[pictured above: lunch on the November Program meeting day]
As always, the first quarter of the acadmic year was a busy time. Read on to find out some of the things that have kept our lecturers busy outside the classroom this fall.
Nissa Cannon published an article titled "Katherine Anne Porter’s Ship of Fools and the Ephemeral Promise of Transnational Community" as part of a Special Issue "Literature as Imaginary Archive: Ephemera and Modern Literary Production" in the Open Library of the Humanities Journal. She also attended the Modernist Studies Association's annual conference in Chicago in November, where she organized a round table on leisure travel in modernist art and literature, and participated in a seminar titled "American Expats and European Sirens."
Alex Greenhough writes, "I published an analysis of "Dune: Part Two" in In Media Res and an analysis of "Lost in America" in MUBI's "Notebook". In addition, his videographic essay, “Always Missing,” was published in mid-December in [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Images Studies.
Harriett Jernigan has been very busy this fall. In October, she participated in a Speaker Series at the Asian American Activities Center: "Stanford and More: Get to Know Stanford Faculty and Professional Staff." She shares that "[i]t was great to meet frosh and answer their questions and get to know the AAAC staff." In addition, she was a guest lecturer for the Ernest Houston Johnson Scholars Program and conducted a workshop on helping students define "legacy" and identify how they'd like to work towards their goals. Lastly, Harriett led a workshop on antiracist pedagogy and project-based learning in German as a foreign language at the Women in German (W.i.G.) 2024 conference. The workshop focused on revising and decolonizing popular yet problematic materials and using those materials to inspire students to develop antiracist projects.
On a more "Beyond the Farm" note, Harriett is a 2024/2025 Creative in Residence at The Ruby, "a collective of creative women, trans women, femmes, and nonbinary people that values empathy and education. [The] Creatives in Residence (CIR) program supports QT BIPOC Bay Area creatives with 10 fully-funded year-long memberships." She writes of this opportunity, "My fellowship began in September. I am taking advantage of the residency to complete a series of essays and a novel. I'm enjoying myself immensely." [Pictured: Laura Joyce Davis and Harriett celebrate September Sessions with bubbles]
Jennifer Johnson co-authored a chapter in the just published collection, Ethical Issues in Applied Linguistics Scholarship (editors: Peter De Costa, Amr Rabie-Ahmed & Carlo Cinaglia), as part of the publisher's Research Methods in Applied Linguistic Series. Jennifer's chapter, titled, "Transcription as ethics (Re)Presenting young children’s complex communicative repertoires in Applied Linguistics research", was co-authored with Katie Bernstein (Arizona State University) and Usree Bhattacharya (University of Georgia). Jennifer, Katie and Usree were graduate students together in the Language, Literacy and Culture PhD Program at UC Berkeley's School of Education. Detailed information about the collection can be found here: https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027246332#chapters
Hayden Kantor writes, "I was thrilled that my PWR 2 student Mikayla Tillery was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship. This is the first time that a student for whom I have written a letter has received a Rhodes. I also applaud my PWR 2 student Kate Tully on her Rhodes Scholarship."
Kath Rothschild's article, “Disciplinarity and Transfer Ten Years Later: A Multi-Institutional Investigation into Student Perceptions of Learning to Write,” was published in the September 2024 issue of College Composition & Communication.
Kathleen Tarr received an Autumn 2024 artsCatalyst grant for a Halloween Comedy Workshop led by Reggie Steele, a professional comedian and (surprise!) Notary Public! a perfect interdisciplinary activity for her PWR 1 legal rhetorics students.
Kathleen herself accepted a last-minute request by the Women's Cancer Resource Center to MC their 2024 Health Equity in Action symposium "Overcoming Disparities and Roadblocks in Healthcare with Community-Based Approaches." She also spoke on "A Sneak Peek of the Getting Played Symposium" panel at the Theatre Bay Area Annual Conference "Roots Intertwined." For her continuing education, Kathleen attended the ACE NorCal Women’s Network Conference "Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges: Women Re-shaping Higher Ed," 2024 CCCC Fall Virtual Institute "Machine Writing and the Work of Rhetoric and Composition," and several webinars including the Law Library of Congress's Foreign and Comparative Law series.
In addition, Kathleen curated and moderated her 10th anniversary Getting Played Symposium on Equity in the Entertainment Industry and Awards. Getting Played panelists including previous Getting Played Equity Award winner Michael Gene Sullivan, Devon LaBelle, Salim Razawi, and member of Stanford's BLACKstage Kendal Murray spoke of the impact of online spaces in a conversation about local theater moderated by founder and curator Kathleen Tarr. Watch at https://youtu.be/CGjQ4R3i_9w. Sponsored by a PWR Research Grant.
Roberta Wolfson writes, "This quarter, I was delighted to present research from my recently published book, Refiguring Race and Risk: Counternarratives of Care in the U.S. Security State, on three different occasions. First, I gave a book talk to the Stanford community on October 17, 2024, which was well attended by many wonderful PWR colleagues (read about it here). Second, I delivered a lecture at Menlo College on October 25, 2024 as a guest speaker in the first-year 2024-25 Common Book program (read more here). Finally, I paid a virtual visit to an immigration-focused class at Colgate University on October 29, 2024, where I discussed my research with students who had read excerpts from my book (more here). I'm grateful to have had so many opportunities to share about my book research with so many different communities.
