CLCS Announces Grants for Spring 2015

For the spring 2015 grant cycle, CLCS awarded funding to support 17 proposals for lecture series, conferences, reading groups, and more.

Projects, 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)