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<span><span>A challenge faced by many professors in the social
sciences and humanities is how to teach and do research on historically
marginalized communities we are not part of. Trying to teach a class
about the experiences and perspectives of a community we are not part of
can be challenging on its own, and when the community is one that has
historically been subject to severe discrimination it is that much
harder. At the same time, these stories need to be told, but even when
there is a member of </span><font>a marginalized </font><span>community
present (and that often is not the case), asking them to take on this
role by themselves would be to impose an unfair burden on them. </span><font>This panel reflects on the challenges and possibilities of this crucial, yet fraught, kind of teaching and research</font><span>. </span><br><span> </span><br><span>Panelists:</span><br><span><span><font><b>Michelle L. Bonati</b>
is an Associate Professor of Teacher Education and the Campus Lead for
the Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Center at SUNY Plattsburgh
and an Honorary Associate Professor of Inclusive Education at the
University of Sydney. Her teaching and research focus on inclusive
education practices that support students with disabilities in K-12
education and higher education in the U.S., Indonesia, and Australia.</font></span></span><br> <br><b>Tracie Church Guzzio </b>is
a Professor of English and Director of the Redcay Honors Program. She
teaches courses on African-American literature; multiethnic American
literature; and genocide & trauma literature. Her research focus is
on African-American culture and literature (especially contemporary
works) and its intersections with trauma rhetoric and gothic studies.<br>She
has written on African-American authors such as Toni Morrison, August
Wilson, Ralph Ellison, Ishmael Reed, Percival Everett, Gayl Jones,
Charles Johnson, and Colson Whitehead. She is the co-founder of the John
Edgar Wideman Society and is the author of <i>All Stories Are True: History, Myth, and Trauma in the Work of John Edgar Wideman</i> (2011) . On campus she is the co-organizer of the yearly "Black Poetry Day" celebration.<b> </b><br><b><br></b><b>Jean-Philippe Marcoux</b> is the <span><span>Distinguished Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Québec Studies at SUNY Plattsburgh</span></span>, as well as <span><span>a Professor of American Literature </span><span>at Université Laval in Québec City. </span></span><span>His
research focuses on the cross-fertilizations between Black music,
literature, especially poetry, and social movements of the 1960s and
1970s. He is the author of<span> </span><i><span>Jazz Griots: Music as History in the 1960s African American Poem</span></i><span><span> </span>(Lexington Books, 2012)<span> </span></span>and the editor of<span> </span><i><span>Some Other Blues: New Perspectives on Amiri Baraka<span> </span></span></i><i><span>(Ohio UP, 2021), and<span> </span></span></i><i><span>Back Pages: New and Selected Poems by A.L. Nielsen<span> </span></span></i><i><span>(BlazeVox, 2021)</span></i><span>.<span> </span></span>He
has produced books chapters on David Henderson, Sonia Sanchez and Amiri
Baraka. He is currently working on a literary history of the Umbra
poets as well as on a two-volume collection of critical and creative
work on and by Umbra members entitled<span> </span><i>The Umbra Galaxy<span> </span></i>(co-edited with David Grundy and Tonya Foster, under contract at Wesleyan UP).<span> He is the co-founder of the Amiri Baraka Society.</span></span><br><b><br></b><b>John McMahon</b>
is an Assistant Professor of Political Science, teaching courses in
political thought and the politics of race and gender, including African
American Political Thought, Feminist Political Thought, and
Anti-Colonialism. His research interests include political theories of
neoliberalism and capitalism, Black political thought, and feminist
political thought; his recent publications include "Securing White
Democracy: Guns and the Politics of Whiteness" (forthcoming in <i>Contemporary Political Theory</i>), "Sonia Sotomayor's Legal Phenomenology, Racial Policing, and the Limits of Law" (2021 in <i>Polity</i>), "Magicians of the 21st Century: Utopia, Work, and Domination in Silicon Valley" (2021 in <i>Theory & Event</i>), and "Rosa Luxemburg and the Primitive Accumulation of Whiteness" (2021 in <i>Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg</i>, edited by Jane Anna Gordon and Drucilla Cornell). <span><br></span><br><span>This panel will be moderated by Institute Director <b>Daniel Lake.</b> </span></span>
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