Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities
FALL 2011
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| L e t t e r f r o m t h e D i r e c to r | About a decade ago, I joined a group of faculty around a table at the Center for Advanced Study on our campus for a conversation about the ways universities consider and give (or don’t give) credit for collaborative research. The presumption was that, apart from some models of laboratory research, most scholars had been trained to conduct research and to produce scholarship on their own, in isolation. This was true for scholars in many fields, but it seemed to be especially common practice among humanists who are schooled in the often isolating (if richly rewarding) work of archival research and solitary writing. Ten years on, much has changed. If many humanists continue to employ traditional modes of inquiry, equally large numbers are finding themselves working with collaborators both near and distant. Web-based communication and social networking tools easily facilitate conversations with colleagues all over the globe, and now-ubiquitous digital tools likewise facilitate the creation of texts that can be written by multiple authors working on the same document together in real time but in separate locations, along with a range of collaborative practices not imagined in even the recent past. In short, multi-modal scholarship (as it is increasingly known) facilitates multi-scholar practices in the humanities. At the IPRH, collaboration has always been a hallmark of our endeavor. Our events are designed to gather groups of faculty, students, and community members to listen, to consider, and to discuss questions and topics of shared interest. Our Faculty and Graduate Student Fellows gather together around our seminar table every other week to advance a work-in-progress at our Fellows’ Seminar—gatherings that cheer and energize all of us throughout the
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academic year because of the great spirit of intellectual generosity our Fellows consistently display along with their brilliance. And the tremendous success of last year’s IPRH Collaborative Research Projects provides yet further evidence of the productive synergies such processes create. I’m therefore pleased to announce that we are once again sponsoring the Collaborative Research Project awards – a program that allows you, the faculty, to drive a significant portion of the annual programming for the IPRH. I am also delighted to announce that we have received additional support from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research. With these funds, we are now able to increase the funding we return to departments in exchange for releasing faculty so that they can accept IPRH fellowships, and we can provide each Faculty Fellow with funds in a research account to support their work on their IPRH project. The funds also make it possible for us to increase our graduate student fellowship stipends so that all IPRH Graduate Student Fellows will now be eligible for tuition and fee waivers. Further details are available on our web site. I am very grateful to Vice Chancellor for Research Ravi Iyer for his support of the humanities at Illinois. At the start of this academic year, we welcome two more Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellows in the Humanities to the IPRH: Duncan Keenan-Jones (Ph.D. Classics, Macquarie University, Australia) and Karoline Cook (Ph.D. History, Princeton University). The Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellows are outstanding additions to our intellectual community at the IPRH, just as they’ve already made important contributions through their teaching in both the undergraduate and graduate programs in their departments. Following the success of last spring’s “Memory and the Visual” symposium which we co-organized with Mellon Fellow Kristine Nielsen, this April will see a second such symposium organized with former Mellon Fellow Patricia Goldsworthy-Bishop and with Professor Antoinette Burton on the topic of “Empire From Below.” Please mark your calendars for April 6, 2012 and consider including the event in your course syllabi.
| on the Cover | Gwendolyn Wright visiting speaker, November 2 Waïl Hassan essay “Knowledge in the Time of Revolution” (page 10) Teddy Cruz visiting speaker, October 13 IPRH Annual Theme 2012-13 “Revolution” (page 21)
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In addition to these special events, we continue with all of our usual business. Professor Ray Fouché will give the IPRH Lecture at this year’s Chicago Humanities Festival in early November; we continue our commitment to public humanities by providing support for the Education Justice Project led by Professor Rebecca Ginsburg and for the Odyssey Project , which will continue under the expert direction of Professor Cris Mayo and Michael Burns (Ph.D. candidate, English/Writing Studies); Christine Catanzarite will once again host the IPRH Film Series; the IPRH Blog resumes this fall under the editorial guidance of Professor Susan Davis (Department of Communication); and the IPRH Reading Groups continue, yet another form of the collaborative and cross-disciplinary work that distinguishes both life and work in the humanities at Illinois. The support we have received over the past year from external sources like the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and from internal sources thanks to the leadership of Dean Ruth Watkins, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research in the Humanities Nancy Abelmann, and Vice Chancellor for Research Ravi Iyer has made a significant difference in our ability to continue to support the finest humanities research, teaching, and scholarship. And to insure the long-term health of the IPRH, we have initiated a set of development activities that include the creation of the “Friends of the IPRH.” You can find out more about opportunities for giving to the IPRH, and for joining our “Friends” circle, in the pages that follow. I am deeply grateful for the support of all those who have given to the IPRH in the past few years. Their donations make a significant difference in our ability to continue to serve our humanities faculty and students at the university, as well as members of our surrounding community. I hope you’ll join us this year to become part of the many ongoing conversations that make the IPRH such a dynamic locus for collaborative work in the humanities. I look forward to seeing you at our events, and I wish you a productive and intellectually stimulating year.
| M Y FAVOR I TE B OO K | The IPRH launched a new initiative, the “My Favorite Book” faculty lecture series, with a presentation by Architecture professor Heather Hyde Minor at Chicago’s Newberry Library on October 20, 2010. Professor Hyde Minor’s talk, “Wasting the Past: Piranesi’s Vision of History,” was followed by a reception sponsored by Chicago businessman Vincent Buonanno. Professor Hyde Minor was also the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend for 2011, and the IPRH congratulates her on this prestigious award.
“The IPRH is an indispensable place for exchanging ideas across disciplinary boundaries. “ - Bruce Levine, History and an IPRH Faculty Fellow 2010-11
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| Karoline Cook |
The IPRH is delighted to welcome Dr. Karoline Cook, who joins us this fall as one of two new Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellows in the Humanities. Dr. Cook will
Project Abstract Forbidden Crossings: Moriscos and Muslims in Spanish America, 1492-1650
spend two years at Illinois conducting research
Abstract: My research expands the focus of Atlantic
on her project (described here); participating in
history by tracing how the peoples and practices that
IPRH and other campus activities; and teaching
Spanish authorities wanted to confine to the Mediter-
courses in the Department of History. Please
ranean crossed the Atlantic. During the 16th and
see the IPRH website for course information.
17th centuries, Spanish authorities were preoccupied
Karoline Cook received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2008. She is currently revising her book manuscript, Forbidden Crossings: Muslims and Moriscos in Spanish Karoline Cook
America, 1492-1650. She has conducted research in a number of
with promoting religious orthodoxy. As a result, they prohibited Moriscos or Iberian Muslims, many of whom had been baptized forcibly at the beginning of the 16th century, from settling in the Spanish Americas. Taking these prohibitions too literally, many historians have overlooked the possibility that Muslims and Moriscos could have played a role in colonial society.
archives in Spain, Mexico, Peru and Portugal, with the support of
My research, which connects the fields of colonial Latin
a Fulbright Fellowship, and grants from the Graduate School, the
American history with studies of early modern Spain
Program in Latin American Studies, and the Center for the Study
and the Mediterranean world, shows that individuals
of Religion at Princeton University. She has presented papers at
were able to evade the restrictions by a variety of
the annual meetings of the American Historical Association, the
means and settle in the forbidden territories. In a series
Conference in Latin American History, the Middle East Studies
of case studies, I show how the Moriscos negotiated
Association, the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical
their status, religious practices, and relationships in the
Studies, and the 52nd International Congress of Americanists.
Spanish Americas. Through a thorough examination
In 2008-2010 she held an Andrew W. Mellon fellowship at
of colonial legislation, inquisitorial records, and court
the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, where
cases, I reconstruct individual actions and explain
she conducted research at the Huntington Library and taught
how they illuminate broader imperial relationships. I
courses on the Atlantic World and Early Modern Iberian Frontiers
analyze how Morisco presence sheds light on issues of
in the History Department at the University of Southern Califor-
religious identity, honor, and local power struggles, and
nia. In 2010-2011 she also held an NEH fellowship at the John
I contextualize these cases within a broader discussion
Carter Brown Library in Providence, Rhode Island.
of the role that images of Muslims played in Spanish
Her article, “Navigating Identities: The Case of a Morisco Slave
ideologies of conquest and colonization.
in Seventeenth-Century New Spain” was published in The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History 65:1 (July 2008): 63-79.
“The IPRH fellowship not only provided me with an excellent forum for intellectual exchange, but it also allowed me the freedom to focus on my writing and complete my dissertation. I am honored to have spent the final year of my graduate studies as an IPRH Fellow.” - Nile Blunt, History and an IPRH Graduate Student Fellow 2010-11
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| D u n c a n K e e n a n-J o n e s | The IPRH is pleased to introduce Dr. Duncan Keenan-Jones, who arrives at Illinois this fall as one of two Andrew W. Mellon PostDoctoral Fellows in the Humanities.
Water, Society, and Environment in Ancient Rome and its Hinterland
Dr. Keenan-Jones will spend two years in
Abstract: This project will investigate the interactions
residence conducting research on his project
between water use, society, and environment in and
(described here); participating in IPRH and other
around ancient Rome from the building of the first
campus activities; and teaching courses in the
aqueduct in the 4th century B.C. to the breakdown of
Department of the Classics. Please see the
the system in the Middle Ages. This research will form
IPRH website for course information.
a comparative case study, and contribute towards a
Duncan Keenan-Jones completed a Ph.D. in the Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia in 2010. His disserDuncan Keenan-Jones
Project Abstract
tation focused on the Aqua Augusta, a Roman aqueduct in the Bay of Naples that was one of the most complex and expensive pieces of water infrastructure in the ancient world (see http://msc.uwa.edu.au/classics/ascs31/ Keenan-Jones.pdf for a related conference paper). Duncan has
historical context, for modern water management. Written sources (in Latin and Greek) and archaeological and paleoclimatological data, some of it acquired as part of this project, will be used to build up a history of Roman use of, and attitudes towards, water and the environment. Particular themes investigated will include social control and competition and environmental change and sustainability.
degrees in chemical engineering and ancient history and profes-
The written sources testify to conflict over water
sional experience as a heritage consultant. Duncan was also a
resources in Rome’s hinterland. A major feature of the
project officer on the Serica and Gallipoli before Gallipoli projects
project will be the investigation of the extent of this
funded by the Australian Research Council.
conflict via a quantitative analysis of water supply and
In 2008-09, Duncan was Macquarie Gale Scholar at the British School at Rome, returning as Rome Awardee in 2010-11. He has taken part in archaeological excavations and fieldwork in Italy, Israel, and Australia. Duncan’s most recent publication (co-authored with J. Hellstrom and R. Drysdale) is “Lead contamination in the drinking water of Pompeii” in E. Poehler et al. (eds.), Art, industry and infrastructure in Roman Pompeii, published by Oxbow Books in 2011.
demand in Rome’s aqueduct catchment area. Rome’s water demand will be estimated by combining its real water demand with its “virtual water” demand (the water required to produce the agricultural and manufactured goods from this area consumed by Rome). The supply (precipitation) will be estimated using paleoclimatological research. The focus will be particularly on smaller elevated basins where demand is more likely to approach supply.
While at the IPRH, Duncan will be working on an interdisciplinary collaboration involving historians of antiquity, archaeologists, geologists, and hydraulic engineers entitled “Water, Society and Environment in Ancient Rome and its Hinterland.” The project will pioneer geoarchaeological techniques applicable to water systems worldwide. Duncan’s other research and teaching interests include the intersection of archaeology, history and the physical sciences, quantitative approaches to the study of the past, ancient technology and environment, and Big History.
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| I P RH fa c u lt y FELLO W S 2011-12 | Faculty Fellows receive one semester of release time in the semester of their choice during the fellowship year, and research funds in the amount of $2,000. The IPRH compensates the faculty member’s home department(s) for their semester of release. IPRH Faculty Fellows are also asked to teach a course – during the fellowship year or the year immediately following – on a subject related to the fellowship project. Through these courses, the Fellows illustrate the connection between exceptional research and outstanding teaching, and continue the conversation on the fellowship topic long after the year has ended. Descriptions of the courses proposed by this year’s Faculty Fellows can be found on the IPRH website.
S ha o D a n
J u sti n e M u ris o n
East Asian Languages and Cultures
English
“Bloodline and Borders: Nationality Law and State Succession in China (1909-1997)”
“Belief and Unbelief in the Age of Revolutions”
Abstract: Bloodline has been used for nationalistic or racist rhetoric, and codified in laws concerning identification in human societies past and present. When using the bloodline principle to define one’s nationality, questions arise concerning how to trace one’s bloodline and how to define political allegiance when national borders are shifting. This project will provide a humanistic perspective on the studies on legal borders. Through archive-based research, the project will examine the cultural idioms in law making and analyze paradoxes that arise from implementing bloodline principle in defining national and political identity during the years of sovereignty contestation in East Asia.
Abstract: “Belief and Unbelief in the Age of Revolutions” argues that systems of “belief” – both faith in religion and the assent to facts when empirical proof is absent – shaped revolutionary visions and fictional forms in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This project traces the far-flung geographies of religion, race, and nation through events such as the captivity of American citizens off the Barbary Coast of Africa, the imprisonment of Thomas Paine by the revolutionary French government, and the murder of Captain Cook in Hawaii, to capture the impact of belief on the revolutionary era and its national and imperial imaginaries.
J o h n T im b erma n Newc o m b S tepha n ie H i l ger Germanic Languages and Literatures/Comparative and World Literature “Liminal Bodies: Intersexuality in Literary and Medical Discourses” Abstract: “Liminal Bodies” investigates the literary and medical representation of individuals born with ambiguous genitalia from 18th-century Europe to present-day America. This interdisciplinary project explores the discursive intersection between the medical mémoire and the autobiographical memoir and traces the related shift from the intersex individual as a silent object of medical science to a speaking subject in charge of his/her self-representation. The shifting boundaries of the intersex body not only comment on gendered perceptions of individual identity buy also on the gendered construction of the body politic, which undergoes momentous changes from the French Revolution to the 21st century.
English “Cities, Suburbs, and the Borderlands Between: Portrayals of Social Space in Postwar Hollywood Cinema” Abstract: My fourth book is a study of the ways in which the popular narratives of Hollywood have portrayed 20th-century American social life. The book’s argument will be built from disciplines concerned with questions of spatiality, including literary and film theory, urban studies, geography, architecture, and art history. Its historical focus is on the tension and synergy between two kinds of 20th-century social space: large vertically organized modern cities and decentralized postmodern suburbs. Ranging across a variety of genres – crime and gangster sagas, futuristic science-fiction, teen comedies, and slasher horror – the book will explore how Hollywood narratives have responded to the new patterns of movement and behavior, the new political affiliations and domestic arrangements, which the evolving relationship between cities and suburbs have generated.
“My IPRH fellowship was an intellectually transformative experience. The rigorous but collegial exchange of ideas with scholars engaged in cutting-edge interdisciplinary research from across the University moved my work in new directions. Simply put, the IPRH stands as of one of the University’s greatest intellectual resources.” - Erik McDuffie, Gender and Women’s Studies/African American Studies and an IPRH Faculty Fellow 2010-11
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| I P RH fa c u lt y FELLO W S 2011-12 | Les l ie J . R eaga n
A n drea R . S te v e n s
History
English
“Agent Orange, Film, and Activism in the U.S. and Vietnam”
The Caroline Culture of Playgoing: Insider Theater in England, 1625-1642
Abstract: This project investigates Agent Orange’s effects on human health together with the bordercrossings and cultural creations inspired by Agent Orange fifty years after its first use. My project uncovers and analyzes a significant transnational movement that produces documentary films to address damages caused by Agent Orange following the U.S.-Vietnam War. Through the lenses of history, gender, cinema, and disability studies, I investigate the porous boundaries between the environment and bodies, how making war remakes bodies and produces responsibilities, the crossing of international borders by tourists and activists on behalf of Vietnamese “victims,” and the transnational circulation of film and information.
Abstract: My book proposes a revisionist history of Caroline drama that locates a distinctively Caroline dramatic culture informed by factors unique to the 1620s and 30s, including a boom market for printed plays; an escalating debate about the propriety of transvestite theater; an increasingly self-conscious understanding of spectatorship on the part of audiences; and heated debates about female acting. The particular aspect of the project I plan to focus on in the seminar considers the dramatic innovations of Queen Henrietta Maria.
| I P RH G r a d uat e S t u d e n t FELLO W S 2011-12 | Graduate Student Fellows receive a $10,000 stipend and a tuition and fee waiver from the IPRH. Two of the graduate fellowship recipients – Heidi Dodson and Kathryn Walkiewicz – have been designated as IPRH-Nicholson Fellows for 2011-12. The Nicholson Endowment is a gift of Grace W. Nicholson, who pursued undergraduate studies in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Professor Emeritus John A. Nicholson, a faculty member in the Philosophy Department at Illinois for 33 years. The Nicholson Endowment, which was established in 1999, provides support for the academic programs in LAS and excellence in the study of the humanities on campus.
T u ti n A r ya n ti
M atthew C rai n
Architecture
Institute of Communications Research
“(Un-)Breaking the Wall, Preserving the Barrier: Gender, Space, and Power in Contemporary Mosque Architecture in Java, Indonesia”
“Border Trouble: Reconfiguring Cultural Production in the Era of Digital Media Convergence”
Abstract: Opposing the presumption of the Islamic gendered space and its association with gender inequity in Muslim society, while critiquing the conventional mosque architectural historiography which overlooks women and their prayer space, this project investigates how Indonesian mosque architecture is influenced by and shapes Islamic gender ideology, as well as Muslim women’s endeavors in dealing with gendered boundaries in the patriarchal society. It employs a cross-disciplinary approach, combining poststructuralist architectural theory and postcolonial feminist theory with ethnography to look at religious spaces through women’s perspectives. This project demonstrates that boundaries are established, preserved, and challenged through social practices in which women themselves participate.
Abstract: This project chronicles how the advertising industry has reconfigured itself in the digital age with strong implications for the borders that regulate cultural expression online. Such borders are constructed materially through technology, but also socially and culturally via custom, signification, policy, and practice. Digital media convergence – the blurring of once distinctly bordered media forms – offers new prospects for critique and collaboration, but also threatens the privileged positions of entrenched cultural gatekeepers, especially the 20th-century commercial media and advertising complex. Ultimately, borders dictating cultural expression have been both transcended and reconstructed anew in the digital media environment.
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| I P RH G r a d uat e S t u d e n t FELLO W S 2011-12 H eidi D o ds o n I P R H - N i c h o ls o n F e llo w History “Constructing the Missouri Delta: Space and Place in African American Community Development and Activism, 1923-1978” Abstract: My project explores African American community building in the rural border South through the lens of territorial struggles over the built environment. Scholarship on Black community formation has overlooked strategies African Americans used to actively shape rural landscapes. During the 1920s over 15,000 African Americans migrated to the Missouri Delta, located at the nexus of the North, South, and West. Facing an unpredictable racial milieu, they negotiated borders of exclusion shaped by divergent white notions of rural space, but they also capitalized on this fluidity, constructing their own borders of autonomy and resistance through town-building and other spatial strategies.
A n n a l iese J ac o b s History “Companions: Knowledge, Intimacy, and Empire in British Arctic Exploration, 1818-1859” Abstract: My dissertation examines the networks of knowledge and intimacy crucial to early 19th-century British Arctic exploration. I focus on the complex web of “companions” – wives, indigenous guides, sailors, and brother officers – who navigated and narrated the Arctic from the 1820s to the 1850s. In the encounter with a harsh environment and extra-imperial space (as experienced and imagined), categories of race, class, and gender were unsettled, exposing the blurred boundaries between “public” and “private,” “civilized” and “savage.” As these encounters were routed through webs of intimacy, the polar regions came to be associated with imperial philanthropy in the public sphere.
M iriam K ie n l e Art History “Return to Sender: Ray Johnson and the New York Correspondence School, Mapping ‘Community at a Distance’”
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of its messages. Through collaged mailings, continually altered and circulated, Johnson and his collaborators explored referential modes of identity and asked us to consider what it means to formulate community in terms of distance rather than proximity. While calling attention to the physical borders between participants, they also stressed that the verb “borders” expresses ambivalence, demonstrating how one individual is “almost like” another.
A l e x a n dra M o b l e y Institute of Communications Research “A Secret History of Volleyball: American Team Sport and Rhetorics of Counter-Insurgency” Abstract: Narrowly defined, “borders” might specifically refer to the in-between of nation states, while “boundaries” figure into the rules of games. C.L.R. James studies the in-between of Trinidad and Great Britain and led cultural studies to a critical study of sport when he queries: “What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?” My project considers the “secret history” of volleyball in the American colonial state of the Philippines and its shared genealogy with U.S. counter-insurgent doctrine and scientific racism in order to disrupt the presumed borders between missionary and mercenary, civilized and savage, insurgent and counter-insurgent.
K athr y n W a l kiewic z I P R H - N i c h o ls o n F e llo w English “Wide Open Spaces: Place, Empire, and U.S.Indigenous Relations, 1817-1907” Abstract: My dissertation explores the changing borders of the U.S. nation-state throughout the 19th century. In particular, I explore how the practices of annexation and statehood served as the preferred scale for expansion and empirebuilding. My project looks at four key sites read as racially “other” but economically desirable by the U.S. – present-day Florida, Oklahoma, Hawaii, and Cuba. These locations, and the statehood debates that surrounded them, challenged the U.S. to determine who and what to include within its borders. I look at how print helped shape understandings of these places as exotic and desirable, but also threatening to the narratives of Manifest Destiny and U.S. empire.
Abstract: Although monographs traditionally draw borders around individual achievement, this project challenges that model. The “mail artist” Ray Johnson (1927-1995) began an international correspondence network in the 1950s that made the very correspondences between people the subject
“The IPRH truly supports interdisciplinarity and I am indebted to the beautiful community of Fellows who pushed my thinking and writing in creative ways. It was one of the most gratifying of grad school experiences. I have really appreciated this space to grow - unimpeded by disciplinary boundaries.” - Urmitapa Dutta, Psychology and an IPRH Graduate Student Fellow 2010-11
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NEH Summer Stipend application deadline, 5:00 p.m. Application guidelines can be found on the IPRH website.
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Faculty Grant/Fellowship Workshop 4:00 p.m., IPRH, Humanities Lecture Hall Participants: Dianne Harris, Christine Catanzarite, Nancy Abelmann (Associate Vice Chancellor for Research), Janelle K. Weatherford (Foundation Relations), and Nancy Castro (Foundation Relations)
27 Second Annual IPRH Distinguished Lecture: Antoinette Burton (History/Catherine C. and Bruce A. Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies) “The Body in/as World History” 4:30 p.m., Levis Faculty Center, Third Floor Opening Remarks: Lawrence B. Schook (Interim Vice President for Research) Moderator: Robert Warrior (American Indian Studies/ English/History) There will be a reception following the lecture. 29
Gallery Conversation: “Atomic Light and the Photography of Harold Edgerton” Kevin Hamilton (Art and Design/New Media), Ned O’Gorman (Communication), and Christine Catanzarite (IPRH/Cinema and Media Studies) 5:30 p.m., Krannert Art Museum Co-sponsored by Krannert Art Museum and IPRH
October 6 IPRH Film Series – The Lord Is Not on Trial Here Today 5:30 p.m., Krannert Art Museum, Room 62 Following the screening, there will be a discussion with the documentary’s award-winning director, Jay Rosenstein (Journalism). 7
Lecture: Eugene Wang (Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Harvard University) “How the Chinese Rediscovered the Moonlight in Early 20th Century” 3:00 p.m., Humanities Lecture Hall, IPRH Building Co-sponsored by the Center for Advanced Study and East Asian Languages and Cultures
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Lecture: Teddy Cruz (Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego) “Performing Neighborhoods: Creative Acts of Citizenship” 7:30 p.m., Levis Faculty Center, Third Floor
27 IPRH Film Series – No Country for Old Men 5:30 p.m., Krannert Art Museum, Room 62
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Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowships in the Humanities application deadline, 5:00 p.m. Application guidelines for these external fellowships can be found on page 33.
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Lecture: Gwendolyn Wright (Architecture, Columbia University; and co-host of the PBS series “History Detectives”) “‘History Detectives’ and Humanities Directives” 7:30 p.m., Levis Faculty Center, Third Floor
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IPRH Film Series – The Commitments 5:30 p.m., Krannert Art Museum, Room 62
5 Lecture: Rayvon Fouché (History, UI) “Game-Changer: Technology in Sports” 1:30 p.m., UIC Forum, 725 W. Roosevelt Avenue, Chicago Co-sponsored by the IPRH and the Chicago Humanities Festival For program details and ticket information, visit the Chicago Humanities Festival website (www.chfestival.org). 17 IPRH Film Series – Casablanca 5:30 p.m., Krannert Art Museum, Room 62 December 7
IPRH Faculty and Graduate Student Fellowship application deadline, 5:00 p.m. Application guidelines can be found on pages 34 and 35.
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IPRH Prizes for Research in the Humanities application/ nomination deadline, 5:00 p.m. Information about the application/nomination process can be found on page 32.
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Symposium: Empire from Below 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Chancellor Ballroom, I Hotel and Conference Center, 1900 South First Street, Champaign The symposium will feature keynote addresses by Marcus Rediker (Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History, University of Pittsburgh), Julia Clancy-Smith (History, University of Arizona), and Tony Ballantyne (History, University of Otago, New Zealand); and presentations by UI faculty. A complete schedule will be available on the IPRH website in early 2012. Symposium: Beyond Utopia 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Alma Mater Room, I Hotel and Conference Center Co-organized by the IPRH and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory A complete schedule will be available on the IPRH website in early 2012.
Please visit www.iprh.illinois.edu throughout the year for additions to this calendar of events. We invite you to join us on Facebook for updates and announcements of IPRH activities.
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| K n o w l e d g e i n t h e T i m e o f R e vo lu t i o n | As I write these lines in the middle of May, revolutions across what continues to be called, Eurocentrically, the Middle East are still in full swing. The exhilarating momentum that gathered rapidly from Tunisia to Egypt has slowed down considerably. The initial phase of overthrowing autocratic regimes in those two countries was successful, but as with similar revolutions, the more difficult and often the more problematic phase began soon afterwards. It was, after all, the French Revolution, the prototype of modern popular uprisings, which gave us the first regime of Terror in the modern period — terror being, as Terry Eagleton points out, first associated with state repression before it came to be attributed to violent insurgency. After the fall of Ben Ali and Mubarak, Tunisia and Egypt seem to have eluded that fate, but in Libya, Bahrain, Yemen, Syria, and before them all Iran in 2009, repressive regimes have employed terror to put down popular uprisings that began peacefully, leading in some cases to civil war. Meanwhile, inspired by the popular show of force in neighboring countries, unarmed Palestinian refugees who enacted a symbolic return to their lost homeland on the 63rd anniversary of their collective expulsion, an event known in Arabic as the Nakba (Disaster) and celebrated in Israel as Independence Day, were met with live Israeli Waïl Hassan
fire at the border, while Palestinian Israelis commemorating the same event are facing a new round of discriminatory laws aimed at further restricting their liberties and reinforcing their second-class citizen status. In the meantime, U.S. foreign policy in the region continues to falter with contradiction, double standards, and doublespeak, a
revolution of vision and methods nowhere in sight. It is the character of popular revolutions that their eruption can only be predicted with the 20/20 clarity of hindsight. That is, they appear, after the fact, to have been foreseeable, whereas before their occurrence they seemed almost unthinkable. For that reason, popular intifadas (as distinct from their top-down counterparts such as military coups and experiments in social engineering) tend to turn conventional wisdom upside down. They expose the limitations of the knowledge systems that failed to predict them. Some attempts to defend those systems deny the grassroots character of the uprisings, ascribing them instead to foreign interference. In every one of the cases mentioned above, the repressive regime blamed Iran or al-Qaida (or the U.S., in the case of Iran) for instigating revolt because it refuses to countenance the image of itself reflected in the mirror held up by the population it tries to keep under control. If it weren’t for the bloodshed entailed, the predictability of this reaction, which exposes the bankruptcy of the hegemonic paradigm in each case, would have been comical. In Egypt, that paradigm was exposed in some of the statements made by former intelligence chief-cum-Vice President Omar Suleiman’s candid declaration that Egyptians were not ready for democracy. More than a century earlier, Evelyn Baring Cromer had similarly argued that Egyptians were not fit for self-rule. And just as Mubarak stifled political life in the country, Cromer as the British colonial governor of Egypt (1883-1907) devised economic and educational policies aimed at ensuring its continuing dependence on Britain. The logic in both instances was derived from colonial discourse and its stereotypes of the colonized as backward, irrational, violent, and uncivilized fanatics who must be kept on a short leash in order to ensure “stability” (code word for continued repression in the service of foreign interests, coinciding in some cases with those of ruling elites). It was those stereotypes that Mubarak and his ilk marshaled in defense of their policies whenever their brutality embarrassed their democratic sponsors. Those were also the stereotypes of Arabs that for decades permeated public culture in the U.S., from Hollywood films to television, journalism, scholarship on the region, and foreign policy circles. It is no wonder, then, that when that discursive arrangement fell to pieces on our television screens during those weeks of collective fixation on the events in Tunis, Cairo, and elsewhere, what emerged in their place was the hitherto unthinkable construct of sophisticated, peaceful, freedom-loving Arabs. They enraptured news anchors, baffled experts and politicians, and panicked every regime in the Middle East, except perhaps for Turkey.
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Could it also be that, aside from the discrediting of entrenched anti-Arab stereotypes, another reason for the fascination with Arab revolutions in the U.S. is that the sight of long-oppressed populations rising up to assert their agency resonated deeply in a society where people vote in free elections but nonetheless feel powerless vis-à-vis the economic crisis, spiraling unemployment, powerful special interest groups dictating policy, and the Washington establishment? Evidence from the Right and the Left seems to suggest it. Wasn’t the so-called Tea Party movement animated at least partially by the spirit of popular revolt? And Wisconsin strikers who carried signs that said “Walk like an Egyptian” humorously expressed their solidarity with protestors who occupied Tahrir Square. If, according to the IPRH Call for Proposals based on next year’s theme, revolution is “rapid transformation,” let us remember that other forms of profound change occur gradually. Let us also be wary of the fact that the idea of revolution tends to be bathed in the clear light of promise and progress: revolutions as the work of heroes and martyrs courageously defying a tyrannical power and toppling an unjust order. Some revolutions are anything but that – witness, for example, the corporatization of the university that has been steadily and surely lowering academic standards, commodifying knowledge, and crowding students into classrooms. The market logic that turns intellectuals into FTEs, departments into competing business ventures, and students into IUs (a euphemism for paying customers) – this, too, has been a revolution, a creeping and insidious paradigm shift, decades in the making and seemingly unstoppable. Whose interests does this new regime serve? Do Tunis and Liberation Square teach us anything about how to mount a counter-revolution? Waïl S. Hassan is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His most recent book, Immigrant Narratives: Orientalism and Cultural Translation in Arab American and Arab British Literature, is due this August from Oxford University Press.
| I P R H O N T H E W E B – www.i p r h.i l l i n o i s.e d u We also encourage you to follow us on Facebook. The IPRH website continues to undergo numerous upgrades and expansions, so that it can be a more comprehensive resource for IPRH activities and humanities-related announcements – and we invite you to visit the site regularly for updated information about the IPRH and its programs. You will find a detailed calendar of events; application guidelines and deadline information for our campus fellowship program, external Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowships in the Humanities, the Collaborative Research Project initiative, the IPRH Prizes for Research in the Humanities, and other opportunities. Additional materials will be added throughout the year, so please bookmark the site and check it regularly for new announcements and opportunities. In addition to details about upcoming events and application deadlines, the site features the following: IPRH Downloads – podcasts of lectures and panel discussions organized by the IPRH; video recordings of select events; and archives of past IPRH events IPRH Blog – a provocative collection of blog postings by members of the UI community, curated and edited each year by a faculty Blog Editor; our editor for 2010-11 (which is archived on our site) was Professor Lori Humphrey Newcomb of the English Department, and the Blog Editor for the new year is Professor Susan Davis of the Communication Department. External Opportunities – a wide-ranging list of resources for humanities-related funding, including visiting positions and residential fellowships; non-residential grants and virtual groups; library, archive, and museum funding; calls for papers; and other short- and long-term funding opportunities IPRH History – publications by past IPRH Faculty, Graduate Student, and Post-Doctoral Fellows; a roster of Fellows and Advisory Committee members from 1997 to the present; conferences, symposia, lectures, panel discussions, and arts initiatives organized by the IPRH; and other IPRH projects, from reading groups to collaborations with other campus units
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| g i v i n g to I P RH | We wish to thank the Friends of IPRH: David Prindable Vincent Buonanno Ruth Watkins Matti Bunzl Sharon Irish Dianne Harris Christine Catanzarite
Vincent Buonanno at “My Favorite Book” reception
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| FILM SERIES - Fa l l 2011 - B or d er s | All films will begin at 5:30 p.m. in Room 62, Krannert Art Museum From the instability of a remote Texas border town where a botched drug deal sets off a chain of events that challenge the characters’ sense of fate and circumstance, to the economic and social barriers that stand between a group of hopeful Dublin musicians and fame, to a contested Moroccan town during World War II that serves as the backdrop to a classic tale of romantic and political commitment – the IPRH annual theme of “borders” is at play in all of the films that will be shown this fall. We begin the year with a special presentation on October 6: UI journalism professor Jay Rosenstein’s much-heralded documentary, The Lord Is Not On Trial Here Today. The film – winner of two Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award, among its many honors – tells the story of a local woman whose 1945 lawsuit against the Champaign school district ultimately led to the Supreme Court decision that laid the foundation for the separation of church and state in U.S. public schools. That woman, Vashti McCollum, drew a line in the sand that continues to provide a constitutional border in the ongoing debates about religion and public life. We are delighted to announce that Rosenstein, who was awarded the 2011 IPRH Prize for Research in the Humanities for this film, will participate in a post-screening discussion of the film. Please join us for these films; the curtain goes up at 5:30 p.m. at the Krannert Art Museum, Room 62. I would like to thank Kathleen Harleman, Anne Sautman, and the Krannert staff for their ongoing generosity in hosting the series in their auditorium. Spring titles will be announced later this semester. And, as always, the film series is free and open to the public. -- Christine Catanzarite
October 6 | The Lord Is Not On Trial Here Today (2010, dir. Jay Rosenstein) Documentary, narrated by David Ogden Stiers; 56 min. One woman’s small gesture of protest on behalf of her son, who was bullied for not participating in mandatory religious instruction at school, ignites a debate that transforms the national law on the separation of church and state in public schools. This thoughtful, powerful documentary uses archival materials, personal interviews, and compelling storytelling to focus a lens on a critical but little-known moment in American history that had its roots in central Illinois. Following the screening, there will be a discussion with Jay Rosenstein, the film’s award-winning director and Associate Professor of Journalism at UI.
October 27 | No Country for Old Men (2007, dir. Joel and Ethan Coen) Vashti McCollum
Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin; 122 min. The sheriff in an increasingly violent west Texas border town happens upon the scene of a drug deal gone bad: several dead or dying men, and a satchel containing $2 million. When the sheriff takes the money, he finds himself engaged in a violent, convoluted chase with a dangerous hitman. The winner of the 2007 Academy Award for Best Picture, the Coen brothers’ version of Cormac McCarthy’s bestselling novel features terrific performances (Bardem also won an Oscar for his role as hitman Anton Chigurh), a blood-soaked landscape, and the familiar Coen theme of a man whose bad decision changes the course of his fate.
November 3 | The Commitments (1991, dir. Alan Parker) Starring Robert Arkins, Glen Hansard, Andrew Strong, Colm Meaney 118 min. Jimmy Rabbitte (Arkins), an out-of-work Dublin entrepreneur with big dreams, places a newspaper ad seeking musicians to create “the Jay Rosenstein
world’s hardest-working band” – and the responses lead him to an unlikely assortment of wedding singers, factory workers, and transit employees who unite around the buoyant American soul music of the 1960s and 1970s. From a shaky start to local success, the band lives out a rock and roll dream that enables them to envision life beyond the narrow confines of social class, race, and lowered expectations that define their bleak environment.
November 17 | Casablanca (1942, dir. Michael Curtiz) Starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains; 102 min. “I stick my neck out for nobody,” American expatriate Rick Blaine (Bogart) proclaims several times in this wartime Hollywood classic – but, each time he says it, he inches closer to taking sides in the fight for control of Vichy-dominated Casablanca. The cynical Rick once loved and lost the incandescent Ilsa Lund (Bergman), but now he is a nightclub owner trying to avoid commitment in the early days of World War II. And then, out of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into his. One of film history’s true masterpieces and a treasure trove of quotable lines and iconic scenes, Casablanca was named Best Picture of 1942.
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| I P RH y e a r i n r e v i e w 2010 -11 | SYMPOSIUM – MEMORY AND THE VISUAL Keynote Speakers: • Marita Sturken (Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU), “Visuality and the Memory of War: The Erasure of Iraq” • Lisa Saltzman (History of Art, Bryn Mawr), “Stages of Memory: Charlotte Salomon and Chantal Akerman in Berlin” • Erika Doss (American Studies, Notre Dame), “Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America” Campus Participants: Jonathan Ebel (Religion) Cara Finnegan (Communication) LAS Associate Dean for the Humanities Diane Musumeci, President Michael Hogan, and IPRH Director Dianne Harris
Elisabeth R. Friedman (Art History, Illinois State University) Philip Graham (English/Creative Writing) Martin J. Holland (Landscape Architecture) Kristine Nielsen (IPRH Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow) Anke Pinkert (Germanic Languages and Literatures) David Prochaska (History) Michael Rothberg (English/Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Initiative) Gabriel Solis (Music/African American Studies) Deke Weaver (Art and Design) Terri Weissman (Art History)
Antoinette Burton (History) introduces Robert Warrior
LECTURES • Robert Warrior (American Indian Studies/English/History, Illinois), First Annual IPRH Distinguished Lecture, “Beyond the Chief: Closed to the Public” • Heather Hyde Minor (Architecture, Illinois), My Favorite Book Lecture Series, “Wasting the Past: Piranesi’s Vision of History” • Ananya Roy (City and Regional Planning, Berkeley), “Making Poverty Capital: The Subprime Frontiers of Millennial Modernity” • Paula Treichler (Institute of Communications Research, Illinois), Chicago Humanities Festival, “The History of the Condom” • Jake Kosek (Geography, Berkeley), Climate Change and the Humanities Series and CAS Initiative on Knowing Animals, “The Nature of the Beast:
Mark Leff (History), Dale Bauer (English), and Cris Mayo (Educational Policy Studies/Odyssey Project Faculty Director)
On Honeybees and the Biopolitics of Terror” • Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Media Studies, Pomona College), IPRH-Illinois Informatics Initiative Digital Humanities Lecture, “The Future of Authorship: Scholarly Writing in the Digital Age” • David Theo Goldberg (Comparative Literature, UC Irvine), “The Afterlife of the Humanities: Posthumanities and Public Reason”
PANEL DISCUSSIONS • Teaching Odyssey • Graduate Studies at the University of Illinois (co-sponsored with the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory)
Ananya Roy
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IPRH FILM SERIES Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control Night of the Living Dead Thirteen Conversations About One Thing Rear Window After Hours Avalon
W OR K SHOPS Faculty Grant/Fellowship Writing Workshop Graduate Student Grant/Fellowship Writing Workshop (co-sponsored with the Graduate College) Pathways to Funding in the Digital Humanities (co-sponsored with the
Ted Underwood (English) introduces Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research) Writing a Successful NEH Proposal, conducted by Jane Aikin (Director of Research Programs, NEH) Turning Your Dissertation into a Book
OSHER LIFELON G LEARNIN G INSTITUTE COURSE “How Humanists Define Our World” – Spring 2011 The course featured presentations by Nile Blunt, Christine Catanzarite, Urmitapa Dutta, Sarah Frohardt-Lane, Patricia Goldsworthy-Bishop, Dianne Harris, Elizabeth Hoiem, and Cory Holding.
IPRH Prizes for Research in the Humanities reception
IPRH Opening Reception
Jane Aikin, Director of Research at the National Endowment for the Humanities, conducts a faculty workshop
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| 2010-2011 P o s t- D o c to r a l F e l l o w s | Jeff Drouin Drouin’s work as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at the IPRH and I3 began with new research exploring the use of topic modeling and network visualization to find innovative ways of reading Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu. He discussed the preliminary results of this work in a lecture hosted by the Department of French, which was titled “Digital Methods for Literary Criticism: Proust, Illustration, and the Archive.” As his methods improved and he learned more about digitally enhanced text analysis, Drouin developed a second lecture, “Social Network Analysis as a Method for Literary Criticism: Associative Paths in Proust and Novel Texts,” given at the biennial conference of the Society for Textual Scholarship at Penn State. During the fall he received a contract from Routledge for the book based on his dissertation, which is titled James Joyce, Science, and Modernist Print Culture: “The Einstein of English Fiction.” In June he gave a plenary address based on the book to the 2011 North American James Joyce Conference at the Huntington Library in Los Angeles. This fall, Drouin begins an appointment as Assistant Professor of English, with specialization in Digital Humanities and Jeff Drouin
20th-Century Literature, at the University of Tulsa. Course Taught: France and Modernist Magazines: International Publishing Networks and the Avant-Garde (French Department, cross-listed with English, Comparative and World Literature, and GSLIS)
K RISTINE NIELSEN In 2010-11 Nielsen published two book chapters – “Quid pro Quo: Assessing the Value of Berlin’s Thälmann Monument,” in Art Outside the Lines: New Perspectives on GDR Art Culture, edited by Elaine Kelly and Amy Wlodarski. Volume 74 of the German Monitor Series (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2011), and “What Ever Happened to Ernst Barlach? East German Political Monuments and the Art of Resistance,” in Totalitarian Art and Modernity, edited by Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen and Jacob Wamberg (Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2010). She co-organized and delivered a paper at the IPRH symposium “Memory and the Visual”, presented at UI’s Modern Art Colloquium, and was the keynote speaker for Illinois State University’s graduate symposium, Writing With Images. Nielsen was also the recipient of a research grant from the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, CA, and was a Fellow at the Stone Summer Theory Institute at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Kristine Nielsen
After conducting summer research in Germany for her book project, Nielsen plans to continue writing and polishing her ideas using the primary source material and presentations of work-in-progress at conferences. This fall she will give papers at the German Studies Association and at the Nomadikon conference, “Image=Gesture,” in Bergen, Norway. Currently Nielsen has four articles under review and will be seeking a publisher for her book manuscript this year. During the academic year 2011-12, she will teach a graduate course as well as the Senior Seminar in Art History, “Iconoclasm and the Monstrous,” ARTH 495. Courses Taught: Visual Culture & Totalitarianism (GER 396), Germanic Languages and Literatures History, Memory & Monuments in Twentieth-Century Europe (HIST 396), History,
PATRICIA G OLDS W ORTHY- B ISHOP During her year as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Goldsworthy-Bishop focused on revising her dissertation into a manuscript and on expanding her analysis of Moroccan photographers, particularly Moroccan Jews, in the colonial photography industry. She also began research on a new chapter that examines the Patricia Goldsworthy-Bishop
circulation and reappropriation of colonial-era photography and tropes in post-colonial Morocco. Goldsworthy-Bishop gave talks at the Arts Council of the African Studies Association Triennial Symposium, the Center for African Studies at UI, and the History Workshop. She served on the program
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committee for the History Department’s annual Women’s and Gender History Symposium, and acted as a panel chair at the conference. With Antoinette Burton, Dianne Harris, and Christine Catanzarite, she began planning the IPRH spring 2012 symposium, “Empire from Below.” In fall 2011, Goldsworthy-Bishop will begin her new position as Assistant Professor of Middle East and Transnational European History at Western Oregon University. Courses Taught: Colonial Practices and Representations (HIST 498), History Europe Since 1939, Special Topic: France and the World (HIST 354), History
| I P RH P r i z e s f o r R e s e a r c h i n t h e H u m a n i t i e s 2010-11 W i n n e r s | The IPRH celebrated the faculty and graduate student recipients of the 2010-11 IPRH Prizes for Research in the Humanities at an award reception on Wednesday, April 27 in the Humanities Lecture Hall.
FACULTY PRI Z ES Winner: Jay Rosenstein (Journalism) The Lord Is Not on Trial Here Today, the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning documentary that was broadcast on national PBS in May Jay Rosenstein
Honorable Mention: Gabriel Solis (Music) “’I Did It My Way’: Rock and the Logic of Covers,” published in Popular Music and Society 33/3 (July 2010): 297-318 L. Elena Delgado (Spanish, Italian and Portuguese) “The Sound and the Red Fury: The Sticking Points of Spanish Nationalism,” published in the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 11.3 (2010), 263-276
G RADUATE STUDENT PRI Z ES Gabriel Solis
Winner: Daniel Brant (French) “Images of Empire: Colonial Cartographic Cinema in Interwar France,” written for CINE 503: Historiography of Cinema in fall 2010 Honorable Mention: Jeremy Wear (English) “The Semiotics of Discovery: Displaced ‘Truth’ in the Travel Narratives of William Dampier,” written for ENG 591:Research in Special Topics in fall 2010
L. Elena Delgado
Dianne Harris, Christine Catanzarite, and Daniel Brant
Jeremy Wear
Dianne Harris and Christine Catanzarite
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| c o l l a b o r at i v e r e s e a r c h p r o j e c t s - 2010-11 Y e a r in R e v iew | The IPRH introduced the Collaborative Research Projects, a new faculty funding initiative, in fall 2010, and awarded support to four interdisciplinary faculty groups. We are proud to look back on the exciting projects that were organized by these groups in the first year of the Collaborative Research Projects. The Internationalization of U of I Undergraduates: Conceptualizing a Transforming University
Keynote Speakers: • Richard Taruskin (Berkeley), “Shostakovich: Some Post-Centennial Reflections” • Simon Morrison (Princeton University), “Ghosts” • Laurel Fay (independent scholar), “Thinking about Shostakovich” Atomic Light in the Public Light: Viewing America’s Nuclear Test Films
A spring 2011 speaker series designed to help students, faculty, and UI citizens A series of screenings and related panel discussions, which highlight the make sense of the quite sudden internationalization of our undergraduate growing archive of declassified Nuclear Test Films produced under the student body. The series spotlights the UI as a university on the forefront in
auspices of the Atomic Energy Commission and earlier agencies during the
asking how and whether the American university will need to change, from its
height of the Cold War.
ethos to its curriculum and organization.
Project leaders: Kevin Hamilton (Art and Design), Ned O’Gorman (Communi-
Project leaders: Nancy Abelmann (Anthropology/East Asian Languages and
cation), and Colin Flint (Geography)
Cultures), Rakesh Bhatt (Linguistics), Nick Burbules (Educational Policy Studies),
Panel Discussions:
Tim Cain (Educational Organization and Leadership), Fred Davidson (Linguistics), Kristin Hoganson (History), Esther Kim Lee (Theatre/Asian American Studies), Soo Ah Kwon (Asian American Studies), Adrienne Lo (Anthropology), Peter Mortensen (English), Kent Ono (Asian American Studies/Media and Cinema Studies), Yoon Pak (Educational Policy Studies), and Cathy Prendergast (English).
• The Mushroom Cloud and the Cinematic Imaginary • Drawing The Unknown: Graphics & Early Space Science – featuring Megan Prelinger, (co-founder, Prelinger Library) • Lookout Mountain Laboratories : Hollywood’s Secret Film Studio – featuring Dr. Byron Ristvet (Defense Threat Reduction Agency),
Speakers:
who worked as a scientist on many of the tests and has first-hand
• Katharyne Mitchell (Geography, University of Washington), “Mapping
knowledge of film’s role in the projects; and Peter Kuran (Visual Concept
to Manage: Risk, Race, and the Future”
Entertainment), who has led award-winning efforts to restore and
• Professor Paul Kramer (History, Vanderbilt University), “Is the World our
publicize these historic films.
Campus? International Students and U. S. Global Power in the Long Twentieth Century” • Paul Kei Matsuda (English and Applied Linguistics, Arizona State University), “Working with Global Citizens in Your Classroom” • Vanessa Fong (Graduate School of Education, Harvard University), “Paradise Redefined: Chinese Students, Transnational Migration, and the Quest for Citizenship in the Developed World” Shostakovich: The Quartets in Context A two-day symposium on February 21-22, 2011, that developed a scholarly
Race, Region, and Sexual Diasporas A spring 2011 speaker series accompanied by a faculty and graduate student reading group on topics that consider the subject of race, region, and sexual diasporas in locales beyond the midwest. Project leaders: Martin F. Manalansan IV (Anthropology/Asian American Studies), Chantal Nadeau (Gender and Women’s Studies), Richard T. Rodriguez (English/Latina and Latino Studies), Siobhan B. Somerville (English/ Gender and Women’s Studies)
program around the Pacifica Quartet’s performance of the complete Shosta-
Speakers:
kovich cycle at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. The program
• Bill Johnson-Gonzalez (English, DePaul University), “Emerging Queer
featured keynote addresses by external scholars, participation by UI faculty in
and Queer-Friendly Latina/o Filmmakers in Chicago” a wide variety of related departments, and the Pacifica Quartet’s performance • Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley (English/African American & African on February 22. (Note: Select events from the symposium are available on Studies, University of Minnesota) the IPRH website as podcasts.)
‘“To Create Beyond Need’: Black Feminism, Caribbean (Trans)Gender,
Project leaders: Michael Finke (Slavic), Donna Buchanan (Musicology/
and the Work of the Imagination’
Anthropology), Karl Kramer (Music), Harriet Murav (Slavic/Comparative and
• Eithne Luibhéid (Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Arizona),
World Literatures), Carl Niekerk (Germanic Languages and Literatures), and
“Rethinking ‘Illegal’ Immigration Through Queer Theories”
Maureen Reagan (KCPA).
“The IPRH seminar produced such an organic, potent scholarly environment I often find myself catching bits of inspiration for my own work during sessions devoted to research far afield from my own. IPRH offered me the time and space to evaluate the broad significance of my work in ways that prepared me for the job market.” - Kwame Holmes, History and a Nicholson-IPRH Graduate Student Fellow 2010-11
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| W o r l d w i t h o u t h u m a n i t i e s - St u d ent Vi d eo C onte s t | The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory collaborated in 2010-11 on a student video contest organized around the theme “World without Humanities.” The prize-winning entry, “Losing the Human Condition,” was submitted by undergraduate collaborators Andrew McFadden (a junior in Industrial Engineering), Christina Tarn and Allison Reitz (both juniors in Music Composition), and Sarah Hubbard (a junior in English Education). The $500 prize was shared by the creators of “Losing the Human Condition.” The full video can be viewed on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkwCxTl7x8U. The World without Humanities contest invited students from all departments and colleges at the University of Illinois to create short videos that dramatized a world without the humanities and arts. The announcement of the competition invited students to “imagine a world without ancient and modern languages, or philosophy, or the study of history and anthropology, literature, or the visual and performing arts. Now, imagine a university without programs dedicated to these subjects.” The contest was designed to celebrate the ways in which the humanities and arts teach us how to interpret
Dianne Harris presents prize to the creators of the winning entry, Christina Tarn, Andrew McFadden, Allison Reitz, and Sarah Hubbard.
people, societies, artifacts, and events; interrogate the nature of truth and beauty; contemplate justice; and explore the ethical obligations humans bear toward each other and the world. The entries were judged on their overall persuasion and impact, their originality in addressing the topic, and their consistency with the goals of the “World without Humanities” project. An Honorable Mention recognition was made to Ilana Strauss (junior, Media Studies) for her entry “Dirges in the Dark.” “We were very pleased to see the creative responses to our call for entries for this competition. It is clear that many students on our campus truly value and understand the importance of the humanities and arts to their education, to their daily lives, and to their future as global citizens,” said Dianne Harris, Director of the IPRH. Lauren Goodlad, Director of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, said, “We know that Illinois students are wonderfully creative and adept at using digital media to express their views – including their sense of the importance of the arts and humanities. One of the most powerful features of the winning entry was the interdisciplinary collaboration of students in
Honorable Mention recipient Ilana Strauss
engineering, the humanities, and the performing arts. We could not ask for a better statement of the continuing need to integrate high-level humanities and arts teaching in multiple ways in the undergraduate education offered at the University of Illinois.”
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| T h e O dy s s e y P r o j e c t |
The Odyssey graduating class of 2011
The Odyssey Project completed its fifth year in spring 2011.
ing Studies), critical thinking and writing.
Since fall 2006, the Odyssey Project has offered a free,
In summer 2010, using funds from a Community Informat-
college-accredited course in the humanities to members of
ics Initiative Seed Grant, and in partnership with Urbana
the Champaign-Urbana community who fall at or near the
Adult Education, the Odyssey Project was able to offer a
poverty level. The yearlong course offers students intensive
Summer Computer Literacy course for Odyssey alumni
study in philosophy, art history, literature, U.S. history, and
and incoming students. Fifteen students participated in
critical thinking and writing. Classes are taught by University
the program. The course was conducted in eight sessions
of Illinois faculty and take place every Tuesday and Thursday
over four weeks, and topics ranged from keyboarding to
from September to May at the Douglass Branch Library in
the Microsoft Programs suite. The university’s CITES office
Champaign. Tuition is free, as are books, transportation, and
generously provided technical support for the course, along
childcare.
with the loan of fifteen computers for use in the classroom.
The Odyssey Project is made possible by the generous financial and institutional support of the Office of the Chancellor, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the Illinois Humanities Council. Thirty-five students were accepted for the class that began in fall 2010. Seven students graduated with full credit for the yearlong course, and an additional twelve students graduated with at least half credit. Students who complete the course receive six transferable humanities credits. Several students have continued their education beyond Odyssey at the University of Illinois and Parkland College. Ester Godia, the co-valedictorian of the 2010-11 class, will continue her
The Summer Computer Literacy Course was held again in summer 2011 at the Douglass Branch Library. The Odyssey Project maintains a wiki, which can be found online at http://theodysseyprojectcu.wikispaces.com/ . The site contains a wide variety of information about the course, including student work and reflections, news articles about Odyssey, an informational video, and application materials. Teaching Odyssey in 2011-12 Cris Mayo (Educational Policy Studies/Gender and Women’s Studies, and the Faculty Director of Odyssey), philosophy
studies this fall at the University of Denver.
Spencer Schaffner (English/Writing Studies), literature
Instructors for 2010-11 were Odyssey Faculty Director Cris
Kathryn Oberdeck (History), U.S. history
Mayo (Educational Policy Studies/Gender and Women’s
Jennifer Burns (Art and Design), art history
Studies), philosophy; Cara Finnegan (Communication),
Michael Burns (Ph.D. candidate in English/Writing Studies,
art history; Spencer Schaffner (English/Writing Studies),
and the Graduate Student Coordinator of Odyssey), critical
literature; Mark Leff (History), U.S. history; and Odyssey
thinking and writing
Graduate Student Coordinator Michael Burns (English/Writ-
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The Education Justice Project (EJP) continues to offer University of Illinois classes to men incarcerated at Danville Correctional Center, a men’s state penitentiary thirty-five miles east of campus, and to expand its educational offerings at the prison. In 2010-11, in addition to courses such as “The Holocaust in Postwar Memory and Popular Literature,” “History of Race in the United States,” and “Russian Revolution,” EJP sponsored guest lectures, started a math workshop series, and piloted an English as a Second Language program. One highlight of EJP’s past year was “Higher Education in Prison: Strategies for Action,” a national symposium on correctional higher education that brought together over one hundred prison educators from across the U.S. and Canada. Over three days in October 2010, they attended panels on topics such as funding prison education, program evaluation, and inter-agency collaboration. Participants also sat in on evening courses at Danville prison, where they met with EJP students and shared information about their respective programs. At the last session, EJP agreed to host a prison education listserv that continues to connect symposium participants and a growing number of prison educators, researchers, and activists. EJP’s plans for the coming year include continuing a feasibility study that explores the possibilities for creating a sustainable, productive landscape at the prison that also serves as educational laboratory (this work is funded in part by the Illinois Department of Commerce), expanding its ESL program, and offering classes from departments across campus, including History, Linguistics, and Theater.
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The IPRH theme for the 2012-13 academic year will be “Revolution.” Rapid transformation – whether of political, economic, and/or social systems, or of intellectual frameworks and the environment – is a periodic constant throughout history. Whether achieved peacefully or through cataclysmic upheaval, revolutions shape the past, both near and distant. Although we may typically consider them in the context of the public sphere, revolutions can also take place in the private realm, including that of the individual psyche. The remnants of revolution may appear to us in material, textual, or visual form, or through cultural shifts that remain invisible, yet distinctively palpable. Revolutions may result in pervasive change, or in more subtle yet powerful transformations. Whether they relate to the body politic or to the human body itself, revolutions imply the kinds of profound changes that make worlds anew. The IPRH welcomes applications from all disciplines and departments with an interest in humanities and humanities-inflected research. We seek faculty and graduate students in a wide variety of areas of humanistic inquiry whose projects reflect on the question of revolution in its various interpretations. The topic also provides an opportunity for artists to consider the relevance of revolution in their creative practice.
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| Ab o u t t h e IPRH E x p e r i e n c e | TIM CAIN This year was the first without a theme for IPRH, but I still came to think of the experience in terms of themes, including those from previous years. As Fellows met to discuss each others’ writing, ideas of cities, representation, and disciplinarity often came to the fore. We talked about Detroit, Washington, Chicago, and Berlin — and also about movement to, from, and within cities. We talked about political representation, artistic representation, and the representation of self, including how they converge in sculpture, photography, writing, signage, and ritual. We talked about disciplinary norms, digital humanities, and field-specific standards of evidence. The questions we asked of each other often revealed our own disciplinary perspectives but, in doing so, allowed us to think across them. Though these and other former themes were apparent, to me, IPRH epitomized “spaces.” On one level, the works we read involved spaces: wide-open spaces in Montana, contested spaces along the Mississippi River, digital spaces for finding community. On another level, IPRH was a physical space that offered an escape from the distractions of my main office. I expected to use that space to focus on my writing and knew from the start that I would benefit from the writing feedback that my IPRH colleagues would offer. As it turned out, I benefited even more than I had expected from reading and talking about the other Ffellows’ writings. Our yearlong conversation about audience, structure, and argument made me re-think how I approach my work and how I organize my thoughts, marshal evidence, and tell the stories I am trying to tell. More surprisingly, the seminars made me reflect on teaching by providing valuable models for offering
Tim Cain, 2010-11 Faculty Fellow
prompts, posing questions, inviting multiple voices, and giving feedback. So much more than a space to get away and write, IPRH was a physical and intellectual space to connect. As one who undertakes historical work in a professional school, I was especially fortunate to have that space and those connections. I am certain that next year’s participants will recognize their own themes and find their own spaces. I hope that their experiences are as valuable as I found mine to be.
J EF f DROUIN Since no one knows yet what the digital humanities really are, the IPRH and I3 provided the perfect environment in which to produce some work that would help to etch out a corner of this very new and fast-growing field. An essential component to all humanities inquiries is an openness to discovery – and failure. The diversity of the IPRH’s intellectual environment ensured that the pinpointing of any apparent weakness would be followed immediately by a creative suggestion. This was nowhere more apparent than in the Fellows’ Seminar, where we regularly met to discuss each other’s work in the light of our disparate disciplinary frameworks. Not only did my own work benefit from the Fellows’ comments, but having the privilege to get involved with theirs shaped the way I conceived of my own project. Since my work with Proust, ecclesiastical architecture, and digital media was a sideshow to my dissertation, I had a very steep learning curve when I arrived in Champaign-Urbana last summer. The people at I3 and ICHASS were extraordinarily helpful in pointing me toward technologies that would further my inquiries. And more importantly, they themselves were doing things I could never have imagined. The excitement of being in such an environment of discovery inspired me to move beyond what I had already imagined as the limits of my discipline. This, it turns out, is the essence of digital humanities, which has a knack for incorporating the radically unexpected with traditional subject matters. Digital humanities work tends to be data-driven and socially interactive. As our cultural and academic values Jeff Drouin, 2010-11 IPRH/I3 Digital Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellow
become increasingly less private, the contemplative space of traditional humanist thought becomes ever smaller. For that reason, perhaps the most important gift this year was an office in the IPRH building which provided that all-important protected space for contemplation, or for staring at the leaves of grass below.
“Time and space to work and the measured company of brilliant, supportive, committed colleagues – what more could a scholar want? The IPRH is all this and more, and we as a community are the richer for it!” - Tamara Chaplin, History and an IPRH Faculty Fellow 2010-11
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Robert Warrior presents the 2010 IPRH Distinguished Lecture
Jake Kosek
Audience members participate in post-lecture discussion
Turning Your Dissertation Into a Book
Marita Sturken delivers the keynote address at “Memory and the Visual� symposium Ananya Roy lecture audience members
Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Jane Desmond (Anthropology) introduces Jake Kosek
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I P RH at t h e C h i c a g o H u m a n i t i e s F e s t i va l |
Chicago Humanities Festival November 2 – November 13 in venues around downtown Chicago Theme 2011: tech•knowledge Tickets go on sale on September 6 to CHF members, and September 19 to the general public. The full schedule and ticket details can be found online at www.chicagohumanities.org. The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities is honored to partner with the CHF to co-sponsor the following lecture by UI History Professor Rayvon Fouché: Rayvon Fouché , Associate Professor, History
R ay v o n F o u c h é Game-Changer: Technology in Sports Saturday, November 5 1:30 – 2:30 p.m., UIC Forum (725 W. Roosevelt Road, Chicago) How many football games have been decided through instant replay? How many world records were smashed when swimmers started wearing full-body suits? How much faster is tennis today than in the glory days of Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe? We don’t always see them, but technological developments are everywhere in sports, and they continually change the games we love. Professor Fouché discusses his research on technology and athletics, and technology’s influence on the past, present, and future of sports. Rayvon Fouché is an Associate Professor of History at UI. As a cultural historian of technological invention and innovation, Professor Fouché explores the multiple intersections and relationships between cultural representation, racial identification, and technological design.
We are also pleased to announce the following event featuring UI President Michael Hogan. (Please note that it takes place earlier on the same day and in the same location as the lecture by Professor Fouché. Ticket information can be found on the CHF website.)
University of Illinois President Michael Hogan
M i c h a e l H o g a n (President, University of Illinois) C a t h y D a v i d s o n (National Council on the Humanities/Literature, Duke University) The State of the Humanities Saturday, November 5 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon, UIC Forum (725 W. Roosevelt Road, Chicago)
“The IPRH has been an extremely important resource and gathering place for me since my arrival at UIUC. The discussions and conversations fostered under the IPRH roof consistently left me more energized in pursuing my own research and excited about the knowledge being created around me.” - Ryan Griffis, Art and Design and an IPRH Faculty Fellow 2010-11
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| READIN G G ROUPS 2011-12 | The following faculty and graduate student reading groups meet regularly throughout the year and may organize public events on topics of interest to a broad range of disciplines. Descriptions of the groups and their activities can be found on the IPRH website. Please contact the reading group organizers (listed below) directly for more information about the groups and their activities. British Modernities
Hygienic East Asia
Contact: Julie McCormick, English (mccormi5@illinois.edu)
Contact: Mark Frank, East Asian Languages and Cultures (me-
Civilization
frank2@illinois.edu)
Contacts: David O’Brien, Art History (obrien1@illinois.edu) and
Japanese Film Reading Group
Dana Rabin, History (drabin@illinois.edu)
Contact: A. Colin Raymond, East Asian Languages and Cultures
The contemporary mind-sciences: implications for the humanities and interpretive theory Contacts: Melissa Littlefield, English/Kinesiology and Community Health (mml@illinois.edu) and Bruce Michelson, English/Campus Honors Program (brucem@illinois.edu) Dance, Landscape, and Space Outs Contact: Jennifer Monson, Dance (jmonson@illinois.edu) Digital Literacies Contacts: Amber Buck, English (abuck2@illinois.edu) and Jon Stone, English (jwstone2@illinois.edu)
(araymon2@illinois.edu) Labor and Working Class History Contacts: Heidi Dodson, History (hdodson2@illinois.edu) and James Barrett, History (jrbarret@illinois.edu ) Language and Social Interaction Contact: Andrea Golato, Germanic Languages and Literatures (golato@illinois.edu) Mass Incarceration Contact: James Kilgore, Center for African Studies (jjincu@ gmail.com)
Dynamics of Language Variation and Change
Medicine/Science
Contacts: Anna María Escobar, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
Contacts: Jillian Klean Zwilling, Communications (jzwilli2@
(aescobar@illinois.edu) and Zsuzsana Fagyal, French (zsfagyal@
illinois.edu) and Leslie J. Reagan, History (lreagan@illinois.edu)
illinois.edu) Early Lacan: Seminars and Commentary Contacts: Michael Wassell, Philosophy (mwassel2@uiuc.edu) and Michael Uhall, Philosophy, (uhall2@illinois.edu) East European Reading Group (EERG) Contact: Steven Del Corso, History (delcors1@illinois.edu) Energy Policy in Illinois Contacts: Kate Brown, Building Research Council (cbrown4@ illinois.edu) and Teresa Giardina, Smart Energy Design Assistance Center (giardin3@illinois.edu) Experimental pragmatics Contacts: Casey Coughlen, Linguistics (ccoughle@illinois.edu) and Nikos Vergis, Linguistics (vergis1@illinois.edu)
Narrative tellings, retellings and remediations: Readings on situated discourse practice Contacts: Julie Hengst, Speech and Hearing Science (hengst@ illinois.edu) and Paul Prior, English/Writing Studies (pprior@ illinois.edu) Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow Contact: James Kilgore, Center for African Studies (jjincu@ gmail.com) Rhetorical Studies Contact: Cara Finnegan, Communication (caraf@illinois.edu) Russian Studies Circle Contacts: Mark Steinberg, History (steinb@illinois.edu) and Lilya Kaganovsky, Comparative and World Literature/Slavic (lilya@ illinois.edu)
Global Health Interest Group Contacts: Stephanie Rieder, Sociology (sriede2@illinois.edu) and Francisco Guerra, Biophysics (fguerr4@illinois.edu)
“I have found the IPRH and its seminars to be wonderfully transdisciplinary in nature and fundamentally interested in fostering an academic milieu where ideas are not fixed in place. I have benefited greatly from this intellectually nurturing setting.” - Kristine Nielsen, Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Humanities 2010-12
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IN M e m o r i a m - L awrence R . Schehr | Lawrence R. Schehr, Professor of French, Comparative Literature, Gender and Women’s Studies, Jewish Studies, and Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois, died on June 30, 2011. The several appointments he held on campus testify to the breadth of his academic interests ranging from critical theory to gay, queer, and gender studies, and from narrative praxis to cultural studies. A brilliant and prolific scholar and an efficient administrator, Larry was known for his personal warmth, boundless energy, and unrivaled organizational skills. He authored nine books; co-edited two more; published two book-length translations from the French; edited a dozen special issues of journals, both in the U.S. and in France; and wrote more than a hundred articles and book reviews. He held visiting appointments in France, Québec, the United Kingdom, Thailand and Australia, and had some degree of proficiency in fourteen languages. In 2001, the French government awarded him the prestigious title of Chevalier de l’ordre des palmes académiques for his contribution to French culture and education in the United States. Larry Schehr received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. He wrote his dissertation on authorial issues in Stendhal, Balzac, and Flaubert under the direction of René Girard, and his involvement with narrative realism never stopped, even though he later pursued several other research interests. He came to Illinois a decade ago from North Carolina State University, where he had served as Head of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, home to more than sixty faculty and thirteen different language programs. It did not take long for Illinois to recognize his administrative abilities, and he served as Director of the Mellon
Lawrence R, Schehr, IPRH Faculty Fellow 2001-02
Grant program and Associate Dean for the Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and later as Director of the Program in Comparative and World Literature. In the eleven years he spent at Illinois, he organized eight conferences, two of them major international colloquia in 19th and 20th century French Studies. Larry’s conferences were renowned for the quality of the papers presented and the flawless organization of events, from hotel accommodations to meals and musical performances. Larry was a friend and mentor to countless colleagues in French and Francophone studies and other disciplines. He held several leadership positions in the Modern Language Association and the Midwest Modern Language Association. He organized and chaired more than forty sessions in professional meetings, and served on several editorial boards. As Editor of Contemporary French Civilization, which he turned into one of the major journals in his field, he played a crucial role in shaping intellectual agendas, taking the discipline in new, fruitful directions. His genuine interest in the careers of others, his comprehensive knowledge of the field, the high standards he set for scholarly research made him one of the most accomplished figures in our profession. Larry’s passing is an enormous loss to the humanities community and he is already sorely missed, as a person, a scholar, and a leader. Jean-Philippe Mathy is Professor of French and Comparative Literature.
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| PU B LICATIONS a n d P r o j e c t s BY HUMAN I T I ES FACULT Y
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The IPRH is proud to share this list of select publications by Illinois humanities faculty produced during the past year. A more detailed list appears on our website – and we invite faculty whose work does not appear here to contact us with the relevant information, so we can add those publications to our online archive. Maimouna Barro, Center for African Studies Maimouna Barro. “Trans-nationalizing the African Public Sphere: What Role for Trans-border Languages?” In Africa Development, Vol. XXXV, Nos 1 & 2, 2010, pp. 55 - 70. (c) Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2010.
Antoinette Burton, History Antoinette Burton. Empire in Question: Reading, Writing and Teaching British Imperialism (Duke University Press, 2011). Antoinette Burton. “’Every Secret Thing?’ Racial Politics in Ansuyah R. Singh’s Behold the Earth Mourns,” Journal of Commonwealth Literature 46, 1 (2011): 63-81. Antoinette Burton. “The Sodalities of Bandung: Toward a Critical 21st Century History,” in Christopher J. Lee, Making a World After Empire: The Bandung Movement and its Political Afterlives (Ohio University Press, 2010), pp. 351-61.
Tamara Chaplin, History Tamara Chaplin, “Orgasm without Limits: May ‘68 and the History of Sex Education in Modern France,” in Julian Jackson, et. al, May ‘68: Rethinking France’s Last Revolution (London: Palgrave, 2011). Tamara Chaplin, “Philosophy on Television: Impossible Dream,” in Esteu a punt per a la televisió? Exhibition Catalogue of the special installation, Are you ready for TV? Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (Barcelona, MACBA, 2011) 34-46.
Elliot Chasanov, Music Elliot Chasanov. Establishment of The Elliot Chasanov Brass Music series, Metropolis Music Publishers. Bournem, Belgium (1/1/11), Including arrangements and transcriptions for brass quintet, brass choir, trombone ensemble, and solo brass instruments with piano.
Robert Cummins, Philosophy Robert Cummins. The World in the Head. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2010.
Kenneth Cuno, History Kenneth M. Cuno, co-editor, Race and Slavery in the Middle East: Histories of Trans-Saharan Africans in 19th-Century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean. With Terence Walz. Cairo and New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2010. Kenneth M. Cuno, “African Slaves in Nineteenth-Century Rural Egypt: A Preliminary Assessment,” in Race and Slavery in the Middle East: Histories of Trans-Saharan Africans in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean, ed. Terence Walz and Kenneth M. Cuno (Cairo and New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2010), 77-98.
Jane Desmond, Anthropology/Gender and Women’s Studies Jane Desmond, Sonia Torres eds. “Looking North: Latin American Perspectives on the United States in International Perspective,” Special issue Transit Circle: Journal of the Brazilian American Studies Association, vol. 7 (2010). Jane Desmond. “Orientalism and American Studies.” The Chinese Journal of American Studies, Chinese translation, Fall (2010).
Brian Dill, Sociology Brian Dill. 2010. “Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) and Norms of Participation in Tanzania: Working Against the Grain.” African Studies Review 53(2):23-48.
Zsuzsanna Fagyal, French Zsuzsanna Fagyal. Accents de banlieues : aspects prosodiques du français populaire en contact avec les langues de l’immigration. Paris : L’Harmattan, 2010. Zsuzsanna Fagyal. “Rhythm types and the speech of working-class youth in a banlieue of Paris: the role of vowel elision and devoicing.” In Dennis R. Preston and Nancy Niedzielski. A Reader in Sociophonetics. Part I. Chapter 4, “Phonetic variation and social identity.” Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2010. Pp. 91-132.
Brenda Farnell, Anthropology Brenda Farnell. “Theorizing ‘The Body’ in Visual Culture.” In Visions of Culture: A History of Visual Anthropology. Edited by Marcus Banks and Jay Ruby. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2011). Brenda Farnell. “Performing Precision and the Limits of Observation.” In Redrawing Anthropology: Materials, Movements, Lines. Edited by Tim Ingold. Anthropological Studies of Creativity and Perception series. London: Ashgate (2011).
Christopher C. Fennell, Anthropology Christopher C. Fennell. “Carved, Inscribed, and Resurgent: Cultural and Natural Terrains as Analytic Challenges,” introductory chapter in “Revealing Landscapes,” textbook compiled by Christopher Fennell, in Perspectives from Historical Archaeology series, Society for Historical Archaeology, Tucson, AZ (2011). Christopher C. Fennell, ed. (with Terrance J. Martin and Paul A. Shackel), New Philadelphia: Racism, Community, and the Illinois Frontier. Historical Archaeology 44(1) (2010).
Cara A. Finnegan, Communication Cara A. Finnegan. “Studying Visual Modes of Public Address: Lewis Hine’s Progressive Era Child Labor Rhetoric,” in The Handbook of Rhetoric and Public Address, eds. Michael Hogan and Shawn J. Parry-Giles. London: Blackwell Publishing, 2010. 250-270. Cara A. Finnegan and John M. Murphy, guest editors. Special Issue on “Lincoln’s Rhetorical Worlds” Rhetoric & Public Affairs. Fall 2010: 343-479.
Margaret C. Flinn, French Margaret C. Flinn. “’Jean-Louis’s Moments of Jean-Jacques.” Studies in French Cinema 10.2 (2010) : 141-54.
Michael Finke, Slavic Languages and Literatures Michael Finke. “The Agit-Flights of Viktor Shklovskii and Boris Pil’niak. The Other Shore, vol. 1 (2010): 19-32. Michael Finke. “Of Interpretation and Stolen Kisses: From Poetics to Metapoetics in Chekhov’s ‘Potselui’ (1887).” Acta Slavica Iaponica, vol. 29 (2011): 27-47.
Rebecca Ginsburg, Landscape Architecture Rebecca Ginsburg, Cabin, Quarter, Plantation: Architecture and Landscapes of North American Slavery, co-edited with Clifton Ellis (Yale University Press, 2010).
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Peter Golato, French Peter Golato and Anderson, B. and S. Blatty. Avant tout!: Introductory French. McGraw-Hill, 2010.
Alma Gottlieb, Anthropology Alma Gottlieb. The Afterlife Is Where We Come from: The Culture of Infancy in West Africa. Portuguese translation. São Paulo, Brazil: Editora da Universidade Federal de São Paulo. 2011. Alma Gottlieb, editor. The Restless Anthropologist: New Fieldsites, New Visions (edited collection of 9 essays). University of Chicago Press; 2012. Alma Gottlieb. “Mad to be Modern” (coauthored with Philip Graham), in Resident Aliens: Learning to Live Cross-Culturally, ed. Sarah Davis and Melvin Konner. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2011. Alma Gottlieb. “The Challenges--and Pleasures--of Switching Field Sites,” in The Restless Anthropologist: New Fieldsites, New Visions, ed. Alma Gottlieb. University of Chicago Press; 2012.
Ryan Griffis, Art and Design Ryan Griffis, “For An Art Against the Cartography of Everyday Life,” Mediações, Tecnologia E Espaço Público: Panorama Crítico Da Arte Em Mídias Móveis, Lucas Bambozzi, Marcus Bastos and Rodrigo Minelli, editors (Conrad Livros: Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2010), pp. 129-146. Ryan Griffis and Kanouse, Sarah, Stories in Reserve, Seerveld Gallery, Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL, November 11 - December 9, 2010. (exhibition).
Joyce Griggs, Music Joyce Griggs, editor; Percy A. Grainger composer. The Four Note Pavan. RBC Publications Inc.
Dianne Harris, IPRH/Landscape Architecture Dianne Harris, “Case Study Utopia and Architectural Photography,” American Art Journal (Smithsonian American Art Museum), v. 25, n. 2, Summer, 2011, pp. 18-21. Dianne Harris, “That’s Not Architectural History!, or What’s a Discipline For?”, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 70, no.2, June, 2011, pp. 147-151.
Waïl S. Hassan, Comparative and World Literature Waïl S. Hassan. Immigrant Narratives: Orientalism and Cultural Translation in Arab-American and Arab-British Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Waïl S. Hassan with Amal Amireh, eds. Arabic Literature Now: Between Area Studies and the New Comparatism. A Special issue of Comparative Literature Studies 47:4 (2010).
K.S. Hendricks, Music K.S. Hendricks. “Investing time: Teacher research observing the influence of music history and theory lessons upon student engagement and expressive performance of an advanced high school string quartet.” Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, 2010. Vol. 184, 65–78.
Stephanie Hilger, Germanic Languages and Literatures/Comparative and World Literature Stephanie Hilger, “The Murderess on Stage: Christine Westphalen’s Charlotte Corday (1804).” Women and Death 3: Women’s Representations of Death in German Culture since 1500. Ed. by Anna Richards and Clare Bielby. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2010. 71-87. Stephanie Hilger, “Sara’s Pain: The French Revolution in Therese Huber’s Die Familie Seldorf (1795-1796).” Contemplating Violence: Critical Studies in Modern German Culture. Ed. by Stefani Engelstein and Carl Niekerk. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi (2011). 35-48.
Valerie Hoffman, Religion Valerie Hoffman. “Historical Memory and Imagined Communities: Modern Ibadi Writings on Kharijism,” in James E. Lindsay and Jon Armajani, eds., Historical Dimensions of Islam: Essays in Honor of R. Stephen Humphreys. Princeton: Darwin Press, 2009.
Sara Hook, Dance Sara Hook, Beau Geste, performed by Your Mother Dances of Milwaukee WI, at the Minnesota Fringe Festival in Minneapolis, MN in Aug. 2010 and at Univ. of Wisconsin Milwaukee in Dec. of 2010. Sara Hook, Game Point, performed by UI alumnus Denise Posnak at the DanceNowNYC Festival, Dance Theater Workshop, New York City, Sept. 2010.
Lilya Kaganovsky, Comparative and World Literatures/Slavic Lilya Kaganovsky. “There is no acoustic relation: Considerations on sound and image in post-Soviet film,” Qui parle: critical humanities and social sciences (vol. 19.1, fall/winter 2010): 65-87. Lilya Kaganovsky. Miller, Jamie. “Soviet Cinema: Politics and Persuasion under Stalin.” Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema 4.3 (December 2010).
Marcus Keller, French Marcus Keller. Figurations of France: Literary Nation-Building in times of Crisis (1550-1650). Newark: The University of Delaware Press, 2011. Marcus Keller and Douglas Kibbee (eds.) Scipion Dupleix. Liberté de la langue françoise dans sa pureté. Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2010.
L.K. Knobloch, Communication L.K. Knobloch and J.A. Theiss (2011). Relational uncertainty and relationship talk within courtship: A longitudinal actor-partner interdependence model. Communication Monographs, 78, 3-26.
Daniel Korman, Philosophy Daniel Korman. “Locke on Substratum: A Deflationary Reading,” Locke Studies (2010) 10: 61-84. Daniel Korman. “The Argument from Vagueness,” Philosophy Compass (2010) 5: 891-901.
Susan Koshy, English Susan Koshy. “Minority Cosmopolitanism.” PMLA 126.3 (2011). Susan Koshy. “The Rise of the Asian American Novel,” in Cambridge History of the American Novel, ed. Leonard Cassuto, Clare Eby, and Benjamin Reiss (Cambridge University Press, 2011), 1047-64.
J.C. Lammers, Communication J.C. Lammers (2011). Management Communication Quarterly Forum: Institutionalism and Organizational Communication, Management Communication Quarterly, 25 (pp. 151-153).
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| Harry Liebersohn, History Harry Liebersohn. The Return of the Gift: European History of a Global Idea (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
Esther Kim Lee, Theater/Asian American Studies Esther Kim Lee. “Patient Zero”: Jean Yoon and Korean Canadian Theatre.” Asian Canadian Theatre. Eds. Nina Lee Aquino and Ric Knowles. Toronto: Playwrights Canada, 2011. Esther Kim Lee. “Avant-Garde Becomes Nationalism: Immortalizing Nam June Paik in South Korea.” Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange: Vectors of the Radical. Ed. Mike Sell. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Gayle Magee, Music Gayle Magee. Charles Ives Reconsidered. Paperback edition. University of Illinois Press, 2010. Gayle Magee. “Marketing the Voice: Opera, Film, and the Case of Robert Altman.” Theatre Survey 51/2 (November 2010): 191-224.
Laurence Mall, French Laurence Mall. “L’animal et la vérité de l’homme social chez Mercier.” Dix-huitième siècle 42 (2010), special issue on « Bestiaires des Lumières » : 217-31.
Areli Marina, Architecture Areli Marina. “The Baptistery of Venice in Word and Image,” Source 30, no. 2 (Winter 2011), 9–15. Areli Marina. “Magnificent Architecture in Late Medieval Italy,” in C. Stephen Jaeger, ed., Magnificence and the Sublime: The Aesthetics of Grandeur in Medieval Art, Architecture, Music and Literature (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 193–214.
Charlotte Mattax Moersch, Music Charlotte Mattax Moersch. Solo Harpsichord Recital. “A Pastiche of Preludes and other Works for Harpsichord. Los Angeles Harpsichord Center. Los Angeles, CA. March 4 and 6, 2011. Charlotte Mattax Moersch. Performance in the 103rd Annual Bach Festival, with the Bach Choir and Festival Orchestra. Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA. Cantatas, and Baroque Chamber Music. Ensemble member, harpsichord soloist, and concerto soloist. May 6-7 and May 12-14, 2011.
Michael Moore, Law Michael Moore, Causation and Responsibility: An Essay in Law, Morals, and Metaphysics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009; paperback edition, 2010) (Spanish edition, Marcel Pons, Madrid, 2011). Pp. vii-xxvii, 1-605. Michael Moore, Act and Crime: The Philosophy of Action and Its Implications for Criminal Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, paperback edition 2010 with a new preface) (originally published by OUP in 1993 in hardcover). Pp. vii-xvii, 1-413.
Linda R. Moorhouse, Music Linda R. Moorhouse, Contributing Author. Teaching Music Through Performance in Band, Volume 8. “Teacher Resource Guide on Tower Ascending by Wayne Oquin,” GIA Publications, 2010, pp. 1156-1178.
H. Adlai Murdoch, French H. Adlai Murdoch. Violence and Metaphore: Gender and Postcolonial Identity in Abeng. Anglista 14.1 (2010): 33-40.
Bruno Nettl, Music Bruno Nettl. Nettl’s Elephant: On the History of Ethnomusicology. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press) 2010. Bruno Nettl. “Contemplating Ethnomusicology, past and present: Ten Abiding Questions” In Rolf Bader, Christiane Neuhaus, Ulrich Morgenstern, ed. Concepts, Experiments, and Fieldwork: Studies in Systematic Musicology and Ethnomusicology (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2010), pp. 63-76.
David O’Brien, Art History David OBrien and Vernon Burton, eds., Remembering Brown at Fifty: The University of Illinois Commemorates Brown v. Board of Education (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009).
Curtis Perry, English Curtis Perry. “British Empire on the Eve of the Armada: Revisiting The Misfortunes of Arthur.” Studies in Philology 108.4 (2011): 508-37. Curtis Perry and Melissa Walter. “Staging Secret Interiors: The Duchess of Malfi as Inns of Court and Anticourt Drama.” In ed. Christina Luckyj, The Duchess of Malfi: A Critical Guide (London: Continuum, 2011), 87-105.
Leslie J. Reagan, History Leslie J. Reagan, Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America (University of California Press, 2010). Leslie J. Reagan, Guest Editor, Journal of Women’s History, special issue on Reproduction, Sex, and Power, 22:3 (Fall 2010).
David Roediger, History David Roediger. The Wages of Whiteness and Racist Symbolic Capital. Edited with Wulf Hund and Jeremy Krikler. (Berlin: LIT, 2011.)
D. Fairchild Ruggles, Landscape Architecture D. Fairchild Ruggles. Islamic Art and Visual Culture: An Anthology of Sources (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.) D. Fairchild Ruggles. “The Stratigraphy of Forgetting: The Great Mosque of Cordoba and Its Contested Legacy,” in Contested Cultural Heritage, ed. Helaine Silverman. New York: Springer, pp. 51-67. Spanish translation appearing in the journal Antípoda, vol. 12 (2011).
Robert W. Rumbelow, Music Robert W. Rumbelow. Illinois Music Educators Association Conference. Performing Conductor with Illinois Wind Symphony. January 27, 2011. Robert W. Rumbelow. Interlochen Arts Academy. Featured Guest Conductor. July 10-24, 2011.
Spencer Schaffner, English/Writing Studies Schaffner, Spencer. Binocular Vision: the Politics of Representation in Birdwatching Field Guides. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press (2011). Prior, Paul and Spencer Schaffner. “Bird Identification as a Family of Activities: Motives, Mediating Artifacts, and Laminated Assemblages,” Ethos: Journal for the Society of Psychological Anthropology. 39: 51-70 (2011).
Lawrence Schehr, French Lawrence Schehr. “Effondrements: Frédéric Beigbeder’s Windows on the World.” French Cultural Studies 21.2 (2010): 131-41.
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Lawrence Schehr. “Fire Escapes to Nowhere: Colin and Cilluffo’s World Trade Angels.” European Comic Art 3.1 (2010): 65-80. Lawrence Schehr. “Soukaz in a Staccato Mode.” In Murray Pratt and Alistair Rolls (eds.) La France au pluriel. Rodopi.
John R. Senseney, Architecture John R. Senseney. The Art of Building in the Classical World: Vision, Craftsmanship, and Linear Perspective in Greek and Roman Architecture. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.)
Gabriel Solis, Music/African American Studies Gabriel Solis. “’I Did It My Way’: Rock and the Logic of Covers.” Popular Music and Society 33/3 (July 2010): 297-318.
Mark D. Steinberg, History Mark D. Steinberg and Nicholas Riasanovsky, A History of Russia, 8th ed. (Oxford University Press, 2010). Mark D. Steinberg and Valeria Sobol, eds., Interpreting Emotion in Russia and Eastern Europe, co-edited with Valeria Sobol (Northern Illinois University Press, 2011).
Carol Symes, History Carol Symes. Cities, Texts, and Social Networks, 400-1500: Experiences and Perceptions of Medieval Urban Space, ed. Caroline J. Goodson, Anne E. Lester, and Carol Symes. Aldershot (England: Ashgate Press, 2010.) Carol Symes. Western Civilizations, 17th edn, co-authored with Judith Coffin, Joshua Cole, and Robert Stacey. (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2011.) Carol Symes. “The Middle Ages between Nationalism and Colonialism.” French Historical Studies 34 (2011): 37-46.
Maria Todorova, History Maria Todorova. Bones of Contention: The Living Archive of Vasil Levski and the Making of Bulgaria’s National Hero (paperback edition) (CEU Press, 2011.) Maria Todorova, ed. Remembering Communism: Genres of Representation (New York: Social Science Research Council, Columbia University Press, 2010). Maria Todorova and Zsuzsa Gille, eds. Postcommunist Nostalgia (New York: Berghahn Publishers, 2010).
Annie Tremblay, French Annie Tremblay and N. Owens. “The role of acoustic cues in the development of (non-)target-like L2 prosodic representations.” Canadian Journal of Linguistics 55 (2010): 85-114.
Shelley Weinberg, Philosophy Shelley Weinberg. “Locke on Personal Identity,” Philosophy Compass, (June, 2011). Shelley Weinberg. “The Metaphysical Fact of Consciousness in Locke’s Theory of Personal Identity,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, (in Press).
Terri Weissman, Art History Terri Weissman, The Realisms of Berenice Abbott: Documentary Photography and Political Action (UC Press, 2011.) Terri Weissman, ed. with Sharon Corwin and Jessica May, American Modern: Documentary Photography by Abbott, Evans, and Bourke-White (UC Press, 2010).
Ann Yeung, Music Charles W. Lynch III and Ann Yeung, “Roslyn Rensch: The harpist and the harp,” The American Harp Journal 22, no. 3 (Summer 2010): 46-53. Keeble, Jonathan and Yeung, Ann. Voyage: American Works for Flute and Harp. Includes premiere recordings of works by John Corigliano, Marcel Grandjany, and Stephen Andrew Taylor. Albany Records, 2010. Sound recording.
Jonathan Zilberg, Anthropology Jonathan Zilberg. A New Theory and Method for the Study of Tourist Art. (Lambert Academic Publishing, 2011.)
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The IPRH is soliciting applications for the on-campus faculty and graduate
to request copies of those materials from the IPRH at iprh@illinois.edu.)
student fellowship awards, and for the external Mellon Post-Doctoral
Both workshops are free and open to all Illinois graduate students and
Fellowships in the Humanities, to begin in fall 2012. Application guidelines
faculty; no advance registration is required.
for those fellowship competitions can be found at the back of this newsletter – and, because the on-campus guidelines in particular have changed significantly, we encourage applicants to read them carefully. In addition to the guidelines, we have organized the following events to assist applicants in the preparation of strong application materials. The IPRH will sponsor two fellowship-writing workshops in September – a graduate student session on Tuesday, September 13 at 4:00 p.m. and a faculty session on Tuesday, September 20 at 4:00 p.m. Both events will be held in the Humanities Lecture Hall at the IPRH. These workshops will address the elements of a successful fellowship or grant proposal in the humanities, including how to identify potential funding sources, how to research the organizations, and how to effectively structure your proposal. Sample proposals and other materials will be available at the workshops (and those who cannot attend the workshop are invited
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The IPRH website provides many helpful guidelines for constructing a successful fellowship/grant proposal, along with links to some very useful articles on the subject. The site also includes links to other on-campus resources that provide information about external funding opportunities in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. Successful applications are those that follow the guidelines carefully and submit the required materials in a timely manner. The most vital element of a successful proposal is a narrative statement that is tailored to the specific qualities of the fellowship or grant. Applicants are strongly encouraged to address the particular opportunities that are offered by the fellowship, and to emphasize the ways in which the proposed project can benefit from those opportunities.
| c o l l a b o r at i v e r e s e a r c h p r o j e c t s 2011-2012 | We are pleased to announce the second year of an opportunity for significant funding to Illinois faculty teams, the IPRH Collaborative Research Projects. The IPRH invites proposals for funding for an interdisciplinary public event (or series of events) that will be of interest to faculty in the humanities, arts, and humanistic social sciences. Four awards will be made in the amount of $5,000 each. The awards will be selected through a competitive review of applications by the IPRH Director and members of the Advisory Committee. Criteria for the award include: • the intellectual content of the proposed event • the feasibility of the plans • the cross-disciplinary value of the event • the potential appeal to the campus and broader scholarly communities The application for the IPRH Faculty Initiative must involve faculty from at least two disciplines, and be of sufficiently broad interest to engage an audience from across the humanities and across campus. (Applications from individuals will not be considered.) Events can take the form of a one-day conference or symposium, a speaker series, or other equivalent public presentation of humanities scholarship. The proposed event will ideally take place during the 2011-12 academic year, but must be scheduled no later than October 2012. The award recipients will be responsible for travel, hotel, and meal plans for the event, and are welcome to request co-sponsorship funds from other units to supplement the IPRH award. The IPRH will work with the awardees to coordinate dates and logistics, and will provide publicity for the event. All dates and plans must be approved in advance by the IPRH, and the IPRH name must be included in all publicity materials. Detailed guidelines for the authorized use of funds will be given to the successful applicant teams; please note that funds may be used for honorarium payments, but individual honoraria may not exceed $1,000, and no more than 10% of the award may be used for food and beverages. Reasonable travel, facility rental, and publicity costs will also be allowed. Deadline: Friday, September 16 at 5:00 p.m. Applicants must submit the following materials to the IPRH by the deadline date: • A one-page description of the proposed event (including proposed speakers and informal budget) • A one-page rationale for the event, including its scholarly significance and the benefits of holding the event at Illinois • One-page CVs for each member of the project’s Steering Committee Please submit all materials (compiled as a single PDF file) to the IPRH at iprh@illinois.edu by the deadline date. Application materials should be single-spaced, 12-point font. Materials submitted after the deadline, and those that do not follow the guidelines stated above, will not be considered. Questions about the IPRH Faculty Initiative can be addressed to Christine Catanzarite at 244-7913 or catanzar@illinois.edu.
“Here I bring my project, a tiny bird of a thing, to find it safe, nurtured, and ultimately, lifted. Grateful are we for Fellows’ time, words, and gentle motions.” - Cory Holding, English/Writing Studies and an IPRH Graduate Student Fellow 2010-11
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| IPRH P r i z e s for R e s e a rch in the H u m a nitie s , 2011-12 | The IPRH has recognized outstanding humanities research in numerous ways during the past fourteen years. From fellowship awards that provide release time and stipends, to support for reading groups that investigate matters that are central to the humanities, to conferences and symposia that disseminate humanities scholarship to wide academic and general audiences, the IPRH has always been committed to the support and advancement of humanities research in the broadest sense. IPRH Prizes for Research in the Humanities celebrate excellence in humanities scholarship, and we are pleased to solicit submissions and nominations for the 2011-12 academic year. These prizes recognize excellence in humanities research at the University of Illinois, with awards given at the undergraduate, graduate, and faculty levels. The awards will be presented at a reception in late spring 2012. (For more information about the winners for 2010-11, see page 16.) Submissions are invited from scholars in all sectors of the university with focus on the humanities and humanities-inflected research. Eligibility: The awards are open to all full-time U of I students and faculty Application deadline: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at 5:00 p.m. Submission procedures: All submissions must be accompanied by a completed nomination form, which can be downloaded from the IPRH website. Texts themselves must contain NO references to the applicant’s name or other identifying details. Submissions that do not follow these guidelines will be disqualified from consideration. Send one hard copy of the completed application form and the submission to: Humanities Research Prizes IPRH 805 West Pennsylvania Avenue (MC-057) Urbana, IL 61801 The applications will be read by a selection committee comprised of members of the IPRH Advisory Committee, one or two invited members of the faculty, and the IPRH Director and Senior Associate Director (both of whom serve on the committee in an ex officio capacity). Submissions will be judged in a blind review process; names and other identifying details must not be included in the essay itself. The essays will be evaluated on their scholarly merit, intellectual rigor, and the quality of the writing. Faculty: $500 (awarded as research funds)
• Submission must be double-spaced and single-sided, with a length of 15-25 pages. • Submissions must have been published between January 1, 2011 and the application deadline in a peer-reviewed book, journal, edited collection, or peer-reviewed electronic or online publication; the submission may be an excerpt of appropriate length from a longer work.
• The submission may be nominated by a full-time U of I faculty member, or self-nominated. Graduate Student: $500.
• Submissions must be double-spaced and single-sided, with a length of 10-20 pages. • The submitted essay must have been completed for a U of I course taken for credit during the 2011-12 academic year; the submission may be an excerpt of appropriate length from the graduate student’s thesis, dissertation, or equivalent research project.
• The submission may be nominated by the faculty member of the course for which the paper was written; or self-nominated, with the signature approval of the faculty member on the nomination form. Undergraduate Student: $500.
• Submissions must be double-spaced and single-sided, with a length of 10-20 pages. • The submitted essay must have been completed for a U of I course taken for credit during the 2011-12 academic year. • The submission may be nominated by the faculty member of the course for which the paper was written; or self-nominated, with the signature approval of the faculty member on the nomination form.
Questions about these awards and the nomination procedures should be addressed to Christine Catanzarite.
“My experience as a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow was critical to developing my path as a scholar. The thoughtful and insightful comments of the other Fellows in and outside of the seminars transformed the way I approach my own writing and how I think about the work of others.” - Patricia Goldsworthy-Bishop, Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Humanities 2010-11
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Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowships in the Humanities University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2012-2014 The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, seeks to hire two Post-Doctoral Fellows for two-year appointments starting in fall 2012. The Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellows in the Humanities will spend the two-year term in residence at Illinois; will conduct research on the proposed project; and will teach two courses per year in the appropriate academic department (an undergraduate seminar and graduate seminar in the first year, and an undergraduate lecture and graduate seminar in the second year). The Fellows will also participate in the IPRH Fellows’ Seminar, a yearlong interdisciplinary workshop; and will be encouraged to participate in activities related to their research at the IPRH, in the teaching department, and elsewhere on campus. At the end of the second year, each Post-Doctoral Fellow will give a public lecture that will serve as a culmination of their research at Illinois. The search for Mellon Fellows is open to scholars in all humanities disciplines, but we seek applicants whose work falls into one of the following broad subject areas:
• Race and Diaspora Studies • History of Science/Technology • Empire and Colonial Studies • Memory Studies To be eligible for consideration, applicants must have received their Ph.D. in a humanities discipline between January 1, 2007 and September 30, 2011. (These are external fellowships; current full- and part-time faculty members at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are ineligible for these awards. Likewise, current U of I graduate students, and scholars who received their Ph.D. from the U of I, are not eligible for these awards.) The appointment will begin on August 16, 2012, and the successful applicants must be on the Illinois campus by that date for orientation. The successful applicants will be required to live within 20 miles of Champaign-Urbana during the academic years of the appointment. The fellowship carries a $45,000 annual stipend, a $2,000 research account, and a comprehensive benefit package. Application Guidelines The following application materials must be received no later than 5:00 p.m. on October 28, 2011. 1. Completed IPRH Mellon Application Form (can be downloaded from the IPRH website) 2. Curriculum vitae (maximum 10 pages) 3. Project title and one-page abstract (250-300 words), followed by a detailed narrative statement (2,000 words) describing the research project the applicant will undertake during the term of the fellowship. The narrative statement should explain how the proposed project would make a contribution to the applicant’s research and advance the larger field of study; how the project would articulate with one of the four designated subject areas; and the anticipated outcomes of the proposed research. Applicants must address why the proposed research can be undertaken successfully at the University of Illinois, and should include details about programs, individual scholars, and resources at the U of I that would enrich the project. 3. A sample syllabus for a course (undergraduate or graduate) related to the applicant’s research project that could be taught by the applicant as part of the fellowship. Applicants must also arrange for the following to be sent directly to the IPRH by the deadline: Three (3) letters of recommendation from senior colleagues who are familiar with the applicant’s work and the proposal being made for the fellowship. Letters must address the specifics of the project being proposed for the fellowship, the applicant’s research and teaching skills, and the contributions the proposed project would make to the broader scholarly community. (Note: Only three letters will be accepted; any additional letters will be discarded. Because the letters must address the specifics of the proposal and the position being sought, we strongly discourage applicants from sending general dossier files.) Completed applications must be submitted, and letters of support must arrive, by 5:00 p.m. on October 28, 2011. Materials submitted by the applicant (application form, CV, project title, abstract, narrative statement, and syllabus) must be sent to the IPRH electronically as one single PDF document; address the application to iprh@illinois.edu. The required letters of recommendation should be sent directly to this e-mail address. Deadline extensions will not be granted. The review committee will consider only complete application files; it is the responsibility of the applicant to ensure that all documentation is complete, and that referees submit their letters before the closing date. All applications will be acknowledged by e-mail within ten days of receipt, and all applicants will be notified when the search has concluded. Please do not contact the IPRH about the status of a file; because of the volume of applications that the IPRH receives, we cannot answer individual questions about materials that have been sent. Questions about these fellowships should be addressed to: Dr. Christine Catanzarite, Senior Associate Director of IPRH, at catanzar@illinois.edu or (217) 244-7913.
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| Application Guidelines | FAculty Fellowship Awards | Please read carefully; the submission guidelines and terms of the fellowship have undergone significant changes this year. Applications are invited from full-time, tenured or tenure-track U of I faculty members for selection as IPRH Faculty Fellows for the 2012-13 academic year. The fellowship will provide release time for one semester in residence, and $2,000 in research funds, to enable Fellows to develop research projects related to the broad theme of “Revolution;”to teach one course, at the undergraduate or graduate level, that is related to the fellowship project; and to participate in the year’s activities, including the yearlong interdisciplinary Fellows’ Seminar and other related programming. The IPRH is especially interested in fostering interdisciplinary work, and encourages the submission of joint applications from faculty members in different disciplines. Each applicant should submit the following materials electronically as a single PDF file. Submissions must be double-spaced, with all text in 11or 12-point Times New Roman font. The materials must be arranged in the following order: • A completed IPRH application form, including 100-word abstract (the form can be downloaded from the IPRH website) • A current curriculum vitae (maximum 10 pages) • A statement of 2,000 words describing the faculty member’s research on the proposed project (materials that exceed the required length will not be considered) • A description of the proposed course, including a tentative syllabus The applicant should arrange for the IPRH to receive two letters in support of the application, and a letter of support from the executive officer of the applicant’s primary department, attesting to the department’s willingness to release the applicant from all regular teaching duties other than thesis direction for one semester in 2012-13. All letters must be submitted electronically as indicated below. (Executive officers of campus units who submit an application to the IPRH must include a letter from the dean of their college, approving the application and any release time that would result from a successful proposal.) Applicants should make certain that their teaching and research obligations do not prevent them from participating fully in IPRH activities, and should identify in the narrative statement any other applications being made for either sabbatical leave or for other campus or external grants and fellowships. In the narrative statement, the applicant should describe his/her research in reasonable detail, explaining its relevance to the IPRH theme for 2012-13 and its significance to the broader scholarly community at Illinois and elsewhere. The statement should be prefaced by a project title and brief abstract (no more than 100 words). The statement should also indicate the applicant’s willingness to participate in IPRH activities, especially the Fellows’ Seminar. Applications being made for joint projects should include all of the elements required of faculty applicants as described above, with the exception of the following: each applicant should complete a copy of the IPRH application form; the narrative statement should be 3,000 words and jointly authored to address both the collaborative nature of the project and the individual strengths brought to it by each applicant; and each applicant should arrange to have two support letters and the letters from their department’s executive officer sent to the IPRH. If the applicants intend to teach a joint course, then one course proposal and sample syllabus should be submitted; if each applicant plans to teach an individual course, then the applicants should submit two course proposals and syllabi. All IPRH Fellows are expected to maintain residency on the Illinois campus during the award year. Faculty members who have previously held an IPRH fellowship may not reapply to the IPRH for five years following the award year. Faculty members are likewise prohibited from holding IPRH fellowships and Center for Advanced Study, Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society, or other campus release-time awards simultaneously. Only full-time tenured and tenure-track U of I faculty are eligible to apply for the awards. The applications will be reviewed by the members of the IPRH Advisory Committee, who will make their award recommendations to the IPRH; the IPRH Director and Senior Associate Director serve on the committee in an ex officio capacity. Submissions will be evaluated on the following criteria: scholarly promise of the project, and the applicant’s preparation to undertake the proposed research; the quality of the narrative proposal; relationship to the annual theme; and the letters of support. Completed applications must be submitted, and letters of support must arrive, by 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, December 7, 2011. Be sure that the application document is assembled and complete, and proofread all materials carefully; changes or additions cannot be made after the application has been submitted to the IPRH. Send all materials, including letters of support, to: iprh@illinois.edu, with the subject line “Faculty Fellowship Application.” Please do not send any hard copies of letters or application materials to the IPRH; only electronic submissions will be accepted, and all materials MUST be sent only to iprh@illinois.edu. All applications will be acknowledged shortly following the deadline. Please do not contact the IPRH about the status of a file; because of the volume of applications that the IPRH receives, we cannot answer individual questions about materials that have been sent. Awards will be announced on or about March 1, 2012; all applicants will be contacted at that time with the results of the review process. For more information about the IPRH fellowship program, please contact Christine Catanzarite at 244-7913 or catanzar@illinois.edu.
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| Application Guidelines | Graduate Student Fellowship Awards | Please read carefully; the submission guidelines and terms of the fellowship have undergone significant changes this year. Applications are invited from current U of I graduate students for selection as IPRH Graduate Student Fellows for the 2012-13 academic year. The fellowship will enable advanced graduate students to develop their dissertations or research projects related to the IPRH annual theme of “Revolution;” and to participate in the year’s activities, including the yearlong interdisciplinary Fellows’ Seminar and related programming. Graduate Student Fellows receive a $10,000 stipend and a tuition and fee waiver. Each applicant should submit the following materials electronically as a single PDF file. Submissions must be double-spaced, with all text in 11or 12-point Times New Roman font. The materials must be arranged in the following order: • A completed IPRH application form, including a 100-word abstract (form can be downloaded from the IPRH website) • A current curriculum vitae, including a list of all graduate courses taken, papers published, presentations made, and assistantships and fellowships held (maximum 5 pages) • A statement of 2,000 words describing the student’s research on the proposed project, including preparation to undertake this research and all progress on the project to date (materials that exceed the required length will not be considered The applicant should arrange for the IPRH to receive two letters in support of the application; these letters should speak to the applicant’s abilities and achievements, to his/her progress on the project, and to the intellectual value of the project itself. One of these letters must come from the faculty member supervising the student’s dissertation or equivalent research. Applicants should make certain that their teaching and research obligations do not prevent them from participating fully in IPRH activities, and should identify in the narrative statement any other applications being made for other campus or external grants and fellowships. The applicant should also make arrangements for the IPRH to receive one official copy of a graduate transcript for all graduate work completed. Transcripts should be mailed directly to the IPRH, and will be added to the applicant’s file by the IPRH staff. In the narrative statement, the applicant should describe his/her research in reasonable detail, explaining its relevance to the IPRH theme and its significance to the broader scholarly community at Illinois and elsewhere. The statement should be prefaced by a project title and a brief abstract (no more than 100 words). The statement should also indicate the applicant’s willingness to participate in IPRH activities, especially the Fellows’ Seminar. All IPRH Fellows are expected to maintain residency on the Illinois campus during the award year. Graduate students who have previously held an IPRH fellowship may not reapply. Graduate students may not hold an IPRH fellowship and a Center on Democracy fellowship, or any other similar campus or offcampus award, simultaneously. The applications will be reviewed by the members of the IPRH Advisory Committee, who will make their award recommendations to the IPRH; the IPRH Director and Senior Associate Director serve on the committee in an ex officio capacity. Submissions will be evaluated on the following criteria: scholarly promise of the project, and the applicant’s preparation to undertake the proposed research; the quality of the narrative proposal; relationship to the annual theme; and the letters of support. Completed applications must be submitted, and letters of support must arrive, by 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, December 7, 2011. Be sure that the application document is assembled and complete, and proofread all materials carefully; changes or additions cannot be made after the application has been submitted to the IPRH. Send all materials, including letters of support, to: iprh@illinois.edu, with the subject line “Graduate Student Fellowship Application.” Please do not send any hard copies of letters or application materials to the IPRH; only electronic submissions will be accepted, and all materials must be sent only to iprh@illinois.edu. All applications will be acknowledged shortly following the deadline. Please do not contact the IPRH about the status of a file; because of the volume of applications that the IPRH receives, we cannot answer individual questions about materials that have been sent. Awards will be announced on or about March 1, 2012; all applicants will be contacted at that time with the results of the review process. For more information about the IPRH fellowship program, please contact Christine Catanzarite at 244-7913 or catanzar@illinois.edu.
Deadline for IPRH Faculty and Graduate Student Fellowships for 2012-13: December 7
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Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 805 West Pennsylvania Avenue Urbana, Illinois 61801 www.iprh.illinois.edu Telephone: (217) 244-3344 Fax: (217) 333-9617 E-mail: iprh@illinois.edu
The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities at the University
IPRH Staff
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was established in 1997 to promote
Dianne Harris Director | harris3@illinois.edu | 244-3344
interdisciplinary study in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. The IPRH
Christine Catanzarite Senior Associate Director | catanzar@illinois.edu | 244-7913
grants fellowships to Illinois faculty and graduate students; and in fall 2010 welcomed the first Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellows in the Humanities, supported by a six-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The IPRH coordinates and hosts numerous lectures, symposia, and panel discussions on a wide variety of topics; organizes a yearlong film series; and provides awards that recognize excellence in humanities research to faculty and students. The IPRH supports faculty-driven initiatives for interdisciplinary public programming in the humanities through the Collaborative Research Projects, and provides support to faculty and graduate student reading groups.
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Education Justice Project Rebecca Ginsburg Director | rginsbur@illinois.edu
IPRH Advisory Committee 2011-12 Stephanie Foote English/Gender and Women’s Studies Guy Garnett Music/NCSA Marcus Keller French Robert Dale Parker English/American Indian Studies
The 2011-12 academic year marks the sixth year of the Odyssey Project, a
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free nine-month humanities course offered to members of the Champaign-
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Urbana community who live at or near the poverty level. The course – which is supported by the Office of the Chancellor, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and a grant from the Illinois Humanities Council – is taught by Illinois faculty. The IPRH is also in its fourth year of affiliation with the Education Justice Project, a prison education program supported by the Illinois Humanities Council and individual donors.
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