David Li

Professor David Leiwei Li, University of Oregon Department of English, recently received a Fulbright Distinguished Chair Award. He will lecture and do research at Chelsea School of Art and Design, the University of Arts, London from January through June 2013. Li is also a faculty affiliate of the Center for the Study of Women in Society.

“It was a great honor to have won the fellowship,’ said Li. “As a Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the University of the Arts, London, I shall complete my ongoing monograph, Globalization on Speed: Economy, Emotion, and Ethics in Contemporary Chinese Cinema, under contract with Stanford University Press. Besides enabling me to devote time to research, I also cherish the opportunity Fulbright has provided for me to have interdisciplinary intellectual exchange with the dynamic colleagues in London, UK, and the European scholarly community.” continue reading….

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Jane Grant Room
330 Hendricks Hall
1408 University St.
UO campus

“Technology, Gender and Education for Development: The One Laptop Per Child Project in Ghana”

Leslie Steeves, Professor, UO School of Journalism and Communication, will talk about her research and show a clip from her documentary-in-progress.

Asian American Literature (4-volume set),
edited by David Leiwei Li
Co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse
(May 2012)
2,240 pages

Publisher’s Synopsis

“… As research on and around Asian-American literature continues to flourish, this new title from Routledge answers the urgent need for an authoritative reference work to map its vast critical terrain. The collection will enable users to make sense of the rapidly growing, and ever more complex, corpus of scholarly literature which explores—among many others—dizzying questions about racial diversity and identity, cultural history, and literary value….”

David Leiwei Li is Collins Professor of the Humanities, UO Department of English, and a CSWS faculty affiliate.

UO graduate teaching fellow accepted into Chicago comics program

May 15, 2012—“Mara Williams has been drawing her entire life. The graduate teaching fellow in the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication is a self-described, consummate scribbler and doodler.” Read more….

“Filling Out Application,” or, “My Life on the Internet” copyright by Mara Williams.

UO graduate student Mara Williams has been accepted at the Mistress level to the Adventure School for Ladies: Comics Intensive, a residential program focused on increasing diversity in the comics industry. Mara is only one of two artists accepted at the Mistress level. The program runs in Chicago from June 4- 17, 2012.

Williams is an illustrator, zinester, and third-year PhD student in Communication and Society, through the School of Journalism and Communications at the University of Oregon. Recent academic projects include studies of post-feminist and post-racist logics in online fandom, open source online archives, and queer religious blogs. She is also active in Fembot, a special project of the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society. continue reading….

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May 9, 2012—Whether she is documenting the deadly effects of open-fire cooking and heating on children and women in Mayan homes in highland Guatemala, rescuing the history of indigenous women in Mexico, or writing about the geographical expansion and institutional growth of the Spanish telecommunications company Telefónica, UO associate professor and documentary filmmaker Gabriela Martínez (SOJC) carries out her work with a mixture of heart, intelligence, and skill that brings life and gravitas to the product. Co-creator with Lynn Stephen (Anthropology) in 2010-11 of the Latino Roots class, which culminated in the making of 18 oral history documentaries by UO students, Martínez has spent her 2011-12 sabbatical year in part by documenting historical atrocities from Guatemala’s civil war and conducting research for a book about the political economy of collective memory.

Soon she will be taking on a new post with the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society. In making the announcement, CSWS director Carol Stabile said: “Gabriela is a fantastic colleague, collaborator, scholar, and documentary-maker. I am delighted that she will be joining CSWS in the fall as associate director.” continue reading….