GLASsy Faculty Newz

GLASsy Faculty Newz is a short newsletter that highlights the scholarship, teaching, and community-engaged work of core, affiliated, and visiting faculty in GLAS.

ISSUE 3: June 3, 2024 Heading link

Featured Publications

2023. “Decompositional Forms: Asiatic Disfigurement, Sensorial Excess, and Queer Inhumanisms in Candice Lin’s Natural History” in Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures in the Americas, vol 8 (1-2): 86-111, Brill.

Michelle Lee is currently a HILLS (Humanities in Leadership Learning Series) postdoctoral fellow at Case Western Reserve and will be joining GLAS in Fall 2024. She received her Ph.D. in American Studies at the University of Minnesota with a minor in Public History.

2023. “The Art and Craft of Mathematical Expression: Computational Origami and the Politics of Creativity,” Osiris 38: 82-102.

Clare S. Kim is an assistant professor of History and Global Asian Studies who specializes in the history of science and technology, STS, modern US and Asian American history, and critical race and media studies. Her scholarship examines the history of twentieth and twenty-first century mathematical and computational sciences, with a particular focus on their entanglements in US intellectual and political life. She is especially interested in the place of Asians and Asian Americans as targets and agents of data, information, and computation.

2023. “Sonic Infidelities: Performing Time, Space, and Nonalignment in Hu’o’ng Ngô’s In the Shadow of the Future.” Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures in the Americas, vol. 8, no. 1-2, Brill.

Justin Quang Nguyên Phan is working on his book project tentatively entitled Embodied Nonalignment: Vietnamese Diasporic Aesthetics and Cold War Mediations, which is a transnational study of race, war, and empire through Vietnamese diasporic cultural productions. He is also working on a number of writings about Vietnamese diasporic art, and participated in a group exhibition with other contemporary Vietnamese artists in Chicago called A VILLAGE BEFORE US, which ran from November to December of 2023. He also has a forthcoming essay with the Fine Arts Center on Hưưng Ngô’s recent exhibition called Ungrafting that took place in Colorado Springs. https://www.avillagebeforeus.

2023. “Indeterminacies: Queer Tales of Love and Suffering.” Feminist Review 133(1): 48-62.

Themal Ellawala is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology who is committed to studying gender and sexuality in Sri Lanka. Their work explores how deeply political discourses of gender and sexuality are, in the process challenging the erasure of these phenomena from political narratives in the country as well as the insufficiencies of Euro-American theory-making in attending to the nuances of a place like Sri Lanka. This semester Themal is an adjunct lecturer in GLAS teaching GLAS/GWS 263: Asian American Gender & Sexual Diversity.

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ISSUE 2: December 4, 2020 Heading link

Shout out to all the important work that is happening in our GLAS community with respect to engaging the public!

Drum roll…

August 16, Mary Anne Mohanraj did a very cool cooking segment from her cookbook, Serendib which was featured on local TV! And you don’t want to miss out on the kale sambol recipe!

September 1, Mark Martell’s work on exploring the racialized experiences of Asian American male students is one of the chapters featured in this upcoming edited volume, Teaching to Close the Achievement Gap for Students of Color: Understanding the Impact of Factors Outside of the Classroom.

September 20, Karen Su was featured as one of the faculty members featured by the UIC bonfire – the only UIC student-run newspaper.

September 28, Michael Jin was quoted on an article published by the National Trust for Historic Preservation article regarding the heartbreaking Harada House in California which represents the long history of anti-Asian exclusionary policies and the impact on a Japanese American family.

September 30, Nadine Naber just published an important OpEd in Ms. Magazine on her work with mothers of victims of police brutality. Also check out her blog on radical mothering for abolition!

September 27, Anna Guevarra did a 30-minute lightning teach-in with the UIC-Anakbayan student organization on the Philippines’ labor export program.

We have a couple of projects that have recently been funded!

July 1, Anna Guevarra and Gayatri Reddy received a COVID-19 Rapid Response Policy and Social Engagement Fellowship (PSEF) from the UIC Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy for a project, “Pan de Mic Stories: Tracing the Impact of COVID-19 on Filpino/a/x careworkers in Chicago.

August 4, Nadine Naber received a Civic Engagement Research Award from the UIC Institute for Policy and Civic Engagement for her project, “Integrating Mothers of Color into Policy Processes on Prisons and Immigration”

Congratulations everyone!