	Robert Harvey Chair, Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory Professor 2050 Humanities Building Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY 11794-5355 Phone: (631) 632-7460 robert.harvey@stonybrook.edu
	Mary C. Rawlinson Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory Professor, Department of Philosophy 248 Harriman Hall Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY 11794-3750 mary.rawlinson@stonybrook.edu
	Raiford Guins Undergraduate Program Director, Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory Associate Professor of Culture and Technology Curator, William A. Higinbotham Game Studies Collection at Stony Brook University Principal Editor, Journal of Visual Culture 2121 Humanities Building Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY 11794-5355 Phone: (631) 632-7466 raiford.guins@stonybrook.edu
	Mary Moran-Luba Departmental Administrator, Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory 2049 Humanities Building Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY 11794-5355 Phone:(631) 632-7456 Fax:(631) 632-5707 mary.moran-luba@stonybrook.edu
	Alinda Askew Undergraduate Secretary, Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory 2048 Humanities Building Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY 11794-5355 Phone:(631) 632-7460 Fax:(631) 632-5707 alinda.askew@stonybrook.edu

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Department

Brooke Belisle, a 2013 New Faculty Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies will join the department next year. "Click here for more info"

Vivien Hartog Award Recipients Announced

Congratulations to Alexis Chartschlaa and Laura James, winners of the 2013 Vivien Hartog Travel Award.

New MA/PhD in Women's and Gender Studies

The Department is pleased to announce that the new MA/PhD program in Women's and Gender Studies has received official certification.

Faculty

E.K. Tan published a peer-reviewed journal article, 華語語系研究：海外華人與離散華人研究之反思 [Sinophone Studies: Rethinking Overseas Chinese Studies and Chinese Diaspora Studies] in 中國現代文學 [Journal of Modern Chinese Literature (Taiwan)] 22 (Winter 2012): 41-58; and an essay, “Transcending Multiracialism: Kuo Pao Kun’s Multilingual Play Mama Looking for Her Cat and the Concept of Open Culture” in Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader, edited by Shu-mei Shih, Brian Bernards and Chien-hsin Tsai (Columbia University Press 2013).
Robert Harvey gave a lecture entitled "Partage informe: Foucault's Transgression" at a philosophy & literature symposium at Brown University on April 5.

Jackie Reich will be speaking at the Italian Cultural Institute in NYC on Thursday, April 25 and at the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, NY on May 4.

Ray Guins is a co-organizer of the History of Games conference in Montreal, June 21-23: http://www.history-of-games.com/

E.K. Tan's new book, "Rethinking Chineseness: Translational Sinophone Identities in the Nanyang Literary World" was published with Cambria Press in January.

Students

Sarah Paruolo, gave a paper at ACLA 2013 in Toronto titled "Shadows of Trujillo:Oscar Wao and the Haunting of a People."

Marcus Brock, was admitted into the 2013 Cornell School of Criticism and Theory, was invited to moderate the VIP screening and reception for the filmPortrait of Jason, and will give a talk at the Stony Brook LGBTA Spring Retreat.

Celina Hung, has accepted the tenure-track position of Assistant Professor in Literature at NYU-Shanghai. She will be stationed in Shanghai with affiliation with the Comparative Literature Department in the NYU Manhattan campus.

Laine Nooney, has received a Distinguished Travel Award from the Grad School and GSO, a Faculty-Staff Dissertation Fellowship Award, and was selected for the Provost's Lecture Series.

Joana Moura has been awarded a doctoral grant (approximately $16,000 per annum) by the Foundation for Science and Technology at the Portuguese Ministry of Education and Science.

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January 2013

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