Rebecca A. Lippman Rebecca A. Lippman is currently pursuing her PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on Latin American and Brazilian Literature. Prior to her graduate studies, Rebecca worked in financial research for emerging markets as well as recruitment for software engineers. Throughout graduate school she has…
David Laurence David Laurence is director of the MLA’s Office of Research and the Association of Departments of English (ADE). As director of the ADE, he serves as editor of the ADE Bulletin and is responsible for organizing the annual ADE summer seminar and coorganizing the joint ADE-ADFL summer seminar. As director of the Office…
Mariam B. Lam Mariam B. Lam is Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity and Inclusion, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Media & Cultural Studies, and Cooperating Faculty in Ethnic Studies at UC Riverside. She is founding co-editor of the Journal of Vietnamese Studies, and has co-edited anthologies on Southeast Asian art and literature, transnational and diasporic…
George Justice George Justice is Dean of Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Associate Vice President for Humanities and Arts in the Knowledge Enterprise Development at Arizona State University. A specialist in eighteenth-century British literature, Justice is the author and editor of scholarship on the literary marketplace, authorship, and women’s writing.…
Stacy Hartman Stacy Hartman received her PhD in German Studies in 2015 from Stanford University. Her dissertation, titled “The Ethics of Emotion: The Dialectic of Empathy and Estrangement in Postmodern German Literature and Film,” examined the disruption of readerly empathy in anti-fascist postwar German texts. While at Stanford, she wore many hats, including program coordinator,…
Beth Greene Beth Greene is responsible for scholarly communications at the University of California Humanities Research Institute. Her responsibilities include overseeing UCHRI’s social media and web presence and related programming initiatives. Beth holds a PhD in History from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focused on consumerism and popular culture in state socialist…
José Gomez José Gomez is a PhD student in Spanish letters and cultures at ASU; José is an ardent advocate for Spanish as a heritage language in the U.S. His research interests extend along the vast literary and cultural production in Spanish, and in Chicano/a literature in Spanish and English. He holds a BA in…
Sarah Goldberg Sarah Goldberg, a 2015-2016 Proseminar Fellow, received her PhD in 2016 from Columbia University, where she studied entertainment and consumer culture in early twentieth-century Argentina. Over the course of graduate school, she held positions at literary agencies, the university library, and the university writing center (in addition to sundry other places). She got…
David Theo Goldberg David Theo Goldberg is the Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute and the Executive Director of the Digital Media & Learning Research Hub. He holds faculty appointments as Professor of Comparative Literature, Anthropology, and Criminology, Law and Society at UC Irvine. Dr. Goldberg’s work ranges over issues of political…
Rosemary G. Feal Rosemary G. Feal has served as executive director of the Modern Language Association of America since 2002. Dr. Feal is on leave from her position as professor of Spanish at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, where she was chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. A…