good For? Aesthetic Judgment and Taxonomic Skill

Kefaya M. Diab, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Affective Revolutions Through a Mediated Sense of Agency

Mandakini Dubey, Ashoka University
Speaking in Tongues: Orientalist Pseudotranslation in the Nineteenth Century

Fayçal Falaky, Tulane University
Unquiet Enlightenment: The Philosophical Origins of the Great Acceleration

Seth Emmanuel Gaiters, North Carolina State University
#BlackLivesMatter and Religion in the Street: A Revival of the Sacred in the Public Sphere

Randi Gill-Sadler, Davidson College
Diasporic Dissonance: The Archipelagic Circuit of the Black Women’s Literary Renaissance and U.S. Empire

Edith Gonzalez, University at Buffalo
Alliances, Inheritances, and Land Rights: Eighteenth-Century Marriage in the Lesser Antilles

Jennifer Goodlander, Indiana University Bloomington
Trespassing: The Subversive Travel of Indonesian Women in Literature and Performance

Jennifer Haraguchi, Brigham Young University
Eleonora Ramirez di Montalvo: Educating Women through Dramatic Performance in Seventeenth-Century Florence

Matthew Hart, Columbia University
Deadwater

Caley Horan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Investing in the Stars: Astrology and Uncertainty in Modern America

Annabel Ipsen, The University of Oklahoma
Who Controls Our Food System: The Captured State and the Promise of Place

Jay Jordan, The University of Utah
Rhetoric and Multilingual Composition

Christine Keiner, Rochester Institute of Technology
Zebra Mussel: An Environmental Biography

Jasleen Kohli, Johnson C. Smith University
Re-creating Fragmented Lives through Material Memory

Brian Krostenko, University of Notre Dame
It’s Our World Now: Rhetorical Form, Legal Theory, and Generational Polemics in the “Rhetorica ad Herennium”

Abigail C. Lindo, The Ohio State University
Tectonic Becoming: Decolonial Sonic Geographies in Contemporary Azorean Music Scenes

Wan-Zi Lu, Stony Brook University
The Many Hands of the Healthcare State

Michele Monserrati, Smith College
Familiar Grapes: Transcolonial Vineyards in Modern Italian Settlements, 1880–1943)

Erin A. Peters, Appalachian State University
Temples from Augustan Egypt in Continual Coloniality

Cole Rizki, University of Virginia
Malva Solís: State Transformation and Mid-Century Trans Life in Argentina

Kaniqua L. Robinson, Furman University
Silencing Our Stories: Memory, Race, and the Public Memorialization of the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys

M. Michelle Robinson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Come Tell Us How to Go to Heaven: Billy Graham Across America

Kathy Lou Schultz, University of Memphis
Black Dada and Surrealisms: Literary and Artistic Avant-Gardes of the African Diaspora

Ariel E. Seay-Howard, North Carolina State University
Conceptualizing Dreams Through Remembering: A Border Rhetoric Study

Juan Suárez Ontaneda, Bryn Mawr College
Palimpsests of Blackness in Latin America: The Performative Lives of Nascimento, Zapata Olivella, and Santa Cruz

Vivek Vellanki, Indiana University Bloomington
Surveillance and Identity: A Timeline Examining Passport Photos and Migrant Narratives

Carolyn Wargula, Bucknell University
Embodied Embroideries: Gender, Materiality, and the Body in Japanese Buddhism

Jesse Weiner, Hamilton College
Intersectional Medeas

Kimberly T. Wortmann, Wake Forest University
Banking on Belief: The Socio-Cultural Dimensions of Islamic Finance in Uganda

Chenxing Xie, University of Cincinnati
Legitimizing Long COVID: Transnational Risk Communication and Patient Empowerment

Chang Xu, Rice University
Medicine on the March: Healing, Harming, and Bodily Governance in the Qing Empire, 1633–1800

Elaigwu P. Ameh, St. Olaf College
Performing Black Fatherhood: Fabrication, Silence, Repair

Betsy Bolton, Swarthmore College
Romantic Women Writers, Celebrity and Interiority

Shakoya C. Brown, Johnson C. Smith University
Echoes of Resiliency: Unveiling HBCU Activism In North Carolina

Cecily Cai, Hamilton College
The Age of Dissonance: Exile and Late Style in Modern European Literature

andré carrington, University of California, Riverside
Audiofuturism

John P. Casellas Connors, Texas A&M University
The Nature of Guns: Firearms, Taxes, and Identity in American Conservation

Keyne Cheshire, Davidson College
The Ibis Project

Christopher Chowrimootoo, University of Notre Dame
Staging Religious Affect in Bernstein’s ‘Mass’

Alanna E. Cooper, Case Western Reserve University
Disposing of the Sacred: America’s Jewish Congregations in the 21st Century

Burak Erdim, North Carolina State University
Warsaw, New York, Raleigh, Chandigarh: Intersections of Housing, Race, Migration, and Citizenship in the Postwar World

Jorge Felipe-Gonzalez, The University of Texas at San Antonio
The Slave-Trading Mafia: Foundation and Growth of the Cuban-based Transatlantic Slave Trade

Tatiana Filimonova, Dartmouth College
New Russia’s Geopolitical Novel

Wilfredo Flores, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Virulent Rhetorics: HIV and the Politics of Digital Sexual Health

Darci L. Gardner, Appalachian State University
Leveraging Irrationality: How Storytellers Exploit Cognitive Biases

Tiffany Jasmin González, The University of Kansas
Representation of Change: How Chicana Transformed the American Political Process in the Late 20th Century

Kimberly Ann Harris, University of Virginia
The Truth of Race: The Metaphilosophy of W. E. B. Du Bois

Leandra H. Hernandez, The University of Utah
Feminist News Framing: The Role of Journalism Ethics in News Coverage of Reproductive Feminicides

Victoria Hesford, Stony Brook University
Artificial Women: the 1970s, Mass Culture, and Feminism

Amy Hodges, The University of Texas at Arlington
A Scoping Review of Technical and Professional Writing in the MENA Region

Brandon Hogan, Howard University
A Contextualist Theory of Criminal Punishment

Jennie C. Ikuta, University of Missouri
White Losses: Moral Psychology and the Demands of Racial Justice

Nathaniel Isaacson, North Carolina State University
Repressed Modernities of Sinophone Science Fiction Cinema

Heidi Kim, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
A Very Short Introduction to Asian American Literature

Amy K. King, Tuskegee University
Haunted/Haunting Whiteness in Atlanta, Season 3

C. Libby, The Pennsylvania State University
Engendering Feeling: Religious Affect, Transphobia, and Historicity

Ladrica Menson-Furr, University of Memphis
August Wilson’s South: Revisiting Wilson’s Dramatic Renderings of the South and Southern Culture

Ernest Julius Mitchell, Yale University
Biography of Claude McKay

Shirley Moody-Turner, The Pennsylvania State University
“Courageous Revolt”: Anna Julia Cooper, An Interpretive Biography

Christy L. Oxendine, The University of Oklahoma
Schooling in the Pines: The Historical Landscape of Lumbee Public Schools in Robeson County North Carolina, 1885–1940

Daniel Paul, Brigham Young University
Representations of Disability in Contemporary Italian Cinema and Television

fabian romero, The Ohio State University
Insurgent Kinship

Joseph Tanke, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
The Nervous System: Neoliberalism and Anxiety

Elizabeth E. Tavares, The University of Alabama
Playing the Repertory before Shakespeare

Emine Hande Tuna, University of California, Santa Cruz
Imaginative Resistance

Bryan M. Vandevender, Bucknell University
Afterlives: Musical Theatre Repertoire, Revival, and Capital

Margaret B. Wan, The University of Utah
Transmission, Access, and Individual Agency in Chinese Vernacular Short Stories

Rebecca Wanzo, Washington University in St. Louis
Civil Rights Temporalities

Judith Williams, Furman University
Maître Divas and Misogynoir: The Everyday Lives of Black Female Front of the House Restaurant Workers

William Arcé, California State University, Fresno
Latinx/Chicanx 20th Century Travel Narratives: Crossing Boundaries

Christopher T. Bonner, Texas A&M University
Unsettled Accounts: Transatlantic Literary Representations of the Haitian Independence Debt

Alison Bory, Davidson College
Difficult Dance: Engaging Emotion in Contemporary (Dance) Performance

Gwen Bradford, Rice University
Uniqueness

Hugh Cagle, The University of Utah
Anatomy of Empire: Colonialism, Dissection, and the Making of Modern Human–Animal Relations

Sumita Chakraborty, North Carolina State University
Grave Dangers: Poetics and the Ethics of Death in the Anthropocene

Paloma Checa-Gismero, Swarthmore College
The Early Biennial Boom and the Making of Global Contemporary Art

Dawan Coombs, Brigham Young University
Engaging the Aesthetic in Adolescent Literacy Learning

Carolyn A. Day, Furman University
Uncovering the Invalid: The Social, Medical, and Personal Responses to the Illness of Princess Amelia (1783–1810)

Jennifer L. Derr, University of California, Santa Cruz
The Organ that Traveled the World: Medicine, Capitalism, and the History of Liver Disease in Egypt

Selena A. Dickey, Furman University
Expanding the Network Backbone: Live Network Television and the Metroplex

Michal Beth Dinkler, Yale University
How to Do Things with Stories: Early Christian Narrative as Rhetoric

Alexei Kamran Ditter, Reed College
Making Memories Together: Collaborative Remembering in Late Medieval China, 600–900

Esther Fernández, Rice University
A Drama in Transition: The Democratization of Spanish Classical Theater

Leslie Clement Gutierrez, Johnson C. Smith University
The Dauntless Dobbs Sisters: Historical Black Family Legacies, Radical Black Feminists Politics and Desegregating Global Diasporic Spaces

Eric Herschthal, The University of Utah
Carbon Conscripts: Slavery and the Origins of Climate Change

Sarah T. Hines, The University of Oklahoma
Mother of the Waters: The Life and Death of the Glaciers of Bolivia’s Cordillera Real

Peter R. Kalb, Brandeis University
Beyond Apprehension: Artists Respond to Apollo

Matthew Kilbane, University of Notre Dame
The Ends of Poetry: Writing Unreadable Archives

Chanté Mouton Kinyon, University of Notre Dame
The Transatlantic Gesture: The Irish and African American Cultural Exchange

Heather Miyano Kopelson, The University of Alabama
Speaking Objects: Indigenous Women and the Materials of Dance in the Americas, 1500–1700

Susanna Michele Lee, North Carolina State University
Unsettling Claims: Natives and Newcomers in the US–Dakota War

Amy Lonetree, University of California, Santa Cruz
Visualizing Ho-Chunk History: Cultural Performance, Tourist Encounters, and Native Survivance, 1879–1960

Nina Martin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Pretentious Cities: How Progressive Local Politics Can Recreate Inequities

Robert O. McDonald, The University of Kansas
How Economists Argue: The Discursive Economies of Consent

Hugo Méndez, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Gospel Truth: The Biblical Books of John as a Chain of Pseudo-Historical Texts

Cassie Osei, Bucknell University
Professional Defiance: Black Women’s Labor Aesthetics & Discourses in Modern Brazil

Aysha Pollnitz, Rice University
Indigenous Polities and Democratic Thought in the Americas, pre-1700

Gina Stamm, The University of Alabama
Malcolm de Chazal: Mauritius and Mystic Phenomenology

Sara Phenix, Brigham Young University
Maternity à la mode: Fashion, Fertility, and Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France

Stephanie Z. Pilat, The University of Oklahoma
The Cultivation of Creativity: Pedagogies and Practices of the American School of Architecture

Alejandro Quin, The University of Utah
Los agrimensores: tierra, literatura y demarcación en América Latina [The Surveyors: Land, Literature, and Border-Making in Latin America]

Jacob D. Rawlins, Brigham Young University
Welsh Publishing in the Nineteenth Century

Alexander Regier, Rice University
Awkwardness: The History and Use of Unease

Marsha W. Rhee, Johnson C. Smith University
Global Kinships: A Beginners’ Community-Based Research Guide

Franziska Schweiger, Hamilton College
Social Fabrics: Atlas Silk and the Making of the Bourgeoisie in Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks

Sam Shuman, Davidson College
Of Mice and Hasidic Men: Populist Masculinity & the Revival of a 20th-Century Jewish Saint

Kristen Alff, North Carolina State University
Levantine Joint-stock Companies and Global Capitalism, 1830–1930

Douglas Ambrose, Hamilton College
Burying the Founders: Public Commemorations and Nation Building in the Early American Republic

Belle Boggs, North Carolina State University
Nothing But the Truth: 150 Years of Testimony in a Small Southern Town

Tyler Bunzey, Johnson C. Smith University
Fugitive Aesthetics: Hip-Hop Expression in Relation

Tracie Canada, University of Notre Dame
Tackling the Everyday: Race, Family, and Nation in Big-Time College Football

Yinghong Cheng, Delaware State University
“Two Lives for One Mile”: African-American Soldiers Building the Burma Road

Kathryn Desplanque, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Inglorious Artists: Art-World Satire and the Market Economy for Art, 1750–1850

Marc Dudley, North Carolina State University
Black Masculinity in Toni Morrison’s Sula

Sarah Ellenzweig, Rice University
Verse, Rhyme, and the Novel in the Eighteenth Century

La Donna L. Forsgren, University of Notre Dame
Black Girlhood on the Musical Theatre Stage

Frederico Freitas, North Carolina State University
Concrete Tropics, an Environmental History of Brazil’s Modernist Capital

Megan Gallagher, The University of Alabama
The Lost Passions of Republican Political Thought: Politics and Emotions in the French Enlightenment

Will Guzmán, Prairie View A&M University
Emmett J. Scott: Power Broker of the Tuskegee Machine

Eva C. Hageman, University of Maryland
“Relatable Meets Remarkable”: Crafting Race in the Reality Television Industry

Ayesha K. Hardison, The University of Kansas
Specters of Black Freedom Struggles in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination

T. D. Harper-Shipman, Davidson College
Suturing Reproduction and Capitalism: Race, Population, and Development in the U.S., Ghana, and Senegal

Tace Hedrick, University of Florida
The Cosmic Race: Sexuality, Esoteric Spirituality, and Race in Latin/x American Work, 1968–2021

Jaya Jha, Davidson College
On Being Human—Disciplinary Reflections

Tugce Kayaal, Furman University
Sexual Outcasts: Love, Intimacy, and Youth Sexuality in the Late Ottoman Empire (1800–1923)

Fen Kennedy, The University of Alabama
Horizontality, Affect, Technique: A Dancer’s Guide to Choreopolitical Analysis

Eunice Kim, Furman University
Formula for a Murder: An Odyssean Take

Peter Krentz, Davidson College
Fatal to Liberty: The Battle of Chaironeia

Yi Yi Mon Kyo, Davidson College
Chen Danqing’s Tibet Series: A Return to Realism in the Post-Mao Era

Neil Lerner, Davidson College
A History of Sound and Music in Pinball

Juan Meneses, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Peripheries of the Impolitical

Sujata S. Mody, North Carolina State University
Hindi Historical Fiction: Literary Engagements with the Past

Sangina Patnaik, Swarthmore College
What We Owe: Reparations in Literature and Law

Alix Pierre, Spelman College
Cultivating a Transnational Diasporan Art Consciousness

Wanda S. Pillow, The University of Utah
Troubling Intimacies: Sacajawea and York as American Subjects, 1806–2006

Patricia L. Reilly, Swarthmore College
Triumphalist Painting in the Age of the Italian Wars

Jennifer Saltzstein, The University of Oklahoma
Song, Landscape, and Identity in Medieval Northern France: Toward an Environmental History

Tanya L. Shields, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Women Who Owned: Gendered Race, Place and Power on Female-Owned Plantations

Debra F. Terrell, Johnson C. Smith University
Religiosity, Changes in Religiosity, and Well-Being among College Students

Cindi Textor, The University of Utah
Japanese White Supremacy

Georgina White, The University of Kansas
Cicero’s Philosophical Translations

Kimberly Wieser, The University of Oklahoma
“War Began to Kindle and Was Cruelly Fought”: Historical Poems from The DeSoto Chronicles, The Journal of Rodrigo Rangel

Faye Xiao, The University of Kansas
The Hen Cackles in the Morning: Gendered Soundscape and Female Leadership in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture

Rilla Askew, The University of Oklahoma
Their Lives

Anne Baker, North Carolina State University
Dear Wanderer: The Life and Revolutionary Times of Susanna Rowson

Manuel R. Cuellar, The George Washington University
Performances of a Festive Mexico: Queer Embodiments and Dancing Histories of a Nation

Gregory Dawes, North Carolina State University
Democratic Cross Resonances: Whitman and Neruda

Mariam Durrani, Hamilton College
Unruly Mobility: Muslim Youth Coming of Age in the 21st Century

Ira Dworkin, Texas A&M University
“Imperfectly Known”: Nicholas Said and the Routes of African American Narrative

Julie Fette, Rice University
Gender in Contemporary French Children’s Literature

Erin Frost, East Carolina University
Feminist Technical Communication

Daniel Giberman, The University of Texas at Arlington
Concrete Particulars

Anne F. Hyde, The University of Oklahoma
Half-Breed: A History of Mixing Blood in North America, 1600–1940

Susan Jarosi, Hamilton College
Inside the Glass Cube: The Ideology of Vitrines

Blair L. M. Kelley, North Carolina State University
Black Folk: The Promise of the Black Working Class

Jonathan T. King, University of North Carolina at Asheville
Enacting Intimacy, Channeling Wildness, and Performing Bluegrass in Japan

Daniel Layman, Davidson College
Locke among the Radicals

Janaka Bowman Lewis, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Black Girlhood and Narratives of Play

Lisa Lipinski, The George Washington University
The Pensive Photography of Sally Mann

Jorge Marí, North Carolina State University
Environmental Cultural Studies, Film, and Spanish Teaching

Scott McGill, Rice University
Beyond Deceit: Forgery, Value, and Ancient Rome

Melissa Lynn Miller, University of Notre Dame
The Russian Medical Humanities

Alexander Morgan, Rice University
From Mindlessness to Mentality: On the Origins of Subjectivity

Ed A. Munoz, The University of Utah
Constructing Latinx Identity: The Hispanic Mexican Mestizo Influence in the Intermountain West, 1650–2020

Aman Nadhiri, Johnson C. Smith University
In Their Own Words: Blackness, Race and Ethnicity in the Works of Pre-Colonial West African Scholars

Rekha Nath, The University of Alabama
The Injustice of Fat Stigma

Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi, North Carolina State University
From Toundi Ondoua to Jende Jonga: 60 Years of Dreams Deferred?

Mairin Odle, The University of Alabama
Skin Deep: Tattoos, Scalps, and the Contested Language of Bodies in Early America

Joshua M. Paiz, The George Washington University
Queer Coming of Age Narratives in Sri Lankan English Literature

Jennifer Garcia Peacock, Davidson College
Latinx Landscapes: Art and the Environment in Latinx America, 1898–2001

Keri Petersen, Johnson C. Smith University
Industrial Slavery and the Economic Development of North Carolina

Nicholas F. Radel, Furman University
Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition: Richard II

William Revere, University of North Carolina at Asheville
The Mutualities of Conscience: Satire, Community, and Individual Agency in Late Medieval and Early Modern England

David S. Roh, The University of Utah
Mediating Empire: Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions

Margaret Simon, North Carolina State University
Books and Things: Theorizing Multi-Materiality In the English Renaissance

Michele Speitz, Furman University
Technologies of the Sublime and the Mechanical Supernatural

J. Michael Terry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dialectal Difference and Educational Achievement

Trysh Travis, University of Florida
“Lee Was a Gentleman”: Understanding Women’s Polite Racism in the Confederate Monument Controversy

Jennifer Wells, The George Washington University
Prelude to Empire: State Building in the Early Modern British World

Jaime Ahlberg, University of Florida
Schooling and Disability: Philosophical Perspectives on a Contemporary Policy Debate

Scott L. Baugh, Texas Tech University
Youth, Sexuality, Identity, Politics & Y Tu Mamá También

Masha Belenky, The George Washington University
Engine of Modernity: the Omnibus and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris

Emily Burrill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Gender at the Crossroads: Mobility and Belonging in a Francophone West African World, 1945–70

Andre Cavalcante, University of Virginia
Life in Purple: Young, Queer, and Connected in the Changing American South

James A. Crank, The University of Alabama
Race and New Modernisms

Huiling Ding, North Carolina State University
Global Media Construction of AlphaGo and AlphaGo Zero: Artificial Intelligence, Risk Communication, and the New AI Arms Race

Esther Fernández, Rice University
The Making of Illusions: Material Performances in Early Modern Spain and Their Contemporary Legacies

Barbara Hahn, Texas Tech University
Technology in the Industrial Revolution

Shoko Hamano, The George Washington University
Cross-Linguistic Comparison of Structural Layering of Sound-Symbolic Vocabulary and Its Implications for the Study of Language Evolution

Avery E. Holton, The University of Utah
Exploring Genetic Testing Discourses and Networks

Nathaniel Isaacson, North Carolina State University
Science Crosstalk (kexue xiangsheng) and Socialist Realism

Héctor Jaimes, North Carolina State University
Times of Rupture: The Contemporary Mexican Novel

Blair L. M. Kelley, North Carolina State University
The Execution of Corrine Sykes: Race, Place, and Remembrance in World War II Philadelphia

Min-Joo Kim, Texas Tech University
When and Why English Demonstratives Require Relative Clauses

Petrus Liu, Boston University
Thinking Gender in the Age of the Beijing Consensus

Gordon K. Mantler, The George Washington University
“We Have Won”? Harold Washington and Multiracial Politics in the Age of Reagan

Jorge Marí, North Carolina State University
Environmental Debates & Environmental Activism in Contemporary Spain: Theory and Praxis

Brian McFadden, Texas Tech University
Monsters, Vikings, and Monks: The Tenth-Century Context of the Beowulf Manuscript

Celeste Day Moore, Hamilton College
Soundscapes of Liberation: Race, Music, and the Making of the Twentieth-Century Atlantic World

Jennifer Nolan, North Carolina State University
Esquire, Cosmopolitan, and the Fashioning of Authorial Identity: Ernest Hemingway, 1936

Kwame Edwin Otu, University of Virginia
Scrambled Palimpsests: Making Christian Heteromonogamous Subjects in Postindependent Ghana (1965–75)

Iván A. Ramos, University of Maryland
Sonic Negations: Sound, Affect, and Unbelonging Between Mexico and the U.S.

Jeremy Rosen, The University of Utah
Genre Bending

K. Merinda Simmons, The University of Alabama
1) Race and New Modernisms; 2) Sourcing Slave Religion: Theorizing Experience in the American South

Pavitra Sundar, Hamilton College
Listening to Bollywood: Sound, Speech, and Song

Katherine Unterman, Texas A&M University
The Legal Foundations of American Empire

Noel Mellick Voltz, The University of Utah
Chapter 4 (“The Storeroom” of My Manuscript: The Sword in Her Hands: Louisiana’s Free Women of Color and their Sexual Negotiation for Freedom)

Jung Yun, The George Washington University
O Beautiful