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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

Richard Gilman-Opalsky

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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).