CLCS Announces Grants for Spring 2014

For the spring 2014 grant cycle, CLCS awarded funding to support 22 proposals for lecture series, conferences, reading groups, and more.

Projects, all to be held during the 2014-2015 academic year, include these:

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• 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