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Contributors

 

Adrienne (Ageh) Bedell, Ph.D. explores the intersections of music engagement, community-level adversity, and the experience of traumatic loss. As a community-based music educator, Ageh has designed music education opportunities in homeless shelters, alternative to incarceration programs, and hospital-based violence intervention programs. Her research frames active music-making as a tool for violence prevention through trauma-informed, asset-informed, and anti-oppressive teaching. Currently a Lecturer at Case Western Reserve University, Ageh teaches undergraduate-level courses on disenfranchised grief and the neurobiology of trauma. She is pursuing Grief Counseling Licensure, aiming to incorporate creative-based therapies into her practice to foster post-traumatic growth after loss.

 

Amber Kidd is a PhD candidate at Case Western Reserve University where she is finishing her dissertation examining representations of trauma in the works of David Jones. Her research is interested in the intersections of traumatic representation and narrative theory as reflected in modernist literature specifically, and the twentieth and twenty-first centuries more broadly. In addition to her work at CWRU, she teaches with multiple institutions in the region and is deeply invested in furtherance of trauma-informed, emancipatory pedagogy.

Eralda L. Lameborshi is an Assistant Professor of Literature in the Literature and Languages Department at Texas A&M University – Commerce. Her work focuses on the global novel, Eastern European literature, and world cinema. Her work is published in World Literature Today, Continuum, Journal of World Literature, and a forthcoming article in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. She is the recipient of the Fulbright Fellowship to Kosova (2024-2025), the Global Human Rights Fellowship at Texas A&M University – Commerce and the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship at Texas A&M University – College Station.

Lori Clinchard, Ph.D. is Humanities Department Chair and Faculty Director of the California History Center at De Anza College. She received her Ph.D. in Humanities, with a concentration in Transformative Learning and Change, from the California Institute of Integral Studies. Her research interests are creativity, consciousness, and the pedagogy of experiential learning. Through FHDA’s Mellon Foundation-supported Center for Applied Humanities, she is developing an interview series to engage with artists and philosophers on the challenging questions arising out of the AI era.

Karolina Bagdoné is a junior research fellow at the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and
Folklore and a public relations coordinator at the Lithuanian Council for Culture. She earned her
PhD in humanities with the topic The Reception of Western Literature in the Lithuanian Poetry of
the Second Half of the Twentieth Century: Constructs of Open Identity in 2023. Her research
interests include comparative studies of literature, architecture, identity, the academic novel and the
image of the PhD, and Soviet literature. She is a member of the European Society of Comparative
Literature and Vice-Chairperson of the Lithuanian Comparative Literature Association.

Dr. Didem Ekici is an educator, researcher, and author with twenty years of teaching experience. She teaches at the University of San Francisco, Golden Gate University, and College of Alameda where she also serves as the department chair of the ESOL and World Languages Department. She is currently serving in the leadership teams of the World Council on Intercultural and Global Competence and the peacebuilding organization Pax Populi. Her research focuses on peacebuilding, intercultural competence, and virtual exchange.

Virginia Ramos is a Spanish and American poet and scholar. She earned a PhD in Comparative Literature from Stanford University and is the former Managing Editor of Mantis, A Journal of Poetry, Criticism and Translation. Her essays, poems, and reviews have appeared in several publications in the US and Europe, including Contemporary Developments in Emergent Narratives (Santiago de Compostela University Press), Americanized Spanish Culture: Stories and Storytellers from Dislocated Empires (Routledge), 80 mph: Bilingual Anthology  (Grady Miller Books), Theory Now Journal in 2023, and the Journal for Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship in 2024. Her overall research interest centers on multi-genre texts, lyrical novels, and poetry. She works in Spanish, English, French, and German literature. She teaches at the University of San Francisco and is an elected member of the Executive Council at the Modern Language Association.

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Marlon James Sales is Associate Professor of Spanish and Translation Studies at the University of the Philippines Diliman. He researches translation history, theory, and practice, critical multilingualism studies, Hispanofilipino literature, and the early modern Spanish Pacific. He has been recently elected secretary of The Society for Early Transpacific Studies and is also on the editorial boards of Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice, The Journal of Literary Multilingualism, Traduction et Langues, and The Asian Journal of Humanities. Formerly as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan, he co-led the Mellon-funded research project “Sites of Translation in the Multilingual Midwest.”

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Kristine Cabling is Assistant Professor of Italian at the University of the Philippines Diliman where she obtained her MA Education (Curriculum Studies). Her research interests include foreign language curriculum design and development, applied linguistics, and multilingual competence in migrant contexts. She is set to pursue her PhD in Italian Studies at the University of Exeter with a research project on the pragmatic competence of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs). Her research was inspired by listening to the stories of OFWs. Some of her students have also been children of OFWs, who have their own stories to tell.

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Anna Sibayan-Sarmiento is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of the Philippines Diliman. Her publications and research interests include digital humanities, adult language acquisition, crosslinguistic influence, and the teaching of foreign languages in postcolonial contexts. She was the local co-promoter of “Strengthening Digital Research at the UP System: Digitization of Rare Periodicals and Training in Digital Humanities,” of the University of Antwerp and the UP Diliman. She is currently one of the collaborators in the project “A Digital Repatriation of a Lost Archive of the Spanish Pacific: The Library of The Convent of San Pablo (Manila, 1762)” of SOAS and Princeton University.

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Tingting Hui is Assistant Professor at the Film and Literary Studies Department of Leiden University. Her recent publications include “Aesthetics of Care: Caring for the Mother with Chantal Akerman” (Humanities, 2024) and “Imperfect Metamorphoses of Language: Retracing a Childlike Vision with Artist Xu Bing” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022). Her papers received the Young Scholar Excellence Award from the Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies in 2016, and the Honorable Mention of the Horst Frenz Prize from American Comparative Literature Association in 2019. Email: t.hui@hum.leidenuniv.nl