Grant Recipients - Spring Funding Cycle

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

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

C21 STL: A Faculty Seminar on the Contemporary (2020–23)
Convener: Melanie Micir (English)

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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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Follow this link to learn more about Faculty Fellowships awarded in previous funding cycles.

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.