Syracuse Symposium Faculty Fellow Application

HC FACULTY FELLOWS APPLICATION DUE: NOON, FRIDAY, 1/26/18

SYRACUSE SYMPOSIUM FACULTY FELLOW APPLICATION College of Arts and Sciences Deadline: Noon on January 26, 2018 for Spring 2019 Fellowship

The Syracuse Symposium Faculty Fellowship carries a one semester, 2-course reduction to complete a research or creative project that connects to the Syracuse Symposium theme (see next page). Fellows must be in residence during the spring semester and contribute to Humanities Center programming that engages faculty and graduate students from across the Humanities. The fellow will receive a research bourse of $2,000 at the beginning of the spring semester.

Eligibility: Faculty who have held Humanities Center Fellowships in prior years may not re- apply. Full time tenure-track or tenured faculty from eligible units in the College of Arts and Sciences may apply:  African American Studies  Native American Studies  Art and Music Histories  Philosophy  English  Religion  Languages, Literatures,  Women’s & Gender Studies Linguistics  Writing Studies, Rhetoric & Composition

Requirements:  Faculty Fellows must participate actively in Humanities Center research activities.  The fellowship period is not defined as a “research leave,” according to terms & conditions of faculty policy. Fellows must be in residence during the spring semester and continue to contribute service to their departments or programs. However, the fellowship may be combined with an official leave taken in the fall semester under the condition that the Fellow is in residence in the spring.  Faculty applicants from the College of Arts and Sciences are required to provide a signed letter of support from their Chair on department letterhead. This letter should be sent via separate email (as a .pdf attachment) to the Humanities Center: [email protected].

Application Checklist: ____ Completed Applicant Information section (enclosed within this application) ____ Project description (enclosed within this application) ____ Signed letter of support from Chair on department letterhead; sent as .pdf attachment to [email protected] ____ Current CV, sent as .pdf attachment to [email protected]

Deadline: Application form (to include personal data and project statement) and supporting documents must be submitted to the Humanities Center by noon on Friday, January 26, 2018 via digital copy emailed as attachments to [email protected].

1 Awards will be determined by the end of March. Syracuse Symposium 2018-2019: STORIES

More about “STORIES” -- the theme for our next year-long Syracuse Symposium series:

 Ho w are stories integral to our everyday lives--including stories that are widely shared as well as those that may be silenced, lost, or untellable?  What roles do stories play in shaping worldviews or in making (or remaking) the self?  How are the stories we tell ourselves, and each other, formative? How about the stories we withhold, don’t tell, or can’t share?

Along with examining the vital role(s) stories play, we invite proposals engaging diverse genres, including fiction, orature, film, gossip, narrative, blogs, testimony, records, lore, histories, rumors, memoir, spoken word, news, fables, memories, or fantasies.

 What are the histories and politics of various genres and why is it important to engage with different story-forms—be they narrative, poetic, rhetorical, legal, structural, lyrical, or visual?  Which genres have been used, and by whom, to give accounts of lives lived/imagined/negotiated in different spaces/contexts/locations—for instance, at the margins/peripheries, or in centers of power, or in exile, or in institutions?

Thinking about stories also means bearing in mind contexts of circulation, reception, and interpretation. Consider the archive: whose stories/histories are kept, recorded, remembered, and studied—and whose aren’t? Whose writings are published? Which storytellers are listened to? Whose ideas are readily understood or meaningfully engaged—and whose are dismissed or ignored? We invite proposals that take up the contexts and politics of reception, preservation, and interpretation.

 How are questions of location, identity, and power relevant to examining how stories are received, shared, and interpreted (or hindered, hidden, or forgotten)?  How are multiple interpretive possibilities at work, within stories themselves, on the part of the authors/tellers/makers/griots, and on the part of the interpreters/audiences?

Finally, though stories can be used to teach, create connections, stretch imaginations, project new possibilities, and bridge differences—stories can also be used to maintain hierarchy, rationalize supremacy, and malign, separate, stigmatize, or deprecate others. We invite proposals that examine different aspects of this double dynamic.

 How can stories operate as sites where, for example, stereotypes, pathologizing logics, and distortions take flight and are given a narrative life?  How can stories function as sites of resistance—to combat misrepresentation, to offer counter-histories or counter-memories, and to resist oppression? HC FACULTY FELLOWS APPLICATION DUE: NOON, FRIDAY, 1/26/18

1. APPLICANT INFORMATION

Program or Department:

Your professional title:

Contact info:

Email address: Office phone number: Cell phone number:

Date of last research leave / administrative leave of absence:

2. LETTER OF SUPPORT

Department Chair:

Please request a signed, confidential letter of recommendation / support on letterhead from your Department Chair.

Letters should be emailed separately via .pdf attachment to [email protected] by Noon, Friday, January 26, 2018.

3 3. PROJECT INFORMATION

Applicant name:

Project title:

Project abstract (100-150 words):

Project overview (no more than 2 pages, single-spaced): Provide an overview of the project; discuss its current stage and projected timeline to completion; discuss the project’s significance to and engagement with the humanities, specifically with regard to the Syracuse Symposium theme.