{"id":159,"date":"2023-06-22T10:37:36","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T17:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/experimental-humanities\/?page_id=159"},"modified":"2024-09-19T12:38:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T19:38:58","slug":"people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/experimental-humanities\/people\/","title":{"rendered":"People"},"content":{"rendered":" \n\n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Erin Graff Zivin is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California, where she is Director of the USC Dornsife Experimental Humanities Lab and Acting Director of the Society of Fellows in the Humanities. She is the author of three books\u2014Anarchaeologies: Reading as Misreading (Fordham UP, 2020), Figurative Inquisitions: Conversion, Torture, and Truth in the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic (Northwestern UP, 2014), and The Wandering Signifier: Rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary (Duke UP, 2008)\u2014and is completing a fourth book on experimental transmedial aesthetics. Graff Zivin is the founder of the international \u201cWomen in Theory\u201d collective, serves on the Executive Council of the Modern Language Association, and oversees the digitization of the entire work of experimental filmmaker Narcisa Hirsch (a collaboration between the USC Dornsife Experimental Humanities Lab, USC Digital Library, and the Filmoteca Narcisa Hirsch).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n\n \n Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n Natalie Belisle\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Research Interests<\/em><\/p>\n

Contemporary Caribbean Literature, Visual Media, and Cultural Studies; Caribbean Phenomenology; Postcolonial and Decolonial theory; Political Philosophy; Speculative Fiction; Race and the African Diaspora in Latin America<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n\n \n Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Anthropology<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n Jenny Chio\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Media ethnography; Race, ethnicity, and nationalism; Anthropology of modernity; Collective memory; Cultural heritage; Tourism and migration; Documentary practice; Contemporary China<\/p>\n

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\n\n \n Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Literature <\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n Julian Gutierrez-Albilla\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Iberian cultural practices, namely cinema, dance, and performance art. Finitude, mourning, and trans-subjectivity in Latin American and European queer visual artists in the context of the AIDS epidemic. Queer theory, feminism, and psychoanalysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n\n \n Associate Professor of French and Italian and American Studies and Ethnicity<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n Edwin Hill\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n
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\n\n \n Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n Kara Keeling\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Afrofuturisms and Radical Imaginations, Black and Queer Cultural Politics, Sound and Music Studies, Digital Media<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n\n \n Annenberg, Vice Provost for the Arts<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n Josh Kun \n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Civic Engagement and Social Justice Culture and Media, Media Industries and Journalism<\/p>\n

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\n\n \n Assistant Professor of English<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n Jonathan Leal\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Music and Sound Studies; Transdisciplinarity \/ Undisciplinarity; Comparative Media Poetics; Relational Studies of Race and Ethnicity; Chicanx and Latinx Media and Literatures; Modernity\/Coloniality; U.S.-Mexico Border Aesthetics and Narratives; Speculative Inquiry<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n\n \n Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n Ronald Mendoza-De Jesus\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n
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\n\n \n Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, Comparative Literature, and East Asian Languages and Cultures<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n Akira Mizuta Lippit \n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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World cinemas, critical theory, Japanese film and culture, experimental film and video, and visual studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n\n \n Postdoctoral Scholar – Research Associate<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n Laura Nelson\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Literature, film, cultural history, and education<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n\n \n Associate Professor of English<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n Elda Maria Roman\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Latinx and Black Cultural Production, Race and Ethnicity, Class, 20th and 21st Century American Literature, Television and Film, Popular Culture, Women of Color Feminism<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Danzy Senna\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Danzy Senna\u00a0<\/b>is the author of five previous books, including the bestselling\u00a0Caucasia\u00a0<\/i>and, most recently,\u00a0New People,<\/i>\u00a0as well as a memoir.\u00a0<\/i>The recipient of numerous awards and honors, she teaches writing at the University of Southern California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n\n <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":306,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-159","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nPeople - Experimental Humanities Lab<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/experimental-humanities\/people\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"People - 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