The Humanities Institute provides residencies for Penn State faculty and graduate students each semester, and has also in the past had the means to support visiting scholars from outside of Penn State for stays of up to one academic year.
Platform Discourses and User Experiences: When Design and Practice Are at Odds
The Averted Gaze: Photography and the Politics of Visibility in Kenya
Queer Realism in Turkish and Arab-Anglophone Literatures
Polish Romanitas: Ideas of Rome in Early Modern Poland, 1551-1683
Hands of Remembrance: An African Diasporic Fiber Arts Memory-Making Praxis
An Enliven’d Isle: Politics, Class, and Empire in Edinburgh’s New Town, 1752-1802
Poster Children and Prophets: Figurations of Youth in Public Rhetorics of Science
Chinese Art en route: Reconstructing Global Knowledge of China in the Art Markets, 1900-1950
Beyond the Classroom: Extracurricular Education in Revolutionary China, 1927-1977
Myths of Slavery and Settlement in the Imaginary Genesis of Belize and Yucatan
Tyrannical Powers: Contesting Freedom and Tyranny in the Age of Milton
The Pleasures of Pedagogy
Battlegrounds of Print: Materiality and the Civil War Soldier Press
Careful Science: Medicine, Gender, and Disability in the Early Modern Francophone World
The Ecology of Empire: Warfare and the Environment in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World and Caribbean
Following Ghosts: Rhetoric, Memory, and the Haunting of America’s Asylums
Southernizing Multilingualism: Rethinking Language, Philosophy, and Pedagogy in Ghanaian Classrooms
Project Title: Divided Voices: Civic Contestation Over Sport Team Relocation in the Boston Metropolitan Area, 1967-1997
Kant’s Freedom Cogito: The Normative Force of the “I”
Policing, Ethics, and Racial Justice
Fear of a Red Planet: Critical Theory, Ecology, and Speculative Fiction.
The Specter of Oliver Cromwell in American Political Discourse, 1660–1860
Hospital Encounters: Mobilities of Care and its Literary and Visual Cultures Across Turkey and Europe
El Istmo Dudoso: Constructing Contemporary Central America in the Hemisphere
Culture, Love, & Politics: Understanding 20th Century AfroBrazilian Organizing
Spiral Out: A Genealogy of the Coincidence of Opposites in Twentieth-century Art & Literature
The End of the Priest-Patron Relationship: The 13th Dalai Lama and the Tibet-Qing Fallout
Homosociability in Negotiation: Pedro Henríquez Ureña and the Ateneo de la Juventud Mexicana
Speculative Kinship and Coastal Ecologies in East Asia (1970s to the Present)
The (Im)possibility of Immanence: Pantheism and the Ethics of Democracy in American Romanticism
Latina/o Migrants in Deindustrializing Pennsylvania: An Origin Story for Political Xenophobia in America?
Engendering Feeling: Religious Affects, Transphobia, and Historicity
Courageous Revolt’: The Life and Educational Activism of Anna Julia Cooper
The Sword Outside, the Plague Within: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Europe
Queer Trails through Rachel Carson’s Letters
Empire’s Orphans, Nation’s Stepchildren: Jews and Others in the Interwar Middle East and North Africa
The Thinkery: The Making of Intellectuals in the Age of Socrates
Cartography and the Construction of Indigeneity: The farm, the Khoe, and the Bantu in South African Literary Landscapes
Global Knighthood: African, Indigenous, and Asian Members in the Noble Military Orders of the Iberian World, 1536-1700
The Hold: Black Femme Formations of Space, Text, and Being in the Long Nineteenth Century
Reading Beyond Reading: Literary Studies and the Problem of Method
Eros beyond Ethics: A Platonic Key to Levinas’ Totality and Infinity
Spring 2024
Spring 2024
Spring 2024
Spring 2024
Visiting Scholar, Spring/Fall 2024
TALES FROM THE HOLD – Episode 2: The Last Ship
Towards an Existential-Standpoint Reading of Blackwomen’s Autobiographies Under Apartheid South Africa
Femmes Galantes, Femmes Savantes: Literary Expressions of Women’s Sexuality and Mentorship in the long 18th Century
“Imagining Elsewheres: Speculating the Asian Diaspora in North America, Australia, and Aotearoa New Zealand”
Geographical Visualities of Race and Health in Antebellum U.S. Culture
The Body’s Memory: Visceral Poetics in Contemporary Arabic and Persian Literature in the Gulf
Power, Diplomacy, and Interdependent Sovereignty in the Choctaw Nation, 1720-1924
Clandestine China: Extraterritorial Violence and the National Revolution Abroad, 1895-1919
Dyeing for the Revolution: Towards an Ethics of Coloring
Repairs Pending: Caribbean Street Poetics and the Decolonial Imaginary
Carried Away? Belief, Truth, and Trauma in the Alien Abduction Phenomenon
Holocaust Horror: A Cultural History
High School Rebels: Black Power, Education, and Youth Politics in the Motor City, 1966-1973
Unravelling the Nation: Criticality and Agency in Contemporary Syrian Women’s Fiction
Deviant Modernity: Transnational Imagination of Crime in Korean Detective Fiction
The Origins, Migrations, and Queer Imaginations of Global Women’s Comics Cultures
A Promise to Witness Faithfully: The Ethics of Complex Communication Across Incommensurable Differences in Lugones and Derrida
Black Cosmo-cologies: Rebirth and Renaissance in the Long Nineteenth Century
Fall 2023/Spring 2024
Fall 2023/Spring 2024
Fall 2023
Gambling History in Twentieth Century Shanghai, 1911-1965
Testimony, Trauma, and Memory in Narratives of the Genocide Against the Tutsi
The Sophistic Gambit: Dale Carnegie at the Origins of Speech Communication
Aesthetics of Displacement: Mexican Artists in the Modern Metropolis 1920-1950
Relational Ethics: On the Meaning of Vulnerability and Interdependence for Moral Life
The Yunnan Chronicles: A Field Guide to Yunnan’s Past
Internal Restrictions on Movement: A Reconsideration
Fall 2022/Spring 2023
Fall 2022/Spring 2023
Fall 2022/Spring 2023 – Just Transformations
Fall 2022/Spring 2023
Fall 2022/Spring 2023
Humanities in the World Postdoctoral Scholar
Humanities in the World Postdoctoral Scholar
Center & Institutes Humanities Dissertation Release Scholar – Partisans of the Soil: Land, Race, Capital, and Métis Dispossession
Undocumented Times: Rhetorics of a Colonial Moment
Against the American Confederacy: the American Revolution and the Native South
Powers of Fiction: Scholastic Novels and Forgotten Women in Third Republic France (1870 to 1914)
Hermes Hispanus: Iberian Seekers of Ancient Wisdom in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean World
Seasonal Tastes: English Literary and Recipe Culture, 1550-1750
Dignity and Indignation from the Enlightenment to the Arab Spring
The Reel Story of the Euromaidan and Russia’s War against Ukraine
(S)extractivism in the American Tropics: Sex Workers as Reproductive Laborers of National Identities, Sex Tourism, and the Global Marketplace
Speculative Formations: Queer and Trans Communities in the Long Twentieth Century
Silicon Valley Stories: Reckonings, Recursions, and Infinite Loops
Migrants of Germany Unite! Bilingualism, Realism, and Novel Collectivities in Turkish-German Literature
Humanities Dissertation Release Scholar – Twentieth Century Sophistries: Popular Science, Human Manuals, and American Rhetorical History
A Theory of Palestinian American Literature
Humanities in the World/Just Transformations Postdoctoral Scholars