Gender Issues

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.

Lan Dong

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Lan Dong Directory Fri, 08/19/2022 - 05:15

Area of Expertise

Lan Dong is the Louise Hartman Schewe and Karl Schewe Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences. She served as Chair of the Department English and Modern Languages (2017-2019), Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (2021-2022), and Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (2022-2023). She was the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Faculty Fellow in 2015 and worked on faculty development initiatives, faculty and staff handbooks, student petitions, and international student advising. She was a Center for Online ��ý, Research, and Service Faculty Fellow from 2020 to 2022 and conducted research on accessibility, inclusive pedagogy, and open educational resources.

Awards

Spencer Award for excellence in public and academic community service (2025)
Diversity and Inclusion Award (2024)
Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentor Award (2019)
Faculty Excellence Award for career-long achievements in teaching and scholarship (2018)
Pearson Faculty Award for teaching excellence (2012)
University Scholar (2012)
Faculty Excellence Award for Scholarship, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (2011)

Office Location

UHB 3050

English and Modern Languages

Phone Number

217-206-8334

Publications

Books

Recent Journal Articles and Book Chapters (since 2020)

"Girlhood Reimagined: Malaka Gharib's Graphic Memoirs." Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 17, no. 3, 2024.
"Girl Gamers and Digital Activism in Doctorow and Wang's In Real Life." Co-authored with Tena L. Helton. The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, vol. 77, no. 2, 2023.
"Multilingual and Multicultural Childhood: Robin Ha's Almost American Girl." Journal of Literary Multilingualism, vol. 1, no. 2, 2023. Comics Studies Society Article Prize shortlist 2025
"(Un)Masking a Chinese American Superhero: Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew's The Shadow Hero." Beyond the Icon: Asian North American Graphic Narratives, edited by Eleanor Ty, Ohio State University Press, 2022. Comics Studies Society Edited Book Prize 2023
"Mapping Social Differences in the Virtual Classroom: Inclusive Multimodal Texts and Learner-Centered Design." A Socially Just Classroom: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Writing across the Humanities, edited by Vuslat Katsanis and Kristin Coffey, Vernon Press, 2022.
"History Meets Literary Imagination: The Making of a Twelfth-Century Woman Warrior." Women's Lives: Self-Representation, Reception, and Appropriation in the Middle Ages, edited by Nahir I. Otano Gracia and Daniel Armenti, University of Wales Press, 2022.
"Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: A Milestone in Asian American Literature." Asian American Literature in Transition: 1965-1996, edited by Asha Nadkarni and Cathy Schlund-Vials, Cambridge University Press, 2021. The collection was named the American Library Association's Choice 2022 Outstanding Academic Title.
"Drawing Childhood and Politics: Malik Sajad's Munnu A Boy from Kashmir." Studies in Comics, vol. 12, no. 1, 2021.
"Drawing Histories, Documenting Experiences: Clement Baloup's Vietnamese Memories." Inks: The Journal of The Comics Studies Society, vol. 5, no. 3, 2021.
"Ambiguity in Parallel: Visualizing History in Boxers and Saints." Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies, edited by Frederick Luis Aldama, Oxford University Press, 2020.

ldong4@uis.edu

Teaching

Asian American literature and culture; children's and young adult literature; comics, graphic narratives, & graphic medicine; women writers; world literature

Professor

Jennifer Martin

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Jennifer Martin Directory Mon, 12/07/2020 - 08:58

Area of Expertise

Dr. Jennifer Martin is an associate professor in the School of Education at the University of Illinois at Springfield. Prior to working in higher education, Dr. Martin worked in public education for 17 years, 15 of those as the department chair of English at an urban alternative high school for students labeled at-risk for school failure in metropolitan Detroit. She has been the editor of the Journal of Urban ��ý Teaching and Research since 2018. She is the editor of Racial Battle Fatigue: Insights from the Front Lines of Social Justice Advocacy (Recipient of the 2016 AERA Division Bâ¿¿s Outstanding Book Recognition Award), She is the 2019 recipient of the Paula Silver Case Award for Volume Year 2018, UCEA Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership (Volume 21): for â¿¿The Bathroom Case: Creating a Supportive School Environment for Transgender and Gender Non-conforming Students.â¿¿ Her most recent co-authored book is: Mentoring the Mentor: Celebrating the Intersection of ��ý Together, A Reciprocal Journey. In 2021, she was awarded the Burks Oakley II Distinguished Online Teaching Award (University of Illinois at Springfield). She was named University Scholar at UIS for the 2022 â¿¿ 2023 academic year.

Office Location

One University Plaza, MS BRK 330

School of Education

Phone Number

217-206-6682

jmart315@uis.edu

Associate Prof.

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

Kristi Barnwell

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Kristi Barnwell Directory Mon, 12/07/2020 - 08:58

Area of Expertise

"The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academyâ¿¦Urging all of us to open our minds and hearts so that we can know beyond the boundaries of what is acceptable, so that we can think and rethink, so that we can create new visionsâ¿¦." --bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress

Dr. Kristi N. Barnwell received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas, Austin in History in 2011. She has published works on the creation of the United Arab Emirates, British imperialism and American-Jordanian relations.

Undergraduate courses taught:

HIS 161: Introduction to the Modern Middle East (Falls, on ground)
HIS/WGS 211: Women and Gender in the Middle East (Springs, on ground)
HIS 373: ECCE Reading Arab Pasts (online and on ground)
HIS 375: ECCE Conflict in the Middle East (online and on ground)
HIS 475: ECCE Imperialism and Nationalism (online and on ground)
HIS 470: Research in the Arab Gulf

Graduate seminars:

HIS 501: Graduate History Colloquium (Fall, on ground)
HIS 504: American Material Life (Spring 2024, on ground)
HIS 510s: Theories of British Imperialism (2011), Modern Middle East Culture and Society (2016), Race and Slavery in the Middle East (2021)

Awards:

Pearson Faculty Award for excellence in teaching (2022)
CLAS Award for excellence in teaching (2021)
CLAS Award for excellence in service (2017)

Publications (selected):

The Formation of the UAE: State Building and Arab Nationalism in the Middle East (forthcoming, Spring 2024) from I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury Academic
"Centering Students in Peer-led Discussion Boards," Issues in Middle East Studies, May 2022, pp. 23-24.
"Overthrowing the Shaykhs: The Trucial States at the Intersection of Anti-Imperialism, Arab Nationalism, and Politics," Arab Studies Journal (2016).
"'Caught Between His Friends and His Enemies': The Evolution of American-Jordanian Collaboration in the 1960s," Diplomacy & Statecraft (2011)

Office Location

UHB 3070

History

Phone Number

217-206-7420

Publications

Modern Middle East, United Arab Emirates, British Imperialism, US-Jordanian Relations

kbarn2@uis.edu

Involvement

UPI 4100/UIS United Faculty President and Grievance Officer

Campus Senator, CLASS Representative

Member, CLASS Curriculum Committee

Chair, University Requirements Committee

Faculty Advisor, Political Understanding and Activism Club

Teaching

Middle East History, History methods, Material Culture, Global Studies, Women and Gender Studies

Associate Prof.

Area of Specialization

Middle East politics, culture, and history