2023-24
Faculty Seminars
NEW
The View from Everywhere
Conveners: Wolfram Schmidgen (English), Talia Dan-Cohen (Anthropology)
RENEWAL
Eighteenth-Century Interdisciplinary Seminar
Conveners: Tili Cuillé (Romance Languages & Literatures), Rebecca Messbarger (Romance Languages and Literatures)
Writing Groups
NEW
RTTP Game Writing Group
Graduate student convener: Yihan Wang (East Asian Languages and Cultures)
RENEWALS
Medieval Studies Writing Group
Convener: Jessica Rosenfeld (English)
Religion and Literature Writing Group
Graduate student convener: Shea McCollough (English)
Reading Groups
NEW
Anti-Work and Degrowth Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Zoe Geyman (Anthropology)
Literary Prizes Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Bonnie Pang (English)
The Making of Americans Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Trevin Corsiglia (Comparative Literature)
Unorthodoxies: Literature in Flux
Graduate student convener: Temperance Aghamohammadi (English)
RENEWALS
Approaches to Literary Pedagogy Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Ashni Clayton (English)
Central American Culture and Literature Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Gicela Medina (Romance Languages & Literatures)
Cruising Utopia in the 2020s
Graduate student convener: Franzi Finkenstein (Germanic Languages and Literatures)
Digital Humanities Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Michael Henderson (English)
Disability and Embodied Difference Reading Group
Convener: Eliza Williamson (Romance Languages & Literatures)
Ethical Approaches to Reading Literature
Graduate student convener: Michael Henderson (English)
Ethnicity and Literature Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Crystal Payne (English)
Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Latin American Literature
Graduate student convener: Katherine Tilghman (Romance Languages & Literatures)
History of the Present
Convener: Shefali Chandra (Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies; History)
Comparative Readings of LGBTQ+ Literature in German
Convener: Christian Schuetz (Germanic Languages and Literatures)
Medical Humanities Reading Group
Convener: Christina Ramos (History)
Poetry and Poetics Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Alex Mouw (English)
Sports & Society Reading Group
Convener: Noah Cohan (American Culture Studies)
Washington University Translation Collective
Graduate student convener: Rebecca Hanssens-Reed (Comparative Literature)
Mind and Perception Group
Graduate student convener: Gabe Siegel (Philosophy)
Nineteenth Century in the Americas Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Sara Hernandez (Romance Languages & Literatures)
Early Modern Reading Group
Convener: Rob Henke (Comparative Literature and Performing Arts)
Marxist Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Marc Blanc (English)
Finnegans Wake Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Max Carol (English)
Summer Research Seed Grants
Bret Gustafson | Anthropology
The Life of William Jones
Tom Keeline | Classics
Western Civ? In Search of the Classical Tradition
Weiner Humanities Research Grants
Jessica Rosenfeld | English
Passions and the Body Politic
Pannill Camp | Performing Arts
Performance and Social Theory
Joanna Dee Das | Performing Arts
For God and Country: Branson Entertainment and the American Right
2022-23
Faculty Seminars
NEW
New Research on Live and Mediated Performance
Conveners: Patrick Burke (Music), Julia Walker (English, Performing Arts)
RENEWAL
Eighteenth-Century Interdisciplinary Seminar
Conveners: Tili Boon Cuillé (Romance Languages and Literatures), Rebecca Messbarger (Romance Languages and Literatures, Medical Humanities)
Writing Groups
NEW
Religion, Human Rights, and Migration
Graduate student convener: Shirley Anghel (Romance Languages and Literatures)
China’s Last Empire in the World
Graduate student convener: Chenxi Luo (History)
RENEWAL
Interdisciplinary Experimental Writing Group
Graduate student convener: Francisco Tijerina (Romance Languages and Literatures)
Religion and Literature Writing Group
Graduate student convener: Shea McCollough (English)
Medieval Studies Writing Group
Convener: Jessica Rosenfeld (English)
Reading Groups
NEW
Augmented Reality (AR) Reading Group
Convener: Elizabeth Hunter (Performing Arts)
Central American Culture and Literature Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Laura Zavaleta Lemus (Romance Languages and Literatures)
Classical Chinese Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Xin Yu (History)
Contemporary Latin American Women Writers Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Katherine Tilghman (Romance Languages and Literatures)
Cruising Utopia in 2020s
Graduate student convener: Franzi Finkenstein (German; Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies)
Deleuze & Guattari Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Salvador Lopez Rivera (Romance Languages and Literatures)
Disability and Embodied Difference Reading Group
Convener: Eliza Williamson (Romance Languages and Literatures)
Early Modern Medicine Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Chang Xu (History)
Ethical Approaches to Literary Criticism Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Michael Henderson (English)
RENEWALS
Ethnicity & Literature Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Sara Flores (English)
Comparative Readings of LGBTQ+ Literature in German
Graduate student convener: Christian Schuetz (German)
Marxism and Literature Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Sophie Levin English
Medical Humanities Reading Group
Convener: Amy Cislo (Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies)
Poetry and Poetics Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Ann Marie Jakubowski (English)
Sports and Society Reading Group
Conveners: Noah Cohan (American Culture Studies) and Sunita Parikh (Political Science)
Washington University Translation Collective
Graduate student convener: Rebecca Hanssens-Reed (Comp Lit)
Summer Research Seed Grants
Elizabeth Hunter | Performing Arts
Big Apple 80s: An Augmented Reality Tour of the Birth of MTV
Weiner Humanities Research Grants
Joe Barcroft | Romance Languages and Literatures
Lexical Input Processing and Vocabulary Acquisition
Colin Burnett | Film and Media Studies
Serial Bonds: How 007 Storytelling Modernized the Media Franchise
Nathaniel Jones | Art History and Archaeology
Art, Magic, and Prophecy in the Ancient World
Diane Lewis | Film and Media Studies
Women's Labor and Media Industries in Japan
Tabea Linhard | Romance Languages and Literatures
Agents’ Secrets: Displacement, Espionage, Gender, and Multilingualism
Eloisa Palafox | Romance Languages and Literatures
Manipulation: What the Sciences of the Mind Can Teach Us about the Most Memorable Medieval Short Stories, How They Were Used, and the Reasons Why They Survived in Writing
2021-22
Faculty Seminars
C21 STL: A Faculty Seminar on the Contemporary (2020–23)
Convener: Melanie Micir (English)
Writing Groups
NEW
Interdisciplinary Dissertation and Publication Writing Group
Graduate student conveners: Trent McDonald (graduate student in English), Heesoo Cho (graduate student in History)
Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Writing Group
Postdoctoral fellow conveners: Anna Whittington (postdoctoral fellow in Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities), Rosanne Liebermann (postdoctoral fellow in Jewish, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies)
RENEWALS
Literary Translation Workshop
Graduate student convener: Olivia Lott (graduate student in Romance Languages and Literatures)
Religion and Literature Writing Group
Graduate student conveners: Ann Marie Jakubowsk (graduate student in English), Shirley Anghel (graduate student in Romance Languages and Literatures)
Reading Groups
NEW
The Real of Psychoanalysis and Marxism Reading Group
Graduate student conveners: Santiago Rozo Sanchez (graduate student in Romance Languages and Literatures), Katja Perat (graduate student in Comparative Literature)
Transregional East Asia Reading Group
Graduate student conveners: Haochen Wang (graduate student in History), Kejian Shi (graduate student in History)
The Literature and Performance Reading Group
Graduate student conveners: Alexandra Swanson (graduate student in English), Sara Brenes Akerman (graduate student in English)
The Genre-Bending Reading Group
Graduate student conveners: Karla Aguilar Velasquez (graduate student in Romance Languages and Literatures), Maddie House-Tuck (graduate student in Performing Arts), Yuhua Shi (graduate student in East Asian Languages and Cultures)
RENEWALS
Medical Humanities Reading Group
Conveners: Carolyn Sargent (Anthropology), Corinna Treitel (History)
Queering the Transnational Conversation Reading Group
Conveners: Jeffrey McCune (Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies & Performing Arts), Zeles Vargas (graduate student in Anthropology)
A History of the Present Reading Group
Conveners: Shefali Chandra (History), Andrea Friedman (History)
Sports & Society Reading Group
Conveners: Noah Cohen (American Culture Studies), Sunita Parikh (Political Science)
Projecting Latin American Cinema Reading Group
Graduate student conveners: Yamile Ferreira (graduate student in Romance Languages and Literatures), Rodrigo Viqueira (graduate student in Romance Languages and Literatures)
Poetry and Poetics Reading Group
Graduate student conveners: Alex Mouw (graduate student in English), Ann Marie Jakubowsk (graduate student in English)
Kierkegaard and Existentialism Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Judith Carlisle (graduate student in Philosophy)
Here Comes Everybody: The Finnegans Wake Reading Group
Graduate student conveners: Ian Clark (graduate student in English), Matthew Thompson (graduate student in English)
Early Modern Reading Group
Conveners: Rob Henke (Comparative Literature & Performing Arts), Julie James (graduate student in Art History and Archaeology)
Approaches to Literary Pedagogy Reading Group
Graduate student conveners: Charlotte Fressilli (graduate student in English), Ana Quiring (graduate student in English)
Summer Research Seed Grants
Paul Steinbeck | Music
Black Earth: Nicole Mitchell and the Future of Creative Music
Diana Montaño | History
(Dis) Placing Necaxa: Power Networks and Erased Histories in Mexico (1890s–1914)
Weiner Humanities Research Grants
Rebecca Messbarger | Romance Languages & Literatures
Ghostly Light: How Criminal Corpses Animated the Italian Enlightenment
Michael Sherberg | Romance Languages & Literatures
Italian Literature, Middle Ages and Renaissance
Ila Sheren | Art History and Archaeology
Contemporary Art on the US-Mexico Border; Eco-art
Harriet Stone | Romance Languages & Literatures
Observing, Interpreting and Inventing the World
William Acree | Romance Languages & Literatures
Mapping Street Cultures & Writing the Humanities of the Future
Javier García-Liendo | Romance Languages & Literatures
Schoolteachers and the Making of Popular Modernity in Peru
Stephanie Kirk | Romance Languages & Literatures
Global Martyrs: Jesuit Missionaries in Early Modern England, Ireland and the Hispanic World
Melanie Micir | English
Disappearing Women: Old Age and Modern Fiction
2020-21
Writing Groups
NEW
Interdisciplinary Experimental Writing Group
Convener: Francisco Tijerina (graduate student in Romance Languages & Literatures)
RENEWALS
American Religions Writing Group
Convener: Abram Van Engen (English)
Religion and Literature Writing Group
Graduate student convener: Alexandra Swanson (graduate student in English)
Washington University Translators Collective (formerly known as Literary Translation Workshop)
Graduate student convener: Derick Mattern (graduate student in Comparative Literature)
Interdisciplinary Dissertation and Publication Writing Group
Graduate student convener: Trent McDonald (graduate student in English)
Reading Groups
NEW
19th Century in the Americas Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Sara Hernandez Angulo (graduate student in Romance Languages & Literatures)
Marxism and Literature Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Marc Blanc (graduate student in English)
Ethnicity & Literature Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Sara Flores (graduate student in English/American Culture Studies)
Comparative Readings of LGBTQ+ Literature in German
Graduate student convener: Christian Schuetz (graduate student in German)
African Diaspora in the Americas Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Kache Claytor (graduate student in Romance Languages & Literatures)
Latin America Social Theory Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Matthew Abel (graduate student in Anthropology)
RENEWALS
Poetry and Poetics Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Alex Mouw (graduate student in English)
Approaches to Literary Pedagogy Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Anwesha Kundu (graduate student in English)
Sports & Society Reading Group
Convener: Noah Cohan (American Culture Studies)
Mind and Perception Group
Graduate student convener: James Gulledge (graduate student in Philosophy)
Medical Humanities
Convener: Amy Cislo (Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies)
The Real of Psychoanalysis and Marxism
Graduate student convener: Santiago Rozo Sanchez ((graduate student in Comparative Literature)
Summer Research Seed Grants
Paul Steinbeck | Music
Black Earth: Nicole Mitchell and the Future of Creative Music
Diana Montaño | History
(Dis) Placing Necaxa: Power Networks and Erased Histories in Mexico (1890s–1914)
Weiner Humanities Research Grants
Rebecca Messbarger | Romance Languages & Literatures
Ghostly Light: How Criminal Corpses Animated the Italian Enlightenment
Michael Sherberg | Romance Languages & Literatures
Italian Literature, Middle Ages and Renaissance
Ila Sheren | Art History and Archaeology
Contemporary Art on the US-Mexicoborder; Eco-art
Harriet Stone | Romance Languages & Literatures
Observing, Interpreting and Inventing the World
William Acree | Romance Languages & Literatures
Mapping Street Cultures & Writing the Humanities of the Future
Javier Garcia-Liendo | Romance Languages & Literatures
Schoolteachers and the Making of Popular Modernity in Peru
Stephanie Kirk | Romance Languages & Literatures
Global Martyrs: Jesuit Missionaries in Early Modern England, Ireland and the Hispanic World
Melanie Micir | English
Disappearing Women: Old Age and Modern Fiction
2019-20
Faculty Seminars
RENEWALS
Wastelands
Conveners: Anne-Marie McManus (Jewish, Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies), Nancy Reynolds (History)
Eighteenth-Century Interdisciplinary Salon
Conveners: Tili Boon Cuille (Romance Languages & Literatures), Rebecca Messbarger (Romance Languages & Literatures)
Writing Groups
RENEWALS
American Religions
Convener: Abram Van Engen (English)
Religion and Literature
Graduate student conveners: Jonathan Koch (English), Asher Gelzer-Govatos (Comparative Literature)
ROLLOVER
Literary Translation Workshop
Graduate student conveners: Gabriella Martin (Romance Languages & Literatures), Olivia Lott (Romance Languages & Literatures)
Reading Groups
NEW
Comics as World Literature
Graduate student conveners: Adam Manfredi (East Asian Languages and Cultures), Thomas Scholz (Comparative Literature)
Early Americanists in St. Louis Reading Group (EASTL)
Graduate student conveners: Heesoo Cho (History), Erin Barry (History), Idolina Hernandez (History, Saint Louis University)
Early Modern Reading Group
Conveners: Rob Henke (Performing Arts, Comparative Literature), Jonathan Koch (graduate student in English)
Finnegans Wake Reading Group
Graduate student conveners: Ian Clark (English), Matthew Thompson (English)
Mind and Perception Group
Graduate student conveners: James Gulledge (Philosophy), Ben Henke (Philosophy), Emily Prychitko, (Philosophy)
Poetry and Poetics Reading Group
Graduate student conveners: Alex Mouw (English), Ann Marie Jakubowski (English)
Projecting Latin American Cinema
Graduate student conveners: Santiago Rozo Sanchez (Romance Languages & Literatures), Soledad Mocchi Radichi (Romance Languages & Literatures), Rodrigo Viqueira (Romance Languages & Literatures)
RENEWALS
Approaches to Literary Pedagogy Reading Group
Graduate student conveners: Charlotte Fressilli (English), Ana Quiring (English)
Conversations from the Global South
Graduate student conveners: Yihan Lulu Wang (East Asian Languages and Cultures), Jose Salinas Valdivia (Romance Languages & Literatures)
Digital Approaches
Graduate student conveners: Meredith Kelling (English), Anna Preus (English), Tumaini Ussiri (English)
Disability Studies Reading Group
Graduate student conveners: Emma Merrigan (Romance Languages & Literatures), Katie Collins (English)
History of the Present
Conveners: Shefali Chandra (History), Andrea Friedman (History)
Kierkegaard Reading Group
Graduate student conveners: Asher Gelzer-Govatos (Comparative Literature), Mike Sanders (English)
Medical Humanities
Conveners: Letty Chen (East Asian Languages and Cultures), Carolyn Sargent (Anthropology)
Queering the Global/Transnational Conversation
Conveners: Mary Ann Dzuback (Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies), Rachel Brown (Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies), Fran Dennstedt (graduate student in Romance Languages & Literatures)
Sports & Society Reading Group
Conveners: Noah Cohan (American Culture Studies), Sunita Parikh (Political Science)
Summer Research Seed Grants
Caroline Kita | Germanic Languages & Literatures
Lauren Eldridge Stewart | Music
Weiner Humanities Research Grants
Pascal Ifri | Romance Languages & Literatures
Rebecca Messbarger | Romance Languages & Literatures
Joseph Schraibman | Romance Languages & Literatures
Akiko Tsuchiya | Romance Languages & Literatures
2018-19
Faculty Seminars
RENEWALS
C21: The Contemporary
Convener: Melanie Micir (English)
Eighteenth-Century Interdisciplinary Salon
Conveners: Rebecca Messbarger (Romance Languages and Literatures), Tili Boon Cuillé (Romance Languages and Literatures)
Wastelands
Conveners: Nancy Reynolds (History), Anne-Marie McManus (Jewish, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies)
Writing Groups
RENEWALS
American Religions
Convener: Abram Van Engen (English)
Black Urban Humanities
Conveners: Terrance Wooten (Weil Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Humanities), Samuel Shearer (Weil Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Humanities)
Literary Translation Workshop
Graduate student conveners: Gabriella Martin (graduate student in Romance Languages and Literatures), Olivia Lott (graduate student in Romance Languages and Literatures)
Medieval Studies
Conveners: Jessica Rosenfeld (English), Daniel Bornstein (History), Christian Schneider (Germanic Languages and Literatures), Thomas Sawyer (graduate student in English and Comparative Literature)
Religion and Literature
Graduate student conveners: Jonathan Koch (graduate student in English), Asher Gelzer-Govatos (graduate student in Comparative Literature)
Reading Groups
NEW
Affect Theory Reading Group
Graduate student conveners: Christin Zenker (graduate student in Germanic Languages & Literatures), Santiago Rozo Sanchez (graduate student in Romance Languages & Literatures)
Approaches to Literary Pedagogy
Graduate student conveners: Samantha Pergadia (graduate student in English), Deborah Thurman (graduate student in English) Grace Lillard (graduate student in English)
Chinese and Comparative Literature
Graduate student conveners: Yihan Wang (graduate student in East Asian Languages and Cultures), Jose Salinas Valdivia (graduate student in Romance Languages & Literatures)
Disability Studies
Graduate student conveners: Rose Miyatsu (graduate student in English), Erika Rodriquez (graduate student in Comparative Literature)
History of the Present
Conveners: Shefali Chandra (History), Andrea Friedman (History)
Satire
Graduate student conveners: Di Wang (graduate student in Comparative Literature), Ena Selimovic (graduate student in Comparative Literature)
Sport and Society
Conveners: Noah Cohan (American Culture Studies), Peter Benson (Anthropology)
RENEWALS
Digital Approaches
Graduate student conveners: Meredith Kelling (graduate student in English) and Anna Preus (graduate student in English)
Kierkegaard
Graduate student conveners: Asher Gelzer-Govatos (graduate student in Comparative Literature) and Michael Sanders (graduate student in English)
Medical Humanities
Conveners: Letty Chen (East Asian Languages and Literatures), Carolyn Sargent (Anthropology)
Queering the Global/Transnational Conversation
Conveners: Mary Ann Dzuback (Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies & Education), Bahia Munem (postdoctoral fellow in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies)
Summer Research Seed Grants
Nathan Vedal | East Asian Languages & Cultures
From Tradition to Community: Scholarly Culture in Early Modern China
Weiner Humanities Research Grants
Tili Boon Cuillé | Romance Languages & Literatures
Mediating Relationships: Magical Agents, Commodity Fetishism, and Book Illustration
Edward McPherson | English
The View From Above
Rebecca Copeland | East Asian Languages & Cultures
Narratives of Leaving: Japanese Women and Stories of Separation, Divorce, and Parting
Marvin Marcus | East Asian Languages & Cultures
Japanese Writers Speak: Personal Reflections on Literature and Life
2017-18
Faculty Seminar Grants
NEW
The Contemporary
Convener: Melanie Micir (English)
RENEWALS
Eighteenth-century Interdisciplinary Salon
Conveners: Tili Boon Cuille (Romance Languages and Literatures), Rebecca Messbarger (Romance Languages and Literatures)
Wastelands
Conveners: Anne-Marie McManus (Jewish, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies), Nancy Reynolds (History)
Reading Group Grants
NEW
Kierkegaard Reading Group
Graduate student conveners: Asher Gelzer-Govatos (graduate student in Comparative Literature), Mike Sanders (graduate student in English)
RENEWALS
Digital Approaches
Graduate student conveners: Melanie Walsh (graduate student in English), Jonathan Koch (graduate student in English), Meredith Kelling (graduate student in English)
Medical Humanities
Conveners: Corinna Treitel (History), Letty Chen (East Asian Languages and Literatures)
Queering the Global/Transnational Conversation
Conveners: Mary Ann Dzuback (Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies), Ben Meiner (graduate student in English)
Religion and Literature
Graduate student conveners: Jonathan Koch (graduate student in English), Asher Gelzer-Govatos (graduate student in Comparative Literature)
Voice and Sexuality Studies Working Group
Conveners: Paige McGinley (Performing Arts), Amber Musser (Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies)
Writing Group Grants
New Awards
- BLACK URBAN HUMANITIES - Postdoctoral fellow conveners: Terrance Wooten, Mark Steinberg Weil Early Career Postdoctoral Fellow; Samuel Shearer, Mark Steinberg Weil Early Career Postdoctoral Fellow
- TRANSLATION WORKSHIP - Graduate student conveners: Gabriella Martin, graduate student, romance languages and literatures; Olivia Lott, graduate student, romance languages and literatures
Renewal Awards
- AMERICAN RELIGIONS -- Faculty convener: Abram Van Engen, assistant professor of English
- MEDIEVAL COLLOQUIUM -- Conveners: Daniel Bornstein, the Stella Koetter Darrow Prof of Catholic Studies, Department of History and Religious Studies program; Jessica Rosenfeld, associate professor of English; Julie Singer; associate professor of French; Amy Reynolds, graduate student, English
Summer Research Seed Grants
Monique Bedasse | History
“Top Threat: A New History of Rastafari”
Joanna Dee Das | Performing Arts
“Dancing for God and Country: Performing the Politics of Conservatism in Branson, Missouri”
Thomas Keeline | Classics
“Latin Textual Scholarship in the Digital Age: An Open-Access Critical Edition of Ovid’s IBIS”
Weiner Humanities Research Grants
Julie Singer | Romance Languages & Literatures
Anne Margaret Baxley | Philosophy
Joe Barcroft | Romance Languages & Literatures
Paige McGinley | Performing Arts
2016-17
Faculty Seminar Grants
Renewal Awards
- EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY INTERDISCIPLINARY SALON -- Faculty conveners: Tili Boon Cuille, associate professor of French, Rebecca Messbarger, professor of Italian
- MEMORY AND VIOLENCE -- Conveners: Heidi Kolk, associate director, American culture studies, Monika Weiss, associate professor, School of Art
- WASTELANDS -- Faculty conveners: Anne-Marie McManus, assistant professor of moderna Arabic literature; Nancy Reynolds, associate professor of history
Reading Group Grants
New Awards
- CONTEMPORARY GERMAN LITERATURE -- Graduate student conveners: Heidi Grek, graduate student, German; Thomas Scholz, graduate student, comparative literature; Matthias Goritz, William Gass Fellow, Comparative Literature
- QUEERING THE GLOBAL/TRANSNATIONAL CONVERSATION -- Conveners: Jeffrey McCune, associate professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies and African American studies; Mary Ann Dzuback, chair and associate professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies; Ben Meiner, graduate student in English; Simone Pfleger, graduate student in German
- ST. LOUIS EAST ASIAN MODERN (STEAM) -- Faculty convener: Lori Watt, associate professor of history
- VOICE AND SEXUALITY STUDIES WORKING GROUP -- Faculty conveners: Paige McGinley, assistant professor of performing arts; Amber Musser, assistant professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies
Renewal Awards
- DIGITAL APPROACHES -- Graduate student conveners: John Ladd, graduate student, English; Melanie Walsh, graduate student, English
- MEDICAL HUMANITIES -- Faculty conveners: Corinna Treitel, associate professor of history; Anya Plutynski, associate professor of philosophy
- PLACING SPACE -- Graduate student conveners: Anna-Rebecca Nowicki, graduate student, Germanic languages and literatures; Erika Rodriguez, graduate student, comparative literature
- RELIGION AND LITERATURE -- Graduate student conveners: Kenyon Gradert, graduate student, English; Margaret Tucker, graduate student, English; Hannah Wakefield, graduate student, English
Writing Group Grants
New Awards
- AMERICAN RELIGIONS -- Faculty convener: Abram Van Engen, assistant professor of English
Renewal Awards
- MEDIEVAL COLLOQUIUM -- Conveners: Daniel Bornstein, the Stella Koetter Darrow Prof of Catholic Studies, Department of History and Religious Studies program; Jessica Rosenfeld, associate professor of English; Julie Singer; associate professor of French; Amy Reynolds, graduate student, English
Summer Research Seed Grants
Monique Bedasse | History
“Mad: Mental Health and Decolonization in Jamaica, 1935-1978”
Anca Parvulescu | English
“Comparatizing Transylvania: Liviu Rebreanu's Ion as World Literature”
Paul Steinbeck | Music
“Sound Experiments: The Music of the AACM”
Weiner Humanities Research Grants
Pannill Camp | Performing Arts
Ignacio Infante | Comparative Literature
Tabea Linhard | Romance Languages & Literatures
Eloisa Palafox | Romance Languages & Literatures
Jessica Rosenfeld | English
2015-16
Faculty Seminar Grants
New Award
- MEMORY AND VIOLENCE -- Faculty conveners: Anika Walke, assistant professor of history; Heidi Kolk, associate director, American Culture Studies
Renewal Awards
- EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY INTERDISCIPLINARY SALON -- Faculty conveners: Rebecca Messbarger, professor of Italian, Tili Boon Cuillé, associate professor of French
- WASTELANDS -- Faculty conveners: Anne-Marie McManus, assistant professor of modern Arabic literature; Nancy Y. Reynolds, associate professor of history
Reading Group Grants for Faculty and Graduate Students
New Awards
- PLACING SPACE -- Graduate student conveners: Anna-Rebecca Nowicki, graduate student, Germanic languages and literatures; Erika Rodriguez, graduate student, comparative literature
- DIGITAL APPROACHES -- Graduate student conveners: John Ladd, graduate student, English; Melanie Walsh, graduate student, English; Kenny Gradert, graduate student, English
Renewal Awards
- FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY -- Graduate student conveners: Mark Povich, graduate student, PNP; Christiane Meritt, graduate student, PNP
- RELIGION AND LITERATURE -- Faculty convener: Abram Van Engen, assistant professor of English
- MEDICAL HUMANITIES -- Faculty conveners: Corinna Treitel, associate professor of history; Rebecca Messbarger, professor of Italian
- CURRENT TRENDS IN COGNITIVE NARRATIVE THEORY -- Graduate student conveners: Ivan Eusebio Aguirre Darancou, graduate student, romance languages and literatures; and Brooke Shafar, graduate student, Germanic languages and literatures
Writing Group Grants for Faculty and Graduate Students
New Awards
- THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN WORLD -- Faculty convener: Karen Acton, assistant professor of classics
- MEDIEVAL COLLOQUIUM -- Faculty conveners: Daniel Bornstein, the Stella Koetter Darrow Prof of Catholic Studies, Department of History and Religious Studies program; Jessica Rosenfeld, associate professor of English; Christian Schneider, assistant professor of German
Summer Research Seed Grants
Clarissa Hayward | Political Science
“Political Disruption and Structural Change”
Julia Walker | English and Performing Arts
“Modernity and Performance: Enacting Change on the Modernizing Stage”
Henry Schvey | Performing Arts
“Something Wild! An Intermedial Exploration of the Theatre of Tennessee Williams”
Weiner Humanities Research Grants
Eric Brown | Philosophy
Stephanie Kirk | Romance Languages & Literatures
Vivian Pollak | English
Michael Sherberg | Romance Languages & Literatures
Billy Acree | Romance Languages & Literatures
Harriet Stone | Romance Languages & Literatures
Guinn Batten | English
Stamos Metzidakis | Romance Languages & Literatures
2014-15
Faculty Seminar Grants
New Awards
Wastelands
Faculty conveners: Anne-Marie McManus, assistant professor of modern Arabic literature; Nancy Y. Reynolds, associate professor of history
Death and Memory at the End of the Middle Ages
Faculty conveners: Marisa Bass, assistant professor of art history and archaeology; Daniel Bornstein, professor of history and religious studies; Julie Singer, assistant professor of French; Jessica Rosenfeld, associate professor of English
Renewal Award
Eighteenth-Century Interdisciplinary Salon
Faculty conveners: Rebecca Messbarger, professor of Italian, Tili Boon Cuillé, associate professor of French
Reading Group Grants for Faculty and Graduate Students
New Awards
Queer Theory and Sexuality Studies
Faculty conveners: Melanie Micir, assistant professor of English; Amber Musser, assistant professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies
Conversations in Theory & Culture
Graduate student conveners: Irene Domingo, graduate student, Spanish; Luca Foti, graduate student, history; Emily J. Hanson, graduate student, art history and archaeology; Claire A. Ross, graduate student, Germanic languages and literatures
Religion and Literature
Faculty convener: Abram Van Engen, assistant professor of English
Medical Humanities
Faculty conveners: Corinna Treitel, associate professor of history; Rebecca Messbarger, professor of Italian
Feminist Philosophy
Graduate student conveners: Mark Povich, graduate student, PNP; Christiane Meritt, graduate student, PNP
Renewal Awards
Transnational Approaches to Postmemory
Faculty conveners: Jennifer Kapczynski, associate professor of German; Anika Walke, post-doctoral fellow In history and international and area studies
Current Trends in Cognitive Narrative Theory
Graduate student convener: Ervin Malakaj, graduate student, Germanic languages and literatures
Summer Research Seed Grants
Geoff Childs, Anthropology
Alexandre Dubé, History
Adam Lambert, Psychology
Weiner Humanities Research Grants
J. Dillon Brown, English
Catherine Boon Cuillé, Romance Languages & Literature
Ji-Eun Lee, East Asian Languages & Literature
Stamos Metzidakis, Romance Languages & Literature
Angela Miller, Art History & Archaeology
Joseph Schraibman, Romance Languages & Literature
Akiko Tsuchiya, Romance Languages & Literature
Colette H. Winn, Romance Languages & Literature
2013-14
Faculty Seminar Grants
New Award
Conceptualizing Islam and Muslims in Public and Scholarly Discourse: A Rethinking of Modernist and Post-Modernist Paradigms
Faculty conveners: Hayrettin Yücesoy, associate professor of Arabic and Islamic studies; Anne-Marie McManus, assistant professor of modern Arabic literature and culture
Renewal Award
Eighteenth-Century Interdisciplinary Salon
Faculty conveners: Rebecca Messbarger, associate professor of Italian; Tili Boon Cuillé, associate professor of French
Reading Group Grants for Faculty and Graduate Students
New Awards
Capitalism and Its Ghosts
Conveners: Margaret Garb, associate professor of history; Shefali Chandra, assistant professor of history and women, gender and sexuality studies; and Venus Bivar, assistant professor of history
Medieval Urban Culture
Conveners: Daniel Bornstein, professor of history and religious studies and the Stella K. Darrow Professor of Catholic Studies; Robin Girard, PhD candidate in French language and literature, Megan Havard, PhD candidate in Hispanic literatures; and
James Palmer, PhD candidate in history
Classical Studies and American Identities
Conveners: Cathy Keane, associate professor of classics; and Tim Moore, the John and Penelope Biggs Distinguished Professor of Classics
Current Trends in (Cognitive) Narrative Theory
Conveners: Ervin Malakaj, PhD candidate in Germanic languages and literatures; and Corey Twitchell, PhD candidate in Germanic languages and literatures
Renewal Awards
Transnational Approaches to Postmemory
Conveners: Jennifer Kapczynski, associate professor of German; and Tabea Linhard, associate professor of Spanish
Economics Monday Book and Discussion Group
Convener: Stephanie Heger, PhD candidate in economics
Nineteenth-Century Reading Group
Conveners: Barbara Barrow, PhD candidate in English; and Lauren McCoy, PhD candidate in English
Interdisciplinary Film Studies Reading Group
Convener: Courtney Andree, PhD candidate in English
The Meta-Ethics Reading Group
Convener: Jason Gardner, PhD candidate in philosophy
2012-13
Recipients
Nineteenth-Century Reading Group
Conveners: Barbara Barrow, graduate student in English; Lauren McCoy, graduate student in English; and Heidi Pennington, graduate student in English and comparative literature
Transnational Approaches to Postmemory Reading Group
Conveners: Jennifer Kapczynski, associate professor of Germanic languages and literatures, and Tabea Linhard, associate professor of romance languages and literatures
Meta-ethics Reading Group
Convener: Martin Turner, graduate student in philosophy
Transatlantic Crossings Reading Group
Conveners: Ignacio Infante, assistant professor of comparative literature and romance languages and literatures; Jessica Hutchins, graduate student in comparative literature; M. Andia Augustin, graduate in romance languages and literatures and in women, gender and sexuality studies; and Nicholas Tamarkin, graduate student in comparative literature and performing arts
WUSTL Economics Monday Book and Discussion Group
Convener: Wei-Cheng, graduate student in economics
Other internal awards
Faculty Fellowships
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Grant Recipients - Fall Funding Cycle
Follow this link to learn about awards made in previous funding cycles for the following competitions: Collaborative Research Grants, Grimm Travel Awards, Summer Faculty Research Grants.