Monthly Archives: April 2013

ACS students, affiliated faculty win BGSU-wide awards!

At the BGSU Graduate Student Senate (GSS) Awards, ACS students and an ACS-affiliated faculty member were honored for excellence in research, teaching, and administration.  As is often the case, ACS was the most decorated of all BGSU graduate programs.

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CCS Faculty and Student Recognition and Reception, April 23

School of Cultural and Critical Studies Faculty and Student Recognition & Reception Tuesday, April 23, 2013 5:30 pm – 7:00 p.m. McFall Center Gallery & Assembly Room, 2nd Floor Remarks from CCS Director Peña and College of Arts & Sciences Dean Simon Morgan-Russell

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Digital Cultures in the Era of Big Data

ACS faculty and students are investigating the many implications of big data and the digital humanities through a series of readings groups in Spring, 2013.  The big event will be a week-long institute, May 13-17.  The co-chairs are Drs. Ellen … Continue reading

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Dissertation Defense: Sudipto Sanyal

Deep Sanyal will be defending his dissertation, titled “An Uncertain Poetics of the Intoxicated Narrative: Drugs, Detection, Denouement,” 9AM, April 29 in East Hall 103.

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ACS Ph.D Students Win BGSU-wide Teaching Awards

Melinda Lewis and April Manalang won this year’s BGSU Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Awards — two of the three awarded across all of BGSU!

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ACS Ph.D Alumnus Geoff Lealand to Give Brown Bag Talk

ACS is pleased to welcome American Culture Studies PhD Program Alumnus Geoff Lealand ’86 for a Brown Bag Lunch Presentation.  Geoff  is Screen and Media Studies Associate Professor at the University of Waikato, New Zealand will present “In Love With Shirley Temple:  Cultural Memory, … Continue reading

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BGSU Hosts Heavy Metal Conference

On April 4-7, BGSU hosted the International Conference on Heavy Metal and Popular Culture, featuring scholars and attendees from around the world.  It was organized by BGSU Popular Culture faculty member and ACS-affiliated Jeremy Wallach, and featured a performance by … Continue reading

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