Category: Publications

We are thrilled to celebrate the recent publications of Prof. Stephanie R. Anderson:

• Post45: Daisy Aldan and Women Midcentury Small Press Publishers – This insightful article explores the contributions of women publishers in the mid-century small press movement.
• Textual Practice: Poetic transcribbling: Ted Berrigan & Harris Schiff’s Yo-Yo’s with Money and Beaned in Boston: Textual Practice: Vol 38 , No 6 – Get Access (tandfonline.com) – Prof. Anderson’s latest work in this esteemed journal offers a deep dive into textual practices.

Additionally, Prof. Anderson’s non-fiction piece is featured in the newest issue of Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts. Although the issue is not yet listed on their website, a physical copy is available for those interested in her compelling contribution.

We extend our heartfelt congratulations to Prof. Anderson for these significant achievements and her continued impact in the field.

Congratulations to Travis Wilkerson on His Peer-Reviewed Publication, UnDo Fellowship, and Global Film Success

Travis Wilkerson, Associate Professor, has recently achieved significant milestones in his career. His videographic essay, “Full Metal Kuleshov Effect: On ‘Full Metal Jacket,’ ‘79 Springtimes,’ and ‘The Little Girl of Hanoi,’” has been published in Volume 14.1 of Screen Works in 2024, a prestigious peer-reviewed journal dedicated to screen media research.

Additionally, Wilkerson has been awarded the UnDo Fellowship with UnionDocs: A Center for Documentary Art, where he will collaborate with renowned Brazilian film critic and programmer, Victor Guimarães, to explore radical filmmaking practices and new languages of documentary cinema.

Wilkerson’s creative work, “Through the Graves the Wind is Blowing,” which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) in the Encounters competition, continues to receive international acclaim. The film has been featured in several major festivals and has garnered notable press coverage, further establishing Wilkerson’s reputation in the global film scene.

Notable screenings and festivals for “Through the Graves the Wind is Blowing” include:

• World Premiere – Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) – Encounters Competition
• Feature Film Jury Mention – Festival International de Cine las Palmas de Gran Canary
• Aricadoc – Festival Nacional de Cine Documental, Chile
• Beldocs Echo Festival Tour – 20+ cities and towns, Serbia (August 2024 to March 2025)
• DocLisboa, Portugal
• Festival du nouveau cinéma de Montréal, Canada
• FICUNAM, Mexico
• Jeonju International Film Festival, South Korea
• São Paulo International Film Festival, Brazil
• Viennale, the Vienna International Film Festival, Austria
• Vilnius Documentary Film Festival, Lithuania

In addition to his film’s success, Wilkerson’s work has been highlighted in several prestigious publications, including Film Comment, Desist Film, The Film Stage, Variety, and The New York Times.

Wilkerson’s continued contributions to both academic and creative fields underscore his dynamic influence on contemporary cinema and documentary practices. We extend our heartfelt congratulations on these remarkable achievements!

Congratulations to Prof. Stephanie Anderson on her recent publications!

Bearings contains epistolary poems written to proliferating addressees between 2016 and 2019, a period when everything seemed to be accelerating and timezone-syncopated. The poems consider bearings that are alternatively affective, geographic, physical, and more.

Stephanie Anderson is an Assistant Professor of Literature & Creative Writing at Duke Kunshan University. Her research focuses on twentieth-century poetry, small-press publishing, and cultures of circulation. She is the author of three books of poetry, most recently If You Love Error So Love Zero (Trembling Pillow Press), as well as several chapbooks. She is also the editor of a book of interviews, Women in Small Press Publishing (forthcoming from the University of New Mexico Press in Fall 2024), and co-editor of All This Thinking: The Correspondence of Bernadette Mayer & Clark Coolidge (University of New Mexico Press). Her essays, poems, and interviews have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Chicago Review, Fence Steaming, Gulf Coast, Post45, Women’s Studies, and elsewhere. You can read more of her work at www.octoberinapril.com.

Congratulations to Titas Chakraborty on her recent publications!

Abstract

“Nederlandse slavernij in Zuid-Azië “(Dutch Slavery in South Asia) in Staat en Slavernij, eds, Rosemary Allen, Matthias van Rossum, Esther Captain, Urwin Vyent (Athenaeum, 2023) 

This chapter provides an overview of the nature and impact of slavery and slave trade as carried out by the Dutch East India company in South Asia. The chapter was part of a book commissioned by the Dutch Ministry by the Ministry of Interior and Kingdom Relations (BZK), as a direct result of a motion filed by Dutch parliamentary Don Ceder which asked the Dutch government to present the results of independent national research into the history of slavery and into “what took place at the time of slavery, on behalf of whom and how” before the end of 2023. The publication of the book accompanied the King of Netherlands’ public apology for the Dutch state’s involvement in slavery and slave trade.

“Slavery in the Indian Ocean World” in The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery, eds, Damian Pargas and Juliane Schiel (Palgrave MacMillan 2023)  

This chapter provides a comprehensive history of various forms of slavery in what came to be known in historical works as the Indian Ocean World, or a specific zone of multi-regional connections through maritime practices. It explores the dynamics of enslavement including the trade in slaves, the range of work that enslaved men and women performed, and the possibilities of social mobility for slaves and ex-slaves. In doing so, the chapter familiarizes readers with three major historiographical debates in the field, namely, who/what constituted the figure of a slave; the relationship between slavery in the Indian Ocean world and other forms of bondage such as the Atlantic slavery and indentured servitude; and the relationship between abolition and colonialism in the Indian Ocean world. 

Biography

Titas Chakraborty is Assistant Professor of History. Her work focusses on slavery, labor, migration and gender in South Asia and the Indian Ocean World.

Congratulations to Caio Yurgel on his recent publication!

God, a Metaphor: A Meditation on Alejandra Pizarnik’s ‘Awakening.’ TEXT 27 (Special 70): 1–14. 2023.

Abstract

Alejandra Pizarnik’s life was a long preparation for suicide. But instead of letting the Argentine poet’s death define her legacy, this article will focus on her intellectual sparring with the notion of God – and her ultimate strategy of turning God into a strawman for her own processes of creation. In her diaries, Pizarnik vows – like a prayer – never to call on God, never to invoke him. This is, she writes, the ultimate test: her blood may boil, her screams may consume her, her veins may burst, but she would rather keep her mouth shut. Pizarnik couldn’t bring herself to believe in God – which means she couldn’t stop writing about him.

This article will centre its analysis on Pizarnik’s most famous poem, “Awakening,” in which she repeatedly invokes the Lord (“Lord / the cage has turned into a bird / and taken flight”) until she turns him into something else, something darker still. By resorting to her diaries spanning the late 50s until her death in the early 70s, as well as her connection to the oeuvres of Sylvia Plath, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Jacques Lacan, this article will show how Pizarnik – labeled as a “gifted girl” – was placed (and placed herself) in the impossible position of being expected to be ambitious (because she was gifted) but not too ambitious (because she was a woman). “Awakening,” written and published between 1956 and 1958, articulates the turning point of Pizarnik’s extreme position toward God: how can someone who pushed herself so hard accept a God that would be willing to forgive anything? Continue reading “Congratulations to Caio Yurgel on his recent publication!”

Congratulations to Hyun Jeong Ha on her new article!

Klocek, J., Ha, H., & Sumaktoyo, N. G. (2023). Regime change and religious discrimination after the Arab uprisings. Journal of Peace Research 60.3: 489–503.  Continue reading “Congratulations to Hyun Jeong Ha on her new article in the Journal of Peace Research and the Excellent Academic Book Award”

Congratulations to Gürol Baba, Global Fellow of Arts and Humanities at DKU, on the recent publication of a special issue on the theme of South Asian Impulses in the Middle East: An Asymmetrical Transregionalism, in the Journal of Asian and African Studies, which he guest edited with his colleague Amit Ranhan. The issue features Baba and Ranjan’s introduction, as well as Baba’s research article Middle East–South Asia Relations: Transregional Minilateralism Cemented with Bilateralism.
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Congratulations to Assistant Professor of Humanities, Caio Yurgel, on his newly published article in the Hispanic Review: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article/880292/pdf Continue reading “Congratulations to Caio Yurgel on his new article in the Hispanic Review”

Continue reading “Congratulations to Stephanie Anderson, for her recent publications”

Gürol Baba, Jay Winter, “The Wilsonian Moment at Lausanne, 1922–1923”, Journal of Modern European History, 2022, Vol. 20(4) 536–553

Using Turkish, British, French, and Australian archival records, this article examined the background and diplomatic strategies of the Turkish delegation at the Treaty of Lausanne and its selective understanding of self-determination, excluding non-Turkic and non-Muslim people in Anatolia from the ‘self’ that has the right to determine its national existence. It also explored the reasons why the Allies acknowledged this exclusion in the Treaty of Lausanne of 1923. The article borrowed from Erez Manela’s interpretation of the ‘Wilsonian moment’ to frame these diplomatic and political developments and to show how and why the democratic intent of Wilson’s idea of self-determination vanished in the framing of the Peace Treaty of Lausanne in 1923. Continue reading “Congratulations, Gürol Baba and Jay Winter on their recent publication!”