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Marianne Constable - Professor, Rhetoric
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Chicago Husband-Killing and the New Unwritten Law is a book-length manuscript concerned with a particular defense known as the new unwritten law, which supposedly exonerated women accused of killing their husbands in Chicago at the beginning of the twentieth century. The point of the book is to explore...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesMarianne Constable - Professor, Rhetoric
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Short book-length manuscript on rhetorical issues in dialogic philosophical texts from Plato to Heidegger (based on upper-division course I have taught several times...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesSamiha Khalil - Professor, Rhetoric
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project will trace the development of "alienation" as a legal, philosophical, and religious concept. It will also draw a map of how the concept is taken up in twentieth-century Hegelian and Marxist traditions to indicate a deep sense of estrangement in the modern capitalist world. The project will...
Arts & HumanitiesWinnie Wong - Professor, Rhetoric
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This is an ongoing historical research project on the visual culture produced by Chinese painters in Guangzhou, China, for European and American markets during the period of the Canton Trade (1700-1850). The project explores the intersection of art and science, art and plants, art and animals, and lesser known parts...
Arts & HumanitiesWinnie Wong - Professor, Rhetoric
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
A collaboration with the Asian Art Museum, this project researches the art and visual culture of Hong Kong, in its history and present...
Arts & HumanitiesWinnie Wong - Professor, Rhetoric
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project centers on the daily diary of a literatus in early modern Guangzhou, China. Through reading and translating the diary, we examine the everyday life of an urbane gentleman, his navigation of an early modern city and its social networks. We see the centrality of painting, poetry, music, and...
Arts & HumanitiesWinnie Wong - Professor, Rhetoric
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Research on the modern and contemporary artists Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp, Banksy, Constantin Brancusi, Matthew Wong, Agnes Martin, and others...
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