Faculty and Staff Notes

Associate Professor of Dance Alysia Ramos's dance film Becoming Oxum; My Body Remembers is being presented by the Cleveland Dance Festival. Access to the virtual dance film gallery is available through February 5th, 2022.

Assistant Professor of East Asian Religions Andrew Macomber gave a presentation via Zoom for the international conference, “Religions, Thoughts, and Health in Asia,” held at the Department of Asian and North African Studies at Ca' Foscari, University of Venice, on October 26, 2021. His talk, "Everything Evil in You: Metapersonal Irritants in the Buddhist Immune System," explored the complicated relationship between disease-causing demons and patients in medieval Japan.

Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Comparative American Studies Yveline Alexis has won the Haitian Studies Association 2021 Book Prize for her work Haiti Fights Back: The Life & Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte. The Haitian Studies Association’s biennial Haiti Book Prize is awarded to the best single-authored book in Haitian studies in the social sciences, with broad application beyond the academy.

Professor of Classics Kirk Ormand presented a paper at a conference at Wellesley College October 15-17. The conference explored notions of temporality in ancient Greece and Rome, and Ormand's talk, “Temporality and Class in Archaic Invective,” explored the relationship between social class, insult,  and temporal change in the poets Archilochus, Hipponax, and Semonides.

Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Chanda Feldman's poem "They Ran and Flew From You," originally published in the Southern Review (Issue: Winter 2020), was selected for inclusion in the Best American Poetry series for 2021 by former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Tracy K. Smith.

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón recently published a review-essay of Peruvian writer Claudia Ulloa Donoso's Pajarito, and delivered a talk on Mexican independence as part of the University of Buffalo's Hispanic Heritage at the Intersections of Culture and Crisis series.

Professor of Politics Stephen Crowley gave talk on his book, Putin's Labor Dilemma, at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, DC.  Watch a video of the event here.

Professor of Philosophy Todd Ganson gave the talk, "Not All Sensory Systems are Information Channels," at the conference “Green Intelligence? Debating Plant Cognition” at the University of Basel, Switzerland.

Andrew & Pauline Delaney Professor of Mathematics Susan Colley was interviewed on Count Me In with Della and Deanna, a podcast about “Broadening the understanding of what it means to be a mathematician.” Colley shares her story and discusses the influence of a strong educational beginning, the importance of effective communication, and the value of daily intentional efforts to recharge and reset.

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature Stiliana Milkova coedited a special issue of the online journal Reading in Translation on Italian writer Domenico Starnone. The issue contains 13 essays, translations, reviews, and an exclusive interview with Starnone.