Dean Michael Horswell engages In Conversation with Ilaria Serra, Ph.D., Professor of Italian and Comparative Studies, whose areas of expertise include Italian cinema, popular song and cultural studies, as well as the history of Italian immigration. Dr. Serra also discusses her latest book, "Italia Cantata: A Culture and Language Textbook."

In Conversation

Teaching Italian Culture Through Music with Ilaria Serra, Ph.D

Dean Michael Horswell engages In Conversation with Marek Muller, Ph. D., Assistant Professor of Rhetorical Studies in the Communication and Multimedia Studies Department. Dr.  Muller&apos;s specializations include rhetorical theory and criticism, critical-cultural communication studies, legal studies and critical animal studies. She is a rhetorician interested in human rights, nonhuman animal rights and the humanity/animality dialectic.  Her latest publication is "Impersonating Animals, Rhetoric, Ecofeminism and Animal Rights Law."

The Rhetorical Politics of Personhood with Marek Muller, Ph.D.

Dean Michael Horswell engages In Conversation with Lee Soroko, Assistant Professor of Movement at FAU&apos;s Theater and Dance Department. He is a fight director and instructor who insures the safety of actors during fight scenes on stage. In 2022, Professor Soroko will be choreographing the violence scenes for "Carmen" at the Palm Beach Opera. 

Choreographing fight scenes in theater with Professor Lee Soroko.

Dean Michael Horswell engages In Conversation with Stacey Balkan, Ph. D., Assistant Professor of English and Environmental Humanities at Florida Atlantic University, who has been researching how the past can predict our future. Her upcoming book, "Rogues in the Postcolony: Narrating Extraction and Itinerancy in India," includes an investigation of new extra-activist frontiers, including solar capitalism and the and the possibility of imagining life after extraction on the subcontinent and beyond.

Narrating Extraction in the Global South with Stacey Balkan, Ph.D.

Upcoming: Narrating Extraction in the Global South with Stacey Balkan, Ph.D.

Dean Michael Horswell engages in conversation with ethnomusicologist, percussionist, composer and FAU music professor Andres Espinoza, Ph.D. about his upcoming book, Una Sola Casa: Salsa Consciente and the Poetics of the Meta-barrio, his analysis of the impact of Salsa music as an forging element of social and political identity within Latino and Latin American communities.  He also speaks about his Born From the Drum  audio and video project, rooted in ceremonial drumming.

The Impact of Salsa Music on Latino & Latin American Communities with Andres Espinoza, Ph.D.

Dean Michael Horswell engages in conversation with  FAU&apos;s  Associate Professor of American History, Adrian Finucane, PhD on her upcoming book Captive Exchanges: Prisoners of War and the Trade in Secrets, 1700-1760,  which addresses themes of warfare and incarceration as well as empire and cultural contact in the 18th-century Atlantic world. 

Prisoners of War and Revolutionary Books with Adrian Finucane, Ph.D.

Dean Michael Horswell engages in conversation with  FAU&apos;s  Associate Professor of American History, Adrian Finucane, PhD on her upcoming book Captive Exchanges: Prisoners of War and the Trade in Secrets, 1700-1760,  which addresses themes of warfare and incarceration as well as empire and cultural contact in the 18th-century Atlantic world. The work argues that prisoners of war acted as crucial conduits in the development of military and commercial intelligence in the long conflict between the growing British colonies of the southeast and Spanish Florida. Captive Exchanges speaks to current scholarly concerns about alternative histories of warfare and carceral studies, as well as historiographical debates about the extent of power held by imperial states and the amount of interconnection that developed among people who lived precariously on the borders of these empires.

Upcoming: Prisoners of War and Revolutionary Books with Adrian Finucane, Ph.D.

Dean Michael Horswell engages in conversation with Daniel Bolojan as they discuss innovation in deep learning, through the project Deep Himmelb(l)au, and how it can impact the future of Architecture.Deep learning is an artificial intelligence (AI) function that imitates the workings of the human brain in processing data and creating patterns for use in decision making. Daniel Bolojan is an Assistant Professor, in the School of Architecture, for the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, at Florida Atlantic University. He is currently focusing on the application of computational design and deep learning strategies in architecture and architectural design process. Over the years, he has taught several design studios and seminars at the Institute of Structure and Design-University of Innsbruck, Florida International University Miami and conducted numerous international workshops and conference workshops, dealing with the application of complex systems and Neural Networks in architectural design.He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Applied Arts, Institute of Architecture, Vienna – Austria. 

AI and Architectural Design with Daniel Bolojan

Upcoming: AI and Architectural Design with Daniel Bolojan

Dean Michael Horswell engages in conversation with Marquese McFerguson, Ph.D., as they discuss navigating race, culture, and gender with poetry and spoken word.Marquese McFerguson is an Assistant Professor of Intercultural Communication, in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies, for the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, at Florida Atlantic University.His work explores the interconnected dynamics of race, culture, gender, and media. His essay, "When Hip Hop Speaks, We Listen" won the John T. Warren Top Paper Award in 2018. Last year he won the Art Bochner Outstanding Doctoral Research Scholar Award from the University of South Florida. He is a master of Slam Poetry and Spoken Word.

Spoken Word Poetry, Hip Hop Studies and Remixing Academia with Marquese McFerguson, Ph.D.

Dean Michael Horswell engages in conversation with Marquese McFerguson, Ph.D. as they discuss navigating race, culture, and gender with poetry and spoken word.Marquese McFerguson is an Assistant Professor of Intercultural Communication, in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies, for the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, at Florida Atlantic University.His work explores the interconnected dynamics of race, culture, gender, and media. His essay, "When Hip Hop Speaks, We Listen" won the John T. Warren Top Paper Award in 2018. Last year he won the Art Bochner Outstanding Doctoral Research Scholar Award from the University of South Florida. He is a master of Slam Poetry and Spoken Word.

Upcoming: Spoken Word Poetry, Hip Hop Studies and Remixing Academia with Marquese McFerguson, Ph.D.

Dean Michael Horswell engages in conversation with Mehmet Gurses as they discuss the complex nature of armed conflict and how wartime experience can bring about trauma and growth.Mehmet Gurses (Ph.D. in Political Science, University of North Texas, 2007) is a professor in the Department of Political Science, for the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, at Florida Atlantic University. His research interests include ethnic and religious conflict, post-civil war peace building, post-civil war democratization, Kurdish politics, and the emergence and evolution of the Islamist parties in the Middle East.

War and Women: Channeling Suffering into Positive Change with Mehmet Gurses, Ph.D.

Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Mehmet Gurses as they discuss the complex nature of armed conflict and how wartime experience can bring about trauma and growth.Mehmet Gurses (Ph.D. in Political Science, University of North Texas, 2007) is a professor in the Department of Political Science, for the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, at Florida Atlantic University. His research interests include ethnic and religious conflict, post-civil war peace building, post-civil war democratization, Kurdish politics, and the emergence and evolution of the Islamist parties in the Middle East.

Upcoming: War and Women: Channeling Suffering into Positive Change with Mehmet Gurses, Ph.D.

Dean Horswell engages in conversation with Sika Dagbovie-Mullins and Eric Berlatsky as they discuss their co-edited collection, Mixed-Race Superheroes, the intersectionality between Superheroes, racial identity, and racial politics in American popular culture.Sika Dagbovie-Mullins is an associate professor and director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English at Florida Atlantic University where she specializes in contemporary African American literature and Critical Mixed-Race Studies. She is author of Crossing B(l)ack: Mixed Race Identity in Modern American Fiction and Culture (University of Tennessee Press, 2013) and co-editor of Mixed-Race Superheroes (Rutgers University Press, 2021). Her publications have appeared in journals such as African American Review, The Journal of Popular Culture, and Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International.  Eric Berlatsky, PhD, is Associate Dean of Graduate Studies in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Director of the Comparative Studies Ph. D. Program and Professor of English.  He is also, through June 2021, currently the Acting Chair of the Department of English.  Previous to his current position, he was Chair of the Department of English for 6.5 years.  He is the author of  The Real, The True, and The Told: Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation (Ohio State UP. 2011) and the editor of Alan Moore: Conversations (UP of Mississippi, 2012).  He has published articles on the fiction or comics of Charles Dickens, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Virginia Woolf, Milan Kundera, Paul Auster, Graham Swift, Art Spiegelman, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Hanif Kureishi, and Posy Simmonds.  He has co-published work on race and the superheroes Ms. Marvel/Kamala Khan, Black Lightning, Moon Girl, and Spider-Man with Sika Dagbovie-Mullins.  Their co-edited collection, Mixed-Race Superheroes, has just been released from Rutgers UP, and includes his essay on The Flash comics and television show.  

Mixed-Race Superheroes with Sika Dagbovie-Mullins, Ph.D. and Eric Berlatsky, Ph.D.

In Conversation is a podcast that features faculty from Florida Atlantic University’s Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, talking with Dean Michael Horswell, Ph.D., about research and creative activity that spans the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Each episode spotlights a professor whose scholarly work is affecting the world in a significant way. Listeners will not only learn of the latest developments in the many academic disciplines of the college, but will gain insight into the creative and critical processes our scholars and artists brings to their projects. In Conversation is a production of Dr. Kevin Petrich and journalism students in FAU’s School of Communication and Multimedia Studies.

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