2016 ACLS Annual Meeting May 5-7, Arlington, VA 2

2016 ACLS Annual Meeting May 5-7, Arlington, VA 2 3 4 Extending the Reach of the Humanities PhD Presenters Adela de la Torre coordinates communication and media outreach efforts for NILC. In this role, she works with others to conduct communications research and helps shape messaging for major legal and policy campaigns. Under her leadership, NILC's media presence has grown, and NILC experts are now sought-after thought leaders who help shape the news. She joined the National Immigration Law Center in 2009 as a communications specialist. Prior to joining NILC in 2009, de la Torre served as a media relations specialist for The George Washington University, where she earned her BA in International Affairs and her MA in Latin American Hemispheric Studies. Rosemary G. Feal has served as executive director of the Modern Language Association of America since 2002. She administers the business affairs, programs, and governance of the association; is general editor of the association’s publishing and research programs and editor of two association publications; serves as an ex officio member of all committees and commissions of the association; chairs the committee that oversees the planning of the association’s annual convention; and is a member of the MLA Executive Council’s audit and advisory committees, working with the MLA’s trustees in evaluating and implementing investments of the MLA’s endowment funds and chairing the Finance Committee. She is on leave from her position as professor of Spanish at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, where she was chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. From 1987 to 1998 she was a member of the faculty at the University of Rochester. A member of the Board of Directors of the National Humanities Alliance and a past vice president of that organization, she also served on the Board of Directors of the American Council of Learned Societies. Feal was a 2011-12 American Council on Education Fellow at the Five Colleges, Incorporated (Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst). Working with the executive director of the Five Colleges consortium and the presidents of Smith and Mount Holyoke Colleges, she participated in all aspects of academic and campus life, including strategic planning, admissions, curriculum, development, and alumnae relations. Coeditor of the SUNY Series in Latin American Iberian Thought and Culture, Feal is also an associate editor of the Afro-Hispanic Review and former senior consulting editor of the Latin American Literary Review. She has published on contemporary Latin American literature, Afro-Hispanic studies, Caribbean women writers, and feminist theory. Her book publications include Isabel Allende Today (coeditor; 2002); Painting on the Page: Interartistic Approaches to Modern Hispanic Texts (coauthor; 1995); and Novel Lives: The Fictional Autobiographies of Guillermo Cabrera Infante and Mario Vargas Llosa (author; 1986). She has written on the majors in English and also other languages and on liberal learning for Liberal Education (2009) as well as on the foreign language teaching community for Modern Language Journal (2008). She earned a PhD in Spanish from the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, and a BA from Allegheny College. Feal also completed the Bachillerato en Letras at the Instituto Belga Guatemalteco (Guatemala) and studied abroad in France and Spain. 5 James Grossman is executive director of the American Historical Association. He was previously vice president for research and education at the Newberry Library, while also teaching graduate courses at the University of Chicago. The author of Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration (1989) and A Chance to Make Good: African-Americans, 1900-1929 (1997), Grossman also was project director and coeditor of The Encyclopedia of Chicago (2005; online, 2006) and coeditor of the series “Historical Studies of Urban America” (50 vols, 1992-2015). His articles and short essays have focused on various aspects of American urban history, African American history, ethnicity, higher education, and the place of history in public culture. His book reviews have appeared in the Chicago Tribune and New York Newsday in addition to various academic journals. Land of Hope received awards from the Gustavus Myers Center for Human Rights and the Illinois State Historical Society. A Chance to Make Good won awards from the New York Public Library and the National Council for the Social Studies. Grossman was chosen in 2005 as one of seven “Chicagoans of the Year” by Chicago Magazine. Grossman’s consulting experience includes history-related projects generated by the BBC, Smithsonian, and various theater companies, film makers, museums, and libraries. He serves on the boards of the Association of American Colleges & Universities and National Humanities Alliance. Sara Guyer is director of the Center for the Humanities and a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a scholar of poetry and rhetoric, with a particular interest in romanticism and its legacies. Her research seeks to demonstrate the ongoing relevance of romanticism and poetry for thinking about the major social and philosophical issues of our time, including survival, the human after humanism, geographic displacement, and public life. She is the author of Romanticism after Auschwitz (Stanford UP, 2007) and Reading with John Clare: Biopoetics, Sovereignty, Romanticism (Fordham UP, 2015). With Steven Miller, she edited “Literature and the Right to Marriage,” a special issue of Diacritics, and with Celeste Langan, she edited a special issue of Romantic Circles on “Romanticism and Materiality.” She also edits LitZ, a new book series published by Fordham University Press. In addition to courses on Romantic and Holocaust literatures, Guyer teaches Public Humanities: Theories, Cases, Methods and with Richard Keller has co-taught a graduate course on biopolitics that eventuated in a Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar on Biopolitics: the Politics of Life Itself. At the Center, Guyer has concentrated on imagining a humanities that draws upon the rigors of critical theory, while encouraging both established and emerging scholars to help shape public life. She is committed to research and thinking that reaches across institutional lines both within and beyond the university–and includes the sciences, arts, and professions. This emphasis on the public humanities envisions new audiences for research in literature, history, philosophy, and culture and is part of the reinvention of graduate education in the 21st Century. She is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) and serves as Vice-President of the University Club. Prior to her arrival in Madison, Guyer studied at Brandeis, Oxford, Warwick, and Berkeley, and taught at UC-Irvine and the University of Oregon. She is the recipient of WARF Vilas and Romnes Awards, a Howard Foundation Fellowship, and holds the Borghesi Family Faculty Fellowship in the College of Letters & Science. 6 Steven C. Wheatley, vice president of the American Council of Learned Societies, is responsible to the president for the oversight of programs and the administration of the Council’s office. Before joining ACLS 29 years ago as director of the American Studies Program, he taught history at the University of Chicago, where he was also dean of students in the Public Policy Committee and, before that, assistant to the dean of the (graduate) Social Sciences Division. He holds a BA from Columbia University and MA and PhD degrees in history from the University of Chicago. He is the author of, among other works, The Politics of Philanthropy: Abraham Flexner and Medical Education (University of Wisconsin P, 1988), a new introduction to Raymond Fosdick’s The Story of the Rockefeller Foundation (Transaction Books, 1988), and ‘The Partnerships of Foundations and Universities, ‘ in Helmut K. Anhler and David C. Hammack, eds., American Foundations: Roles and Contributions (Brookings Institution Press, 2010). Wheatley is the editor (with Katz, Greenberg, and Oliviero) of Constitutionalism and Democracy: Transitions in the Contemporary World (Oxford UP, 1993). He has been a consultant to the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Lilly Endowment, Inc., and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and a member of the Doctoral Fellows Advisory Committee of the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy and the Task Force on the Artifact of the Council on Library and Information Resources. He has served on the Governing Council of the Rockefeller Archive Center of Rockefeller University and as an adjunct professor at New York University. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Research Libraries. In 2005, the Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences awarded him the Medal for Social Science Career. 7 Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows Program Expanding the Reach of Doctoral Education in the Humanities The American Council of Learned Societies is pleased to announce the sixth annual competition of the Public Fellows program. In 2016, ACLS will place up to 21 recent humanities PhDs in two- year positions at diverse organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. This career-building initiative aims to demonstrate that the capacities developed in the advanced study of the humanities have wide application,

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