Yes, all’s been quiet on the blogging front, but we’re still here! I won’t be posting the usual digest of weekly events over the summer, but will continue to update the blog when “news” breaks or helpful information becomes available. In the meantime, have a wonderful summer and look for new blog features come fall! –Sarah
Thanks to all our lovely WGGI rep candidates, all of you who took the time to vote and to Emily Hyde for being an efficient, unbiased election monitor. The results for 2008-2009 are in:
GAC Co-presidents: Yaron Aronowicz and Sarah Wasserman
WGGI Reps: Roger Bellin, Michelle Coghlin, Lindsay Reckson
Infinite thanks to Starry for her amazing turn at DGS this semester. We truly appreciate her support, organization, and leadership over the past months. We’re looking forward to working with the incredible Bill Gleason, who will serve as the 2008-2009 DGS.
Additional thanks to Claudia Johnson and Jeff Dolven for their dedication to WGGI this year. It’s been a pleasure to work with them on the issues that matter to graduate students.
And in case you missed it, here’s the latest from Starry:
Dear Students,
Now that spring term is drawing to a close, I thought I’d provide you with an update on our departmental searches.
1) I am delighted to announce that Prof. Jill Dolan of the University of Texas at Austin will be joining the department next fall. Jill will teach her first graduate seminar at Princeton next spring, ENG 560 Special Studies in the Drama (also COM 568): Queer Theory and Performance. A profile of Jill can be found here:
http://www.finearts.utexas.edu/tad/people/Faculty_and_Staff/faculty/dolan.cfm
Those of you who are interested in theater and performance might also like to know that Prof. Stacy Wolf, also of the University of Texas at Austin, will be joining the Program in Theatre and Dance next fall as well. Here is Stacy’s profile:
http://www.finearts.utexas.edu/tad/people/Faculty_and_Staff/faculty/wolf.cfm
We will also be welcoming into our junior ranks Alexandra Vasquez, currently a Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale. Her research and teaching interests include performance studies, Latino/a cultural studies, circum-Atlantic musical performance, transnational feminism and critical race theory. For more information, please see:
http://www.yale.edu/theaterstudies/people/vazquez.html
With the advent of Jill, Stacy and Alex, we look forward to a renaissance of activity in theater and performance. It is an exciting juncture for our department, and well-timed to coincide with the development of the new Lewis Center for the Arts.
2) Your avid and helpful participation in the Americanist search–from lectures to coffees to dinners and on to voicing your views — has been remarked by the entire faculty as well as by all three candidates. We are so grateful to you for taking time and care over this process and the department has asked me to convey how important your contribution has been to us.
I am happy to announce that we have voted to extend an offer to Prof. Jacqueline Goldsby of the University of Chicago, pending approval by the “Committee of Three.” Jackie has been made aware of our vote and will probably be visiting soon. Should you wish to congratulate/welcome her, feel free.
3) Less happily, our offer to Prof. Gayatri Spivak of Columbia, which we extended in 2006, has now been declined. I am glad that some of you had the privilege of working with her while she visited this spring. She has indicated a strong interest in following the progress of Princeton’s
plans for internationalizing the humanities, and we will be grateful for her ongoing collegiality once she returns to Columbia.
4) Regretfully, we say farewell and warm wishes to two esteemed members of our junior faculty, Prof. Kathleen Davis, who departs for the University of Rhode Island and Prof. Jennifer Greeson, who leaves us for the University of Virginia. We wish them both all the best in their new academic homes.
Starry
