USU recently announced six fellows who will be joining the Transformative Intersectional Collective (TRIC), a partnership with University of Utah’s School for Cultural and Social Transformation, supported by an Andrew W. Mellon grant, three of which come from USU’s English Department: Adena Rivera-Dundas, Cree Taylor, and Beth Buyserie.
The $517,000 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant will help fund three yearlong cohorts of fellows from USU, U of U, Weber State, and SLCC to support early career faculty in advanced professional training and development in intersectional studies. This year, the TRIC fellows will focus on intersectional pedagogy. Intersectional pedagogy examines the complicated and interlocking systems that create individual and community experiences of discrimination and privilege.
Assistant Professor Adena Rivera-Dundas works at the intersections of personal narrative, Black feminisms, and affect studies, and examines the ways authors use embodied experience as evidence to create intimacy with readers while simultaneously resisting easy, unearned access to Black subjectivities.
Lecturer Cree Taylor teaches composition and ethnic studies courses. Her classroom is informed by social constructivism, critical race theory, feminism, Black feminist thought where she works to establish a brave space where students of many perspectives feel empowered to share and challenge those perspectives.
Director of Composition and Assistant Professor Beth Buyserie focuses on writing program administration, the teaching of composition, critical pedagogies, professional learning, and the intersections of language, knowledge, and power through the lenses of queer theory and critical race theory.
Mufti Nadimul Quamar Ahmed is a graduate student in his second year, pursuing a doctorate in sociology at USU. He recently helped survey Utahns to see if environmental concerns affect the decision to have children.
Utah State University President’s Office recently held receptions for this year’s round of inaugural lectures. Three recently promoted faculty in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences presented thoughtful reflections on their research and the even...
