Blog
July 12, 2021
I’m Darrelstan Ferguson, a third-year PhD student of Hispanic Languages and Literatures. My research interests include race, gender and sexuality in Hispanic literatures, and more specifically in Afro-Cuban theatre. This is my second immersive fellowship with...
July 6, 2021
My name is Dominique Branson, and I am entering my fifth year as a doctoral student in the Linguistics department at Pitt. I find my research niche at the intersection of race, gender, language, and the mass incarceration/criminalization of Black Americans in the United States. My research is motiva...
June 22, 2021
My name is Oscar Zapata and I am a second year Ph.D. student in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Through theoretical frameworks drawing from cultural studies, ethnic studies, critical queer st...
June 22, 2021
Hello! My name is Alison Mahoney. I’m going into my second year as a PhD student in Theatre and Performance Studies at Pitt, and I research performance and disability. In addition to my academic research, I am a theatre practitioner: I co-founded and directed several productions for...
June 22, 2021
My name is Courtney E. Colligan, and I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Theatre Arts. My dissertation, “‘Weary of the Worldly Bars’: The Praxis of Postcarceral Performance in the United Kingdom and the United States,” explores the relationship between organized artistic practice, social jus...
June 22, 2021
My name is Jess Batychenko and I’m a fourth-year PhD student 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, and my current project is focused around an oral histor...
June 8, 2021
My name is Taylor Waits and I am a 3rd Year Critical and Cultural Studies PhD student in the Department of English with a focus on Critical Literature and Pedagogies. I am interested in how students view education, student faculty perspectives, and digital storytelling. Specifically, I am in the pr...
June 8, 2021
My name is Victoria LaFave, and I am a third-year student pursuing a Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance Studies. My research centers on twentieth-century popular entertainment with a focus on queer studies, affect, and cu...
June 8, 2021
My name is Amanda Dibando Awanjo and I am a Humanities Engage summer immersive fellow for the University Art Gallery for the Summer 2021 session. As a critical cultural studies-fo...
June 8, 2021
My name is Hannah Standiford and I am a third-year graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology in the Music Department at the University of Pittsburgh. My research for my Master’s thesis focused on issues of consent with the Pittsburgh swing dance community.
Using interviews and participan...
April 5, 2021
Hello, my name is Caitlin Dahl, and in the below video, I reflect on my experience designing a collections-based module with the Humanities Engage curriculum development grant.
Caitlin Dahl
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April 2021
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April 5, 2021
My name is Victoria LaFave, and I am a second-year PhD student in Theatre and Performance Studies. During the summer of 2020, I worked with the Curtis Theatre Collection to design a collections-based module titled “100 Years of Pitt Audiences.” This module was formatted for the undergraduate c...
March 4, 2021
Hello! My name is Paula Victoria Kupfer. I’m a fourth-year PhD student in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Pitt. I’ve had a longtime interest in the history of photography, the history of plants, and their representation in artworks. My dissertation project examines the histo...
March 4, 2021
As an ethnomusicologist, I am always thinking about new ways to share my work and engage with the public. Together with a nonprofit called Classical Revolution RVA and...
February 26, 2021
My name is Celena Todora, and I am a fourth-year PhD student in the English Department’s Composition Program. My dissertation explores how activists working within the field of prison education—whether through community or university efforts—employ, experience, and navigate institutional and aboliti...