Join us to celebrate National Arts and Humanities Month and to hear highlights from ISU faculty whose research has benefitted from CEAH funding.
Matthew W. Sivils (Director of the CEAH) and Benjamin C. Withers (Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences) will provide opening remarks, and then attendees will have the opportunity to hear from four recipients of CEAH funding: Xavier Dapena, Christopher Hopkins, Justin Remes, and Olivia Valentine. (Learn more about our speakers below)
Day: Thursday, October 17
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Location: Joan Bice Underwood Tearoom (23 MacKay Hall)
Refreshments provided.
Contact ceah@iastate.edu with questions.
Xavier Dapena
Assistant Professor, Department of World Languages and Cultures
Xavier Dapena is an Assistant Professor in Spanish and World Film Studies. For the academic year 2019-2020, Dapena was selected as a Mellon Research Fellow by the Wolf Humanities Center. Based on his first book project “Nobody expects the Spanish Revolution”: the Radical Imagination in Graphic Narrative in Contemporary Spain, he received the Provost Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Innovation Research Award from the University of Pennsylvania and the international grant, the Lucy Shelton Caswell Research Award, from The Ohio State University. His publications on Spanish graphic narrative have appeared in scholarly journals and edited volumes. Dapena has co-edited (with Joanne Britland) the volume titled The Political Imagination in Spanish Graphic Narrative in the Routledge Advances in Comics Studies series and he is co-editing another volume (with Fiona Noble) titled Streaming Wars: The New Hispanic TV Series.
Christopher Hopkins
Professor, Department of Music and Theatre
Christopher Hopkins is Professor of Music, specializing in music composition and creative-arts computation. His recent creative work combines traditional musical instruments with computer-generated musical sound and reimagines historical musical styles in alternate evolutions. His interdisciplinary research explores musical themes shared with symmetry theory, color theory, and logic. He regularly performs Renaissance music for the viola da gamba. His awards include an Aaron Copland Award, and artist residencies with the Albers Foundation, Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, and MacDowell. His music has been performed in major music festivals across Asia, Europe, and North America, most recently at the Library of Congress.
Justin Remes
Associate Professor, Department of English
Justin Remes is an Associate Professor of Film Studies in the English Department at Iowa State University. His scholarship focuses on artists' cinema and avant-garde aesthetics. He is the author of Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis (Columbia UP, 2015) and Absence in Cinema: The Art of Showing Nothing (Columbia UP, 2020), and he is currently close to completing a book about cinematic remixes entitled Found Footage Films: A Work of Experimental Scholarship. He has also started working on a fourth book project, Duchamp and Cinema, which analyzes the films of the mischievous Dada artist Marcel Duchamp.
Olivia Valentine
Associate Professor, Department of Art and Visual Culture
Olivia Valentine, an Associate Professor of Art and Visual Culture, is a visual artist working in textile construction, drawing, photography, and installation, as well as collaborative projects that span a variety of media and disciplines. Through her work she examines the edges and boundaries of spaces, beginning with the close examination of the edges of fabrics and textiles. Her work has been exhibited and performed across the US and internationally at museums and galleries including a recent solo exhibition at the Des Moines Art Center and other venues such as The Round Tower (Copenhagen), Museum of Arts and Design (New York), The Kohler Art Center (Wisconsin), The Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago), The American Academy in Rome (Italy), and The Powerhouse Museum (Australia). Awards include a Fulbright Fellowship, A 2020 Iowa Artist Fellowship, the Brandford/Elliott Award, and grants from the Iowa Arts Council.