TSSL is proud to support the following projects through our Public Humanities Grants. Bad Bunny Syllabus Petra Rivera-Rideau (American Studies) How Do We Sound?: global identity and connection to place through audio ethnography Justin Armstrong (Writing, Anthropology) Intercultural Shakespeare Yu Jin Ko (English) and Marta Rainer (Theater)
Want to participate in the Faculty Working Group?
Each semester, TSSL convenes a working group for humanities faculty (or faculty outside of the humanities interested in humanities methodologies) at Wellesley College to discuss new and ongoing courses and projects. We accept applications year round. To get involved, please fill out the Faculty Working Group interest form.
Summer 2025 Internships
Applications due March 15, 2025 at 5pm. Enterprise Community Partners The intern will join the Building Resilient Futures team (based in Washington, DC) that works to tackle the root causes of climate change through this lens, working with the sub-group that oversees the Enterprise Green Communities Criteria affordable housing green certification program. You will work […]
Cultivating Humanities Curricula, Careers, Community: Our UMass Boston Experience
Wednesday, February 26, 2025 4-5:15pm PNE 339 Open to the public. Speakers: Bonnie Miller (Professor of History, UMass Boston) and Betsy Klima (Professor of English, UMass Boston; Associate Editor of The New England Quarterly) Learn about how UMass Boston’s High-Impact Humanities initiatve centered skills, professionalization, community engagement, and experiential learning in humanities courses.
BASIRA as a Tool for Humanities Curriculum
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 4-5pm FND 120 Speaker: Barbara Williams Ellertson Barbara Williams Ellertson started her second career as an independent scholar in 2014 with the founding of the BASIRA Project: a database collection of “Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art.” During her first career in academic publishing, she designed and produced hundreds of books for […]
Criticism, Close Reading, & the Future of Literary Studies
Tuesday, September 17, 2024 4-5pm FND 120 Speaker: Jonathan Kramnick Jonathan Kramnick is the Maynard Mack Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies at Yale University. His teaching and research are in the foundations of literary criticism and theory, eighteenth-century literature, and interdisciplinary approaches to the arts. He has written extensively about the role […]
Engaging Undergraduate Researchers in Humanities and Social Sciences: Toronto’s Scholars-in-Residence
Monday, September 23, 2024 12:45-2pm Zoom Speaker: Angela Esterhammer Angela Esterhammer is Professor of English at the University of Toronto, where she served as Principal of Victoria College from 2012 to 2024 and as Founding Director of the Jackman Scholars-in-Residence program since 2016. She is the author of four monographs in the field of British […]
TSSL Open House & Mochi Donuts
Friday, November 8, 2024 3-4pm FND 124 A first-gen student appreciation event. Drop in to learn about Mellon-funded student research opportunities in the humanities and enjoy mochi donuts.
Spring 2025 Research Fellowships
Bad Bunny Syllabus/Latin Music Project Fellow Faculty Lead: Petra Rivera-Rideau (American Studies, Latin American Studies) The Bad Bunny Syllabus is an online resource for educators and fans who would like more information to help contextualize Bad Bunny’s rise to fame. We provide academic readings, popular sources, podcasts, and other multimedia materials. In addition to the […]
Fall 2024 Research Fellowships
Digital Archaeology Research Fellows Faculty Leads: Bryan Burns (Classical Studies, Anthropology) and David Olsen (Art, Studio Art, Cinema & Media Studies, Media Arts & Sciences) Student Assistants will work on a project making and interpreting digital models of ancient artifacts under the supervision of Professor Bryan Burns (Classical Studies). The program will include technical training […]