Faculty Focus-December 20, 2023
St. Lawrence faculty put their knowledge into action so students and others are able to benefit from it. Recently, faculty participated in research presentations, released film, published papers and research articles, and much more.
Chandreyi Basu
Associate Professor of Art & Art History Chandreyi Basu recently published two articles on the art of early historic India. “Nonhuman Animals on Unlabeled Sculptures of the Bharhut Stupa Railing,” in Chakśudāna (Opening the Eyes): Seeing South Asian Art Anew, is an homage to her dissertation advisor Professor Michael W. Meister, W. Norman Brown Distinguished Professor of History of Art and South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Her review of Listening to Icons. Vol. I, Indian Iconographic & Iconological Studies, by Doris Meth Srinivasan, was published in a refereed journal.
Basu also presented her recent research on Buddhist art in southern India at the University of Hyderabad (India) using an online format. Her paper was titled, "Non-elite Audiences and Viewership at the Great Buddhist stupa of Kanaganahalli, 1st c. BCE-3rd c. CE."
Basu’s research is focused on early Buddhist art (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan), animal studies, and traditional painting styles in contemporary India.
Anna Fahr
Assistant Professor of Digital Media & Film Anna Fahr has released her film titled, Valley of Exile, which was featured in festival selections and has been recognized with numerous awards.
At the Cinequest Film Festival World Premiere, Valley of Exile won a jury award for Best Feature Drama. Fahr and her film won the Emerging Canadian Director Award at the Vancouver International Film Festival, and the Best Art Direction at the Mostra Sao Paulo International Film Festival in Brazil.
Fahr’s film was also featured in the Tallgrass Film Festival of Wichita, Kansas as its midwestern premiere. The Warsaw Film Festival in Poland featured the film for its European Premiere. The film was featured in the Calgary Arab Film Nights in Alberta, along with the Windsor International Film Festival in Ontario.
Antun Husinec
James H. Chapin Professor of Geology and Mineralogy Antun Husinec published a paper titled “Orbital forcing of Upper Jurassic (Tithonian) shallow-water carbonates, Tethyan Adriatic Platform, Croatia's evaluated using synthetic vs. real data sets" in a leading peer-review journal Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. The paper, published in collaboration with Fred Read (Virginia Tech) and David Kemp (China U. of Geosciences), is an important contribution to a continuing debate that surrounds the random versus orbital influence on the shallow-marine sedimentary record controversy.
Husinec’s research focuses on the carbonate-rock record of a 540-million-year history of climate-induced sea-level changes, which provides a window into how similar modern tropical habitats might respond to global warming.
Tyler Rife
Assistant Professor of Performance and Communication Arts Tyler Rife published an article in the journal Critical Studies in Media Communication. Titled, “I’m real when I shop my face: Glitch virality & Sophie’s cyborg dream,” the article aims to contribute to ongoing explorations of glitch feminism and its capacities for resistance against capitalist- and cis-normativity. The article contributes the concept of glitch virality by emphasizing glitch feminism’s circulation across digital, social, and material registers. Through an attendance to glitch virality, the project of glitch feminism is figured as a queer world-making project for those subject to the violences of dominative gendered constructs. To demonstrate this concept, the article features a close reading of the music, visual texts, and multimodal circulations of glitch by electronic artist SOPHIE, whose enactments of glitch feminism demonstrate its viral capacities.
Rife is an interdisciplinary scholar of critical rhetoric, critical, cultural and environmental communication, and performance studies.
Sandhya Ganapathy
Assistant Professor of Global Studies Sandhya Ganapathy participated in a roundtable discussion on Coalitional Praxis at the 2023 Joint Meetings of the American Anthropological Association and Canadian Anthropological Society in Toronto. The roundtable was a collaboration between scholars, activists, and health practitioners to develop abolitionist strategies for advancing health justice.
Sandhya uses a transdisciplinary approach to study environment, health, and reproduction. Her current project examines midwifery education and the extent to which it addresses reproductive injustices.
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