Postdoctoral Fellowship

[Howard I. Aronson]

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The University of Chicago
Literary Studies, Chicago, Illinois 60637
Postdoctoral Fellow

Postdoctoral Fellowship for Sawyer Seminar on "The Range of
Contemporary Literacy: The Circulation of Poetry," focusing
especially but not exclusively on African American, Korean, German,
Russian, and East European poetry. This seminar will focus on
questions of contemporary literacy, socio-linguistics, the
public roles of art, and the engagement of literary intellectuals in
liberal democracies and in autocratic regimes. This residential
fellowship lasts from mid-September 2001 to mid-June 2002, and offers
a stipend of $35,000. There is no application form, but applicants
should submit copies of the following documents: a c.v., a
chapter-length piece of work, and a statement of purpose (no longer
than five double-spaced pages) describing their research project,
intellectual trajectory, and the relationship of
both to the Seminar's theme. They should also ask three referees to
submit letters of recommendation. Application materials are due by
March 30, 2001, and should be sent to the Sawyer Seminar on Poetry,
The Franke Institute for the Humanities, 1100 East 57th Street, JRL
S-102, Chicago, Illinois
60637. For more information:  http://humanities.uchicago.edu/sawyer/poetry
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Howard I. Aronson                               Office:         773-702-7734
Dept of Slavic Languages & Literatures          Slavic Dept:    773-702-8030
University of Chicago                           Slavic Fax:     773-702-7030
1130 East 59th Street                           hia5 at midway.uchicago.edu
Chicago, IL 60637                               hia5 at rcnchicago.com

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