Christina Knopf
Christina Knopf, Communication and Media Studies Department, is a recipient of the annual Lucy Shelton Caswell Research Award for 2023, sponsored by the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum at The Ohio State University.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, wrote a review of Dead Letters Sent: Queer Literary Transmission by Kevin Ohi, which was published in the January issue of Journal of the History of Sexuality.
Jeremy Jimenez
Jeremy Jimenez, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, recently participated in a climate change education panel at the Comparative and International Education Society conferencein Miami, Fla., based on previous research co-conducted with Miranda Kistner ’23.
Keith Newvine
Keith Newvine, Literacy Department, and Dr. Lamar Johnson of Michigan State University will have their book chapter titled “Developing Racial Literacy through Critical Race English Education in Secondary English Language Arts Classrooms” published in Critical Race Theory and Classroom Practice, edited by Daniella Ann Cook and Nathanial Bryan. The book is set to be published in 2024, and the introduction to the textbook can be viewed here.
Ute Ritz-Deutch
Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, recently joined the Northeast Regional Planning Group of Amnesty International (AI) headquartered in Boston, Mass. Currently, she is the coordinator of the Ithaca Chapter of AI and the faculty advisor to the SUNY Cortland AI student group.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Distinguished Service Professor of political science emeritus, is the author of two new articles: “Understanding Gun Law History after Bruen: Moving Forward by Looking Back,” published in the most recent issue of the Fordham Urban Law Journal, and “Historical Weapons Restrictions on Minors,” published in the Spring 2024 issue of the Rutgers University Law Review.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, was invited to deliver a campus-wide talk at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., on Monday, Feb. 23. She will discuss “Health and Social Activism of Self-Identified Gay Men in Postsocialist China” from 4:30-6 p.m. in Rockefeller Hall, Room 115.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, edited a special issue of College Literature, “Lively Words: The Politics and Poetics of Experimental Writing,” which was published by Johns Hopkins University Press. The issue argues for a comparative cultural studies approach to the study of 20th and 21st century experimental writing and contains 17 essays, including his essay “The Promise of Experimental Writing” and the Critical Forum he edited and introduces, “The Sonic Politics of Black Experimentalism.” View the special issue.
Henry Steck
Henry Steck, Political Science Department and Project on Eastern and Central Europe, recently presented a paper titled “Squeezing Liberal Democracy: Recent Developments in the United States,” at the 22nd annual conference held at the Centre for Advanced Academic Studies of the University of Zagreb in Dubrovnik, Croatia. He also delivered “‘There is No Santa Claus’: Confronting the Challenges of Educating Students for the Real World of Modern Democracy” at a conference on “Cha(lle)nging (sic) Democracy at the Beginning of the 21st Century.” The conference was held at Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj, Romania.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, had his book Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form published on Aug.19 by Duke University Press. He co-edited the book with Elizabeth Freeman from University of California, Davis and it appears in Duke’s Theory Q series, which is devoted to critical sexuality studies. The Lambda Literary Foundation listed Queer Kinship on its “August’s Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Literature” list.