Three College of Humanities professors have been promoted, demonstrating excellent performance in teaching, service and research.
Dian Li is promoted from tenured Associate Professor of East Asian Studies to tenured Professor; Kaitlin Murphy is promoted from Assistant Professor of Spanish to tenured Associate Professor of Spanish; and Judd Ruggill is promoted from tenured Associate Professor of Public and Applied Humanities to tenured Professor of Public and Applied Humanities.
Li’s research interests include classical and modern Chinese critical theories, diaspora and translational studies, translation theory and practice, contemporary Chinese poetry and film, and comparative and world literature. He teaches courses in new Chinese cinema, society in modern China, English/Chinese translation in theory and practice, and Chinese immigrant literature and film.
Murphy is currently chair of the Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory Graduate Interdisciplinary Program, faculty in the Human Rights Practice graduate program, and affiliated faculty in Latin American Studies and the Institute for LGBT Studies. Her research interests include memory and human rights, visual culture, performance studies, and hemispheric Latin American studies. Her monograph, Mapping Memory: Visuality, Affect, and Embodied Politics, was published fall 2018 with Fordham University Press. She teaches courses on arts and politics in Latin America, politics and culture in the Hispanic world, Latin American literature and cultural studies, and digital humanities.
Ruggill is founding Head of the Department of Public and Applied Humanities, serves on the UA Faculty Senate, and co-directs the Learning Games Initiative. He joined the University of Arizona in 2016 as part of the Computational Media Cluster initiative. His research interests center on mass media history, theory, and business, with a particular emphasis on computer game technologies, play, and cultures. He is currently working on two books, one on the present and future of game archiving and the other on the Chinese game industry. He teaches courses on gaming, and innovation and the human condition.