Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé

Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé

Assistant Professor - English

On Leave Fall 2022
School of Liberal Arts
Stone Center Departments
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Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé

Research

Modernism in European and World Literatures, faith and secularity, confession, the experimental novel, early film

Degrees

  • B.A., Barnard College, Columbia University, Philosophy and Political Science, 1990
  • M.A., University of Virginia, Philosophy, 1998
  • Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Comparative Literature, 2008

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2013-
  • Fellow in the Arts and Humanities, Harvard University, 2011-2013
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, 2009-2011

Distinctions

  • Awards to Louisiana Artists and Scholars (ATLAS), Louisiana Board of Regents, 2016-2017
  • Harvard College Fellowship, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, 2011-2013
  • Harvard University Certificate of Teaching Excellence, 2011-2012
  • Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities, Stanford University, 2009-2011
  • Diller Prize for Research in Jewish Studies, UC Berkeley, 2007-2008
  • Mabelle McLeod Lewis Memorial Fellowship, 2005-2006

Languages

  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Latin

Overseas Experience

  • France
  • Germany
  • Norway
  • Argentina

Selected Publications

  • Forthcoming. “The Proper Stuff of Fiction: Objects and Woolf’s Method, from the early stories to Jacob’s Room” Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf. Edited by Anne Fernald, Oxford University Press.
  • 2017. Wittgenstein and Modernism. Edited by Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé and Michael LeMahieu, University of Chicago Press.
  • 2017. “Wittgenstein and the Contradictions of Philosophy as Poetry,” with Michael LeMahieu, Wittgenstein and Modernism. Edited by Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé and Michael LeMahieu, University of Chicago Press.
  • 2017. “The World as Bloom found it: ‘Ithaca,’ the Tractatus and the solution of difficult problems in imaginary or real life,” Wittgenstein and Modernism, Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé and Michael LeMahieu, University of Chicago Press.
  • 2015. “Our Toil Respite Only: Woolf, Diamond and the Difficulty of Reality,” MLN: Modern Language Notes. December 2015, 130(5): 1100-1129.
  • 2012. “The Everyday’s Fabulous Beyond: Nonsense, Parable, and the Ethics of the Literary in Kafka and Wittgenstein.” Comparative Literature 64 (4).
  • 2003. “‘All music when you come to think:’ James Joyce in Dublin.” James Joyce Quarterly 39 (4).

Marc Zender

Marc Zender

Assistant Professor - Anthropology

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Core Faculty
Region
  • Mesoamerica
Marc Zender

Additional Info

Number of Dissertations or Theses Supervised in the Past 5 Years: 7

Research

Mesoamerican Indigenous Languages and Writing Systems; Anthropological & Historical Linguistics; Comparative Writing Systems and Decipherment; Iconography & Visual Culture; Religion; Identity

Degrees

  • Ph.D., University of Calgary, Archaeology, 2004
  • M.A., University of Calgary, Archaeology, 1999
  • B.A., University of British Columbia, Anthropology, 1997

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Associate Professor, 2019-
  • Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2011-2019
  • Lecturer, Harvard University, 2005-2011
  • Instructor, University of Calgary, 2002-2003
  • Teaching Fellow, University of Calgary, 1999-2003

Distinctions

  • Peabody Museum Research Grant, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, 2010-2011
  • Certificate of Distinction for Excellence in Teaching, Harvard University, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
  • Ralph Steinhauer Award of Distinction, Alberta Heritage Scholarship Fund, 2002

Languages

  • Spanish
  • German
  • Ch’olan
  • Yukatekan
  • Tzeltalan
  • Nahuatl

Overseas Experience

  • Germany
  • Spain
  • Netherlands
  • Sweden
  • Poland
  • Denmark
  • Finland

Selected Publications

  • 2017. “Theory and Method in Maya Decipherment.” PARI Journal 18(2):1-48.
  • 2013. “Reading in Context: The Interpretations of Personal Reference in Ancient Maya Hieroglyphic Texts.‘€ With D. Law, S. Houston, N. Carter, and D. Stuart. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 23(2): E23-E47.
  • 2011. Reading Maya Art: A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Maya Painting and Scultpure (w/ Andrea Stone). Thames & Hudson, London.
  • 2008. One Hundred and Fifty Years of Nahuatl Decipherment. PARI Journal 8(4): 24-37. www.mesoweb.com/pari/journal/archive/PARI0804.pdf
  • 2006. Space and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology (w/ E. Robertson, J. Seibert and D. Fernandez). Second edition. University of New Mexico Press.

Kyle B. Young

Kyle B. Young

Alumnus

M.A. (May 2022)
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Graduate Alumnus
Kyle B. Young

Biography

Kyle B. Young is a May 2022 graduate of the Latin American Studies M.A. program at the Stone Center. In 2020, he graduated from Tulane with a B.A. in Political Science and Spanish/Portuguese. In 2019, he studied Portuguese and Brazilian Politics at the Pontifica Universidade Catolica in São Paulo, Brazil, as a FLAS Undergraduate Fellow. His research interests include queer cultural production, international politics and digital activism. He is passionate about art, music, language, and social justice. In his free time, he likes to paint, spend time outdoors, and explore New Orleans. He plans to move forward in a career in critical journalism and media.

Hayley Woodward Pung

Hayley Woodward Pung

Alumna

Ph.D. Candidate - Joint with Art History
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Graduate Alumna
Hayley Woodward

Biography

Hayley Woodward earned a joint Ph.D. in Art History and Latin American Studies. She earned her B.A. in Art History with Honors from the University of Texas at Austin in 2013, and received her M.A. in Art History from Tulane University in 2017. Her research explores Aztec and early colonial visual culture, specifically cartographic documents created in early New Spain by indigenous painter-scribes. Her dissertation examines questions of narrative, geography, and indigenous historiography as they pertain to the Codex Xolotl, a pictorial history painted in a prehispanic style within the early years of the colonial order. Her research has been supported by the Stone Center of Latin American Studies, the Newcomb Art Department, and the J.E. Land Fund.

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