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It Is Your Turn for Industry, Encouraging Innovation Is Are Interested in Arts and Humanities September 2011 | Vol. X No. 1 One Civilized Reader Is Worth a Thousand Boneheads Table of Contents It Is Your Turn For industry, encouraging innovation is are interested in arts and humanities. We at the essential for creating new ways to serve and Center for the Humanities are very grateful to Pages 1-2: It Is Your Turn by Jian satisfy customers. The customer survey is you, our readers, for your support of this pub- Leng one of the best ways to improve a product by lication. We put a great deal of time, energy, finding out what customers like and dislike editorial care, and literary purpose into each about it. Domino’s Pizza provides an excellent issue because we respect the time and intelli- Page 3: Fall 2011 CFH Classes example. Acting on the responses to a custom- gence of each reader. er survey, the company increased its customer To the end of making The Figure in the base significantly by making major changes in Carpet the very best it can be, we have includ- Pages 4-5: African Americans and the product's original crust and sauce reci- Romance Comics by Gerald Early ed a readers’ survey in this first issue of the pes. In short, criticism stimulated innovation. academic year. We want to know what readers Although The Figure in the Carpet does not think about the St. Louis Literary Calendar in Pages 6-7: Ten Million Words: have a crust or sauce, we at the Center for the The Figure in the Carpet. How useful is it for Humanities would like our offerings to the arts keeping track of literary events in the region, 2011 Arts and Sciences Recogni- and humanities community to be as familiar tion Ceremony Faculty Address by and what would readers like us to change? In as a slice of pizza – and as popular. So we are addition, we include a request for demographic Erin Mc Glothlin asking for your help in suggesting new ways information that will help us understand the we can fashion, serve, and deliver the arts and composition of The Figure’s audience, which humanities to you. Pages 8-10: The Common Reader will aid greatly in developing strategies about This is not the first time we have asked for how best to serve you. We also want your by Gerald Early: A Review of Up your help. In fact, The Figure in the Carpet opinion about digital media: How often do you from History: The Life of Booker was born as a response to your suggestions. read online publications, and how often do you T. Washington Before we published the first issue, Gerald read hard-copy publications? If The Figure in Early, Director of the Center, sent letters to the Carpet were available only as an online more than one hundred literary organizations publication, would you still read it regularly? Page 10: Announcements in St. Louis asking how we might improve our Our questions reflect changes taking place publication offerings (which then consisted in the humanities. In June, I attended the an- only of Belles Lettres, our literary journal). nual meeting of the Consortium of Humani- Pages 11-12: Why Does “Ol’ Man The response was unanimous: everyone River” Stop Show Boat? by Todd ties Centers and Institutes (CHCI) in Toronto. wanted a monthly newsletter that included the Participants at the meeting addressed two Decker literary events calendar. Thus, The Figure in topics: Cities Humanities Archives (digitizing the Carpet was created in December 2002, to local records, newspapers and historical docu- act as a fast vehicle linking the campus with ments for public access), and Humanities (dot) Pages 13-14: September Events those of you in surrounding communities who Calendar Net, Currents in the Digital Humanities. Panel 1 editor's notes continued cultural heritages around the world. We want drop in responses to the digital appeal. A local to make our local humanities heritage acces- municipality used to print and mail a newsletter sible to everyone. But does going digital truly to their citizens. In 2010, they too decided to go increase the reach of documents and other digital. In 2011, they started printing and mail- material? Is going digital more efficient? ing the publication again. One of the reasons To help us assess this issue, the Center ap- they gave was that calls to City Hall dramatical- plied for and received supplemental grants to ly increased with questions about events, trash our 2010 and 2011 NEH Summer Institutes pick-up, street closures, etc. (all information that supported digital enhancement of our proj- in the newsletter). People were not reading the ects. The goals were twofold: to achieve a dra- online version. So, it is possible that converting matic increase in the impact of NEH summer to an online-only version can reduce readership projects (from the 16 to 30 on-site participants and response rate for a publication. to a larger national audience); and to increase The Center currently prints 8,750 copies of the professional quality, classroom value, The Figure in the Carpet. These are mailed free and effective lifetime of NEH projects. Using of charge. Other than internet access charges, these funds we filmed participants presenting visiting our site to view our publications is also their ideas for lessons, as well as the lectures free of charge. The question is: Which do you of several instructors, and placed them on our prefer and would you support, and what changes Web site. We also hosted a blog for partici- would you like to see in the final product? It pants. With the assistance of the Office of Arts is your turn to help shape the future of local & Sciences Computing, I received two reports humanities. It is your turn to let us know your showing traffic to the Center for the Humani- opinions and preferences. We want to remain ties’ web site from June 1 to August 10, 2011. your friendly neighborhood humanists in what- The access numbers for the site were good ever mode you prefer, paper copy or digital. (2,771 visits by 1,675 people), but only during Your opinions are vitally important to our the period that people searched for and applied future, so please do take time to fill out the sur- to the NEH Summer Institute (we received 125 vey and send it back to us with any additional applications online) and during the Summer comments you would like for us to have. That is Institute itself. On both ends of that peak period a lot of power for the price of a postage stamp. discussions on this topic focused upon just one of activity, visits were between 5 and 35 a day. question: What are the big emerging ideas in Would that number increase if our publications the humanities, and how can they intersect with were accessible only digitally? new technologies? The principal issues of con- cern were new modes of engagement between We know that a number of local publica- research faculty in the humanities and the digi- tions have been digitized only to return to paper tal world that can enable faculty and students copy. For many years, a local Children’s Home to collaborate with librarians, engineers, and printed and mailed a newsletter with a dona- designers to enhance scholarship with new visu- tion envelope. In 2010, they opted to produce Jian Leng alization tools and dynamic databases. It is be- this newsletter online only (asking for dona- Associate Director lieved that digitalizing artifacts and documents tions only online). In 2011, they went back to a The Center for the Humanities can help preserve, frame, and make accessible printing and mailing format, citing a dramatic Make a Gift to the Center for the Humanities Join other donors and supporters to ensure that the Center for the Humanities can continue to fulfill its mission. Help us continue to make the humanities a part of public life and your own life. Send your check, payable to Washington University, to: The Center for the Humanities c/o Shannon McAvoy Grass Washington University in St. Louis Campus Box 1202 One Brookings Drive St. Louis, MO 63130-4899 2 Nancy Berg Professor of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Litera- Fall 2011 CFH Courses tures Ken Botnick Professor of Art Bridging the Gap: The Scholar as Leader and Activist Director of Kranzberg Book Studio Dr. Joachim Faust Wed 2-4pm, Cupples II L009 Gene Dobbs Bradford Executive Director What does it mean to be a scholar? What do scholars Jazz St. Louis and leaders have in common? This two-credit sopho- more seminar explores these questions by exposing Elizabeth Childs Associate Professor and Chair of students to different ways of thinking, presenting them Department of Art History and with different views and models of scholarship, teach- Archaeology ing them the skills that scholars and leaders have in common, and giving them opportunities to directly Mary-Jean Cowell apply these skills to their own research and leadership Associate Professor of Performing Arts experiences. Students will also learn about campus Phyllis Grossman opportunities that will allow them to integrate scholar- Retired Financial Executive ship and leadership in meaningful ways during their junior and senior years. Michael A. Kahn Attorney, Author and Adjunct Professor of Law Freshman Seminar: The Clash of Cultures: The Humanities in an Zurab Karumidze Age of Science Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia Dr. Matthew Shipe Peter Kastor Tu/Th 2:30-4pm, Cupples II 230 Associate Professor of History and American Culture Studies Program Are the humanities and the sciences two separate worlds? Have they always been as far apart as they seem? Are they both equally Chris King important to our lives today? Is there some common ground be- Editorial Director tween the sciences and the humanities? This freshman seminar The St.
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