Alumni News
Completes Ph.D. Program at Texas A&M
Dennis Winsto, who holds a Master of Arts from A&T, n just finished his PhD in English (did a thesis on African American hip-hop within a postcolonial context) at Texas A & M and has secured a full-time lecturer position at Howard University.
Graduate Has Reviews Scheduled
Demetrius Noble has received word from The Journal of Black Masculinity that they will be publishing his book review on Jared Ball's I Mix What I Like: A Mixtape Manifesto in their Spring 2012 issue. Three reviews he has done in tje area of Hip Hop studies texts that will be running this year are:
Journal of Pan African Studies -- review of Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas's Illmatic (edited by Michael Eric Dyson and Sohail Daulatzai)-- scheduled for January 2012
The Journal of Black Masculinity -- review of I Mix What I Like: A Mixtape Manifesto (Jared Ball)-- scheduled for Spring 2012 issue
African American Review -- review of Decoded (Jay-Z)-- scheduled for Summer 2012 issue
Master's Graduate Publishes, Presents
Zachary Ingle, a 2008 master’s graduate in English, is now a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Kansas, Department of Film and Media Studies. He has reported the following achievements in the 2011-2012 academic year:
A new book, Robert Rodriguez: Interviews. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi (forthcoming in 2012); Biographies of Jean-Claude Van Damme, Liv Ullmann, Sven Nykvist, and Lasse Hallström as well as essays on “The Virgin Spring” and “Scenes from a Marriage.” Directory of World Cinema: Sweden. Ed. Marcelline Block. Bristol, UK: Intellect (forthcoming in 2012); “George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead and the Rise of the Diegetic Camera in Recent Horror Films.” Ol3Media 4:9 (Jan 2011).
Also, “Concerning J. Lo’s Booty and ‘Ugly’ America.” Review of Dangerous Curves: Latina Bodies in the Media, by Isabel Molina-Guzman; and Latina/os in the Media, by Angharad N. Valdivia, Mass Communication and Society 15 (Jan 2012); Review of Hank Greenberg: The Hero Who Didn’t Want to Be One, by Mark Kurlansky, Journal of Sport History (forthcoming); Review of Encyclopedia of Religion and Film, edited by Eric Michael Mazur, Symposia (forthcoming); Review of The Year’s Work in Lebowski Studies, edited by Edward P. Comentale and Aaron Jaffe, Journal of American Culture 34 (Sep 2011): 318-319.
His presentations have included “’The Border Crossed Us’: Machete and the ‘Latino Threat Narrative,’” KU Graduate Film Symposium, Lawrence, KS, January 27-28, 2012; “’Free(ing) Huey’: Screen Adaptation of the One-Person Show in Spike Lee’s A Huey P. Newton Story,” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 4, 2011; “More Than Just Kirk Cameron Films: An Analysis of the Christian Movie Industry, 1999-Present,” 2011 Joint Conference of the National Popular Cultural Association/American Culture Association with Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA, Religion Area, San Antonio, TX, April 22, 2011; “The Underground Meets Hollywood: The Early Film Criticism of Jonas Mekas,” KU Graduate Student Research Competition, Lawrence, KS, March 16, 2011; “’At Least It’s an Ethos’: Popular (Mis)Conceptions of Nihilism in Dostoevesky’s Demons and The Big Lebowski,” Oklahoma State University Annual Humanities Graduate Conference, Stillwater, OK, March 5, 2011.
