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Humanities Council brings fellows
Twenty-seven guests will visit the campus under the
auspices of the Humanities Council during the academic year
1999-2000: 16 visiting fellows, including a musical quartet;
four Ferris Professors of Journalism; the Harold W. McGraw
Jr. Professor of Writing; two Hodder fellows; two
postdoctoral fellows; and two special lecturers.
Visiting fellows
Long term fellows: Alexander Gelley,
professor of comparative literature at the University of
California, Irvine, will lead a seminar on Idle Talk, the
Everyday and the Novel. Fergus Millar of Oxford
University, who will be a fellow for the next three years,
will spend the month of March in Princeton teaching a
seminar about the ancient world. Susanne Wofford of
the University of Wisconsin, author of The Choice of
Achilles: The Ideology of Figure in the Epic, will teach
a spring-term course on Shakespeare in Performance as Class
of 1932 Fellow in Theater and Dance.
Short-term fellows, fall: Gerald Cohen,
professor of social thought and political theory at Oxford
University; Italian filmmaker Francesco Rosi; and
Charlotte Schapira, dean of arts and humanities at
the Israel Institute of Technology.
Short-term fellows, spring: Simon During of
the University of Melbourne, who studies post-colonialism in
the Pacific region; Brad Leithauser, theater critic
for Time magazine; Mary Jo Salter, a leading
member of the "New Formalist" movement in American poetry;
Anonymous 4, a singing group known for innovative
recordings of medieval music; "film poet" Robert
Beavers; Joseph Roach, professor of English and
theater studies at Yale; and Gauri Viswanathan,
professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia,
who specializes in 19th-century British and Indian
literatures.
Professors
Ferris Professors: In the fall, Melvin
McCray '74 will teach The Politics of Images in
Television; he is an editor at ABC News and producer of
indepen-dent film specials (including "Looking Back:
Reflections of Black Princeton Alumni"). Kay Mills,
former Los Angeles Times editorial writer and author
of A Place in the News: From the Women's Pages to the
Front Page, will examine press coverage of the
Millennium Generation.
In the spring, Ethan Bronner, national education
correspondent for the New York Times and former
Middle East correspondent for the Boston Globe, will
teach a seminar about covering controversy. John
McPhee '53, staff writer for the New Yorker
magazine and author of more than 20 books, will teach
The Literature of Fact.
McGraw Professor: Mitchel Levitas will lead
a fall seminar in which students will write opinion pieces,
profiles, columns, editorials, polemics and reviews. He has
been editor of the New York Times metropolitan
section, Op-Ed page, Week in Review and Book Review.
Fellows
Hodder Fellows: Recipients of this fellowship are
humanists of exceptional promise who spend a year in
Princeton pursuing an independent project. In 1999-2000
there are two: fiction writer Lan Samantha Chang,
author of Hunger: A Novella and Stories, and poet
Mary Jo Bang, author of Apology for Want.
Society of Fellows: The new Society of
Postdoctoral Fellows in the Liberal Arts begins this year,
bringing to campus two fellows who will teach Humanistic
Studies courses and pursue research: David
Chamberlain, a classicist from the University of
California, Berkeley, who studies Herodotus; and Peter
Gordon, also from Berkeley, who specializes in German
intellectual history.
Special lectures
Poet Adrienne Rich is this year's Belknap Visitor
in the Humanities. Winner of the National Book Award; she
will give a public reading on October 11. And on November 22
Robert MacNeil of the MacNeil/Lehrer Report will
deliver the annual Robert D. Stuart '37 Lecture on the Media
in American Culture; his topic will be "JFK-JFK, Jr.: The
Age of Media Unbound." Both events will be at 5:00 pm in
Helm Auditorium, McCosh 50.
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