Eleven scholars, representing the fields of Literary Criticism, Film Criticism, and Translation, were selected from among 160 candidates nominated for Howard Fellowships in 1998. The 1999-2000 fellows and their projects are:
Elizabeth Abel, Associate Professor, UC Berkeley, Literary Criticism, Signs of the Times: The Visual Politics of Jim Crow.
Gerard Aching, Assistant Professor, New York University, Literary Criticism, Intellectual Homecoming: Afro-cubanismo, Negritude, and Surrealism.
Nora Alter, Associate Professor, University of Florida, Film Criticism, The Essay Film: After Fact and Fiction.
Valerie Boyd, Independent Scholar, Literary Criticism, Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston.
Christina de la Torre, Senior Lecturer, Emory University, Translation, A Translation of Una sola muerte numerosa by Argentine writer Nora Strejilevich.
Jan Levi, Independent Scholar, Literary Criticism, Whatever Can Come to A Woman: The Biography of Muriel Rukeyser.
Kathryn Morgan, Associate Professor, UCLA, Literary Criticism, Talking to Tyrants: The Cultural Dynamics of Address to Greek Tyrants and ‘Tyrannical’ Audiences from the 5th to the 3rd Centuries B.C.E.
Robert Nixon, Associate Professor, Columbia University, Literary Criticism, A Literary Biography of Nadine Gordimer.
Carol Poore, Associate Professor, Brown University, Literary Criticism, Stigma or Solidarity? Literary and Cultural Representations of Physical Disability in the United States and Germany.
Philip Watts, Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Literary Criticism, Sequels: Film Criticism in France (1944-1962).
Tracy Sharpely Whiting, Associate Professor, Purdue University, Literary Criticism, Femmes negritudes/Negritude Women: History of an Idea, Evolution of a Race Movement.