Graduate Student Updates
Katy Chiles (English) has accepted an appointment beginning this fall as Assistant Professor of English at the University of Tennessee. This spring she presented her work on Hendrick Aupaumut’s “A Short Narration of My Last Journey to the Western Country” at the Society of Early Americanists annual meeting and at the Newberry Library Seminar in Early American History and Culture.
E. Corzo-Duchardt (Screen Cultures) presented a paper entitled “Three Transitions: Race, Gender, and Spatial Continuity in A Florida Enchantment” at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference in March.
Hollis Griffin (Radio/Television/Film) had his article, “Your Favorite Stars, Live On Our Screens: Media Culture, Queer Publics, and Commercial Space,” accepted for publication in the journal The Velvet Light Trap. This spring he presented papers at the Console-ing Passions conference and at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference.
Angela Maione (Political Science) is currently a Chateaubriand fellow and enrolled in Northwestern’s dual Ph.D. program with Sciences-Po, Paris.
Margo Miller (Radio/Television/Film) has been awarded the Sarah Pettit Dissertation Fellowship from Yale University’s LGBT Studies Program for 2008-2009. Miller published her article entitled “The Bob Cummings Show’s ‘Artists at “Work”’: Gender Transitive Programming and Counterpublicity” in the journal Spectator. She also presented a paper entitled “Him, Timmy, She’s The Ugliest Girl in Town: Commodified Countercultures and the Industrial Production of a Transgender Subject” at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference, a paper entitled “Is There a Queer Closet?: Quality Sitcom Straight Men and the Question of Self-identification” at the Console-ing Passions conference, and co-organized the Radio, Television, and Film Department’s Queer Media Symposium this spring.
Maxine Oland (Anthropology) organized a forum for the 73rd annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, entitled “Motherhood, Institutional Change, and the Future of Women in Archaeology.” The forum stimulated a discussion about how motherhood plays into women’s equity in the archaeological profession.
