The Black Studies Project: 50 Years and Counting
Born in the heat of struggle, the Black Studies movement in the United States looks back now at more than fifty years of curricular development and ahead to a hopeful future at least as long. This year’s Trilling Lecture examines the moment Black Studies is transformed, virtually overnight, from protest on the streets of America into a curricular object—still controversial nonetheless—that has…
Celebrating Recent Work by Julia Doe
In The Comedians of the King, Julia Doe traces the impact of Bourbon patronage on the development of opéra comique in the turbulent prerevolutionary years. Drawing on both musical and archival evidence, the book presents the history of this understudied genre and unpacks the material structures that supported its rapid evolution at the royally sponsored Comédie-Italienne. Doe demonstrates how…
Celebrating Recent Work by Susan Bernofsky
The great Swiss-German modernist author Robert Walser lived eccentrically on the fringes of society, shocking his Berlin friends by enrolling in butler school and later developing an urban-nomad lifestyle in the Swiss capital, Bern, before checking himself into a psychiatric clinic. A connoisseur of power differentials, his pronounced interest in everything inconspicuous and modest—social…
Peer-Reviewed Journal Publishing from the Perspectives of Editors and Authors
The first of three workshops on Inclusion, Diversity and Equity in the Editing and Publishing of Peer-Reviewed Journals. Subsequent workshops will take place in February and April 2022.
Fellow Spotlight: Heidi Hausse
Fellow Spotlight: Christopher Florio
Fellow Spotlight: Max Mishler
Fellow Spotlight: Arden Hegele
Fellow Spotlight: Carmel Raz
Fellow Spotlight: David Gutkin
Fellow Spotlight: Dan-el Padilla Peralta
Fellow Spotlight: William Deringer
Fellow Spotlight: Vanessa Agard-Jones
Fellow Spotlight: Rebecca Woods
Fellow Spotlight: Ian McCready-Flora
