100 Years of Yiddish Literature in China | Prof. Yitzhak Lewis
On February 7, 2023, Professor Yitzhak Lewis (Duke Kunshan) and two of his undergraduate research assistants, Yongkang Chen and Eldar Wang, gave an overview of their research project “100 Years of Yiddish Literature in China” to our spring 2023 class, Mapping Jewish Modernism. The recording of the event is available here. Yitzhak Lewis is Assistant Professor of […]
World Premiere at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival | Prof. Travis Wilkerson
Professor Travis Wilkerson’s new feature film, “Through the Graves the Wind is Blowing,” was selected to have its world premiere at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival. The film is screening in the Encounters section. “A frustrated detective tries to solve a series of murders in Split, Croatia. Homage to the Yugoslavian Black Wave.” By Travis Wilkerson […]
2023 Winner of the 1921 Prize in American Literature | Prof. Selina Lai-Henderson
Selina Lai-Henderson Receives 1921 Prize in American Literature for Groundbreaking Exploration of W. E. B. Du Bois’s Impact in Maoist China. Selina Lai-Henderson, associate professor of American literature and history, won the 1921 Prize in American Literature (tenured category) with her article, “You Are No Darker Than I Am: The Souls of Black Folk in […]
Appointed Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Library of Congress | Prof. James Miller
James Miller, co-director of the Humanities Research Center, has been appointed as a distinguished visiting scholar at The John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress and will take up a four-month residency there starting on September 5, 2023. The Kluge Center annually brings top scholars and researchers into residence at the library to […]
‘Through the Graves the Wind is Blowing’ Review: Travis Wilkerson’s Playful, Political Essay Set in Split, Croatia
The unsolved murders of several tourists in Croatia’s second city become the pretext for a spirited, mercurial tour of the former Yugoslav state’s relationship to fascism. By Jessica Kiang Courtesy of Creative Agitation, Berlin Film Festival The city of Split has long been a tourist magnet, famous for the churches and flagstones of its picturesque Old […]
Selina Lai-Henderson Joins American Quarterly Editorial Board
Congratulations to Professor Selina Lai-Henderson on her new responsibility! Selina Lai-Henderson has recently accepted the invitation to join the editorial board of American Quarterly, the flagship journal of the American Studies Association. Beginning in July 2024, she will oversee the book review section, collaborating closely with the editorial team at the University of Notre Dame. In her capacity, she hopes to foster […]
Film Comment Interview: Travis Wilkerson on Through the Graves the Wind Is Blowing
By Ela Bittencourt on June 17, 2024 This article appeared in the June 14, 2024 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Through the Graves the Wind Is Blowing (Travis Wilkerson, 2024) In the opening images of Travis Wilkerson’s new feature, Through the Graves the Wind Is Blowing, a gentle breeze wafts through the […]
Travis Wilkerson’s Videographic Essay “Full Metal Kuleshov Effect” was accepted for publication by the leading Journal of such criticism Screen Works
Travis Wilkerson’s Videographic Essay “Full Metal Kuleshov Effect” was accepted for publication by the leading Journal of such criticism Screen Works: https://screenworks.org.uk/. The publication will be included in the next edition.
Publication of Peer Reviewed Journal Piece: Full Metal Kuleshov Effect | Prof. Travis Wilkerson
Full Metal Kuleshov Effect Author: Travis WilkersonFormat: Video EssayDuration: 14′ 41″Published: July 2024 https://doi.org/10.37186/swrks/14.1/5 Research Statement Research Questions US films about the “Vietnam War,” itself a strangely reductive term that obliterates two of the three countries, express a principal, recurring limitation. This limitation extends from Hollywood films, to independent films, to documentaries. The limitation is point-of-view. Overwhelmingly, US films place […]
Publication of Three New Articles | Prof. Stephanie Anderson
Congratulations to Prof. Stephanie Anderson on the publication of three articles! 1. “‘It’s Only Vanity if It’s Not Good’: Daisy Aldan and Women Midcentury Small Press Publishers” in Post45 (https://post45.org/2024/07/daisy-aldan-and-women-midcentury-small-press-publishers/); 2. “Poetic transcribbling: Ted Berrigan & Harris Schiff’s Yo-Yo’s with Money and Beaned in Boston” in Textual Practice (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/0950236X.2024.2362053); 3. A piece of “non-fiction” in the new issue of Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature […]
