Culture

Miriam Wallace

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Miriam Wallace Directory Tue, 07/04/2023 - 05:15

Area of Expertise

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Writing

Miriam L. Wallace is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Illinois-Springfield, and Professor of English. She is a graduate of Swarthmore College (BA) and the University of California, Santa Cruz (MA/PhD) in Literature. As a proud liberal arts graduate, she advocates for the value and impact of academic study, art making and performance, public presentations, and study abroadâ¿¿noting their impact on self-confidence, intellectual curiosity, and personal and professional growth.

She has written extensively on late eighteenth-century British writers who used fiction to advocate for political reformâ¿¿most notably in Revolutionary Subjects in the English â¿¿Jacobinâ¿¿ Novel (2009) (which was supported by an NEH College Teacher Fellowship). More recent work explores Romantic-era public speaking as depicted in satirical prints, literature, and popular cultureâ¿¿particularly by those formerly excluded from rhetorical training by virtue of class, sex, gender, race, educational level, or disabilities. She was Principle Investigator for an NEH Humanities Connections Planning Grant to build a new â¿¿concentrationâ¿¿ in Health, Culture and Societies from 2021-2022 with colleagues in Epidemiology, Anthropology, History, and Physiology/Medicine. She continues as co-editor of the â¿¿Transits: Literature, Thought, and Culture 1650-1850â¿¿ series with Bucknell University Press with Dr. Mona Narain. Since January 2023 she has been involved in organizing and speaking about academic freedom and the importance of public universities as equity engines, resisting efforts to diminish or limit humanistic exploration and voices. Dr. Wallace is Co-PI with Dr. Emily Todd of an NEH Spotlight on Humanities grant on the humanities in an A.I. world for 2024-2025.

Office Location

1 University Plaza, MS UHB 3000

Research

Literature, particularly in English; Eighteenth-century studies and Romanticism; Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Public Speech, history of; Satire, political and cultural

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Administration

Phone Number

217-206-7444

Publications

Books: Teaching the Eighteenth-Century Now: Pedagogy as Ethical Engagement (2023 essay collection), with Kate Parker; Revolutionary Subjects in the English "Jacobin" Novel (2009); Enlightening Romanticism, Romancing the Enlightenment: British Novels from 1750-1832 (2009 essay collection); Re-viewing Thomas Holcroft, 1745-1809: Essays on His Life and Work (essay collection), with A. A. Markley.

English and Modern Languages

mwall29@uis.edu

Teaching

English, Literature, British literature & culture Enlightenment & Romanticism; Health Humanities, Disability Studies, Feminist and Queer Theory, Women Writers

Editorial Boards

Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850, Bucknell University Press, with Dr. Mona Narain

Dean

Professor

Area of Specialization

Humanities & Liberal Arts; Academic Freedom; educational gag orders; Literature and Politics; Women's and Gender issues; Higher education academic administration; Eighteenth Century and 1790s British literature and culture; Satirical Prints; Romantic-era novel; Virginia Woolf; feminist pedagogies.

Brandon Derman

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Brandon Derman Directory Mon, 12/07/2020 - 08:58

Area of Expertise

Government Legislation/Politics

Human Rights

Inequality

International Affairs/U.S. Foreign Policy

Brandon Barclay Derman is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, in the School of Integrated Science, Sustainability and Public Health, part of the College of Health, Science and Technology at the University of Illinois Springfield. Dr. Derman received his Ph.D. in Geography (with additional specialization in Sociolegal Studies) from the University of Washington. Professor Derman specializes in environmental politics, law, policy and justice, with an emphasis on climate change. His research interests include climate justice, energy transitions, political and policy-making alliances, and environmental alienation. Dr. Derman's 2020 book is Struggles for Climate Justice: Uneven Geographies and Politics of Connection (Palgrave Macmillan). His work has also appeared in the Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Political Geography, the South African Journal of Human Rights, the OÃ±ati Socio-Legal Series, Climate Policy, the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, and in edited volumes on climate justice and global health governance.

Office Location

PAC 323

School of Integrated Sciences, Sustainability, and Public Health

Phone Number

217-206-8581

Publications

Books

Derman, B. Climate Justice: Five Angles on the Crisis and the Movement. Palgrave Macmillan. (2024)

Derman, B. Struggles for Climate Justice: Uneven Geographies and the Politics of Connection. Palgrave Macmillan. (2020)

Journal Articles

Derman, B. â¿¿Polyvocal Articulations of Climate Justice and the Commonality of Loss.â¿¿ Political Geography 99 (2022): 102765

Derman, B. â¿¿Revisiting Limits to Legal Mobilization for Global Climate Justice: Power, Complexity, and the Legibility of Responsibility.â¿¿ OÃ±ati Socio-Legal Series 9, no. 3 (2019): 333-360.

Derman, B. â¿¿Climate Governance, Justice and Transnational Civil Society.â¿¿ Climate Policy 14, no. 1 (2014): 23-41.

Derman, B. â¿¿Contesting Climate Injustice During COP17.â¿¿ South African Journal on Human Rights 29, no. 1 (2013): 170-179.

Herbert, S., B. Derman, and T. Grobelski. â¿¿The Regulation of Environmental Space.â¿¿ Annual Review of Law and Social Science 9 (2013): 227-248.

Albrecht, J., B. Derman, and L. Ramasubramanian. â¿¿Geo-ontology Tools: The Missing Link.â¿¿ Transactions in GIS 12, no. 4 (2008): 409â¿¿424.

Camay, S., L. Ramasubramanian, B. Derman, E. Bohn, J. Albrecht, W. Milczarski, M. Boile, and S. Theofanis. â¿¿Ferry Parking and Landside Access Study: Implementing Public Outreach and Impact Assessment.â¿¿ Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2077, no. 1 (2008): 39â¿¿45.

Book Chapters and Sections

Derman, B. â¿¿Legal Geographies.â¿¿ In International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, edited by Audrey Kobayashi, Elsevier, 2019.

Derman, B. â¿¿â¿¿Climate Change is ��ý Usâ¿¿: Fence-line Communities, the NAACP, and the grounding of climate justice.â¿¿ In Routledge Handbook of Climate Justice, edited by Jafrey, T., Routledge, 2018.

Derman, B. â¿¿Participation of Corporations in International Organizations.â¿¿ In Researching Corporations and Global Health Governance: An Interdisciplinary Guide, edited by Lee, K. and B. Hawkins, Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.

Derman, B. â¿¿Contesting Climate Injustice during COP17.â¿¿ In Climate Talk: Rights, Poverty and Justice, edited by Dugard, J., A. St. Clair, and S. Gloppen, Johannesburg: Juta, 2013.

bderm2@uis.edu

Involvement

Environmental Justice Task Force, Springfield Faith Coalition for the Common Good

Teaching

ENS 332/IGS 331: Cultural Geography; ENS 419: Environmental Law; ENS 463: Our Changing Climate; ENS 476: Environmental Ethics; ENS 483: National Environmental Policy Act; ENS 552: Environmental Social Sciences and Humanities; ENS 581 Environmental Policy and Analysis; ENS 587: Natural Resources Policy and Administration; Urban GIS (University of Washington); Coastal GIS (University of Washington)

Associate Prof.

Area of Specialization

Environmental and natural resource politics and policy

Social movements

Political ecology

Law, rights, and the environment

Richard Gilman-Opalsky

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Richard Gilman-Opalsky Directory Mon, 12/07/2020 - 08:58

Area of Expertise

Dr. Richard Gilman-Opalskyâ¿¿s teaching and research focus on the history of political philosophy, Continental and contemporary social theory, Marxism, capitalism, autonomist politics, postmodern philosophy, critical theory, global social movements, and feminist philosophy.

Dr. Gilman-Opalsky earned his Ph.D. in Political Science at The New School for Social Research (2006). His M.A. (The New School for Social Research) and B.A. (Hofstra University) are in Philosophy.

He is author of many books, including: Imaginary Power, Real Horizons (2024), The Communism of Love (2020), Riotous Epistemology (2019), Specters of Revolt (2016), Precarious Communism (2014), Spectacular Capitalism (2011), and Unbounded Publics (2008). He is co-editor of Against Capital in the Twenty-First Century: A Reader of Radical Undercurrents (2018).

Spectacular Capitalism was selected as "Book of the Month" for October 2011 by The International Herbert Marcuse Society. Dr. Gilman-Opalsky has published numerous articles in social theory and political philosophy, especially on revolution, global revolts, philosophy of praxis, and capitalism and its culture. He has lectured on his research throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Latin America, and China. His work has been published in German, Greek, Spanish, and French.

Dr. Gilman-Opalsky was named University Scholar 2018-2019.

Listen to Dr. Gilman-Opalsky on NPR Illinoisâ¿¿ Community Voices (2022).

BOOKS

Communist Ontologies: An Inquiry into the Construction of New Forms of Life (Autonomedia, 2024)

Imaginary Power, Real Horizons: The Practicality of Utopianism (AK Press, 2024)

The Communism of Love: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Exchange Value (AK Press, 2020).

Riotous Epistemology: Imaginary Power, Art, and Insurrection (Autonomedia / Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, 2019).

Against Capital in the Twenty-First Century: A Reader of Radical Undercurrents (Temple University Press, 2018).

Specters of Revolt: On the Intellect of Insurrection and Philosophy from Below (Repeater Books / Random House, 2016).

Precarious Communism: Manifest Mutations, Manifesto Detourned (Autonomedia, 2014).

Spectacular Capitalism: Guy Debord and the Practice of Radical Philosophy (Autonomedia, 2011). Also available in Greek translation.

Unbounded Publics: Transgressive Public Spheres, Zapatismo, and Political Theory (Lexington Books, 2008).

SELECTED ARTICLES

Critical Reflections on Capitalist China: Notes from the China Lectures (Situations Journal, Vol. IX, Nos. 1 and 2).

The Communism of Love: How the COVID pandemic has revealed anew the importance of Marxâ¿¿s Gemeinwesen (Public Seminar at The New School, May 2021).

The Communist Secret of Love (Ill Will Editions, January 2021).

Love: a counterpower to capital worthy of its name (ROAR Magazine, January 2021).

Capitalismo, revuelta y comunidad. Entrevista a Richard Gilman-Opalsky (SociohistÃ³rica, n. 47, e133, Marzo-Agosto 2021).

The Eternal Return of Revolt: A Conversation with Richard Gilman-Opalsky (Ill Will Editions, July 2020).

Spectral Compositions in a Time of Revolt [Co-authored with Stevphen Shukaitis] (Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present/ASAP Journal, Johns Hopkins University Press, May 2018.

Revolt as Reason, Reason as Revolt: On the Praxis of Philosophy from Below (In Spontaneous Combustion: The Eros Effect and Global Revolution, Edited by Jason Del Gandio and AK Thompson, SUNY Press, 2017).

The Ferguson Revolt Did Not Take Place (The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest, May 2015).

Marxism Not Statism: Autonomist Trajectories in the 21^st Century (Left Curve: Journal of Art, Critical Culture, Theory and Politics, Number 38, June 2014).

The Reasonable â¿¿Madnessâ¿¿ of Revolt (Fifth Estate, Volume 48, Number 2, Issue 390, Fall/Winter 2013).

Becoming-Ghost, Specters of Revolt: The Ghosts of Geist and Capital (SolidaritÃ©: Journal of Radical Theory, Volume 1, Number 2, August 2013).

Unjamming the Insurrectionary Imagination: Rescuing DÃ©tournement from the Liberal Complacencies of Culture Jamming (Theory in Action, Volume 6, Number 3, July 2013).

Beyond the Old Virtue of Struggle: Autonomy, Talent, and Revolutionary Theory (Rhizomes Journal, Issue Number 24, 2012).

Why New Socialist Theory Needs Guy Debord: On the Practice of Radical Philosophy (Crisis, Politics, and Critical Sociology, Edited by Graham Cassano and Richard A. Dello Buono, Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 17, Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2012).

Upheaval as Philosophy: Eleven Theses on Guy Debord (Left Curve: Journal of Art, Critical Culture, Theory and Politics, Number 35, April 2011).

Selectively Forgetting Baudrillard: Rescuing Praxis from the Wreckage (Theory in Action, Volume 3, Number 2, April 2010).

LISTEN & WATCH

Dr. Gilman-Opalsky on Specters of Revolt, Marxism, Anarchism, and Resistance to Capitalism

Dr. Gilman-Opalskyâ¿¿s TED Talk

NPR Broadcast of Dr. Gilman-Opalskyâ¿¿s TED talk

Dr. Gilman-Opalskyâ¿¿s Incite Seminar on The Communism of Love

Dr. Gilman-Opalsky at East Side Institute, New York City

Seminar on Dr. Gilman-Opalskyâ¿¿s research at The Institute for the Radical Imagination

Dr. Gilman-Opalsky discusses The Communism of Love on a podcast for Woodbine, NYC

Dr. Gilman-Opalsky discusses The Communism of Love at the Third Annual UIS Author Festival

Dr. Gilman-Opalsky releases new book exploring the communism of love

Dr. Gilman-Opalskyâ¿¿s podcast interview about The Communism of Love

Dr. Gilman-Opalskyâ¿¿s University Scholar Acceptance Speech: â¿¿Two Marginal Notes on Recognitionâ¿¿

Dr. Gilman-Opalskyâ¿¿s â¿¿Specters of Revoltâ¿¿ ECCE Speaker Series Book Launch Lecture

Dr. Gilman-Opalsky on â¿¿Spectacularâ¿¿ Politics and Revolt on NPR Illinois

Dr. Gilman-Opalsky Talks ��ý His Book Specters of Revolt

Dr. Gilman-Opalsky in a Film Trailer for the Documentary â¿¿Insurrectionsâ¿¿

Dr. Gilman-Opalsky â¿¿On Revolt and Philosophyâ¿¿

Dr. Gilman-Opalsky Releases New Book Exploring The Communist Manifesto

Dr. Gilman-Opalskyâ¿¿s Engaged Citizenship Common Experience Lecture: Engagement in a World Without Bodies

Dr. Gilman-Opalskyâ¿¿s Radio Interview on Spectacular Capitalism

Video on Why Dr. Gilman-Opalsky Chose to Study Political Philosophy

Presentation by Dr. Gilman-Opalsky at New York University in April, 2014

Office Location

PAC 362

School of Politics and International Affairs

Phone Number

217-206-8328

rgilm3@uis.edu

Professor

Devin Hunter

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Devin Hunter Directory Mon, 12/07/2020 - 08:58

Area of Expertise

Associate Professor of History

Chair, History Department

Ph.D. Public History and United States History

Loyola University Chicago

Email: dhunte2@uis.edu

Phone: (217) 206-7432

Office: UHB 3056

Teaching Concentration: Public History, Urban History, Twentieth Century United States History

CV upon request

Devin Hunter is a public historian and scholar who focuses on issues of community identity, social equity, redevelopment and cultural heritage tourism. He arrived in academia after several years working in the archives and museum fields in Washington, DC, and Chicago. His first book, A Cosmos in the City: Postwar Politics, Culture, and Diversity in Chicagoâ¿¿s Uptown, is under contract with the University of Illinois Press. Dr. Hunterâ¿¿s next project traces the history of the commemoration and interpretation of race riots and massacres in Springfield (1908), Chicago (1919), and Tulsa (1921). His past and current board and committee memberships include: the Illinois State Historical Society, the Illinois Historical Sites Advisory Committee, and the Vachel Lindsay Association, among many others.

Recent Publications:

â¿¿Urban/Rural Frictions in the Midwest: The Chicago-Downstate Battle for Legislative Reapportionment in Illinois, 1953-1965,â¿¿ in The Conservative Heartland: The Rise of Conservatism in the Midwest, 1946-2016, edited by Jon Lauck and Catherine McNickol Stock. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2020.

â¿¿Interpreting Lincoln Today and Tomorrow: A Round Table Discussion on the State of Lincoln Public History,â¿¿ convener and editor, Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, Vol. 40, No. 1 (Winter 2019).

Review of The Small-Town Midwest: Resilience and Hope in the Twenty-First Century, by Julianne Crouch. Illinois Geographer, Vol. 60, Issue 1 (Fall 2018).

â¿¿Uptown: The Roots of Diversity in the Twentieth-Century â¿¿City within a City,â¿¿ in Illinois Heritage, May/June 2015.

Review of 1950sâ¿¿Rocketmanâ¿¿ TV Series and Their Fans: Cadets, Rangers, and Junior Space Men, edited by Cynthia Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper. Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 47, Issue 1 (February 2014), 198-201.

Awards and Grants:

Illinois Innovation Network Social Innovation Seed Grant" ($30,000), "Journeys to Justice: Reckoning with Illinois' History and Legacy of Anti-Black Terror," co-director with Lesa Johnson (UIS SOA), Peter Cole (Western Illinois University), and Tandra Taylor (Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, 2024-2025.

UIS Faculty Engagement Award, 2024.

University of Illinois Presidential Initiative to Celebrate the Impact of the Arts and Humanities ($180,000), â¿¿I-Heritage as Public Engagement and Economic and Social Development,â¿¿ co-principal investigator with Helaine Silverman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019-2025.

University of Illinois Presidential Initiative to Celebrate the Impact of the Arts and Humanities ($150,000), â¿¿The Humanities Innovating New Knowledge (THINK),â¿¿ co-investigator with Jennifer Brier, University of Illinois at Chicago (co-principal investigator); Barbara Ransby, University of Illinois Chicago (co-principal investigator); and Kathryn Oberdeck (co-investigator), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019-2025.

2020 Mid-America Emmy Award for Short Format Program, â¿¿Face to Face.â¿¿ Chris Costello, Director and Editor; Devin V. Hunter, Producer; Josh Hester, Executive Producer; featuring Dr. Wesley Robinson-McNeese.

Office Location

UHB 3050

History

Phone Number

217-206-7432

History

dhunte2@uis.edu

Associate Prof.

His Department Chairperson

Area of Specialization

Public History, Twentieth-Century United States History. Commemoration and Memory. Museums, Historic Sites, and Historic Preservation. Illinois History. Chicago History.