{"id":1185,"date":"2018-01-09T13:35:21","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T20:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2018-02-01T14:28:59","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T21:28:59","slug":"assistant-professor-conducts-webinar-for-the-national-humanities-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/blog\/2018\/01\/09\/assistant-professor-conducts-webinar-for-the-national-humanities-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Assistant Professor Conducts Webinar for the National Humanities Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In early November, Assistant Professor Jes\u00fas Costantino conducted a free, public webinar for the National Humanities Center. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/nhceducation\">The webinar<\/a>, with the deceptively simple title, \u201cThe Graphic Novel,\u201d offered a complex analysis of the history of the graphic novel form, of its technical peculiarities, of its socio-political impacts, and of its uses in the classroom. The webinar was part of the National Humanities Center\u2019s ongoing \u201cHumanities in Class\u201d series that enables the public and educators to hear from and interact with leading scholars from across the humanities on a range of topics. This particular webinar grew out of Dr. Costantino\u2019s ongoing development of comics and graphic novel courses at UNM and out of his research engagements with the politics of visual culture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Costantino also recently published a co-edited special issue titled, \u201cPermadeath and Precarity\u201d for\u00a0<em>The Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds<\/em>.\u00a0Drawing 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 neoliberal 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<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additionally, Dr. Costantino presented material from what will be his second book project at the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) Conference in Oakland, California. The talk, titled \u201cFungus, Brains, Twinkies: Flavors of Apocalypse,\u201d analyzes recent work about the ecological end times, including the film\u00a0<em>Zombieland<\/em>\u00a0and Anna Tsing\u2019s anthropological study\u00a0<em>The Mushroom at the End of the World<\/em>, and looks closely at the many self-reflective moments of eating found in works about the end of the world. Similar to the well known food-based epiphanies found in Marcel Proust\u2019s\u00a0<em>In Search of Lost Time<\/em>\u00a0and Ralph Ellison\u2019s\u00a0<em>Invisible Man<\/em>, eating in the end times functions as a kind of history-breaking epiphany in the apocalyptic imaginary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early November, Assistant Professor Jes\u00fas Costantino conducted a free, public webinar for the National Humanities Center. The webinar, with the deceptively simple title, \u201cThe Graphic Novel,\u201d offered a complex analysis of the history of the graphic novel form, of its technical peculiarities, of its socio-political impacts, and of its uses in the classroom. 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