Faculty Publications

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FEMINIST STUDIES

• NEEL AHUJA

  "Reversible Human: Rectal Feeding, Plasticity, and Racial Control in US Carceral Warfare," Social Text (38:2, 2020: 19-27)

  Discussion of forthcoming book: Planetary Specters: Race, Migration, and Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century, University of Wisconsin Center for 21st Century Studies, Nov. 13, 2020

   

• BETTINA APTHEKER

  Democratic Women’s Club of Monterey County Keynote, “Woman Suffrage Centennial, the 2020 Presidential Election, and the Ongoing Movement for Voting Rights,” March 18, 2021

  Teach-in panel discussion: “Angela Davis & Beginning A Black Feminist History,” 2021 Human Rights Institute Lecture Series: “Dr. Angela Davis and the Indispensability of Black Feminism and Socialism in 2021,” San Jose State, Feb. 9, 2021

  Live Watch Party: “Free Angela & All Political Prisoners,” post-film Q&A, 2021 Human Rights Institute Lecture Series: “Dr. Angela Davis and the Indispensability of Black Feminism and Socialism in 2021,” San Jose State, Feb. 1, 2021

  “Celebrating Woman Suffrage & the Ongoing Struggle for Voting Rights,” live-stream presentation and Q&A presented by the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, San Jose State University, Oct.22, 2020 

  “Woman Suffrage & the Ongoing Struggle for Voting Rights,” panel hosted by Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, Aug. 9, 2020

  “Seeds of Something Different: An Oral History of UCSC: Open the Door: Finding a Place on a Very White Campus (1990s),  July 1, 2020

  “If They Come in the Morning: Writing from Prison with Angela Davis,” Polity of Literature #7, Arts Everywhere. Canadian Arts Foundation, June 11, 2020

   

• ANJALI ARONDEKAR

  Keynote address: “Abundance: Sexuality’s Archives” – “Re-Mapping Memory: Possibilities of Postcolonial and Anti-Racist (Counter)Archiving” conference, GSS: Program in Gender & Sexuality Studies, Princeton University, March 18, 2021

  Curated “Towards Justice” 2020-2021 lecture series, Center for South Asian Studies

  “Is India becoming a fascist state?” global roundtable hosted by Australia's New South Wales Parliament, Nov. 26, 2020

  Los Angeles Times interview: “Will Trump’s efforts to attract Indian-American voters pay off?,” Oct. 31, 2020

  “Kamaal or Not: Kamala Harris and South Asia,” IndicaNews, Aug. 27, 2020

  “Thinking the Pandemic, Part II,” THI-The Humanities Institute, May 13, 2020

   

• NEDA ATANASOSKI

  Co-organized “Beyond Surveillance: The Capacity and Creep of Caring Relations,” Georgia Institute of Technology, April 1 + 8, 2021

  “A conversation on imperial legacies and postsocialist contexts: Notes from a US-based feminist collaboration,” co-authored with Kalindi Vora, Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialoges: Intersections, Opacities and Challenges in Feminist Theorizing and Practice, (Routledge, March 2021), eds. Redi Koobak, Madina Tlostanova and Suruchi Thapar-Bjorkert, pgs 29-39

   

• KAREN BARAD

  Keynote: “Re-membering Time/s: For the Time-Being,” Material Life of Time Conference, March 15, 2021

  “Nuclear Colonialisms, Matters of Force, and the Material Force of Justice,” Harvard Gender Studies & Northeastern, March 10, 2021

  Keynote: “On Touching the Stranger Within – The Alterity that Therefore I Am,” Indeterminacy Conference, Dundee, Scotland, Nov. 14, 2020

  “On Touching the Stranger Within – The Alterity that Therefore I Am,” The Poetry Project (NYC), Nov. 5, 2020

  “Touching Upon Touching (at the limit),” video reading of poem authored and read by Karen Barad, with artist Blanca Rego, Barcelona Biennale of Thought, October 2020

  “Political Desirings: Yearnings for Mattering (,) Differently,” interview with Daniela Gandorfer for special issue on “Matterphorics,” Theory & Event 24(1): 14-66

  “Dialogue with Karen Barad,” Dialogues on Agential Realism: Engaging in Worldings through Research Practice, edited by Malou Juelskjær, Helle Plauborg, Stine W. Adrian. (Routledge, 2021)

  “Troubling Time/s and Ecologies of Nothingness,” Ch. 13 in Through Post-atomic Eyes, edited by Claudette Lauzon and John O’Brian (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020)

   

• GINA DENT

  MLK Convocation: “Mariame Kaba in conversation with Gina Dent,” Feb. 12, 2021

  Curator: “Barring Freedom” 2020-2021 lecture series, with UCSC Institute of Arts & Sciences

  “The Morning After: A (Post)Election Conversation,” Center for Cultural Studies, Nov. 4, 2020

   

• CAITLIN "KATIE" KELIIAA

  “Scales of Containment, Sexual Surveillance and Native Women’s Bodily Regulation,” Beyond Surveillance Conference, Georgia Institute of Technology, April 1, 2021

  Work-in-Progress talk – “Unhealthy Regulations: Native Women’s Health, Sexual Surveillance, and Bodily Control,” Nov. 16, 2020

   

• JENNY KELLY

  2021 THI Research Cluster symposium: “Border Regimes and Resistance in Global Perspective,” May 7/14/21, 2021

  Critical Ethnic Studies, co-edited Spring 2021 issue with Camilla Hawthorne (SOC) 

  “Pinkwashing, Tourism, and Israeli State Violence,” Q&A: Voices from Queer Asian North America, ed.s Kale B. Fajardo, Alice Y. Hom, and Martin F. Manalansan (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, Spring 2021)

  “Subjection and Performance: Tourism, Witnessing, and Acts of Refusal in Palestine,”  Feminist Formations, Summer 2020 (Volume 32, Issue 2: 79-110)

  “Pinkwashing, Tourism, and Israeli State Violence,” Women & Gender Studies and Queer Studies 2nd annual Feminist Symposium: “What the F*ck? A Relearning Experience,” California State University Fullerton, Dec. 3, 2020 

  Book Talk: “Invited to Witness: Solidarity Tourism Across Occupied Palestine,” FFIPP Europe: Educational Network for Human Rights in Palestine/Israel, July 25, 2020

   

• XAVIER LIVERMON

  Kwaito Bodies: Remastering Space and Subjectivity in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Duke University Press, April 2020

   

• NICK MITCHELL

  “The View from Nowhere: On Frank Wilderson’s Afropessimism,” Spectre, November 2020

   

• GINA ATHENA ULYSSE

  “Liberate the Soup Joumou! Why Haitians Care,” Medium.com, Dec. 8, 2020

  An Equitable Human Assertion, commissioned installation-performance piece, Biennale of Sydney, Australia, June 14-Sept. 6 2020

   

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HISTORY

• JONATHAN BEECHER

  Writers and Revolution: Intellectuals and the French Revolution of 1848. Cambridge University Press, 2021

   

• ALMA HECKMAN

  The Sultan's Communists: Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging. Stanford University Press, 2021

   

• GAIL HERSHATTER

  “Foreword,” China Perspectives, No. 2020.3, special issue on Femininities and Masculinities, 3-4, https://www.cefc.com.hk/issue/china-perspectives-2020-3/.

  “Gender Trouble’s Afterlife in Chinese Studies,” Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 79, No. 4 (November) 2020: 911–926.

   

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HISTORY / HISTORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS / CRITICAL RACE AND ETHNIC STUDIES

• ERIC PORTER

  Sound Changes: Improvisation and Transcultural Difference (edited with Daniel Fischlin). University of Michigan Press, 2021

   

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HISTORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS

• ROBERT MEISTER

  Justice Is an Option: A Democratic Theory of Finance for the Twenty-First Century. 
  University of Chicago Press, 2021

   

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LANGUAGES AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS

• BRYAN DONALDSON

  Donaldson, B.  (2020). Clitic position in Old Occitan affirmative verb-first declaratives coordinated by e: A variationist analysis. Journal of Historical Linguistics, 10(3), 389-427.

  Gudmestad, A., Edmonds, A., Donaldson, B., & Carmichael, K. (2020). Near-native sociolinguistic competence in French: Evidence from variable future-time expression. Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée 23(1), 169-191.

   

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LINGUISTICS

• PRANAV ANAND, DANIEL HARDT AND JIM MCCLOSKEY

  The Santa Cruz sluicing data set
  Language, Linguistic Society of America
  Volume 97, Number 1, pp. e68-e88. March 2021

   

• RYAN BENNETT (AND CHRISTIAN DICANIO)

  Prosody in Mesoamerican Languages

  The Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody, eds. Carlos Gussenhoven and Yiya Chen, pp.408-427. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press 2021.

   

• ADRIAN BRASOVEANU (AND JAKUB DOTLACIL)

  "The Representation and Processing of Distributivity and Collectivity: Ambiguity vs. Underspecification." Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 6(1):6, 1–22. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1131 2021

   

• SANDY CHUNG

  Chamorro Grammar

  eScholarship / August 2020
  https://escholarship.org/uc/item/40c444bv

   

• JUNKO ITO AND ARMIN MESTER

  "Recursive Prosody and the Prosodic Form of Compounds." Languages 2021, 6(2), 65; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages6020065 (registering DOI) - 01 Apr 2021

   

• IVY SICHEL (AND MARTINA WILTSCHKO)

  "The logic of Person markedness: Evidence from pronominal competition." Language, Linguistic Society of America Volume 97, Number 1, pp. 42-71. March 2021

   

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LITERATURE

• MARTIN DEVECKA

  Broken Cities: A Historical Sociology of Ruins. The Johns Hopkins University Press, September 2020

   

• RENEE FOX

  Routledge International Handbook of Irish Studies (co-edited by Renée Fox, Mike Cronin, and Brian O’Conchubhair)

   

• CHRISTINE HONG

  A Violent Peace: Race, US Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific. Stanford University Press, August 2020

   

• JUAN POBLETE

  Piracy and Intellectual Property in Latin America: Rethinking Creativity and the Common Good, Routledge, 2020. Co-editor with introduction and two chapters (co-edited with Victor Goldgel),

  Precarity and Belonging: Labor, Migration, and Non-citizenship, Rutgers University Press, June 2021. Co-editor with introduction and a chapter (co-edited with Sylvanna M. Falcón, Steve McKay, Catherine S. Ramírez, and Felicity Amaya Schaeffer),

   

• AMANDA SMITH

  United States of Banana: A Graphic Novel, edited and with an introduction by Amanda M. Smith and Amy Sheeran. Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press, 2021.

  Mapping the Amazon: Literary Geography after the Rubber Boom. Liverpool UP, June 2021

   

• RONALDO WILSON

  “Lucy and Surely,” Journal of Black Mountain College Studies, Volume 11: Writing at Black Mountain College: Pedagogy and Practice (October 2020)

   

• KAREN TEI YAMASHITA (EMERITA)

  "Sansei and Sensibility." Coffee House Press, May 2020

   

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PHILOSOPHY

• ROBBIE KUBALA

  "Aesthetic Practices and Normativity," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (forthcoming)

  "Aesthetic Obligations," Philosophy Compass Vol. 15, No. 12 (2020): 1-13

   

• HANDE TUNA

  “Imaginative Resistance,” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2020.

   

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WRITING PROGRAM

• KIMBERLY ADILIA HELMER

  Helmer, K.A. (2020). Learning and Not Learning in the Heritage Language Classroom: Engaging Mexican-Origin Students. 2020.
  
  Grose-Fifer, J., Helmer, K.A. (2020). Student success in psychology-English (Thinking, feeling, doing: Psychology, literature, and life) Learning Communities. Book Chapter (co-authored, Jill Grose-Fifer & Kimberly Adilia Helmer) 

  In A. Schwartz &R. L. Miller (Eds.).High impact educational practices: A review of best practices with illustrative examples (pp. 363-381). Retrieved from the Society for the Teaching of Psychology

   

• KATE MCQUEEN

  Journal article, "Moved to Tears: Erwin Koch and Emotional Engagement in Literary Journalism," Recherches en Communication vol. 51 (2020): 21-34.