Summer Institutes In Literary Studies (National Humanities Center)

Reading Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure Seminar Leader: Kate Flint, Chair and Professor of English, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Five by Five: The Short Story as Art and Artifact Seminar Leader: Louis Menand, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language, Harvard University

From July 4 to 9, 2010, the National Humanities Center will offer two innovative seminars on literary understanding. Open to scholars who have received a Ph.D. within the last ten years and who teach in departments of literature or other relevant disciplines at colleges or universities in the United States, the seminars will concentrate on the detailed operations of literary texts. Each seminar will include only twelve participants.

The National Humanities Center will cover the cost of travel, lodging, meals, and texts. Participants will receive a stipend of $1,500. Applications must be postmarked by March 12, 2010.

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