Mond ay\, March 7\, 1pm CST // 2pm EST
Dissertation reform is an essential thread in the tapestry of reimagining doctoral education. More and more scholars are finding creative ways to share their scholarly r esearch and intellectual insights in dynamic\, engaging forms such as graph ic novels\, mobile games\, documentary films\, and more\, and are having an impact both within and beyond the academy. Join several humanities and soc ial science scholars and the advisors who have supported them to learn more about these projects and why this kind of work matters.
This event i s co-sponsored by the Graduate School at Syracuse University and the Andrew W. Mellon-funded Human ities for the Public Good Initiative at the University of Iowa Obermann Center for Advanced Studies. It celebrates the launch of the Next-Generation Dissertations website (S yracuse) and adds to the ongoing reflections on graduate education reform t aking place through the Humanities for the Public Good program (Iowa). It h as been coordinated in collaboration with Katina L. Rogers.
This virtual event was free and open to the pu blic. Watch the video here.
Lisa Diedrich is Professor and Chair of Women's\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook Unive rsity. She received her PhD in Women's\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies fro m Emory University in 2001. Since then she has taught in Women's\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook. Her research and teaching interests include critical medical studies\, disability studies\, feminist science st udies\, and interdisciplinary feminist and queer theories and methodologies . She is the author of Indirect Action: Schizophrenia\, Epilepsy\, AIDS \, and the Course of Health Activism (Minnesota\, 2016) and Treatme nts: Language\, Politics\, and the Culture of Illness (Minnesota\, 2007 ). She is also editor (with Victoria Hesford) of the collection Feminist Time Against Nation Time: Gender\, Politics\, and the Nation-State in an A ge of Permanent War (Lexington\, 2008) and a special issue of Femin ist Theory\, "Experience\, Echo\, Event: Theorising Feminist Histories\ , Historicising Feminist Theory" (August 2014). She is affiliated faculty i n the Department of Philosophy and with the PhD concentration in Disability Studies in the School of Health Technology and Management.
Sonia Estima is an Associate Professor at the Defense Language Institute in M onterey\, CA\, and currently serves as an Academic Specialist. She supervis es the Faculty Development and Immersion programs at the school. She succes sfully defended her dissertation\, Mult imodal Meaning Making\, in December 2020 at the University of Illin ois at Urbana-Champaign. Her current work and interests revolve around help ing teachers become engaged in their own professional development. Looking through the lens and the principles of critical pedagogy\, she tries to hel p faculty reflect on their practice and begin questioning their role in hel ping students and also themselves become critically conscious and develop a sense of agency in their practice—as teachers working in the classroom\, a nd also as writers and professionals. Watch a video introduction of Sonia Estima< i> from our interview archive\, and visit her website to learn more.
Matthew K. Go ld is Associate Professor of English and Digital Humanities at the Grad uate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). At the Graduate Cent er\, he holds teaching appointments in the Ph.D. Program in English\, the M .A. Program in Liberal Studies (MALS)\, the M.A. Program in Digital Humanit ies\, the M.S. Program in Data Analysis and Visualization\, and the doctora l certificate programs in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy and American Studies. He is Director of the M.A. Program in Digital Humanities and the M .S. Program in Data Analysis and Visualization. He serves as Advisor to the Provost for Digital Initiatives< /a>\, Director of the CUNY Academic Co mmons\, Co-Director of the CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative\, and Dir ector of the GC Digital Scholarship Lab. His collaborative digital humaniti es projects\, including Looking for Whitman\, Commons In A Box (with the CU NY Academic Commons team)\, Social Paper (with Erin Glass)\, DH Box (with S tephen Zweibel)\, and Manifold Scholarshi p (with Doug Armato\, Susan Doerr\, Zach Davis\, and the Manifold Team) have been supported by grants from the NEH Office of Digital Humanities\, the National Science Foundation\, the U.S. Department of Education\, the Al fred P. Sloan Foundation\, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, the Ford Found ation\, and the Carnegie Corporation.
Mary Kalantzis is Profes sor in the Department of Education\, Policy\, Organization and Leadership a t the University of Illinois\, Urbana-Champaign. She is a world leader in t he ‘new literacy studies’\, focusing on multimodality and diversity in cont emporary communications. In recent years she worked to conceptualize the na ture of communication and learning in the digital age\, focusing on the pol icy\, practice and pedagogical design implications of new technologies in e ducation\, from early childhood to higher education. With Bill Cope\, she i s co-author or editor of: Multiliteracies: Literacy Learning and the Des ign of Social Futures\, Routledge\, 2000\; New Learning: Elements of a Science of Education\, Cambridge University Press\, 2008/2nd edition 2012\; Ubiquitous Learning\, University of Illinois Press\, 2009\; and Literacies\, Cambridge University Press\, 2012. In recent years\ , her work has focused on developing and testing a web application supporti ng teachers in the pedagogical design process.
Jesse Merandy i s the Director of Digital Humanities and Digital Exhibitions (DH/DX) at Bar d Graduate Center. He received his PhD from The Graduate Center\, CUNY\, st udying mobile technology\, Walt Whitman\, and composition & rhetoric. His dissertation\, Vanishing Leave s\, is a location-based mobile experience which takes players to Br ooklyn Heights to learn about Walt Whitman in the neighborhood where he wro te and published the first edition of Leaves of Grass. Watch a video introduction of Jesse Merandy from our interview archive.
Ana M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez specializes in Early Modern Spanish Literat ure. She completed a Ph.D. in Spanish Literature at the University of Wisco nsin-Madison in 2007 and a second Ph.D. in Philology at the Universidad Com plutense (Madrid\, Spain) in 2021. She has published on a variety of topic s such as Christian-Muslim relations in the Mediterranean\, women’s writing \, and the Asian Spanish empire. Her passion for public engagement material ized in the exhibition Tan sabia como valerosa: mujeres y escritura en los Siglos de O ro (Wise and Valiant: Women and Writing in the Spanish Golden Age)\, wh ich she curated at the Instituto Cervantes (Madrid) in 2020 and whose onlin e version was named by the Smithsonian one of the top ten online exhibition s of the year.
Katina L. Rogers is the founder of Inkcap Consu lting and author of Putting the Humanities PhD to Work: Thriving in and bey ond the Classroom (Duke University Press\, 2020). With over a decad e of experience as a researcher\, administrator\, and educator\, Dr. Rogers works with colleges and universities to design and implement creative\, su stainable\, and equitable structures for graduate education. She holds a Ph D in Comparative Literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Justin Schell is the Director of the Shapiro Design Lab\, a peer and engaged learning community in the University of Michigan Library. In ad dition to his work at the Design Lab\, he is a filmmaker\, visual artist\, and podcast producer. He holds a PhD from the University of Minnesota’s Com parative Studies in Discourse and Society program\, where he completed We Rock Long Distance\, a multimodal dissertation and full-length documentary film on immigrant hi p-hop in Minnesota.
Kay Sohini is a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Fellow\ , a comics-maker\, and a PhD candidate in English at Stony Brook University \, where she is currently drawing her doctoral dissertation\, "Drawing Unbelonging" as a comic. As a Graphic-Medicine-centric project\, it engages the sociopolitica l through the lens of the personal\, to critically look at pressing issues of our time\, and to draw attention to systemic and interconnected issues p ertaining to race\, gender\, disability and environmental inequality. Her w ork on comics has been published in The Nib\, Graphic Mundi’s Cov id 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).
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