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From: Don Lavigne <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 02:59:25 +0000
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Subject: Texas Tech Humanities Center Fellowship, Spring 2018
Reply-To: Don Lavigne <[log in to unmask]>
The Humanities Center at Texas Tech invites applications for a Spring,
2018, Fellowship. The selected Fellow will ideally hold the Ph.D., but
an exceptional ABD would be considered. The 2017-2018 theme is "Food
and...." Fellowship applicants should be involved in projects that
address the theme, broadly construed. Applications are due no later
than February 27, 2017.
The Fellowship carries a stipend of $12,000, which can be used for any
purpose. No additional allowances beyond the stipend will be available.
The Fellow will be provided with an office and full library privileges,
including access to online databases and interlibrary loan services.
Housing is not included but the Humanities Center will assist with
finding housing. The dates for the Fellow's term will be January 15th
through May 15th.
"Food and..." crosses disciplines and invites many kinds of thinkers
and critical conversations. The explosion of food studies at the end of
the twentieth century was an institutional response to the myriad ways
in which food might be approached by scholars, and the field has only
expanded in the intervening years. As the introduction to a recent
anthology of essays on food and theatre notes, food carries "symbolic
and material unwieldiness," showing "comestibles and their consumption
to be both bedrock and flashpoints of cultural identity." Indeed, the
very question of what counts as food differs across cultures but also
yields sometimes startling answers in the face of deprivation.
Ways into the "what" following the ellipsis in "Food and..." may fall
under several broad thematic categories: culture, literature, politics,
environment, health. Topics under these large rubrics include
malnutrition, access, education, inequities, media representations,
depictions in fine art, sustainability, ecology, local food, small
scale agriculture, agribusiness, and gastronomy. This list is not
exhaustive. Humanistic ways of looking at food run the gamut from
"primary source in material culture to semiotic tool; from literary
trope to exchangeable commodity; from colonial weapon to method of
cultural resistance; from obsession either due to absence or to fetish;
from comfort, reassurance, and sustenance to oddity or source of
disgust; from sin to salvation," and, in addition, from welcoming
gesture to coercive faux hospitality; and from political bribe to
political rallying point.
The Humanities Center's 2017-2018 themed events will be realized across
several platforms, including a guest lecture series, an interactive
kiosk exhibit, a museum exhibit, a film series, a reading colloquium,
the presence of a visiting scholar, and an anticipated
interdisciplinary conference. All iterations are open to addressing
food as nourishment, metaphor, global challenge, cultural system, and
marker of identity, across and between the disciplines: "Food and..."
opens doors to exploring ways of knowing, nourishing, and conceiving
oneself and others; and to experiencing and reimagining relationships
between food sources and sourcers, food purveyors and consumers, food
shapers and food thinkers. The myriad conceptualizations and human
experiences of food offer the critic, the thinker, and the eater a
prime node of analysis―a "place at the table" of intellectual and
public discourse.
In submitting an application for the program, the applicant does not
incur an obligation to accept the award if selected.
The Fellow will be expected:
- to work in residence at TTU on a full-time basis during the award
tenure;
- to devote full-time effort to the research proposed;
- to draft a brief written report (800-1,000 words) describing their
experiences and their results, to be submitted no later than thirty
days following the award period;
- to prepare and deliver to the TTU community a 45-minute presentation
detailing the results of their research;
- to include appropriate credit to Humanities Center at Texas Tech in
any presentation or publication based on research performed during the
award tenure.
To apply, please send the following as a single PDF:
- An abstract of no more than 80 words describing your project.
- A narrative of no more than 750 words describing both your project,
how it meshes with the "Food and ..." theme, and how, specifically, you
propose to use your time next spring if selected for the Fellowship.
- A redacted C.V. of no more than 3 pages with an emphasis on work
showing your suitability for undertaking the project you propose.
- The names of four people whom we may contact for recommendations.
Brief descriptions of their work/discipline and relationship to the
candidate would be appreciated.
Upon request, the TTU Humanities Center will help arrange for
appropriate visa documents for foreign nationals. Likely a visiting
Fellow would be granted the status of "Foreign Exchange Visitor"
(J-visa). A spouse and minor children may travel on the same visa as
the scholar. The Humanities Center encourages foreign scholars to apply
for the J-1 visa as per the standard procedures for visiting research
scholars visiting the United States. We do not encourage scholars to
apply for B or H visas.
Send your application to [log in to unmask] In the subject line,
put your last name Sp 2018 external fellow app (e.g., Washburn Sp 2018
external fellow app). Deadline is February 27th, 2017. We hope to have
our selection made by May 10th, 2017.
For a fuller description of "Food and..." and information about the
Humanities Center, please visit our website: humanitiescenter.ttu.edu.
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