the Organization of Graduate Students in Comparative Literature (OGSCL) is proud to announce the seventh event of

Randall Knoper <knoper@english.umass.edu >, is Associate Professor and Undergraduate Studies Director in the Department of English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.  He is the author of Acting Naturally: Mark Twain in the Culture of Performance (University of California UP, 1995).  His work has also appeared in College Literature , Prospects: An Annual Journal of American Cultural Studies, and Reclaiming Pedagogy: The Rhetoric of the Classroom , eds. Patricia Donahue and Ellen Quandhall (Southern Illinois UP, 1989).  He teaches courses in American Studies as well as 19th- and 20th-century American literatures.  He is currently working on a project about literature and neuroscience, especially the intersections of brain science and literary writing and thinking in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but his attention keeps getting diverted toward digital art, and the interplay there between humanities and technology.

Sunaina Maira <maira@english.umass.edu >, is Assistant Professor of Asian American studies in English and Anthropology and Co-Director of the undergraduate Certificate program in Asian/Asian American Studies.  She teaches courses in the interdisciplinary study of youth cultures, cultural politics and diaspora, feminist and critical ethnography, and popular culture.  She is the co-editor of Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America (Asian American Writers Workshop/Temple UP, 1996) and an anthology on the racial representation of Asians Americans, Screaming Monkeys (Coffeehouse Press, forthcoming).  She is the author of Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York (Temple UP, 2002).  Her current research focuses on the consumption of “Indo-chic” in late 20th-century US popular culture, and she is currently doing a project on the commodification of Orientalized style and music in rave culture and electronic “trance” music in Massachusetts. In addition, she is coordinating a research project on issues of racialization and citizenship among Cambodian American youth in the Amherst area.

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Copies of paper-media readings have been placed on reserve on the third floor of the DuBois Library under COMPLIT 595A: Seminar–Cultural Studies under instructor OGSCL.

Guillermo Gómez-Peña, “The Virtual Barrio @ the Other Frontier (or the Chicano Interneta)” < http://www.telefonica.es/fat/egomez.html#paper >

Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Roberto Sifuentes, “El Mexterminator I (Ethno-Cyborgs and Artificial Savages)” < http://www.telefonica.es/fat/egomez.html#paper2 >

Sunaina Maira, “Henna and Hip Hop: The Politics of Cultural Production and the Work of Cultural Studies,” Journal of Asian American Studies (October 2000): 329–369.

Alan O’Connor, “The Problem of American Cultural Studies,” in What is Cultural Studies? A Reader, ed. John Storey (London; NYC: Arnold, 1996): 187–195.

THE SHAME-MAN AND EL MEXICAN’T MEET THE CYBER-VATO at the Ethno-CyberPunk Trading Post & Curio Shop on the Electronic Frontier < http://riceinfo.rice.edu/projects/CyberVato />

USC-MIT Conference on “Race in Digital Space” (27–29 April 2001) < http://cms.mit.edu/race/ >

This event is sponsored by Department of Comparative Literature -UMass, Department of French and Italian Studies-UMass, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures-UMass, Interdepartmental Program in Film Studies-UMass, Department of Communication-UMass, Department of English and Comparative Literature-Smith, Department of English-UMass, Film Studies Program-Mt. Holyoke, Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies-UMass, Department of Legal Studies-UMass, Program in Social Thought and Political Economy (STPEC)-UMass, and the Asian American Lecture Series.

For further information, please contact Anita Mannur, Beverly Weber, Craig Sinclair, and Dale Hudson at or visit our web site at www.umass.edu/complit/ogscl/culturalstudies/