Director
Timothy Peltason is a Professor of English and has been a member of the Wellesley faculty since 1977. His research interests include Victorian literature, Shakespeare, and contemporary criticism.

Administrative Assistant
Debra Carbarnes

Newhouse
Visiting Professor
in Creative Writing
Alicia Erian
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Mary Cornille Distinguished
Visiting Professor in the Humanities
Benjamin Bagby and Katarina Livljanic are the Mary Cornille Distinguished Visiting Professors in the Humanities for 2006-07.
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Resident Fellows for 2006-07

Suzy Anger is an Associate Professor of English at the University of British Columbia at work on a book tentatively entitled The Physiology of Consciousness: Late-Victorian Fiction of the Mind.

Alexis Boylan is an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee School of Art, in residence at the Newhouse Center for the fall of 2006, writing a book called Man on the Streets: Men and the Urban Landscape in the Art of Ashcan School.

John Burt is a Professor of English at Brandeis University. He is writing a book on the Lincoln-Douglas debates entitled Lincoln, Douglas, and Moral Conflict in Democracy.

Carolyn Finney has just completed her Ph.D in Geography at Clark University and is concurrently a fellow of the Newhouse Center and a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Studies. She is revising for publication her thesis, Black Faces, White Spaces: African-Americans and the Great Outdoors.

Lara Freidenfelds received a Ph.D in the History of Science from Harvard University and is concurrently a fellow of the Newhouse Center and a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Women’s Studies. She has nearly completed for publication The Modern Period: A History of Menstruation in Twentieth Century America and will turn next to a project on “The Meaning of Miscarriage: Changing Understandings of Early Pregnancy Loss, Eighteenth through Twentieth Centuries.”

Heping Liu is Associate Professor of Asian Art at Wellesley College and will be in residence at the Newhouse Center for the Spring semester of 2007, working on a book entitled Painting and Empire in Early Song China, 960-1063.

Anjali Prabhu is Associate Professor of French at Wellesley College, working during her residency at the Newhouse Center on a book, African Cinema: Space and Place in Francophone Film.

Kalpana Seshadri is Associate Professor of English and Director of Women’s Studies at Boston College. She is currently writing a book about “Other Difference: Zones of Silence, Race and Dehumanization.”

Lakshmi Srinivas is a Lecturer in Sociology at Wellesley College. Her current book project, on the role of audiences in Indian cinema, is entitled The Practice of Cinema.

NCH Advisory Group

Martin Brody,
Catherine Mills Davis Professor of Music

Nicolas de Warren,
Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Elisabeth Ford,
Assistant Professor of English

Brendon Reay,
Assistant Professor of Classical Studies

Thomas Nolden,
Professor of German

Eve Zimmerman,
Assistant Professor of East Asian Language and Literature

Marjorie Garber,
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English and Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard University