Held on May 3, 2017
Dr. Kathleen Tamayo Alves, Associate Professor of English at Queensborough Community College, CUNY, addresses displacement, victimhood, survival, and resistance through the girlhood narratives of her family’s flight from persecution during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, supplying the historical and cultural context of World War II in Asia. This program will immediately be followed by a student and faculty roundtable discussion featuring QCC faculty members Dr. Aliza Atik, Associate Professor of English; Prof. Benjamin Miller, Associate Professor of English; and Prof. Alisa Cercone, Lecturer of English.
Dr. Kathleen Tamayo Alves is Associate Professor of English at Queensborough Community College, CUNY, where she teaches literature and composition. Her research centers on eighteenth-century literature and culture, biopolitics, and literary history. She has published and presented portions of her book-length project, Body Language: Medicine and the Eighteenth-Century Comic Novel, which explains how medicine shaped and is shaped by comic language through fictional dramatizations of female-specific medical phenomena, such as menstruation, hysteria, and pregnancy.
Dr. Aliza Atik is Associate Professor of English at Queensborough Community College, CUNY. She received her Ph.D. from Stony Brook University in 2013 where she won several awards for her scholarship, including an Andrew W. Mellon dissertation fellowship. Dr. Atik’s research interests include Victorian studies, Jewish literature, and Arab/Israeli literature. During her time at QCC, Dr. Atik has integrated her courses into the 2013-14, 2014-15, and the 2015-16 KHC-NEH Challenge Grants. In 2015, she collaborated with two colleagues to create an interdisciplinary project incorporating literature, composition, and choreography. This project had students examine genocide, biopower, and surveillance in the public sphere through literature, dance, and personal narrative.
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