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Spring 2026 Unit Affiliated Courses

Digital Lives

Amanda Ciafone (Media and Cinema Studies)

Problems in the History of Science and Medicine

David Sepkoski (History)

Michel Foucault: Power

Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson (Philosophy)

New Urban Inequalities

David Wilson (Geography)

Living in Multi-Species Worlds

Jane Desmond (Anthropology)

Rewilding Nature: World Literature and the Anthropocene

Ramon Soto-Crespo (English)

Queer Theory, For Now

Siobhan Somerville (English)

New Media Theory

James Hay (Media)

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Nicholson Fellowship 2026 Awarded to Namita Gupta and Adil Zahoor
Namita Gupta and Adil Zahoor have been awarded 2026 Nicholson Fellowship to attend School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University.  In an intensive six-week course of study, participants work with a faculty of distinguished scholars in one of four...
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Faculty Affiliate Wail S. Hassan Elected Second Vice President of the Modern Language Association
Waïl S. Hassan (Professor, Comparative & World Literature and English) was elected Second Vice President of the Modern Language Association (MLA) in December 2024. His term began in January 2025 and will continue through January 2026. Following the MLA’s leadership succession, Professor Hassan...
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Nicholson Fellowship 2025 Awarded to Alex Kaiser and Umair Rasheed
Umair Rasheed (PhD candidate, Sociology) and Alex Kaiser (PhD student, Sociology) have been awarded 2025 Nicholson Fellowship to attend School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University.  In an intensive six-week course of study, participants work...

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