Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation
Work-in-Progress talk with Abigail Fine, Musicology, and 2025–26 OHC Faculty Research Fellow. NOTE: this talk will take place in Collier House. In nineteenth-century Europe, most middle-class people kept a friendship album: handwritten poems, drawings and musical snippets offered by loved ones. While the practice waned in the twentieth century, popular music magazines published hundreds of […]
Work-in-Progress talk with Cera Smith, Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies; and 2025–26 OHC Faculty Research Fellow. Scientific racism and discrimination in American healthcare make bioscience seem irredeemable for many Black Studies scholars. Consequently, critics often attempt to disassociate race from biology, instead emphasizing Black people’s psychological, emotional, and intellectual complexity to reject racist dehumanization. This […]
Work-in-Progress talk with Dong Hoon Kim, Cinema Studies, and 2025–26 OHC Faculty Research Fellow. My project explores how North Korean cinema represents gender, sexuality, and national identity, particularly through representations of women and womanhood in major state-sponsored films. It examines how these films, while politically driven, gained mass popularity and reflected shifting national ideologies during […]
Work-in-Progress talk with K. Olivar, PhD candidate, English, and 2025–26 OHC Dissertation Fellow. A Nest of Antics excavates examples of madness in early modern English drama that celebrate cognitive difference, arguing that the era had more interest in positive representations of neurodiversity than critics have noticed. Early modern comedy’s abundance of idiosyncratic character types treated […]
