Check out the photos from the Fall 2024 TSSL Research Fellows’ panel at the Ruhlman!
Humanities Research Outside the Classroom: Mellon TSSL Student Fellows Share Their Work
Wednesday, April 16, 2025 10:45-11:55am SCI-H105 Speakers: Tsering Lama (’27), Megan Rodriguez-Hawkins (’25), Marina Escandell-Tapias (’28), Eunice Zhang (’27), Destiny Eversole (’27), Julia Carmona (’28), and Imara Wangia (’28) Join 7 of the Fall 2024 TSSL student research fellows as they discuss their experience doing humanities research outside the classroom at the Ruhlman Conference. Their […]
The Winter’s Tale: a collaboration between Wellesley College and Soon Chun Hyang University
Author: Marta Rainer “It is required you do awake your faith.” – Paulina In The Winter’s Tale, Queen Hermione of Sicilia is falsely accused by her troubled husband Leontes of infidelity with his best friend, the King of Bohemia Polixenes, which ruptures all of their lives – sending some into exile, and others to their death. […]
Summer Research Fellowship: Bad Bunny Syllabus
Professor Petra Rivera-Rideau (American Studies) is looking to hire a summer research assistant for her ongoing project: the Bad Bunny Syllabus. See the following description for more details: Bad Bunny Syllabus Summer Research Fellow The Bad Bunny Syllabus is an online resource for educators and fans who would like more information to help contextualize Bad […]
Summer Research Fellowship: Bernie for Burlington Research Assistant
Bernie for Burlington Research Assistant A position for a student with experience in web design and an interest in politics, to create a website for Professor Dan Chiasson’s forthcoming book Bernie for Burlington: A Story of Politics and Change in One American Place (Alfred A. Knopf, 2026). The student will create a website featuring exhibits of materials (text, […]
Fall 2024 Narrative Lab Research Prospectus: Megan Rodriguez-Hawkins
Note: in fall 2024, after studying works of both classical and recent narratology, Narrative Lab student research fellows were asked to develop a research prospectus that describes a project that they might undertake, its rationale, scope, and methods. This example was written by Megan Rodriguez-Hawkins ’25. When I was a child, my older brother introduced […]
What is the Narrative Lab?
The Narrative Lab is a space where faculty and students come together to study narrative theory and narratives across all periods, genres, and media, from ancient texts to video games. We are interested in how narratives are created, adapted, interpreted, and put to use in the world. Each semester, three to four student research fellows […]
BASIRA: Visit to Wellesley College
Author: Barbara Williams Ellertson This post has been shared from the BASIRA Blog. Check out the original post. “BASIRA is not just about records in a database: it is also about building communities of shared interest. Thus, when several members of the faculty of Wellesley College expressed an interest in uses of BASIRA in their […]
Public Humanities Grants 2024-2025
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.