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The Fellows
Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor Brechtje Beuker is a Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and visiting assistant professor in the area of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Georgia. Her teaching and research interests include 20th and 21st century German and Austrian literature and culture; theatre and performance theory; the intersection of aesthetics and violence; Dutch literature and culture. Professor Beuker earned her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in the spring of 2007. Her dissertation, "Stage of Destruction: Performing Violence in Postdramatic Theatre," examined the written and performed works of Jelinek, Müller and Pollesch with an eye at explicating their complicity with violent ideologies. Professor Beuker has published in the journals Modern Austrian Literature and Erinnern und Geschlecht. She has also presented papers at the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association Annual Symposium, the German Studies Association 30th Annual Conference and the Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Dr. Beuker has eight years of teaching experience including conducting classes in Dutch language and culture and German language and culture at the University of Minnesota and as an instructor of advanced German grammar at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. At the University of Georgia Professor Beuker will teach Elementary German, Language: Culture and Society and 20th and 21st Century Texts and Contexts focusing on stories of violence and terror.
Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor Craig Caldwell is a Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and visiting assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Georgia. His teaching and research interests include the Roman province of Illyricum; late antiquity; the Middle Ages; Roman law. Professor Caldwell earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University in the spring of 2007. His dissertation, "Contesting Late Roman Illyricum," examined the invasions that transformed the Danubian-Balkan provinces in the late Roman period. Professor Caldwell has been a contributing author to the Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity, Beyond the Battlefields, Blackwell's Encyclopedia of the Roman Army and the World History Encyclopedia. He has also presented papers at the Association of Ancient Historian Annual Meeting, the Byzantine Studies Conference and the Sixth Classics Colloquium. Dr. Caldwell has also been invited as a guest lecturer at his baccalaureate alma mater, Furman University. At the University of Georgia Professor Caldwell will teach the medieval Middle East and medieval civilization.
Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor Ian Hagarty is a Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and temporary assistant professor in the Department of Art at the University of Georgia. His visual work conveys a synthesis between notions of playfulness and order. The motivations for his work derive from interests in contemporary music, culture, art history and nature. He received his M.F.A. in Painting from Indiana University in 2006. Professor Hagarty's most recent works have been included in an exhibition entitled "Essentials," shown in the Elder Gallery at Nebraska Wesleyan University (Fall 2007). His work has also been exhibited at numerous universities and galleries throughout the country. Professor Hagarty is currently teaching courses on color & composition, and intermediate painting. In addition to these courses, he has taught all levels of drawing at Herron School of Art & Design: IUPUI where he worked as a visiting faculty member for one year. While a graduate student at Indiana University, he was awarded an associate instructor position, a grant in aid of research and a travel grant for study in Florence, Italy. Professor Hagarty earned his M.A.T. in art education and his B.F.A. in painting from the Maryland Institute, College of Art.
Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor Benjamin Jones is a Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and visiting assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Georgia. He studies representation theory, algebraic groups, and related algebraic geometry. In particular, his thesis explores the properties and computation of certain numerical invariants of mathematical singularities. This branch of mathematics arises from the study of symmetry in mathematical systems (e.g., the symmetries of systems of algebraic equations describing geometric objects in high dimensions). The field has important applications to other branches of mathematics such as geometry and number theory as well as to physics and chemistry. He is a member of the American Mathematical Society. At UGA, Professor Jones currently teaches a course for freshman about the application of modern mathematical ideas such as graph theory to real world problems like optimizing urban services and business efficiency. Professor Jones taught numerous undergraduate courses at Notre Dame and was the recipient of Notre Dame's Kaneb Center Award for excellence in teaching in 2006. He earned his B.S. in mathematics and physics from the University of Utah.
Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor Julie Li is a Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and visiting assistant professor in art education at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia. Her teaching and research interests include Asian folk art, migrant artists and multicultural art education. Professor Li earned her Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University in the spring of 2008. Professor Li's work has been published in Translations: From theory to practice and Foreign Affairs Youth Quarterly. She has also presented papers at the National Art Education Association Annual Convention, the Pennsylvania Art Education Association and the Conference on Curriculum and Pedagogy. Dr. Li has ten years of teaching experience including teaching art history, Chinese as a second language, interpreting art experience and Mandarin Chinese.
Franklin Post Doctoral Teaching Fellow and Visiting Professor Zoe Stamatopoulou is a Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and visiting assistant professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Georgia. Her teaching and research interests include Greek and Latin didactic poetry, Greek lyric poetry, old comedy and ancient literary criticism. Professor Stamatopoulou earned her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in the spring of 2008. Her dissertation explored "The Reception of Hesoid in the Lyric Poetry and Drama of the Fifth Century B.C.E." Professor Stamatopoulou has presented papers at the American Philological Association, the Classical Association of Virginia and Classical Association of the Midwest and the South. Dr. Stamatopoulou has thought beginning classical Greek, Latin, Greek civilization and Greek Mythology.
Franklin Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow and Visiting Professor Michelle vanDellen is a Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia. She earned her Ph.D. in social psychology from Duke University in 2008. Michelle's research focuses on the self in social life. She is particularly interested in self-control and how it is influenced by environmental and social factors. Additionally, she studies how social relationships shape the domains that become important to self-esteem and how individuals recover from threats to their self-esteem. Professor vanDellen is a member of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the American Psychological Society, the Society for the Study of Motivation, and the Society for the Study of Self and Identity. She teaches introductory psychology. Her B.S. is from Asbury College and her M.S. is from the University of Kentucky.
Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor Scott Weintraub is Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Georgia. His teaching and research interests include 19th-21st century Latin American poetry and poetics, especially those of the historical avant-garde and other "experimental" works; critical theory and cultural studies; the relationship between literature, philosophy, science, and technology; 'pataphysics; as well as digital literature. Professor Weintraub's articles have appeared in Ciberletras, CR: The New Centennial Review, and Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Media Studies, and he is currently editing a book, in addition to a forthcoming issue of Anales de literatura chilena, dedicated to new approaches to the work of Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro. Professor Weintraub is also editing a special issue of Discourse titled "Membranous Topographies," and is working on two separate, but related book manuscripts titled The Illegible Others: Readings in Crisis in Contemporary Latin American Poetry and Aporetic Readings: Juan Luis Martínez and the 'Pataphysics of Legibility.' |
Brechtje C.M. Beuker
Craig H. Caldwell, III
Ian Hagarty
Benjamin F. Jones
Yujie Julie Li
Zoe Stamatopoulou
Michelle vanDellen
Scott E. Weintraub
