{"id":1070,"date":"2017-09-07T11:27:15","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T17:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2017-09-20T12:10:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T18:10:24","slug":"publishing-boom-for-als-faculty-and-graduate-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/blog\/2017\/09\/07\/publishing-boom-for-als-faculty-and-graduate-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Publishing Boom for ALS Faculty and Graduate Students"},"content":{"rendered":"

The faculty and doctoral students in American Literary Studies are riding a high wave of publications, with books and articles either recently published or immediately expected on the horizon, and a list of their publications highlights the areas of expertise within ALS and the group\u2019s unique balance of literary tradition and cultural innovation.<\/p>\n

Dr. Jesse Alem\u00e1n<\/strong>, professor and the Director of Literature, published\u00a0The Latino\/a Nineteenth Century<\/em>\u00a0(NYU Press, 2016), a co-edited collection of new essays charting nineteenth-century U.S. Latino\/a literary histories. He also saw the publication of his co-edited special issue of\u00a0American Literary Realism<\/em>, with fellow ALS faculty member Dr. Kathryn Wichelns, on \u201cMatters of Race in the Age of Realism\u201d (49.3, Spring 2017); he\u2019s expecting \u201cNarratives of Displacement in Places that once were Mexican\u201d in the forthcoming\u00a0Cambridge<\/em>\u00a0History of Latino-American Literature<\/em>; and he\u2019s completing a special issue of\u00a0English Language Notes<\/em>\u00a0(Duke UP) on \u201cLatinx Lives in Hemispheric Context,\u201d co-edited with Maria Windell, which is set to appear in Spring 2018.<\/p>\n

Oliver Baker<\/strong>, a PhD student, former Center for Regional Studies Hector Torres Fellow, and a current Mellon Dissertation Fellow, published two articles. The first,\u00a0\u201cWords Are Things\u201d: The Settler Colonial Politics of Post Humanist Materialism in Cormac McCarthy\u2019s\u00a0Blood Meridian<\/em>,\u201d appears in the Fall 2016 issue of\u00a0Mediations<\/em>\u00a030.1, and explores the politics of new materialism and the so-called posthuman turn by way of a new critique of\u00a0Blood Meridian<\/em>. See his article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The second piece, \u201cDemocracy, Class, and White Settler Colonialism,\u201d\u00a0appears in the June 2017 issue of\u00a0Public<\/em>\u00a0(28.55), and draws on Indigenous critical theory and Afro-pessimist theory to argue that theories of liberal democracy and worker-centered struggle fail to consider how coloniality continues to underpin neoliberal forms of exploitation and dispossession. Read it here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Finnie Coleman,\u00a0<\/strong>associate professor and former ALS director, expects the publication this fall of \u201cA Blueprint for Occupying Honors; Activism in Institutional Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Social Justice, and Academic Excellence\u201d\u00a0in\u00a0Occupy Honors Education<\/em>,\u00a0NCHC Diversity Monograph II.<\/p>\n

Jes\u00fas Costantino<\/strong>, assistant professor and the newest addition to ALS, recently published two articles.\u00a0\u201cHarlem in Furs: Race and Fashion in the Photography of Gordon Parks,\u201d appears in the 23.4 issue of\u00a0Modernism\/modernity<\/em>. The piece examines\u00a0Parks\u2019s fashion work for outlets like\u00a0Vogue<\/em>\u00a0alongside his documentary work for outlets like\u00a0Life\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Ebony<\/em>\u00a0and argues that commercial fashion informed Parks\u2019s thinking about racial politics and, as a consequence, the visual imaginary of the Civil Rights Movements as a whole. His second article,\u00a0\u201cThe Squared City: Prizefighting, Tenement Reform, and Spatial Physiognomy at the Turn of the Century,\u201d can be found in recent special issue of\u00a0American Literary Realism<\/em>\u00a0(49.3). The article\u00a0examines American Naturalist fiction, tenement reform documents, and boxing training manuals to argue that the parallel hermeneutics of the tenement and the prize-ring formalized race and ethnicity by way of formalizing space, binding the modern projects of racial and ethnic formation to what Henri Lefebvre calls \u201cthe production of abstract space.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Costantino also expects the August 2017 publication of \u201cPermadeath and Precarity,\u201d a special issue of\u00a0The Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds<\/em>\u00a0that he\u2019s co-editing with Alenda Chang (UCSB) and Braxton Soderman (UC Irvine). Drawing on Judith Butler\u2019s deployment of the term \u201cprecarity,\u201d Dr. Costantino and his co-editors contend that new video game experiments with the mechanics of death have arisen in response to the contemporary tenuousness of human existence in the face of anthropogenic climate change and neo-liberal economics. In this special issue, he and his co-editors argue that so-called \u201cpermadeath games\u201d are uniquely situated to voice the inherent precarity of what it means to live and play in the early twenty-first century.<\/p>\n

Bernadine Hern\u00e1ndez<\/strong>, assistant professor, placed her article, \u201cDying to Be Beautiful: (Re) Membering the Women of J\u00faarez and the Commodification of Death\u201d\u00a0in the Spring 2018 issue of\u00a0Women\u2019s Studies Quarterly<\/em>.\u00a0Through a\u00a0cultural studies analysis, the article looks at how\u00a0the production, consumption, and exploitation of the women\u2019s bodies and the very process of (re) membering them after death is not only the commodification their bodies but also the marketable illusion of their subjectivity to promote a conventional standard of beauty never available to women of color. Dr. Hern\u00e1ndez also expects to see her chapter, \u201c(Re) Signifying Gender and Sexuality for the Nueva Mexicana Historical Body: The Politics of Reading Place in Women\u2019s Tales from the New Mexico WPA: La Diabla a Pie,\u201d in the much-anticipated collection,\u00a0Querencia: Essays on the New Mexico Homeland<\/em>.\u00a0The chapter seeks to rethink how New Mexico and the material economic relations of the state that were tied to land, place, and labor resignify the Nueva Mexicana body politic by shifting how we understand the materiality and management of gender and sexuality in relation to sexual violence, production\/reproduction, and proper femininity.<\/p>\n

It also proved to be a banner year from the new assistant professor. Dr. Hern\u00e1ndez garnered the UNM New Teacher of the Year Award; she received grants from the Teaching Allocation Committee, the Feminist Research Institute, and the Center for Regional Studies; she was awarded the Stanford University Latin American Library Grant Residency; and she was named the 2017-2018 Faculty Research Scholar at UCLA\u2019s Institute of American Cultures and Chicano Research Center, where she\u2019ll be in residence for the year.<\/p>\n

Scarlett Higgins<\/strong>, assistant professor,\u00a0announces the Spring 2018 release of her book, Collage and Literature: The Persistence of Vision<\/em>, via Routledge Press. The book\u00a0analyzes how and why the history of literature and art changed irrevocably in the early years of the twentieth century, and what that change has meant for late modernism and postmodernism by focusing on \u201ccollage\u201d and its use of radical juxtaposition in the arts. By recovering the \u201cshock\u201d of collage, Dr. Higgins\u2019 book\u00a0restores collage to its multimedia origins in order to reveal its powerful and political affect.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, she has published, \u201cPurity of essence in the Cold War:\u00a0Dr. Strangelove<\/em>, paranoia, and bodily boundaries<\/a>\u201d in the January issue of\u00a0Textual Practice<\/em>. The essay\u00a0produces a new understanding of \u2018Cold War paranoia\u2019 via a psychoanalytic reading of Stanley Kubrick\u2019s 1963\u00a0Dr. Strangelove<\/em>, (alongside earlier Cold War films\u00a0My Son John<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Manchurian Candidate<\/em>) through which paranoia becomes a peculiarly\u00a0bodily<\/em>\u00a0mental disturbance.<\/p>\n

Matthew Hofer<\/strong>, associate professor and current ALS Director, expects to see his substantive chapter, \u201cFrom Imagism to Vorticism and\u00a0BLAST<\/em>: \u2018In a Station of the Metro\u2019 and other Early Poetry and Prose,\u201d in the MLA\u2019s forthcoming book\u00a0Approaches to Teaching Ezra Pound’s Poetry and Prose<\/em>. Meanwhile, Dr. Hofer\u2019s book series with UNM Press,\u00a0Recencies<\/em>, continues to roll out new critical volumes in the effort to promote research and recovery of twentieth-century poetics.<\/p>\n

Jana Koehler<\/strong>, a PhD student who recently passed her prospectus defense, published \u201cEpistolary Politics: A Recovered Letter from Frances E. W. Harper to William Still” in the\u00a0American Literary Realism<\/em>\u00a0special issue on \u201cMatters of Race in the Age of Realism\u201d (49.3 Spring 2017). The piece discusses a recovered letter from Frances Harper,\u00a0one of the most popular black women writers of the nineteenth century,\u00a0to\u00a0William Still, a noted abolitionist and friend, in which Harper discusses the wrongful imprisonment of a black\u00a0man named Jeff\u00a0Gee.<\/p>\n

Laurie Lowrance<\/strong>, a PhD student, expects to see her article \u201cResistance to Containment and Conquest in Sarah Winnemucca\u2019s\u00a0Life Among the Piutes<\/em>\u00a0and Mar\u00eda Amparo Ruiz de Burton\u2019s\u00a0Who Would Have Thought It?<\/em>\u201d appear in the February 2018 issue of\u00a0Western American Literature<\/em>. The\u00a0article focuses on the ways\u00a0Ruiz de Burton’s\u00a0Who Would Have Thought It?\u00a0<\/em>and Winnemucca’s\u00a0Life Among the Piutes<\/em>\u00a0work both through and against the conventions of the sentimental novel to document and resist the containment and conquest of Native American and Mexican American women in the nineteenth century.<\/p>\n

Lauren Perry<\/strong>, a PhD student, has two publications forthcoming.\u00a0The first is a chapter titled \u201cTeaching the History and Theory of American Comics: 20th Century Graphic Novels as a Complex Literary Genre,\u201d\u00a0in\u00a0Teaching Graphic Novels in the English Classroom: Pedagogical Possibilities of Multimodal Literacy Engagement<\/em>\u00a0(Palgrave Macmillan), a collection on teaching graphic novels in the English classroom in both high school and higher education. Her second publications are a number of entries\u2014on Alan Grant, Frank Quitely, Grant Morrison, and four others\u2014in the\u00a0Edinburgh Biographic Dictionary of Scottish Writers<\/em>, a biographical dictionary of notable Scottish writers (Edinburgh University Press).<\/p>\n

Melina Vizca\u00edno-Alem\u00e1n<\/strong>, who recently earned tenure and was promoted to associate professor and was granted a year\u2019s sabbatical, announces the fall 2017 publication of her book,\u00a0Gender and Place in Chicana\/o Literature: Critical Regionalism and the Mexican\u00a0American Southwest<\/em>\u00a0via Palgrave Macmillan\u2019s Literatures of the Americas Series. The book takes a critical regional approach to Chicana\/o literary and cultural studies, rethinking the field primarily from women\u2019s regional writing, and spans an analysis of early Mexican American writings, Chicana\/o literature, and Chicana art. Dr. Vizca\u00edno-Alem\u00e1n also expects to see her review essay of the scholarship on American Literature written in Spanish appear in the forthcoming pages of\u00a0American Literary Scholarship<\/em>\u00a02015 (edited by distinguished ALS emeritus, Dr. Gary Scharnhorst), and she also anticipates a chapter outlining the methodologies and approaches of Critical Race Theory in an anthology reader intended for undergraduate students new to literary theory.<\/p>\n

Kathryn Wichelns<\/strong>, assistant professor, published\u00a0“How to Teach in High Heels: Porn Studies in the Interdisciplinary Classroom\u201d in the February 2017 pages of\u00a0Radical Pedagogy\u00a0<\/em>(14.1) and announces that Palgrave Macmillan press will publish her book,\u00a0Henry James’s Feminist Afterlives: Annie Fields, Emily Dickinson, Marguerite Duras<\/em>, by the end of 2017.<\/p>\n

Julie Williams<\/strong>, a Bilinksi dissertation fellow and recently graduated doctoral student, expects her essay,\u00a0\u201cWestern Writers and Wheelchairs: Embodiment and Ability in\u00a0Waist High in the World<\/em>,\u201d to appear in the forthcoming book\u00a0The Matter of Disability<\/em>, edited by David Mitchell, Sharon Snyder, and Susan Antebi (U of Michigan Press, 2017).\u00a0Julie successfully defended her dissertation and completed her PhD in July 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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