NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES SUMMER SEMINARS FOR COLLEGE TEACHERS, 1995 Purpose of the Program The Summer Seminars for College Teachers Program, offered by the National Endowment for the Humanities, provides college teachers, independent scholars, and other scholars (such as archivists, curators, editors, and librarians) a unique opportunity for advanced study or research in their own fields or in fields related to their interests. During the summer, the twelve scholars selected to participate in each of the seminars will work together on a topic of mutual interest under the direction of a distinguished scholar and teacher. Seminar participants, who will have access to the collections of a major library or museum, will discuss a body of common readings with their colleagues in the program, prepare written work, and, outside the seminar, pursue individual research or study projects of their own choosing and design. Through research, reflection, and frequent formal and informal discussions with the seminar director and with other teachers and scholars from across the country, seminar participants will increase their knowledge of the subjects that they teach and enhance their ability to impart to others an understanding of their disciplines and of the humanities in general. The seminars are especially designed for the Summer Seminars for College Teachers Program and are not intended to be identical to courses normally offered by graduate departments, nor will graduate credit be given for them. Seminar topics are broad enough to accommodate a wide range of interests while remaining central to the major ideas, texts, and approaches of the humanities. The focus of each seminar is substantive rather than pedagogical, reinforcing the participants' commitments to teaching and participants need not be specialists in the particular subject of the seminar. This year's seminars are five, six, seven, or eight weeks long. Individual Projects Beyond the work of the group, each participant will undertake an individual research project or a program of intensive reading under the guidance of the director. This project may or may not be directly related to the seminar topic. A tentative plan of research or study for the seminar is a required part of the application, but participants will be able to change or amend their projects with the guidance of the director once the seminar has begun. In many cases, the individual projects will tie into the work of the seminar. Particular seminars will vary in their research emphases, some focusing on individual reading or research projects, others concentrating more exclusively on the work of the seminar itself. Stipend and Tenure -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Participants in the program's eight-week seminars will receive a stipend of $4,000; participants in seven-week seminars will receive $3,600; participants in six-week seminars will receive $3,200; participants in five-week seminars will receive $2,825. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The stipend is intended to help cover travel expenses to and from the seminar location, books and other research expenses, and living expenses for the tenure period. Participants are required to remain at the seminar location until the final meeting of the group and to spend full time on the work of the seminar and on their individual study for the entire tenure period. The program is intended to serve those whose primary duties involve teaching undergraduates, but others who are qualified to do the work of the seminar and contribute to it (such as independent scholars and scholars employed by museums, libraries, historical societies, and like organizations) are also eligible and encouraged to apply. Preference is given to those who have not recently had the opportunity to use the resources of a major library or who have not had significant release time for independent study and professional development. Members of Ph.D.-granting departments are normally not eligible. The Endowment encourages applications from faculty at historically black colleges and universities and at two-year colleges. Applicants must ordinarily have completed their professional training by March 1, 1995. Although an applicant need not have an advanced degree in order to qualify, candidates for degrees are not eligible -- except for faculty (not graduate-student teaching assistants) who have been teaching undergraduates full time for at least three years, i.e., since the 1992-93 academic year or earlier. Individuals may not apply to seminars directed by either their dissertation advisers or faculty at their own institutions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Participants must be U.S. citizens or foreign nationals who have been residing in the United States or its territories for at least the three years immediately preceding the application deadline. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- An individual may apply to no more than two seminars in any one year. Persons found to have applied to more than two will not be awarded a place in any seminar. Participants in NEH Summer Seminars in 1992 or earlier are eligible to apply for 1995, but those who attended seminars in 1993 or 1994. How to Apply For detailed information about the requirements and subject matter of individual seminars, the availability of housing, and for application instructions and forms, please contact the seminar directors directly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The application deadline is March 1, 1995, and awards will be announced on March 28. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NEH Institutes In addition to the NEH Summer Seminars for College Teachers, the Endowment's Institutes, sponsored by the Division of Education, provide further opportunities for faculty in institutions of higher education. Institutes focus on intensive study of texts, historical periods, ideas, and issues central to undergraduate teaching in the humanities. Participation is open to full-time teachers in two-year and four-year colleges and universities, with twenty to thirty participants in a given institute selected in open competition by the institute's staff. For information about this program, write to the Division of Education in Room 302, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20506, or call 202/606-8380. Equal Opportunity Endowment programs do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age. For further information, write to the Equal Opportunity Officer, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20506. TDD (for the hearing-impaired only) 202/606-8282. Anthropology DALE F. EICKELMAN Asian Studies Program 6191 Bartlett Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire 03755-3530 E-mail address: c.eickelman@dartmouth.edu Re-Imagining Societies: The Middle East and Central Asia June 19 to August 4, 1995 (seven weeks) GEOFFREY WHITE and LAMONT LINDSTROM Program for Cultural Studies East-West Center Honolulu, Hawaii 96848 E-mail: whiteg@ewc.bitnet The Politics of Culture and Identity: Pacific Island Perspectives June 12 to August 4, 1995 (eight weeks) See also: English and American Literature--Mullaney Foreign and Comparative Literature--Slater History--Anderson Arts WILLIAM R. FERRIS Center for the Study of Southern Culture University of Mississippi University, Mississippi 38677 E-mail: bill@barnard.ccsc.olemiss.edu Blues as History, Literature, and Culture June 12 to August 4, 1995 (eight weeks) ALLEN FORTE Department of Music c/o Yale NEH Seminars 246 Church Street, Suite 101 New Haven, Connecticut 06510-1722 E-mail: forte@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu The American Popular Ballad, 1925-50 June 19 to August 4, 1995 (seven weeks) STEPHEN MURRAY c/o Summer Session Office 419 Lewisohn Hall New York, New York 10027 E-mail: sm42@columbia.edu Gothic in the Ile-de-France [Location: Paris] June 12 to August 4, 1995 (eight weeks) JESSIE ANN OWENS Department of Music Brandeis University Waltham, Massachusetts 02254 E-mail: owens@binah.cc.brandeis.edu Analyzing Early Music, 1300-1600 June 12 to August 4, 1995 (eight weeks) HOWARD STEIN c/o Summer Session Office 419 Lewisohn Hall Columbia University New York, New York 10027 The American Playwright, 1920-50 June 12 to July 28, 1995 (seven weeks) See also: English and American Literature--Albright English and American Literature DANIEL ALBRIGHT Department of English University of Rochester Rochester, New York 14627 E-mail: albr@db1.cc.rochester.edu Modernism in Literature and Music June 12 to July 21, 1995 (six weeks) JOHN BRENKMAN Department of English Baruch College/City University of New York 17 Lexington Avenue New York, New York 10010 E-mail: venbb@cunyvm.cuny.edu Democracy and Culture: Emergent American Literatures June 12 to July 28, 1995 LEO DAMROSCH Department of English Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 Rousseau and Blake: Inventing the Modern Self June 19 to August 11, 1995 (eight weeks) N. KATHERINE HAYLES Department of English University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, California 90024 E-mail: hayles@humnet.ucla.edu Literature in Transition: The Impact of Information Technologies June 26 to August 18, 1995 (eight weeks) MARY JACOBUS Department of English Cornell University Ithaca, New York 14853 E-mail: mlj2@cornell.edu Feminism and Enlightenment: Women Writers and the 1790s June 19 to July 28, 1995 (six weeks) MICHAEL LEVENSON Department of English University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 E-mail: mhc@virginia.edu The Culture of London, 1850-1925 [Location: Institute of Historical Research, London] June 19 to August 4, 1995 (seven weeks) MASON I. LOWANCE, JR. Department of English University of Massachusetts, Amherst Amherst, Massachusetts 01003 E-mail: masonl@english.umass.edu Uncle Tom's Cabin and Antebellum American Culture June 19 to July 28, 1995 (six weeks) [Seminar designed for, but not limited to, two-year-college teachers] WALTER BENN MICHAELS Department of English Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland 21218 E-mail: micha wb@jhunix.hcf.edu American Modernism and the Emergence of Cultural Identity June 26 to August 4, 1995 (six weeks) NANCY K. MILLER Ph.D. Program in English City University of New York Graduate Center 33 West 42nd Street New York, New York 10036 Autobiographical Acts: Gender, Culture, Writing, Theory June 19 to July 28, 1995 (six weeks) STEVEN MULLANEY Department of English University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 E-mail: steven.mullaney@umich.edu Inventing the New World: Texts, Contexts, Approaches June 12 to August 4, 1995 (eight weeks) JAMES PHELAN Department of English Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio 43210 E-mail: phelan.1@osu.edu Issues in the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative June 19 to August 11, 1995 (eight weeks) JOHN SEELYE Department of English University of Florida Gainesville, Florida 32611 Strategies of Socialization in Children's Literature of the Golden Age June 19 to August 11, 1995 (eight weeks) [Location: Dartmouth College] PAUL SZARMACH Medieval Institute Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008 E-mail: paul.szarmach@wmich.edu New and Old Approaches to Beowulf and Old English Literature June 19 to July 28, 1995 (six weeks) See also: Arts--Stein Foreign and Comparative Literature SANDER GILMAN Institute for German Cultural Studies Cornell University 726 University Avenue Ithaca, New York 14850 E-mail: slgilman@midway.uchicago.edu The Culture of Psychoanalysis June 26 to August 11, 1995 (eight weeks) [Seminar co-sponsored by Cornell University and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)] MICHAEL HOLQUIST and WALTER REED Department of Comparative Literature c/o NEH Yale Seminars 246 Church Street, Suite 101 New Haven, Connecticut 06510-1722 E-mail: holquist@minerva.cis.yale.edu The Bible and Literature in a Bakhtinian Perspective June 19 to August 4, 1995 (seven weeks) ULLRICH LANGER Department of French and Italian University of Wisconsin E-mail: ulanger@macc.wisc.edu Literature and Moral Decisions in the Early Modern Period July 3 to August 11, 1995 (six weeks) KAREN NEWMAN Department of Comparative Literature Brown University Providence, Rhode Island 02912 E-mail: knewman@brownvm.brown.edu Surveying Paris: Urban Space and Urban Culture in the Early Modern City [Location: Paris] June 19 to July 21, 1995 (five weeks) ELIAS RIVERS and GEORGINA SABAT-RIVERS Department of Hispanic Languages State University of New York at Stony Brook Stony Brook, New York 11794-3371 Baroque Literature in Its Spanish and Spanish-American Contexts June 19 to August 4, 1995 (seven weeks) ENRICO MARIO SANTI Dean's Office Claremont Graduate School 160 East 10th Street Claremont, California 91711 E-mail: esanti@guvax.georgetown.edu Modern Poetry and Poetics in Latin America, 1880-1980 June 19 to August 4, 1995 (seven weeks) CANDACE SLATER Department of Spanish and Portuguese University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California 94720 E-mail: amazon@garnet.berkeley.edu Images of Amazonia and Ideas of Image-Making June 12 to July 28, 1995 (seven weeks) SUSAN SULEIMAN Department of Romance Languages Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 War and Memory: Postwar Representations of World War II and the Occupation in France June 26 to August 4, 1995 (six weeks) SAMUEL WEBER Program in Critical Theory 2225 Rolfe Hall University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, California 90024-1530 E-mail: weber@humnet.ucla.edu >From the Work of Art to the Workings of the Media: Communication and Signification in Walter Benjamin and Other Theorists June 26 to August 18, 1995 (seven weeks) See also: English and American Literature--Damrosch History GARY CLAYTON ANDERSON Department of History University of Oklahoma Norman, Oklahoma 73069 American Indian Ethnohistory June 12 to August 4, 1995 (eight weeks) JOHN BODEL and RICHARD SALLER Department of Classics Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903-0270 E-mail: bodel@gandalf.rutgers.edu Death, Commemoration, and Society in Ancient Rome [Location: American Academy in Rome] June 19 to August 11, 1995 (eight weeks) ALBERT CRAIG and HAROLD BOLITHO Harvard-Yenching Institute 2 Divinity Avenue Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 Theory and Practice in Japanese Cultural History June 26 to August 11, 1995 (seven weeks) PHILIP CURTIN Department of History Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland 21218 E-mail: curtinpd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Social and Economic History of the Atlantic Plantation Complex, 1450-1890 June 12 to July 28, 1995 (seven weeks) HANS J. HILLERBRAND Department of Religion Duke University Durham, North Carolina 27708-0964 E-mail: hjh@acpub.duke.edu Religious Reform and Societal Change in the Sixteenth Century: New Perspectives June 12 to July 21, 1995 (six weeks) THOMAS KESSNER Ph.D. Program in History City University of New York Graduate Center 33 West 42nd Street New York, New York 10036 E-mail: kes@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu The History of a Modern Metropolis: New York, 1870-1940 June 26 to August 4, 1995 (six weeks) [Seminar designed for, but not limited to, two-year-college teachers] JOHN KOMLOS Ludwigstrasse 33/IV University of Munich D-80539 Munchen GERMANY E-mail: neh@econhist.vwl.uni-muenchen.d400.de The Industrial Revolution in Comparative Perspective June 26 to August 18, 1995 (eight weeks) N. GEOFFREY PARKER Department of History c/o NEH Yale Seminars 246 Church Street, Suite 101 New Haven, Connecticut 06510-1722 E-mail: parkerg@minerva.cis.yale.edu European Encounters with the Wider World, 1400-1700 July 10 to August 11, 1995 (five weeks) DAVID ROCK Interdisciplinary Humanities Center 3591-B Library University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010 E-mail: rock@humanitas.ucsb.edu Economic Development and Democratization in Argentina and Latin America, 1890 to the Present June 26 to August 11, 1995 (seven weeks) ANDREW SCULL Department of Sociology University of California, San Diego La Jolla, California 92093-0102 E-mail: ascull@ucsd.edu Madness and Society in Britain and North America, 1600-1950 June 12 to August 4, 1995 (eight weeks) DALE VAN KLEY Department of History Calvin College Grand Rapids, Michigan 49456 E-mail: vkld@calvin.edu Religion, Politics, and the Origins of the French Revolution [Location: Newberry Library, Chicago] July 10 to August 18, 1995 (six weeks) See also: English and American Literature--Levenson Foreign and Comparative Literature--Suleiman Philosophy JONATHAN BENNETT Department of Philosophy Syracuse University Syracuse, New York 13244 E-mail: bennett@mailbox.syr.edu Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz: Central Themes June 12 to August 4, 1995 (eight weeks) PETER FRENCH Department of Philosophy University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado 80309 E-mail: pfrench@trinity Responsibility and Social Issues: Theory and Applications June 19 to July 28, 1995 (six weeks) PAUL HUMPHREYS Department of Philosophy University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 E-mail: pwh2a@virginia.edu Causation, Explanation, and Empiricism June 19 to August 11, 1995 (eight weeks) WILLIAM LYCAN Department of Philosophy University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3125 E-mail: conscious@unc.edu Problems of Consciousness July 10 to August 18, 1995 (six weeks) Politics and Society VALERIE BUNCE Department of Government Cornell University Ithaca, New York 14853-4601 E-mail: vjb@cornell.edu Democratization in Europe June 19 to August 4, 1995 (seven weeks) DONALD LEVINE Department of Sociology University of Chicago Chicago, Illinois 60637 E-mail: dlok@midway.uchicago.edu Freedom and Culture in Classical German Social Theory June 19 to July 28, 1995 (six weeks) WALTER MURPHY Department of Politics Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey 08544 Constitutional Democracy June 19 to July 28, 1995 (six weeks) ROGER WALDINGER Department of Sociology University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, California 90024 E-mail: waldinge@soc.sscnet.ucla.edu Contemporary Immigration to the United States June 19 to August 11, 1995 (eight weeks) See also: Anthropology--Eickelman, White and Lindstrom History--Scull Religious Studies WILLIAM DEVER Department of Near Eastern Studies University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona 85721 E-mail: neareast@ccit.arizona.edu Imagining the Past: Texts, Artifacts and Ancient Israelite Religion June 12 to July 21, 1995 (six weeks) CARL ERNST and TONY STEWART Department of Religious Studies University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3225 E-mail: cernst@gibbs.oit.unc.edu Hindu and Muslim: Rethinking Religious Boundaries in South Asia June 12 to August 4, 1995 (eight weeks) See also: History--Hillerbrand, Van Kley