The Buck, the Black and the Existential Hero (Northwestern University Press, 2020) combines philosophy, literary theory, and jazz studies with Africana studies to develop a theory of the black male literary imagination. In doing so, it seeks to answer fundamental aesthetic and existential questions: How does the experience of being black and male in the […]
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David Faflik’s Urban Formalism, 2019 Subvention Grant Winner
Urban Formalism: The Work of City Reading (Fordham University Press, 2020) radically reimagines what it meant to “read” a brave new urban world during the transformative middle decades of the nineteenth century. At a time when contemporaries in the twin capitals of modernity in the West, New York, and Paris, were learning to make sense […]
Continue reading "David Faflik’s Urban Formalism, 2019 Subvention Grant Winner"Rachel Afusa Ansong, 2020 Graduate Research Grant Winner
Akans in the Gullah Geechee is a hybrid poetry and art project that explores Adinkra symbols in South Carolina and Georgia. The regions in North America spanning from North Carolina to Florida currently, known as the Gullah Geechee was previously settled by enslaved Africans from West Africa. Although scholars have extensive research on Adinkra symbols from […]
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The University of Rhode Island’s Historic Textile and Costume Collection contains one of the earliest known examples of quilting, a recently donated collection of disarticulated English quilt blocks dated from 1697. The blocks were originally part of a larger quilt that was made, moved through space, possessed by various actors, and ultimately disassembled over the course […]
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Providence Island is in the western Caribbean and for eleven years between 1630-1641, it was the site of an English Puritan colony that was under constant threat of Spanish attack. “The Battle for Providence: How the Portuguese, English, Spanish and Africans Fought for Control of Providence Island, 1629-1670″ argues that scholars have paid insufficient attention […]
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Bowen’s “Information Literacy and Ethics in the Age of Technological Disruption” will take the form of a workshop where local high school students will have the opportunity to think critically about how Big Data and ubiquitous technological devices can be both beneficial and harmful. Posing ethical questions, as well as analyzing both films and text, […]
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New England Humanities Consortium extends the deadline for submissions for seed grants up to $5,0000.00 until May 15. Applicants with research initiatives such as research projects, summer seminars, study or working groups, shared speakers across institutions, collaborative course design, or exhibitions in the humanities that seek to capitalize on the collaborative network of the consortium are welcome to apply and […]
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Graduate Research Grant William Bowden, Ph.D. candidate, English, “Information Literacy and Ethics in the Age of Technological Disruption.” Stephen Luce, MA candidate, History, “The Battle for Providence: How the Portuguese, English, Spanish and Africans Fought for Control of Providence Island, 1629-1670.” Katherine Williams-O’Donnell, MA candidate, Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design), “The 1697 Quilt […]
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Fall 2019 Humanities Grant Applications Due: November 1 Humanities grants are available to assist faculty and graduate students in the humanities who expect to incur specific research costs, such as those associated with travel to archives, the purchase of technology, payment for translations, and obtaining documents for study. Attendance at scholarly conferences will not be considered […]
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