Faculty Accomplishments Archive

Rhiannon Graybill, Marcus M. and Carole M. Weinstein & Gilbert M. and Fannie S. Rosenthal Chair of Jewish Studies, was tapped as founding co-editor for a new Bloomsbury book series called Sexing Scripture. The series publishes cutting edge research on gender, sex, sexuality, and religious texts.

Julietta Singh, professor of English and women, gender, & sexuality studies, directed The Nest, a feature-length documentary, which will make its world premiere at the upcoming Hot Docs Festival in Toronto, Canada.

Julietta Singh, professor of English and women, gender, & sexuality studies, published "On Anticolonial Homemaking" in Studies in Gender and Sexuality.

Julietta Singh, professor of English and women, gender, & sexuality studies, was interviewed in special issue on "Reckoning, Repairing, Reworlding" in Studies in Social Justice. 

Sydney Watts, associate professor of history and women, gender and sexuality studies, discussed her research project, "The Channel Islands: Borderlands Migration in the Atlantic World, 1763-1815” on the Hagley History Hangout Podcast during her scholar-in-residence term at the Hagley Museum and Library, in Wilmington, Delaware.

Erika Zimmermann Damer, associate professor of classical studies and women, gender, and sexuality studies, published a new translation of Ovid's Dido from the Heroides in Women in Power: Classical Myths and Stories from the Amazons to Cleopatra.

Mariela Méndez, associate professor of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies, published the chapter "A imprensa 'para mulheres': Possível roteiro de leitura" in Por uma história feminista da literatura brasileira, the first volume of the Feminist History of Brazilian Literature.

Rhiannon Graybill, Marcus M. and Carole M. Weinstein & Gilbert M. and Fannie S. Rosenthal Chair of Jewish Studies, published Narrating Rape: Shifting Perspectives in Biblical Literature and Popular Culture by SCM Press.

Patricia Herrera, professor of theatre and dance, was elected president of the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) for a three-year term.

Nathan Snaza, director of the Humanities Center and professor of English, published Animate Literacies: Literature, Affect, and the Politics of Humanism by Duke University Press.

Mariela Méndez, associate professor of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies, published the chapter "Decolonial Antiracist Feminist Digital Activism: Naming Carolina Maria de Jesus and Marielle Franco on X (formerly Twitter)" in the book Black Lives Matter in Latin America: Continuities in Racism, Cross-National Resistance and Mobilization in the Americas.

Mariela Méndez, associate professor of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies, published the chapter "Materialismos feministas e arquivos: à procura da experiência sensorial em Clarice Lispector" ["Feminist Materialisms and Arquives: In Search of the Sensorial Experience in Clarice Lispector"] in the book Mulheres escritoras: arquivos literários e feminismos na América Latina.