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| The Newhouse Center
for the Humanities is a research-centered and faculty-governed
enterprise. The Center is administered by a Director, chosen on
a rotating basis from among the humanities faculty at Wellesley
College and reporting to the Dean of the College. The director
makes programming and personnel decisions with the advice and consultation
of a faculty advisory group. Both the director and the advisory
group are pledged to serve the intellectual needs and interests
of the humanities faculty and the Wellesley community at large. |
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| Staff for 2006-07 |
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.
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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
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