This program provides up to nine students in the humanities with a one-course teaching release or summer funding, enabling them to devote an entire semester to work on their dissertations. Students are required to be in residence at University Park for the duration of the grant period.
Under the Sign of Writing: Orality and Imperial Imagination in Nakajima Atsushi’s Oeuvre
Ambiguous Alignments: Sinophone Literature and Visual Culture in Cold War Asia, 1950s–1980s
The Promise of Reconciliation: Democratic Constitutionalism after Internal Colonization
Following Ghosts: Rhetoric, Memory, and the Haunting of America’s Asylums
Redrawing Himalayan Trade Networks: The Younghusband Mission and the Decline of Nepalese Commercial Dominance in Tibet
Screaming into the Void: Towards an Echolocational Theory of Rhetoric
“In the name of the crippled, the widow, and the orphan, Amen”: dissonant family images in literature under Franco’s and Salazar’s dictatorships
Dispossession at the Whims of Nature: Second Nature, Real Abstraction, and the Critique of Capitalist Racialization