- $30,000
Operations Bridge Funding
Recipient: Clark, E. Christopher (Boston, MA 02215 USA) in affiliation with Association of Literary Scholars and Critics
Goal: The Association of Literary Scholars & Critics requested a Chairman's grant of $30,000 to support bridging funds in the Association's current fiscal year. The applicant's programs support literature, literary scholarship, teaching, literacy, and public outreach. It holds annual conferences and publishes a journal, Literary Imagination, in cooperation with Oxford University Press. The ALSC encourage the reading and study, and also the writing, of literature in a culturally vital, pluralistic manner that will appeal to the public as well as professional spheres. It reports considerable and ongoing successes in realizing its mission. However, recent cutbacks in philanthropic support have jeopardized long-term and even short-term planning. ALSC has, to its credit, used this difficult period to undergo a full systems audit, provided pro-bono by a major law firm. The NEH Chairman's Grant of $30,000 will cover expenses during a critical interim period in which new sources of support are expected to put
Grant: 196927 / EZ-50282-09, Division: Education Programs, Program: Faculty Humanities Workshops, Year Awarded: 2009 - $30,000
An Examination of the Literary and Non-Literary Texts and Approaches Used in Public High School Standard English Classes
Recipient: Stotsky, Sandra (Fayetteville, AR 72701 USA) in affiliation with University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Goal: The applicant requested a Chairman's grant of $30,000 to fund one component of a planned 18-month humanities research project undertaken at the University of Arkansas in collaboration with the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics (ALSC). This project therefore has two main purposes: to find out what major fiction and nonfiction works are currently assigned in secondary literature and history curricula in the public schools, and to formulate recommendations for strengthening secondary school literature curricula so that students are well prepared for authentic college-level courses. The NEH Chairman's Grant of $30,000 will defray most of the estimated $35,000 cost of retaining a respected polling firm to contact a random stratified national sample of teachers and gather information in response to a jointly prepared questionnaire.
Description: This proposal has two major purposes: 1. To find out what whole text fiction and non-fiction works are currently assigned in secondary literature curricula in public schools. 2. To formulate recommendations for strengthening secondary school literature curricula so that students are better prepared for authentic college-level English courses.
Grant: 196928 / EZ-50283-09, Division: Education Programs, Program: Faculty Humanities Workshops, Year Awarded: 2009 - $49,251
The eCommentary Machine Project
Recipient: Baker, Samuel E (Austin, TX 78712 USA) in affiliation with University of Texas, Austin
Goal: Development of a web-based collaborative commentary and annotation tool.
Description: The eCommentary Machine web application ("eComma") enables groups of students, scholars, or general readers to build collaborative commentaries on a text and to search, display, and share those commentaries online.
Grant: 191253 / HD-50345-08, Division: Digital Humanities, Program: Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants, Year Awarded: 2008 - $148,653
Narrative Theory: Rhetoric and Ethics in Fiction and Nonfiction
Recipient: Phelan, James P (Columbus, OH 43210-1370 USA) in affiliation with Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, OH 43212 USA)
Goal: A six-week seminar for fifteen college and university teachers to study rhetorical theories of fictional and non-fictional narrative to be held at Ohio State University.
Description: This seminar investigates the power of narrative as a way of knowing, a power acknowledged by the "narrative turn" in the humanities--and, indeed, in disciplines such as law, medicine, and business--over the last decade. It will focus on a range of rich examples of fictional and nonfictional narrative--novels and short stories by such authors as Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ian McEwan; memoirs by Frank McCourt and Joan Didion--and on how a rhetorical theory of narrative helps illuminate their form and their ethical dimensions. It will also place rhetorical theory in the broader context of contemporary narrative theory by looking at other approaches to narrative theory in general and narrative ethics in particular. Among the theorists we will study are Wayne Booth, Martha Nussbaum, Peter J. Rabinowitz, Adam Zachary Newton, Susan Lanser, and David Herman.
Grant: 187055 / FS-50138-07, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for College Teachers, Year Awarded: 2007 - $92,108
Writing Africa: Comparative African and European Palavers and Perspectives
Recipient: Eke, Maureen N (Mount Pleasant, MI 48859 USA) in affiliation with Central Michigan University
Goal: A five-week seminar for 15 school teachers to engage in a comparative reading of novels about Africa written by African and European authors.
Grant: 165408 / FV-50009-03, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for School Teachers, Year Awarded: 2003 - $45,000
TRANSCRIPTIONS: Literature and the Culture of Information Project
Recipient: Liu, Alan Y (Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA) in affiliation with University of California, Santa Barbara
Goal: To support a curricular development project that will exploit information technology as the conceptual and practical bridge between teaching the humanities and teaching about the culture of information.
Grant: 141837 / ED-20822-97, Division: Education Programs, Program: Education Development and Demonstration, Year Awarded: 1997 - $25,000
Fiction and Technology
Recipient: English, Susan B (Cedar Rapids, IA 52406 USA) in affiliation with Kirkwood Community College
Goal: To support a four-week seminar for English department faculty with visiting scholars on the relationships between fiction and technology.
Grant: 141801 / ED-20582-97, Division: Education Programs, Program: Education Development and Demonstration, Year Awarded: 1997 - $104,127
Literature and Values
Recipient: McGowan, John P (Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3322 USA) in affiliation with University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA)
Grant: 151568 / FS-23044-96, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for College Teachers, Year Awarded: 1996 - $82,030
Adventures in the First Person
Recipient: Robinson, Fred M (Capistrano Beach, CA 92624-0000 USA) in affiliation with University of San Diego (San Diego, CA 92110 USA)
Grant: 154653 / FV-22162-96, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for School Teachers, Year Awarded: 1996 - $18,000
Fiction, Drama, and Poetry in the High School: A Rhetorical Approach
Recipient: Gelles, Rhoda M (Columbus, OH 43220 USA) in affiliation with Worthington School District (Worthington, OH 43085 USA)
Goal: To support a masterwork study project to investigate selected fiction, drama, and poetry through a rhetorical approach for 20 high school language arts teachers from the Worthington, Ohio, area.
Grant: 143576 / ES-22736-95, Division: Education Programs, Program: Institutes for School Teachers, Year Awarded: 1995 - $90,535
Literature in Transition: The Impact of Information Technologies
Recipient: Hayles, N. Katherine (Los Angeles, CA 90095-1530 USA) in affiliation with University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA)
Grant: 151484 / FS-22787-94, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for College Teachers, Year Awarded: 1994 - $81,548
Issues in the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative: Form, Ideology, Ethics, and Audiences
Recipient: Phelan, James P (Columbus, OH 43210-1370 USA) in affiliation with Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, OH 43212 USA)
Grant: 151487 / FS-22793-94, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for College Teachers, Year Awarded: 1994 - $20,000
Pathographies: A Study of Illness Narratives
Recipient: Willms, Janice (Brookings, OR 97415 USA) in affiliation with St. Patrick Hospital and Health Foundation (Missoula, MT 59806 USA)
Goal: To support lectures, reading and video discussions, and other programs about literature written by or about those suffering from serious illnesses or disabilities.
Grant: 154995 / GL-21311-94, Division: Public Programs, Program: Libraries and Archives, Humanities Projects in, Year Awarded: 1994 - $7,000
Textual Criticism and Middle English Texts, by Tim William Machan
Recipient: Brettschneider, Cathie (Charlottesville, VA 22903 USA) in affiliation with University of Virginia
Goal: To support the publication of a study of editorial theory as it relates to Middle English literature.
Grant: 161067 / RP-21794-94, Division: Research Programs, Program: Scholarly Publications, Year Awarded: 1994 - $20,000
International Dante Seminar
Recipient: Hollander, Robert (Princeton, NJ 08544 USA) in affiliation with International Dante Seminar
Goal: To support an international conference on Dante that will focus on national differences in Dante criticism and scholarship.
Grant: 161578 / RX-21472-93, Division: Research Programs, Program: Conferences, Year Awarded: 1993 - $73,658
Issues in the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative
Recipient: Phelan, James P (Columbus, OH 43210-1370 USA) in affiliation with Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, OH 43212 USA)
Grant: 151279 / FS-22214-91, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for College Teachers, Year Awarded: 1991 - $63,755
Conference on Literature and Hawaii's Children
Recipient: Carroll, Tamara (Honolulu, HI 96822 USA) in affiliation with Hawaii Literary Arts Council (Honolulu, HI 96828 USA)
Goal: To support a conference and reading and discussion programs offering a criti- cal examination of literature for children.
Grant: 154926 / GL-21104-91, Division: Public Programs, Program: Libraries and Archives, Humanities Projects in, Year Awarded: 1991 - $151,115
Let's Talk About It: Reading and Discussion Programs in South Carolina Libraries
Recipient: Ashburn, Frances (Raleigh, NC 27699-4640 USA) in affiliation with Association of Public Library Administrators (Lancaster, SC 29720 USA)
Goal: To support the implementation of "Let's Talk about It" reading and discussion programs in 30 South Carolina libraries.
Grant: 154833 / GL-20818-88, Division: Public Programs, Program: Libraries and Archives, Humanities Projects in, Year Awarded: 1988 - $27,500
English
Recipient: Nigro, Marie A (West Chester, PA 19380 USA) in affiliation with Lincoln University, Pennsylvania (Lincoln University, PA 19352 USA)
Grant: 149404 / FG-20139-88, Division: Research Programs, Program: Faculty Graduate Study Program for HBCUs, Year Awarded: 1988 - $74,515
The Ellesmere Chaucer and Towneley Plays Manuscripts: The 15th-Century Handwritten Book as Literary Source
Recipient: Stevens, Martin (New York, NY 10036-0000 USA) in affiliation with University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA)
Grant: 151137 / FS-21818-87, Division: Education Programs, Program: Seminars for College Teachers, Year Awarded: 1987 - Endowment for the humanities grants to category Literary Criticism; items 1-21 of 42 with a total funding of $1,233,795.