i n f o r m a t i o n - about CFR personnel and affiliates

2008-09 CFR STEERING COMMITTEE:

• Alice Gambrell (English), chair
• Sarah Banet-Wiser (Annenberg School of Communication)
• Judith Bennett (History)
• Lisa Bitel (Gender Studies, History, Religion)
• Aniko Imre (Cinema)
• Raquel Gutierrez, Assistant Director, CFR

CFR RESEARCH AFFILIATES 2007-08

Jenny Bjorklund, a scholar of Swedish literature at Uppala University, has received a research sabbatical from her position for the purpose of teaching a course in Scandinavian Studies at UCLA.

Katarzyna Marciniak is an Associate Professor of Transnational Studies in the English Department at Ohio University. Currently she holds the position of Visiting Scholar at the CFR and she also teaches a “Social Issues in Gender” course for the Gender Studies Program here. She specializes in the discourses of immigration and transnational feminism, and is the author of Alienhood: Citizenship, Exile, and the Logic of Difference (University of Minnesota Press, 2006), and a co-editor with Anikó Imre and Áine O’Healy of Transnational Feminism in Film and Media (Palgrave 2007). Her current research focuses on the notion of “immigrant rage” in relation to feminist theory, migration studies, and global visual cultures.