- Round Table RNC & DNC Post-Discussion: Monday, August 29th 6:00-7:30pm
Member Accolades
ACCORD members’ research and service contributes to our philosophy, vision, and goal. We recognize the accomplishments of the following members:
Published Commentary: ACCORD Steering Committee member Elizabeth L. Sweet was published in the July 2016 issue of Dialogues in Human Geography. Access her commentary, Carceral feminism: Linking the state, intersectional bodies, and the dichotomy of place, here.
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Nancy Komada
Nancy Komada is the Senior Director for Adult Student Life at Saint Joseph’s University. In her role, she works with undergraduate adult students and graduate students both on campus and on line to provide resources and remove obstacles which encourages achievement of academic and personal goals. She works closely with international students and their organizations year round to celebrate and honor the cultures and traditions these students bring to the community. She received her Ph.D. in adult and organizational development from the College of Education at Temple University. Her research explores the challenges facing “first in the family” college students of all ages. She is an active Temple alum who connects regularly with main campus in conjunction with international programs, career development, and spirit events.
Selected Publications: Srimati Mukherjee
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Book
Women and Resistance in Contemporary Bengali Cinema: A Freedom Incomplete. London and New York: Routledge, 2016.
Essays and Articles
“Borrowing, Becoming and the Question of the Self in Sob Choritro Kalponik.” South Asian History and Culture Published online 1 July 2015. Published in print South Asian History and Culture 6.4 (2015): 489-99.
Reprinted in Rituparno Ghosh: Cinema, Gender and Art. Eds. Sangeeta Datta, Kaustav Bakshi and Rohit K. Dasgupta. New Delhi: Routledge India, 2016. 123-38. (Invited and peer-reviewed publication)
“‘Negative Difference’ and Its Role in Writing: Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s Among the White Moon Faces.” Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature (Malaysia) 8.1 (2014): 131-42. (Invited and peer-reviewed publication) www.asiatic.iium.edu.my/v8n1/
“A Not So Banal Evil: Rokeya in Confrontation with Patriarchy.” Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature (Malaysia) 7.2 (2013): 82-94. (Invited and peer-reviewed publication) www.asiatic.iium.edu.my/v7n2/
“Chokher Bali: A Historico-Cultural Translation of Tagore.” Jump Cut 54 (2012). www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc54.2012/index.html
“The Impossibility of Incestuous Love: Woman’s Captivity and National Liberation in Rituparno Ghosh’s Utsab.” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 29.5 (2012): 401-08.
“Introduction.” “Figuring Shadows” (Fiction), by Shyamal Bagchee. Scritture Migranti (Italy) 2 (2008): 5-7. Published June 2009.
“T.S. Eliot: Poet of My Bengali Childhood.” The International Reception of T.S. Eliot. Eds. Elisabeth Daumer and Shyamal Bagchee. New York: Continuum, 2007. 278-83. (Invited and peer-reviewed publication)
“Nation, Immigrant, Text: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee.” Transnational Asian American Literature: Sites and Transits. Eds. Shirley Geok-lin Lim et. al. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2006. 197-215.
“Feminism in a Calcutta Context: Assault, Appeasement, and Assertion in Rituparno Ghosh’s Dahan.” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 22.3 (2005): 203-10. (Invited and peer-reviewed publication)
Fiction
“Light Is Something which Is Golden in Color.” Twenty-Two New Asian Short Stories. Ed. Mohammad Quayum. Kuala Lumpur: Silverfish, 2016.
“Mama’s Boy.” Xavier Review 33.2 (2013): 160-71.
“When It Is Green and Not Blue.” Feminist Studies 32.3 (2006): 620-31. Published spring 2007.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
“Shirley Geok-lin Lim.” Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 312.: Asian American Writers. Ed. Deborah Madsen. Detroit: Thomson Gayle, 2005. 212-17. (Invited publication)
“The Impoverishment of the Female Hero in The Ballad of the Sad Café.” Proceedings of the Philological Association of Louisiana 1992 (1993): 105-09.
“Mark Twain in India.” Mark Twain Encyclopedia. Eds. James D. Wilson and J.R. LeMasters. New York: Garland, 1993. 391-93.
“Harold Sonny Ladoo.” Writers of the Indian Diaspora: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport, CT.: Greenwood, 1993. 169-74.
“Raymond C. Pillai.” Writers of the Indian Diaspora: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport, CT.: Greenwood, 1993. 323-29.
“Subramani.” Writers of the Indian Diaspora: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport, CT.: Greenwood, 1993. 419-24.
Co-authored with David Racker. “Deepchand Beeharry.” Writers Of the Indian Diaspora: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport, CT.: Greenwood, 1993. 15-21.
“The Moviegoer: Of Mimesis and Awareness.” Publications of the Arkansas Philological Association 17 (1991): 35-43.
Book Reviews
Rev. of George Eliot: A Reference Guide, 1972-1987, by Karen L. Pangallo. Bulletin of Bibliography Dec. (1990): 254.
Rev. of The Bloomsbury Group: A Reference Guide, by Lawrence W. Markert. Bulletin of Bibliography Sept. (1990): 192.
Selected Publications: Donnalyn Pompper
selected publications
Pompper, D. (2021, in press). Community building and early public relations: Pioneer women’s role on and after the Oregon Trail. New York: Routledge. New
Directions in Public Relations and Communication Research series.
Pompper, D. (Ed.) (2021, in press). Public relations for social responsibility: Affirming DEI commitment with action. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited. First volume in Communicating Responsible Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion series.
Pompper, D. (Ed.) (2021, in press). Rhetoric of masculinity: Male body image, media, and gender role stress/conflict. Washington, D.C.: Lexington Books (a division ofRoman & Littlefield). Lexington Studies in Contemporary Rhetoric series.
Pompper, D. (2020, in press). Embracing public relations& role as diversity advocate: Moving from microaggressions to micro microaffirmations in organizations. PR Journal.
Pompper, D. (Ed.) (2018). Corporate social responsibility, sustainability, & ethical public relations: Strengthening synergies with human resources. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited. The Changing Context of Managing People series.
Pompper, D. (Ed.) (2017). Climate and sustainability communication. New York:
Routledge.
Pompper, D. (2017). Rhetoric of femininity: Female body image, media, and gender role stress/ conflict. Washington, D.C.: Lexington Books (a division of Rowman & Littlefield). Lexington Studies in Contemporary Rhetoric series.
Doh, H., & Pompper, D. (2015). Beyond the wounds: The SCAR Project as space for examining breast cancer and mastectomy experiences. Social Semiotics, 25(5), 1-17. doi: 10.1080/10350330.2015.1041792.
Pompper, D. (2015). Corporate social responsibility, sustainability, and public relations: Negotiating multiple complex challenges. New York: Routledge. New Directions in Public Relations and Communication Research series. [2015 PRIDE Book Award for Innovation, Development, and Educational Achievement in Public Relations, Public Relations Division, National Communication Association, the
division’s highest award.]
Pompper, D. (2014). Practical and theoretical implications of successfully doing difference in organizations. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited. First volume in International Perspectives in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (IPEDI) series. [2014 Top Book Award, Organizational Communication Division, among National Communication Association’s largest divisions and the division’s highest award.]
Pompper, D., & Crandall, K. (2014). The erotic-chaste dialectic and the new southernbelle code at the high school prom: Feminine gender role stress across ethnic and socio-economic factors. The Journal of Popular Culture, 47(5), 937-951. dos: 10.1111/jpcu.12180.
Pompper, D. (2014). The Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Impact, processes and roles for strategic communication. International Journal of Strategic Communication, 8(3), 130-145. Special issue, “Financial Strategic Communication.” doi:
10.1080/1553118X.2014.905476.
Pompper, D. (2014). Female Tunisian revolutionaries, leadership, and social (dis)order in global news production. Mass Communication & Society, 17(4), 1-22. dos: 10.1080/15205436.2013.816746.
Donnalyn Pompper
Donnalyn Pompper (Ph.D., Media & Communication, Temple University) is a tenured Full Professor and Endowed Chair in Public Relations working in the School of Journalism & Communication at University of Oregon where she teaches and researches about power as it plays out in social identity intersectionalities (e.g., age, ethnicity/race, gender, sexual orientation) – in organizations and in media representations. She also is Affiliate Faculty at UO’s Center for Science Communication Research and UO’s Ethnic Studies Department. Overall, her research provides routes for enabling people, globally, to enjoy equality and respect at work and in ways their
social identity groups are represented across mass media platforms. She is an award-winning and internationally-recognized scholar.
Operationalizing the Solidarity Economy: Problems and Opportunities
ACCORD co-sponsored a guest lecture by Dr. Timothy O. Imeokparia of the Great Cities Institute University of Illinois Chicago. The lecture explored how Ecuador is implementing the Solidarity economy, who is involved, and the possibilities and obstacles toward reaching Buen Vivir (good living).
ACCORD Affiliate Members
Sherry S. Yu:
Sherry S. Yu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism and a member of the School of Media and Communication’s doctoral program at Temple University. She received her Ph.D. in communication from the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. Her research explores cultural diversity and media in relation to cultural literacy, civic engagement, and intercultural dialogue in a multicultural society, with a specific focus on ethnic media, multiculturalism, and transnational migration.
Eli Goldblatt:
Eli Goldblatt is a professor of English at Temple University. After earning his B.A. at Cornell University, he attended a year of medical school, traveled in Mexico and Central America, and taught high school for 6 years in Philadelphia. He completed a Ph.D. in English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1990. Since moving to Temple from Villanova University in 1996, he served as University Writing Director, co-director of the Writing Center, and Director of First Year Writing until leaving administrative work in 2012. He is the director of New City Writing, an institute focused on community literacy in North Philadelphia. Through New City Writing, Temple students and faculty have participated in many projects since 1997 in the Latino and African American communities near the university. His most active current involvement is with Tree House Books, an after school literacy program near the Temple campus, and Philadelphia Public School Notebook, an investigative publication dedicated to education in the city. He was given the Distinguished Scholar Award by the national Conference on Community Writing in 2015.
Selected Publications
Rickie Sanders:
Rickie Sanders is Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University. Her interests are representations of the city, photography, and race/class/gender. She is currently working on a collaborative project, “Mapping Perceptions of Violence/Safety in the Lives of African American Women in Norristown, PA.” She was named a Fellow in the Center for the Humanities at Temple (2006) and served as Director of the Greater Philadelphia Women’s Studies Consortium. She was recently honored by the Association of American Geographers with an award for Enhancing Diversity in the field; prior to that she was awarded the Outstanding Teaching Award. She has published in numerous journals (Antipode, Revista Artemis XI, The Professional Geographer, Journal of Research and Didactics in Geography) and has had two exhibitions of her photos at Temple University.
Selected Publications