As we round off the year, we're pleased to take a moment to share news about what our instructors have been up to in the past few months. We'd particularly like to spotlight two of our colleagues who received teaching awards this year: Harriett Jernigan (Dr. J), who won the St. Clair Drake Teaching Award, a Black Community Services Center Award and Emily Polk, who won a 2020 Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award, an honor that recognizes "distinctive and exceptional contributions to undergraduate education or the quality of life at Stanford."
Read on to learn about what some of other our colleagues have been up to; as always, our colleagues continue to inspire.
Tessa Brown's article, "'Let the People Rap': Cultural Rhetorics Pedagogy and Practices Under CUNY's Open Admissions, 1968-1978," was been selected to be included in the Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2021 Anthology from Parlor Press.
Nissa Ren Cannon writes: "I had two long-in-the-works articles came out this quarter: '"No Man’s Ocean Ever Did Get the Best of Me": Romance in Marseille’s Oceanic Journeys and Maritime Modernism,' appeared in a Special Issue of ELN focused on Claude McKay’s recently-published novel Romance in Marseille And, '"An Easy Chance to Do A Good Thing": The Paris Tribune’s Campaign to Save the American Library,' appeared in the open-access Idées d'Amériques." Nissa was also pleaed to share that her fall quarter student, Richa Upadhyay, published her RBA, "Patient Privacy Exposed: A Closer Look at HIPAA in the Context of a Pandemic" in Intersect: The Stanford Journal of Science, Technology and Society.
Norah Fahim's piece (co-authored with Bonnie Vidrine and Dan Zhu), "Keepin’ It Real: Developing Authentic Translingual Experiences for Multilingual Students" appeared in the edited collection, Translingual Pedagogical Perspectives: Engaging Domestic and International Students in the Composition Classroom. The collection will be available starting July 1, 2021.
Alex Greenhough delivered his paper, "The Critical Potential of Comedic Voiceover" as part of the roundtable "Videographic Criticism: Re-Voicing the Authoritative Voiceover" at the 2021 virtual Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) conference.
Hayden Kantor writes: "I contributed a book chapter to an edited volume, Moveable Gardens: Itineraries and Sanctuaries of Memory, published by the University of Arizona Press. My chapter is titled “People and Food in Motion: Agricultural Dislocations and Culinary Remembrances in Bihar, India.” My former student, Natalie Milan, won a national prize for her PWR 1 RBA, "Imperfect Solutions: How Agrarian Ideals Drive 'Ugly Produce' Marketing" from the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society in their annual competition for best undergraduate essay. The citation reads: "This is a well-organized, tight paper that critically examines a timely and important topic (companies that sell blemished produce have utilized language associated with body images and adoption), employing interesting and well-described methods." Natalie's essay will also be publish the essay in the spring issue of Contexts, the Undergraduate Research Journal from the Stanford Department of Anthropology."
Kevin Moore published a review on Anna Wiener's memoir Uncanny Valley in the literary magazine MAKE.
Selby Schwartz published two pieces in May: a chapter in the anthology (Re:) Claiming Ballet, ed. Adesola Akinleye, entitled, "The Ever After of Ballet"; and an article in GPS [Global Performance Studies journal], “'We’ll See You at the Barre!': Stretching Queer Sociality with Ballez."
On April 24th, Kathleen Tarr produced/hosted the 7th Annual Getting Played Symposium on Equity in the Entertainment Industry and Awards. That same month, she also published a medical memoir titled, "Judas: Tubial Tubercle Avulsion" in You&Me: the world's medical magazine. In May, she hosted UNITE For Women With Cancer, a fundraiser for the Women's Cancer Resource Center and was interviewed for the documentary, Brainwashed documentary (forthcoming).
Roberta Wolfson recently published a review of Candice M. Jenkins' book Black Bourgeois: Class & Sex in the Flesh (University of Minnesota, 2019) in the Spring/Summer 2021 edition of the African American Review. She also shared this additional bit of news: "On May 22, 2021, I gave the keynote speech at the graduation ceremony for the class of 2021 at my high school alma mater, The Harker School. Here's a link to the recorded ceremony (my speech starts around 1:03)."
