June 2022

Summer Administrative Internships

Opportunities are still available to collaborate with a university host unit on a mentored project. Applications will be reviewed, and internships awarded, on a rolling basis until June 13th.

• Center for Mentoring
• Graduate Studies
• Humanities Engage
• Research Communication
• Research Development Team

Pitch Your Own Immersive Fellowship (Fall/Spring)

Are you ready to start planning for the fall? Applications will be reviewed starting September 2nd. Stipends will be awarded on a rolling basis and as long as resources last.

• collaborate with a host organization of your choice
• gain experience that can impact your research and dissertation
• explore how your academic training can translate into a variety of careers

Interested and want to learn more? Make an appointment with Melissa Lenos, the Senior Director of Graduate Advising and Engagement for the Humanities.

Four students received stipends to work with a faculty collaborator, as well with librarians, archivists, and curators, to create new collections-based modules for undergraduate courses.

• Isaiah Bertagnolli (History of Art and Architecture) with Dr. Alex Taylor: module on the transgender artist Greer Lankton for the HAA1022: Exhibition Presentation course
• Yacine Chemssi (French & Film and Media Studies) with Dr. Brett David Wells: module on four French-speaking regions (Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia) for FR 0104: French in a Global Context
• Vivian Feldblyum (Philosophy) with Dr. Nicholas Rescher: module on the Vienna Circle, using the “Archives of Scientific Philosophy” for PHIL 1200: 20th Century Analytic Philosophy
• Sebastian Leal-Arenas (Hispanic Linguistics) with Dr. Marta Ortega-Llebaria: module to improve Spanish intonation for intermediate and advanced Spanish language courses

Learn more about their curricular development projects and check back to read their blog posts about their experiences.

Two graduate faculty members received summer stipends to design new graduate courses with significant public and/or digital humanities scholarship components:

• Kathy George, Professor of Theatre Arts: Popular History of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure
• Amy Williams, Associate Professor of Music: Interdisciplinary Performance Laboratory

The awardees will be posting their syllabi and blogging about their curricular design experiences by the fall term.

• Jun 8 | Developing A Syllabus
• Jun 10 | How to answer, “What can I do with my PhD?”
• Jun 10 & 28 | Campus Compact Open House
• Jun 14 | Teaching a 6-Week Course
• Jun 15 | 3 common mistakes PhDs make when starting their job search
• Jun 16 | CARE for Inclusion and Equity in Learning Environments
• Jun 22 | Developing a Lesson Plan
• Jun 23 | Virtual Graduate Studies/Postdoc Monthly Office Hour
• Jun 24 | Leaving academia? Here’s what you need to do to prepare

 

Make a one-on-one appointment today with Dr. Melissa Lenos, Senior Director of Graduate Advising and Engagement, to discuss:

• Succeeding in doctoral study (productivity, time management, etc.)
• Setting professional development goals and marshaling resources
• Honing strategic competencies
• Establishing and maintaining strong mentoring networks
• Preparing for interviews and job searches in all sectors

Schedule an appointment

One way to think about the public humanities is to think about how you might “translate” your work for different audiences. Those of us who teach undergraduates do this all the time: we take complex concepts and reframe them so that non-experts can participate in the conversation.

This applies to more than just teaching, though – many public scholars are exploring multimodal approaches to publishing their work for broad audiences. Ethnomusicologist Jason Schell’s We Rock Long Distance is a web-based dissertation that includes audio and visual components, while Jesse Merandy’s English dissertation on Walt Whitman ended up taking the form of a location-based mobile experience.

Film and Media Culture professor Jason Mittell, a leading voice in the field of videographic criticism, hosts a yearly Workshop on Videographic Criticism at Middlebury College, where scholars from diverse backgrounds and fields of study can learn the skills needed to embrace multimodal scholarship, while Texas A&M hosts regular Programming4Humanists courses covering digital archiving and manipulation, data mining, and cultural analytics.

These are just two of dozens of examples of resources help us consider the accessibility of the humanities in two ways: first, who has the literal ability to access to my work?  Where is it housed, and how can it be found? And second, how legible is my work to those not in my field of study?

These are questions worth asking when we consider the role of the humanities in the world at large, and one of the driving purposes of Humanities Engage. If you’re struggling to navigate public humanities-focused resources, want to brainstorm ideas, or have any other questions about how to make your work in the humanities more accessible to the public, feel free to make an appointment with me!