How to apply
A listing of all opportunities for funding made through the Center for the Humanities — a fall funding cycle and a spring funding cycle — can be found at this link.
2024-25
NEW
Writing and Rethinking Biography
Conveners: Nancy Reynolds (History) and Lori Watt (History and Program in Global Studies)
NEW
Global China and Media Studies
Graduate student convener: Xiaohan Hou (Comparative Literature and Thought)
RENEWALS
Design & Visual Culture Writing Group
Convener: Christopher Dingwall (Sam Fox and Art History and Archaeology, affiliate)
Medieval Studies Writing Group
Convener: Jessica Rosenfeld (English)
Religion and Literature Writing Group
Graduate student convener: Naomi Kim (English)
NEW
African Diaspora Literature and Culture
Convener: Julius Fleming (English)
Language Pedagogy Reading Group
Convenor: Erika Conti (Romance Languages and Literatures)
Medical Anthropology Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Gloria Fall (Anthropology)
Writing Pedagogy Reading Group
Convener: Terri Taylor (College Writing Program)
RENEWALS
Digital Humanities Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Rebecca Weingart (Comparative Literature and Thought)
Disability and Embodied Difference Reading Group
Convener: A.J. Jones (Anthropology)
Early Modern Reading Group
Convener: Robert Henke (Performing Arts/Comparative Literature and Thought)
Ethnicity and Literature Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Naomi Kim (English)
Finnegans Wake Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Max Carol (English)
Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Latin American Literature
Graduate student convener: Katherine Tilghman (Romance Languages and Literatures)
History of the Present
Convener: Shefali Chandra (History/Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies)
Latin American Andean Fictions Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Renzo Rivas Echarri (Romance Languages and Literatures)
Leyenkrayz: Yiddish Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Rebecca Weingart (Comparative Literature and Thought)
Marxism and Literature Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Varun Chandrasekhar (Music)
Medical Humanities Reading Group
Convener: Kristin Brig-Ortiz (Public Health & Society)
New Pedagogies/New Forms
Graduate student convener: Jessica Lipton (English)
Poetry and Poetics Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Trevin Corsiglia (Comparative Literature and Thought)
Sports & Society
Convener: Noah Cohen (American Culture Studies)
Diane Lewis | Program in Film and Media Studies
Kitchen Programmers: Women, Work, and Information Society in 1960s–1980s Japan
Talia Dan-Cohen | Department of Anthropology
Storytelling in Science and Public Health
Marjan Wardaki | Department of History
Diana Montaño | Department of History
(De)Circulating the Histories of Technology: A Symposium on the Global South
Fannie Bialek | Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
Indexing for Love in Time
Jianqing Chen | Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Program in Film and Media Studies
Editing for Touch Screen: Everyday Media in Contemporary China
Nathan Dize | Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Open access for “Reading Subjects Amidst Subjection in Jean D’Amérique’s Soleil à coudre & Emmelie Prophète’s Les Villages de Dieu,” co-authored article with Jocelyn Sutton Franklin (Wofford College)
René Esparza | Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Proofreading for From Vice to Nice: Race, Sex, and the Gentrification of AIDS
Elizabeth Hunter | Performing Arts Department
Indexing for Enveloping Worlds: Toward a Discourse of Immersive Performance
Esther Viola Kurtz | Department of Music
Indexing for A Beautiful Fight: The Racial Politics of Capoeira in Backland Bahia
Melanie Micir | Department of English
Indexing of Contemporary Queer Modernism
Mabel Moraña | Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Translation of Lineas de Fuga: Ciudadania, Frontera y Sujeto Migrante/Lines of Flight: Citizenship, Borders, and Migrant Subjects
Tim Parsons | Department of African and African American Studies
Indexing for Black 1968
Anca Parvulescu | Department of English
Indexing for Face and Form: Physiognomy in Literary Modernism
Anne Schult | Department of History
Translation of “Intellectual Migration(s),” a chapter first published in The Routledge Handbook of the History and Sociology of Ideas (2024)
Dalen Wakeley-Smith | Department of History
Image reproduction rights for Gypsy Madness: American Roma in New York City 1890–1945
2023-24
No applications submitted.
RENEWALS
Medieval Studies Writing Group
Convener: Jessica Rosenfeld (English)
Religion and Literature Writing Group
Graduate student convener: Sara Flores (English)
NEW
Latin American Andean Fictions Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Renzo Rivas Echarri (Romance Languages and Literatures)
Leyenkrayz: Yiddish Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Rebecca Weingart (Comparative Literature)
New Pedagogies / New Forms
Graduate student convener: Amy Peltz (English)
Trans Studies Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Gabriel Ridout (English)
Troubling Design: Readings in Visual and Material Culture
Convener: Aggie Toppins (Sam Fox School)
The Writing Biography Reading Group
Convener: Lori Watt (History and Global Studies)
RENEWALS
Approaches to Literary Pedagogy Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Ashni Clayton (English)
Digital Humanities Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Michael Henderson (English)
Ethical Approaches to Reading Literature
Graduate student convener: Shea McCollough (English)
Ethnicity and Literature Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Ashni Clayton (English)
Finnegans Wake Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Max Carol (English)
Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Latin American Literature
Graduate student convener: Katherine Tilghman (Romance Languages and Literatures)
LGBTQ+ Literature in German
Graduate student convener: Christian Schuetz (Germanic Languages and Literatures)
Marxism and Literature Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Varun Chandrasekhar (Music)
Medical Humanities Reading Group
Convener: Christina Ramos (History)
Mind and Perception Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Alexander Wentzell (Philosophy)
Poetry and Poetics Reading Group
Graduate student convener: Trevin Corsiglia (Comparative Literature)
Sports & Society
Convener: Noah Cohan (American Culture Studies)
Elizabeth Hunter | Performing Arts
Death is Obsolete: Staging Resurrection as Resistance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu | English
Network Poetics: Black Transnationalism, Poetry, and the Making of Literary Worlds
Anne Margaret Baxley | Philosophy
Happiness and Its Value in Kant’s Ethics: Getting What One Wants and Why It Matters
Julie Singer | Romance Languages and Literatures
Building a Better Past: Speculative Medieval Architectures, From the City of Ladies to the Metaverse
Ji-Eun Lee | East Asian Languages and Cultures
Leaving Home: Rethinking Domesticity through Women’s Journeys in Korea
Tili Boon Cuillé | Romance Languages and Literatures
Rebecca Messbarger | Romance Languages and Literatures
The Catholic Enlightenment in Europe, the Americas and Australia (1700–1840)
Flora Cassen | Jewish, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
In Mala’s House: Growing up Jewish in Post-War Europe
Chris Eng | English
Extravagant Camp: The Queer Abjection of Asian America
Samuel Shearer | African and African American Studies
The Kigali After: A New City for the End of the World
Miguel Valerio | Romance Languages and Literatures
Mapping Diversity in Latin America from Colonial Times to the Present
2023-24
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)
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)
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)
Bret Gustafson | Anthropology
The Life of William Jones
Tom Keeline | Classics
Western Civ? In Search of the Classical Tradition
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
Cassie Adcock | History
Sacred Cow Country: Hindu Politics and Global Development from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
Shefali Chandra | Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Penetrating America: Colonial Replay and the Making of a Supercaste
Rowhea Elmesky | Education
Black Youth Rising Above Systemic Violence in Education and STEM: Listening and Learning From Their Longitudinal Stories
Caroline Kita | Germanic Languages and Literatures
Border Territories: The Emancipatory Soundscapes of Postwar West German Radio Drama
Sowande’ Mustakeem | History, and African and African-American Studies
Blood of the Heartland: Gender, Crime and Memory in the Evolution of 19th-Century Missouri
Matt Erlin | Germanic Languages and Literatures
“Theory as Event: Epistemic Cultures and Humanistic Knowledge Production in
Germany Since 1968”
Nathaniel Jones | Art History and Archaeology
Le Dolci Prospettive / The Sweet Perspectives
2022-23
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)
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)
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)
Elizabeth Hunter | Performing Arts
Big Apple 80s: An Augmented Reality Tour of the Birth of MTV
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
C21 STL: A Faculty Seminar on the Contemporary (2020–23)
Convener: Melanie Micir (English)
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)
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)
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)
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
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)
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)
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)
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
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)
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)
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)
Caroline Kita | Germanic Languages & Literatures
Lauren Eldridge Stewart | Music
Pascal Ifri | Romance Languages & Literatures
Rebecca Messbarger | Romance Languages & Literatures
Joseph Schraibman | Romance Languages & Literatures
Akiko Tsuchiya | Romance Languages & Literatures
2018-19
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)
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)
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)
Nathan Vedal | East Asian Languages & Cultures
From Tradition to Community: Scholarly Culture in Early Modern China
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
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)
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)
NEW
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 Workshop
Graduate student conveners: Gabriella Martin (Romance Languages and Literatures) and Olivia Lott (Romance Languages and Literatures)
RENEWALS
American Religions
Convener: Abram Van Engen (English)
Medieval Colloquium
Conveners: Daniel Bornstein History and Religious Studies), Jessica Rosenfeld, (English), Julie Singer (Romance Languages and Literatures) and Amy Reynolds, graduate student (English)
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
Julie Singer | Romance Languages & Literatures
Anne Margaret Baxley | Philosophy
Joe Barcroft | Romance Languages & Literatures
Paige McGinley | Performing Arts
2016-17
RENEWALS
Eighteenth Century Interdisciplinary Salon
Conveners: Tili Boon Cuillé (Romance Languages and Literatures), Rebecca Messbarger (Romance Languages and Literatures)
Memory and Violence
Conveners: Heidi Kolk, associate director, American Culture Studies, Monika Weiss (Sam Fox)
Wastelands
Conveners: Anne-Marie McManus (Jewish, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies), Nancy Reynolds (History)
NEW
Contemporary German Literature
Graduate student conveners: Heidi Grek (Germanic Languages and Literatures), Thomas Scholz, (Comparative Literature) and Matthias Goritz, William Gass Fellow, Comparative Literature
Queering the Global/Transnational Conversation
Conveners: Jeffrey McCune (Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies; and African and African American Studies); Mary Ann Dzuback (Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies); Ben Meiner, graduate student, English; Simone Pfleger, graduate student, German
St. Louis East Asian Modern (STEAM)
Convener: Lori Watt (History)
Voice and Sexuality Studies Working Group
Conveners: Paige McGinley (Performing Arts) and Amber Musser (Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies)
RENEWALS
Digital Approaches
Graduate student conveners: John Ladd (English) and Melanie Walsh (English)
Medical Humanities
Conveners: Corinna Treitel (History) and Anya Plutynski (Philosophy)
Placing Space
Graduate student conveners: Anna-Rebecca Nowicki (Germanic Languages and Literatures) and Erika Rodriguez (Comparative Literature)
Religion and Literature
Graduate student conveners: Kenyon Gradert (English), Margaret Tucker (English) and Hannah Wakefield (English)
NEW
American Religions
Convener: Abram Van Engen (English)
RENEWALS
Medieval Colloquium
Conveners: Daniel Bornstein History and Religious Studies), Jessica Rosenfeld, (English), Julie Singer (Romance Languages and Literatures) and Amy Reynolds, graduate student (English)
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
Pannill Camp | Performing Arts
Ignacio Infante | Comparative Literature
Tabea Linhard | Romance Languages & Literatures
Eloisa Palafox | Romance Languages & Literatures
Jessica Rosenfeld | English
2015-16
NEW
Memory and Violence
Conveners: Anika Walke (History) and Heidi Kolk, associate director, American Culture Studies
RENEWALS
Eighteenth Century Interdisciplinary Salon
Conveners: Tili Boon Cuillé (Romance Language and Literatures) and Rebecca Messbarger (Romance Language and Literatures)
Wastelands
Conveners: Anne-Marie McManus (Jewish, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies) and Nancy Y. Reynolds (History)
NEW
Placing Space
Graduate student conveners: Anna-Rebecca Nowicki (Germanic Languages and Literatures) and Erika Rodriguez (Comparative Literature)
Digital Approaches
Graduate student conveners: John Ladd (English), Melanie Walsh (English) and Kenny Gradert (English)
RENEWALS
Feminist Philosophy
Graduate student conveners: Mark Povich (PNP) and Christiane Meritt (PNP)
Religion and Literature
Convener: Abram Van Engen (English)
Medical Humanities
Conveners: Corinna Treitel (History) and Rebecca Messbarger (Romance Language and Literatures)
Current Trends in Cognitive Narrative Theory
Graduate student conveners: Ivan Eusebio Aguirre Darancou (Romance Language and Literatures) and Brooke Shafar (Germanic Languages and Literatures)
NEW
The Ancient Mediterranean World
Convener: Karen Acton (Classics)
Medieval Colloquium
Conveners: Daniel Bornstein (History and Religious Studies), Jessica Rosenfeld (English) and Christian Schneider (Germanic Languages and Literatures)
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
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
NEW
Wastelands
Conveners: Anne-Marie McManus (Jewish, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies) and Nancy Y. Reynolds (History)
Death and Memory at the End of the Middle Ages
Conveners: Marisa Bass (Art history and Archaeology), Daniel Bornstein (History and Religious Studies), Julie Singer (Romance Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Rosenfeld (English)
RENEWAL
Eighteenth-Century Interdisciplinary Salon
Conveners: Rebecca Messbarger (Romance Languages and Literatures) and Tili Boon Cuillé (Romance Languages and Literatures)
NEW
Queer Theory and Sexuality Studies
Conveners: Melanie Micir (English) and Amber Musser (Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies)
Conversations in Theory and Culture
Graduate student conveners: Irene Domingo (Romance Languages and Literatures), Luca Foti (History), Emily J. Hanson (Art History and Archaeology) and Claire A. Ross (Germanic Languages and Literatures)
Religion and Literature
Convener: Abram Van Engen (English)
Medical Humanities
Conveners: Corinna Treitel (History) and Rebecca Messbarger (Romance Languages and Literatures)
Feminist Philosophy
Graduate student conveners: Mark Povich (PNP) and Christiane Meritt (PNP)
RENEWALS
Transnational Approaches to Postmemory
Conveners: Jennifer Kapczynski (Germanic Languages and Literatures) and Anika Walke, postdoctoral fellow in history and international and area studies
Current Trends in Cognitive Narrative Theory
Graduate student convener: Ervin Malakaj (Germanic Languages and Literatures)
Geoff Childs, Anthropology
Alexandre Dubé, History
Adam Lambert, Psychology
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
NEW
Conceptualizing Islam and Muslims in Public and Scholarly Discourse: A Rethinking of Modernist and Post-Modernist Paradigms
Conveners: Hayrettin Yücesoy (Jewish, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies) and Anne-Marie McManus (Jewish, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies)
RENEWAL
Eighteenth-Century Interdisciplinary Salon
Faculty conveners: Rebecca Messbarger (Romance Languages and Literatures) and Tili Boon Cuillé (Romance Languages and Literatures)
NEW
Capitalism and Its Ghosts
Conveners: Margaret Garb (History), Shefali Chandra (History and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies) and Venus Bivar (History)
Medieval Urban Culture
Conveners: Daniel Bornstein (History and Religious Studies); Robin Girard, graduate student in Romance Languages and Literatures; Megan Havard, graduate student in Romance Languages and Literatures; and James Palmer, graduate student in history
Classical Studies and American Identities
Conveners: Cathy Keane (Classics) and Tim Moore (Classics)
Current Trends in Cognitive Narrative Theory
Graduate student conveners: Ervin Malakaj (Germanic Languages and Literatures) and Corey Twitchell (Germanic Languages and Literatures)
RENEWALS
Transnational Approaches to Postmemory
Conveners: Jennifer Kapczynski (Germanic Languages and Literatures) and Tabea Linhard (Romance Languages and Literatures)
Economics Monday Book and Discussion Group
Graduate student convener: Stephanie Heger (Economics)
Nineteenth-Century Reading Group
Graduate student conveners: Barbara Barrow (English) and Lauren McCoy (English)
Interdisciplinary Film Studies
Graduate student convener: Courtney Andree (English)
Meta-ethics
Graduate student convener: Jason Gardner (Philosophy)
2012-13
Nineteenth-Century Reading Group
Graduate student conveners: Barbara Barrow (English), Lauren McCoy (English) and Heidi Pennington (English and Comparative Literature)
Transnational Approaches to Postmemory
Conveners: Jennifer Kapczynski (Germanic Languages and Literatures) and Tabea Linhard (Romance Languages and Literatures)
Meta-ethics
Graduate student convener: Martin Turner (Philosophy)
Transatlantic Crossings
Conveners: Ignacio Infante (Comparative Literature and Romance Languages and Literatures), Jessica Hutchins, graduate student in comparative literature; M. Andia Augustin, graduate student 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
Graduate student convener: Wei-Cheng (Economics)