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As a fourth year PhD student in Theatre and Performance Studies, it was a privilege to be able to reconnect with the Walpole Children’s Theatre over this past summer for my remote immersive fellowship with Humanities Engage. I’m...
My name is Brenda Sólkez, and I am a full-time doctoral student in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures who will be entering my fourth year in the Fall of 2020. I have completed the comprehensive exams required for my degree, and at present, I am starting to write my dissertation pro...
My name is Sean Nonnenmacher, and I am a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Linguistics. At the beginning of the Humanities Engage Summer Immersive, I undertook a project concerned primarily with storytelling for the Phoenix chapter of...
My name is Patoimbasba Nikiema. I am a fifth-year graduate student completing a PhD in French and Francophone Studies in the Department of French and Italian and a doctoral certificate in Gender, Sexuality, and Women Studies. My research focuses on the ways in which 20th-21st transnational writers f...
This summer was a period of massive learning and growth for me, as an art historian and as a graduate student. I was in a unique position when the possibility of this summer immersive first came up: I had just completed a year-long post-baccalaureate fellowship at Pitt in the Department of History o...
My name is Kimberly Hoover, and I am a 5th-year PhD student in the English Department. My dissertation, “What Are We Integrating? A Grounded Theory Approach to Integrative Medicine,” asks what power vested stakeholders have to control national and global narratives about healing, and therefore, who...
My name is Treviene Harris, and I’m a 7th year PhD candidate in the Department of English. I’m in the final stages of writing my dissertation, which is an interdisciplinary project that examines how sound functions as a critique of historiography in Caribbean fictions: literature, music, and film. A...
I am Darrelstan Ferguson, a third-year Ph.D. student in the Hispanic Languages and Literatures Department. I am working on my thesis prospectus at the moment. My research area concerns contemporary Afro-Cuban theatre and the problematization of race and gender in the works of Afro-Cuban playwrights...
My name is Courtney E. Colligan, and I am a fifth-year doctoral candidate in Theatre and Performance Studies in Pitt's Theatre Arts Department. My research crosses the intersections of contemporary Shakespearean performance, Early Modern theatre and history, and queer theory. My dissertation examine...
I am Nelson Felipe Castañeda, a second-year Hispanic Languages and Literatures Ph.D. student at the University of Pittsburgh. I am from Bogota, Colombia, and I moved to Pittsburgh after living in Seoul, South Korea, for approximately six years, where I pursued my M.A. and worked as a Spanish teacher...
My name is Dominique Branson, and I am a fourth-year graduate student in the Department of Linguistics at Pitt. This summer, I assisted staff in UPMC’s Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine with their Juvenile Justice-Involved Youth (JJIY) program. The JJIY program utilizes mindfulness tec...
My name is Eve Barden, I am a teaching fellow in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and a second-year Ph.D. student in the Film and Media Studies program. This summer during my immersive internship with Monument Lab, a non-profit...
My name is Charles Athanasopoulos, and I am a third-year PhD student in the Department of Communication. My research interests include Black rhetorical studies, afropessimist thought, iconography, and media studies. My current dissertation topic explores the ritualistic nature of anti-Black violence...
The course Automated Writing from Amanuenses to AI grows out of my research interest in natural language generation and processing (NLG/NLP) and how automated language tools are sha...
As I wrote the syllabus for the new graduate course that I developed with support from the Humanities Engage Curriculum Development Grant, “Digital and Critical Approaches to Asian...