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5/9/07-

Congratulations to the Inter-Departmental Excellence in Teaching Awards for 2007!

2007 Winners

Verna Kale, Lissette Sywdyky, Silvi Alcivar, Rebecca Lundin and Del Bright.

5/8/07-

Please take a moment and view the list of 2007 Award Winners in English.

http://www.la.psu.edu/CLA-News/Latimes/may07/issue.shtml#awards

2/27/07 - We are please to announce that a new website for The Center for Literary Studies is now available off the English Department's home page. Be sure to check out the site for upcoming events and meetings.

9/28/06 -

Graduate Travel Grant Application Deadlines for 06-07:

Fall Semester 2006 submission deadline is Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Spring Semester 2007 submission deadline is Friday, February 16, 2007

 

9/27/06-

Reminder to all instructors:

The Internal Forms area has been updated to include new forms to be completed for book requests, directory, web site, and other internal updates. Please consult this area before submitting your requests to the office of Karen Davis or Christi Daniels.

If you are having problems accessing the secure area, please email Christi for assistance.

8/4/06-revised August 2006

Institute for the Arts and Humanities
Grants, Residencies, and Other Funding Opportunities
2006-07

The Institute for the Arts and Humanities offers a wide range of funding opportunities.

For complete information and application guidelines, please contact the IAHor visit the IAH website and click on “Grants, Residencies, and Other Funding Opportunities.”

www.research.psu.edu/iah

Short-Term Distinguished Visiting Fellowships in the Arts and Humanities

A “short-term” fellowship is defined as an intense residency period at the University Park campus, usually ranging between three and seven working days, during which the visiting scholar and/or artist is fully engaged in a series of educational, scholarly and creative activities. The residency must consist of a number of activities, including at least one public event (e.g. a lecture, performance, exhibition, etc.) and at least one activity aimed specifically at students (e.g. a workshop, presentation in a class, master class, etc.). Visiting fellows must be distinguished figures in the arts and/or humanities whose residency will generate interest across multiple

disciplines. A financial contribution from at least two departments/programs/schools is required
Maximum grant award: $7,500.

Nomination deadline: There is no set deadline ; nominations will be accepted on a rolling basis until funds are no longer available. Prospective nominators should contact the IAH Executive Director to inquire about the availability of funds.

Team Teaching Across the Disciplines

This program provides opportunities to bring interdisciplinarity into upper-level undergraduate and graduate classrooms through collaborative teaching. Funding will cover expenses directly

related to faculty team teaching, including use of multi-mediaresources; guest speakers;faculty/student travel to museums, to performances, or for learning-related projects in otherlocations; and course buy-out for one faculty member to facilitate team teaching. Supported by a Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Maximum grant award: $7,500.

Application deadline: September 19 to Robert L. Caserio (for courses offered in Fall 2007 or Spring 2008).

Individual Faculty Grants

This program helps to fund the research and creative projects of individual faculty members in and across the arts and humanities at Penn State . Awards support materials, travel for research/creative activity, costs related to publication, wages for research assistance, and release time.
Maximum grant award: $4,500.

Application deadlines:
October 2 to Robert L. Caserio (for funding between January-June)
February 16 to Robert L. Caserio (for funding between July-December).

Public Humanities Scholars

This program, jointly sponsored by the Institute for the Arts and Humanities and the Pennsylvania Humanities Council (PHC), brings innovative arts and humanities programs to mid-central Pennsylvania . The IAH and PHC match interested nonprofit organizations with Penn State faculty who then work together to plan and present high-quality programs in their communities. Public Humanities Scholars consists of a one-day residency by a member of the Penn State faculty. One day is defined as eight hours of total collaboration, which may consist of a combination of contact time and preliminary light research. Participating scholars receive a $500 honorarium and the reimbursement of travel expenses. Public Humanities Scholars is generously funded by a Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to the IAH.

Application deadline: late October 2006 (date to be announced); (for projects in Spring 2007).

For more information and to download the application form, please visit www.pahumanities.org/projects/scholars.php

Resident Scholars and Artists

This program, jointly sponsored with the College of Arts and Architecture and the College of the Liberal Arts, provides up to eight faculty members per year with one semester of release time from teaching, a $1,000 grant for research expenses and/or materials, and the use of an office in Ihlseng Cottage.

Application deadline: October 18 to Robert L. Caserio, 2006 (for residencies in Fall 2007 or Spring 2008).

Interdisciplinary Groups

Funding for interdisciplinary groups covers expenses directly related to group programming such as travel, lodging, and honoraria for invited speakers, performers, or artists; costs of publicity; research assistance to help with programming; costs related to publication ensuing from symposia or lecture series; and costs of exhibition or performance. Group programs may be funded for one or two academic years.Maximum grant per group per year: $7,500.

Application deadline: November 1 to Robert l. Caserio (for one- or two-year projects beginning in Fall 2007).

Bridging the Classroom

Supported by a Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, this program is designed to build bridges between courses as well as between the classroom and public events.

The purpose of this initiative is to connect work in different classrooms to one another and to support the realization of an idea or a project that emerges from this collaboration. Projects should result in a performance, exhibition, or other outcome open to the public. Maximum grant award: $4,500.

Application deadlines:
November 16 to Robert L. Caserio (for projects beginning in Spring 2007)
March 1 Robert L. Caserio (for projects beginning in Fall 2007 or Spring 2008).

Graduate Student Summer Residencies
(for students in the College of Arts and Architecture and in the College of the Liberal Arts)

This competitive program provides up to eight advanced graduate students with a $3,000 stipend and the use of an office in Ihlseng Cottage during the summer term, enabling them to spend focused time working on their theses, dissertations or final creative projects. Graduate officers may nominate up to two students per department or program.

Application deadline: February 12, 2007 (for Summer 2007).

Humanities Initiative Dissertation Fellowships
(for students in the College of the Liberal Arts)

The arrival of Humanities Initiative funds has made it possible for the College of the Liberal Arts, in cooperation with its affiliated Centers and Institutes, to expand support for dissertation writers. The Institute for the Arts and Humanities invites applications from graduate students in the College of the Liberal Arts whose dissertations are directly related to the humanities and/or to the intersections between the humanities and the arts. While the semester release is administered by the College of the Liberal Arts, the IAH will augment these awards by providing its Dissertation Fellows with a $500 research fund. In addition, office space at Ihlseng Cottage might be available to some Fellows.

Application deadline: early March 2007 (date to be announced); (for release in Fall 2007 or Spring 2008).

Summary of 2006-07 Deadlines

No deadline Short-Term Distinguished Visiting Fellowships in the Arts and Humanities

For more information please contact the IAH:
103 Ihlseng Cottage, University Park , PA 16802
arts-humanities@psu.edu ; (814) 865-0495

 

5/3/06 -

Verna Kayle has successfully earned the Teaching with Technology certificate. Her portfolio is here: http://kaleteachingportfolio.pbwiki.com/FrontPage

4/25/06 -

Inter-Departmental Award Winner for Excellence in Teaching are:

MA - Ashley Tarbet
MFA - Carl Yost
PhD - Timothy Arner
Lecturer - Elizabeth Holtzinger-Jennings
Nancy Lowe Award - Jay Jordan
Kenneth Burke Award - Michelle Smith

Congradulations to all of our winners!

3/21/06 -

Our Distinguished Professor of English Keith Gilyard today received the University's prestigious Faculty Scholar Medal for scholarly excellence in Arts and Humanities. I am sure you join me in congratulating Keith for his achievements in the fields of rhetoric and composition, literary and cultural history, and poetry.

Other English faculty, and one of our graduate students, will receive College of the Liberal Arts Awards at a ceremony for award recipients and invited guests Thursday evening. Here are the award-winning colleagues in whom, along with Keith, we take great pride:

Patrick Cheney:  Class of 1933 Award for Distinction in the Humanities.

Julia Kasdorf:  CLA 2006 Outstanding Teaching Award for tenure-line faculty.

Heather Murray:  CLA 2006 Outstanding Teaching Award for graduate students.

Marie Secor:  CLA 2006 Emeritus  Distinction Award.

Virgina Smith:  CLA 2006 Outstanding Teaching Award for non-tenured faculty.

Congratulations, winners.  And heartfelt thank yous also to the English department's awards committee.  Chaired by Cheryl Glenn this year, the committee's strategic writing of nomination letters and its gathering of nomination dossiers contributed to our success in the awards competition. This year's committee members are:  Michael Anesko, Robin Becker, Charlotte Holmes, Michael Kiernan, Janet Lyon, John Moore, Carla Mulford, and Iyunolu Osagie.

2/20/06 -

2/06/06 -

Verna Kale has received a Jim and Nancy Hinkle Travel Grant, awarded by the Hemingway Society in a competitive blind review process to help support graduate student travel to the 12th Biennial International Hemingway Conference.  Verna will be presenting a paper at the conference, which will be held this June in Ronda, Spain.