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  • She is a historical archaeologist, whose primary research focus is on the archaeology of 19th century Omani colonialism in East Africa. I have directed fieldwork projects on Zanzibar and mainland Tanzania, and have participated in a wide range of archaeological projects in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Bahrain, Ghana, England, Scotland and Ireland.

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  • His writing and teaching concern the relationship between literary form and social history. He is completing a book, Episodic Poetics in the Early American Republic, which traces an early American and transatlantic culture of the episode across the period’s major genres of prose writing — from wildly plotted novels to peculiarly constructed memoirs and linked serial essays. The book shows how, in ways both magisterial and mundane, social and political conflicts took variegated shape in a literary culture founded upon the episode, that omnipresent narrative unit so often taken for granted by writers and readers. The result is literary history recounted not as the easy victory of grand nationalist ambitions, but rather as a series of social struggles expressed through writers’ recurring engagement with incompletely integrated forms.

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  • His research interests include political economy, social theory, media and popular culture, digital and network technologies and music and sound.

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  • Indira Karamcheti is an important voice in the field of postcolonial literature. Her broad ranging interests in the geographics of marginality encompasses Caribbean and African-American literatures.

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  • His recent scholarship has been focused primarily on what are often called Cervantes's "other works," those relatively neglected novels (La Galatea, Persiles), novellas, and plays that tend to get overlooked in the long shadow cast by Don Quijote.  A book called Cervantes' Epic Novel:  Empire, Religion, and the Dream Life of Heroes in 'Persiles' (U of Toronto P, 2009) reads Cervantes's final novel in several contexts:  it links Persiles's narrative art to the major political, religious, social, and literary debates of late 16th- and early 17th-century Spain, as well as to the verse and prose epic traditions represented primarily by Homer, Vergil, Heliodorus, and Tasso.   He has also been at work for several years on a book provisionally entitled Cervantes Plays:  Ironies of History on the Early Modern Stage.

Andrew W. Mellon Fellows

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  • He holds a Ph.D. in History of Consciousness from UC Santa Cruz and an M.A. in Performance Studies from NYU. He is an editor for the peer-reviewed journals Total Art and Museum and Curatorial Studies Review. Gomoll's research has been published in numerous journals, edited volumes and exhibition catalogs, and he was a guest editor for a special issue of the journal Collections on the topic of curating (2011). His current research and practice explore possibilities for incorporating feminist, postcolonial, and performance theory in exhibitionary production and critique. He is developing with Lissette Olivares a major eight-gallery exhibition on Chilean political performance that will occupy the entire second floor of the Allende Museum in Santiago (2013-2014), after which it will travel internationally.

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  • She holds a BA in African American Studies from Harvard University and a PhD in American Studies (expected 2012) from Yale University. She works on the history of American capitalism, particularly its intellectual, spatial and visual aspects.  Her manuscript-in-progress, Offshore Onshore: A History of the Free Zone on U.S. Soil, traces the history of extraterritorial warehousing from the age of Manifest Destiny to the age of Walmart.

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