Tableau

FALL 2003

VOLUME 5

NUMBER 2

THE NEWSLETTER for the DIVISION of the HUMANITIES

at THE UNIVERSITY of CHICAGO FROM THE DEAN ON CAMPUS 1

DEAR ALUMNI ON CAMPUS AND FRIENDS, 1 Caught in the Creative Act Creative Writing is on the Rise at the University of Chicago Last, but not least, I celebrate the alumni 17 Cultural Events and friends whose generosity undergirds our Calendar of Events on Campus enterprise. The 2002–03 honor roll of donors on page 18 acknowledges the philanthropic dollars that mean so much to the Division. FACULTY FOCUS More importantly, it recognizes the friend- ships on which we depend. On behalf of our 4 Acquired Talents students and faculty, I thank you for your contents New Humanities Faculty ongoing interest and for the many ways in which you support the work of the Humanities 4 Recent Work Division. By Humanities Faculty 7 What Matters to Me and Why Sincerely, By Charles Larmore THE START of another academic round brings with it the enthusiasm and optimism that always accompany the new school year. SPOTLIGHT Despite the financial uncertainties facing the JANEL MUELLER ON SCHOLARSHIP Division of the Humanities, I feel the same rush Janel Mueller is Professor in the Department of anticipation that I experience every autumn of English Language and Literature and the 8 The Worlds of Philip Bohlman when the students return and classes resume. William Rainey Harper Distinguished Service World music scholar is new chair of This issue of Tableau highlights some of the Professor in the College. She has been teaching Committee on Jewish Studies things that I find most encouraging as I look at Chicago since 1967. Her most recent publica- toward the future. tions are Elizabeth I: Autograph Compositions 10 Discipline and Flourish First, I take pleasure in the listing of new and Foreign Language Originals, edited with The Fellows-in-Residence Program at the Leah Marcus (University of Chicago Press, Humanities faculty. This is an extraordinary Franke Institute for the Humanities cohort, distinguished both by its size— 2003), and The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature, edited with David eighteen! — and by the spectrum of disci- Loewenstein (Cambridge University Press, plines represented. The fields of study range 2002). Other publications include Elizabeth I: HONOR ROLL widely — from jazz to Latin to linguistics, from Collected Works, edited with Leah Marcus and { WRITING ON THE RISE } Japanese to philosophy to art history. The Mary Beth Rose (University of Chicago Press, 14 2002–2003 Honor Roll University, as well as the broader world of 2000), The Second Part of the Countess of 16 Gifts from Estates scholarship, will be greatly enriched by Montgomery’s Urania, edited with Suzanne the contributions of these talented young Gossett (Renaissance English Text Society, 16 Gifts in Honor of Individuals 1999) and The Native Tongue and the Word: caught in the scholars for decades to come. I hope that Developments in English Prose Style (University 16 Gifts in Memoriam you will take the time to review their accom- of Chicago Press, 1984). She was awarded the 16 Matching Gifts plishments and to join me in welcoming their University of Chicago Award for Excellence in addition to our community. Graduate Teaching in June 1998. creative act Second, I am cheered by this issue’s story If an alumna of the English Department from as few as five years ago were to take a look at the Department’s current on creative writing (page 1). This is a program TO CONTACT TABLEAU: course offerings, she might be surprised: creative writing classes have tripled, representing nearly one-third of current offerings. that is evolving and changing in vital ways, The University of Chicago all the while building on a distinguished Division of the Humanities The change represents the Division’s attempt to bring the practice of the arts closer to the center of its intellectual mission. While tradition. Safeguarding the treasured values 1010 East 59th Street of the past can never be an excuse for inac- Chicago, Illinois 60637 the prevalence of creative writing at a programmatic level may be new, the enthusiasm that it enjoys amongst the student body is [email protected] tivity, and I am greatly encouraging by the well established. As the timeline on pages 2 and 3 reveals, the University has long nourished a number of creative writers who have renewed life of a program that has long and EDITOR: William Orchard distinguished roots in the Division. CONTRIBUTERS TO THIS ISSUE: Sophia Carroll, Charles Larmore, gone on to attain acclaim. >>> William Orchard, and Seth Sanders Tableau is produced with Humanities Division funds. 2 ON CAMPUS ON CAMPUS 3

The literary community that flourished in years past was sustained by Janel Mueller convened a College-Divisional University Writing on the cinematic lyric, examining the ways in which cinematic art has each year. This year’s Vare Writer-in-Residence is Edmund Morris, author student organizations such as the Poetry Club, publications like the Committee in 2001–02. Headed by Janice Knight, Associate Professor of influenced and impacted poetry. of a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Theodore Roosevelt and a con- Chicago Review, and creative writing courses offered by Richard Stern, the English and Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies in the English That each of these writers would teach a course in literature reflects the troversial biography of Ronald Reagan. recently retired Helen Regenstein Professor of English. In the last few Department, the Committee was charged with the difficult task of attitude toward creative art at the University of Chicago—it is not a Endowed visiting lectureships like the Vare program allow students to years, the English Department has seen the demand for creative writing addressing immediate curricular needs while simultaneously devising a respite from intellectual work but a practice pursued with the same intel- have close contact with some of the world’s leading writers. One place classes rise dramatically at both undergraduate and graduate levels. At the coherent, long-term program for creative writing at the University. They lectual intensity brought to traditional academic work. Just as a filmmaker where this interaction between students and faculty is readily apparent is undergraduate level, an increasing number of students are electing to met the first challenge with aplomb, attracting a number of well-known ably detects elements in cinema that may escape the notice of the film in the annual “Writers at Chicago: A Celebration,”which provides a forum complete creative bachelor’s theses, now accounting for nearly forty-five writers to teach in the Department as visiting lecturers or professors scholar, the creative writer is attuned to aspects of form and process that to showcase writers who are teaching or have taught at Chicago as well during the 2002–03 academic year. Among these writers were Simon elude the literary critic. In contrast to an MFA or BFA program, creative as workshops for writing in progress. Supported by the Kestnbaum “It’s so exciting to see how many new opportunities are being made available Winchester (The Professor and the Madman), Sara Paretsky (AM’69, writing at the University is a concentration offered within the English Family Cultural Activities Fund, last year’s Writing Celebration allowed PhD’77, the V. I. Warshawski series), Susan Fromberg Schaeffer (AB’61, bachelor’s degree or within the Master of Arts Program in the Humanities. outstanding student writers to read alongside such established talents to writers at the U of C. These students are not only learning to improve AM’63, PhD’66) and Kingsley-Tufts Award-winning poet Campbell Creative writing concentrators engage in different modes of creative pro- as Richard Stern, former U.S. poet-laureate Mark Strand, Campbell their own skills, but discovering how their own creative work fits into the McGrath (AB’84, Spring Comes to Chicago). duction, while still participating fully in the intellectual analysis of culture, McGrath, and Alane Rollings. In addition, last year’s festival featured The Committee also developed a plan for sustaining writing courses history, and literature. readings of novels-in-progress by literature professors Kenneth Warren scholarly environment of the University.” — Sophia Carroll, AB’00, AM’02 in the Division and a rationale for the writing program itself. In the next Creative writing, of course, is more than imaginative writing: it includes and William Veeder. several years, it will continue to hire short-term visiting faculty but will the travel essay, the personal essay, the memoir, biography and the arts Student response to these opportunities and to the enhanced course percent of all honors projects. The students who choose this path often supplement these appointments with longer-term lectureships and two review. Indeed, creative nonfiction has been one of the areas of highest offerings has been enthusiastic. Janice Knight reports that “students feel have the highest grade point averages in traditional literature coursework. tenured faculty members, one in fiction and one in poetry. This year, two demand among graduate students. The University has a pool of talented that there has been a tremendous change in the atmosphere about writ- At the graduate level, the demand for courses has grown with the Master writers were appointed to three-year positions in the Department of writers—including Hank Sartin (AM’88, PhD’98), Megan Stielstra, ing.” Sophia Carroll (AB’00, AM’02), winner of MAPH’s Catherine Ham of Arts Program in the Humanities (MAPH). Many MAPH students find English: Achy Obejas as the Frank C. and Gertrude Melcher Springer Kathryn Cochran (AM’87), and Tracy Weiner (AM’86)—who regularly Memorial Award for Outstanding Creative Thesis, concurs: “It’s so excit- that writing classes provide them with skills that are desirable on the Lecturer in Fiction, and Srikanth Reddy as the William Vaughn Moody teach courses in these areas. These courses are supplemented by regular ing to see how many new opportunities are being made available to writers job market. Patrick Reichard (AM’02) notes that coursework in creative Lecturer in Poetry. In addition to writing courses, each will also teach offerings in academic and professional writing from the University at the U of C. These students are not only learning to improve their own writing greatly enhanced his resumé when he applied for a position as a more traditional literature course. Obejas will teach “Jewish Latin Writing Programs under the able directorship of Larry McEnerney skills, but discovering how their own creative work fits into the scholarly a writing instructor at a community college. American Writers,” reflecting a concern very much in evidence in her (AM’80). Additionally, through the generosity of Robert Vare (AB’67, environment of the University.” ❑ In response to this surging demand for courses, Deans John Boyer and recent prize-winning novel Days of Awe;Reddy will conduct a course AM’70), the College is able to host a visiting nonfiction writer-in-residence

More information on the English Department’s Creative Writing Program can be found online at http://english.uchicago. edu/creative-writing.

Mark Strand

Chicago Review Sara Paretsky Norman Maclean Saul Bellow Harriet Monroe Urinetown

Philip Roth caught in the Richard Stern creative act Kurt Vonnegut Susan Sontag George Steiner Proof 1930 Thornton Wilder teaches in the 1949 Langston Hughes is Poet-in- 1966 Nathaniel Tarn’s (AM’52, PhD’56) 1978 Susan Sontag (AB’51) receives 1985 Professor and fiction writer 1993 George Steiner (AB’48) awarded 1999 Poet Campbell McGrath (AB’84) 2001 David Auburn (AB’91) wins Department of English Residence at the Lab School and lives translation of Pablo Neruda’s The the National Book Critics Circle Award Richard Stern awarded Medal of Merit the PEN Macmillan Fiction Prize for awarded a MacArthur Fellowship the Pulitzer Prize for Proof in the International House Heights of Macchu Picchu published for On Photography by the American Academy for Arts and Proofs and Three Parables 1936 Harriet Monroe bequeaths the Letters 2000 Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison 2002 Greg Kotis (AB’88) wins archives of Poetry Magazine to the 1960 Philip Roth (AM’55) awarded the 1969 Kurt Vonnegut (AM’71) publishes 1979 Bernard Pomerance (AB’52) 1995 June Jordan (EX) founds Poetry teaches “Global Fictions” in the Tony Award for Best Book of a University National Book Award for Goodbye, Slaughterhouse Five wins the Tony Award for The 1990 Charles Simic (EX) awarded the for the People in Berkeley, California Department of English Musical for Urinetown Columbus Elephant Man Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The World 1938 Nobel Laureate in Literature 1976 Norman Maclean (PhD’40) Doesn’t End: Prose Poems 1996 Lecturer Achy Obejas awarded 2000 Kimberly Peirce (AB’90) honored 2003 Distinguished Service Bertrand Russell teaches in the 1965 Marguerite Young (AM’36) publishes A River Runs Through It 1982 Sara Paretsky (AM’69, MBA’77, Lambda Award for Memory Mambo by Boston Society of Film Critics and Professor J.M. Coetzee wins the Department of Philosophy publishes Miss MacIntosh, My Darling PhD’77) publishes Indemnity Only, 1990 Mark Strand named Poet National Board of Review for her film Nobel Prize in Literature 1976 Saul Bellow (EX) awarded the the first in the V. I. Warshawski series Laureate of the United States 1996 Hayden Carruth’s (AM’74) Boys Don’t Cry 1946 Chicago Review founded Nobel Prize in Literature Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey wins the National Book Award for Poetry 4 ALUMNIFACULTY AFFAIRS FOCUS FACULTY FOCUS 5

terms of an artist’s racial identification are not sufficient DAISY DELOGU (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, for understanding an artwork and that progressive work 2003), Assistant Professor of French in the Department on race necessitates attention to modernity’s many per- { NEW HUMANITIES FACULTY } of Romance Languages and Literatures and the College, mutations. Prior to working at the Clark Art Institute, completed a dissertation, “Royal Biographies and the English was a Gaius Charles Bolin Fellow in American Politics of the Hundred Years War: Theorizing the Ideal Studies and Art History at Williams College. Sovereign,” that examines how royal biographies of the Hundred Years War between France and Germany (1337– 1453) deploy canonical medieval discourses to advance STEPHEN HARVEY (Ph.D. University of Pennsyl- talents a variety of political aims. Her scholarly interests in- vania, 1998), Assistant Professor of Egyptian Art and clude the relationship between politics and literature, Archaeology in the Oriental Institute, the Department of debate literature and scholarly debates, the evolution of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, acquired medieval genres, and the role of women as producers comes to Chicago from the University of Memphis where DREW BEATTIE (MFA School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University, and as subjects of literary works. A recipient of a Jacob 1978), Assistant Professor in the Committee on Visual Arts and the College, is Javits Fellowship, Delogu has recently published work in a painter who has previously held visiting appointments at Hunter College, Médiévales and in Le Moyen Français. the University of California at Berkeley, the University of California at Davis, ROBERT BUCH (Ph.D. Stanford University, 2002), and the San Francisco Art Institute. Beattie’s paintings and drawings look for Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies meaning through intuitively hybridized fusions of imagery and abstraction. and the College, recently completed a dissertation that DARBY ENGLISH (Ph.D. University of Rochester, investigates the intersection of visual representation 2002), Assistant Professor of Art History and the In 1994, he was a recipient of the Rome Prize in Visual Arts from the American and violence in the work of Peter Weiss and Claude College, comes to Chicago from the Clark Art Institute Academy in Rome. His work has been exhibited extensively in such venues as Simon. His interests include twentieth-century German (Williamstown, Massachusetts) where he was the Acting the Berkeley Art Museum, the Drawing Center (New York), the Joseph Helman literature, the crisis of representation in fin-de-siècle Assistant Director of Research. His dissertation, “Black Gallery (New York), the Museum of Contemporary Art (San Diego), and the literature and art in Austria and Germany, visions of cat- Artists, Black Work? Regarding Difference in Contem- Stephen Wirtz Gallery (San Francisco). astrophe in German literature and philosophy, and the porary Art,” focuses on the work of the artists Fred Wilson, Funerary relief of Min and his wife Riya, from Abydos, ca. 1550 B.C. “Moon” (detail), 30 x 24 inches, acrylic and collage on canvas, 2002 emergence of realism in Germany and France. Kara Walker, and Glenn Ligon to argue that the narrow Oriental Institute Museum 7778. recent work BY HUMANITIES FACULTY Mueller, Janel, and Ptaszynska, Marta. Ran, Shulamit. Saller, Richard. West, Rebecca, and Leah S. Marcus, eds. Moon Flowers for Cello Supplications for chorus Personal Patronage under Graziella Parati, eds. 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acquired talents he was an Assistant Professor and Assistant combine to enact jazz as a ritualized activity ori- When I was young, I wanted to represents what philosophy is really about. trouble. Philosophical problems run deep, Director of the Institute of Egyptian Art and ented toward spirituality and transcendent MARK PAYNE (Ph.D. Columbia University, WHAT be a poet, and I still write Over the years, I have focused on ramifying through all the various areas Archaeology. Harvey’s work focuses on ancient musicality. A recipient of a Ford Foundation 2003), Assistant Professor of Latin in the Depart- poems from time to time. particular problems, of course. Recently of our experience, and the solution that Egypt’s transition from the Second Intermediate Postdoctoral Fellowship, he has published key ment of Classical Languages and Literatures MATTERS But in college I gradually for- I finished a book on the self, arguing that looks good when certain elements are Period to the founding of the New Kingdom articles on jazz and the blues in The African and the College, recently completed a disserta- TO ME sook that dream to become a the fundamental relation to ourselves made central appears wrong-headed when by King Ahmose. He has published numerous American Music Handbook, The New Harvard tion entitled “Narrative Technique in the philosopher. To be honest, my which makes each of us a self is not one of the problem is approached from a different articles and has been the recipient of awards and Dictionary of Music, and The New Grove Pastoral Poetry of Theocritus.” His analysis & WHY decision to take up philosophy intimate self-acquaintance, contrary to the angle. Nothing is so settled as not to be open fellowships from the National Endowment for Dictionary of Music and Musicians. employs formal categories derived from ancient did not spring from an overpower- usual view. The knowledge we have of our to question from another, also plausible, the Arts, the National Endowment for the Human- scholia on the poems and ities, the National Science Foundation, and the explores the connection ing preoccupation with any of its own mental life follows the same path as point of view. (For this reason, one of my Getty Foundation. GABRIEL RICHARDSON between form and response questions. As a sophomore, I had only a our knowledge of other people, and our projects has been a “political liberalism” LEAR (Ph.D. Princeton that is characteristic of this nodding acquaintance with such problems greater familiarity with ourselves stems that seeks principles by which reasonable University, 2001), Assistant ancient criticism. Payne’s as the basis of knowledge, the relation simply from our devoting a lot more attention people can live together despite their OREN IZENBERG (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins Professor in the Depart- scholarly interests include between mind and body, or the source of to that quarter. The self’s special intimacy Charles Larmore is Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities, University, 2000), Assistant Professor in the ment of Philosophy and the Old Comedy, Hellenistic moral obligation. Sometimes, however, we with itself lies instead in the fact that we and Professor in the Departments of Philosophy, Political Science, Department of English Language and Literature College, comes to Chicago poetry, Neronian literature, wander unknowingly into things that later alone (no one else in our place) are able to and the College. and the College, comes to Chicago from Harvard from Yale University where scholia, and ancient and come to be of the greatest value. So it was University where he won the Bok Center Teaching she held the same position. modern literary theory. in this case. I needed to select a major, yet Award while teaching in the English Department. The recipient of a Whiting I had so many different interests that Izenberg’s interests include twentieth-century Honorific Fellowship in the Left: Aristotle poetry and poetics, modernism, and philosophy Humanities and a Yale choosing seemed impossible. Until, that is, and literature. His dissertation, “Being Numerous: University Whitney Human- I discovered a department, called Philo- The Twentieth-Century Poetic Imagination of the ities Center Junior Faculty MICHAEL RAINE (Ph.D. sophy, whose courses touched on every Ground of Social Life,” argues that the current Fellowship, Lear has a book University of Iowa, 2002), imaginable subject. It offered the perfect way

{N impasse in the historiography of twentieth- forthcoming from Prince- Assistant Professor in the century Anglo-American poetry can be resolved ton University Press entitled Happy Lives and Department of East Asian Languages and Civi- WHMNTE AUT } EW HUMANITIES FACULTY by revising the object of analysis from the poem the Highest Good: Aristotle’s Nicomachean lizations, the Committee on Cinema and Media to focus on poetic intention, particularly in the Ethics. Her scholarly interests include ancient Studies, and the College, comes to Chicago from work of poets who view poetry as a “capacity” Greek philosophy, the history of ethics, con- Bard College where he was Assistant Professor rather than a concrete performance. temporary virtue theory, the philosophy of lit- of Film and Media Arts. He has also held visiting charles larmore erature, and theories of practical reasoning and appointments at Yale University and the Univer- of the emotions. sity of Michigan. His dissertation, “Youth, Body, to avoid a choice and to go on pursuing TRAVIS JACKSON (Ph.D. Columbia University, and Subjectivity in Japanese Cinema, 1955-60,” everything I liked—history, literature, 1998), Associate Professor of American Music is a cultural history of postwar Japanese film physics, and politics. in the Department of Music and the College, AGNES LUGO-ORTIZ (Ph.D. Princeton Univer- culture, demonstrating how emergence of a comes to Chicago from the University of Michigan sity, 1990), Associate Professor of Spanish in modernist cinema in Japan was the consequence From the outset, therefore, philosophy where he was an Assistant Professor of Musico- the Department of Romance Languages and of a shift toward auteurism (rather than the caught my imagination because its scope logy. Jackson’s work focuses on jazz, particularly Literatures and the College, comes to Chicago appearance of several noted auteurs) and of appeared boundless. The American phil- New York jazz, and the ways in which participants from Dartmouth College where she held the changes in the structure and critical discourse of osopher Wilfrid Sellars once defined at musical events construct meaning. Jackson same position. Her work focuses on nineteenth- the Japanese film industry. Raine has published philosophy as the effort to “understand situates his analysis of jazz within the contexts century Spanish-American literature, twentieth- several articles and translations, as well as writ- how things in the broadest possible sense Philosophical problems run deep, ramifying through all the various century Caribbean cultural history, and gay and that produce and support it, arguing that the ten subtitles for a number of Japanese films. of the term hang together in the broadest scene of the performance and a blues aesthetic lesbian studies. Her book, Identidades imagi- possible sense of the term.” If a definition areas of our experience, and the solution that looks good when nadas: Biografia y nacional- is necessary, then let it be that. I have no idad en el horizonte de la SETH F. C. RICHARDSON (Ph.D. Columbia certain elements are made central appears wrong-headed when guerra, (Cuba 1860–1898), University, 2002), Assistant Professor of Ancient sympathy for the many twentieth-century explores the relationship bet- Near Eastern History at the Oriental Institute, attempts to delimit in advance what the problem is approached from a different angle. ween biographical writing and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and counts as a “philosophical” question and Cuban nationalist discourse. Civilizations, and the College, comes to us from what does not, as though it were essential Lugo-Ortiz argues that bio- a postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Assyri- to nail down philosophy’s slot in the intel- commit ourselves, as indeed we do all the unending disagreements about the nature graphical writing functioned ology at Columbia University, where he worked lectual division of labor. Philosophy ought time, since to believe this or to desire that of the good life.) The moral is not that as an arena where different on several projects in Old Babylonian cuneiform to be immune to such hang-ups, since its amounts to committing ourselves to reason philosophy is pointless. Its questions conceptions of the “national including contributions to a biography of spirit is precisely the freedom of mind in in accord with the presumed truth of what cannot fail to grip us, and they do so by self” were being constructed Hammurabi of Babylon. In the preceding year he which we cease to be a mere part of the we believe or the presumed value of what moving us to work out answers. But we and debated. She has also completed his dissertation on “The Collapse of a whole by making the whole itself the we desire. need to recognize with Montaigne that co-edited Herencia: The Complex State: A Reappraisal of the End of the object of our thought. Similarly, the famous Still, I have always tried to pursue such “there is no end to our inquiries, and it’s a Anthology of Hispanic Liter- First Dynasty of Babylon, 1683–1597BC,” which distinction between “analytic” (Anglo- themes with an eye to seeing how every- sign of narrow-mindedness or fatigue ature of the United States was received with distinction. (Oxford UP, 2001) and pub- American) and “continental” philosophy thing hangs together. One important when we are content.” In hindsight I find IN HIS OWN WORDS lished numerous articles. Continued on back page has always left me indifferent. I range lesson I have learned, however, is that that my idea of philosophy resembles the through both traditions as I please, with- philosophy never comes to an end, thanks poetry I wrote when young—passion out supposing that one of them alone to a law we might call the conservation of hedged with irony. ❑ 8 SPOTLIGHT ON SCHOLARSHIP SPOTLIGHT ON SCHOLARSHIP 9

Say the words “world music” to a given person and he or she may nod in recognition, but compare the def- Just as world music can be described as world musics, One may be surprised to learn that cabaret was one feels compelled to speak about Bohlman’s work in performed in concentration camps during the initions of the two nodders and you will likely find some disagreement. As Philip Bohlman, Mary Werkman the plural. In the past year, Bohlman has had no fewer than five projects published or in the pipeline, and, in Holocaust. It is also not commonly known that Professor of Humanities and Professor in the Department of Music, the Committee on Jewish Studies, and a twenty-year career, has authored a dozen mono- opera—another equally extravagant form of graphs, edited an equal number of volumes, collabo- the College, notes in his recently published World Music: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford Press, 2002), rated on four compact discs, and published a number performance—was staged in concentration camps. of articles on ethnomusicology. In 1997, the Royal the term is exceedingly difficult to define: “World music can be folk music, art music, or popular music; Musical Association in Glasgow awarded Bohlman the Bohlman’s two other forthcoming works take a Dent Medal, the highest honor bestowed on musicol- larger look at European music and nationalism. In its practitioners may be amateur or professional. World music may be sacred, secular, or commercial . . . ogists. Such an achievement could incite professional his just-completed manuscript Music of European envy, but Bohlman also enjoys a reputation as a dedi- Nationalism: Cultural Identity and Modern History The old definitions don’t hold anymore. The world of world music has no boundaries.” cated and generous colleague. This year, he expands (ABC-Clio Books, in press), he examines the rise of his talents further by becoming the chair of the nationalism from the Enlightenment through the pre- Committee on Jewish Studies. sent, paying special attention to the new nationalisms Bohlman’s recent work on Jewish musical cultures that have emerged in Europe since 1989. “The use of has helped revive some Jewish cabaret music that was music in very specific nationalist ways,” Bohlman nearly cast into oblivion by the Austrian Censor’s notes, “is very much a product of European thinking Office. The work that was rescued was from the about what music does and about what it is.” Among longest-running Jewish cabaret in Vienna, which ran the contemporary examples of this phenomenon that from the 1880s through the end of the First World Bohlman considers are the highly fraught battles over War. While many regard cabaret as an emblem of national anthems in the new republics of Eastern German decadence and cynicism (a view promoted in Europe and the Eurovision Song Contest, which popular films like The Blue Angel and Cabaret), this often provides a forum for nations to assert their art form had strong Jewish roots, crossed national “Europeanness.” PHILIP BOHLMAN boundaries, and even endured in the concentration One thinker who comprehended early the links THE WORLDS OF camps. According to Bohlman, the Viennese “material between music and cultural and national identity was was well known but very ephemeral. And it’s all in Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803). Hailed as one Viennese dialect, which has considerable affinity with of the major figures in nationalist thought (though Yiddish.” With Ilya Levinson, Lecturer in Music, perhaps for the wrong reasons), Herder is often cited Bohlman worked to reconstruct the music, which as a major influence on thinkers as diverse as Goethe, sometimes existed only as lyric text with notations Schleiermacher, and Nietzsche. Herder was a poly- suggesting the tune. The New Budapest Orpheum math who is interesting to ethnomusicologists not Society, of which Bohlman is the artistic director and least because he coined the term Volkslieder, or “folk emcee, recently released “Dancing on the Edge of a songs.” In Herder on Music and Nationalism (under Volcano,” a double compact disc on which they per- contract to the University of California Press), Bohlman formed these long-lost songs. will translate many of Herder’s voluminous essays on One may be surprised to learn that cabaret was these topics and provide commentaries on them. performed in concentration camps during the It’s fitting that Bohlman should take an interest in Holocaust. It is also not commonly known that Herder: both engage deeply in a wide range of sub- opera—another equally extravagant form of perfor- jects. As chair of the Committee on Jewish Studies, S mance—was staged in concentration camps. In Bohlman and his global outlook will no doubt stimu- Music Drama of the Holocaust (under contract to late collaborations with other departments in the Cambridge University Press), Bohlman examines the Division and across the University, raising the profile music that was performed at Theresienstadt. A num- of the Committee even further. In the coming year, the ber of well-known musical talents were interned at Committee looks forward to, among other things, a Philip Bohlman, Theresienstadt, including Leo Strauss (son of the great conference organized by Paul Mendes-Flohr, Professor center, and the Viennese cabaretist, Oscar Strauss) and the respected of Modern Jewish Thought, on a new translation of New Budapest composer Viktor Ullmann. While it was certainly Gershom Scholem’s work and an edition of essays on Orpheum Society remarkable that traditions of musical performance the Holocaust edited by Eric Santner, Associate continued under such austere conditions, Bohlman Professor of Germanic Studies, and Moishe Postone, does not see this fact as the music’s most compelling Associate Professor of History. ❑ story: “My concern is not to talk about this as music that was good despite the circumstances, but rather Center: Cover of Jos. Jacobsen and Erwin Jospe. Hawa Naschira! (Auf! Lasst ask why it reaches the extraordinary artistic and uns Singen!). Leipzig-Hamburg: A.J. Benjamin, 1935. Above and below: aesthetic levels that it does.” Viennese broadsides by Carl Lorens. Printed by C. Fritz in Vienna. 10 SPOTLIGHT ON SCHOLARSHIP SPOTLIGHT ON SCHOLARSHIP 11

THE FELLOWS-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM

AT THE FRANKE INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIES discipline and flourish Time is the scholar’s most precious resource. Compelling scholarship requires large stretches of uninterrupted time to weigh complex evidence and to link words and ideas together in persuasive arguments.

Although we are inclined to value time above all, such a posi- Regenstein Library, situated close to the bookstacks that are tion presupposes the ready availability of an equally precious vital to a researcher in the late stages of a project. In addition resource: space. Virginia Woolf understood the importance to providing a space for quiet and intense focus on a single of space in the work of serious writing when she accorded question or range of questions, the offices—and the Institute the title of her famous polemic not to the 500 pounds per itself—are removed from departmental associations, and year that would buy the time to write but to the “room of consequently foster an environment where a different kind one’s own” that would shelter one from the demands of of conversation can occur. The tenor of that conversation is everyday life. The academics who populate the halls of partly attributable to another aspect of the program that the universities are supplied workspaces, of course, but these fellows unanimously praise: the energetic leadership of James K. can often be filled with other materials and uses: teaching, Chandler, Director of the Franke Institute and Richard J. and student conferences, administrative work. Barbara E. Franke Professor of English Literature. It is, therefore, not surprising that the seven faculty and Fellowship programs at humanities institutes usually take four doctoral fellows at the Franke Institute for the Humanities one of two forms. One model draws candidates who share an treasure the offices that come with their year-long fellowships. interest in a specific area of inquiry from inside and outside Described by one former fellow as “capacious, light, and of a university. In contrast to this thematically organized pro- airy,” the offices are located in the southeastern corner of the gram, the second model draws its membership from within the 12 SPOTLIGHT ON SCHOLARSHIP SPOTLIGHT ON SCHOLARSHIP 13

university, providing fellows with material resources to research to the rest of the group. As Lisa Wedeen, a discipline means, a space for the disciplines to talk to tions of their disciplines. Doctoral fellow Ian Moyer is support a year of intense, solitary work. The Franke Jason Bridges 2002–2003 fellow and Assistant Professor of Political each other begins to open up. Christopher Faraone, a Pictured above are last year’s completing his dissertation in the Committee on the Science, notes, the meetings are not only useful for the 2002–2003 fellow and Professor of Classical Languages Ancient Mediterranean World (CAMW) which is deeply FellowsProgram operates on the latter model, each (Philosophy) “The Autonomy Franke Doctoral Fellows, from year supporting faculty fellows from across the Division remarks that they generate but also because “they allow and Literatures, observes that “one of the biggest prob- invested in interdisciplinary modes of inquiry. Despite of Reasons” left: Naomi Hume, Department and at all career levels in addition to four doctoral fel- you to make connections to people who are helpful to lems in the work that gets done today is that we get this interdisciplinary orientation, Moyer discovered of Art History; Ian Moyer, lows. Next year, through the continued generosity of Cornell Fleischer you outside the confines of the gathering itself.” In more and more specialized as we talk to an audience that the rhetorical and political issues that most ani- the Institute’s prime benefactors, University Trustee (Near Eastern Languages this way, the fellows’ group functions much like the that is far smaller than the one scholars addressed fifty Committee on the Ancient mated his project were in relation to Classics. While he Richard J. Franke and Barbara Franke, an eighth faculty and Civilizations) “An Occult Institute itself—as a hub for connecting like-minded years ago.” The Franke Fellows’ discussions of discipli- Mediterranean World; and Amy had originally thought that he was working at the fellowship will be offered. Polymath of the Fifteenth scholars across the Division, the University, and the nary boundaries and concerns work against this trend Graves, Department of Romance intersection of Classics and Egyptology, Moyer grew to Postdoctoral fellows from other institutions spon- Century: Abd al-rahman world (the Institute regularly hosts scholars from other and, in the process, transform the program into a hybrid Languages and Literatures see that the project was perhaps equally well situated sored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the al-Bistami of Antioch” institutions for lectures, conferences, and colloquia). of the two aforementioned models. between Classics and cultural studies. In the process, Each faculty cohort features a member from the By speaking about their disciplines to a group of he also was able to uncover the unexpected history of Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation also have a base at Armando Maggi Division of Social Sciences, and this past year’s social scholars who did not necessarily share their disciplinary CAMW,which began in the 1970s as an effort to bring the Institute, resulting in an array of researchers who (Romance Languages and Alyssa Ayres scientist was Wedeen, who is completing a study of interests, several of the fellows began to think about together Classics and Philosophy but has since meta- represent every level of scholar at the University. This Literatures) “The Mystical (South Asian Languages political identifications in Yemen, following that how their work could communicate with broader morphosed, in some ways responding to such work assemblage of persons at different stages of their aca- Poetry of Jacopone of Todi and and Civilizations) “Languages nation’s unification. Educated at Berkeley during the audiences in the humanities and discovered serendipitous as Martin Bernal’s Black Athena, into an arena where demic careers allows for conversations that are extra- Early Franciscan Spirituality” Policy, Ethnic Identity, and heyday of New Historicism, Wedeen was already doing intersections between their work and another’s. connections between Classics and the ancient Near ordinarily beneficial to the graduate fellows about Nationalism in Pakistan” such things as the academic job market and life as a Jason Merchant work in ongoing dialogue with cultural studies and Doctoral fellows Naomi Hume (Art History) and Amy East have become a major focus. junior faculty member. (Linguistics) “The Saving various advances in the humanities. In fellows’ meet- Graves (Romance Languages and Literatures) both speak Chika Kinoshita If the experience of reflecting on one’s discipline ings, she was attuned to questions that seem more dis- of productive exchanges with Holly Shissler, Assistant and making its concerns intelligible to a broader audi- For junior faculty members, the fellowship pro- Grace of Ellipsis: The Repair (East Asian Languages and cipline-specific: What counts as explanation? What Professor of Ottoman History in the Department of ence was sometimes humbling, Amy Graves notes that vides the time to complete the work necessary for the of Grammatical Deviance Civilizations) “Mise-en-

2003–2004 FACULTY FELLOWS 2003–2004 FACULTY counts as evidence? Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Hume, who it is also emboldening: “It makes you realize that what next professional hurdle, the third-year renewal of by Deletion” scène of Desire: The Films Such questions have been of longstanding interest to works on avant-garde Czech art, spoke with Shissler you do is a tiny microcosm of academia, but that there tenure decision. For 2001–2002 fellow Sandra of Mizoguchi Kenji” Bozena Shallcross James Chandler, who co-edited an influential volume of about studying topics far removed from one’s personal is always common ground and that you always have Macpherson, Assistant Professor in the Department of (Slavic Languages and essays, Questions of Evidence (1984), on the topic. Under background and learning difficult second languages something to say about another’s research. You learn English, the fellowship year enabled her to complete Ryan Minor Literatures) “Things Polish: Chandler’s stewardship, the Institute has launched in order to do so. This conversation led to a deeper to trust your instincts as a reader.” For Graves, the substantial revisions to her monograph on relation- (Music) “National Memory, An Interdisciplinary Inquiry” a three-year seminar exploring the theme “New discussion about how the Ottoman Empire was an conversations that occur in the biweekly meetings ship liability in eighteenth-century British literature Public Music: Commemoration Perspectives on the Disciplines: Comparative Studies important backdrop to some elements of Czech mod- are especially valuable to graduate students since they and culture, and to revise two essays for submission. Adam T. Smith and Consecration in in Higher Education,” funded by the Andrew W. ernism and how the eastern part of Europe in the early Nineteenth-Century German prepare one for such later professional activities as job She was then able to include the work in her file for (Anthropology) “Artifact and Mellon Foundation. In the fellows’ meetings, Chandler twentieth century was more proximate to the Ottoman Choral Music” interviews, campus visits, conference presentations, contract renewal. “The fellowship,”Macpherson notes, Affect: Material Culture, pursued this interest further by asking each of the Empire than we are usually inclined to think. Although and public lectures. Examining the large conference “is a crucial resource for junior faculty, and by help- Aesthetics, Politics” year’s fellows to preface their presentations by situating Shissler works on modern Turkey, Graves, who studies John Urang room where the fellows’ meetings for the last year were ing them accomplish what they must in order to Martha Ward their work within disciplinary debates and by explain- the sixteenth-century wars of religion, had useful ex- (Germanic Studies) held, Graves waxes rhapsodic: “This room is a room become long-term members of their department, it is (Art History)“Bookifying ing the contributions their work is making. On one hand, changes with her about the “Turkish threat” that Luther “Legal Tender: Love and of big ideas. And being able to talk about the big ideas an important resource for the University as a whole.” FELLOWS2003–2004 DOCTORAL 2002–2003 Exhibitions: The Art History such a move would seem to run counter to current believed was a “retribution for the schism in Christianity.” Legitimacy in the East is the moment at which you remember why you do Throughout the year, the fellows gather in bi- Show in the 1930s” trends toward interdisciplinarity; but, by taking a step Some fellows discovered new things about their German Cultural Imagination” what you do.” ❑ weekly meetings where one fellow presents his or her back to define and reflect on what working in a specific projects as they considered the histories and conven- 14 ALUMNIHONOR ROLL AFFAIRS ALUMNIHONOR AFFIARS ROLL 15

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Lucid Melissa Stull Jeffrey Laurence Skelton Kasselman Gay-Young Cho Carol Rauner O’Donovan Dr. Carl Dolmetsch Dr. Jeremiah Cameron Thyra and Gilbert Plass Dr. Ellen A. Blais Dr. John H. Erickson Joan Bentley Hoffman Richard and Christine Lynn Richard Gilbert Rhodes, Sr. Al Svirmickas Emily Huggins Fine Alan R. Cravitz Marshall and Evelyn Padorr Dr. Adam M. Dubin Dr. Rolf H. Charlston Dr. Henry A. Ploegstra Dr. Lincoln C. Blake Dr. Millard J. Erickson Marvin Hoffman Hugh C. MacFarlane, Jr. Joy and Kenneth Rhodie Allen M. Turner Isak and Nancy Gerson Anita Straub Darrow Penny Pritzker and Brian Traubert Ronald and Belle Elving Eleanor and Dr. Fredric L. Coe Elizabeth M. Postell Elaine N. Blass Mary Erler Douglas Francis Hofmeister M. Louise Carus Mahdi * DECEASED 16 HONOR ROLL ON CAMPUS 17

Stuart A. Rice and Ruth O’Brien Julie Stewart Richard R. Wotkun Sheila Fitzpatrick Meredith E. Harris Bristol-Myers Squibb Court Theatre Franke Institute The University of Juliette Richman Tony Kevin Stewart Dr. Austin Wright* and in memory of Michael Danos Norma Hess Foundation, Inc. Dr. Gertrude J. Robinson Eric Michael Stiffler Mrs. Sara Wright Margaret M. Jeffrey Lester Hsieh and Molly S. Ho Leo Burnett Company, Inc. for the Humanities Chicago Presents NOVEMBER 28–DECEMBER 28 Mary O. Rohde Donna M. Stone Charles A. Wright, Ph.D. in memory of Prof. E. K. Brown Mrs. Robert Kestnbaum Caterpillar Foundation Judith Seidel Roin Dr. James F. Stottlar David and Suzanne Zesmer Eric S. Kirby Chicago Tribune Foundation Georgia Kadlec James Joyce’s “The Dead” FEBRUARY 2004 For tickets and additional concert Nicholas R. Rome Lorna Straus and Sidney and Harriet Zilber Melvin and Mary Marks Congressional Quarterly, Inc. adapted by Richard Nelson information call 773-702-8068 Dr. Raymond and Antoinette Roos Dr. Francis Straus Nicole Zreczny in memory of Bernard Fantz Helen and Rudolph Oetting R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company Inventing the Self: and Shaun Davey Pier Luigi Rosellini Philip James Stucky Zucaro Family Foundation Jaqueline Lichtman Linda Racine The Dow Chemical Company Subjectivity, Gender, and Chamber Music Series Victor Manuel Rosello, Jr. Rev. Ralph R. Sundquist, Ph.D., in memory of Birney Van Joy and Kenneth Rhodie Foundation Self-Representation in Concerts at 8 pm Gerson M. Rosenthal, Jr. John and Audrey Rosenheim Federal National Mortgage JANUARY 22–MARCH 28 and Bernita W. Sundquist Gifts from Estates Benschoten Italian Culture Michael Alan Rosenthal Gary Supanich and Louise Stein Joyce MacDonald Ellen Sato Association Guys & Dolls story by Damon FRIDAY, JANUARY 23 Donald Lynwood Ross Mark Allan Swedlund Jules Silbert Ford Motor Company Fund The Division is grateful to all in memory of Birney Van Runyan, music and lyrics by FEBRUARY 21 Brentano Quartet Paul Andrew Roth Sue Dahl Swenson Edward J. Spiegel General Electric Foundation those who make a provision for Benschoten Frank Loesser, book by Jo Drs. Donald and Janet Rowley Dr. Patricia Takemoto and Leo G. Sterk The J. Paul Getty Trust Symposium: Poppea’s World FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20 Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr. Dr. Robert Morse the Humanities in their wills. Lenore B. Melzer Robert Stone International Business Machines Swerling and Abe Burrows Jean Rudd Bruce Kevin Tammen During the 2002–2003 year, in memory of Arthur Melzer Mark Allan Swedlund Corporation APRIL 2004 St. Lawrence String Quartet, APRIL 22–MAY 16 with Todd Palmer, clarinet Manfred D. Ruddat, Ph.D. Dr. Romeyn Taylor and gifts were received from the Prof. Karl Morrison and Mrs. Ann Mr. and Mrs. Mark J. Voboril The Joyce Foundation Early, Modern, American: Dr. Charles Rudin and Mrs. Irene Taylor* Morrison John F. Walsh Kirkland & Ellis Foundation Fraülein Else translated estates of the following alumni Comparison and its Critics FRIDAY, MARCH 5 Elizabeth Rodini Marvin Tetenbaum in memory of Kostas Kazazis Carol Warshawsky Lehman Brothers, Inc. and friends: and adapted by Francesca Craig Michael Rustici Dr. Johan Carl Thom Mrs. Roy I. Warshawsky Eli Lilly and Company Foundation in the Study of the Colonial Irene H. Patner Faridany from the novella Florestan Trio Deborah Dashow Ruth Barbara A. Thomas Joyce Weinberg Lucent Technologies Literature of the Americas in memory of Jeanne Kravits by Arthur Schnitzler Edward Bryan Samuel Michele M. Thompson Richard C. Bardot Robert and Cynthia Wheaton McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. FRIDAY, APRIL 23 Ellen Sato Creath Snowden Thorne, Jr. Walter Blair Phillip M. Richards Motorola Foundation APRIL 16–17 John Relyea, bass-baritone Lorraine Creel in memory of Robert E. Streeter MAY 20–JUNE 20 Marjorie Lange Schaffner Stephen William Timewell Gifts in Memory of Professor The Northern Trust Company Aristotle’s Ethics, Politics, Warren Jones, piano Jeffrey B. Schamis Raymond D. Tindel and Catherine L. Dobson Juliette Richman Ralph Shapey Northwestern Mutual Foundation Cyrano by Edmund Rostrand, Marguerite H. Ephron and Aesthetics Dr. Elaine Schapker Gretel Braidwood in memory of Phil Richman 21st Police Explorers Otto L. & Hazel T. Rhoades Fund adapted by Jim Lasko and FRIDAY, MAY 7 Claudia D. Gesner Dr. Lawrence and Dr. Glenn Evan Tisdale, Jr. Dr. John Austin and SBC Foundation Charles Newell Ellis Bonoff Kohs Drs. Peter and Diana Scholl MAY 21–22 Gidon Kremer, violin Mrs. Dorothy Scheff Jean Sitterly Treese Dr. Christine Froula TRW Foundation Elizabeth Oppenheim in memory of Hamlin L. Hill & Kremerata Musica Allan Wayne Schindler Dr. Eugene A. Troxell Oswelda A. Badal Vivendi Universal Arts of Transmission Zena Bailey Sutherland Robert E. Streeter Eugene Schlossberger, Ph.D. Jiro Tsukada Dr. M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet Washington Post Company Chester D. Tripp Deborah Daila Shefner Drs. Peter and Diane Scholl Marguerite J. Turner Alan R. Brodie West Group Howard Mayer Brown in memory of Alan M. Shefner Hall of Thirty-Three Bays, Hiroshi Sugimoto, 1995 G. R. and Veva Schreiber Dr. Robert Y. Turner Carol and Bernard Brown Xerox Corporation The David and Alfred International Early Music Series Joan Schroeter Russell and Marlene Tuttle Gifts in Honor of Individuals Drs. Robert and Edna Southard Mrs. Eric W. Cochrane Rev. William F. Schulz III Douglas and Annette Twells in memory of Carol Loomer Tracy M. Cooke Smart Museum of Art FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 8pm David E. Schwalm Rev. Gunnar Urang Claire M. Bostic Meerson Julius and Yaffa Draznin In 1995 Hiroshi Sugimoto was Stasha F. Seaton Dr. Robert and Mrs. Vi Uretz In honor of Marolyn Adams Rockefeller Memorial Chapel Douglas and Annette Twells Emmanuel Ghent, M.D. and Sally Sedgwick W. Robert Usellis SEPTEMBER 13–DECEMBER 7 Trio Mediæval Paul and Jennifer Nelson in memory of Norman Cutler Karen Weiss, Ed.D. allowed to photograph inside Kyoto’s William K. Sellers Dr. John F. Van Ingen In honor of Professor George E. Hanson Mid-Century American William and Theda White SUNDAY, APRIL 18, 3pm Judith L. Sensibar Dr. Timothy J. Vance Joseph Cropsey Linda and Geoffrey Hirt famed thirteenth-century Buddhist Abstraction: Master Works in memory of Birney & Edwarda Karen G. Senter Richard A. Vayhinger Helen and Robert Jacobson Les Talens Lyriques Deborah Shefner Van Benschoten on Paper Ilene Warshawsky Shaw Karen H. Vierneisel Karl and Patricia Jacobson temple Sanjusangendo (Hall of Christophe Rousset, director/ Deborah Shefner Mr. and Mrs. Mark J. Voboril In honor of Sam Golden’s retirement Richard R. Wotkun Laura I. Langseth OCTOBER 2–JANUARY 4 harpsichord and Anna Maria James and Rita Sheinin Jack Vogel in memory of Ruth Wotkun Eli Lewis Thirty-Three Bays). Working at Timothy W. Sherry Robert Vonderohe Hiroshi Sugimoto: Sea of Buddha Panzarella, soprano Mr. and Mrs. David M. Zesmer Tokiko Nobusawa and David Pacun daybreak, a traditional time for Dr. Byron L. Sherwin Gregory B. Votaw Gifts in Memoriam Irene H. Patner in memory of Julia Mond OCTOBER 2–FEBRUARY 22 Additional Concerts Dr. Abner E. Shimony Dr. Sue Sheridan Walker Norman R. Pellegrini meditation, he captured the dawn Lesley Cohen Short Dr. Jack E. Wallace The Division offers special Concerts at 7:30 pm unless listed otherwise Gifts in Memory of Professor Marta Ptaszynska Visual Mantras: Meditative Joseph P. Shure John F. Walsh thanks to all those whose gifts Don and Carol Randel Michael Camille light illuminating 1,000 statues Traditions in Japanese TUESDAY, JANUARY 13 Howard and Roberta Siegel Carol Warshawsky honored the memory Allan Wayne Schindler Jonathan Barney Christophe Rousset Buddhist Art Dr. C. Elliott and Ms. Ruth Sigal Sherry Goodman Watt Mrs. Joel Seidman of the bodhisattva Kannon, an Contemporary Chamber Players of individuals during Virginia Harris Bartot Jules Silbert Eric D. Weimer James and Rita Sheinin the 2002–2003 year. Diane Binson DECEMBER 13–MARCH 28 Judith Susan Silverstein Joyce Weinberg Howard and Roberta Siegel enlightened being of boundless The Renaissance FRIDAY, JANUARY 30 at 8 pm John L. Simons, Jr. Sheila L. Weiner C. Clunas Mapping the Sacred: Jonathan and Elaine Smith Artists-in-Residence T. McNider Simpson III Sol Weiner* and Ruth Weiner Annabel Steinhorn Abraham Thomas Cummins compassion. The resulting Society Nineteenth-Century Japanese Dr. Veronica L. Skinner Harold and Yvonne Weinstein in memory of Bernard Abraham Neil Harris and Terri Edelstein Pacifica Quartet Matching Gifts Buddhist Prints Jeff A. Slotnick Gregory Allison Weir Jenny Adams Chad Heap photographs—gorgeous, richly NOVEMBER 16–DECEMBER 21 Abigail Smith Richard and Donelle Weiss in memory of Prof. Kostas Kate Michaels TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10 The following companies and detailed black-and-white images— Ulrike Ottinger JANUARY 22–APRIL 4 Jonathan and Elaine Smith Pat Charles Welter Kazazis Robert Nelson Regents Park Discovery Concert Elizabeth Snow* Zofia J. Werchun Dr. Charles Rudin and foundations generously South East Passage: A Journey Illuminations: Peter S. and Susan Hueck Allen Jonathan Biss, piano Robert D. Solotaroff Robert V. Wess Elizabeth Rodini frame row upon row of Kannon’s to New Blank Spots on the Map in memory of Prof. Kostas matched gifts made to the Sculpting with Light Hugo and Elizabeth Dr. and Mrs. Robert Abigail Smith Kazazis Humanities Division during slightly varied faces. This suite of of Europe TUESDAY, APRIL 13 Sonnenschein MacLellan West Barbara and Fred Stafford the 2002–2003 year. MARCH 9–AUGUST 22 Mrs. Robert G. Anderson cultural events Contemporary Chamber Players Dr. Marshall and Eva Sparberg Kenneth and Marie Wester meditative images immerses the JANUARY 11–FEBRUARY 22 The Uses of Art in William Joseph Sparer John and Wendy Whaley in memory of Mary Wolkonsky Gifts in Memory of Robert Accenture Foundation Edward J. Spiegel Robert and Cynthia Wheaton Kestnbaum Further Passage: A Survey of Renaissance Italy FRIDAY, MAY 14 at 8 pm Claire M. Bostic American General Corporation viewer in what the artist has called Irving and Annot Spergel Anne E. White Eastern European Video in memory of Bob Adams Roberta Baer-Price Anheuser-Busch Foundation Artists-in-Residence Franklin R. St. Lawrence Peter and Diana White a “Sea of Buddha.” They are on APRIL 3–JUNE 13 Deborah Kaplan Evans Fred H. Burns AOL Time Warner Foundation Pacifica Quartet Norman Edward Stafford Robert F. Wider MARCH 8–APRIL 19 in memory of Carol Loomer Diane and Dan Cirilli Aon Foundation Incisive Vision: The Prints of Dr. Timothy J. Standring Elva C. Wilkerson display at the David and Alfred Meerson Beverly and Melvin Cook David L. Babson & Co., Inc. Laura Letinsky James Abbott McNeill Whistler SUNDAY, MAY 16 Elizabeth Jane Start Joseph M. Williams Jerome and Sue Ettelson Bank of America Foundation Clay Wallace Stauffer Mr. and Mrs. Phillip E. Wilson Mrs. Walter D. Fackler Smart Museum of Art until Music Up Close Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Feitler Bank of New York MAY 3–JUNE 14 APRIL 22–JUNE 20 Kathryn Jean Stearns Joan Winstein in memory of Mrs. Alex Orden Pacifica Quartet with pianist Lisa Kaplan Andrew James Franzoni Bank One, NA January 4, 2004. Joan Jonas Taisho Chic: Japanese Modernity, Dr. Jane W. Stedman* Professor Irene J. Winter upcoming Dr. Ambhan D. Felsenfeld Eric Friedman and Amy Gutman BP Foundation, Inc. Leo G. Sterk Maynard and Elaine Wishner in memory of Oscar Felsenfeld Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Harris Nostalgia, and Deco TUESDAY, MAY 21 Scott Alan Stevenson James and Susan Woolley Contemporary Chamber Players Young Composers Concert * DECEASED Further information on these events may be obtained by contacting Tableau at [email protected]. 18 FACULTY FOCUS

specializes in eighteenth-century British litera- “ THE UNIVERSITY, as well as ture. At Stanford, she received the Centennial Teaching Award and completed a dissertation the broader world of scholarship, entitled “Literature and the Disciplines, 1700- 1820.” Her dissertation examines how the defini- will be greatly enriched by the tion of “literature” changed in the eighteenth and contributions of these talented nineteenth centuries in response to the emer- gence of disciplinary languages that created and young scholars for decades strengthened the expert’s authority. A recipient of to come.” — Janel Mueller awards and fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Science Founda- tion, and Stanford Humanities Center, Valenza has also completed graduate work at Cambridge Univer- Continued from page 6 sity on computer speech and language processing.

JUSTIN STEINBERG (Ph.D. University of Minne- NEW HUMANITIES FACULTY } sota, 1999), Assistant Professor of Italian in the { ALAN YU (Ph.D. University of California, Berke- Department of Romance Languages and Literatures ley, 2003), Assistant Professor in the Department and the College, comes to Chicago from the Univer- of Linguistics and the College, comes to Chicago sity of Notre Dame where he was Visiting Assistant from McGill University where he was Visiting Assis- Professor of Italian. Steinberg’s work focuses on tant Professor of Linguistics. He recently completed medieval Italian literature (especially Dante), the a dissertation that examines the formal properties early lyric, manuscript culture, history, and histo- of infixes. His scholarly interests include phonology, riography. He has published several articles in morphology, phonetics, and historical linguistics. such journals as Italian Studies and Scrittura e Dante Alighieri He has published a dozen articles in such journals as civiltà, and has a forthcoming book entitled The Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Phonology, and Accounting for Dante: Merchants, Notaries, and Natural Language Semantics. the Transmission of the Early Italian Lyric (U of HANS THOMSEN (Ph.D. expected, Princeton Notre Dame P). He is also collaborating on a census University, 2003), Instructor in the Department of of American manuscripts of thirteenth- and four- Art History and the College, spent the last two REBECCA ZORACH (Ph.D. University of Chi- teenth-century Italian lyric poetry for the database years as a visiting scholar on a Fulbright IIE Grant cago, 1999), Assistant Professor in the Department project “Lirica italiana delle Origini” (LIO) with the at the National Museum of Kyoto where he con- of Art History and the College, previously held Fondazione Ezio Franceschini and the Accademia ducted research on eighteenth-century Japanese acquired talents appointments as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at della Crusca (Florence). paintings. Thomsen recently completed his dis- the University of Pennsylvania Humanities Forum, sertation, “Itô Jakuchû (1716–1800) and the a lecturer at Yale University, and a Harper Fellow Rokuonji Temple Painting Ensemble of 1759.” In and Collegiate Assistant Professor at the University of LINA STEINER (Ph.D. Yale University, 2003), addition to publishing several articles, Thomsen Chicago. She co-edited a volume of essays, Embod- Assistant Professor of Russian in the Department has curated exhibits and acted as a translation con- ied Utopia: Gender, Social Change, and the Modern of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the sultant at the Museum of Modern Art, the Princeton Metropolis, and has a monograph, Matters of Excess: College, recently completed her dissertation, “The Art Museum, and the Spencer Museum of Art Blood, Ink, Milk, and Gold in the Visual Culture Novel as a Critique of Self-Consciousness: Literary (Lawrence, Kansas). of Sixteenth-Century France, forthcoming from the Evolution and the Public Sphere in the Post- University of Chicago Press. Her academic interests Romantic Period.” She has been the recipient of include Renaissance art (especially sixteenth-century fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, the ROBIN VALENZA (Ph.D. Stanford University, French and Italian), gender studies and critical Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University, and 2003), Assistant Professor in the Department of theory, print culture and technology, and Renaissance Cornell University’s School of Criticism and Theory. English Language and Literature and the College, theories of the imagination and the passions. ❑

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