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2008-2009 Fellows

SENIOR FELLOWS
Tenured Faculty of Emory University                              

Paul B. Courtright is Professor in the Department of Religion and the Graduate Division of Religion. Courtright’s scholarly focus is on the religious traditions of India. His first book, Ganeśa: Lord of Obstacles, Lord of Beginnings (Oxford University Press, 1985) received the Best First Book Award in the History of Religion by the American Council of Learned Societies. During his fellowship year at the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Courtright will research and write a book on satire and caricature in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Britain and India, which focuses on how each culture came to terms with the colonial experience during a period of early imperial formation.
                       
Hazel Gold is Associate Professor of Spanish and a core faculty member in the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies. She is the author of The Reframing of Realism: Galdós and the Discourses of the Nineteenth-Century Spanish Novel (1993) as well as numerous articles on 19 th-21 st century Spain. Her scholarly interests include Spanish cultural studies, narrative theory, urban literature and film, and Jewish literature and culture of the Hispanic world. While at the Fox Center she will be working on “Writing as Postscript: Epistolary Discourse in Modern Spain.”

Eric L. Goldstein is Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies. His research focus is American and modern Jewish history and culture. He is the author of The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race and American Identity (2006), for which he received the Theodore Saloutos Prize in American Immigration and Ethnic History, the Saul Viener Prize in American Jewish History, and the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature Choice Award. While at the Center, he will be working on "Turning A Page: How Yiddish-Speaking Immigrants to America Were Transformed Through Reading."
 
Garth Tissol, Associate Professor of Classics, is the author of The Face of Nature:  Wit, Narrative, and Cosmic Origins in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (1997) and co-editor of Defining Genre and Gender in Latin Literature:  Essays Presented to William S. Anderson on His Seventy-Fifth Birthday (2005).  He has also published on Virgil and on John Dryden’s translations of Latin poetry.  While at the Center, he will work on a commentary on Ovid’s Epistulae ex Ponto, Book 1.
 
JUNIOR and POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS

Michele B. Reid (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin) is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Georgia State University where she specializes in the African Diaspora in Latin America and Atlantic World history.  Her interests include race and gender relations, slavery and freedom, identity, and immigration in nineteenth-century Cuba, the Caribbean, and Latin America.  Her project at the Fox Center explores comparative black emigration in the Americas to illuminate how free people of African descent linked emigration, resistance, and equality during the age of revolution.

Rivka Swenson (Ph.D., University of Virginia) is the author of published and forthcoming articles on Susanna Centlivre (paratextual gender instability), Eliza Haywood (optical theory and narrative practice), and, drawing on her current project, Jane Barker (genre politics) and Tobias Smollett (diaspora and literary form). Her project engages aesthetic politics in popular and literary culture during a long British 18th century that begins with the 1707 Act of Union of England, Scotland, and Wales. It argues that formal and iconic experimentation in prose narratives by Daniel Defoe, Jane Barker, Tobias Smollett, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, and Susan Ferrier limns the tensions between forms of progress, restoration, integration, and fragmentation that structure competing narratives of Britishness.

POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW IN POETICS

David Caplan is Associate Professor of English at Ohio Wesleyan University. He has published Questions of Possibility: Contemporary Poetry and Poetic Form (2004; paperback, 2006) and Poetic Form: An Introduction (2005). A collection of his poems, In the World He Created According to His Will, is scheduled to be published in 2010. While at the Center, he will work on Rhyme's Challenge.

GRADUATE DISSERTATION COMPLETION FELLOWS
Candidates of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Emory University

E. Regina Helfrich (Department of Philosophy) is completing her dissertation, "Solidarity across Sexual Identities: Expanding the Category of the Human." Engaging with the work of Judith Butler, Martha Nussbaum, and Maria Lugones, her dissertation confronts the issue of who is understood in practical terms, through social behaviors, to be a person possessing human dignity. Focusing on issues of sexual identity, she elaborates a social practice of "solidarity" that performatively expands the notion of who counts as human.

Philip Misevich (Department of History) is completing his dissertation, "A 'Freetown' at What Cost: Abolition and the Growth of the Slave and Produce Trades in the Southern Sierra Leone Hinterland, 1787-1900," which explores how the establishment of Britain's first West African colony affected commercial, social and political developments in the region's interior.  His research demonstrates the vital role that rural regions play in the growth of large urban centers and examines the impact of antislavery initiatives at the regional and local levels in West Africa.

2007-2008 Fellows

SENIOR FELLOWS
Tenured Faculty of Emory University

Harvey Klehr is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Politics and History. His research focuses on American radicalism and Soviet espionage in the United States. His most recent books, co-authored with John Haynes, are Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America (2000), In Denial: Historians, Communism and Espionage (2003), and Early Cold War Spies (2006). He currently serves on the National Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities. While at the Center, he will work on "The Vassiliev Archive: KGB Espionage in the United States."

Judith A. Miller, Associate Professor, Department of History, is the author of Mastering the Market: The State and the Grain Trade in Northern France, 1700-1860 (1998) and co-editor of Taking Liberties: The Problems of a New Order in France, 1794-1804 (2002) with Howard G. Brown. Professor Miller is a Chevalier in the French Ordre des Palmes Académiques. While at the Fox Center, she will be working on "The Political Uses of Fear in the Late French Revolution, 1794-1815."

Laurie L. Patton is Professor of Early Indian Religions in the Department of Religion. She has conducted extensive research in Pune, Maharashtra, for the book she will be working on, Grandmother Language: Women and Sanskrit in Maharashtra and Beyond. Her scholarly interests include the interpretation of early Indian ritual and narrative, comparative mythology, literary theory in the study of religion, and women and Hinduism in contemporary India. Her translation of the Bhagavad Gita is forthcoming.

Polly J. Price, Professor of Law, is an honors graduate of Harvard Law School, and holds both a B.A. and an M.A. in American History from Emory. She has taught torts, legal methods, American legal history, and Latin American legal systems. The author of numerous articles as well as a book, Property Rights, Professor Price will use her FCHI fellowship to complete a biography of the late Judge Richard S. Arnold, Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Rebecca R. Stone, Associate Professor in the Art History Department and Faculty Curator of Art of the Ancient Americas in the Michael C. Carlos Museum. She has published Art of the Andes from Chavín to Inca (1996), and Seeing with New Eyes: Highlights of the Michael C. Carlos Museum Collection of Art of the Ancient Americas (2002). Professor Stone’s research focuses on the role of shamanic visions in ancient Central and South American art and architecture and she is writing a book to be entitled Flowers in the Dark: Visions and the Artistic Enterprise in Ancient Central and South America.

JUNIOR and POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS

Mary Dzon (Ph.D., University of Toronto) is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Tennessee and an active member of the Marco (Medieval/Renaissance) Institute. Her interests include the medieval life cycle, romances, theology and devotional literature written in both Latin and Middle English. Building upon her PhD thesis, Professor Dzon is currently working on a monograph on late-medieval images and conceptualizations of the child Jesus.

Robin L. Thomas (Ph.D., Columbia University) is an art historian specializing in Italian architecture. His interests include early-modern urbanism, the social function of buildings, music and space, and the intellectual formation of the architect. His current project examines the remaking of Naples under King Charles Bourbon (1734-59), and addresses the political, social, economic, and cultural importance of the royal building program.

DISSERTATION FELLOWS
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Emory University

Anthony F. Mangieri (Department of Art History) is completing his dissertation, "The Virgin Sacrificed: Images of Iphigeneia and Polyxena in Greek and Roman Art." In his dissertation, he explores the representations of Iphigeneia and Polyxena within the historical, political, social, religious, and gendered contexts in which they were created. He aims to write a cultural history of the figure of the sacrificial virgin in Greek and Roman art that focuses on iconological questions of interpretation and meaning.

Cathy Marie Ouellette (Department of History) is completing her dissertation, "The Nation Triumphs: Region and Nation-Building in Postcolonial Republican Brazil," which examines emerging collective consciousness and state-building in the Americas through the history of one region in postcolonial Brazil. These sources reveal how elites in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, utilized discourses of cleanliness, war, gender, and positivism to construct a republican state in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-centuries.

Lauren Rule (Department of English) is completing her dissertation, "Romantic Revisions: Novels of the Americas De-scribing Empire." By examining the intersections between British Romantic poetry and more recent writing of the Americas, this dissertation illuminates how and why novelists' engagement with Romantic poetry contributes to critiques of empire in an American, postcolonial context.

2006-2007 Fellows

SENIOR FELLOWS
Tenured Faculty of Emory University

Kevin Corrigan is Professor of the Liberal Arts in the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University. The focus of his research and teaching has been upon Classics, Philosophy, History, Religion and Literature. His most recent books are Reading Plotinus: a practical guide to Neoplatonism (Purdue, 2004) and Plato's Dialectic at Play: structure, argument, and myth in the Symposium ( Penn State, 2004) – with Elena Glazov Corrigan. At present he is finishing a manuscript on the topic of mind, soul and body in the 4 th Century CE.

Stephen Crist is Associate Professor of Music History in the Department of Music. His publications have appeared in many journals and books, including Bach in America and Historical Musicology: Sources, Methods, Interpretations, for both of which he served as contributing editor. His interests include music in eighteenth-century Europe, musical consequences of the German Reformation, and jazz in the 1950s and 1960s. His CHI project is a monograph that explores how Johann Sebastian Bach employed and transformed the conventions of aria form in his cantatas, passions, and other vocal works.

Richard Rambuss is Professor of English. His research and teaching moves back and forth between early modern literature and contemporary culture. He is especially interested in gender and sexuality studies. At the CHI he will be working on a new book about Stanley Kubrick and "the men's film," especially the war or military film.

Deborah Elise White is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Emory University. She earned her Ph. D. in Comparative Literature at Yale University where she wrote a dissertation on the British poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her book, Romantic Returns: Superstition, Imagination, History (Stanford, 2000) draws on the work of William Collins and William Hazlitt as well as Shelley to show the continuing importance of romantic concepts of imagination for theorizing the historicity of literature. She has also published essays on Freud, Coleridge, and Hugo, and is currently writing a book on the rhetoric and poetics of dates in nineteenth-century writings on revolution.

JUNIOR and POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS

Rebecca Bamford (Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Durham) is working on a critical account of the relationship between culture and mind in Nietzsche. Her project explores the influences upon which Nietzsche drew in order to develop his views on mind, as well as identifying some striking contemporary resonances in Nietzsche's account. She was previously Andrew Mellon Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Philosophy at Rhodes University in South Africa.

Chad Lavin (Ph.D., Political Science, The Pennsylvania State University) is writing a book that examines food anxieties as symptoms of wider concerns about individual sovereignty in a global economy. Prior to joining the institute, he was visiting assistant professor at Tulane University.

Shane Vogel (Ph.D., Performance Studies, New York University) is Assistant Professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he teaches performance studies, queer studies, and American studies. He is currently completing a book manuscript titled "Against Uplift: The Cabaret School of the Harlem Renaissance," which examines how writers and performers made use of Harlem's cabaret to imagine alternatives to the narratives of racial uplift and sexual respectability offered by the Harlem Renaissance's leading organizers.

DISSERTATION FELLOWS
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Emory University

Joel LeMon, a student from the Graduate Division of Religion, is completing his dissertation, "The Iconography of Yahweh's Winged Form in the Psalms." The study explores the image of divine protecting wings in ancient Near Eastern literature and art, and in doing so, refines methods for integrating visual materials and biblical texts. His research interests include ancient Egyptian and Semitic languages, music in the ancient Near East, and poetic parallelism in ancient and modern cultures.

Anjela Cannarelli Peck , from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese is completing a dissertation entitled, "Caving Subjects, Wonderful Monsters. Inquisition, Honor and Alchemy in the Birth of Spain". She interrogates the premise that with the 1492 decline of al-Andalus and rise of the Universal Catholic Monarchy, the Iberian Peninsula lost all cultural intertwinement of Jews, Muslims and Christians. Through an analysis of gaps and metaphorical caverns deployed in Spanish, Arabic, Aljamiado and Latin texts from the late 15th- through mid-17th centuries, she suggests the existence of new and unique identities produced in Spain other than the officially prescribed Old Christian. Her research revolves around marginal voices and their roles within power structures.

Andrew Radde-Gallwitz, of the Graduate Division of Religion, examines the theological problem of ‘seeking after' that which is mysterious, non-evident, and ineffable.  In his dissertation, "Seek and You Shall Find": Divine Simplicity and the Early Christian Quest for God from Ptolemy to Gregory of Nyssa, he argues that the view that God is a simple unity placed great pressure upon early Christians to articulate how the complexity of human concepts could point to such a God, that is, to develop an adequate theological method. His work places early Christian theology within the context of ancient philosophy, with particular attention to the relations between Christians and Pla tonists.

Kathryn Wichelns, from the Department of Comparative Literature, is completing a dissertation titled "Engendering the Author: Duras and Dickinson Read Henry James." She argues that references to James and his fiction by Emily Dickinson and Marguerite Duras give us insight into his investigations of sexual difference. Moreover, Dickinson's letters and Duras's theatrical adaptations suggest new ways of understanding each author's engagement with gendered performance. Kathryn's research interests include late 19th and early 20th C. American literature, 20th C. French literature, and post-structural feminist philosophy.

2005-2006 Fellows

SENIOR FELLOWS
Tenured Faculty of Emory University

William Beik, Professor of History, is a specialist of early modern French
society and institutions. His publications focus on the social interpretation of absolutism and the culture of popular protest. He plans to spend the year at the CHI completing a social history of France, 1400-1800, in which he will attempt to synthesize for a new generation the wealth of insight and information developed by social historians in the past thirty years.

Thomas R. Flynn is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy. His research is primarily in the area of recent Continental, especially French, Philosophy. He has just published the second of a two-volume study, Sartre, Foucault and Historical Reason, subtitled A Poststructuralist Mapping of History. His project while at the center is to complete an intellectual biography of Jean-Paul Sartre.

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Associate Professor of Women's Studies, works in feminist theory, American literature, and disability studies. She is the author of Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Literature and Culture, editor of Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body, and co-editor of Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities. She is currently writing a book on the dynamics of staring and one on the cultural logic of euthanasia.

Richard C. Martin is Professor of Religion, specializing in Islamic Studies. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Macmillan Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World and author of numerous publications on comparative religions and Islam, including Defenders of Reason in Islam. His current research is on Islam and Secularism, and while at the Center, he is working on a book titled A Debate within the Mosque and the Academy.

JUNIOR and POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS

Ruth Mack (Ph.D., English, The Johns Hopkins University) is Assistant Professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo. While at the CHI she is completing her book manuscript, Literary Historicity: Structuring Historical Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Britain, which examines how eighteenth-century writers used literary form to conceive of history. She is interested also in the legacy of Enlightenment views on history and literature in current historiography.

Mark Meyers (Ph.D., History, Brown University) is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. As a CHI fellow, he will begin a new project, Representing Fascism, Remaking the Republic: France, 1944-1969, which focuses on how the memory of fascism influenced the reconstruction of republican political culture in postwar France. He is especially interested in how postwar conceptions of ideal republican manhood were shaped by representations of fascism as a political pathology linked to effeminacy and homosexuality.

James P. Woodard (Ph.D., History, Brown University) has taught at the University of Maryland, Brown University, and the University of Massachusetts-Boston. He has written widely on twentieth-century Brazilian history, including articles published or forthcoming in the Hispanic American Historical Review, the Journal of Latin American Studies, the Luso-Brazilian Review, Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe, and the University of São Paulo's Revista de História. While at the Center, he will be continuing work on a book-length project entitled Consuming Cultures: The Making of Brazil's 'American Century.'

DISSERTATION FELLOWS
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Emory University

Anthony K. Jensen, from the Department of Philosophy, is completing his dissertation entitled, Friedrich Nietzsche: Psychologist of Antiquity. His thesis illuminates the sometimes overlooked early academic career of Nietzsche in an effort to better estimate both the quality of Nietzsche's scholarship and the profound influence of that scholarship upon his later philosophy. His other research interests include ancient philosophy, classical philology, and 19th century philosophy generally.

Raina Kostova, from the Department of Comparative Literature, is completing a dissertation entitled The Power of the Word and the Author/Reader Pragmatics in the Poetics of Osip Mandelstam. She examines the new science of language--"reflexology of speech"--envisioned by Mandelstam, which investigates the physiological effect of the literary word on the reader. She places Mandelstam's understanding of this new science of receptivity within the theoretical context of contemporary poetics.

Tanya Weimer, from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, is completing her dissertation Beyond the Imperial Gaze: The Cuban Diaspora in Mexico. Her research explores Cuban literature and culture as it has developed within Mexico in the last fifteen years as an alternative to the dominant discourse emanating from Miami. Her research, which has also been funded by the Social Science Research Council, also includes Latin American and Latino narrative and film.

2004-2005 Fellows

SENIOR FELLOWS
Tenured Faculty of Emory University

Carla Freeman, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies, works on gender, globalization, and the relationships of production, consumption and class in the Caribbean. The author of High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work and Pink Collar Identities in the Caribbean, she is working at the CHI on a book entitled Creole Respectability, a study of middle-class entrepreneurs in Barbados.

Mark A. Sanders, Associate Professor of African American Studies and English, specializes in the Harlem Renaissance and American Modernism and has published two volumes on the poetry and prose of Sterling A. Brown. His current research explores the ways in which Harlem Renaissance writers incorporate and develop "mainstream" concepts in modernism, particularly, pragmatism, pluralism, nativism, psychoanalysis, and first-wave feminism.

Niall W. Slater, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Classics, publishes largely on the ancient theatre and prose fiction, with previous books on Plautus, Petronius, and Aristophanes. His project at the CHI this year is a study of Euripides' earliest surviving work, the Alcestis, a play which challenges audience expectations of both Athenian gender roles and the tragic genre of performance.

Stephen D. White, Asa G. Candler Professor of Medieval History, has published on violence, anger, feuding, kinship, law, dispute-processing, trial by battle, trial by ordeal, and law and literature in medieval France and England. He is working at the CHI on a book on the representation of treason trials in twelfth- and thirteenth-century French and Anglo-Norman literature.

JUNIOR and POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS

Jonathan Eburne (Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania) is working on his book manuscript, "Surrealism and the Art of Crime", which studies a critical juncture in modernist thinking of the interwar period. Approaching the surrealists as politically committed interpreters of culture as well as poets and artists, this project examines how the group's interest in crime characterizes its response to pressing political and cultural events of the twentieth century.

Ernest Freeberg (Ph.D., History, Emory University) is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Tennessee whose research explores the relationship between public opinion, mass media, and the law. At the CHI, he is working on a book about the World War I imprisonment of socialist leader Eugene Debs, and the national debate that this incident inspired over the value of free speech.

Kathryn T. Gines (Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Memphis) is working at the CHI on her book entitled Alexander Crummell and Anna Julia Cooper: Constructions and Constrictions of Womanhood in Black Scholarship. Through the lens of contemporary scholarly debates about race, gender, and culture studies, she examines the intersecting paradigms of gender, race, and class in the works of Crummell and Cooper.

DISSERTATION FELLOWS
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Emory University

Nicholas Ealy, from the Program in Comparative Literature, is completing a dissertation entitled Speculations of Desire, in which he explores the influence of Ovidian narcissism in texts by Chrétien de Troyes, Alanus de Insulis, and Fernando de Rojas, as well as in manuscript illuminations from France and Iberia. His interests include medieval culture, theories of desire in philosophy and theology, the relationship between literature and medicine, and psychoanalytic studies.

Gilles Glacet, from the Department of French and Italian, is completing a dissertation entitled Francis Ponge's Workshop. Ponge's workshop is not the painter's studio (as indicated by the French term), but more like that of a mechanic, a clockmaker. Each text, an intricate device, functions according to the writer's mechanistic vision. Rather than a pure literary composition, Ponge assembles a vehicle of precise engineering with which he endeavors to repair a world thrown out of order.

Saul Tobias, from the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, studies the relationship between the moral problem of suffering and the history of systems of thought. His dissertation, Homo Patiens: Suffering and German Sociology 1875-1920, explores the ways in which human suffering both motivated and troubled attempts to construct sociology as a legitimate and autonomous science. His other research interests include contemporary moral and political philosophy.

2003-2004 Fellows

SENIOR FELLOWS
Tenured Faculty of Emory University

Steve Everett is Associate Professor of Composition in the Department of Music. His compositions are often focused on two areas of exploration: interaction of live performance with automated sound structures and methods of effectively utilizing cross-cultural content in the creative process. The project to be developed at the CHI in 2003-2004 is the composition of an oratorio for vocal soloists, chorus, chamber orchestra, real time electronics and visual projections based upon 16th-century Islamic poetry and historical narratives from Central Java.

Ann Hartle is Professor of Philosophy . The focus of her research is philosophical anthropology, humanism, and the nature of philosophy. Her most recent book is a study of Montaigne's Essays, entitled Michel de Montaigne: Accidental Philosopher. As a CHI fellow, she is working on a second book on Montaigne, Montaigne and Modern Rationalism.

Candace Lang, Associate Professor of French, specializes;in nineteenth and twentieth century French narrativefiction, autobiography, and literary theory. The author of Irony/Humor: Critical Paradigms, she will be working at the CHI on a book entitled Settling Accounts, a study of the relationship of guilt and narrative in the autobiographies of Gide, Sartre, and Robbe-Grillet.

John Sitter, Charles Howard Candler Professor of English, has written and edited several works concerning 18 th-century English literature, including Literary Loneliness in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England and Arguments of Augustan Wit. His interests include satire and poetry from the Renaissance to the present. His project at the Center is a book on "The Knowledge of 18 th-Century Poetry," a primarily cognitive study of writers from Pope to Blake.

JUNIOR and POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS

Moneera Al-Ghadeer (Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of California at Berkeley) is Assistant Professor in the Department of African Languages and Literature at UW-Madison. At the CHI, she is working on her book manuscript, "The Inappropriable Voice: Bedouin Women's Oral Poetry," which consists of the first English translation and theoretical analysis of Arabian Bedouin women's oral poetry. It examines technology and postcoloniality, and the rhetoric of mourning and melancholy.

Paulina Bren (Ph.D., Modern European History, New York University) is working on her book, Closely Watched Screens: Ideology and Everyday Life in Communist Czechoslovakia , which explores mass culture as the primary vehicle for redefining socialist citizenship in the post-Prague Spring Czechoslovakia of the 1970s and 1980s. She has been the recipient of various research fellowships, including the Fulbright-Hays and the SSRC, and has published a number of essays on 20 th century Eastern Europe.

Caroline Goeser (Ph.D., Art History, Rutgers University), on leave from the Art Department at the University of Houston, is working on Making Black Modern in Harlem Renaissance Print Culture. Her study examines Harlem Renaissance illustration, a medium that uniquely worked the interstices between visual imagery, literary texts, and the commercial enterprises of publishing and advertising. Within this commercial and artistic milieu, she asks how Harlem Renaissance illustrators challenged singular depictions of racial identity through racial uplift and demanded that representations of race, sexuality and gender be reconceived as interdependent.

DISSERTATION FELLOWS
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Emory University

Anthony Cuda, from the Department of English, is completing a dissertation entitled The Unread Vision in Dante, Yeats, and Eliot, in which he suggests that a common theological understanding of the soul's inscrutability underlies modern and medieval theories of poetry. His research interests include British and American Modernism, Medieval Literature and Theology, contemporary philosophy.

Christian Paul Holland, from the Program in Comparative Literature, is completing a dissertation entitled Time for Paul: Lyotard, Agamben, Badiou. He argues that contemporary theorists are turning to Paul not only because he embodies the force of religion in an era of imperial hegemony, or globalization, but more fundamentally because he inaugurates a new thinking of temporality.

Daniel B. Mathewson, a student from the Graduate Division of Religion, examines the relationship between cultural values and the representation of death. In his dissertation, Death and Divine Justice in the Book of Job, he examines the book's complex and heterogenous representation of death in light of the depicted collapse of a dominant ethical-theological system from ancient Israel. His interests include Ancient Near Eastern "Wisdom" literature, hermeneutics, and pop-cultural readings of the Bible.

2002-2003 Fellows

SENIOR FELLOWS
Tenured Faculty of Emory University

Angelika Bammer, Associate Professor in the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts and the Program in Comparative Literature, is an author of Partial Visions: Feminism and Utopianism in the 1970s and Displacements: Cultural Identities in Question. Her CHI project, The Work of Memory, is a study of the "effortful labor" involved in the production of personal and collective memories and the ways in which contemporary memorial projects acknowledge or ignore the significance of such labor.

Matthew Bernstein, Associate Professor in the Film Studies Program. His research includes classical Hollywood cinema, Japanese cinema, film comedy, nonfiction film, postwar European film, and African-Americans in film, and he is the author of Walter Wanger, Hollywood Independent. His project at the Center is "Segregated Cinema in a Southern City, Atlanta 1895 - 1996," a history of movie culture across the color line in Atlanta that received a NEH Collaborative Research grant.

Mikhail Epstein, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature, specializes in postmodern cultural theory, Russian literature and intellectual history, contemporary philosophical and religious thought, ideas and electronic media, and interdisciplinary approaches in the humanities. The author of 15 books and 400 articles and essays, at the CHI he is working on A Futurology of Human Sciences: Paradigmatic Shifts and Emerging Concepts.

Barbara Ladd, Associate Professor of English, specializes in the literatures of the U.S. South. Author of Nationalism and the Color Line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner, she is working on a new book Migrations, Memory, and the Transfiguration of Body and Place in Southern Literature, 1919 - 1989, in which she explores the ways that the engagements of southern writers with cultures outside the South have shaped southern literature.

JUNIOR and POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS

Jeffrey Mullins (Ph.D., History, Johns Hopkins University), on leave from the History Department at the St. Cloud campus of Minnesota State University, is working on Racial Affect: Emotions, Environment, and the Corporeal Foundations of Social Reform, which uses an 1846 cross-racial murder trial in New York to examine nineteenth-century understandings of human nature and moral agency. In particular, he explores the ways in which issues of race re-cast the dialogue on how best to shape society and its members.

Philippe Rosenberg (Ph.D., History, Duke University) examines the early-modern history of the British Isles and Western Europe, 1450-1750 through such topics as propaganda, ethno-religious interactions, linguistic politics, and early strains of modernization. His CHI project centers on the polemics of violence in the seventeenth century, exploring the manner in which cruelty and aberrant forms of aggression were politicized in the aftermath of the British civil wars.

Tabitha Sparks (Ph.D., English, University of Washington) is at the CHI working on a monograph entitled Family Practices: Medicine, Gender, and Literature in Victorian Culture, which examines the moral and literary foundations of Victorian medicine. A previous NEH grantee, she held a Marion L. Brittain fellowship at Georgia Institute of Technology, and has taught courses primarily in Victorian culture, intellectual history, and science and culture.

DISSERTATION FELLOWS
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Emory University

Aymeric Glacet, from the Department of French and Italian, addresses the relationship between writing and photography in the novels of Claude Simon. In his dissertation Claude Simon Chronophotographe, he reads the Nobel Prize-winning author's work as the activity of a literary camera in dialogue with the visual arts and the history of science.

Aimee L. Pozorski, from the Department of English, is completing a dissertation entitled Figures of Infanticide: Traumatic Modernity and the Inaudible Cry. She contends that the infans--from the Latin meaning "before speech"--serves as an over-determined rhetorical figure depicting twentieth-century traumatic events. Her research interests include twentieth-century American literature, trans-Atlantic modernism, and theories of trauma and ethics.

Frank (Trey) Proctor III is finishing his dissertation entitled Slavery, Identity, and Culture: An Afro-Mexican Counterpoint, 1640 - 1763 in the Department of History. It explores African slavery as an institution and master-slave conflicts from the perspective of slaves, using Inquisition records for bigamy, blasphemy, and witchcraft. He was the recipient of a Fulbright Dissertation Fellowship to Mexico in 2000-01.