<html><div>>The University of Chicago</div>
<div>>Literary Studies, Chicago, Illinois 60637</div>
<div>>Postdoctoral Fellow</div>
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<div>>Postdoctoral Fellowship for Sawyer Seminar on "The Range of
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<div>>Contemporary Literacy: The Circulation of Poetry," focusing
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<div>>especially but not exclusively on African American, Korean,
German, </div>
<div>>Russian, and East European poetry. This seminar will concentrate
on </div>
<div>>questions of contemporary literacy, socio-linguistics, the
public </div>
<div>>roles of art, and the engagement of literary intellectuals in
liberal </div>
<div>>democracies and in autocratic regimes. This residential
fellowship </div>
<div>>lasts from mid-September 2001 to mid-June 2002, and offers a
stipend </div>
<div>>of $35,000. There is no application form, but applicants should
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<div>>submit copies of the following documents: a c.v., a
chapter-length </div>
<div>>piece of work, and a statement of purpose (no longer than five
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<div>>double-spaced pages) describing their research project,
intellectual </div>
<div>>trajectory, and the relationship of both to the Seminar's theme.
They </div>
<div>>should also ask three referees to submit letters of
recommendation. </div>
<div>>Application materials are due by March 30, 2001, and should be
sent </div>
<div>>to the Sawyer Seminar on Poetry, The Franke Institute for the
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<div>>Humanities at The University of Chiago, 1100 East 57th Street,
JRL </div>
<div>>S-102, Chicago, Illinois 60637. For more information: </div>
<div>><a href="http://humanities.uchicago.edu/sawyer/poetry" EUDORA=AUTOURL>http://humanities.uchicago.edu/sawyer/poetry</a></div>
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Mufwene
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1010 East 59th Street<br>
Chicago, IL 60637<br>
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