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               NEH SUMMER SEMINAR FOR COLLEGE TEACHERS 2005:

          "Genre, Dialogue, and Community in British Romanticism"

                          13 June - 22 July 2005
                    University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
                      Directed by Stephen C. Behrendt

                        Participant stipend: $4200

           DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS, 1 MARCH 2005   (postmark)

   http://www.unl.edu/sbehrend/html/sbsite/projects/NEH2005/Info2005.htm

I invite applications from colleagues in English studies (especially later
18th and early19th century British literature and culture) for a six-week
interdisciplinary NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers here at the
University of Nebraska in summer 2005. Together, we will examine some of
the interrelations that often go unexplored in traditional scholarship
between works executed in a particular genre (poetry, prose fiction, drama,
etc.) and contemporaneous productions both in the other literary genres and
in extra-literary areas like the visual arts, music, politics, economics,
science, print journalism, and history and historiography.

My goal is to bring together a diverse range of colleagues, regardless of
stage of your career at which you find yourself, to explore ways in which
this sort of cross-genre inquiry can energize and refocus both our research
and our teaching. You will each conduct research on your own individual
projects in the various genres, of course, but we will spend time together
discussing parallel developments and phenomena in those other genres (and
areas of cultural production) with which each of us we may be less familiar
than we are with our most accustomed one. Too often we find ourselves
academically grounded in a particular genre and confined for both
curricular and professional reasons to conducting most of our work in that
genre. I hope that our collegial seminar conversation will help lead us all
to more wide-ranging and more culturally diverse scholarship and teaching
in Romanticism — and in other areas.

The University of Nebraska Libraries offer splendid resources for the study
of Romanticism in these broader contexts. In addition to the "Corvey
Collection" of nearly 10,000 Romantic-era titles in English, French, and
German, the library’s extensive microform (and other) archives of
contemporary periodicals permit detailed contextual study of the Romantic
literary culture. The library is a modern and well-stocked one, with
excellent electronic resources for advanced study, including high-speed
internet and a burgeoning program of initiatives in electronic scholarship
and electronic texts, to all of which you will have full access.

You will enjoy full library privileges as visiting faculty, as well as
visiting scholar status in the Department of English, where you will have
individual office space during the seminar. All Campus Recreation
facilities, including gym and pool, will be available to you.

I have posted a detailed description of the seminar at the following URL:

   http://www.unl.edu/sbehrend/html/sbsite/projects/NEH2005/Info2005.htm

This site has links to university resources (including the library and
housing accommodations), to the necessary application information and
forms, and to a variety of community attractions. Lincoln is a pleasant and
inviting place to work in the summer, and I look forward to welcoming and
working with you and your colleagues.

I actively encourage applications from colleagues not just in English
Studies, but also in History, Theatre, Art History, Music History,
Journalism (and the history of print culture), Economics, and Comparative
Studies in the Humanities. Please tell your colleagues!

Please let me know if I can answer any questions or provide further
information.

Stephen C. Behrendt
George Holmes Distinguished Professor of English
319 Andrews Hall
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE 68588-0333

Phone: (402) 472-1806
FAX: (402) 472-9771

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