English Department First Fridays Speakers
Cathy Schlund-Vials (UConn): War, Genocide and Justice
Mar 1, 12-1, Ham Smith 101

Dr. Schlund-Vials is Associate Professor of English and AsianAmerican Studies at the University of Connecticut-Storrs, where she is also Director of the Asian American Studies Institute.  She is the author of Modeling Citizenship, a study of how Jewish- and Asian-Americans wrestle with "model minority status" and citizenship in literature; and War, Genocide and Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work. 

For more info, contact Siobhan Senier at ssenier@unh.edu.

Future Events in this Series:
Apr. 5: Ryan Cordell (Northeastern U) on American Literature and Digital Humanities

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Spring 2013 CRGS and Queer Studies Reading Discussions

All discussions take place from 12-2 (unless otherwise noted) on Fridays.  Books are available for pick up in the Women's Studies office (203 Huddleston Hall).  Email Courtney (courtney.marshall@unh.edu) to rsvp and for more information.

February 1
Roderick Ferguson, The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference

February 15
H. Samy Alim and Geneva Smitherman, Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S.

March 8
Ann Cvetkovich,  Depression: A Public Feeling

March 22
Sharon Holland, The Erotic Life of Racism

April 12
Dean Spade, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law

April 19
Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman,  Against the Closet: Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 12:00 in Hamilton Smith 101
How to Fear and Loathe the Other: Chicano/a Literature and the Pedagogy of Brown
Prof. Stephanie Fetta, Assistant Professor, Spanish, Syracuse University

Professor Fetta specializes in Chicana/o and Latina/o literatures from a hemispheric perspective. Chicana/o and Latina/o literatures are an expression of indigenous, mestizo, and the Euroamerican social fabric of the Americas.  She deciphers social systems of oppression through these literatures, unpacking subaltern literary techniques resistant to hegemonic discourse. Her current scholarship looks at the role of shame as an emotive tool, socially cultivated to control marginalized peoples.  Professor Fetta notices that shame is paradigmatic in Chicana/o and Latina/o literatures. She is developing an emphasis on the indigenous in Chicana/o and Latina/o cultural production. Professor Fetta has written on the indigenous in Chicana/o cultural production, the Mexican indigenous, the Filipino in Chicana/o cultural memory, and Chicana/o aesthetic and indigenous spirituality.
Graduate students interested in critical race and ethnic studies are particularly welcome to meet Prof. Fetta to discuss work in progress.  For more information, contact Siobhan Senier at ssenier@unh.edu. 

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 12:00 in MUB 330
Intersections and Cul-de-sacs: Theorizing at the Margins of Blackness, Womanhood & Disability
Prof. Theri Pickens, Assistant Professor, English, Bates College

The UNH Department of English is pleased to kick off its 2012-13 "First Fridays" Speakers Series with Prof. Theri Pickens, whose scholarship on African American and Arab American literature and in Disability Studies we have long admired.  Her essays and poetry have appeared in Disability Studies Quarterly, Al-Jadid, Journal of Canadian Literature, Al-Raida, Save the Date, Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire, and the ground-breaking collection, Blackness and Disability: Critical Examinations and Cultural Interventions.  She is currently working on a book entitled Political Flesh: Narrating Black and Arab Embodied Experience in the Contemporary United States.
Graduate students interested in critical race and ethnic studies are particularly welcome to meet Prof. Pickens to discuss work in progress.  For more information, contact Siobhan Senier at ssenier@unh.edu. 

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