Humanities Center News

Humanities Institute - No Laughing Matter

This fall Angela Rosenthal (Art History) and David Bindman (Art History, UCL) are directing a term-long Humanities Institute that addresses Visual Humor in Ideas of Race, Nationality, and Ethnicity. An international array of visiting scholars, some who are fellows in residence at the Center for the term, will lead a series of events, culminating in a conference in November.

New Chair for Digital Humanities

Dartmouth College invites applications for a newly endowed chair in the Digital Humanities. The successful candidate should be committed to interdisciplinary collaboration, technological innovation, and creating curricular links within the Humanities and across divisions. The position offers the opportunity to define a new area of research and teaching, and to build on DartmouthÕs existing strengths in the Humanities and Computing.

The field of research and teaching is open; we seek candidates with practical and/or theoretical expertise in one or several of the following fields in the Arts and Humanities: visual arts, visual culture, new media, screen studies, performance arts, music and sound, film, TV/Video, literature, and human-computer interaction. Expertise in computer hardware and/or software will be welcome but is not essential.

The role of the Chair in Digital Humanities is intended to be broad in scope, potentially incorporating current or future initiatives in cyber-culture and the creation, performance, and critical study of digital arts, including a consideration of the socio-political and theoretical implications of new artistic technologies. The endowment for this Chair provides additional funds for projects involving research, teaching, and program building in the Digital Humanities.

Our intention is to hire at the rank of associate or full professor with tenure. The successful candidate will be located in a single Dartmouth department or program, or jointly appointed to one or more departments or programs. Considerable flexibility exists regarding joint appointments, which may cross departmental or even divisional boundaries.

Dartmouth College combines a commitment to innovative scholarship, creative practice, and excellent teaching, primarily but not only of undergraduate students. One of the most diverse institutions of higher education in New England, Dartmouth College is an equal opportunity/ affirmative action employer and has a strong commitment to diversity. In that spirit, we are particularly interested in receiving applications from a broad spectrum of people, including women, persons of color, persons with disabilities, and veterans.

The Search Committee will begin reviewing applications after October 1, 2007. Applications will be considered until the position is filled.

Applications should be submitted in digital form. Please send letter of application, CV, and the names of three references to:
digital.search@dartmouth.edu

Please contact Mark Williams, Chair of the Search Committee with any questions.
Mark Williams (Mark.J.Williams@Dartmouth.edu)
Dept. of Film and Television Studies
317 Wilson Hall
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755 USA

Mellon Fellowship Awards 2007-2009

We are delighted to welcome Elizabeth Garland as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow. Elizabeth, a specialist in socio-cultural anthropology will be housed in the Department of Anthropology. Elizabeth joins our other Mellon Fellows, Laura Clawson in Sociology and Phoebe Wolfskill in Art History.

Faculty Fellowships, 2007-2008

The Leslie Center awarded three faculty Fellowships for this academic year:

Annabel Martin (Spanish and Portuguese) - Rest in Peace: Rethinking Cultural Identity in the Basque Context.
Richard Ned Lebow (Government) - Tragedy and International Relations.
Colleen Boggs (English) - Animalia Americana.

These fellowships support the research of Dartmouth Faculty; the applications for the next year's fellowships fall on November 1, 2008.

Humanities Project Awards,2007-2008