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FellowshipsCurrent Fellows | Senior | Junior/Post-Doctoral | Graduate Dissertation Completion 2010-2011 FELLOWSHIP APPLICATIONS Application Deadline: Thursday, February 18, 2010: Current Fellows 2009-2010 SENIOR FELLOWS
N.E.H. POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW IN POETICS
JUNIOR and POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS
GRADUATE DISSERTATION COMPLETION FELLOWS
DISTINGUISHED VISITING PROFESSOR
Senior InformationFCHI Senior Fellowships are offered annually for tenured members of the Emory University faculty for an academic year of study and residence in the Center. Junior/Post-Doctoral InformationThe FCHI Junior and Post-Doctoral Fellowships are offered to visiting scholars for an academic year of study, teaching, and residence in the Center. Graduate Dissertation Completion InformationFCHI Graduate Dissertation Completion Fellowships are available to up to four students, currently enrolled in the Laney Graduate School of Emory University, for
an academic year of residence in the Center to finish their dissertations.
Fellowship in Poetics InformationThe FCHI announces a new Junior/Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Poetics, funded by a Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, for an academic year of study, teaching, and residence in the Center. Distinguished Visiting ProfessorshipIn alternate years, the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry brings to Emory an eminent humanities scholar with an international reputation in interdisciplinary research for a semester in residence in a humanities department or program as a FCHI Fellow, to teach, do research, present public lectures and discussions, and participate in the intellectual life of the Center. Summer Research FellowsEach summer Emory University’s Robert W. Woodruff Library, in partnership with the Fellow Publications
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Valérie Loichot is Associate Professor of French. Her research focuses on Caribbean literature and postcolonial theory. She is the author of Orphan Narratives: The Postplantation Literatures of Faulkner, Glissant, Morrison, and Saint-John Perse (University of Virginia Press, 2007). She has published numerous essays on Caribbean literature and culture, Southern literature, race and slavery, creolization theory, transatlantic studies, and food studies. While at the Fox Center she will be completing her book manuscript entitled “Kitchen History: Food and Creolization in Guadeloupe, Martinique, and the Black Atlantic.” 
Karen Stolley is Associate Professor of Spanish. She is the author of El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes: un itinerario crítico (1992), a chapter on “Narrative Forms, Scholarship and Learning in the XVIII Century” in the Cambridge History of Latin American Literature (1992), and essays on colonial and eighteenth-century Spanish American literature. While at the Fox Center she will be working on a book on the rewriting of colonial topics in eighteenth-century Spanish American narrative. 
Regina E. Werum is Associate Professor of Sociology and also holds associated faculty status in the Departments of African American Studies and Women's Studies. Her research interests revolve largely around educational policy and practices, and how these relate to social inequalities in educational outcomes (race, gender). She has published widely, both in top Sociology journals ( Social Forces, Sociology of Education) as well as in highly regarded interdisciplinary journals ( Social Science History, American Journal of Education). While at the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Dr. Werum will continue work on a project that examines changing home schooling policies in the United States, between 1972 and 2007. 
Carrie Rosefsky Wickham is Associate Professor of Political Science. Her research focuses on social movements and contentious politics in the Middle East and the broader Muslim world. She is the author of Mobilizing Islam: Religion, Activism and Political Change in Egypt (Columbia University Press, 2002) as well as several articles. From 2004-2008, with support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the U.S. Institute of Peace, Wickham conducted research over the course of six trips to the Middle East for a new book on the causes and dynamics of Islamist movement change. At the Fox Center, Wickham plans to complete the writing, which will provide a narrative theoretical account of how, why and to what extent Islamist opposition groups in the Arab world have begun to move away from their anti-system past. 
James Mulholland (Ph.D., Rutgers University) is an Assistant Professor of English at Wheaton College, Massachusetts. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in ELH, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, and Oral Tradition. His current research project, entitled Sounds In Ink: Making Poetic Voice in Eighteenth-Century Britain, focuses on the connection between oral culture and the emergence of eighteenth-century print experiments with poetic voice. He argues that poetic voice acquires coherence as a modern concept when authors strive to imitate the immediacy of traditional oral performance. 
Christina B. Hanhardt (Ph.D., New York University) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies and a core faculty member of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Studies Program at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her interests include queer theory, critical race theory, urban studies, the history of social movements, and cultural geography. At the Fox Center, she will be working on her book manuscript about the relationship between LGBT activism against violence and the race- and class-stratified city in the United States since the mid-1960s, entitled “ Safe Space: The Sexual and City Politics of Violence.” 
Benjamin Kahan (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is an Assistant Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at Louisiana State University. His research and teaching interests include gender and sexuality studies, American literature, international modernism, poetry and poetics, and psychoanalysis. He is currently at work on a book manuscript entitled “Modern American Celibacies, 1886-1969” which charts a history and theory of celibacy. This project examines celibacy both as a social form in modern America and as a central model for literary production within modernism. Kahan argues that celibacy enriches and recasts the histories of homosexuality, the women’s movement, and modernism. 
Paul Stephens (Ph.D., Columbia University) is Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature at Bard College. He specializes in twentieth-century American poetry, cultural studies, and the history of literary criticism. While at the Fox Center, he will be at work on two book manuscripts: the first of these, “ The Rhetoric of Literary Experiment”, examines the relation of poetry to rhetoric in the context of twentieth-century American poetics debates; the second, “ Minima Temporalia,” adopts experimental prose forms in order to address ideologies of time management within contemporary society. 
Jennifer L. Brady (Department of English) is completing her dissertation, “Directed Reading, Directed Writing: Textual Engagements in Antebellum America.” Her project undertakes a case study of sentimental fiction and its readers in antebellum America to provide a historical and theoretical account of affective reading, which is characterized by its preoccupation with the production and utility of emotion. By using the historical distance of an earlier period to see the experience of reading and its emotional valences anew, “Directed Reading, Directed Writing” defamiliarizes reading pleasure in order to reveal the scaffolding that makes it possible. 
Andrew Ryder (Department of Comparative Literature) is completing his dissertation, "Georges Bataille and a Materialist Ethics of Experience." Responding to the ethical turn in the humanities, he re-reads Bataille's work in order to intervene in contemporary debates regarding responsibility and singularity in psychoanalytic, phenomenological, and literary contexts. A critique of the tendency towards idealism, which covers up the radicality of an ethical encounter, is central to the project. Thorough engagements with the positions of Kojève, Heidegger, Freud, Lacan, and Levinas are included. 
Angela Willey (Department of Women’s Studies) is completing her dissertation, “'Science Says She’s Gotta Have It': Monogamy, Non-monogamy, and Biomedical Discourse.” Drawing on feminist critiques of monogamy and feminist science studies, Angie’s dissertation analyzes the normalization of monogamy through processes of naturalization and how those processes are marked by assumptions about the binary and analogous nature of difference. She explores contemporary neuro-genetics, mid-19 th century phrenology, and popular polyamory literature as critical cites for the biologization of monogamy. 
Raanan Rein is Director of The S. Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies, and Professor of Latin American and Spanish History at Tel Aviv University. Dr. Rein is one of the most renowned historians of twentieth century Argentine political history working today, and he is the only Israeli elected to Argentina’s Academia Nacional de la Historia. He has published books on Spanish-Argentine relations, on Peronism, and on the intersection of diplomatic relations and ethnic identity in Argentina. He has lectured and taught in a wide variety of institutions around the world including Russia, Cuba, the United States and Brazil.