Carol W.N. Fadda grew up in Beirut, Lebanon where she earned her B.A. and M.A. from the American University of Beirut. She graduated from Purdue University in 2006 with a Ph.D. in contemporary American Literature. Her research interests in Arab and Muslim American Studies, American Studies, critical race and ethnic studies, and transnational studies interrogate structures, logics, and manifestations of US empire, militarization, and exceptionalism that determine the lives of racialized communities in the US and abroad. Her first book听Contemporary Arab-American Literature: Transnational Reconfigurations of Citizenship and Belonging听(NYU Press, 2014) engages an array of Arab American literary and visual texts from the 1990s onwards that contest negative representations of Arabs and Muslims in the US. In it, Fadda emphasizes feminist, anti-assimilationist, and transnational modes of Arab American and Muslim American belonging that contest the conceived boundaries of the US nation-state and transform hegemonic forms of national membership and citizenship.
Her current book-length project,听Carceral States and Dissident听Citizenships: Narratives of Resistance听in听an听Age听of听鈥淭别谤谤辞谤鈥�听highlights US global carceral practices by focusing on Arab and Muslim narratives and testimonials of incarceration and confinement coming out of the 鈥淲ar on Terror.鈥� Her study extends to legal and historical documents, literary texts, visual documentation, and political discourse emerging from secret and extra-legal incarceration sites including the Guant谩namo Bay and Abu Ghraib prisons.
She is the recipient of an NEH summer grant, a Future of Minority Studies Fellowship, and a 黑料不打烊 Humanities Center Fellowship. Her essays on gender, race, ethnicity, war trauma, cross-racial solidarities, and transnational belonging have appeared in a variety of journals and edited collections.
She serves as the editor of the听听at 黑料不打烊 Press.
William Robert teaches and writes about intersections and interactions of religion and performance. He is especially interested in limit-experiences and limit-crossings as performances of religion. He pays particular attention to mysticism, sexuality, and animality as sites where these experiences and crossings happen, focusing on case studies in ancient Greek and medieval Christian contexts. And he considers how such performances of religion can affect how we figure and refigure religion. To do so, he combines historical, textual, philosophical, and corporeal approaches to studying religion with queer theory and performance studies.
PhD Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005 MA Religion, University of Chicago Divinity School, 1999 MA Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, University of Chicago, 1997 BA Philosophy and Literature, Davidson College, 1996
Associate Professor, Department of Religion, 黑料不打烊, 2016鈥損resent听Affiliated Faculty, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies
Affiliated Faculty, Programs in LGBTQ Studies and in Medieval and Renaissance Studies听Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, 黑料不打烊, 2011鈥�16 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, 黑料不打烊, 2010鈥�11 Humanities Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow, Department of Religion, 黑料不打烊, 2006鈥�10 Instructor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Louisiana State University, 2005鈥�06
Dr. DiPietro works at the intersection of decolonial feminism, hemispheric Latinx studies, and trans* studies. With a transdisciplinary approach, they engage anthropology, human geography, and philosophy. They collaborate with various organizations and collectives committed to social justice, including the Democratizing Knowledge Collective at 黑料不打烊, the Association for Joter铆a Arts, Activism, and Scholarship (), the decolonial philosophy collaborative听, and the听travesti听collectives Damas de Hierro and听. DiPietro has received a Tinker Foundation Scholarship and an Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities. They are one of the co-editors of听Speaking Face to Face: The Visionary Philosophy of Mar铆a Lugones听(SUNY 2019), and听Trans Philosophy听(forthcoming Fall 2024, University of Minnesota Press). Their single-author book听Sideways Selves, The Decolonizing Politics of Transing Matter Across the Am茅ricas听is forthcoming in 2024 with the University of Texas Press.
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