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Sunny Stalter-Pace
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Name
Sunny Stalter-Pace
Candidate statement
I have belonged to the Modernist Studies Association since 2004. I have attended the annual conference nine times, both in the United States and internationally. I would be honored to give back to this organization.
Interdisciplinarity is the bedrock of my research, as well as my institutional and professional service. I was the longtime programmer of a film series at Auburn’s art museum, choosing movies in conjunction with their exhibits and inviting academic guest speakers to introduce them. I served as book review editor for Transfers, a mobility studies journal that draws on disciplines from social sciences to fine arts. In 2019, I received an SEC Visiting Faculty Travel Grant along with a colleague in Art History, which funded a meeting with fellow interdisciplinary modernist scholars at the University of Georgia.
I want to foster conversation between the MSA and related scholarly and professional groups. Biographers International Organization, of which I am a member, would make an excellent partner for both member-focused and public-facing events. And in the era of modernism’s “global turn,” it is incumbent on me to engage with area studies organizations for non-Anglophone regions. I would also continue to plan conference activities at archives, exhibits, and other local sites.
Relevant Publications:
• Imitation Artist: Gertrude Hoffmann’s Life in Vaudeville and Dance. Northwestern University Press, May 2020
• “The Precarity of Fluffy Ruffles: Reading a Progressive Era Comic Strip in the Age of #MeToo,” Feminist Modernist Studies 2.3 (2019): 314-322.
• “Imitation Modernism: Gertrude Hoffman’s 'Russian' Ballets,” Modernism/modernity Print+ cluster, “Modernism on the World Stage” Volume 4, Cycle 3 (October 15, 2019). https://modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/imitation-modernism
• “Underground Theater: Theorizing Mobility through Modern Subway Dramas” Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies 5.3 (Winter 2015): 4-22.
Interdisciplinarity is the bedrock of my research, as well as my institutional and professional service. I was the longtime programmer of a film series at Auburn’s art museum, choosing movies in conjunction with their exhibits and inviting academic guest speakers to introduce them. I served as book review editor for Transfers, a mobility studies journal that draws on disciplines from social sciences to fine arts. In 2019, I received an SEC Visiting Faculty Travel Grant along with a colleague in Art History, which funded a meeting with fellow interdisciplinary modernist scholars at the University of Georgia.
I want to foster conversation between the MSA and related scholarly and professional groups. Biographers International Organization, of which I am a member, would make an excellent partner for both member-focused and public-facing events. And in the era of modernism’s “global turn,” it is incumbent on me to engage with area studies organizations for non-Anglophone regions. I would also continue to plan conference activities at archives, exhibits, and other local sites.
Relevant Publications:
• Imitation Artist: Gertrude Hoffmann’s Life in Vaudeville and Dance. Northwestern University Press, May 2020
• “The Precarity of Fluffy Ruffles: Reading a Progressive Era Comic Strip in the Age of #MeToo,” Feminist Modernist Studies 2.3 (2019): 314-322.
• “Imitation Modernism: Gertrude Hoffman’s 'Russian' Ballets,” Modernism/modernity Print+ cluster, “Modernism on the World Stage” Volume 4, Cycle 3 (October 15, 2019). https://modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/imitation-modernism
• “Underground Theater: Theorizing Mobility through Modern Subway Dramas” Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies 5.3 (Winter 2015): 4-22.
Candidate CV