Greetings and welcome to the 2016-17 academic year! This year both of us are on research leave—Steve has a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and Héctor has one from the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities at Northwestern. While we will miss spending time with everyone in the SPAN community, we are happy to be leaving the program in very good hands for 2016-17. Gregory Ward (Linguistics, Gender & Sexuality Studies, and Philosophy), who many of you know, has kindly agreed to take the helm and serve as Interim Director for the year.
We also want to welcome our two brand new SPAN Postdoctoral Fellows, Mitali Thakor and AJ Lewis, who will be in residence at Northwestern from 2016-2018. You can find more information about AJ’s and Mitali’s work and background on the SPAN website.
Speaking of the SPAN website, we are also happy to unveil our revamped site, which you can visit at: www.sexualities.northwestern.edu. We thank the tireless SPAN program assistant, Eliot Colin, for their efforts over the summer in creating this new and improved site, which we think you will find easier to negotiate both via computer and on your phone. And if you use Facebook, please like the SPAN page!
Have a great year, and we look forward to reconnecting with all of you in 2017-18!
All best,
Héctor Carrillo and Steve Epstein
Co-Directors, the Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN)