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Aquinoaa06h@fsu.edu 2210-10; GA 2235-01Alexis Aquino is pursuing a doctoral degree in Humanities focusing on the relations between the Classical Tradition and contemporary cultural practices. Specifically, he is interested in the connections between Aristotelian literary and rhetorical theory and modern fiction, and the Ciceronian concept of humanitas as an epistemological matrix for organizing the humanistic knowledge. Aquino holds a B.A in Journalism from the University of Navarra in Spain (1990) and an M. A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Puerto Rico (1999). The National Endowment for the Humanities granted him a fellowship for the publication of his book Tragedy and Legal Fiction in Chronicle of a Death Foretold in 2002. He was professor of Humanities and Classical Civilization in the University of Puerto Rico from 1999 to 2006.

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Assadigassadi@fsu.edu2235-02; GA 2250-09Ginger Assadi is a doctoral candidate in Humanities and she is specializing in Medieval Studies. Studying the history of text transmission and book production culture through the Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities provides the advantage of working with Medievalists throughout Florida State University, whether their home departments are English, History, Art History, or Modern Languages. She is also interested in representations of Islam and the Arab world in European literature from the Middle Ages and the ways in which technology affects literacy.

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Attawayjaa02h@fsu.eduAMS

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Baileykrbailey@fsu.edu3321-43Katherine Bailey's major area is the Victorian era; her minor area is Media and Culture. She is a doctoral candidate and her dissertation is on Victorian aesthetics of Gothic spaces in 20th century popular culture.

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Bassettijbassetti@fsu.edu2250-04Jeremy R. Bassetti is a doctoral student at Florida State University where he studies modern European intellectual history, the history of money, and modernity. He is also interested in cultural studies, semiotics, and empire. He teaches Cultural Imperialism and Modern Humanities.

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Baumeistervab04c@garnet.acns.fsu.edu2250-03Valerie Baumeister is a doctoral student in the Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities where she majors in Cultural Studies and Critical Theory. Her research interests include the representation of place and space, the relationship of the body to the urban built environment, Marxist theory, 20th century American literature, television, and advertising. She teaches Modern Humanities and Multicultural Film: 20th and 21st Century American Culture.

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Bengfordtjb04c@fsu.edu3321-15; 3321-19Mr. Bengford’s research interests include men’s studies and comparative film, literature and music studies. His dissertation focuses on constructions of masculinity in contemporary American cinema. He has served as the liaison for the department’s multicultural film course and co-edited the course anthology (Spring 2008). A recipient of the Audrey Wilson Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, Mr. Bengford has also received nomination for the university wide Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award (2007-2008). Before coming to FSU, Mr. Bengford earned his M.A. in musicology from California State University, Los Angeles. At CSULA, Mr. Bengford was named a California Golden Eagle Scholar, Emeriti Association Scholar and recipient of the Andreas Jackson Music Award. Additional honors have included: Helen Culver Musicology Award, Special Recognition in Graduate Study and commendation from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, office of Michael Antonovich. He has twice given papers on constructions of masculinity at the FSU Film and Literature Conference and currently serves as the Program for Instructional Excellence Associate for the Humanities Department.

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Bennettjjb06h@fsu.edu AMSJeffrey Bennett is completing his Master’s of Arts in American and Florida Studies. He currently teaches coursework in American Studies. His areas of research include popular culture of the 1950s and 1960s, American social transition during the 1950s and 1960s, and crime narrative in both cinema and text. Jeff is a Fellow of the National Writing Project.

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Bethkecmb08c@fsu.eduGA 3321-12; GA 3321-45

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Bilirdbilir@fsu.edu3930-03Defne Bilir (MA in Modern Turkish Literature, Hacettepe University, Turkey) is a doctoral student in the Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities at FSU. Her major is Middle Eastern Studies and minor is Cultural Studies. Defne has taught Multicultural Film, Modern Middle East, and Middle Eastern Culture. She is currently preparing a new course, Traditions & Rituals in the Middle East, focusing on cultural representations and identity formations of the Middle East as well as Western perceptions of the Middle Eastern cultures. In a larger cultural context, her current research, on the topic of Western Views of the Middle East in the 20th C., provides a critical comparison of representations and perspectives, which through the 20th C., the West and the East harbor about each other, and thus discusses over the clash of civilizations.

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BoddenWerther O. Bodden is a doctoral student in the Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities. His major field of study is Theory of Art and Painting. He is interested in Vygotsky’s Psychology of Art and Language, Montagu’s Philosophy of Race, Marxism and Frankfurt School’s Critical Theory. MA in Philosophy of Art. BA in Philosophy and Fine Arts.

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Bondstab02@fsu.edu2210-04; 2235-03Tara Bonds is a doctoral student, with graduate and undergraduate degrees in Classics. Her major field of study is Roman culture and poetry; her minor field is Medieval culture and the church. She is also interested in the study of Classical mythology, femininity in antiquity, and Medieval manuscripts. Her current research interests are in the Medieval moralizations of the Roman poet, Ovid.

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Brackinsgbrackins@fsu.edu3324-01; 3324-04

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Carsonpec05@fsu.edu 2210-05; GA 2210-11

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Congergrc04@fsu.eduGA 3321-46

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Crittenjkc04@fsu.edu GA 3321-06; GA 3321-14

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Crookjcrook@fsu.edu3321-12; 3321-27

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Delgadoad06f@fsu.edu MLAAntonio Delgado is a doctoral student at Florida States University. He studies modernity and modernism, and critical theory. He is interested in the works of James Joyce, Samuel Beckett and Jorge Luis Borges, and its relation to psychoanalysis. He also has interest in the problem of memory and forgetting in literature, and its relation with history and philosophy.

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Di Cesareemd6935@garnet.acns.fsu.edu3321-20; 3321-39

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Dumasrld2099@garnet.acns.fsu.edu3321-44Raechel Dumas is pursuing a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities with a major concentration in modern Japanese and Chinese literature and a minor in East Asian languages and culture. She is currently researching Abe Kobo's later novels and Japanese avant-gardism as they relate to postwar burai-ha literature. Her other academic interests include China's May 4th New Culture Movement writers, comparative linguistics, and Hong Kong cinema.

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Duncanrmd03f@garnet.acns.fsu.edu 3321-26; 3321-28

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Elliottjke05@garnet.acns.fsu.edu GA 2210-05; GA 3324-04Jeremy Elliott is a doctoral student in the Humanities and studies in American Nature writing, Southern literature, and African Diaspora Literature. He is also interested in folklore and religion. Studying in the Humanities department has allowed him to work with professors in the English, History, Anthropology, Music, and Art departments. He teaches Ancient Humanities courses.

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Fisksfisk@fsu.edu 2250-08; GA 2250-10

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Fisterlnf04c@fsu.edu3321-45; GA 3321-21

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Fryettsef6841@garnet.acns.fsu.edu2250-01; 2250-02Sarah E. Fryett, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities, toils and tinkers with the critical tradition in its varied capacities. She focuses on feminism, queer theory, gender studies, aesthetic theory, and the works of Friedrich Nietzsche. Currently, she is piecing together a dissertation prospectus that proposes the potential of laughter as a possible tool for furthering feminist discourses of the body.

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Gallowayiag06c@fsu.edu MLA

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Gilliamdmg06c@fsu.edu MLA

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Grantsmg06e@fsu.edu 2210-06; GA 2250-02Shawn Grant is a Doctoral student in the Humanities Department. His research interests include British Romantic Poetry, the Romantic Novel, Ecology, and Religion. Specifically he is interested in the ways that the sacred becomes secularized in Romanticism only to become sacred once more in contemporary religious movements. He teaches Ancient Humanities and 19th Century Romanticism.

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Henrykhh04e@garnet.acns.fsu.edu3321-01; GA 3321-20

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Howardssh03@garnet.acns.fsu.edu 3321-03; 3321-14Sara Howard is completing her Masters in 20th Century Media and Culture with an emphasis in Film Studies. She also received her undergraduate degree from FSU in Humanities, focusing on Art History and Classical Literature. Her research interests include post-apocalyptic narratives, simulacral re-presentation, aural imagery, and nostalgic futurism as represented in the science fiction genre. Currently, she enjoys teaching Multicultural Film.

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Imbrianici03@fsu.edu2235-06; GA 2250-03Charlie Imbriani has his Masters Degree in the Humanities with a focus in Medieval/Renaissance studies. For his doctoral program, Charlie has shifted his focus to Middle Eastern and Islamic studies. He hopes to continue teaching and writing in this important and relevant field. Beginning in the spring 2009, Charlie will be teaching an undergraduate class in Islamic Culture focusing on the life of Muhammad, Islamic historiography, and medieval Islamic literature, religion, and art.

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Jerkinsjlj07d@fsu.edu3321-46; GA 3324-05Jae Jerkins’ research interests include hermeneutics, phenomenology, history and philosophy of religion, and cultural theory. Jae’s most recent conference presentations include a feminist critique of the mysticism of Hildegard and an extension of Kant’s Analytic of the Sublime. Additionally, Jae has published work on the phenomenological and social construction of Mars in the Winter 2008 edition of the Florida Philosophical Review. Jae plans to pursue his Ph.D. after he earns his M.A. in Interdisciplinary Humanities in 2009.

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Johnson-Lewis3930-07Erika Johnson-Lewis is Doctoral Candidate. Her area of concentration is Media and Cultural Studies, with a primary focus on Television Studies. She is currently working on her dissertation “U.S. Primetime Drama after 9/11: Post-Humanity, Terror, and Seriality”, in which she focuses on how and why the discourse of “the human” has become a prevalent theme in post-9/11 U.S. television and argues that many U.S. primetime serial programs, specifically Battlestar Galactica, Lost, Deadwood, 24, Dexter, Jericho, and Heroes, actively engage with the discourse of “the human” brought about by a polyvalent confrontation with terror in which the present is understood as existing in a state of permanent crisis. Her article “Torture, Terrorism, and Other Aspects of Human Nature” appeared in the edited collection, Cylons in America: Critical Readings in Battlestar Galactica, which was awarded “Best Edited Collection on Popular Culture” in 2008 by the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. She is also currently working on a chapter entitled, “Worth Saving? Post-apocalyptic narratives in Battlestar Galactica, Lost, and Jericho” that will appear in the edited collection Small Screen Revelations: apocalypse and prophecy in contemporary television.

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Johnson, Joeljcj04e@fsu.edu 3321-07; GA 3930-07Joël Johnson is doctoral student in interdisciplinary studies. He comes to the program with over 12 years of college level teaching and administrative experience in the humanities and music business & technology with degrees in Music Business (BA) and Music Theory and Composition (M. Mus.). His unique program of study is a combination of graduate level courses in Music, Higher Education Administration, and Humanities. Mr. Johnson is a Teaching Assistant in the areas of: Multicultural Film, Cultural Imperialism, and T.V. & Culture. In addition to his work at FSU, he also performs locally and internationally as a Jazz & Blues guitarist.

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Lenzbal04c@fsu.edu 3321-34; GA 2250-08Bradley A. Lenz is a doctoral student at Florida State University where he studies textual technologies, critical theory, and intellectual history. His research interests include nineteenth century book history, the history of reading, print culture, and editorial theory.

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Mardirosianglm05c@garnet.acns.fsu.edu 3321-17Gregory Mardirosian majors in popular culture and minors in film studies while focussing his attention on the art and culture of the Hip-Hop community. He is also working towards graduate certificates in Ethnomusicology/World Music from FSU's College of Music and in American Studies from the American and Florida Studies Program. He is presently preparing a brand new course for the American and Florida Studies Program entitled Hip-Hop Music & Culture: An American Artistic Tradition which will be offered for the first time in the Spring semester of 2009.

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Martillilmartilli@fsu.edu 3321-35; 3321-38

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Mauricejmaurice@fsu.edu 3321-09; GA 3321-07

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Menningercnm1809@fsu.edu2250-09; GA 2210-10Christa Menninger is a doctoral student currently focusing on becoming a doctoral candidate. With her major area being Media and Culture and her minor area being Critical Theory she is currently focusing on the digital and how it is redefining our world.

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Millerapmiller@fsu.edu 2250-07; 2250-10Alix Miller is currently examining the implications of Delsartism and Feminist Theory in early 20th century American women’s writings. She is also writing a textbook for conductors, which integrates dance theory and technique with expressive conducting practices, based on her previously published article in the WASBE Journal (Germany) and her movement seminars and lectures in university music departments. Alix serves as Choreographer-in-Residence at Brooks and Company Dance, which won “Best Dance Company” in Atlanta’s Creative Loafing Magazine. She is beginning her choreography of The Yellow Wallpaper, inspired by her DIH studies of dance, feminist theory and literature.

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Mooreedm05d@fsu.edu 2235-05; GA2235-02Erin Moore is pursuing her doctoral degree in Interdisciplinary Humanities. Focusing on medieval studies and the history of texts and technology, she is interested in the production of medieval manuscripts and the transitional period between manuscript culture and early modern print culture. She received her M.A. in English literature at Florida State University. She teaches the Humanities core course, Renaissance to Enlightenment.

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Morris-Heaps cmorris2@fsu.edu2235-07Catherine Morris' scholary interests include 16th and 17th-century esoteric print culture, as well as the intersections of cultural production and the environment as "Green Studies." Her interdisciplinary articles have been published in Athanor, Dictionary of Classical Antiquity, and Journal for the Fantastic in the Arts. She has delivered scholarly papers at the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, and is a member of Golden Key, the American Musicological Society and ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment). Her abiding interest in alchemical imagery formed the conceptual framework for her sculptural installations in her 2007 MFA Thesis show exhibition. Currently, she is writing Rurality, a book describing life in rural Jefferson County with her own photographic illustrations. She is preparing a new American Studies course, "The Environment in American Cultural Production" for the DIH. Her doctoral dissertation research is on Eco-Musicology.

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Paineaop07@garnet.acns.fsu.edu3321-36; 3321-05Amy Paine is interested in Medieval education and the Trivium. As an elementary school teacher she is able to research this seriously within her department as well as in history, art, and religion. She is then able to study how it may be applied to modern education by simultaneously taking classes in the education department at FSU.

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Pariscdp07g@fsu.edu GA 3321--35; GA 2235-08

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Patrickamp06h@garnet.acns.fsu.edu3324-05; 3324-07

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Pautzjrp03f@garnet.acns.fsu.eduJohann Pautz has an MA in Literature from UL- Lafayette and is currently ABD in Humanities. His major area is globalization and culture with additional concentrations in media and cultural studies. Johann has taught courses in Cultural Imperialism, Globalization and Culture, Multicultural Film, and Modernity and recently won a Kingsbury Fellowship. His dissertation addresses conspiratorial and millenarian responses to globalization among far right groups in the United States. His chapter, “End Times Narratives of the American Far Right” is being published by McFarland Press in the forthcoming book, End of Days: Popular Conceptions of the Apocalypse.

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Peacockadp06f@fsu.edu 3321-01; GA 2250-04MA History & Philosophy of Science (2008) Albert Peacock is a first year doctoral student interested in the culture of collecting and the wondrous in the Renaissance & Early Modern texts. He is also interested in working to bridge the gap between "science" and "humanities" in contemporary culture. Some other areas of research Albert has worked on include: The history and philosophy of 20th century Biology, Victorian evolutionary theory, and the Historiography of science and the occult.

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Reddickmnr02d@fsu.edu3321-50Melisa Reddick is a doctoral candidate specializing in media studies and communication. Research interests include performance theory, digital media, Latin American cinema, and dance in popular culture. Her dissertation will look at intersection between live performance and theories of performativity within the context of digital media. Melisa has taught courses in the western tradition and in multicultural film. She also sits on the editorial board of the academic journal InterCulture.

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Riverajrr08e@fsu.edu MLA

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Rothenbergdjr06e@fsu.eduGA 3930-01; GA 3321-50

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Ruggieroraymond.n.ruggiero.04@fsu.edu3930-01; 3930-02Raymond N. Ruggiero is the first and only doctoral student to pursue a major concentration of International Human Rights in the Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities. Ruggiero has identified, worked closely and studied directly with internationally known Florida State University faculty members who have a specific expertise in Human Rights. Ruggiero’s expansive course work has included the departments of law, international affairs, history, Holocaust studies, religious ethics, among others. He has developed and instructed four individual Human Rights undergraduate courses over the past three years and has reached hundreds of students. He believes his greatest achievement is that more than two dozen of his graduating students are pursuing Human Rights careers, most notably in the Peace Corps, various law schools and graduate programs. After graduation, he plans to pursue a career as a faculty member at an academic institution with plans for developing a formal Humanities program for the study of International Human Rights.

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Ruizvr06c@fsu.edu 3321-05; 3321-13

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Sanchezcas06m@fsu.edu 3321-04; 3321-47

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Sassonrsasson@fsu.edu3321-48; 3321-49Renee-Michele Sasson's academic interests are in the field of classical music in general, and specifically, in voice, vocal repertoire, and vocal production. She also is interested in foreign languages, specifically, Italian, French, German and Spanish which are four of the languages related to canzone, melodie, lieder and canciones in vocal recital repertoire aa well as opera/operettas. She also focuses on English poetry in song. Her focus in language is on pronunciation, genre, symbolic significance and interpretation in the poetry associated with the classical vocal recital repertoire as it relates to the music written to enhance and embellish it in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Smithermanljs04c@fsu.edu 2235-01; GA 3321-10Lindsey J. Smitherman is currently pursuing a Doctoral Degree in Humanities (20th Century American Culture). She has taught HUM2235, HUM3321, and currently HUM2235 (Medieval to Baroque Humanities). Her academic interests include 20th-century U.S. literature and culture, ecocriticism, popular culture, and studies of the North American West. M.A. - Florida State University - Humanities (20th Century American Culture).

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Sonmez-Poyrazsss06h@fsu.edu GA 3324-07; GA 3930-03 Secil Sonmez Poyraz is currently a M.A. student in the Interdisciplinary Humanities Department. Her main interest is the modern history of the Middle East with a focus on ethnicity, identity, human rights, globalization of culture, colonial and resistance art & literature of the Middle East. She has taught online and face to face courses such as Modern Middle East, Homer to Gothic, and Middle Eastern Culture. Secil is also interested in digital Humanities and creating and adapting new ways of teaching techniques by integrating digital media and assessment tools in learning activities. She has several presentations and workshops on the use of technology in the digital age at various national and international conferences.

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Stegalless07@garnet.acns.fsu.edu3321-08; 3321-16

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Swainlm04@fsu.edu 3321-40; GA 3321-48

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Swaisgooddrs06@garnet.acns.fsu.eduGA 3930-02; GA 3321-15Daniel Swaisgood is an American and Florida Studies MA student in the Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities. He is specifically majoring in Human Rights and American policy, domestic and foreign, with the intention of continuing his human rights advocacy in the field of law. Daniel graduated Cum Laude with his bachelor's degree in English Literature from FSU. Furthermore, over the summer of 2008, he received certification from the Holocaust Institute for Educators at FSU in Holocaust and genocide studies. Lastly, Daniel was a co-founder of the Human Rights Awareness Center at FSU and is currently serving as its director.

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Tannerstacylynn325@msn.com3321-21; 3321-22Stacy Tanner is a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Humanities Department who currently teaches Multicultural American Film. Her major is Gender and Sexuality studies. She completed her undergraduate work at the University of South Florida and received a degree in Interdisciplinary Social Science. She earned her M.A. in History in 2005. Following the completion of her Master's degree, she taught history at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia. Her teaching and research interests include gender studies, film theory and production, modern language, the history of war, and the history of sport.

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Tanzeremt06d@garnet.acns.fsu.edu3321-10; GA 2210-06

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Vandegriftmlv03@fsu.eduAMS AdvisorMicah Vandegrift is currently serving as the Advisor and Program Assistant in the American and Florida Studies program. He also has taught "Underground Music in America: 1980-present" for the program since the fall of 2007. Micah will complete his thesis in the Spring of 2009, focusing on writing a cultural history of Floridian post-punk/hardcore music scenes between 1994 and 2001. Micah is interested in the interplay of American pop culture, music scenes, religion and gender, and hopes to continue writing and researching on these topics at the PhD level.

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Villafanepmv04@fsu.edu LACS Advisor

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Whiteheadtyw3443@garnet.acns.fsu.edu 2210-01; 2235-08Tammy Whitehead is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities. She has undergraduate and graduate degrees in Classics and has focused her doctoral studies on the influence of the Classical world on the Medieval and Renaissance periods. She is currently writing her dissertation on the Trojan Legend in Fifteenth-Century England in which she is examining the illustrations of Lydgate's Troy Book in relation to both the text and contemporary historical events.

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Wrightkdw02d@fsu.edu 3321-42Katheryn Wright is a doctoral candidate specializing in media studies and cultural geography. Research interests include screen studies, advertising in contemporary popular culture, and critical theories related to the body and perception. Her dissertation develops a phenomenology of the screen in urban entertainment spaces and features an ethnographic study of the 2008 US Open in New York. Katheryn holds professional certifications in editing and publishing and digital video production, and is currently the managing editor of the academic journal InterCulture.

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Xie, Tianhaitx06@fsu.eduMLATianhai Xie is a PhD student in his third year. He majors in Chinese film and minors in the media and ethics. He has a special interest in the study of film censorship and its influence on the film productions and people’s reception especially after Chinese Communist Party took over China in 1949. The study is conducted under a comparative approach with that of the Hollywood film industry from 1940s to 1970s. Presently, he is teaching Chinese Language Class in Department of Modern Languages and linguistics and is planning to teach Chinese film class in the coming semesters.

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Zhai, Wenyang (Shirley)MLAWenyang Zhai is a Ph. D. student in Humanities with a major concentration on comparative literature studies with a focus on 20th century writers of America and China and a minor in popular cultural studies with a focus on China cinema.

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MLA = Assignment in Modern Languages

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AMS = American Studies Program

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