SOCIETY FOR THE HUMANITIES

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DIRECTOR

Brett de Bary
Professor of Asian Studies
and Comparative Literature,
Cornell University

INVITED FELLOWS

	Denise Riley (Residence: fall semester)Professor of Literature with Philosophy, University of East Anglia website \| email
	Rustom Bharucha (Residence: October 15-19, 2007)Independent writer, director, and cultural critic based in Kolkata, India
	Jerrold Levinson (Residence: September 25-30, 2007)Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy, University of Maryland
	Paul Berliner (Residence: dates to be confirmed)Professor of Ethnomusicology, Duke University http://news.duke.edu/2008/03/mbira.html

SOCIETY FELLOWS

	Max Cavitch English, University of Pennsylvania “What Did Phillis Wheatley Remember?: Trauma, Identification, and Practices of Recollection, 1770 to the Present”
Safaa Fathy	“Cutting and Film Cutting: A Deconstructive Reading of the Inherent Testimonial Aspect of Female and Male Genital Cutting, Notably in Film Making”
Wendy Jones	English, Cornell University “How to Read the Eighteenth-Century Novel With Your Brain in Mind”
	Charles Kronengold Music, Wayne State University “Thinking Genres in Late Modernity”
	Jeffrey Mantz Anthropology, George Mason University “Improvised Economies in the Digital Age: The Contributions of Congolese Coltan”
	Barry Maxwell Comparative Literature, Cornell University “‘Music in the Visionary Word’: Improvising the Dream-Book: Wilson Harris and Nathaniel Mackey” website \| email
	Christopher Nealon English, University of California, Berkeley “Poetry and Totality: Aesthetic Comportment in the New World Order”
	C.J. Wan-ling Wee English Language and Literature, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore “Creating Contemporary Asian Art: Late Modernisation, Cultural Production, Singapore”
	Meg Wesling English, University of California, San Diego “Educated Subjects: Pedagogy, Empire, and 20th Century U.S. Literature”

FACULTY FELLOWS (Cornell)

María Antonia Garcés	Romance Studies “Improvising Identities in the Early Modern Mediterranean”
	Dominick LaCapra History “Improvising Across the Disciplines: History, Literature, Critical Theory”
Simone Pinet	Romance Studies “The Task of the Cleric: Fidelity, Improvisation, and Exchange”
Rachel Prentice	Science and Technology Studies “Improvisation as a Force for Change in Socio-technical Worlds”
Phoebe Sengers	Science and Technology Studies & Information Science “Coding Space for Improvisation”

MELLON GRADUATE FELLOWS (Cornell)

	Tsitsi Jaji Comparative Literature “Africa in Stereo: The Diaspora in the African Aural Imaginary”
	Janet Vertesi Science and Technology Studies “Images in Interaction: Visual Technologies in the Mars Exploration Rover Program”

MELLON POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

ANTHROPOLOGY
Francis Cody	University of Michigan “Written Language and Struggles with Representation in Tamilnadu, India”
CLASSICS
	Chad Schroeder University of Michigan “Hesiod in the Hellenistic Imagination”
MUSIC
	Brett Boutwell University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign “A Static Sublime: Morton Feldman and the Visual, 1950-1970"