Ricardo Ortiz Ricardo Ortiz is Chair of the English Department at Georgetown University, where he is also an Associate Professor of US Latino Literature. His first book, Cultural Erotics in Cuban America, was published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2007, and he is currently working on a second book entitled The Testimonial Imagination:…
Stephen Olsen Stephen Olsen is Associate Director of Research and Manager of Digital Services at the Modern Language Association, and he currently oversees the MLA’s Mellon-funded initiative Connected Academics: Preparing Doctoral Students of Language and Literature for a Variety of Careers. He holds a PhD in English from the State University of New York at…
Glen Mimura Glen Mimura is an associate professor of film and media studies at the University of California, Irvine. His research interests include Asian American film and media, the history and theory of political cinema, and the interrelations between popular cultures and social movements. His experience in campus governance and administration include Academic Senate chairships…
Tyrus Miller Tyrus Miller is Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies and Professor of Literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is author of Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts Between the World Wars (U of California P, 1999); Singular Examples: Artistic Politics and the Neo-Avant-Garde (Northwestern UP, 2009); Time…
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Molly McCarthy Molly McCarthy is the Associate Director of the UC Davis Humanities Institute. With a PhD in history from Brandeis University and a master’s in journalism from Columbia University, McCarthy is dedicated to supporting public humanities scholarship at UC Davis that has an impact on the social, economic and cultural vitality of the region.…
Annie Maxfield Annie Maxfield has been helping PhDs prepare for their career of choice for the past 6 years at UCLA and previously at Duke University. At UCLA she leads campus-wide faculty, employer, graduate student collaborations to develop and prepare graduate students professionally. She chairs the user experience committee for the Imagine PhD project and…
Julia Lupton Julia Lupton is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, with a joint appointment in Education. She is Associate Dean of Research for the School of Humanities and Faculty Director of Illuminations, the Chancellor’s arts and culture initiative. In 2014, she was elected Trustee of the Shakespeare Association…
Shannon Lujan Shannon Lujan is the Program Manager for Graduate Academic Initiatives, Graduate Education at Arizona State University (ASU). She is also a doctoral candidate in the Department of English where she studies contemporary American multi-ethnic literatures. Shannon was the ASU 2015-16 Connected Academics Fellow, a 2014-15 research assistant with a Carnegie Humanities Investment Fund…
Dennis Looney Dennis Looney has worked at the Modern Language Association of America as director of the Office of Programs, overseeing projects related to the profession, and director of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (ADFL), overseeing projects focused on non-English languages, since 2014. Previously, Looney taught Italian at the University of Pittsburgh, with…