Doctoral student Kristy Rawson successfully defended her dissertation on Lupe Velez last Friday, May 11, to become the first doctoral candidate to graduate from FTVM!  Kristy helped edit Siegfried Kracauer's American Writings, Essays on Film and Popular Culture with FTVM Associate Professor Johannes von Moltke, which will be available later this month.  See the details here:  http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520271838.