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Cornell faculty featured on ‘The Academic Minute’

“” radio program airs daily on 70 stations across the country, delving into topics from the serious to the light-hearted and keeping listeners abreast of what's new and exciting in higher education.

The program is hosted by Lynn Pasquerella, president of the . 

Programs from the week of Dec. 7 featured five faculty members from Cornell’s 鶹Ƶ and 鶹Ƶ sharing insights from their research:

• , associate professor of comparative literature, explored how women are using their bodies to send a different kind of protest message In “.” A scholar of African and African diaspora studies, Diabate’s research focuses on questions of sexuality and gender studies.

• , senior lecturer of classics, makes the case that Latin is a living language in “” Having served as Latin Secretary to Popes Benedict XVI and Francis at the Vatican, Gallagher dedicates himself to passing on the language in a “living” way that involves speaking, listening, and writing to enhance reading fluency.

• , associate professor of Literatures in English, illuminated how Black intellectuals engaged each other through pseudonyms in mid-19th-century Black newspapers in “.” Spires specializes in early African American and American print culture, citizenship studies, and African American intellectual history.

• , assistant professor of German studies, explored the history behind the ubiquitous wireless sign in “.” Born’s work brings insights from contemporary German media theory to bear on diverse historical contexts.

• , assistant professor of Asian studies, explained how communities of blind and low-vision video game players stay in the game in “.’” Campana’s research focuses on modern and contemporary Japanese literature; his current book project on Japanese poetry across media.

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