Faculty Development in the Humanities
via the NEH Professorship

Welcome. This is the front page of a site dedicated to improving teaching and learning in the Humanities program, forwarding the interests of the faculty teaching in it, and maximizing the experiences of all those connected with it.

For future semesters, suggestions are invited for reading groups loosely organized around the subject matter of each of the four Humanities classes. The ideal would be a deepening reading, in primary materials, for instance a reading in full and in depth of a text read only in excerpt in our classes. 2009-10 reading groups have operated around Machiavelli's La Mandragola, The Complete Plays of Sophocles, Unmasking Buddhism by Bernard Faure, and Castiglione's The Courtier; in Fall of 2010 there were reading groups on the complete tragedies of Aeschylus, Jacobean tragedies by Webster and Turneur, Passing by Nella Larsen and The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. DuBois, and An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume; and Spring, 2011, groups are reading Sheila Fitzpatrick's The Rusian Revolution, some of the Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood, Six Tragedies by Seneca, and Martha Nussbaum's Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities. Membership is open to anybody in Humanities. NEH $$$$ supports the groups, buys books and provides a modest stipend for the organizer.

We haven't heard anything entirely definite about summer workshops for Humanities.

In the 2010-2011 academic year, the NEH Professorship has underwritten, in whole or in part, several on-campus addresses, art presentations, and the Ibero-American Film Festival. Also many faculty members have been aided in travel to conferences or other faculty development activities with NEH travel money.

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Contact Merritt Moseley, NEH Professor.

last updated: April 1, 2011