Grant Summary
May 31, 2018
Program Grants (spring 2017; fall 2016; spring 2016; fall 2015; spring 2015; fall 2014; spring 2014; fall 2013; spring 2013; winter 2013; fall 2012)
Program Grants
Funded fall 2016, all to be held during the 2015-2016 academic year, include these:
- Graduate English Organization Conference: “Worked Up: Labor, Literature, and Culture,” organized by Hillary Beth Roegelein.
- Film Recording of Writing for Change Performance, organized by Danielle Griffin.
- CMLT Symposium: The Challenge of Scale, organized by Gerard Passannante.
- Program in Comparative Literature and Washington Area Romanticists Group: “Language-in-Use and the Literary Artifact”, organized by Gerard Passannante.
- “Images of Housework: Expression, Representation, and the Time of Domestic Labor in Gilles Deleuze’s Study of the Cinema,” Eric Zakim.
- Northeast Victorian Studies Association conference, submitted by Jason Rudy
- Carnival and the Carnivalesque in Caribbean Literature, organized by Merle Collins
- Professionalizing Humanities Graduate Study Across / Beyond Academic Boundaries Reading / Working Group, submitted by Gerard Holmes
Funded spring 2016, all to be held during the 2016-2017 academic year, include these:
- Medieval and Early Modern Graduate Student Pedagogy Group: Globalizing the Curriculum in Early British Literature, organized by Rob Wakeman.
- The Writing Center: Writing Fellows Pilot Training, spearheaded by Tom Earles.
- Historical Poetics Working Group, organized by Jason Rudy
- English Undergraduate Association: Writers Dead & Gone, organized by Elizabeth Caldera.
- Disability Studies Reading Group, organized by Ruth Osorio.
- Encountering New Worlds in Early Modern Europe, organized by Ralph Bauer.
- African Diasporas Reading Group #Diaspora: The Digital Odysseys of African Experiences in the 21st Century, organized by Agyeiwaa Asante and Chioma Dunkley.
- Contemporary Fiction Reading Group, facilitated by Lee Konstantinou.
- The Paper Shell Review, organized by Emily Tuttle.
- Conference: Women, Writing, Rhetoric, organized by Jessica Enoch.
- Graduate School Field Committee in Film Studies, organized by Elizabeth Papazian.
- Local Americanists Lecture Series, organized by Robert Levine.
- Washington Area Romanticist Group, organized by Orrin Wang.
- Language, Writing, and Rhetoric Area Group. "Perspectives on Rhetoric and Writing,” organized by Scott Wible.
- Writers Here & Now 2016-2017, organized by Lindsay Bernal.
- Transatlantic Studies Group: Transatlantic Lecture Series, organized by Martha Nell Smith & Jason Rudy.
- 2 events, one to coincide with “Historical Poetics” on or near 10/14/2016.
- Eighteenth-Century Reading Group, organized by Laura Rosenthal.
- 3 speakers, one in fall & two in spring.
- Medieval & Renaissance Area Group: Marshall Grossman Lecture Series AY 2016-2017, Kimberly Coles.
Funded spring 2015, all to be held during the 2015-2016 academic year, include these:
- Critical Approaches to Higher Education: A Reading Series, organized by Justin Thompson
- Contemporary Fiction Reading Group, sponsored by Lee Konstantinou and Emily Mitchell
- Disability Studies in the Humanities Reading Group, facilitated by Ruth Osorio
- Disease, Medicine, and New World Colonial Studies, spearheaded by Bob Levine with support from the Stringer Fund, the Miller Center for Historical Studies, Local Americanists, the Eighteenth Century Reading Group, the Marshall Grossman Lecture Series, and the Transatlantic Lecture Series
- Eighteenth Century Reading Group, convened by Laura Rosenthal, and featuring a symposium "The Restoration and British Empire," co-sponsored with Holly Brewer in the Department of History, in addition to a work-in-progress series
- Fledglings Multimedia Exhibition, curated by Izetta Autumn Mobley and the AfroPessimists Working Group
- Graduate English Organization Alumni Speaker Event, coordinated by Collier Cobb IV
- Language, Writing, and Rhetoric Area Group events, proposed by Jane Donawerth & Vessela Valiavitcharska: Speaker event centered on Disability Studies and Composition; Mini-Symposium "The Composition of Play"; and pizza lunches to introduce new graduate students in fall and to celebrate exams passed & dissertations defended
- Marshall Grossman Lecture Series, overseen by Amanda Bailey, to include four speaker events
- Gail Kern Paster (April 20, 2015)
- Julian Yates (November 4, 2015)
- Sharon Achinstein (March 2, 2016)
- "Playing with Transmedia in the Transnational," an event designed by Kayla Jean Watson and graduate students in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
- "The Postman Always Rings Twice. . . or More," a conference orchestrated by Elizabeth Papazian on behalf of the Graduate Field Committee in Film Studies
- (Re-)Building Networks Conference, the annual event produced by the Graduate Field Committee for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, proposed by Christine Maffuccio, with sponsorships also from GFCMEM, Physics, ARHU, Math, MITH, the Miller Center for Historical Studies, the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, and more pending
- Transatlantic Speaker Series, organized by Martha Nell Smith and Jason Rody
- Washington Area Narrative Theory Study Group: Discussion Series, conceived by Brian Richardson
- Washington Area Romanticists Group, coordinated by Orrin Wang
- Writers Dead and Gone, organized by Vita Pierzchala for the English Undergraduate Association
- Golden Age of Science Fiction (September, 22 2015)
- Edgar Allen Poe (October 25, 2015)
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (November 17, 2015)
- Writers Here & Now, organized by Lindsay Bernal for the Creative Writing Area Group wtih co-sponsorship from the Jimenez Porter Writing House and the College of Arts and Humanities
- Joshua Ferris and Matthew Zapruder (September 30, 2015)
- Natalie Diaz and Christine Schutt (October 28, 2015)
- Rita Zoey Chin, April Naoko Heck, and Anne Keefe (December 2, 2015)
- Courtney Brkic and Timothy Donnelly (February 10, 2016)
- Emily Mitchell and Stanley Plumly (March 9, 2016)
- Vievee Francis and Jim Shepard (April 6, 2016)
- Student Prize Reading (May 4, 2016)
Funded fall 2014:
- GEO Conference: Departures, organized by Elise Auvil and Susie Compton
- Distributing Cinema, organized by Oliver Gaycken
- New Work in Narrative Theory, organized by Brian Richardson for the Washington Area Narratology Study Group
- Trauma and Global Literature Symposium, organized by Sheila Jelen for CMLT Graduate Students
- Writers Dead and Gone, organized by Vita Pierzchala for the English Undergraduate Association
- Edgar Allen Poe (October 28, 2014)
- Fitzgerald Feud (February 24, 2015)
- Agatha Christie Murder Mystery (March 31, 2015)
- GEO Professionalization Events, organized by Collier Cobb
- Entangled Trajectories: Integrating Native American and European Histories, organized by Ralph Bauer
- Seminar on the History of Emotions, organized by Laura Rosenthal
- Encountering New Worlds in Early Modern Europe, organized by Ralph Bauer for an I-Series undergraduate conference
- ENGL 292 and ENGL 388, organized by Scott Wible and Heather Lindenmann
- ENGL 368C, organized by Merle Collins
Funded spring 2014:
- Students for Students, organized by Lena Stypeck for Sigma Tau Delta
- Disability Studies in the Humanities Reading Group, organized by Ruth Osorio
- Performance at the Clarice Smith Perform Arts to dovetail with Staff Professional Development Seminar on Diversity, organized by Isabella Moulton for the English Department Staff
- Local Americanists, organized by Robert Levine
- Caleb Smith (May 2, 2014)
- Ashraf Rushdy (October 2, 2014)
- Ellen Gruber Garvey (November 14, 2014)
- Anne Sarah Rubin (February 26, 2015)
- John Ernest (April 2, 2015)
- Washington Area Romanticist Group, organized by Orrin Wang
- Brian McGrath (April 12, 2014)
- Writing Center Celebration and two graduate student pizza lunches, organzied by Jane Donawerth for Perspectives on Writing and Rhetoric
- Learning Enhancement Grant: Writing Center Online Tutoring, organized by Leigh Ryan for the Writing Center
- Marshall Grossman Lecture Series, organized by Amanda Bailey
- Bruce Holsinger (April 28, 2014)
- Claire Sponsler (November 12, 2014)
- Comprehensive Exams Reading Group, organized by Sarah Bonnie
- Writers Here & Now, organized by Maud Casey for the Creative Writing Program
- Peter Campion (poetry) (5 November 2014)
- Alumni Reading, Tyler Mills (poetry), Elissa Washuta (nonfiction), John Van Kirk (fiction) (3 December 2014)
- Jenny Offill (fiction) and Eduardo Corral (poetry) (18 December 2015)
- Faculty Reading, Elizabeth Arnold, Maud Casey, and Howard Norman (25 March 2015)
- Louise Glück (poetry) and Sigrid Nunez (fiction) (15 April 2015)
- Student Prize Reading (6 May 2015)
- Writers Dead and Gone, organized by Sarah Elizabeth Feeney for the English Undergraduate Association
- Fairy Tales (6 May 2014)
- JRR Tolkien (23 September 2014)
- The Paper Shell Review, organized by Megan Cooley-Klein
- Contemporary Fiction Reading Group, organized by Emily Mitchell and Lee Konstantinou
- Knowing Nature Conference, organized by Kellie Robertson for Graduate Field Committee in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEM-UM)
- Mithril Turtle, organized by Christopher Crane
- Feast of Words and Movement, organized by Merle Collins
- Multimodal Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Technology in the Classroom, organized by Melissa Rogers
- Eighteenth Century Subject and Objects, organized by Laura Rosenthal for the Eighteenth-Century Reading Group
- Graduate Student Conference: Moving Objects and Motion Pictures, organized by Oliver Gaycken for the Graduate Field Committee in Film Studies
- FY15 Lecture Series, organized by Martha Nell Smith and Jason Rudy for the Transatlantic Studies Group
- Oral History Project, organized by Merle Collins for Carivision
- Oral History Project, organized by Merle Collins for Carivision
Funded fall 2013:
- Absorbing Encounters: Construction American Jewry in the Post-Holocaust Decades (An International Conference), organized by Shelia Jelen for the Program in Comparative Literature/Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies
- Revitalization of Membership and Activities On and Off Campus, organized by Aidan Rebecca Boyd for Sigma Tau Delta - English Honors Society.
- Workshop Series: Engaging Rhetoric with Voicethread, organized by Lyra Hilliard
- 25th Annual MAWCA Conference, organized by Leigh Ryan for the Mid-Atlantic Writing Centers Association (MAWCA)
- GEO Conference: Trespassing(s), organized by Nicholas Slaughter for Graduate English Organization
- Publication of Journal for 2013-2014, organized by Megan Cooley-Klein for The Paper Shell Review
- Conversation Series: Literature, Performance and Aural Culture, organized by Merle Collins
- Working Group on Translation (Visualizing Translation), organized by Ana Farach
- The Muses of the Land: The Reception of Greece and Rome in the Hispanic World, organized by Francisco Barrenechea
- Queer Intimacies: LGBT Studies Lecture Series & DC Queer Studies Symposium, organzied by Marilee Lindemann
Funded spring 2013:
- Perspectives on Rhetoric and Writing, organized by Jane Donawerth for Rhetoric and Composition Faculty and Writing Program Administrators
- Reading by SF Author Judith Moffett, organized by Jane Donawerth
- The National Conference of Peer Tutors in Writing, organized by Douglas Kern for the Writing Center
- Local Americanists Lecture Series, organized by Robert Levine
- Carla Mulford (April 26, 2013)
- Celeste-Marie Bernier (October 10, 2013)
- Washington Area Romanticist Group, organized by Orrin Wang
- Joel Faflak (May 4, 2013)
- Writers Dead and Gone, organized by John Little for the English Undergraduate Association
- Lewis Carroll (April 30, 2013)
- Dr. Seuss (September 24, 2013)
- Edgar Allan Poe (October 29, 2013)
- National Conference of Peer Tutors in Writing Attendance and Workshop, organized by Abby Shantzis for the Writing Center
- Contemporary Fiction Reading Group, organized by Emily Mitchell and Lee Konstantinou
- Critical Theory Reading Group, organized by Sarah Bonnie
- The Spectacle of Violence Reading Group, organized by Sarah Bonnie
- Encountering New Worlds in Early Modern Europe, organized by Ralph Bauer
- The Marshall Grossman Lecture Series, organized by Scott Trudell for the Medieval and Renaissance Area Group
- Daniel Shore (April 11, 2013)
- Ayanna Thompson (November 6, 2013)
- Writers Here and Now, organized by Maud Casey for the Creative Writing Program
- Sally Keith and Elliot Holt (September 25, 2013)
- Tania James and Tim Seibles (October 30, 2013)
- Joshua Weiner, Katy Didden, and Shara Lessley (December 4, 2013)
- Denis Johnston and Laura van den Berg (February 26, 2013)
- Tracy K. Smith and Paul Yoon (March 26, 2013)
- Student Prize Reading (April 30, 2014)
- Thinking Transdisciplinarily and Transmedially, organized by Jason Rudy and Martha Nell Smith for the Transatlantic Studies Group
- Queer Creative Praxis: Exploring Gender and Race through Technologies of Sound, organized by Melissa Rogers for the Queer Grads Working Group
- Eighteenth-Century Physicality, organized by Laura Rosenthal for the Eighteenth Century Reading Group
- The Filmmaker's Voice: The Essay Film and the Circulation of Ideas, organized by Oliver Gaycken for GFC Film Studies
Funded winter 2013:
- Writers Dead and Gone, organized by John Allen Little for the English Undergraduate Association
- Debilitating Queerness: LGBT Studies lecture series & DC Queer Studies Symposium, organized by Marilee Lindemann
- Domina Illustris: Roman Literature, Gender and Reception, organized by Jane Donawerth, Lillian Doherty, and Judith Hallett
- Lampter Launch Party, organized by Vas Blagodarskiy
- Kirsten Tranter Visit, organized by Jason Rudy
- Digital Transformations, organized by Justin Lohr
- Sympathy and Nonhumans Symposium, organized by Rob Wakeman for the Nonhumans and the Humanities Group
- Captured Shadows: Circulating Images of Native Americans on Film, organized by Cailtin McGrath for GFC Film Studies
- Feast of Words, Music and Movement, organized by Merle Collins for Carivision Community Theatre
Funded fall 2012:
- “Encuentros con Junot Díaz”, organized by Nathan Dize for the Latin American Studies Students Organization
- Metamorphoses, playing at the Arena Stage in Washington, DC, organized by Isabella Moulton for the English Department Staff
- Writers Dead and Gone, organized by Abby Shantzis for the English Undergraduate Association
- Invisible Man, playing at the Studio Theater in Washington DC, organized by Mandy Lowman and Josh Ro for the ENGL 433 class
- An Introduction to the World of Nontheatrical Cinema with Skip Elsheimer, organized by Oliver Gaycken for the Graduate Film Board
- “Nonhuman Humanities” Reading Group, organized by Rob Wakeman
- FilAmplified: Filipino American History Month Talent Showcase, organized by Jonathan Reyes for the Filipino Cultural Association
- Panel Discussion on Writing the Graduate School Essay, organized by Robin Earnest
- (Dis)realities and the Literary and Cultural Imagination Conference(, organized by Uchechi Okereke-Beshel and Sarah Bonnie for the Graduate English Organization
- James Joyce, Modernism, and Modern Ireland Mini-Symposium, organized by Brian Richardson for the Modernist Area Group
- Undergraduates Present at the Mid-Atlantic Writing Centers Association Conference, organized by Leigh Ryan for the Writing Center
- Paper Shell Review: An Undergraduate Journal of Critical Essays on Literary Topics, organized by Jamie Lee for the English Undergraduate Association
- Graduate Student/Invited Faculty Writing Workshop, organized by Sarah Sillin for the Organizing Committee
- Workshop on Service Learning, organized by Zahara Heckscher for the Professional Writing Program
- Archetypes in the Classroom: An Experiential Workshop, organized by Kelly Cresap
- Law, Literature, and the Arab World Lecture Series, organized by Sheila Lelwani for the Professional Writing Program
- Undergraduate TA and Lecturer Pedagogy Reading Group, organized by Linda Macri for Academic Writing and the Undergraduate TA Program
Facutly Research & Writing Groups
Funded for the academic year 2016-2017
- Digital Pedagogy. Organizer: Scott Moses. Members: Lyra Hilliard, Rosser Matthews, Clare Parsons, Kara Pleasants, Michelle Von Euw
- Fantasy Studies, with particular interest in the works of JRR Tolkien. Organizer: Peter Grybauskas. Members: Verlyn Flieger, Christopher Crane, Michelle Markey Butler (UGST Honors College)
- Literature and Science Studies. Organizer: Tita Chico. Members:Kellie Robertson, Kim Coles, Christina Walter
- Media Theory and Studies. Organizer: Lee Konstantinou. Members: Luka Arsenjuk, Oliver Gaycken, Melanie Kill, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Scott Trudell, Orrin Wang
- Rhetorical studies faculty writing group. Organizer: Chanon Adsanatham. Members: Jessica Enoch, Scott Wible, Vessela Valiavitcharska
- Performance Studies and Theater. Organizer: Theresa Coletti. Members: Julius Fleming, Laura Rosenthal, Scott Trudell, Mary Helen Washington
Beyond the Classroom Grants
- Sharada Bachlandara, ENGL 368E: Tickets for “In the Heights,” Lin-Manuel Miranda, Gala Hispanic Theatre
- Merle Collins, ENGL 362, “Carnival and the Carnivalesque in Caribbean Litearture & Culture,” Symposium, March 31, 2017
- Merle Collins, ENGL 361, Publication of Cafe Connections Oral History Collection
- Jessica Enoch, ENGL 397/WMST 498V, Transcribe-a-Thon of Madge Preston’s 19th-c Diary, May 3, 2017
- Danuta Hinc, ENGL 394, Lake Artemisia Clean-up Project
- Linda Kauffman, ENGL 144 & ENGL 437, end-of-year and end-of-career celebration
- Jamison Kantor, ENGL 212, film screening
- Patrick R. Nelson, ENGL 393, Gardening Initiative
- Michael Olmert, ENGL 379M, Rehearsals for Rehearsed Table Readings
- Randy Ontiveros, ENGL 142, Class Outings: Riverdale Mansion in Riverdale and the Reginald F. Lewis Maryland African American History and Culture Museum in Baltimore
- Maggie Ellen Ray, ENGL 304, film screening: Taming of the Shrew
- Michael Olmert: Undergraduate Play Workshops: Sir Max Stafford and Stella Feehily. ENGL 454 and 479F. October 10, 2016, October 11, 2016; October 13, 2016
- Karen Nelson: Film Screening: Globe's Bollywood Midsummer Night’s Dream, November 2, 2016, for English 206, 244, 304, 305, 403, 404, 454.