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For Immediate Release: May 17, 2007
Grambling State University Receives Grant from
The National Endowment for the Humanities
Grambling, LA –Grambling State University will host an NEH [National Endowment for the Humanities] Summer Institute on World Literature from May 21 through June 15, 2007. A group of Grambling professors, Hugh Wilson, Chimegsaikhan Banzar, and Jim Kim, has been awarded a $75,000 grant. They have designed a program to enhance the comprehension, appreciation and teaching of world literature, especially at historically black universities, but participants will not be restricted to those institutions alone.
Eight prominent scholars from across the country will lead seminars on ancient and early modern writers: Homer, Dante, Christine de Pizan and Shakespeare. Participants in the seminar are coming from historically black institutions in Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Texas; Grambling will also welcome participants from local universities like LSU, ULL, Louisiana Tech and University of Louisiana at Monroe.
The scholars include Professors James Redfield, Edward Olson Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago; Patrice Rankine, Director of the Purdue Interdisciplinary Program in Classics; Christopher Kleinhenz of the University of Wisconsin at Madison; Steven Botterill, an Associate Dean at the University of California at Berkeley; Jane Chance of Rice University; Nadia Margolis of Mount Holyoke College; Kim F. Hall of Barnard College; and Joyce Green MacDonald of the University of Kentucky at Lexington.
The University is delighted to host colleagues from other institutions, and to provide a venue for such a distinguished group of senior scholars. Each of the eight seminar leaders will visit Grambling in pairs for a week; the NEH Fellowship recipients from around the country will stay for a month, and each one will receive a stipend of $1,500 along with free room and board.
There are a few vacancies, and interested faculty
members from other institutions will be considered for the remaining Fellowships.
Anyone interested in applying for a stipend or anyone interested in auditing
sessions of the NEH Summer Institute should contact Professor Hugh Wilson,
Chair, Department of English, Campus P.O. Box 4232, Grambling State University,
Grambling, LA 71245. Finally, during May and June, several of the senior
scholars named have agreed to offer free public lectures and presentations
at Ruston’s Lincoln Parish Library. For further information on the
NEH Summer Institute, contact Hugh Wilson (318) 274-2524 or e-mail him at
wilsonh@gram.edu; for information
on the public lectures, contact the Lincoln Parish Library.
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