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Professor Amy Farrell
Amy Farrell, the James Hope Caldwell Memorial Chair and professor of American studies and women’s, gender & sexuality studies, has been named a 2021–22 fellow at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, one of the world’s leading centers for interdisciplinary exploration. Farrell will join an extraordinary group of artists, scientists, scholars and practitioners who will learn from and inspire one another in a year of discovery and interdisciplinary exchange in Cambridge, Mass.
The acceptance rate for the class, which represents nine countries, was 2.4%, from 1,383 applications. “The 2021-22 fellowship cohort is characterized by intellectual reach, excellence in scholarship, and creativity,” said Radcliffe Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin, who is also the Daniel P. S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School and a professor of history in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. “Many of them are also focused on the most urgent problems of the day.
An illuminating comparison of Ann Petry s
The Street and Gwendolyn Brooks s
Maud Martha with Cynthia Kadohata s
The Floating World and Chang-rae Lee s
Native Speaker by You-me Park and Gayle Wald ( Native Daughters in the Promised Land: Gender, Race, and the Question of Separate Spheres,
AL 70: 607-33) establishes the extent to which minority literature represents the boundaries between public and private spheres in the United States and how these boundaries reinforce and overlap class and gender lines. The critics conclusion is that both the African American and Asian American groups are feminized (in the sense of being marked under the sign of the feminine).
Ayshia
Carmen Hernandez Ojeda, with
Bryant Keith Alexander, received the 2020 Ellis-Bochner Autoethnography and Personal Narrative Research Awards for their coauthored article “‘I’m Sorry My Hair is Blocking Your Smile:’ A Performative Assemblage and Intercultural Dialogue on the Politics of Hair and Place.” The Ellis-Bochner Autoethnography and Personal Narrative Research Award is sponsored by Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction Affiliate of the NCA. In addition, many other faculty and grad students presented sessions at the conference, including emeritus faculty and Ph.D. program graduates who participated. Those include:
Victoria Alcazar: “This Much of the Flour and This Much of the Spice:” Women’s Storytelling as Creating Embodied Archives of Resistance in the Space of the Kitchen