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2010-11
HARRIS FEINSOD will be a College Fellow at Northwestern University next year. Following this postdoc year, he will join Northwestern’s Department of English as an assistant professor, teaching courses on poetry, poetics, and the literature and culture of the Americas in the 20th century.
LORI FLORES received a Consortium for Faculty Diversity (CFD) Postdoctoral Fellowship at Bowdoin College and will be teaching courses for the history, Latin American studies, and gender and women’s studies departments for the 2011-2012 academic year.
NATALIE PHILLIPS (also 2008-09) has been appointed assistant professor of 18th-century British literature in the Department of English at Michigan State. Natalie will be staying on board with the research group at Stanford “Culture, Brain, and Learning,” returning to Stanford three to four times per year to stay up to date with the fMRI project.
COURTNEY ROBY will join the Department of Classics at Cornell University as assistant professor in fall 2011. While at the Center she defended her dissertation “The Encounter of Knowledge: Technical Ekphrasis between Alexandria and Rome” and will graduate this spring.
JAMES WOOD will be traveling this summer to the Houghton Library to consult the Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of material relating to Samuel Johnson in preparation for the fifth and final chapter of his dissertation-in-progress “Anecdote and Enlightenment, 1700-1800.” The research trip is funded by Stanford’s Fliegelman Archival Research Award.
2009-10
MARY KATHERINE CAMPBELL received one of the ACLS future faculty postdocs (offers from Berkeley, NYU, PITT, Ohio State, and Cal Tech), but took an assistant professor position at the University of Tennessee instead. These offers were due, she says, in no small part to the Humanities Center.
2008-09
JAN ESTEP published the essay “Who’s Afraid of Conceptual Art?” in Quodlibetica, Constellation #7, in April 2010, and the catalogue essay “David Lefkowitz, Other Positioning Systems,” in David Lefkowitz (Rochester Art Center, 2010). She also published “The Southern Land Not Fully Known: Naming Antarctica” in Quodlibetica, Constellation #10, October 2010, and “Art, Writing, Disciplinarity: The Political Potential of a Mixed Creative Practice” in Quoblibetica, Constellation #13, April 2011. To access these publications, visit http://www.quodlibetica.com/author/jestep/.
In 2009, Jan produced the artist publication/map Beneath the surface (of language), Silver Island Mountain Byway, Wendover, Utah, USA, in four-color offset print. The map, which is available at Printed Matter Inc., New York, NY, www.printedmatter.org, arose from the short research trip Jan took to the Center for Land Use Interpretation’s (CLUI) artist residency in Wendover, Utah, in Spring 2008, while she was at Stanford. It is modeled after the Wittgenstein map, Searching for Ludwig Wittgenstein, Lake Eidsvatnet, Skjolden, Sogn, Norway (2007), also at available at Printed Matter.
In October 2010 she designed and edited the collaborative artist book Issue: LAND, Volume Two in four-color, offset print. The book features fifteen artist projects that explore current environmental and land-use issues, including Jan’s essay “What Does a Sea Squirt Know? Why Art Needs a Brain,” and artist project “Grand Canyon Suicide Map.” Participating artists include Christine Baeumler (USA), Etienne Boulanger (France), The Center for Land Use Interpretation (USA), Song Chao (China), Matthias Einhoff (Germany), Jan Estep (USA), Simon Faithfull (England), Terike Haapoja (Finland), Nance Klehm (USA), KUNSTrePUBLIK (Germany), Laura Corcoran Mahnke (USA), Anna Metcalfe (USA), Daniel Seiple (USA/Germany), Mona Smith (USA), and Rebar (USA)/Works Progress (USA).
Jan also received a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for Short Form Writing, December 2009- March 2011. For more information on Jan’s work and publications, visit www.janestep.com.
2006-07
MEG BUTLER was awarded an ACLS Fellowship for 2012 to work on her book manuscript, “The King’s Canvas: The Transformation of Ancient Macedon.” This is based on her dissertation work, a large part of which she completed as a Geballe fellow. Meg is currently an assistant professor (since 2008) at Tulane, where she is in the Department of Classical Studies.
TROY JOLLIMORE is publishing a new book of poems titled At Lake Scugog this month in the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. The philosophical monograph that he started writing at the Center, Love’s Vision, will be published in June, also by Princeton University Press.
CHRISTY PICHICHERO is currently finishing a postdoctoral fellowship with Stanford’s Introduction to the Humanities Program. She has been appointed assistant professor of 17th and 18th century French studies at George Mason University and is the associate director of the Middlebury’s French School (summer linguistic and cultural immersion program) at the Mills College West Coast campus.
ERIC PORTER published the book he was working on while in residence at the Center, The Problem of the Future World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Race Concept at Midcentury (Duke University Press). The book is a compelling reassessment of the later writings of the iconic African American activist and intellectual W. E. B. Du Bois. The Problem of the Future World shows how Du Bois’s later writings help to address race and racism as protean, global phenomena in the present. Read more: http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=14746
1995-96
JAMES PORTER published The Origins of Aesthetic Thought in Ancient Greece: Matter, Sensation, and Experience with Cambridge University Press in November 2010. The book traces the origins of aesthetic thought and inquiry in their broadest manifestations as they evolved from before Homer down to the fourth century and then into later antiquity, with an emphasis on Greece in its earlier phases. Read more: http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item2715142/?site_locale=en_GB
1992-93
JOHN SEERY published A Political Companion to Walt Whitman (The University Press of Kentucky, 2010), the first full-length exploration of Whitman’s works through the lens of political theory. Read more: http://www.kentuckypress.com/live/title_detail.php?titleid=2443.
In 2011, John published a second book, Too Young to Run? A Proposal for an Age Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, with Penn State Press. Read about that book at psupress.org: http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-04853-6.html.
1991-92
DAVID HAHN has been contracted by Fin Records to release a single. Fin Records, an audiophile label based in Seattle, releases collector’s edition recordings on green translucent vinyl. The recording will be released later in 2011.
David’s 4-movement piece for mandolin and guitar, Passionate Isolation, has been published by Clear Note Publications. The piece won the 2003 Composition Prize from the Classical Mandolin Society of America. The work joins Concerto Anatolia and W Is For Weasel at Clear Note. You can hear examples of Passionate Isolation at this link: http://www.clearnote.net/PassionateIsolation.html.
David has two new pieces: “The Massacre of Suns,” for solo voice and dedicated to soprano Beth Griffith with text by Emily Dickinson; and “TIC*TAC*TOE,” for mandolin, guitar, and electronic sound, commissioned by the German-based MARE Duo. It is available as a MIDI version here: http://soundcloud.com/davidhahn/tic-tac-toe.
In addition to his compositions, David worked as sound designer for a production of The Happy Ones now playing at Seattle Public Theatre. A re-mix of some sounds used in the play can be found here: http://soundcloud.com/davidhahn/happy-ones-the-remix. He also has a new performing ensemble, Concert Imaginaire, which performs his music. David plays electric guitar, Ruthie Dornfeld plays violin, and Jay Kenney plays synthesizer and bass. They are currently auditioning percussionists.
1988-89
CAROLYN WILLIAMS published Gilbert and Sullivan: Gender, Genre, Parody, with Columbia University Press in 2011, which recasts our understanding of creativity in the late nineteenth century. Read more: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-14804-7/gilbert-and-sullivan.
1986-87
RENATO ROSALDO has a poetry collection that is scheduled to be published this coming July called Diego Luna’s Insider Tips. Published by Many Mountains Moving, it won the Many Mountains Moving poetry book manuscript contest for 2009.
