Jessica Berman, Professor of English and Director of the Dresher Center, has been named the Lipitz Professor of the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences for 2019-20.
As the Lipitz Professor, Dr. Berman will work on her current book project, Media Relations: Modernism and Global Radio. In this project, she studies global radio environments and the power of media to create complex transnational and often interlinguistic relationships. A truly global undertaking, Media Relations will connect voices, languages, literatures, and music from India to the Caribbean and from Argentina and Peru to Francophone West Africa.
As the Lipitz Professor, Dr. Berman will work on her current book project, Media Relations: Modernism and Global Radio. In this project, she studies global radio environments and the power of media to create complex transnational and often interlinguistic relationships. A truly global undertaking, Media Relations will connect voices, languages, literatures, and music from India to the Caribbean and from Argentina and Peru to Francophone West Africa.