Dr. Constantine Vaporis

Founding & Interim Director, Asian Studies Program

You can buy the book at press.uillinois.edu

Issue 6.1 (Spring/Summer 2024) of the Dylan Review, an open access journal, was released live online in August. Raphael Falco, Professor of English, is an Executive Editor of the Dylan Review and writes a column, The Dylanista, for each issue. His column in this issue is titled "The Diegetic Fallacy."

Are you a Baltimore-based organizer, artist, cultural worker or public historian interested in researching and creatively reinterpreting archiving materials?

The Tabb Center will accept applications for their public humanities fellowship with an application date of October 22, 2024. One fellow will be selected.

This one-year fellowship includes a stipend of up to $20,000, with an additional $5,000 available for programming or related expenses, and may potentially be renewed for a second year!

The fellow will create new perspectives on the archival and library collections, identifying and highlighting new connections between them and presenting them to the university community and broader Baltimore public in socially significant ways.

If you think this is a great opportunity for you, then apply here!

For more information please regard the document below or visit bit.ly/tabbfellowship 

Asian Studies Students,

The Department of Conservation and Scientific Research, National Museum of Asian Art at the Smithsonian is looking for a student with Chinese language skills who would be interested in a part time paid internship helping to organize and file hard copy and digital records, print treatment images and prepare them for storage on our digital asset management platform. The work would be for 10, or possibly more, hours per week. 

Earl Brooks, Assistant Professor of English, has published On Rhetoric and Black Music, a book that connects his research in African American Rhetoric and Sound Studies. Brooks "argues that there would have been no Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Movement, or Black Arts Movement as we know these phenomena without Black music" and "examines how Black music functions as rhetoric, considering its subject not merely reflective of but central to African American public discourse." (Full book description copied below.)

Congratulations, Earl!

Full Book Description:

This groundbreaking work examines how Black music functions as rhetoric, considering its subject not merely reflective of but central to African American public discourse. Author, musician, and scholar Earl H. Brooks argues that there would have been no Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Movement, or Black Arts Movement as we know these phenomena without Black music. Through rhetorical studies, archival research, and musical analysis, Brooks establishes the "sonic lexicon of Black music," defined by a distinct constellation of sonic and auditory features that bridge cultural, linguistic, and political spheres with music. Genres of Black music such as blues and jazz are discursive fields, where swinging, improvisation, call-and-response, blue notes, and other musical idioms serve as rhetorical tools to articulate the feelings, emotions, and states of mind that have shaped African American cultural and political development. Examining the resounding artistry of iconic musicians such as Scott Joplin, Mary Lou Williams, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, and Mahalia Jackson, this work offers an alternative register in which these musicians and composers are heard as public intellectuals, consciously invested in crafting rhetorical projects they knew would influence the public sphere.

Dear members of the Ancient Studies Community,

The Department of Conservation and Scientific Research, National Museum of Asian Art at the Smithsonian is looking for a student with Chinese language skills who would be interested in a part time paid internship helping to organize and file hard copy and digital records, print treatment images and prepare them for storage on our digital asset management platform. The work would be for 10, or possibly more, hours per week. 

This research includes gathering newspaper clippings and creating/updating biographical information in their database. Interns will also reach out to local organizations to see if they have any relevant material they would like to contribute to HCHS' collections.

This internship will take place either next spring or summer. The work hours are very flexible and you can get internship credits for your major!

More information about the internship and the internship application can be found in the documents below. Please submit the application to info@hchsmd.org with "AANHPI Internship Application" in the subject line. 

Please email info@hchsmd.org with any questions or concerns.