Shanghai and Berlin: Cultures of Urban Modernism in Interwar China and Germany

Recipient: Berman, Russell (Stanford, CA 94305-2031 USA) in affiliation with Stanford University (Stanford, CA 94305 USA)

Goal: A six-week college and university teacher seminar for sixteen participants to explore urban modernism in Shanghai and Berlin in the period between the first and second world wars.

Description: The purpose of this seminar is to explore urban modernism in Shanghai and Berlin, primarily in the period between the first and second world wars and through select literary and cinematic works. Urban modernism involves the transformation of everyday culture in the wake of the rapid erosion of traditional hierarchies and values. It found expression in revised life-styles, gender roles, and structures of individuality. The seminar approaches these aspects of modernism, as part of a wider concept of modernity, through a comparative approach of Chinese and German material. It examines how the expression and representation of the modern metropolis developed in the two contexts. It also inquires into elements of instability in modernism and the challenge it faced from revolutionary movements on the right and left.

Grant: 197346 / FS-50212-09,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for College Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2009

Letters of Samuel Beckett

Recipient: Overbeck, Lois More (Atlanta, GA 30322 USA) in affiliation with Emory University

Goal: Preparation and final editing of Volumes II and III of a four-volume edition of selected letters of Samuel Beckett. (36 months)

Description: This is the first comprehensive collection and contextual presentation of the letters of Irish-born writer and world-playwright Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) whose work is held in the highest esteem by a large, diverse, and international audience. Pivotal for scholarship in the humanities, The Letters of Samuel Beckett will enrich all readers with fresh perspective on twentieth-century culture. This NEH proposal seeks support for the editing of Volume II and Volume III of the four volume edition being published by Cambridge University Press.

Grant: 191450 / RQ-50332-08,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Scholarly Editions,   Year Awarded: 2008

Modernist Paris

Recipient: DiBattista, Maria A (Princeton, NJ 08544 USA) in affiliation with Princeton University

Goal: A five-week seminar for fifteen college and university teachers to be held on site in Paris, France, to explore the cultural and social grounding of the emergence of modern art in twentieth-century Paris.

Grant: 176894 / FS-50074-05,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for College Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2005

Cultural Encounters in Global Contexts: Teaching World Literature in General Education English Courses

Recipient: Foreman, Joel E (Fairfax, VA 22030-4444 USA) in affiliation with George Mason University (Fairfax, VA 22030 USA)

Goal: A year-long project to enable sixteen faculty members at eight geographically dispersed institutions to study with leading scholars to improve the teaching of world literature texts.

Grant: 177222 / EZ-50138-05,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Faculty Humanities Workshops,   Year Awarded: 2005

Africa and the Americas

Recipient: Zaluda, Scott (Valhalla, NY 10595 USA) in affiliation with Westchester Community College

Goal: A series of workshops for faculty at four colleges to study the relationships between the literatures of post-colonial Africa and the African Diasporas of the Caribbean and the United States.

Grant: 177243 / EZ-50159-05,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Faculty Humanities Workshops,   Year Awarded: 2005

Surveying Paris: Urban Space and Urban Culture in the Early Modern City

Recipient: Newman, Karen A (Providence, RI 02912-1867 USA) in affiliation with Brown University (Providence, RI 02912 USA)

Goal: A five-week seminar for college teachers, in Paris, to examine the literature and culture of early modern Paris in historical and social context.

Grant: 108507 / FS-23287-02,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for College Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2002

The Paris of Balzac, Baudelaire, and Zola

Recipient: Ahearn, Edward J (Providence, RI 02912-0000 USA) in affiliation with Brown University (Providence, RI 02912 USA)

Goal: A four-week seminar in Paris for school teachers to study French literary works in their 19th-century urban contexts.

Grant: 114412 / FV-22419-02,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2002

Picaresque Variations: Versions of the Outsider in Narrative and Film

Recipient: Friedman, Edward Herbert (Nashville, TN 37235-1617 USA) in affiliation with Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN 37240 USA)

Goal: A five-week seminar for school teachers on the representation of the outsider in narrative and film beginning with the Spanish picaresque.

Grant: 114421 / FV-22428-02,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2002

Literatures of the Asian Diaspora

Recipient: Eckhardt, Caroline D (University Park, PA 16802-0000 USA) in affiliation with Pennsylvania State University, Main Campus (University Park, PA 16802 USA)

Goal: To convene faculty from five Pennsylvania State University campuses to integrate Asian diasporic literature into the curriculum.

Grant: 94644 / ED-22371-02,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Education Development and Demonstration,   Year Awarded: 2002

Texts and Teachers: The Interdisciplinary Challenge

Recipient: Ahearn, Edward J (Providence, RI 02912-0000 USA) in affiliation with Brown University (Providence, RI 02912 USA)

Goal: To support two years of a national alliance for secondary and higher education humanities teachers at eight sites to collaborate in developing and teaching interdisciplinary courses.

Grant: 141815 / ED-20643-97,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Education Development and Demonstration,   Year Awarded: 1997

The Enlightenment Invention of the Modern Self

Recipient: Damrosch, Leo (Cambridge, MA 02138 USA) in affiliation with Harvard University

Grant: 151580 / FS-23078-97,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for College Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1997

TALK TO ME: Short Promo

Recipient: Simon, Andrea (New York, NY 10024-0000 USA) in affiliation with Arcadia Pictures (New York, NY 10024 USA)

Grant: 156908 / GN-25420-97,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Media, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 1997

Endowing Book Publishing Programs in the Humanities

Recipient: Withey, Lynne E (Berkeley, CA 94704 USA) in affiliation with University of California Press (Berkeley, CA 94720 USA)

Goal: To support endowment funds to subsidize humanities publications in African- American studies, classics, film, fine arts, Jewish studies, music, and the general humanities.

Grant: 141366 / CH-20317-96,   Division: Challenge Grants,   Program: Challenge Grants,   Year Awarded: 1996

Performance and Text in Caribbean Literature and Art

Recipient: Fiet, Lowell (San Juan, PR 00931 USA) in affiliation with University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras (Rio Piedras, PR 00931 USA)

Goal: A six-week summer institute for 25 college teachers on text and performance in Caribbean literary and artistic creation, drawing on the resources of Anglophone, Francophone, and Hispanic writers and artists of the region.

Grant: 142705 / EH-22185-96,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for College and University Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1996

The Enlightenment Invention of the Modern Self

Recipient: Damrosch, Leo (Cambridge, MA 02138 USA) in affiliation with Harvard University

Grant: 151570 / FS-23056-96,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for College Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1996

Knowledge and Wisdom in Ancient Greece and China

Recipient: Shankman, Steven (Eugene, OR 97403 USA) in affiliation with University of Oregon, Eugene

Goal: To support the research and writing of a book comparing the meaning and pursuitof knowledge and wisdom in ancient China and Greece through close readings of texts that were important to these two classical cultures.

Grant: 160676 / RO-22912-96,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Basic Research,   Year Awarded: 1996

Connections & Collision: English Literature from Beowolf to Shakespeare & from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present

Recipient: Shichtman, Martin B (Ypsilanti, MI 48197 USA) in affiliation with Eastern Michigan University

Goal: To support a humanities focus project to explore the connections and differences among works of literature describing marginalized members of society for 11 teachers and school administrators.

Grant: 141758 / ED-20144-96,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Education Development and Demonstration,   Year Awarded: 1996

Tradition and Texts: Coming of Age in America

Recipient: Gibbs, Gary D (Houston, TX 77002 USA) in affiliation with Texas Institute for Arts in Education

Goal: To support a three-year collaborative project, a series of three-week summer institutes on classic and contemporary works of American literature and art for 135 elementary school teachers from Houston.

Grant: 143591 / ES-22787-95,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1995

Comparative Literary and Cultural Responses to the Holocaust

Recipient: Mintz, Alan (New York, NY 10027 USA) in affiliation with Brandeis University (Waltham, MA 02254 USA)

Grant: 151539 / FS-22928-95,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for College Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1995

Place and Displacement in Contemporary World Literature

Recipient: Carter, William C (Birmingham, AL 35294 USA) in affiliation with Alabama Humanities Foundation (Birmingham, AL 35205-7001 USA)

Goal: To support a three-week summer institute and 12 interdisciplinary workshops across Alabama during the school year for 40 English teachers, using "place anddisplacement" as a thematic structure for exploring world literature.

Grant: 161844 / SE-20028-95,   Division: Federal/State Partnership,   Program: Exemplary Awards,   Year Awarded: 1995