CAL Publications, Exhibits, Performances, and More

Across the college, faculty members contributed to arts and humanities research and creative activities in numerous ways during 2024–25. This activity took different forms including books, edited collections, journals, publications, exhibitions, performances, creative writing pieces, and academic presentations.

In this Section:

Books, Edited Collections, and Special Journal Issues

  • Zarena Aslami (ENG) and Tim Watson, editors, “Infrastructure,” a special issue of Victorian Literature and Culture, vol. 52, no. 2, 2024.
  • Julian Chambliss (ENG), editor, Mapping Afrofuturism: Understanding Black Speculative Practice, Cognella Academic Publishing, 2025.
  • Cameron Clark and Ellen McCallum (ENG), editors, “Nature Bites Back: The Anti-Pastoral Thesis in Queer and Trans Studies,” a special issue of Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture, vol. 1, no. 1-2, 2024.
  • Suban Nur Cooley (AAAS) and Jacqueline Rhodes, editors, Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminist Rhetoric, Routledge, 2024.
  • Joseph Darda (ENG), The Gift and the Grit: How Race Makes Sports in America, Cambridge University Press, 2025.
  • Naiyan Du and Karthik Durvasula (LiLaC), Psycholinguistics and Phonology: The Forgotten Foundations of Generative Phonology, Cambridge University Press, 2025.
  • Stephen Esquith (PHL), Everyday Peacebuilding Through Democratic Political Education: The Need for Radical Poise, Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.
  • Swarnavel Eswaran Pillai (ENG), Persona as a Lens, Nizhal, 2024.
  • Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Leading Generously: Tools for Transformation, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024.
  • Jon Frey (AAHD) and Rubina Raha, editors, Trends in Archive Archaeology: Current Research on Archival Material from Fieldwork and its Implications for Archaeological Practice, Brepols, 2024.
  • John Grey (PHL) and Jonathan Head, Early Modern Philosophy: An Inclusive Introduction with Readings, Bloomsbury, 2024.
  • Juliet Guzzetta (ENG) and Ombretta Frau, editors, “Giorgia Meloni’s Italy: Conservative Feminisms,” a special issue of gender/sexuality/Italy, vol. 10, no. 1-2, 2024.
  • Debra M. Hardison (LiLaC), The Multimodal Context of Phonological Learning, University of Toronto Press, 2025.
  • Ike Iyioke (PHL), John-Moses Uwanduoma Maduabuchi, Tonia Onyeka, and Michael O’Rourke (PHL, TDI), An African Research Ethics Reader: From the Ground Up, Brill, 2024.
  • Shawn Loewen (LiLaC), third edition of Introduction to Instructed Second Language Acquisition, Routledge, 2025.
  • Shawn Loewen (LiLaC) and Masatoshi Sato, A Practical Guide to Second Language Teaching and Learning, Cambridge University Press, 2024.
  • Tamura Lomax (AAAS), Freeing Black Girls: A Black Feminist Bible on Racism and Revolutionary Mothering, Duke University Press, 2025.
  • Christian Lotz (PHL), editor, special section on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Lukács’ History and Class Consciousness, Radical Philosophy Review, vol. 27, no. 2, 2024.
  • Sheng-mei Ma (ENG), Cultural Bifocals on Chinese TV Series and Diaspora Fiction, Routledge, 2024.
  • Sheng-mei Ma (ENG), China Pop! Pop Culture, Propaganda, Pacific Pop-Ups, The Ohio State University Press, 2024.
  • Matthew McKeon (PHL), Arguments and Reason-Giving, Oxford University Press, 2024.
  • Jason Merrill (LiLaC), Olga Makarova, and Svetlana V. Nuss, editors, Context-Based Teaching of Russian as a Foreign Language, Routledge, 2025.
  • Scott Michaelsen (ENG) and Louis Kaplan, The Revelations of Xxenogenesis, Metanoia Press, 2024.
  • Blaire Morseau (REL), Mapping Neshnabé Futurity: Celestial Currents of Sovereignty in Potawatomi Skies, Lands, and Waters. Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies, University of Arizona Press, 2025.
  • Dionne O’Dell (THR), The Sense-Ability Ensemble’s Guide to Creating Theatre for Audiences that are Neurodiverse, Routledge, 2025.
  • Kimberly Priest (WRAC), tether & lung: poems. Texas Review Press, 2025.
  • Frederick Rauscher (PHL), editor, Kant’s Transcendental Semantics, Zeljko Loparic, author, Rogerio Severo, translator, De Gruyter, 2025.
  • Rebecca Tegtmeyer (AAHD) andLiese Zahabi, editors. Collective Inquiry into the Visual Essay: AIGA Design Educators Community 2022 Design + Writing Fellowship. Dialogue: Proceedings of the AIGA Design Educators Community Conferences, 2022, Michigan Publishing, August 2024.
  • Sarah Street and Joshua Yumibe (ENG), editors, Global Film Color: The Monopack Revolution at Midcentury, Rutgers University Press, 2024.

Exhibits and Performances

  • Julian Chambliss (ENG) curated the exhibition Techno: The Rise of Detroit’s Machine Music through the MSU Museum (East Lansing, MI, 4 February–30 April 2025).
  • Chris Corneal (AAHD) and Audrey Bennett curated the traveling international exhibition, I Profess: The Graphic Design Manifesto 20th Anniversary Traveling Exhibition, which appeared in 9 locations during 2024-25, including The Martha and Robert Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Memphis (Memphis, TN); UM Street Gallery, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI); SFSU School of Design, San Francisco State University (San Francisco, CA); UCA Farnham Gallery, University for the Creative Arts-Farnham, (Farnham-Surrey, England); SCENE Metrospace, Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI); AB Lobby Gallery, Portland State University (Portland, OR); Milner Library, Illinois State University (Normal, IL); The Sue and Leon Genet Gallery, Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY); School of Art Gallery, University of Arkansas (Fayetteville, AR).
  • D’Ann de Simone (AAHD) had work included in the group show PO (Art) Box, at Art Prize, Ledyard Post Office (Grand Rapids, MI, 13–28 September 2024).
  • Kirk Domer (THR) led scenic design for the world premiere of Esther, as well as for How to Die: The Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, both by the A.D. Players at the George Theatre in Houston, Texas; Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, by the 4th Wall Theatre Company, Houston, Texas; Das Barbecü, by Stages at The Gordy Theatre, Houston, Texas; and A Case for the Existence of God at the Williamston Theatre.
  • Ben Duke (AAHD) had a solo show entitled Chance Factor at International Arts & Artists at Hillyer (Washington, DC, March 2025). He additionally exhibited work at the Laguna College of Art & Design Gallery (Laguna Beach, CA), at Gallery Victor (Chicago, IL), and at the Covington Gallery of the Radford University Art Museum (Radford, VA). He also completed a mural contracted with the City of East Lansing (May–June 2025).
  • Teresa Dunn (AAHD) received solo exhibitions of her paintings at the Henry Ford College Sisson Gallery (Dearborn, MI, February 2025) and the Baber Gallery of the Park Library at Central Michigan University (Mount Pleasant, MI, March–April 2025).
  • Peter Glendinning (AAHD) received a solo exhibition at the William Humphreys Art Gallery (Kimberly, South Africa).
  • Tony Grubbs (RCS), Premiere of fragment of literary translation of Amigo, amante y leal (Calderón de la Barca) and roundtable discussion of at La Escena Film Festival/ Diversifying the Classics Early Modern Spanish Theater Conference in September
  • Karen Kangas-Preston (THR) led costume design for a range of local and regional theatre performances, including The Rat Pack Lounge, Footloose: The Musical, the Michigan premiere of Ella: First Lady of Song, and the Andes Award winner for Favorite Season Production of Route 66, all for the Meadow Brook Theatre; A Very Williamston Christmas, and Maytag Virgin, for the Williamston Theatre.
  • Candace Keller (AAHD) served as a consultant on Portraiture and Archives in Africal Photography, an exhibition at the Eskenazi Art Museum, Indiana University (Bloomington, IN, March 2025).
  • Paul Kotula (AAHD) curated A View of Earth: The Architect’s Eye, Select Ceramic Art from the Anne and George Crane Collection, Paul Kotula Projects (Ferndale, MI, 23 November 2024–11 January 2025).
  • Sheri K. Lewis (AAAS) exhibited “Melt x Weallwegot Presents Chicago Girls Do It Better,” a public street portrait series and art installation at the Bud Billiken Parade (Chicago, IL, 2023-present), and “Candy Lady House” at Black Girl Day of Play (Lansing, MI, 2024).
  • Robert McCann (AAHD) received a solo exhibition, Shooting Day for Night, at Manifest Gallery (Cincinnati, OH, 7 March–4 April 2025)
  • Derek McNish (THR) and Rob Roznowski (THR) developed The Ripple Effect, a climate-based collaborative performance project. Funded by a grant from the U.S. Embassy in North Macedonia, this cross-cultural project uses devised theatre and dance to inspire climate action. Through artistic residencies in Michigan and Skopje, we collaborated with Macedonian artists and students to create original performances, lead workshops, and develop lasting partnerships.
  • Blaire Morseau’s (REL) artistic work—her beaded moccasins—were installed and are in the permanent collection at the Field Museum in Chicago, IL.
  • Dionne O’Dell’s (THR) POND Adventure received a staged performance in April 2025.
  • Kelly Salchow-MacArthur (AAHD) exhibited work in the 6th Emirates International Poster Festival (Al Mamzar, Dubai, 4 November–30 December 2024); the 30th International Invitational Exhibition of the Brand Design Association of Korea (Jeju, South Korea, 27–30 November 2024); and Olympian Artists, at ClubHouse 24 in the Palais de Tokyo (Paris, France, 26 July–11 August 2024).
  • Lara Shipley (AAHD) had a 60-piece solo exhibition of a collaborative project with Antone Dolezal, in conjunction with the FotoFocus biennial (Dayton, OH, November 2024). Additionally, her book Desire Lines (Overlapse Books, 2023) was included in Fotobokfestival Oslo 2024 (Oslo, Norway), in Fotobus at Rencontre d’Arles (Arles, France), and in Fotobus at Polycopies (Paris, France).
  • Rafael Villares (AAHD) was part of a group exhibition, Latin American Art at MIA II, at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, 27 July 2024–2 March 2025, the first time the whole set of drawings acquired by the Museum in 2015 was shown, alongside Latin American masters such as Wilfredo Lam, Siquieros, and Diego Rivera. Villares’ work was also exhibited this year at SHRINE (New York, NY), the International Photography Festival and Colloquium (Matanzas, Cuba), the Eichholtz Gallery (Miami, FL), the Centro Espacio Arte, NG Art Gallery (Panama City, Panama), the Yale Peabody Museum (New Haven, CT), and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Detroit (Detroit, MI).
  • Blake Williams (AAHD) had work included in Voices, an international juried group exhibition at CICA Museum (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
  • Joshua Yumibe (ENG) curated “Color, Cinema, and the Impressionist Moment,” an exhibition of three screenings at the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, October 2024).

Selected Journal Articles, Book Chapters, and Other Publications

  • Andrea Allen (RCS), “Chicana feminist epistemology and pláticas in understanding Latina art teachers’ experiences of racism and oppression,” Studies in Art Education vol. 66, no. 2, 2025.
  • Kaveh Askari (ENG), “Dandyism, Circulation, and Emergent Cinema in Iran: The Powers of Asynchrony.” The Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema. Rob King and Charlie Keil, eds. (2024).
  • Steven S. Brooks and Sara C. Doan (WRAC), “Expertise as Ethos: Tactical Technical Communication and the Clean Air Movement.” In Proceedings of the 42nd ACM International Conference on Design of Communication (SIGDOC ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, October 2024, 45-51. https://doi.org/10.1145/3641237.3691650
  • Jason Collins, Kristin Arola (WRAC, AIIS), and Marika Seigel, “Land-People Ecologies,” in Rhetorical Ecologies, edited by Sid Dobrin and Madison Jones. NCTE/CCCC Press, 2024.
  • Sandro R. Barros, Mary Juzwik (ENG), and Kasun Gajasinghe, “Conceptualizing the dangerous rise of ethnoreligious nationalist literacies in education,” Journal of Literacy Research, vol. 56, no. 4, 2024.
  • Shanaé R. Burch, Ryan J. Petteway, and LeConté J. Dill (AAAS), “In Search of (Poetic) Health Justice: Public Health Development in Context of Racism’s Destruction and (Poetic) Resistance’s Creativity,” in Racism: Science & Tools for the Public Health Professional, 2nd edition, edited by Chandra L. Ford and Derek M. Griffith, APHA Press, 2024.
  • Caitlin Cornell (CeLTA), Helen Hunter, Anna Dietrich, Alex Ward, and Emily Duggan, “K-12 Multilinguals with Disabilities in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography,” Knowledge Commons, February 18, 2025. https://doi.org/10.17613/nqvq9-njz24.
  • Megan Dean (PHL), “A (Partial) Defense of Food Rules,” Fat Studies vol. 14, no. 1, 2025.
  • Megan Dean (PHL), “Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivities: Encouraging Patients Through Epistemic Humility,” Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 197, no. 9, 2025.
  • Valentina Denzel (RCS), “Love, maternity, and feminism: Exploring alternative relationships in the works of Ah!Nana artists Yves Chaland, Nicole Claveloux, and Cecilia Capuana”, in European Comic Art, vol.17, no.2, Autumn 2024, 83-116.
  • LeConté J. Dill (AAAS), Bianca D. Rivera, Shavaun S. Sutton, and Elizabeth O. Ige, “‘I Feel Some Type of Way’: Experiences of Relationship Violence, Resilience, and Resistance among Urban Black Girls,” in Black Women and Resilience: Power, Perseverance, and Public Health, edited by Kisha Braithwaite Holden and Camara Phyllis Jones, SUNY Press, 2024.
  • Pedro Doreste Rodríguez (ENG), “The Other Chronicle of a Summer or, Synchronizing Vérité’s Quiet Revolutions,” Alphaville,Special Issue “Coming to Latin America: Moving Image Encounters, Non-Latin American Practitioners,” 2025.
  • Heather Douglas (PHL), Megan K. Halpern, and Eleanor Louson, “Engaging publics in science: A practical typology,” Journal of Responsible Innovation, vol. 11, no. 1, 2024.
  • Heather Douglas (PHL) and T.Y. Branch, “The social contract for science and the value-free ideal,” Synthese, vol. 203, no. 40, 2024.
  • Swarnavel Eswaran Pillai (ENG), “Challenging Caste Hierarchies in Tamil Cinema,” in The Oxford Handbook of Media and Social Justice, edited by Srividya Ramasubramanian and Omotayo O. Banjo, Oxford University Press, 2024.
  • Leonard Fleck (PHL), “Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Tools: Not Economically Efficient, Not Ethically Equitable, Marginally Medically Effective,” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2024.
  • Leonard Fleck (PHL), ‘Precision Public Health Equity: Another Utopian Mirage?” The American Journal of Bioethics, vol. 24, no. 3, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2024.2303134
  • Jon Frey (AAHD) and Ulrike Krotscheck, “The Archival Archaeology of Archaeologists: The West Cemetery at Isthmia, 1967–1990.” In Trends in Archive Archaeology, edited by Jon Frey and Rubina Raja, Brepols, 2024
  • Liv Furman (AAAS), “Dream Healer: An Initiation,” Sistories, issue 4, 2024.
  • Guadalupe Gonzalez and Kristin Arola (WRAC, AIIS), “Water Walks, Indigenous Feminism, and the Persuasive Power of Anishinabekweg.” In The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminist Rhetoric, edited by Suban Nur Cooley and Jacqueline Rhodes, Routledge, 2025.
  • William Hart-Davidson, Michael Ristich (WRAC), Casey McArdle (WRAC), and Liza Potts (WRAC), “Revisiting Four Conversations in Technical and Professional Writing Scholarship to Frame Conversations About Artificial Intelligence.” Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 39:1 (2024), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1177/10506519241280642.
  • Valerie Imbruce, Vanessa Jaeger, Marisa A. Rinkus (TDI), Jessica Hua, and Michael O’Rourke (PHL, TDI), “Raising undergraduate researcher’s interdisciplinary consciousness through dialogue.” Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, vol. 15, 2025. Open access online. doi.org/10.1007/s13412-024-00942-0
  • Martinique K. Jones, Petal Grower, Isis H. Settles, NiCole T. Buchanan, Kristie Dotson, Michael O’Rourke (PHL, TDI), Marisa A. Rinkus (TDI), Lauren O. Wiklund, Stephanie Miller-Tejada, Eden Harrison, and Gabriella Gaskin-Cole, “Initial Development and Validation of the Faculty Epistemic Exclusion Scale.” Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. Advance online publication, 2025. doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000612
  • Emily Katz (PHL), “Quantity in the Categories,” in Works of Philosophy and their Reception: Aristotle’s Categories, edited by Riccardo Chiaradonna, De Gruyter. 
  • Catherine Kendig (PHL), “Naturalness in the Making: Classifying, Operationalizing, and Naturalizing Naturalness in Plant Morphology,” Philosophia vol. 52, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-024-00751-3
  • Catherine Kendig (PHL), “Human-managed soils and soil-managed humans: An interactive account of perspectival realism for soil management,” Special Issue: Cultures & Ontologies, Journal of Social Ontology vol. 10, no. 2, 2024. https://doi.org/10.25365/jso-2024-7690
  • Caitlin Kirby (EDLI), Casey Henley, and Imari Tetu (WRAC), Defining Key Modality Parameters of Blended Courses. Journal of Educational Technology Systems, March 2025.
  • Christian Lotz (PHL), “Money in Critical Theory: Pollock, Adorno, Habermas,” in The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Money, Volume 2: Modern Thought, Joseph J. Tinguely, editor, Palgrave, 2024
  • Kristin Mahoney (ENG), “Oscar Wilde, Camp Racism, and Antiracist Camp,” in The Oxford Handbook to Oscar Wilde, edited by Kate Hext and Alex Murray, Oxford University Press, 2024.
  • Casey McArdle (WRAC), Michael Ristich (WRAC), Liza Potts (WRAC), William Hart-Davidson. “The Eras Tour of AI.” Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 2024.
  • Ellen McCallum (ENG), “Is the Ethics of Close Reading Feminist? Or, Friends of Close Readers,” symploke vol. 32, no. 1/2, 2024.
  • Matthew McKeon (PHL), “On the Virtue-theoretic Approach to Argument Appraisal,” Informal Logic: Reasoning and Argumentation in Theory and Practice, vol. 44, no. 4, 2024.
  • Jon D. Miller, Belén Laspra, Carmelo Polino, Glenn Branch, Robert T. Pennock (PHL), and Mark S. Ackerman, “The acceptance of evolution: A developmental view of Generation X in the United States,” Public Understanding of Science, vol. 33, no. 7, 2024.
  • Blaire Morseau (REL) and Les Field. “Anarchist Futures: Indigenous Influences in the Speculative World-Making of Ursula K. Le Guin,” Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 40, no. 1/2, 2025.
  • Blaire Morseau (REL), “Gdankobthegnanêk Ancestors or ‘the ones we are tied to through generations,’” in Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland, Bickford Berzock, Kathleen, Jordan Poorman Cocker and Janet Dees (eds.). Marquand Books, University of Washington Press, 2025.
  • Sarah Mountz, LeConté J. Dill (AAAS), Megan Willows, Jordan Dyett, “‘It’s okay to dream’: Navigating trauma, healing, and futuring among LGBTQ+ Black girls, transgender and nonbinary youth in New York State,” Children and Youth Services Review 163 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107755
  • Justus Nieland (ENG), “Better than Before: Moholy-Nagy’s Rehabilitation Program and Modernist Media Therapy at Midcentury,” in Modernism, Arts, Therapy, edited by Suzanne Hudson and Tanya Sheehan, Yale University Press, 2024.
  • Hannah Olsen (RCS), “Clémentine ou la contraception: reproductive health in a 1970s bande dessinée,“ Modern & Contemporary France, 33(1), 111–125. https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2024.2426601.
  • Hannah Olsen (RCS), “Legacies of the Colonial Mission: French Medical Student Perspectives on Family Planning in Tunisia, 1978-1985”, The Journal of the Western Society for French History 50: 4. doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/wsfh.5727
  • Ryan J. Petteway, Shanaé R. Burch, and LeConté J. Dill (AAAS), “The Art of Antiracism: Power, Poetry, and Creative Expression in the Struggle for Health Justice,” in Racism: Science & Tools for the Public Health Professional, 2nd edition, edited by Chandra L. Ford and Derek M. Griffith, APHA Press, 2024.
  • Natalie Phillips (ENG), “Distraction and the 18th-Century Essay,” in The Cambridge History of the British Essay, edited by Denise Gigante and Jason Childs, Cambridge University Press, 2024.
  • Frederick J. Poole (CeLTA), Matthew D. Coss, & Jody Clarke-Midura. “Developing stealth assessments to assess young Chinese learners’ L2 reading comprehension,” Language Learning & Technology, volume 29, number 2, February 2025. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/73613.
  • Baniya, S., Liza Potts (WRAC) (2024). “Role of translation in disaster.” Technical Communication and Social Justice. https://techcommsocialjustice.org/index.php/tcsj/article/view/38/28.
  • Rocío Quispe-Agnoli (RCS), “The Stains of the Mother: Indian Mothers and Mestizo Children in Early Colonial Peru.” Early Modern Maternities in the Atlantic. Ed. Nieves Romero-Díaz & Emily Colbert Cairns. Amsterdam University Press, 2024, p. 101-126.
  • Rocío Quispe-Agnoli (RCS), “Seguro que mi espíritu alma ya empezó a caminar: poética del sufrimiento y errancia del alma en el testimonio andino contemporáneo.” The Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies. 10.1-2 (2023): 39-61 (backlog, appeared in July 2024).
  • Aaron Schultz (PHL), “Attention, Diversion, and Distraction Technologies,” Philosophy and Technology, vol. 38, no. 1, Spring 2025.
  • Isis H. Settles, Martinique K. Jones, NiCole T. Buchanan, Kristie Dotson, Petal Grower, Michael O’Rourke (PHL, TDI), Marisa Rinkus (TDI), Kyjeila Latimer, “Epistemic Exclusion: A Theoretical Lens for Understanding Racism in Psychological Research,” American Psychologist, vol. 79, no. 4, 2024. doi.org/10.1037/amp0001313
  • Bruna Sommer-Farias (CeLTA),“Multilingualism and Multicompetence.” In Conducting Genre-based Research in Applied Linguistics: A Methodological Guide, edited byCharlene Polio and Matt Kessler, Routledge, 2023.
  • Kuhu Tanvir (ENG), “Mediating Bollywood Fandom through Short-Form Video Apps,” in The Routledge Handbook of South Asian Cinemas, edited by Jayson Beaster-Jones and Ajay Gehlawat, Routledge, 2025.
  • Imari Cheyne Tetu (WRAC), Sara Doan (WRAC), Liza Potts (WRAC), and Casey McArdle (WRAC), “Emerging practices in a11y communication design: Building accessible programs through accessible design.” Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, November 2024. https://doi.org/10.1145/3641237.3691671
  • Silvia Tita (RCS), “Before the Lateran and the Vatican: Restoration and Primacy Claims at Santi Silvestro e Martina ai Monti in the Seventeenth Century, Mirabilia Romae, December 2024.
  • Renée Wilmot (AAAS), “‘They Were Like Family: Locating Schooling and Black Girl Navigational Practices in Richmond, Virginia,” in Black Schoolgirls in Space: Stories of Black Girlhoods Gathered on Educational Terrain, edited by Esther O. Ohito and Lucía Mock Muñoz de Luna, Berghahn Books, Rutgers University Press, 2024.

Other Creative Writing

  • Michael Copperman (WRAC) published or has essays forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Cleaver, Bluestem, Unsaid, The Forge, Pithead Chapel, High Country News, Image, Stanford Magazine, and Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature. His hybrid memoir/narrative nonfiction project, Seeking Eden, has been acquired by University of Iowa Press, and will be published in Fall 2026.
  • Cheryl Caesar (WRAC) published poems in Writers Resist, Across the Margins, Highland Park Poetry, City Pulse, and The Thimble Literary Magazine.
  • Kimberly Priest (WRAC) published poems and nonfiction pieces in Copper Nickel, Relief: A Journal of Art & Faith, Nixes Mate Review, Permafrost Magazine, NELLE, Moon City Review, Bear Review, Midwest Review, Hole in the Head Review, Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality & the Arts, Terrain.org, Humana Obscura, ONEART, Another Chicago Magazine, The Café Review, and Rock & Sling.

Selected Presentations

  • Kristin Arola (WRAC, AIIS), “Indigenous Administration.” Native American and Indigenous Studies Organization Conference. Bødo, Norway. June 2024.
  • Adolfo Ausín (RCS), “Spanish “no sé qué”: Lexicalization, Syntactic Amalgam, or Both?” Poster presentation at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, January 2025.
  • Adam Brown (AAHD) and Rebekah Blesing (AAHD), “Necrochroma: Power, Exploitation, and the Ecological Impact of Color,” Artist Talk 9, 30th International Symposium on Electronic/Emerging Art, Seoul, Korea, May 2025.
  • Megan Dean (PHL), “The Ethics of Eating,” Cultures of Gender and Age Member Interest Group Webinar Series, The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 28 May 2025.
  • Heather Douglas (PHL), Opening keynote: “Defining responsible research in a political world,” Science and Democracy, University College, Dublin, Ireland, 9 September 2024.
  • Karthik Durvasula (LiLaC), First Oread Lecture at the University of Kansas, 6 April 2025.
  • Stephen Esquith (PHL), Invited talk: “Everyday Peacebuilding Through Democratic Political Education,” University of Seoul, November 2024.
  • Leonard Fleck (PHL), Keynote: “Wicked Problems for Priority-Setting and Democratic Deliberation,” Conference of the Bioethics, Policy, and Population Health division of the Medical School at the University of Bergen, Norway, August 2024.
  • Aline Godfroid (LiLaC), Plenary: “Unraveling the dynamics of implicit and explicit knowledge in second language acquisition,” International Symposium of Applied Linguistics Research. Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia, November 2024.
  • Zachary Kaiser (AAHD) and Gabi Schaffzin. Invited talk: “Art, Computing, and AI: How the Proverbial Sausage is Made and Why You Should Worry about the Proverbial Sausage Making Process.” Artist Lecture about commissioned work, Blessed is The Machine. Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI. 2 March 2024.
  • Catherine Kendig (PHL), Keynote: “Soil and what to make of it,” Understanding Life in a Changing Planet Conference, 20+2 Years of Egenis, the Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences. University of Exeter. Exeter, United Kingdom. April 2024.
  • Shawn Loewen (LiLaC), Keynote: “Exploring the relationship between instructed second language acquisition and L2 teaching.” 15th International Conference on TESOL, SEAMEO RETRAC, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 14 November 2024.
  • Christian Lotz (PHL), Keynote: “Reification 2.0: The Logic of Annihilation,” Utah Valley University, March 2025.
  • Casey McArdle (WRAC), “Empowering Youth with Disabilities: Achieving Inclusive Development through the Sustainable Development Goals. Global Youth Advancement Network.” Invited panelist discussing SDGs and inclusive environments for youth with disabilities, December 2024.
  • Blaire Morseau (REL), Keynote: “Sacred Servers and Cyber Star Charts: Indigenous Data Sovereignty in the Great Lakes Region.” Annual Day of Digital Humanities, Carleton College, 6 June 2025.
  • Robert Pennock (PHL), Keynote: “Scientific Virtues & Scientific Temper,” South and Central Asia Regional Fulbright Conference, Jaipur, India, February 2025.
  • Charlene Polio (LiLaC), Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities, Hong Kong Polytechnic: “Corpus and Genre-Based Perspectives on the Qualitative/Qualitative Divide in Applied Linguistics Research: Implications for Pedagogy and the Profession,” March 2025.
  • Trixie Smith (WRAC), “Collaborating Across Borders to Decolonize Writing Center Practices: A Case for Collaborating and Benchmarking.” South African Association of Academic Literacy Practitioners, 2024. Pretoria, South Africa. With Ronald Bisaso, Stella Kakeeto, Fredrick Muyodi, and Grace Pregent.
  • Betsy Sneller (LiLaC), Keynote: “Real Talk: Naturalistic speech in the MI Diaries corpus,” Midwest Speech and Language Days (MSLD). 15 April 2025.
  • Koen Van Gorp (CeLTA), Keynote: “Why Undergraduate Students Are (Not) Studying Languages: What Can We Do About It?,” The University of Chicago, 13 May 2025.
  • Joshua Yumibe (ENG), Invited lecture: “Color, Cinema, and the Impressionist Moment: Screening Series Introduction,” National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 19 October 2024.