(pictured above: Kath Rothschild leading the way into a speakeasy in Spokane, WA, during the 4Cs convention)
As the academic year wraps up, many of our colleagues continued to pursue their professional interests outside the classroom. Read on to learn about some of their accomplishments from the last few months.
Christine Alfano, Alex Greenhough, Valerie Kinsey, Kath Rothschild, Tesla Schaeffer, and Lisa Swan attended the 2024 CCCC Convention in Spokane, Washington in early April, where Kath, Tesla, and Lisa, all delivered presentations. Read more about their 4Cs trip here.
Nissa Cannon's article, "Lending Books on the Left and Right Banks: Borrowing Practices at the American Library in Paris and Shakespeare and Company" was published as part of a cluster on Shakespeare & Company in Modernism/Modernity's Print+ (and concurrently in the Journal of Cultural Analytics).
Harriet Jernigan's First Person storytelling showcase held its second event in April. Read more about the First Person event in this article.
Jennifer Johnson's student, Alice Finkelstein, is the recipient of the Terry Winograd Prize for Best Paper on Ethics and Technology. Alice's PWR 1 paper was titled, "Breaking the Silence with Direct-Speech Brain Computer Interfaces: Centering Communicative Disability in Ethical Recommendations for Mitigating Algorithmic Bias." Also, Jennifer continues to serve as a proposal reviewer AAAL (American Association of Applied Linguistics) for the Language, Culture, and Socialization (LCS) and the Antiracism, Decolonization, and Intersectionality for Systemic Transformation (ADIST) strands. She also recently served as an article reviewer for the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.
Hayden Kantor attended the Terman Award ceremony as the Stanford mentor for his student, Priti Rangnekar, whom he taught in PWR 2. The Frederick Emmons Terman Engineering Scholastic Award is presented to the top 30 graduating seniors in the School of Engineering. Each award recipient invites one Stanford mentor or advisor and one secondary school or other pre-collegiate teacher who have been influential in their academic career.
Kevin C. Moore attended the American Literature Association's annual meeting in Chicago, where he presented a paper as part of the Ralph Ellison Society panel titled "'The World and the Jug' at Sixty: Rethinking Ellison and Post-WWII US Black-Jewish Relations."
Sarah Pittock's student Alina Wilson published "Moving from Pill Pushing to Prayer?" in the Narrative Pre-Health Journal, Volume 6. Alina wrote the piece assessing the role of spirituality in medical care in Sarah's PWR91, "Doctors' Stories: Communicating Health Sciences."
Emily Polk's powerful essay, "Peregrinations of Grief" appeared in the most recent issue of Aeon.
Roberta Wolfson will be presenting twice at the Critical Mixed Race Studies Association conference from June 13-15, 2024. First, she’ll be presenting “'I’m Not the Person You Think I Am': Familial Loss and Multiracial Identity Erasure in Danzy Senna’s New People", in which she’ll demonstrate how the experience of racial imposter syndrome can be heightened when racially ambiguous multiracial individuals lose a family member who represents a critical connection to their minoritized ancestry. Second, she’ll be participating in a roundtable discussion on "The Multiracial Pasts and Futures of Asian American Speculative Fiction.” She writes, “In this roundtable, I'm excited to explore insights that I gathered from teaching works of Asian American speculative fiction during my advanced course on ethnofuturist rhetorics this past fall."
Jenne Stonaker writes, "I displayed the Arizona Garden exhibition materials, created by students in my Communicating Science in Public Spaces class last year, at a booth at the Stanford STEMfest on April 20th. Three students from the class volunteered to talk about the exhibit with the public — Indira Rosado-Miranda, Maryam Tsegaye, and Jackie Lu. The organizers estimated that there were about 3000 people at the event, so it was exhausting, but fun, to talk about the history and science of the Arizona Garden with the many people who stopped by our booth. It was real science communication and education in practice, and I’m glad we had a chance to display the exhibition materials again." (Below: Jenne and Indira. Photo credit: Norah Fahim)
