People
Postdoctoral Fellows
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Susie Hatmaker
Cultural Anthropology
University of Minnesota Twin Cities, 2014
Project: Ecologies of Translation: Material Worlds of Silica, Silicon, and Silicosis
Susie Hatmaker is interested in the valuation and transformation of matter as site of socio-cultural change. At the Humanities Forum, she will conduct research for a book project titled Silica,... (more)
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Leon J. Hilton
Performance Studies, Comparative Literature, Film Studies, Disability Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies
New York University, 2015
Project: Gesture, Wander, Trace: Fernand Deligny’s Translational Cartographies
Leon J. Hilton received his PhD from the Department of Performance Studies at New York University in 2016. His research focuses on modern and contemporary theater and performance; disability studies; feminist and... (more)
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Judith Kaplan
History of Science
University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2012
Project: Machine Translation and the Postwar Development of Linguistics
Judy Kaplan is a cultural and intellectual historian of the human sciences with a special interest in the history of linguistic research. At the Forum, she will be developing her book manuscript in progress, Big Data... (more)
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Brian P. Long
History
University of Notre Dame, 2016
Project: The Translation and Reception of Arabic Medicine in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Italy and Byzantium
Brian Long is an intellectual and cultural historian of the medieval Mediterranean. His work focuses on the production and reception of medical and scientific translations from Arabic into Latin and Greek in the... (more)
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Avery Slater
Assistant Professor of English, University of Toronto
To contact her while at Penn, click here.English
Cornell University, 2014
Project: Apparatus Poetica: Poetry and Translation in the Age of Machine Language
Avery Slater's work investigates the role of technology in re-conceptualizing human and nonhuman forms of linguistic creativity. She will spend the year at the Penn Humanities Forum completing her first book,... (more)