Winners of the First Class of Faculty Fellows

The Center for the Humanities is pleased to announce its first class of faculty fellows: Erin McGlothlin, Assistant Professor of German Language and Literature; Peter Kastor, Assistant Professor of History; and Harriet Stone, Professor of Romance Languages. They will all be resident at the Center in Spring 2006.

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Erin McGlothlin
Assistant Professor of German Language and Literature

Professor McGlothlin's project entitled "Restoring the Story: Fiction and History in Contemporary Jewish Holocaust Literature," investigates diverse works of literature, both fiction and non-fiction, by contemporary Jewish writers dealing with the memory of the Holocaust in a way to create a new Jewish literature.

Peter Kastor
Assistant Professor of History

Professor Kastor's project, "An Accurate Empire: Rendering America, 1776-1830," poses the question, how do you describe a continent, a vital concern in North America during the late-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, as he studies how Americans wrote, drew, governed, and in the end understood the world around them.

Harriet Stone
Professor of Romance Languages

Professor Stone's "Objects for the Table: The Art of Science in Early Modern Europe" uses Dutch genre painting during the early modern period to illustrate the way the discrete orderings of things in the world of art relates to the scientific practice of assembling specimens and organizing data.

Gerald Izenberg
Professor of History

Gerald Izenberg, Professor of History, was also selected as a faculty fellow from this pool of applicants, but he will be resident with the class of fellows selected for the Spring of 2007.

Letter from the Director

The Center is very proud of the success of our selection process, which included four outside reviewers, three of whom are directors of humanities centers at leading universities that also have faculty fellows programs. We are proud too, of the impressive quality of the applications. We wish to thank all who applied and encourage unsuccessful applicants to reapply. Finally, I wish to thank the committee of WU faculty who helped in this process - Linda Nicholson of History and Women and Gender Studies, James Wertsch of Education and International and Area Studies, Letty Chen of Asian Languages and Literatures, and Larry May of Philosophy. They were conscientious, hard working, and instrumental to the success of the process.

We will be selecting two fellows for the academic year 2006-2007. The application-filing period will run from July 1 to September 30, 2005. Announcement of the winners will be made in December 2005. Please follow the prompts on the faculty fellows page for detailed application instructions. If you have any questions about filing the application, please call Jian Leng, Associate Director of the Center for the Humanities, at (314) 935-5576.

Gerald Early
Director
The Center for the Humanities
Washington University in St. Louis