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  • Ravi Vakil

    Ravi Vakil

    Robert Grimmett Professor of Mathematics

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsAlgebraic geometry and related subjects. For a complete publication list, see my publication page http://math.stanford.edu/~vakil/preprints.html rather than the list here.

  • Guadalupe Valdés

    Guadalupe Valdés

    Bonnie Katz Tenenbaum Professor of Education, Emerita

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsValdés is the Founder and Executive Director of "English Together" a 501(c)(3) organization. The organization creates rich connections between ordinary speakers of English and low-wage, immigrant workers by preparing volunteers to provide one-on-one “coaching” in workplace English.

  • Juan Rafael Valdez

    Juan Rafael Valdez

    Lecturer

    BioJuan R. Valdez teaches all levels of Spanish. He enjoys teaching as a way of helping students to optimally develop their communicative skills, while they also develop a critical sense of community and coexistence in a diverse and complex world. Juan is also a scholar and a writer. Until recently his research focused on the politics of language, paying special attention to the interplay of language and race in the construction of identity and struggles for power in the Hispanic Caribbean and the US. He has published articles, essays, and books, including: Tracing Dominican identity: the writings of Pedro Henríquez Ureña (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and En busca de la identidad: la obra de Pedro Henríquez Ureña (Ediciones Katatay, 2015). His forthcoming book Sendas extraviadas (Universidad Autónoma de México) is a series of essays on "aimless" walking that explore the possibility of overcoming some of our most perilous notions of politics, race, and mental health and, also, how redefining our relationship with nature strengthens our sense of place and belonging in the world. He has taught seminars as a Visiting Scholar in Germany and Cuba.

  • Andras Vasy

    Andras Vasy

    Robert Grimmett Professor of Mathematics

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research concentrates on topics in two broad areas of applications of microlocal analysis in which, partly with collaborators, I introduced new ideas in recent years: non-elliptic linear and non-linear partial differential equations (PDE), typically concerning wave propagation or other related phenomena, and inverse problems for X-ray type transforms along geodesics and related problems for determining the metric tensor from boundary measurements.

  • Blakey Vermeule

    Blakey Vermeule

    Albert Guérard Professor of Literature

    BioBlakey Vermeule's research interests are neuroaesthetics, cognitive and evolutionary approaches to art, philosophy and literature, British literature from 1660-1820, post-Colonial fiction, satire, and the history of the novel. She is the author of The Party of Humanity: Writing Moral Psychology in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2000) and Why Do We Care About Literary Characters? (2009), both from The Johns Hopkins University Press. She is writing a book about what mind science has discovered about the unconscious.

  • Yosa Vidal

    Yosa Vidal

    Lecturer

    BioYosa Vidal is a Visiting Lecturer of Latin American Literature and Culture at Stanford Univerisity. She holds a Ph.D. from University of Oregon, and her teaching and research areas include Latinx and Latin American Studies, Gender Politics, Memory Studies, Comic Studies and Philosophy.

    From graphic humor to the testimonies of victims of state-sponsored violence, her research contributes to the field of Latin American Memory Studies by acknowledging the history of those who were defeated unheroically. Specifically, it engages with a gap in the critical scholarship on resistance, historical memory, and trauma in the Southern Cone, and integrates fictional and non-fictional texts, expanding the notion of documentation and memory.

    In her book project Memorias de la traición y traición de la memoria: Narrativas de la derrota en Chile y Argentina she argues that representations of betrayal, often evoking terrible forms of torture and suffering, allow a critique of a patriarchal and epic vision of the traumatic past in the Global South. Memories of Betrayal examines betrayal in three different genres: Marcia Merino’s testimony My Truth. Beyond Horror, I Accuse, (Chile, 1993); the graphic novel Perramus by Juan Sasturain and Alberto Breccia (Argentina, 1985); and Enrique Lihn’s play, Dialogues of the Disappeared (Chile, written between 1973 and 1976 and published in 2018).

    Vidal has co-edited El loco Estero with Miguel Saralegui, by Ediciones Cátedra (2021). As a fictional writer, she has published El Tarambana, (Tajamar 2013, Mármara 2016), Los multipatópodos (Overol 2017) and Vals chilote (Mantis 2022, Fondo de Cultura Económica 2022).


    Selected publications:

    “Ontología de la traición: El cuerpo torturado del traidor en Marcia Merino, Mi Verdad (1993)”. En Traidores, traidoras y rebeldes. Santiago: Colección IDEA, USACH. 2023

    “Patas de perro: Un aullido hacia el futuro”. En Pusilánimes y genuflexos: Asedios a la obra y figura de Carlos Droguett. Santiago: Carbon Libros. 2023

    “El cuerpo, la traición y el asco: estrategias cinematográficas en La flaca Alejandra, vidas y muertes de una mujer chilena de Carmen Castillo (1994)”. Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas. vol. 19, no. 2, 2022, pp. 183–94

    “The Aesthetic and Political Economy of Betrayal in Oesterheld's Two Versions of The Eternaut I”. Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, vol. 5 no. 2, 2021, pp. 155-172

    “Subjetividad y política en las Memorias de Carlos Prats”. La violencia del lenguaje y la promesa de la escritura. Santiago: Metales Pesados. 2019

    “Encuentros y desencuentros de Oesterheld en Chile”. Revista Tebeosfera. (2016, ACYT) -3ª EPOCA.

    “Humor y Miedo: metáfora y elipsis en la representación del dictador”. Hispamérica (College Park), vol. 44, no. 130, 2015, pp. 107–14.

    “Imágenes de muertos: caricatura y rostro en la historieta política”. Dibujos que hablan. Santiago: Universidad de Santiago de Chile. 2017

  • Richard Vinograd

    Richard Vinograd

    Christensen Professor of Asian Art

    BioRichard Vinograd is the Christensen Fund Professor in Asian Art in the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University, where he has taught since 1989. Dr. Vinograd’s research interests include Chinese portraiture, landscape painting and cultural geography, urban cultural spaces, painting aesthetics and theory, art historiography, and inter-media studies. He is the author of Boundaries of the Self: Chinese Portraits, 1600-1900 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992); co-editor of New Understandings of Ming and Qing Painting (Shanghai: Shanghai Calligraphy Painting Publishing House, 1994); and co-author of Chinese Art & Culture (New York: Prentice Hall and Harry N. Abrams, 2001). He has published more than thirty journal articles, anthology chapters, conference papers, and catalogue essays on topics ranging from tenth-century landscape painting to contemporary transnational arts.

  • Peter Vitousek

    Peter Vitousek

    Clifford G. Morrison Professor of Population and Resource Studies, Professor of Earth System Science, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and Professor, by courtesy, of Biology

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsVitousek's research interests include: evaluating the global cycles of nitrogen and phosphorus, and how they are altered by human activity; understanding how the interaction of land and culture contributed to the sustainability of Hawaiian (and other Pacific) agriculture and society before European contact; and working to make fertilizer applications more efficient and less environmentally damaging (especially in rapidly growing economies)

  • Ayelet Voskoboynik

    Ayelet Voskoboynik

    Assistant Professor (Research) of Biology

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsWe study several stem cell interrelated phenomena using the colonial chordate, Botryllus schlosseri. We use genetic, genomic, and cell biological approaches to investigate: The evolutionary molecular mechanisms that regulate the decline of tissue regenerative potential during aging and allogeneic stem cell competition in host.

  • Barbara L. Voss

    Barbara L. Voss

    Professor of Anthropology

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI am a historical archaeologist who studies the dynamics and outcomes of transnational cultural encounters: How did diverse groups of people, who previously had little knowledge of each other, navigate the challenges and opportunities of abrupt and sustained interactions caused by colonialism, conflict, and migration? I approach this question through fine-grained, site-specific investigations coupled with broad-scale comparative and collaborative research programs.

  • Jelena Vuckovic

    Jelena Vuckovic

    Jensen Huang Professor of Global Leadership, Professor of Electrical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Applied Physics

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsJelena Vuckovic’s research interests are broadly in the areas of nanophotonics, quantum and nonlinear optics. Her lab develops semiconductor-based photonic chip-scale systems with goals to probe new regimes of light-matter interaction, as well as to enable platforms for future classical and quantum information processing technologies. She also works on transforming conventional photonics with the concept of inverse design, where optimal photonic devices are designed from scratch using computer algorithms with little to no human input. Her current projects include quantum and nonlinear optics, cavity QED, and quantum information processing with color centers in diamond and in silicon carbide, heterogeneously integrated chip-scale photonic systems, and on-chip laser driven particle accelerators.