Join Dan Oppenheimer of the latest “Into the COLAverse: Office Hours” who talks with Professor Aldama about his comic book odyssey, including his recently published Pyroclast and forthcoming Through Fences, The Absolutely (Almost) True Adventures of Max Rodriguez, and The Steampunkera Chronicles.
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Into the COLAverse – Episode 29: Art Markman
Art Markman, Associate Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and the Annabel Irion Worsham Centennial Professor of Psychology and Marketing, shares his journey first finding his way to a cognitive science degree at Brown, a PhD at University of Illinois, the publishing of numerous books and innovating new cross-disciplinary learning spaces within and outside the classroom. Along the way, he helps answer big questions like what value does a college degree have? How can we innovate in higher education?
Into the COLAverse – Episode 25: Rebecca Falkoff
Rebecca Falkoff, professor in the Department of French and Italian, shares her journey from an undergrad studying Faust, literary theory, and languages at UPenn to a PhD in Italian Studies at UC Berkeley. Along the way we learn of her rich and expansive research and writing on hoarding—from 19th century Parisian flea markets to Sherlock Holmes to today’s reality TV shows—as well as insights into learning languages, her own literary translation work, and Italian authors such as Dante, Carlo Emilio Gadda, and Elena Ferrante.
Into the COLAverse – Episode 22: Annette Rodríguez
Annette M. Rodríguez, professor in the Department of History, shares her journey from childhood road trips in the Southwest to degrees at the University of New Mexico then Brown. Along the way, we learn of her innovative scholarship, collaborations, and data mapping projects that enrich understanding of historical continuities and inversions that create racialized constructions of belonging and unbelonging in the U.S.
Into the COLAverse – Episode 21: Mia Alafaireet
Mia Alafaireet, professor in the Department of English, shares her journey from growing up in Columbia, Missouri, to finding her way to scholarly work that brings together the Great Migration, Harlem Renaissance, and medical health. Along the way she shares with us the importance of writing, reading, and gardening for cultivating Black wellness.
Into the COLAverse – Episode 19: Randy Lewis
Randy Lewis, professor and chair of American Studies Department, shares how East Texas roots and New Jersey upbringing led to BA then PhD degrees at UT Austin where, as scholar and creator, he’s been innovating and expanding multiple fields of inquiry, shedding new light on film, music, and urban studies as well as cultural histories of the Americas.
Into the COLAverse – Episode 18: Ashanté Reese
Ashanté Reese, recently promoted to associate professor in the African and African Diaspora Studies Department, shares her journey from growing up in East Texas to Trinity University (BA), American University (PhD) to her innovative scholarly interventions in critical food and food justice studies, Black studies, and Black geographies. Along the way we learn of the significant work done for food sovereignty in Black communities across the country.
Into the COLAverse – Episode 17: Scott Graham
Scott Graham, professor in the Department of Rhetoric & Writing, shares his journey from philosophy to rhetoric, bioscience, health practice, and AI. Along the way we learn about the importance of new models for health care practice and delivery (Tweetorials included) as well as the pros and cons of AI systems in our everyday lives.
Into the COLAverse – Episode 16: Samantha Pickette
Samantha Pickette, professor in Jewish Studies and Assistant Director to the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, shares how an early fascination with TV and literature her to become a scholar of representations of Jewishness, especially Jewish femininity in TV. Along the way, we learn about how today’s non-legacy TV increasingly represents the complexity of Jewishness as intersectional (race, gender, sexualities) identities.
Into the COLAverse – Episode 15: Hervé Picherit
Hervé Picherit, professor in the Department of French & Italian, shares his journey from growing up in a Francophone family in Wyoming to writing, researching, and teaching French literature and film. He shares wonderful new insights into well-known French authors such as Marcel Proust and Louis-Ferdinand Céline as well as lesser knowns from WWII and those writing sci-fi like Henri Barbot.