Faculty Highlights

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  Singh Awarded

  Julietta Singh, professor of English and Stephanie Bennett-Smith Chair of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, received an honorable mention for the book The Breaks from the Association for Asian American Studies in the Creative Writing: Prose category, awarded at their 2023 convention. 

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  Singh's Book Translated

  The book No Archive Will Restore You by Julietta Singh, associate professor of English and women, gender, and sexuality studies, has been translated into German as Kein Archiv wird Dich wiederherstellen.

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  Méndez Delivers Presentation

  While on a Fulbright Scholar Award in Brazil, Mariela Méndez, associate professor of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies and women, gender, and sexuality studies, delivered the presentation “Impertinências feministas no arquivo clariceano: Proposta para uma aproximação material sensorial e performática às intervenções feministas” [“Feminist Impertinences in the Claricean Archive: Proposal for a Material Sensorial and Performative Approach to Feminist Interventions”] at a roundtable on Impertinências Feministas na Literatura Latinoamericana [Feminist Impertinences in Latin American Literature] organized by the Feminist Lab at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

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  Méndez Published

  Mariela Méndez, associate professor of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies and women, gender, and sexuality studies, published the chapter “Que(e)rying Femininities: Clarice Lispector’s Correio Feminino on TV Globo” in After Clarice: Reading Lispector’s Legacy in the Twenty-First Century.

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  Mifsud Published

  Mari Lee Mifsud, professor of rhetoric and women, gender, and sexuality studies, has published a new essay entitled, “Appendix: Atelēs” in the edited collection, A New Handbook of Rhetoric, edited by Michele Kennerly.

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  Mifsud Published

  Mari Lee Mifsud, professor of rhetoric and women, gender, and sexuality studies, has published a new essay entitled, “Atechnē” in the edited collection,  A New Handbook of Rhetoric, edited by Michele Kennerly.

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  Zimmermann Damer Published

  In the Flesh: Embodied Identities in Roman Elegy by Erika Zimmermann Damer, associate professor of classical studies and women, gender, and sexuality studies, is now available in paperback edition.

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  Zimmermann Damer Published

  Erika Zimmermann Damer, associate professor of classical studies and women, gender, and sexuality studies, published a new chapter, “What’s in a Name? Mapping Women’s Names from the Graffiti of Pompeii and Herculaneum" in Women’s Lives, Women’s Voices: Roman Material Culture and Female Agency in the Bay of Naples.

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  Zimmermann Damer Published

  Erika Zimmermann Damer, associate professor of classical studies and WGSS, published Travel, Geography, and Empire in Latin Poetry with Routledge.

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  Herrera Awarded Grant

  Dr. Patricia Herrera, associate professor in theatre and dance, along with UR colleagues was awarded grant support for the inter-campus collaborative project, "Participatory History and Archiving: An Initiative to Promote and Support Undergraduate Instruction and Project Outcomes in Community-Based Research and Archiving." Read More