Grant Recipients - Spring Funding Cycle

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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Death is Obsolete: Staging Resurrection as Resistance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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)

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