XXIX.1 CMX — Confluence

contributors

Tristan Cabello (PhD, History, Northwestern University) is an historian of American cultures and politics. His research examines American popular culture, with a focus on the intersection of race, sexuality, and politics. The recipient of multiple grants and awards, including research fellowships funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Dr. Cabello has presented 40+ papers at international and national academic conferences and universities. His articles, reviews, and essays have appeared in several academic journals and anthologies, such as The Global Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History (Cengage, 2019), The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest (Wiley, 2018) and The Encyclopedia of Blacks in European History and Culture (Greenwood, 2015); and mainstream venues, such as The Huffington Post. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of the academic journal Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture. Born and raised in France, Cabello received his BA and MA in American Studies from the University of Strasbourg, and an MA and PhD in American History from Northwestern University.

Lee Casson is a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, enrolled in the Master of Liberal Arts program. He also holds a Doctorate in Education and a Master of Arts degree in English from the University of Tennessee.

Brian Eckert is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University Master’s of Liberal Arts program, where he completed his thesis project “God is Dead, Mr. Rosewater: Existentialist Ethics in Kurt Vonnegut’s Early Novel.” Currently, he is pursuing a Master’s of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Naropa University. In the future, he hopes to complete a doctoral program and pursue a career in academia.

Hana S. Elysia is an alumna from the Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences program at San Diego State University. Her short fiction has appeared in pacificREVIEW, The Horror Tree, and Fifty Word Stories. She aspires to write a fantasy series that she can pair alongside her artwork and create an immersive space where readers can find a second home. When she’s not staring at a blank document hoping for ideas, she can be found reading, gaming, or cuddling with her dog.

Dina Hendawi is an educator, originally from New York but currently living in Germany with her husband and two children. She completed her BS in English literature from New York University and her MA in global politics from the American University of Cairo. She is currently completing an MLA program at Johns Hopkins University and will conduct research on the representation of Muslim identity in Western literature in the English with Creative Writing PhD program at the University of York. She was the recipient of the Madalyn Lamont Award in Creative Writing in 2010 and has published in The Bangalore Review, The Gravity of the Thing Magazine, Dream Noir Magazine, and CC&D Magazine.

Katherine Isola is a student in the Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences program at San Diego State University. Her background is in anthropology, where she focused on historical archaeology and cultural studies as a framework for her undergraduate education. Now, as a graduate student, she finds inspiration in past human experiences and artifacts, along with additional interests in art history, literature, and museum studies. She likes to incorporate the different disciplines in her writing/research. The paper submitted was originally presented at the 2022 AGLSP Annual Conference.

Carolina Ruhman Sandler is a student at Johns Hopkins’ Master of Liberal Arts program. She lives and works in Brazil as a journalist and writer.

Andrée Solé is a current student of the Dartmouth Masters of Liberal Arts with a General Liberal Studies concentration. She has a Bachelor of Speech Therapy from The University of Queensland (Australia) and an MBA from the Melbourne Business School (Australia). This combination of the humanities and health care is a particular focus of her current study.