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Hamilton, Catherine Jane [pseud. Retlaw Spring] (1841–1935), author and journalist
No full textHamilton, Catherine Jane [pseud. Retlaw Spring] (1841-1935), author and journalist, was born on 25 January 1841 at Kilmersdon, Somerset, where she was baptized on 12 April 1841, the younger of two daughters of Richard Hamilton (1805?-1859), vicar of Kilmersdon, and his wife Charlotte, née Cooper (1809-1882), the fifth daughter of William Cooper, of Queens County, Ireland. She was of Irish heritage on both sides. Her father belonged to a military family with roots in Strabane (county Tyrone) - his father, John Hamilton, and her father’s four older brothers were all officers in the Fifth Foot – and was a graduate of Trinity College Dublin. He had been a bright scholar with an aptitude for languages, and as a preacher was praised for his powerful sermons and his ability to bring the Bible to life for his parishioners
Jo Lew Interview [Spring 2023]
No full textJo Lew (Class of 2023) was interviewed by Laura Narvaez in the Norwick Center for Digital Solutions on April 27, 2023. Mx. Lew was born in Grapevine, Texas, in 2001 to a Malaysian father and a Hong Kongese mother. They grew up in a diverse neighborhood in Irving, TX, where they became more familiar with the cultures of their South Asian neighbors than that of their own family. As an elementary schooler, Mx. Lew developed a passion for activism, advocating for the building of a garden at their elementary school in the first grade. While attending a small high school in Coppell, TX, they attended a seminar at SMU, toured the campus, and learned more about the Human Rights program. They received their Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, Public Policy, and Human Rights in 2023. They discussed changing themself to try to fit in at SMU during their first semester. Mx. Lew participated in many campus organizations, including serving as the queer senator for Student Senate and creating the Unity Coalition @ SMU in response to the 2021 Atlanta spa shooting and increase of violence against the AAPI community following the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. They discussed the racism they experienced while running for student body president in 2022 and in their political science classes. After graduation, Mx. Lew plans to focus on self-care and recovery from academic burnout
TRAUM: Transforming Author Museums, 2019
No full textWhat roles have author museums as creators of cultural identity? What kind of representations do they use to communicate knowledge about literature and its authors? How are real and literary spaces, texts and objects interlinked? Author museums are in the public imagination often associated with an old-fashioned cult of the author, they are being transformed into interactive spaces in line with changing understandings of literature, developments in exhibition practices and larger processes of democratization. This interdisciplinary project aimed to provide analyses of museums as cultural texts and performative spaces of memory and production. In the past years, the alleged crisis of the humanities has been a recurring topic of debate. While criticism has been levelled at the humanities for lack of relevance, informal polls made in various countries across Europe asking for the most important personality in national history have consistently placed artists on the top, often writers, and in the case of Norway, Henrik Ibsen. There is a paradoxical relationship between the discourse of the uselessness of humanities and the actual interest in and identification with some of its actors. The project aimed to investigate how and why (certain) writers and literature have been turned into cultural heritage, helped by the display of auratic places such as their homes in combination with the aestheticization of personal "relics" within specific cultural-political contexts. Combining humanities, social sciences and artistic perspectives, it will critically reflect on existing and historical exhibition strategies and consider alternative and innovative ways of displaying literature, focusing on the potentials of author museums and other literary museums and centres as sites of cultural production and literary creativity. On a meta-level the project aimed to contribute to a better understanding of how to communicate the relevance of humanities to the public. The project is part of the NFR project “TRAUM-Transforming Author Museums (251225)”. The focus of the sub-project is on exhibitions in author homes. The analysis includes the role of archival material in exhibitions (published article by Ulrike Spring), communication processes in literary museums and the author's role as ghost in author homes (articles in preparation by Ulrike Spring and Johan Schimanski). For further information about ”TRAUM: Transforming Author Museums, 2019”, please contact the principal investigator
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Oral history interview with Jo Webb, January 30, 1999
No full text1 electronic record(s) and derivatives. 2 audio files (wav, mp3), combined to mp3. 695980396 bytes. 01:05:25. 2 PDF documents (8 scans, jp2).Oral history interview with Jo Webb, January 30, 1999. Jakin, Georgia. Recorded in Donalsonville, Georgia. Fieldworker: Gretchen Geisinger. Audio file. Part of the South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections. From Gretchen Geisinger's independent study (ENG) "On Solomon's Porch" on culture and social life in her hometown of Jakin, spring 1999. Interviewed in a retirement home where Gretchen's great-grandmother also lived
Jo Lew Interview [Summer 2023]
No full textJo Lew (Class of 2023) was interviewed by Rachel Schellsmidt in a field interview in the Frances Anne Moody Hall at Southern Methodist University on August 3, 2023. Mx. Lew was deeply involved on campus in student organizations like Student Senate, First-Gen Association, Unity Coalition, and Asian Council. They advocated for human rights, helped establish the Hilltop Excellence Award, supported the Black Lives Matter movement, and amplified AAPI voices in response to increased violence against the AAPI community as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Mx. Lew graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, Human Rights, and Public Policy in spring 2023. After SMU, Mx. Lew embarked on a global adventure, eager to share their story and champion AAPI representation
Peggy Jo Tholen (1st student admitted), Commencement, Spring 1976 (May 16, 1976)
No full textPhotograph of Peggy Jo Tholen (1st student admitted), Commencement, Spring 1976 (May 16, 1976
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Jo Becker’s “Forcing the Spring: Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality”
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Jo Becker’s “Forcing the Spring: Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality”
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Finding Aid for Mary Jo Rathke Personal Papers, 1966-1988
No full textMary Jo Rathke received her undergraduate degree from the College of Saint Teresa and her masters from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She first came to Stout as an instructor in 1959. For three of her years at Stout, Rathke was chair of the English Department, from the late 1960s-Spring 1971. While at Stout, she developed proposed programs in Industrial Communications, Technical Writing, and in the teaching of Communications Skills. She retired in 2000.Most of the materials in this collection relate to Rathke's tenure as chair of the English Department. Also included is information concerning her involvement in governance and course development
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