Christina Lux

University of California, Merced, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, Managing Director, Center for the Humanities

Followers

1,077

Following

1,791

Co-authors

Mentions

Public Views

Managing Director, Center for the Humanities, UC Merced
Certificates in Conflict Analysis, Negotiation, and Mediating Violent Conflict, United States Institute of Peace
Certificate in Conflict Resolution, Cornell University
Ph.D. in Romance Languages, University of Oregon
Address: https://sites.google.com/view/drlux/home

less

InterestsView All (59)

Uploads

Books by Christina Lux

Medical Humanities, Cultural Humility, and Social Justice

by Christina Lux and Dalia Magana

UC Health Humanities Press, 2023

War Bonds

FlowerSong Press, 2024

War Bonds is a book of poems about survival in the face of conflict, from Iraq and Afghanistan, t... more War Bonds is a book of poems about survival in the face of conflict, from Iraq and Afghanistan, to #BlackLivesMatter, the war in Ambazonia and Cameroon, and gang violence in California's Central Valley. The book then jumps back in time 100 years to the archive of a Chicago pianist and painter, Edna Cookingham, who worked with the YMCA in France to entertain the troops at the end of WWI. Her letters, telegrams, diary, photographs, and war papers serve as source material for these poems. While Europe may have experienced demobilization and a peace process in 1919, the echoes of that conflict continue to be felt around the world, binding us still. The book explores how we move forward – bound together – after conflict, violence, terror, or mass trauma.

Download

The Humanities in the Age of Information and Post-Truth

by Christina Lux and Ignacio López-Calvo

Northwestern University Press, 2019

Includes essays by Kwame Anthony Appiah, David Palumbo-Liu, Doris Sommer, David Theo Goldberg, Ro... more

Download

Peer-Reviewed Articles by Christina Lux

"Poetry as a Creative Practice to Enhance Engagement and Learning in Conservation Science."

BioScience, 2018

Co-authors: Stephanie R Januchowski-Hartley Natalie Sopinka Bethann G Merkle Christina Lux Anna Z... more Co-authors: Stephanie R Januchowski-Hartley Natalie Sopinka Bethann G Merkle Christina Lux Anna Zivian Patrick Goff Samantha Oester.

Creativity is crucial to the capacity to do science well, to communicate it in compelling ways, and to enhance learning. Creativity can be both practiced and enhanced to strengthen conservation science professionals’ efforts to address global environmental challenges. We explore how poetry is one creative approach that can further conservation scientists’ engagement and learning. We draw on evidence from peer-reviewed literature to illustrate benefits of integrating science and poetry, and to ground our argument for the growth of a science-poetry community to help conservation scientists develop skills in creative practices as a component of professional development. We present examples from literature as well as two short poetry exercises for scientists to draw on when considering writing poetry, or deciding on forms of poetry to include, in their practice. Opportunity exists to grow science–poetry projects to further our understanding of what such initiatives can offer.

*Honorable Mention for Best Paper, Ecological Society of America's Education Section, 2019*

(with Hee-Jung Serenity Joo) “Dismantling Bellicose Identities: Strategic Language Games in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s DICTEE.”

Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2012

This essay argues that Cha’s DICTEE trains the reader in strategic language games in order to res... more This essay argues that Cha’s DICTEE trains the reader in strategic language games in order to resist bellicose identities. It engages contemporary studies of multilingual literature in the United States, challenging overly optimistic visions of an inclusive cosmopolitanism that elides problems of gender, race, class, and nation. Sau-ling Wong’s “Denationalization Reconsidered” is used to examine these issues in relation to defense funding, language policies, and historical tensions between ethnic studies and area studies in the US. As this essay posits, Cha addressed many of Wong’s concerns avant la lettre.

“Fluid Attachment: Reframing Peacebuilding through Ahmadou Kourouma’s Allah n’est pas obligé.”

International Journal of Francophone Studies, Jun 2010

Through an analysis of Ahmadou Kourouma's novel Allah n'est pas obligé (2000), this article conte... more Through an analysis of Ahmadou Kourouma's novel Allah n'est pas obligé (2000), this article contends that literature must hold a place alongside political theory in peacebuilding. Kourouma's novel creates a tension between two modes of narration (historical and environmental) to explore the ethics of writing war trauma. Instead of advocating adoption of one of the classical frameworks for ethics, the narrative tensions in this novel push the reader to approach ethics from within a relational framework. By placing Kourouma's novel in the context of a wider literary discourse on peace and conflict in sub-Saharan Africa that has emerged from 1974 to 2005, this article demonstrates that a meta-ethics may be drawn from these novels. This meta-ethics, based on the concepts of the reaching gesture and fluid attachment, can aid in framing peace and conflict studies.

Download