LITERARY PORTRAYALS OF PALESTINIAN LIVES Mohamed Anis Ferchichi & Shanee Stepakoff, PhD Students, English Most universities offer few if any opportunities for students to learn about the past century of Palestinian lives in a way that truly engages with complexity and diversity and that fosters meaningful insight. In contrast to the methodologies most commonly used […]
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“The Winnie” Grant Runner Up 2020
The URI Campus: A Walk Through Time Kristine Bovy, Dept. Chair, Sociology & Anthropology Catherine DeCesare, Senior Lecturer, History Rod Mather, Dept. Chair, History “The Winnie” grant will be used for curriculum development to transition the temporary one credit course, The URI Campus: A Walk Through Time, to a traditional three credit class. This team-taught […]
Continue reading "“The Winnie” Grant Runner Up 2020 "Scott Kushner’s work “Crowd Control,” 2020 Faculty Grant Winner
How does a mass of people become an audience? Through effective crowd control, technologies that channel flows of bodies. Scott Kushner’s project “Crowd Control: Organizing Audiences around Spectacle in the Industrial Era” uses archival evidence to show the ways that Industrial-era crowd control technologies sought to organize masses into docile audiences. By rationalizing the masses that formed […]
Continue reading "Scott Kushner’s work “Crowd Control,” 2020 Faculty Grant Winner"David Faflik’s “Benjamin Franklin em Brasil” 2020 Faculty Research Grant Awardee
Professor Faflik’s research on Benjamin Franklin figures as a chapter in his current book project, a historical study of the role that gifting has played in the at times unpredictable circulation of American literature. With the funding from his Faculty Research Grant, he will spend a month-long residence at the Library Company of Philadelphia, where […]
Continue reading "David Faflik’s “Benjamin Franklin em Brasil” 2020 Faculty Research Grant Awardee"Congratulations Spring 2020 Grant Winners
Faculty Research Grant: David Faflik, English, “Benjamin Franklin em Brasil.” Scott Kushner, Communication Studies, “Crowd Control: Organizing Audiences around Spectacle in the Industrial Era.” Graduate Research Grant: Rachel Afua Ansong, English, “Adinkra: Akans in the Gullah Geechee.” Visiting Scholar Awards: Kathleen Davis, English, will bring in Honoree Jeffers (Professor of English, University of […]
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At the invitation of Professor Kathleen Davis, English, Honoree Jeffers (Professor of English, University of Oklahoma) will speak as part of URI’s annual “The Caged Bird Sing” Poetry Contest and Festival in Fall 2020. Professor Ignacio Perez-Ibanez, Languages, has arranged for Professor Miguel Zugasti (Professor of Literature, Universidad de Navarra) to speak at URI’s international conference on […]
Continue reading "2020 Visiting Scholar Grant Winners Announced"Alan Verskin’s A Vision of Yemen: the Travels of a European Orientalist and His Native Guide, 2019 Subvention Grant Winner
A Vision of Yemen: the Travels of a European Orientalist and His Native Guide (Stanford University Press, 2019), deals with the travels of a French professor and his guide who traveled through Yemen in 1870. The journey was unique because, very unusually, the guide not only provided one of the few witnesses we have of […]
Continue reading "Alan Verskin’s A Vision of Yemen: the Travels of a European Orientalist and His Native Guide, 2019 Subvention Grant Winner"Jessica Strubel’s Kaleidoscope of Textiles, 2019 Winnie Grant Winner
The funding from “The Winnie” Grant will support an exhibition, The Kaleidoscope of Textiles: Dress as Multidimensional Cultural Documents, which will provide opportunities in professional practice for graduate students and upper-level undergraduate students in preservation, exhibition, and storage of historic artifacts. Specifically, students will survey regional styles of dress, fashion, and textiles housed within the University of Rhode Island’s Historic […]
Continue reading "Jessica Strubel’s Kaleidoscope of Textiles, 2019 Winnie Grant Winner"Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp’s Refocus: The Cinema of Rachid Bouchareb, 2019 Subvention Grant Winner
Refocus: The Cinema of Rachid Bouchareb, edited by Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp and Michael Gott (to be published by Edinburgh University Press in 2020), is the first book-length study of the internationally recognized director’s work. Bouchareb’s films are remarkably varied in their themes, formal elements, and narrative settings, ranging from Senegal, England, Vietnam, and Algeria, to France, Belgium, […]
Continue reading "Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp’s Refocus: The Cinema of Rachid Bouchareb, 2019 Subvention Grant Winner"Galen Johnson’s Merleu-Ponty’s Poetic of the World, 2019 Subvention Grant Winner
Merleau-Ponty’s Poetic of the World: Philosophy and Literature, co-authored with Mauro Carbone and Emmanuel de Saint Aubert, will be published by Fordham University Press in 2020. Merleau-Ponty has long been known as one of the most important philosophers of aesthetics, yet most discussions of his aesthetics have focused on visual art. This book corrects that balance […]
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