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 syllabus, we are working on two book projects. The first book, P FKN R: Bad Bunny and Resistance in Puerto Rico, aligns with the syllabus. The second is an ongoing research project about the global rise of Spanish language music in the past few years, especially musica, mexicana, and reggaeton.

Complex Problems, Complex Solutions Fellows

Faculty Lead: Mary Kate McGowan (Philosophy, Cognitive & Linguistic Studies)

Fellows will research complex problems of public concern that cannot be fully understood without a vast array of disciplinary methods, including humanistic ones. They will choose one such problem and then make a detailed pre-production plan for an episode on that problem.

Creating a Haruki Murakami Archive Research Fellow

Faculty Lead: Eve Zimmerman (East Asian Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures)

The student will work on gathering all materials that pertain to the semester that writer Haruki and Yoko Murakami spent on the Wellesley campus in the spring of 2022.

Digital Humanities Research Fellows

Faculty Leads: Erin Battat (Writing) and Elena Creef (Women’s and Gender Studies)

Students researchers will assist in creating a digital exhibit about a controversial Post Office mural in the neighboring town of Natick, Massachusetts. The mural, commissioned in 1937 as part of New Deal public arts initiatives, depicts the forced removal of Natick’s Indigenous residents in 1675 amidst the resistance movement known as King Philip’s War. The goal of the exhibit is to contextualize the mural and to highlight a range of viewpoints on its meaning, centering Indigenous voices.

Narrative Lab Research Fellows

Faculty Leads: Yoon Sun Lee (English & Creative Writing, Comparative Literary Studies), Josh Lambert (Jewish Studies, Comparative Literary Studies), and Erez DeGolan (Jewish Studies)

Narrative Lab Fellows will participate in a semester-long research experience in the humanities. They will meet weekly with the faculty directors of the Narrative Lab, develop relevant background knowledge and research skills, and design and pursue research projects either individually or in faculty-student teams.

Publishing Research Fellow

Faculty Lead: Josh Lambert (Jewish Studies, Comparative Literary Studies)

This research fellow will assist Professor Josh Lambert with a new project focusing on sales data for a major U.S. publishing house, as recorded on thousands of pages of printouts of a computer database from the 1980s.