DIEGO MILLAN ON SHAKE THE COSMOS
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How do you find your calling? What type of work accomplishes your calling? How do you continue to pursue your passions during a pandemic? How can we create spaces for the possibility of joy that bring us back to ourselves and back to each other?
Assistant Professor Diego Millan joins me to discuss teaching, communication, vulnerability and how COVID-19 has radically altered our commitment to our life pursuits. In this episode, Diego shares his thoughts on mental health and collapse of boundaries between work and life during the pandemic.
Diego is an Assistant Professor of English and Africana Studies at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, VA. Broadly, he situates his current research at the intersection of Black Studies and Humor Studies. Diego is currently working on a book manuscript that brings this together. Tentatively titled Laughter’s Fury: The Double Bind of Black Laughter, this project examines the cultural politics and critical traditions that structure the racialization of laughter.
From 2016-2018, Diego was a Presidential Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University’s Pembroke Center, where he taught two courses in the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program: one on American regionalism and another on laughter, resistance, and African American literature. Diego received his PhD from Tufts University’s Department of English in 2016. He is a Mellon Mays Fellow and a Posse Scholar. Diego dreams of one day having an avocado tree that fruits.
Find Diego at https://diegomillan.com/ , dmillan@wlu.edu , or on Twitter @laughtersfury
Also, did you know that you can get yourself a copy of the Shake The Cosmos Journal as part of the personal development course? Check it out here.