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Save the Dates for Season Eight of Filling Station: A Faculty Research Presentation Series
Filling Station: A Faculty Research Presentation Series
Fall 2019 Lineup
Tokeya Graham (English/Philosophy): Friday, September 13, 12-12:50 p.m., in
8-200
Associate Professor Tokeya C. Graham (ENG/PHL) teaches English at MCC's
Downtown Campus. She is very active in campus life, including being the advisor
for Black Student Union at the Downtown Campus and most recently serving on the
President's Expanded Cabinet and on the Creative Writing Committee. Professor
Graham participates in various college and community initiatives where she has
received many awards for her academic expertise as well as her community
service. In addition to teaching English, Graham is an equity and inclusion
strategist who works with organizations to cultivate powerful change. For her
Filling Station presentation, she will deliver a talk called "James Baldwin's
America: Race and Modern Society." According to Graham: "James Baldwin's
writings offer an unflinching look into America's complicated history dealing
(and not dealing) with race. This presentation will highlight Baldwin's words
as commentary on what ailed America then and what still ails it now, almost 50
years later. This conversation is intended to spark thoughtful dialogue about
racial progress and what it will take to cultivate an inclusive society."
Steven Farrington (World Languages and Cultures): Friday, October 18,
12-12:50 p.m., in 8-200
Steven Farrington is an Assistant Professor of French, Spanish, and Italian.
He is from Hilton, NY but has travelled to many countries and is passionate
about writing, ideas, and Romance Languages and literatures. He especially is
interested in LGBT literature and film from France and Spain. He is also the
author of Rodrigo's Land, which is a historical fiction novel. Professor
Farrington's love of Spanish literature will be clearly evident in his Filling
Station presentation, which will focus on Luis Cernuda, one of the most
prominent members of the world-famous "Generation of '27" writers to have
emerged from Spain circa 1923-1927. Farrington will address ways in which
Cernuda's status as cultural outsider is reflected in his poetry. According to
Farrington: "Sometimes this took the form of feeling like an outsider looking
in on his family; sometimes, he felt like an outsider as a gay atheist in
heavily conservative and Catholic Spain; in still other moments, his poetry
reflects the sadness of being an exile in both Britain and later in the US
following the Spanish Civil War."
Bill Drumright (History): Friday, December 06, 12-12:50 p.m., in 8-200
Bill Drumright is an Associate Professor of History at Monroe Community
College, where he has worked since January of 2003. He received his Ph.D. in
History in May of 2005 from the University of Tennessee/Knoxville, with a
specialty in 20th Century United States History (the New Deal/World War II
era). For his Filling Station presentation, Professor Drumright will reflect
upon the research and writing of his dissertation, "A River for War, A
Watershed to Change: The Tennessee Valley Authority During World War II."
Specifically, he will consider what could be called "the 'presentness' of the
past." That is, how conducting historical research and writing in one's present
affects how one reconstructs past historical events--especially those events
that occurred before the historian was born.
All presentations are free and open to the community.
Leuzzi, Anthony
English/Philosophy
08/23/2019