Graduate Student Accomplishments 2002-03

GRADUATE STUDENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS 2002-03

Grants, Fellowships and Awards:

Dalleo, Raphael. Graduate Council Fellowship, granted by the Graduate School, SUNY at Stony Brook.

---. Tinker Field Research Travel Grant, granted by the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center, SUNY at Stony Brook.

Mathews, Cristina. Graduate Council Fellowship, granted by the Graduate School, SUNY at Stony Brook.

Pape, Kristin. Graduate Council Fellowship, granted by the Graduate School, SUNY at Stony Brook.

Skrodzka-Bates, Agnieszka. Commendation for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student, Graduate Council, SUNY at Stony Brook.

Thomas, Ketty. W. Burghardt Turner Fellowship, granted by the Graduate School, SUNY at Stony Brook.

---. Tinker Field Research Travel Grant, granted by the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center, SUNY at Stony Brook.

Publications:

Anshen, David. "Politics and the Struggle for Knowledge in Literary Representations of Modern Indian Colonial Families." Bridges: Berkeley Research Journal on South and Southeast Asia (Fall 2002): 65-86.

Dalleo, Raphael. “The World, the Text, and the Caribbean Writer: Representation in the Work of V.S. Naipaul.” Atlantic Literary Review 3.3 (July-September 2002): 1-14.

---. “Review of Caryl Phillips’ A New World Order.” Sargasso: A Journal of Caribbean Literature, Language and Culture 2002.2: 143-146.

Gilbert, Deborah. Review of Land As Far As the Eye Can See by Donald Warrin and Geoffrey L. Gomes. Journal of the West Spring 2003.

---. "The Times They Are a Changing: Peckinpah's Dialectic Reconfiguration." Celluloid Cowboys and Silver Screen Cities: Film and the Imagined Geography of the American West. Ed. Shaun Huston. University of Utah Press. Under review.

Janis, Michael. "Cultural Identity in the era of Multiculturalism and Multi-media." Globalization and Its Discontents. Volume II of the conference proceedings of "Indigenous Political Structures and Governance in Africa." Ibadan, Nigeria, University of Ibadan Press, 2003.

Mathews, Cristina. "Making the Nuclear Family: Kinship, Homosexuality, and La Regenta." Revista de Estudios Hispanicos 37.1 (2003): 75-102.

Events Organized by Graduate Students:

Interdepartmental Literature Colloquium. 2002-03.

"What is War?" A film series on war, its aftermath, and the long struggle for peace. Spring 2003, SUNY at Stony Brook.

"New Directions in Latin American and Caribbean Studies." Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center, SUNY at Stony Brook, April 25, 2003.

Invited Presentations:

Anshen, David. "Tarzan vs. the Culture Industry in Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville." Interdepartmental Literature Colloquium, SUNY at Stony Brook.

Dalleo, Raphael. "Wyclef Jean and the Global Caribbean." Interdepartmental Literature Colloquium, SUNY at Stony Brook.

Raychaudhuri, Sumana and Wo, Chingling. "Troubled pasts and the unsettled present: portrayals of women in Devi and Glass is Transparent." Women's History Month, SUNY at Stony Brook.

Graduate students presented papers at the following professional conferences:

American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, San Marcos, California
American Hungarian Educators Association Annual Conference, Columbia University, New York
Caribbean Currents Conference, University of Miami, Florida
Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, SUNY-Cortland
Film and History Conference, Kansas City, Missouri
Middle Atlantic Conference of Latin American Studies Annual Conference, Kutztown University, Pennsylvania
New Directions in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, SUNY at Stony Brook
New England Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Colby College, Maine
The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences Annual Meeting, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
The Politics of Guilt, SUNY at Stony Brook
Queer Visualities: First International Conference on Queer Visual Culture, SUNY at Stony Brook
Society for Anthropology of Religion, Secular Hermeneutics of Islamic Texts, Providence, Rhode Island
Why We Write: The Politics and History of Social Change Conference, Columbia University, New York

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