Dr. Andrew Wood presented a lecture this summer entitled, “Utopia, dystopia, and changing conceptions of globalization” at the Salzburg [Austria] Global Seminar.
Dr. Wood’s essay “Origami urbanism amid the flat City: An omnitopian analysis of commercials depicting mutability in urban life” appeared in Communicative Cities in the 21st Century: The Urban Communication Reader III.
Congratulations to Dr. Wood for this recognition of your scholarship!
Provost Junn appointed Dr. Ted M. Coopman as campus wide coordinator for the Faculty Consultant for Academic Technology (FCAT) program. After two terms as an FCAT training faculty across 5 colleges and over 30 departments Dr. Coopman compiled a report and recommendation for an integrated and coordinated training program focused at the departmental level. The Provost is providing .2 assigned-time for a dedicated FCAT for each college. Dr. Coopman is coordinating training for consultants this fall with roll out of the program for spring 2014. Congratulations to Dr. Coopman for this honor! Thank you for your ongoing efforts to support faculty in the area of academic technology!
Recent COMM grad De’Leon Eskridge has signed with the Jacksonville Jaguars. Find out more:
Communication Studies graduate, Kurt Garrett, who will give the keynote address at the COMM Studies graduation ceremony on May 23, 2013, was featured on NBC Bay Area News. Kurt received a liver transplant last year and will be honored as a Magna Cum Laude graduate from SJSU. Watch the clip here! Congratulations on your graduation Kurt!
Dr. Matthew Spangler’s article “Adapting T.C. Boyle’s The Tortilla Curtain and Subsequent Production by the San Diego Repertory Theatre” appears in the most recent issue of Text and Performance Quarterly. The article explores performance theory, some of the recent history pertaining to undocumented migrants living in the United States, and the development process behind Dr. Spangler’s play, which tells the story of two undocumented migrants from Mexico camping outside a gated community in Southern California.
Dr. Spangler’s article is accompanied by four reviews of the San Diego Repertory Theatre’s production of the play.
* “Collisions in the Canyon: Matthew Spangler’s Adaptation of T.C. Boyle’s The Tortilla Curtain” by Christie Logan (CSU Northridge)
* “The Tortilla Curtain and California’s Nativist Heritage” by Glen Gendzel (SJSU)
* “Performing the Border: A Queer of Color Artist-Scholar and Ally Response to Tortilla Curtain” by Brittany Chávez (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a former MA student at SJSU)
* “I Saw Cándido at the Home Depot: A Review of Tortilla Curtain” by Yarma Velázquez Vargas & George B. Sánchez-Tello (CSU Northridge)
The Tortilla Curtain was produced by San José State University in 2010, received an Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award in 2011, and was produced by the San Diego Repertory Theatre in 2012, where it was a finalist for the San Diego Theatre Critics’ Circle Award for Best New Play.
Promotional Poster for Matthew Spangler’s “Tortilla Curtain” at the San Diego Repertory Theatre, Spring 2012
Congratulations Dr. Spangler!