- $70,000
Translating a "French Robinson Crusoe" of the Americas: The Memoir of Dumont de Montigny
Recipient: Zecher, Carla (Chicago, IL 60610-7324 USA) in affiliation with Newberry Library (Chicago, IL 60610 USA)
Goal: Preparation of an annotated English translation of the memoir of Dumont de Montigny. (24 months)
Description: The Newberry Library requests funding to support preparation of an English translation of the memoir of a French soldier, Dumont de Montigny, who settled in Louisiana during the first half of the 18th century. This memoir, preserved in a manuscript in the Newberry collections, is a remarkable mixture of a colonial report, an autobiography, a picaresque narrative, a natural history, and an ethnography. It stands out as a seminal work of French colonial Louisiana. The English translation will be a vital new source for scholars and others interested in the history of the first 100 years of colonial settlement in the greater Mississippi Valley, and it will allow the incorporation of this extraordinary text into the American literary heritage.
Grant: 181541 / RZ-50594-06, Division: Research Programs, Program: Collaborative Research, Year Awarded: 2006 - $70,293
Balzac and Zola: Esthetics and Ethics in the Novel
Recipient: Kamm, Lewis (N. Dartmouth, MA 002747 USA) in affiliation with University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth (North Dartmouth, MA 02747 USA)
Goal: A three-week seminar for fifteen school teachers to study Balzac's THE WILD ASS'S SKIN and Zola's GERMINAL.
Grant: 176859 / FV-50086-05, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for School Teachers, Year Awarded: 2005 - $107,618
Travel Writing, Skepticism, and Religious Belief in Renaissance France
Recipient: Zecher, Carla (Chicago, IL 60610-7324 USA) in affiliation with Newberry Library (Chicago, IL 60610 USA)
Goal: A four-week summer seminar for college teachers to examine French Renaissance travel writing and the effect of the encounter with the peoples of the Americas on religious debates in sixteenth-century Europe.
Description: This seminar will examine the intersection between travel writing, skepticism, and religious belief in Renaissance France, so as to reintegrate the religious consequences of early European/Amerindian encounters into our view of the cultural transformations initiated by the Age of Exploration. Attitudes adopted to deal with the religious status of Amerindians assumed a polemical role in the dissensions of the Reformation. Pseudo-travel texts by writers such as Rabelais and Montaigne applied exotic description to French culture, stripping meaning from familiar customs, making readers feel like foreigners at home. The disorientation effected by this literature framed the problem of religious doubt within a larger cross-cultural context.
Grant: 171841 / FS-50025-04, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for College Teachers, Year Awarded: 2004 - $100,000
The Mémoires of Dumont de Montigny: Empire and Misadventure in Colonial Louisiana, 1715-1747
Recipient: Zecher, Carla (Chicago, IL 60610-7324 USA) in affiliation with Newberry Library (Chicago, IL 60610 USA)
Goal: Preparation of a scholarly edition of the 1747 manuscript of Jean François Benjamin Dumont de Montigny's narrative of colonial Québec and Louisiana.
Description: The Newberry Library requests funding to support preparation of an edition of a mid-18th century French illustrated manuscript in the Newberry collections, the memoir of a colonial adventurer named Dumont de Montigny. In this first-person narrative Dumont recounts his travels in Quebec, Louisiana, and Brittany, from 1715 to 1747. Until now, only portions of the document have been available, in a substantially reworked form, in a 1753 printed edition. Dumont was for Louisiana what John Smith was for Virginia. He wrote at some points with the grand purpose of a history of the colony, at others with an autobiographical aim. His account illuminates the history of colonial Louisiana and of the Native peoples of the Old Southwest.
Grant: 170732 / RQ-50075-04, Division: Research Programs, Program: Scholarly Editions, Year Awarded: 2004 - $93,619
Children and Rescue in France During the Second World War
Recipient: Sibelman, Simon P (Oshkosh, WI 54901-3551 USA) in affiliation with University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Goal: A four-week seminar for school teachers on French representations of the rescue of Jewish children and adults under the Vichy regime.
Grant: 165437 / FV-50027-03, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for School Teachers, Year Awarded: 2003 - $72,292
Balzac and Zola: Esthetics and Ethics in the Novel
Recipient: Kamm, Lewis (N. Dartmouth, MA 002747 USA) in affiliation with University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth (North Dartmouth, MA 02747 USA)
Goal: A four-week seminar to engage 15 teachers in close reading of novels by Balzac and Zola that explore the human condition.
Grant: 165412 / FV-50013-03, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for School Teachers, Year Awarded: 2003 - $163,087
The French in the Americas: French Colonial Travel Writing
Recipient: Zecher, Carla (Chicago, IL 60610-7324 USA) in affiliation with Newberry Library (Chicago, IL 60610 USA)
Goal: A five-week institute for 25 college teachers to study travel writing of the French in the Americas from 1500 to 1800.
Grant: 95013 / EH-22347-02, Division: Education Programs, Program: Institutes for College and University Teachers, Year Awarded: 2002 - $720,000
American Novel (Production of a Single, Two-and-One-Half Hour Television Special)
Recipient: Lacy, Susan (New York, NY 10001 USA) in affiliation with Educational Broadcasting Corporation
Goal: Production of three two-hour programs as part of a six-part, 12-hour documentary television series examining how past and present American novelists have explored and helped shape our national identity.
Grant: 157079 / GN-26277-01, Division: Public Programs, Program: Media, Humanities Projects in, Year Awarded: 2001 - $125,051
The Arthurian Illuminated Manuscript and the Culture of the High Middle Ages
Recipient: Bloch, R. Howard (New Haven, CT 06520 USA) in affiliation with Yale University
Grant: 151607 / FS-23173-99, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for College Teachers, Year Awarded: 1999 - $115,214
War and Memory: Postwar Representations of the Occupation and World War II in French Literature, History, and Film
Recipient: Suleiman, Susan R (Cambridge, MA 02138-0000 USA) in affiliation with Harvard University (Cambridge, MA 02138 USA)
Grant: 151617 / FS-23197-99, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for College Teachers, Year Awarded: 1999 - $174,672
La Francophonie: A Study of the Literature and Cultural Geography of French-Speaking West Africa; Focus on Senegal
Recipient: Drake, Christine (Norfolk, VA 23529 USA) in affiliation with Old Dominion University Research Foundation (Norfolk, VA 23508 USA)
Goal: To support a five-week institute for 24 high school French teachers on the most significant literary works from Francophone West Africa. The institute will take place in Norfolk, VA, and Dakar, Senegal.
Grant: 143647 / ES-23052-98, Division: Education Programs, Program: Institutes for School Teachers, Year Awarded: 1998 - $103,207
Montaigne and Our Times
Recipient: Tetel, Marcel (Durham, NC 27708 USA) in affiliation with Duke University
Grant: 154692 / FV-22299-98, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for School Teachers, Year Awarded: 1998 - $119,647
Literature & Cartography in France, 1450-1690
Recipient: Conley, Tom C (Cambridge, MA 02138-0000 USA) in affiliation with Harvard University (Cambridge, MA 02138 USA)
Grant: 151578 / FS-23074-97, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for College Teachers, Year Awarded: 1997 - $108,664
War and Memory: Postwar Representations of the Occupation and World War II in French Literature, History, and Film
Recipient: Suleiman, Susan R (Cambridge, MA 02138-0000 USA) in affiliation with Harvard University (Cambridge, MA 02138 USA)
Grant: 151590 / FS-23115-97, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for College Teachers, Year Awarded: 1997 - $35,000
An Edition of the Correspondence of Mme de Graffigny (1695- 1758), Novelist and Playwright
Recipient: Showalter, English (Princeton, NJ 08540-0000 USA) in affiliation with Rutgers University, Camden (Camden, NJ 08102 USA)
Goal: To support the preparation of two volumes of the correspondence of Francoise deGraffigny (1695-1758), French novelist, playwright, and salon hostess during the French Enlightenment.
Grant: 161613 / RZ-20026-97, Division: Research Programs, Program: Collaborative Research, Year Awarded: 1997 - $26,062
Ph.D. in English
Recipient: Coleman, Janice (Oxford, MS 38655 USA) in affiliation with Alcorn State University (Lorman, MS 39096 USA)
Grant: 149478 / FG-20327-97, Division: Research Programs, Program: Faculty Graduate Study Program for HBCUs, Year Awarded: 1997 - $178,619
La Francophonie: A Study of the Lit and Cultural Geography of French-Speaking West Africa with a Focus on Senegal
Recipient: Drake, Christine (Norfork, VA 23529 USA) in affiliation with Old Dominion University Research Foundation (Norfolk, VA 23508 USA)
Goal: To support a national institute for twenty high school teachers on the literature and cultural geography of French-speaking West Africa with a focus on Senegal.
Grant: 143630 / ES-22997-96, Division: Education Programs, Program: Institutes for School Teachers, Year Awarded: 1996 - $110,691
Marie de France and the Making of the Medieval Subject
Recipient: Bloch, R. Howard (New Haven, CT 06520 USA) in affiliation with Columbia University (New York, NY 10027 USA)
Grant: 151535 / FS-22917-96, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for College Teachers, Year Awarded: 1996 - $92,558
Modernist Paris
Recipient: DiBattista, Maria A (Princeton, NJ 08544 USA) in affiliation with Princeton University
Grant: 151565 / FS-23031-96, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for College Teachers, Year Awarded: 1996 - $83,712
Eighteenth-Century French Literature and Women's Place: A Multidisciplinary Inquiry
Recipient: Blum, Carol (Stony Brook, NY 11794-0000 USA) in affiliation with SUNY Research Foundation, Stony Brook (Stony Brook, NY 11794-0001 USA)
Grant: 151543 / FS-22942-96, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for College Teachers, Year Awarded: 1996 - Endowment for the humanities grants to category French Literature; items 1-21 of 104 with a total funding of $2,670,006.