The Newberry Graduate Scholar-in-Residence program encourages PhD candidates in the humanities to conduct research in our collection and to join our community of scholars for a full academic year. We invite graduate students with advanced to PhD candidacy to apply for this status, with preference given to those whose dissertation projects are well advanced. Graduate Scholars-in-Residence at the Newberry are expected to be “in residence” at the Newberry at least 10 hours per week from September to May, which will enable them to make good use of the collection and participate in the Newberry’s intellectual community.
If you know any graduate students who have advanced to PhD Candidacy and who would benefit from the Newberry's collections during the 2014-2015 academic year, please pass along the following link, which includes information about the Graduate Scholar-in-Residence application process and the link to the web application:
http://www.newberry.org/graduate-scholar-residence-program
The applications for the 2014-2015 academic year are due on May 1, 2014 by 11:59 PM.
Starting this year, we have implemented a new web application. We encourage you to take a look at the form now and let us know if you have any questions about how to use it. If you require help filling out the web application, we will be holding another "How-To" workshop on Friday, April 25th at 10:30 AM. If you plan to attend this help session, we ask that you bring your completed application materials, as well as your laptop (if you have one) so that you can follow along. If you do not have a laptop, there will be time afterwards to use our computer.
We expect to notify applicants about their acceptance in June 2014. New Scholars-in-Residence and Graduate Scholars-in-Residence alike are expected to begin their residencies on September 2, 2014, so that they can join the new Long-Term Fellows in Fall Orientation activities.
If you have any questions about the application, residency requirements, help session, or anything else relating to the Graduate and Scholar-in-Residence Programs, please do not hesitate to ask!
Sincerely,
Jessica Weller
Program Assistant
Research and Academic Programs
The Newberry Library
312-255-3666
www.newberry.org
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Thursday, April 17, 2014
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Grad Student Featured in New Publication from the Newberry
We are pleased to announce the essays that have been chosen for inclusion in this year's online selected conference proceedings publication, Newberry Essays in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Vol. 8: Selected Proceedings of the Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies 2014 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference.
The authors are working with their editors to revise their papers for publication. We plan to publish the volume by this summer.
Contributors and essays for this year's volume:
Patrick Bonczyk, Music, Michigan State University, “Breastfeeding the Soul: Spiritual Hunger and Baby-Death in Henry Purcell’s ‘With sick and famish’d Eyes,’ Z200”
Caroline Carpenter, English, Claremont Graduate University, “A Trinity of Donne Plus One: Jack, John, Doctor, and Conscience”
Kristie Flannery, History, University of Texas at Austin, “Juegos Prohibidos/Gente Prohibida: Regulating Space, Race, and Gambling in Early-Modern Manila”
Mary Helen Galluch, Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, “Amending the Ascetic: Community and Character in the Old English Life of Saint Mary of Egypt”
Jared Halverson, Religious Studies, Vanderbilt University, “Hate and Hermeneutics: Interpretive Authority in Luther’s On the Jews and their Lies”
George Klaeren, History, University of Kansas, “Rational Inquisitors: Medical Discourse, Empiricism, and Catholic Truth in the Century of Light”
Sarah Lube Roe, French, University of Texas at Austin, “Theatre as a Jansenist Tool? The Importance of Perspective and Interpretation in Overcoming the Theatricality of Amour-Propre in Racine’s Phèdre”
Heather Smith, Art History, University of Missouri-Columbia, “A Different Picture of Female Piety: The Margaret and Catherine Window at Chartres Cathedral”
Shana Thompson, Art History, University of North Texas, “Land, Water, Woman: Place, Identity, and Coudrette’s Mélusine in Late Medieval Poitou”
Editor-in-chief:
Mary Angelo, who recently completed a PhD in French at the University of Chicago and is research assistant for a current Center for Renaissance Studies project
Contributing editors:
Laura Bland, History & Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame
Catherine Conner, English, Claremont Graduate University
Charles Keenan, History, Northwestern University
Danielle Kuntz, Musicology, University of Minnesota
Lance Lubelski, History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Andrea Nichols, History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Greta Smith, English, Miami University
David Vaughan, English, Oklahoma State University
Daniel Yingst, Divinity School, University of Chicago
See previous volumes of Newberry Essays in Medieval and Early Modern Studies: http://www.newberry.org/center-renaissance-studies-publications#digital.
The authors are working with their editors to revise their papers for publication. We plan to publish the volume by this summer.
Contributors and essays for this year's volume:
Patrick Bonczyk, Music, Michigan State University, “Breastfeeding the Soul: Spiritual Hunger and Baby-Death in Henry Purcell’s ‘With sick and famish’d Eyes,’ Z200”
Caroline Carpenter, English, Claremont Graduate University, “A Trinity of Donne Plus One: Jack, John, Doctor, and Conscience”
Kristie Flannery, History, University of Texas at Austin, “Juegos Prohibidos/Gente Prohibida: Regulating Space, Race, and Gambling in Early-Modern Manila”
Mary Helen Galluch, Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, “Amending the Ascetic: Community and Character in the Old English Life of Saint Mary of Egypt”
Jared Halverson, Religious Studies, Vanderbilt University, “Hate and Hermeneutics: Interpretive Authority in Luther’s On the Jews and their Lies”
George Klaeren, History, University of Kansas, “Rational Inquisitors: Medical Discourse, Empiricism, and Catholic Truth in the Century of Light”
Sarah Lube Roe, French, University of Texas at Austin, “Theatre as a Jansenist Tool? The Importance of Perspective and Interpretation in Overcoming the Theatricality of Amour-Propre in Racine’s Phèdre”
Heather Smith, Art History, University of Missouri-Columbia, “A Different Picture of Female Piety: The Margaret and Catherine Window at Chartres Cathedral”
Shana Thompson, Art History, University of North Texas, “Land, Water, Woman: Place, Identity, and Coudrette’s Mélusine in Late Medieval Poitou”
Editor-in-chief:
Mary Angelo, who recently completed a PhD in French at the University of Chicago and is research assistant for a current Center for Renaissance Studies project
Contributing editors:
Laura Bland, History & Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame
Catherine Conner, English, Claremont Graduate University
Charles Keenan, History, Northwestern University
Danielle Kuntz, Musicology, University of Minnesota
Lance Lubelski, History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Andrea Nichols, History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Greta Smith, English, Miami University
David Vaughan, English, Oklahoma State University
Daniel Yingst, Divinity School, University of Chicago
See previous volumes of Newberry Essays in Medieval and Early Modern Studies: http://www.newberry.org/center-renaissance-studies-publications#digital.
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Brimhall wins NEA Award
Congratulations to PHD candidate Traci Brimhall, who was awarded a 2013 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Poetry ($25,000). This award comes on the heels of her stint as 2012 Summer Poet in Residence at the University of Mississippi, and more recently, two Pushcart nominations, a new poem-comic collaboration (with Eryn Cruft) in TheThe Poetry, and a micro-essay published on the New England Review website.
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Grad Student Fellowship Opportunity in 17th/18th Century Studies
Dear Colleagues:
Please encourage your talented undergraduate and master's students interested in graduate work to apply to the University of Missouri's English Department and our Mary-Joe Purcell Fellowship in Seventeenth- or Eighteenth-Century Literary Studies.
The Purcell Fellowship, named after an alumna of our program and a long-time professor of English at California State University-Long Beach, is awarded annually and provides a one-time $5000 supplement to the regular PhD or MA/PhD package offered to an incoming student intending to work in the seventeenth or eighteenth century at Missouri.
Further information about the department and our graduate program may be found here:
http://english.missouri.edu/18th-and-19th-century-british-literature/170-restoration-and-eighteenth-century-studies.html
We would be happy to answer your questions about the fellowship or about graduate work at Missouri.
Prof. Stephen Karian
karians@missouri.edu
http://english.missouri.edu/faculty/601-stephen-karian.html
Prof. Devoney Looser
looserd@missouri.edu
http://www.devoneylooser.com
Devoney Looser
Catherine Paine Middlebush Chair and Professor of English
Co-Editor, Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies
Tate Hall 114
Department of English
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211
573-884-7791
FAX: 573-882-5785
Friday, September 21, 2012
Grad Student Journal Opportunity
Call for Graduate Student Peer-Review Readers
Inquire: Journal of Comparative Literature is seeking GRADUATE STUDENTS in any discipline, including but not limited to Comparative Literature, World Literature, English, Film Studies, or Cultural Studies to volunteer as peer-review readers.
If you are interested, email a brief cover letter (word doc, max 200 words), including your name, email address, academic affiliation, department, areas of expertise, and languages to inquire@ualberta.ca with "reader" as the subject.
Inquire is a peer-reviewed, open-access online journal of Comparative Literature by graduate students in the Comparative Literature Program at the University of Alberta that serves the intellectual and professional interests of an international community of students, teachers and scholars.
Deadline: September 25, 2012
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Inquire: Journal of Comparative Literature
inquire.streetmag.org | inquire@ualberta.ca
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Grad Conference Deadline ~ U of M ECGS/NCF
ECSG/NCF Grad Student Conference: "Transporting Bodies and Minds: 18th- and 19th-Century Travel"
SEPT 15
Conference Description/CFP
Transporting Bodies and Minds: 18th- and 19th-Century Travel
Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, travelers of all kinds documented their experiences in private letters and diaries, official correspondence, life writing, spiritual and religious narratives, and ethnographic accounts. Furthermore, these experiences were often transformed into works of art, with real and imagined moments of contact serving as the inspiration for painting, music, poetry, prose fiction, photography, and other creative ventures. These aesthetic productions transformed the foreign into the national, the known into the unknown, appearing to expand access to other cultures--a model of cultural transportation that recent criticism is troubling.
Scholarship drawing on theories of post-colonialism, gender, material and visual culture, cognitive studies, posthumanism, and other critical paradigms has challenged our understanding of the impact--not just aesthetic, but also commercial, martial, and religious--of travel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This work has made strides in elucidating a more dynamic picture of the way travel and cultural encounter could transform (or fail to transform) prior understandings of both time and space. Moreover, it has allowed for a more capacious appreciation of how influence happens, extending beyond more uni-directional, Eurocentric approaches.
Continuing this work, the University of Michigan’s Eighteenth-Century Studies Group and Nineteenth-Century Forum will co-host an interdisciplinary graduate student conference on these topics, to take place in Ann Arbor on September 15, 2012. We are pleased to announce that Kate Flint, Provost Professor of English and Art History (University of Southern California), will be our keynote speaker.
Graduate students are encouraged to submit papers that explore the implications of travel, tourism, boundary crossing, exploration, and other related topics--from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. Submissions of either individual papers or full panels are welcome. Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to Karen McConnell (mcconnka@umich.edu) by May 1, 2012.
Suggested paper topics include (but are not limited to):
mass tourism
emigration/immigration
travel and commercial enterprise
travel and photography
documenting travel/travel as documentation
Roma, Sinti, and other itinerant communities
time-travel
smuggling
travel and war
imaginative or mental journeys
travel and empire
exploration, conquest, contact
depictions in the visual arts (e.g., the natural world, native/foreign peoples, aesthetic judgment)
travel’s effect on genre
contagion/infection
consequences for epistemology (e.g., scientific, spiritual, ethnographic)
Website: http://www.umich.edu/~ecsg/
Contact: rmcadams@umich.edu
SEPT 15
Conference Description/CFP
Transporting Bodies and Minds: 18th- and 19th-Century Travel
Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, travelers of all kinds documented their experiences in private letters and diaries, official correspondence, life writing, spiritual and religious narratives, and ethnographic accounts. Furthermore, these experiences were often transformed into works of art, with real and imagined moments of contact serving as the inspiration for painting, music, poetry, prose fiction, photography, and other creative ventures. These aesthetic productions transformed the foreign into the national, the known into the unknown, appearing to expand access to other cultures--a model of cultural transportation that recent criticism is troubling.
Scholarship drawing on theories of post-colonialism, gender, material and visual culture, cognitive studies, posthumanism, and other critical paradigms has challenged our understanding of the impact--not just aesthetic, but also commercial, martial, and religious--of travel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This work has made strides in elucidating a more dynamic picture of the way travel and cultural encounter could transform (or fail to transform) prior understandings of both time and space. Moreover, it has allowed for a more capacious appreciation of how influence happens, extending beyond more uni-directional, Eurocentric approaches.
Continuing this work, the University of Michigan’s Eighteenth-Century Studies Group and Nineteenth-Century Forum will co-host an interdisciplinary graduate student conference on these topics, to take place in Ann Arbor on September 15, 2012. We are pleased to announce that Kate Flint, Provost Professor of English and Art History (University of Southern California), will be our keynote speaker.
Graduate students are encouraged to submit papers that explore the implications of travel, tourism, boundary crossing, exploration, and other related topics--from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. Submissions of either individual papers or full panels are welcome. Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to Karen McConnell (mcconnka@umich.edu) by May 1, 2012.
Suggested paper topics include (but are not limited to):
mass tourism
emigration/immigration
travel and commercial enterprise
travel and photography
documenting travel/travel as documentation
Roma, Sinti, and other itinerant communities
time-travel
smuggling
travel and war
imaginative or mental journeys
travel and empire
exploration, conquest, contact
depictions in the visual arts (e.g., the natural world, native/foreign peoples, aesthetic judgment)
travel’s effect on genre
contagion/infection
consequences for epistemology (e.g., scientific, spiritual, ethnographic)
Website: http://www.umich.edu/~ecsg/
Contact: rmcadams@umich.edu
Saturday, October 2, 2010
CFP: Newberry Grad Conference (10/15/10)
The Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies is pleased to announce:
Call for Papers for the 2011 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
Deadline for submissions: October 15, 2010
Conference dates: January 27-29, 2011
www.newberry.org/renaissance/conf-inst/gradstudents.html
www.newberry.org/renaissance/conf-inst/2011CFP.pdf: PDF flyer printable in color or black-and-white. Please distribute and post.
We invite abstracts for 15-minute papers from master's or Ph.D. students on any medieval, Renaissance, or early modern topic in Europe or the Mediterranean or Atlantic worlds. We encourage submissions from disciplines as varied as the literature of any language, history, classics, art history, music, comparative literature, theater arts, philosophy, religious studies, transatlantic studies, disability studies, and manuscript studies.
We also hope to include at least one panel of papers dealing with the digital humanities.
Priority is given to students from member institutions of the Center for Renaissance Studies consortium.
Please feel free to forward this message to others who may be interested.
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Faculty and graduate students from Center for Renaissance Studies consortium schools are eligible to apply for travel funding to attend Center for Renaissance Studies programs or to do research at the Newberry Library. Contact your school's faculty representative for details: www.newberry.org/renaissance/consortium/exec.html. The Center's main web page is: www.newberry.org/renaissance.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Doing Queer Studies Now (Grad Conference-update)
Call for Papers
– Doing Queer Studies Now –
Graduate Conference
University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
October 21-23, 2010
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS: PAUL AMAR (Law & Society Program, Global Studies, Feminist Studies, UC-Santa Barbara), ADAM GREEN (Sociology, U. of Toronto), JOON LEE (English, Rhode Island School of Design), HEATHER LOVE (English, U. of Pennsylvania).
WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF: DAVID HALPERIN, HOLLY HUGHES, ESTHER NEWTON, GAYLE RUBIN, VALERIE TRAUB.
What is queer about queer studies? Does queer refer to a set of topics or a mode of inquiry? What is the role of theory in queer studies? How is new scholarship bridging the social sciences and the humanities? What is the relationship between actual queer practices and queer studies? What is the relationship between scholarship and activism? How are radical sex critique and queer studies related? What are the limitations of queer?
These are some of the questions we are interested in twenty years after the emergence of queer theory. The purpose of this conference is to take stock of and provide a showcase for innovative practices and pursuits in queer studies, both in the humanities and social sciences, as well as emerging fields that bridge the two.
We are not calling for papers that engage these questions at a meta-level, but rather for work that is conditioned by them.
While we welcome a range of topics, some of the topics we are interested in include:
- the role of historical, political and economic forces in shaping queerness
- governmentality, state and biopolitics
- transnational flows of capital and migrations
- queer intersections with race, gender, class, ability, age, etc.
- queer subjectivities, experiences and identities
- queer historiography, phenomenology and temporality
- visual culture, new media
Paper abstracts of 250 to 300 words should be sent by June 1, 2010 to doingqueerstudiesnow2010@umich.edu. We wish to notify presenters by Monday, June 21. We will ask for the completed paper for respondents by October 1, 2010.
– Doing Queer Studies Now –
Graduate Conference
University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
October 21-23, 2010
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS: PAUL AMAR (Law & Society Program, Global Studies, Feminist Studies, UC-Santa Barbara), ADAM GREEN (Sociology, U. of Toronto), JOON LEE (English, Rhode Island School of Design), HEATHER LOVE (English, U. of Pennsylvania).
WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF: DAVID HALPERIN, HOLLY HUGHES, ESTHER NEWTON, GAYLE RUBIN, VALERIE TRAUB.
What is queer about queer studies? Does queer refer to a set of topics or a mode of inquiry? What is the role of theory in queer studies? How is new scholarship bridging the social sciences and the humanities? What is the relationship between actual queer practices and queer studies? What is the relationship between scholarship and activism? How are radical sex critique and queer studies related? What are the limitations of queer?
These are some of the questions we are interested in twenty years after the emergence of queer theory. The purpose of this conference is to take stock of and provide a showcase for innovative practices and pursuits in queer studies, both in the humanities and social sciences, as well as emerging fields that bridge the two.
We are not calling for papers that engage these questions at a meta-level, but rather for work that is conditioned by them.
While we welcome a range of topics, some of the topics we are interested in include:
- the role of historical, political and economic forces in shaping queerness
- governmentality, state and biopolitics
- transnational flows of capital and migrations
- queer intersections with race, gender, class, ability, age, etc.
- queer subjectivities, experiences and identities
- queer historiography, phenomenology and temporality
- visual culture, new media
Paper abstracts of 250 to 300 words should be sent by June 1, 2010 to doingqueerstudiesnow2010@umich.edu. We wish to notify presenters by Monday, June 21. We will ask for the completed paper for respondents by October 1, 2010.
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