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September 28, 2021
My name is Ben Naismith, and I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Linguistics, entering the fifth year of the program. Prior to undertaking a PhD, I had spent 15 years in the field of Teaching English as a Foreign Language, and it is this professional experience which has shaped my research int...
September 28, 2021
My name is Manuel Garzon, and I am a fifth year in the Ph.D. program of the Hispanic Department at the University of Pittsburgh. Currently, I am a Ph.D. candidate and my academic research focuses on colonial Hispanic America, especially on decolonial historiographical and literary texts written by a...
September 28, 2021
My name is Sritama Chatterjee. I am a fourth year PhD student in Literature at the Department of English. My current research at the intersection of Postcolonial Studies, Indian Ocean Studies and Environmental Humanities asks: How does one envision modes of doing Indian Ocean Studies in the Postcolo...
September 28, 2021
My name is Courtney Colligan, and I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Theatre and Performance Studies. For the second summer in a row, I enjoyed working with GirlGov and their school-year programming. This summer, under the direction of Ph.D. P...
September 16, 2021
My name is Victoria LaFave and I am a third-year PhD student in the Theatre Arts Department pursuing a degree in Theatre and Performance Studies. My research focuses on queer studies, affect, and cultural memory in twen...
September 16, 2021
My name is Dominique Branson, and I am entering into my fifth year as a graduate student in the Department of Linguistics. My dissertation research focuses on the intersection of race, criminal justice, and African American Language (AAL) use at two critically important points along the School-to-Pr...
September 16, 2021
Hello again! My name is Alison Mahoney. I’m starting my second year at Pitt as a PhD student in Theatre and Performance Studies, and my research centers on intersections of performance and disability/neurodiversity. When we’re not in the midst of a pandemic, I am also a theatre-maker – I collaborate...
September 16, 2021
My name is Felix Helbing, and I am a fourth year PhD candidate in the department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh. My dissertation is on the labor philosophies of early Soviet theorists Aleksei Gastev and Aleksandr Bogdanov, each of whom was interested, in differen...
September 16, 2021
My name is Oscar Zapata and I am a third year Ph.D. student at the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Through theoretical frameworks drawing from cultural studies, ethnic studies, critical queer stu...
September 16, 2021
My name is Jess Batychenko, and I am a fourth-year PhD in the English Department on the Rhetoric and Composition track. My academic interests come together at the intersections of literacy studies, education, urban studies, and geography. I am currently completing my comprehensive exams and my proje...
August 17, 2021
Through the Humanities Engage Summer Immersive Fellowship, I have been able to secure funding for an immersive with...
July 27, 2021
I’m Brittney Knotts, a fifth year PhD candidate in the English department researching girls’ coding culture in Pittsburgh, PA. My dissertation research brought me to Assemble in the spring of 2020 where I was preparing to conduct field work throu...
July 20, 2021
July 20, 2021
In her Anti-Racism and the Archive video below, Amanda Awanjo reflects on how her Humanities Engage...
July 20, 2021
Hello, my name is Celena Todora, and I am a fourth year PhD candidate in the English Department’s Composition Program. My dissertation explores how activists working within the field of prison education—including both university and community efforts—employ, experience, and navigate both institution...