Work-in-Progress Seminar
The HRC Work-in-Progress Seminar welcomes VCU faculty in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences who would like to share their research in progress. The seminar will devote 35-40 minutes to a project presentation, followed by 15-20 minutes of Q&A. Authors are welcome to pre-circulate papers at least a week before the seminar. We are currently accepting paper applications for Spring 2025. If interested, please fill out this form.
2024-25
Plotting Bigamy: Marital Surplus in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
February 28, 2025
Rachel Gevlin is a Teaching Assistant Professor of English as well as Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies. She specializes in the literature and culture of England’s long eighteenth century, with a particular focus on the history of the novel, women writers, and legal histories of marriage and divorce.
The Clap Back: A Look into Digital Misogynoir and Online Harm Reduction Practices
March 21, 2025
Dr. KáLyn Coghill (they/them) is a Black, fat, neurodivergent, non-binary femme. They are an award-winning educator, practitioner, and activist with expertise spanning abortion doula work, community organizing, poetry, and interdisciplinary scholarship. They serve as the Director of Digital Engagement at me too. International and as an adjunct instructor in the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Simone de Beauvoir’s Ethics of Ambiguity and W. D. Ross’s Ethical Pluralism: An Attempt at Integration
April 25, 2025
Jo-Jo Koo joined the Department of Focused Inquiry at VCU as an Assistant Professor starting in the Fall of 2022. He has teaching and research interests (among other areas) in critical thinking, normative and applied ethics, philosophy of race and gender, critical social philosophy, phenomenology, existentialism, philosophical hermeneutics, Chinese philosophy, and the debate of determinism versus free will.
Prior Academic Years
Nasty Girls and Bastard Killers: Abortion Folklore Contesting Purity Culture
The speaker for this event was Paulina Guerrero, Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at VCU.
UFO Studies in Realms of the Indigenous and the Aesthetic
The speaker for this event was J. Molina Garcia, Assistant Professor of Photography and Digital Futures at VCU.
Justice Undone: Women Accused of Nazi-Era War Crimes [video]
The speaker for this event was Jessica Trisko Darden, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the (In)Security Lab at Virginia Commonwealth University.
How Digital Technology Produces Fascism
The speaker for this event was David Golumbia, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Digital Studies in the Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University.