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.