2007: Re-Configurations of American StudiesDartmouth College Announces
A Week Long Summer Institute
Monday, June 16 - Sunday, June 22, 2008
Institute Director: Donald E. Pease (Dartmouth College)
Co-Directors: Elizabeth Dillon (Northeastern University), Winfried Fluck (Freie Universitaet, Berlin), Eric W. Lott (University of Virginia)
The Futures of American Studies Institute
Dartmouth College
116 Wentworth Hall
Hanover, NH 03755
The twelfth year of the Institute is the third of a four-year focus on "Re-configurations of American Studies." This topic is meant to foreground the reflexive turn in the cultures of American studies both inside and outside the United States. As such, we are inviting both scholars well known as "Americanists" internationally and those whose theoretical frameworks, objects of study, and disciplinary inclinations promise to transform the field's self-understanding.
The Institute is divided into plenary sessions which feature current work from Institute faculty (listed above) and research seminars in which all participants present and discuss their own work-in-progress. Speakers in the plenary sessions will examine the relation between emergent and residual practices in the field of American Studies from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. The Institute welcomes participants who are involved in a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields and who are interested in current critical debates in American Studies.
The Institute was designed to provide a shared space of critical inquiry that brings the participants’ work-in-progress to the attention of a network of influential scholars. Over the past ten years, plenary speakers have recommended participants’ work to the leading journals and university presses within the field of American Studies, and have provided participants with recommendations and support in an increasingly competitive job market.
The fee for the Institute (covering registration, housing, and seminars) is $695.00. The fee to attend only the Institute plenary sessions is $500.
Applications for the 2008 Institute will be accepted until all slots have been filled, but applications received by May 20, 2008 will be granted priority. Applicants should send a brief description of their own projects (no more than 1 page) along with a current CV, a writing sample (10-15 pages) and a $10 application fee (please make checks payable to "Dartmouth College").
Applications should be mailed to:
Mr. Stephen Spiess
The Futures of American Studies Institute
Dartmouth College
116 Wentworth Hall
Hanover, NH 03755.
For further information, please contact:
Mr. Stephen Spiess
E-mail: Futures.of.American.Studies.Institute@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-3592
