June 9, 2021
The Society for the Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences has added to its Humanities Grants offerings in 2021, awarding the new Humanities Impact Grants.
Two public-facing projects by Cornell faculty have received $10,000 each to “engage in broader public conversations with social impact in mind,” funded by the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation.
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“These new projects are meant to be ‘unconventional’ and have a social impact outcome,” said Emmanuel Giannelis, vice president for research and innovation. “They are supposed to catalyze new collaborations, be outward looking with a reach outside the academy, and address a current issue.”
February 15, 2021
A new initiative from the Department of Performing and Media Arts, the Asian American Studies Program, and the Latina/o Studies Program is inviting students and community members to engage in hands-on workshops and conversations with artists and arts/performance scholars. The next visit is Feb. 18.
“Critical Moves: Performance in Theory & Movement,” envisioned as a multiyear project, is hosting three virtual events with artists this semester. The artists work across boundaries of race, gender, sexuality and ethnicity and exemplify the ways that the arts, and in performance in particular, are lived and studied.
“We are both artists and scholars ourselves,” said Christine Bacareza Balance, associate professor of performing and media arts and Asian American studies, who is organizing the series with Karen Jaime, assistant professor of performing and media arts and Latina/o studies. “Coming from Southern California and New York City, respectively, w
From the Chair
Dear Friends of the Department,
When I arrived at Carolina in 1987 as an eager English M.A. student, it was impossible to imagine that one day I would have the privilege and honor of serving as Chair of the Department of English and Comparative Literature these many years later.
It is my goal as chair to nurture and help grow the excellence that our department has always exemplified in the classroom and on the page, and now, increasingly, in digital forms. Every facet of our program holds riches and profound talents, from our undergraduates, to our 115 graduate students, to our 85 faculty. We house Creative Writing, the William Blake Archive, the Latina/o Studies Program, and the Literature, Medicine, and Culture M.A. Program. It is by way of our unrivalled First Year Writing Program that we teach every undergraduate at Carolina. Our teachers are passionately committed to preparing North Carolina’s future leaders to think critically, communicate, and innovate. O