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Martha Schoolman, assistant professor of English at Miami University, has been awarded a one-year fellowship from the Society of the Humanities at Cornell University to complete the manuscript for her book project titled American Abolitionist Geographies.
In addition to promoting research on central concepts, methods or problems in the humanities, the Society for the Humanities seeks to encourage serious and sustained discussion between teachers and learners at all levels of maturity. Schoolman is among six Society Fellows who will each receive $45,000 stipends.
Schoolman has taught at Miami since 2005. Her teaching focuses on U.S. literature published 1800-1865, especially literature relating to slavery and abolition and Native American-Euro-American relations. She also teaches courses exploring the connections between the protest cultures of the pre-Civil War era and 1960s. Her current project, which concerns the relationship between U.S. abolitionist literature and abolitionist writers’ critical engagement with U.S. and British imperialism, offers revisionist readings of works by authors including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson and William Wells Brown.
The theme for this year’s fellowship program is “networks/mobilities,” in order to further understanding of historical and contemporary flows of peoples, materials, images and ideas across physical and virtual boundaries.
Fellows will collaborate with two Senior Scholars in Residence. For fall 2009, it is Keller Easterling, associate professor of architecture, Yale University, and author of Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and Its Political Masquerades (MIT, 2005); Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways and Houses in America (MIT, 2001); a laser disk history of suburbia, Call it Home (with Richard Prelinger; Voyager, 1991); and a forthcoming book on global infrastructures, Extrastatecraft.
For spring 2010 the senior scholar is Brian Massumi,
professor of communications, University of Montreal. Massumi is the author of Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (Duke University Press, 2002); A User’s Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari (MIT Press, 1992); and others.
The Society for the Humanities was established at Cornell University in 1966 to support research and encourage imaginative teaching in the humanities. It is intended to be at once a research institute, a stimulus to educational innovation and a continuing society of scholars.
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