Fellowship ID: | Cornell-Society for the Humanities-SHUMFELLOWS [#14020, FABRICATION-WDR-00019866] |
Fellowship Title: | Society for the Humanities Fellowships 2020-21 |
Fellowship Type: | Postdoctoral |
Location: | Ithaca, New York 14853, United States [map] |
Subject Areas: | Native American Studies Russian Language and Literature Literature Media Studies Critical Theory (more...) |
Appl Deadline: | 2019/10/01 11:59PM![]() |
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Society for the Humanities Fellowships The Society for the Humanities at Cornell University invites
applications for residential fellowships from scholars whose research projects
reflect on the 2020-21 theme of FABRICATION. Six to eight Fellows will be
appointed. The fellowships are held for one academic year. Each Society Fellow
will receive $52,000. Fellows include scholars and practitioners from other
universities and members of the Cornell faculty released from regular duties.
Fellows at the Society for the Humanities are “residential,” and will
collaborate with one another and the Taylor Family Director of the Society for
the Humanities, Paul Fleming, Professor of Comparative Literature and German
Studies. Fellows spend their time in research and writing during the
residential fellowship, and are required to participate in a weekly Fellows
Seminar workshopping each other’s projects and participating in lively
discussions on readings based on the yearly theme. The nature of this fellowship year is social and
communal—Fellows forge connections outside the classroom and the lecture hall
by sharing meals following the weekly seminar and attending post-lecture
receptions and other casual events throughout the year. Fellows live and work
in Ithaca, NY, and are expected to be in their offices on campus frequently.
All applicants for Society Fellowships should share in this commitment to
creating a supportive and intellectually stimulating community.
Fellows teach one small seminar during their fellowship year
appropriate for graduate students and advanced undergraduates. Though courses
are designed to fit the focal theme, there are no additional restrictions on
what or how the course should be taught. Fellows are encouraged to experiment
with both the content and the method of their seminar particularly as it
relates to their current research. 2020-21 Focal Theme: FABRICATION The Society for
the Humanities at Cornell University seeks interdisciplinary research projects
for residencies that reflect on the theme of fabrication. Embodying two strands of production –
creation and concoction, making and faking, forming and falsifying – fabrications
are both made up and made real. Fabrication is bound up with fiction,
language, and storytelling: from spinning a yarn and weaving a tale through
embellishment to lying and falsehood. Fabrication recalls
the old adage that ‘the poets lie,’ pondering the relation between invention
and deception. While today it seems that the pejorative sense of fabrication
often falls to politicians, this dual valence nonetheless raises the question
of whether art, fiction, narrative, and historiography ever fully extricate
themselves from suspicion. This is especially the case in the age of quantification
and ‘hard data,’ with its attendant effects on the humanities – and yet numbers
without narrative tell us nothing, have no story to tell. In so far as homo faber demarcates the human as artisan, as one who works and
produces (or perhaps refuses to participate in an economy of production and
reproduction), fabrication necessarily calls upon studies of labor,
manufacturing, and (mass-)production. In this sense, fabrication connotes a materiality
or tactility that stretches from the factory floor to the loom, and can be
apprehended in metal and wood, plastics and dyes, canvas and paper, clays and
concretes, fabrics and textiles. From the weaving of Penelope to the
communal knitting of ‘pussy hats,’ fabrication is gendered and embodied,
mythologized and politicized, turning domestic crafts (often ‘women’s work’)
into acts of resistance. Through fashion, costume, adornment, and drag,
fabrication is woven into questions of embodiment, gender, sexuality,
performance, and transformation. Communities and identities can be crafted,
agency conjured, systems of power refashioned. Raising the relation between the high
and low arts, the artist and the worker, the poet and rhetorician as well as
the gendering of production and reproduction, fabrication lies at heart of the
art and humanities. The
Society for the Humanities invites applications from scholars and artists who
are interested in participating in a productive, critical dialogue concerning
the topic of fabrication from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Qualifications: Fellows should be working on topics related to the year’s theme. Their approach to the humanities should be broad enough to appeal to students and scholars in several humanistic disciplines.
Applicants must have received the Ph.D. degree before
January 1, 2019. The Society for the
Humanities will not consider applications from scholars who received the Ph.D.
after this date. Applicants must also have one or more years of teaching
experience, which may include teaching as a graduate student. Application Procedures: The following application materials must be submitted via https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/14020 on or before OCTOBER 1, 2019. Any other method of applying will not be accepted.
For further information: Phone: 607-255-9274 Email: humctr@cornell.edu Awards will be announced by the end of December 2019. Note: Extensions for applications will not be granted. The Society will consider only fully completed applications. It is the responsibility of each applicant to ensure that ALL documentation is complete, and that referees submit their letters of recommendation to the Society before the closing date. Society for the Humanities: The Society for the Humanities was established at Cornell University in 1966 to support research and teaching in the humanities. It is intended to be at once a research institute, a stimulus to educational innovation, and a continuing society of scholars. The Society and its Fellows have fostered path-breaking interdisciplinary dialogue and theoretical reflection on the humanities at large. societyhumanities.as.cornell.edu Diversity and Inclusion are a part of Cornell University's heritage. We are a recognized employer and educator valuing AA/EEO, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with Disabilities. We also recognize a lawful preference in employment practices for Native Americans living on or near Indian reservations. |