Howard Foundation Fellows, 2005-2006

Twelve artists and scholars, representing the fields of Literary Criticism, Film Criticism, and Translation into English, were awarded Howard Fellowships for 2005-2006. The fellows and their projects were:

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.