Humanities Institute Research Fellows

 

2008-09

UB Faculty Fellows

Ana Mariella Bacigalupo,  Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology

"Living History through Spirits: Memory, Forgetting and Shamanic Historical Consciousness in a Mapuche Community in Chile"  MORE>>>>

Sarah Bay-Cheng, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Theater & Dance / Media Study

"From the Avant-Garde to the Avatar: The Performing Body in the 20th Century"  MORE>>>>

David Castillo, Associate Professor, Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures

"Gallery of Baroque Horrors: Origins of the Fantastic in the Age of Curiosities"  MORE>>>>

Neil Coffee, Assistant Professor, Department of Classics

"The Rhetoric of Economics in Classical Rome "  MORE>>>>

Anthony Conrad, Professor, Department of Media Study

"Realigning Alberti: Projection and Perspective "   MORE>>>>

Joan Copjec, UB Distinguished Professor, Department of English

"The Imaginal World: Islam, Psychoanalysis, and the Cinema of Abbas Kiaostami"  MORE>>>>

Carole Emberton, Assistant Professor, Department of History

"Between the Law and the Lash: Race, Violence, and American Citizenship in the Age of Slave Emancipation"  MORE>>>>

Jeffrey Good, Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics

"Towards an Areal Grammar of Lower Fungom"  MORE>>>>

Elizabeth Otto, Assistant Professor, Department of Visual Studies

"Modernist Masculinities: Art & Photomontage in Interwar Germany"  MORE>>>>

Theresa Runstedtler, Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies

"Journeymen: Boxing, Race, and the Transnational World of Jack Johnson"  MORE>>>>

Erik Seeman, Associate Professor, Department of History

"Death in the New World: Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1492-1800"  MORE>>>>

Kari Winter, Professor, Department of American Studies

"From Vermont Abolitionist to Virginia Slaveholder? Benjamin Franklin Prentiss and Antebellum Family Values"  MORE>>>>

 

 UB Libraries Fellows

David Gray Chair Library Fellow

Peter Quartermain, Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Department of English

"A Reader's Edition of The Collected Early and The Collected Late Poems, Plays, and Prose of Robert Duncan (American Poett, 1919-1988)"   MORE>>>>

Charles D. Abbott Library Fellow

Lisa Siraganian, Assistant Professor, Southern Methodist University, Department of English

"Wyndham Lewis's Theory of the Art Object, in Practice: A Study of The Childremass and The Revenge for Love Working Manuscripts"  MORE>>>>

James Joyce Library Fellow

Jennifer Burns Levin, University of California, Irvine, Department of English

"Lower Discipline:  The Many Masochisms of Modernism" MORE>>>>

UB Graduate Fellows

Caitlin Keegan, Doctoral Candidate, Department of American Studies

"Public Affections: The Melodramatics of American Democracy"  MORE>>>>

Theodora B. Kopestonsky, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Classics

"Kokkinovrysi: A Classical Shrine to the Nymphs at Corinth"  MORE>>>>

New York Council for the Humanities Graduate Fellow

Gregory Young, Doctoral Candidate, Department of American Studies

"From Brooklyn to Buffalo: Tourism and Travel Narratives of the Empire State "  MORE>>>>

2007-08

UB Faculty Fellows

Tim Dean, Professor of English; Director of Graduate Admissions and Fellowships

"Ethics of the Impersonal"    MORE>>>>

Kalliiopi Nikolopoulou, Assistant Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Comparative Literature

"Tragically Speaking: Ancients and Moderns"    MORE>>>>

Jiyuan Yu, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy

"Philosophy as the Art of Living in Greece and China"   MORE>>>>

UB Libraries Fellows

David Gray Chair Library Fellow

Edith Morris Vásquez, Assistant Professor, Pitzer College, CA, English and World Literature

"William Carlos Williams:  Identity and Innovations"  MORE>>>>

Charles D. Abbott Library Fellow

Yolanda Morató  Agrafojo, University of Huelva, Spain, Department of English

"Wyndham Lewis Research Project for Spanish Editions and Translations"  MORE>>>>

James Joyce Library Fellow

Stacey Herbert, Independent Scholar, Dublin, Ireland

"James Joyce Bibliography Project"    MORE>>>>

Library Fellow

Idit Alphandary, Tel Aviv University, Israel, Departments of Literature & NCJW Women and Gender Studies Program

"Autonomy and Fellowship in Guy de Maupassant and D. W. Winnicott" MORE>>>>

New York Council for the Humanities Graduate Fellow

Mary C. Foltz, Graduate Student, UB Department of English

Reading Between the Lines (RBTL) Book Discussion: "Wasting Away: Contemporary Writing on Environmental Crises"    MORE>>>>

Affiliated Fellows

Kosciuszko Foundation Fellow

Slawomir Jozefowicz, Institute of Political Science, Warsaw University, Poland

"Utopias of Freedom"    MORE>>>>

 

2006-07

UB Faculty Fellows

Marc Bohlen, Associate Professor, Department of Media Study

"Make Language: Living with Synthetic Speech "     MORE>>>>

Elliot Caplan, Professor, Department of Media Studies & Director, Center for the Moving Image

"Hidden Things: a children's story" MORE>>>>

Amy Graves, Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

"Une grande histoire de petits textes: l'historiographie engagée de Simon Goulart"   MORE>>>>

Carine Mardorossian, Associate Professor, Department of English

"What is Left of Radical Feminism?"   MORE>>>>

Everett Yuehong Zhang, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology

"Life, Sacrifice, and the Transformation of Chinese Socialism"   MORE>>>>

UB Libraries Fellows

David Gray Chair Library Fellow
Maria Farland, Assistant Professor, Fordham University Departments of English and American Studies

"William Carlos Williams & Agrarian Inferiority" MORE>>>>

David Gray Chair Library Fellow
Stephen Fredman, Professor & Chair, University of Notre Dame Department of English

"'Grief's Its Proper Mode': Robert Duncan Re-Enters Caesar's Gate in 1972"   MORE>>>>

Charles D. Abbott Library Fellow
Susanne E. Hall, Graduate Student, University of California, Irvine Department of English & Comparative Literature

"Poetic-In-Justice: 1960s U.S. Poetry in the Courtroom"    MORE>>>>

James Joyce Library Fellow
Geert Lernout, Professor, University of Antwerp Departments of English and Comparative Literature & Director, Antwerp James Joyce Center

"Finnegans Wake Notebooks at Buffalo Edition"   MORE>>>>

New York Council for the Humanities Graduate Fellows

Alex Bitterman, Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology Department of Graphic Design

Reading Between the Lines (RBTL) Book Discussion: "Branding of Place: How Corporate-style Branding is Changing Where and How We Live"     MORE>>>>

Luke Goble, Graduate Student, UB Department of American Studies

Reading Between the Lines (RBTL) Book Discussion: "Immigration and the Idea of America "    MORE>>>>