Jeremy Denouden's paper "Social Decay and Redwood Camping: Decadence and the Bohemian Club" has been accepted for presentation at the 2010 conference for the Western Literature Association.

Carol Fischer graduated from UC Santa Barbara in in June with a Ph.D. in Theatre Studies. Carol's dissertation is the next installment to her SJSU masters thesis topic and is titled "Theatre and Quantum Physics, Partners for Dramatic Critical Inquiry." She will return to San Jose and is teaching at West Valley College in the fall. For WVC she is currently teaching an online Theatre Appreciation class. She recently had a performance review published in Theatre Journal, and an essay, "Dramatic Time, Phenomena and Dilemmas" will be published in a peer-juried compendium this summer.

Elizabeth Engelman presented her paper “Idiot’s Delight: Censorship and the Adaptation Process” at the 9th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences in June of 2010. He paper "The Liminality of Boundaries and Borders: A Study of the Coyote in Film" was accepted by The International Conference on the Image at UCLA in December 2010. She is also the conference assistant for San Jose State University's Silicon Valley Center for Global Innovation and Immigration’s (SVCGII) National Immigration Conference in 2010.

Brittany Coleman presented her paper "Corazón Africano—The True Birthright of Salsa Music and Dance & Its Everlasting Effect on the Culture and People of las americas" at academic/artistic conference of NYU's Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics in the Americas, entitled "Staging Citizenship: The Performance of Cultural Rights in the Americas." September, 2009.

Jermey Denouden presented his paper "This Coast Crying Out for Tragedy: Robinson Jeffers' 'Apology for Bad Dreams' and a Poetics of the West" at the Western Literature Association Conference in Spearfish, SD, Sept. 30-Oct. 3, 2009. The paper was given an Honorable Mention for the The J. Golden Taylor Award, a prestigious award juried by a team of experts in the field and given annually to a work of scholarship submitted for the annual conference.

Jeremy will also present a staged reading at the Robinson Jeffers Association Conference in Carmel, CA, Feb 12-14, 2010.

Mehrzad Karimabadi presented to an international Social Anthropology Conference, “Visual Representations of Iran” June 13-16, 2008 at St. Andrews University in Scotland. The attendees included leading scholars of Iranian visual culture studies and a prestigious group of researchers and artists.

Marco Torres' thesis "Sanctifying Queerdom: Religious Identity In New Queer Cinema" was selected as the 2007 Outstanding Thesis of the SJSU College of Humanities and the Arts.

Ling Zhang was accepted by four Ph.D programs (at UC San Diego, University of Washington, University of Minnesota and University of Chicago) and chose University of Chicago cinema studies program. Ling presented her paper, "The Demolition and Reconstruction of Masculine Space in Chinese Filmmaker Jia Zhangke's Still Life" at the Northeast MLA Convention in Baltimore, Maryland, March 1-4, 2007.
http://www.nemla.org/

Kavita Khurana presented her paper at the Popular Culture/American Culture Association Conference in Boston, MA, April 2007.

Kathie Kratochvil was accepted to the Educational Leadership doctoral program at UC Santa Cruz.

Kelly Hsieh was accepted as a Ph.D. student in Theatre Arts at National Taipei University of Arts in Taiwan.

Lara Sumera presented her paper “The Mask of Beauty: Masquerade Theory and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast” at the 27th Annual Meeting of the Popular Culture and American Culture Associations February 8-11, 2006 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her paper is accepted for publication in the Quarterly Review of Film and Video - QRFV 26.1, to appear late in 2007.

Sarah Lougheed and Elizabeth Thies presented papers at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities sponsored by the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI. January 14-16, 2006. http://www.hichumanities.org/index.htm

Carol Fischer won "Outstanding Thesis" in the SJSU College of Humanities and the Arts. Carol presented her thesis research at UC Santa Barbara Graduate Student mini-conference on Saturday, March 5. In this annual event both faculty and graduate students present their work in progress with members of the interdisciplinary campus Research Focus Group in Performance Studies. Carol was also accepted into the doctoral program in Dramatic Arts at UCSB and is the recipient of a highly competitive UC Regents Fellowship.

Kerry DiLeonardo had another proposal accepted, "Building Bridges Within Communities: The Wond'rous Love Initiative, Oxford, Mississippi" this time with a co-presenter, Jimmyle Listenbee. (For National Dance Educators Organization conference, Oct. 2004.)

Kelly Hsieh presented her graduate research on Legislative Theatre in Taiwan as part of Theatre for Social Change Conference April 27th, 2004, in San Francisco.
http://www.batocollective.org/PNG/workshops.html

Carol Fischer presented two papers for the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities sponsored by the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI: "The World of David Henry Hwang according to Quantum" and "The Mythology of Naomi Iizuka in her play, LANGUAGE OF ANGELS."