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Students and faculty ended the fall semester strong as they published academic papers, presented research, and won prestigious awards.

Vincent Odamtten, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Literature, Creative Writing and Africana Studies, presented a talk titled "Africanfuturism vs Afrofuturism: Beyond Contrapuntal Immobility" at the African Studies Association 67th Annual Meeting in Chicago in December.

Associate Professor of Sociology Jaime Kucinskas recently published an essay about the use of mindfulness practices to relieve workplace stress in The Conversation, a non-profit open source news outlet focused on promoting faculty research.

Lisa Trivedi, the Christian A. Johnson Excellence in Teaching Professor of History, delivered the keynote lecture at the 33rd Tagore Festival at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, on Dec. 7.

Steven Yao, the Edmund A. LeFevre Professor of English, gave an invited talk titled "The Work of Literary Translation in the Age of Digital Computability; or, How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Google Translate" in November at SUNY Buffalo.

Tiao-Guan Huang, visiting assistant professor of Chinese, was invited by Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages in Taiwan to deliver two lectures in November.

Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics Emeritus, continues to publish papers and attend conferences following his retirement in the spring of 2023.

Professor of Cinema and Media Studies Scott MacDonald recently published two books on cinema and discussed his work in a talk at New York University.

The virtual video “Depicting Mexico and Modernism: Gordo by Gus Arriola,” an exhibition curated by Director of Academic Technology, Teaching, and Research Services Nhora Serrano, was recently released.

Associate Professor of Classics Jesse Weiner recently published a chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth, presented a talk at the annual meeting of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, and was awarded a course development grant.