Twelve artists and scholars, representing the fields of Literary Criticism, Film Criticism, and Translation into English, have been selected from among 160 candidates nominated for Howard Fellowships in 2004. The 2005-2006 fellows and their projects are:
Karen Coats, Associate Professor, Illinois State University, Literary Criticism Project: Learning to Laugh: Humor in Children’s Literature.
Jeffrey Coleman, Associate Professor, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Literary Criticism Project: Poetry of the American Civil Rights Movement: A Critical Evaluation.
Andrew Elfenbein, Professor, University of Minnesota, Literary Criticism Project: Romantic English: Literature and the Response to Linguistic Standardization.
Forrest Gander, Professor, Brown University, Translation Project: A Translation of “La Noche” by poet Jaime Saenz.
Kenneth Haynes, Assistant Professor, Brown University, Translation Studies Project: “Romanticism is Translation”: Language Mysticism and the Untranslatable.
Hilaire Kallendorf, Assistant Professor, Texas A & M, Literary Criticism Project: Sins of the Fathers/Sins of the Players: The Moral Economy of Baroque Spain.
Adam Lowenstein, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Film Criticism Project: Scanning Cinematic Spectatorship: Films and Viewers Meeting Halfway.
Nicoletta Pireddu, Associate Professor, Georgetown University, Literary Criticism Project: The Fiction of Europe, Europe in Fiction.
John Plotz, Associate Professor, Brandeis University, Literary Criticism Project: Portable Properties, Local Logic: Culture on the Move and in Place in Victorian Greater Britain.
Paul Saint-Amour, Associate Professor, Pomona College, Literary Criticism Project: Archive, Bomb, Camera: Modernism in the Shadow of Total War.
Russell Scott Valentino, Associate Professor, University of Iowa, Translation Project: Predrag Matvejevic’s The Other Venice: a Translation.
Elizabeth Young, Associate Professor, Mount Holyoke College, Literary Criticism Project: American Frankenstein: Race, Sex and the Politics of Monstrosity.