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< p>Creative dissertation formats can open doors\, helping you bring together unique skills and research\, create a project with a significant public im pact\, and breathe life into scholarly work. More and more scholars are sha ring their scholarly research and intellectual insights in dynamic\, engagi ng forms such as graphic novels\, mobile games\, documentary films\, and mo re\, and are having an impact both within and beyond the academy. Join seve ral humanities and social science scholars to learn more about these projec ts\, discuss why this kind of work matters\, and get advice on how to navig ate potential hurdles at your own institution.

Speakers

Sonia Estima is an Associate Professor at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey\, CA\, and currently serves as an Academic Specialist . She supervises the Faculty Development and Immersion programs at the scho ol. She successfully defended her dissertation\, Multimodal Meaning Making\ , in December 2020 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her c urrent work and interests revolve around helping teachers become engaged in their own professional development. Looking through the lens and the princ iples of critical pedagogy\, she tries to help faculty reflect on their pra ctice and begin questioning their role in helping students and also themsel ves become critically conscious and develop a sense of agency in their prac tice—as teachers working in the classroom\, and also as writers and profess ionals. Watch a video introduction of Sonia Estima from the NextGenDiss int erview archive\, and visit her website to learn more.

Ivan Go nzalez-Soto is a PhD student with the Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Group at the University of California\, Merced. His cross-discipl inary research draws from environmental studies\, history\, and ethnic stud ies\, and explores questions about race\, labor\, and technology in the ari d American West. He is especially interested in the waterways and workers o f twentieth century California’s Imperial Valley\, and his work aims to bet ter understand the Valley’s past in relation to the region’s contemporary e nvironment. Learn more about Ivan Gonzalez-Soto’s work on his website.

< p>Jesse Merandy is the Director of Digital Humanities and Digital Exhibitions (DH/DX) at Bard Graduate Center. He received his PhD fr om The Graduate Center\, CUNY\, studying mobile technology\, Walt Whitman\, and composition & rhetoric. His dissertation\, Vanishing Leaves\, is a loc ation-based mobile experience which takes players to Brooklyn Heights to le arn about Walt Whitman in the neighborhood where he wrote and published the first edition of Leaves of Grass. Watch a video introduction of Jesse Mera ndy from the NextGenDiss interview archive.

Justin Schell is the Director of the Shapiro Design Lab\, a peer and engaged learni ng community in the University of Michigan Library. In addition to his work at the Design Lab\, he is a filmmaker\, visual artist\, and podcast produc er. He holds a PhD from the University of Minnesota’s Comparative Studies i n Discourse and Society program\, where he completed We Rock Long Distance\ , a multimodal dissertation and full-length documentary film on immigrant h ip-hop in Minnesota.

Kay Sohini is a Mellon/ACLS Dis sertation Fellow\, a comics-maker\, and a PhD candidate in English at Stony Brook University\, where she is currently drawing her doctoral dissertatio n\, “Drawing Unbelonging” as a comic. As a Graphic-Medicine-centric project \, it engages the sociopolitical through the lens of the personal\, to crit ically look at pressing issues of our time\, and to draw attention to syste mic and interconnected issues pertaining to race\, gender\, disability and environmental inequality. Her work on comics has been published in The Nib\ , Graphic Mundi’s Covid Chronicles\, Women Write About Comics\, and Inside Higher Ed\, amongst others. She works on the editorial team of The Comics G rid\, and in the Executive Committee of the International Comic Arts Forum (ICAF).

Moderator

Katina L. Rogers is the fo under of Inkcap Consulting and au thor of Putting the Humanities PhD to Work: Thriving in and beyond the Cla ssroom (Duke University Press\, 2020). With over a decade of exper ience as a researcher\, administrator\, and educator\, Dr. Rogers works wit h colleges and universities to design and implement creative\, sustainable\ , and equitable structures for graduate education. She was an integral part of the HASTAC team for seven years\, and holds a PhD in Comparative Litera ture from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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