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2003-2004 Fellows
(directory)

External Faculty Fellows Title of Research Project

Marilynn Desmond
English and Comparative Literature, Binghamton University

The Fall of Troy and the Uses of Universal History in Medieval French and English Culture

Jeff Dolven
English, Princeton University

Tales Out of School: Romance and the English Educational Revolution

Karen Henson
Music, King's College, Cambridge / Columbia University

Physiognomies of Opera: Voice and Performance on the Fin de Siecle Stage
Rebecca Lemon
English, University of Southern California
Treason by Words: Law, Literature and Rebellion in Early Modern England, 1591-1611
Denise Schmandt-Besserat
Art and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas-Austin
Interface Between Writing and Art
Jonathan Schofer
Hebrew and Semitic Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Time, Space, and the Making of a Rabbinic Sage
Miguel Tamen
Literary Theory and Romance Literatures, Universidade de Lisboa
Catharsis and Conversion

Alan Taylor
History, University of California - Davis

The Dividing Ground: Natives, Settlers, and the Boundaries of the American Revolution
Rockefeller Fellows  
Jayna Brown
Ethnic Studies/English Literature, University of Oregon
Babylon Girls: African-American Performance and the Making of the Modern

Helen Mugambi
Comparative Literature, California State University - Fullerton

Volatile Genders: Masculinities and Nation in Postcolonial Song
Internal Fellows  
Karol Berger
Music
Time's Arrow and the Advent of Musical Modernity
Zephyr Frank
History
Rich and Poor in Nineteenth Century Brazil: Family, Slavery, and the Origins of Inequality
Denise Gigante
English
Vital Powers: Romanticism, Aesthetics, and Science
Tamar Schapiro
Philosophy
Acting Well When Others Don't
Peter Stansky
History
The Blitz and Its Significance
Gavin Wright
Economics
The Economic Consequences of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South
Chao Fen Sun
Asian Languages
Chinese Languages and Chinese Culture
Geballe Dissertation Fellows  
Raul Coronado Jr.
Modern Thought and Literature
Competing American Modernities: Politics, Writing and the Making of a U.S.-Mexican Literary Culture
Brian Epstein
Philosophy
The Limits on the Thinkable: Conceptual Innovation and the Constitution of Social Objects
Jared Farmer
History
American Land Marks: A History of Place and Displacement
Amelia Glaser
Comparative Literature
The Temple and the Marketplace: Jewish-Slavic Exchange in East European Literature
Karen Gross
English
The Lives of the Dead: Biography and Medieval Humanism
Sanja Perovic
Comparative Literature
The French Republican Calendar: Excavating an Imaginary of Revolutionary Time
David Platt
Classics
Open from the First Hour to the Sixth: Libraries, Books, and Literary Culture in Roman Athens
Jessica Straley
English
How the Child Lost Its Tail: Evolutionary Theory, Victorian Pedagogy and the Development of Children's Literature
Heather Webb
French and Italian
'L cor m'impregna': The Generative Powers of the Medieval Heart
Undergraduate Research Fellows
Taylor Clark
International Relations
Working with Zephyr Frank on a project titled "A Map of Wealth and Poverty: Rio de Janeiro in the Nineteenth Century."
Dinyar Patel
International Relations
Working with Peter Stansky on a project called "Building Imperial New Delhi." 
Famia Nkansa
Psychology
Working with Helen Mugambi on a project titled "The Production of Shifting Gender Identities in Diasporic Cultures,"
Jenny Kim
English and Classics
Working with Denise Gigante, and will be writing scholarly annotations for Denise's book Romantic Gastronomy: An Anthology of the Arts and Pleasures of the Table
Jason Rosensweig
Comparative Literature
Working with Miguel Tamen on a project titled "Cynical Critique and Nietzsche's 'On the Utility and Liability of History.'"
Carolyn Sinsky
Comparative Literature
Working with Jeff Dolven to develop a new graduate course called "Reading Romantic Lyric."

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