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In her new book, A Dead White: An Argument Against White Paint, forthcoming from Scribner on October 13, 2026, Associate Professor of Writing Wendy S. Walters traverses art history, architecture, and consumer culture to examine the impact of white paint on our lived environment and in our collective imaginary. Beginning with a sudden unease caused by the white walls of her son's school, the book is anchored in Walters's immediate sensory experience, making her cultural interrogation one that recasts our choices and habits as individuals in a new light.

"Garbo's Queen Christina as Both Lesbian and Chinese," co-authored by Professor Jane Gaines and Film and Media Studies MA alum Yumo Yan '20, along with visiting scholar Junlei Yang, was recently published as part of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video's 50th anniversary special issue, vol.43, no.3, 2026, to commemorate Professor Gaines's seminal article on the enigmatic silent-era film star Greta Garbo and her titular role in Queen Christina (1933), published in the same journal in 1989. 

Film alum Annie Ning '25 is a 2026 recipient of the highly prestigious Cary Grant Film Honor from the Princess Grace Foundation, which she was nominated for by Columbia University. Among the runners-up for the award was Undergraduate Film and Media Studies alum María del Mar Rosario (GS '15), who was nominated by 2018 Princess Grace Award winner Rafael Samanez and received a Film Honoraria from the foundation.