Held on October 8, 2014
Professor Jodie Childers in the Department of English at Queensborough Community College looks at paintings, sculptures, monuments, and photographs that bear witness to oppression—with the goal to attempt to revive these art objects and the stories they tell through empathetic engagement and artistic connection, giving them a new life through language.
A Visiting Assistant Professor at Tulane University, Jodie Childers is a New Orleans and Queens-based writer and documentary filmmaker whose interests include 20th-century transnational American studies, literary translation, multilingual archival research, McCarthyism, and left-wing cultural history. Childers produced the documentary film The Other Parade, which aired on RTÉ in Ireland, and directed Down by the Riverside, which premiered at The Woodstock Film Festival. She has published her research in Comparative American Studies, Transatlantica, The Hopkins Review, among others. In 2018, she was awarded the Leifur Eiríksson Foundation Fellowship to pursue independent research and language study in Reykjavík, Iceland.
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