Two University professors were awarded Millicent C. McIntosh Fellowships. The fellowships are awarded annually to five recently tenured humanities faculty at liberal arts colleges who demonstrate a dedication to teaching, scholarship, and citizenship in their fields.
The recipients of the fellowships were Steve Angle, associate professor of philosophy and East Asian studies, and Ellen Nerenberg, professor of Romance languages and literatures and women’s studies. Wesleyan was the only university at which more than one professor received a fellowship.
“I am very pleased and honored by the selection committee’s acknowledgment of my work in contemporary Italian culture,” Nerenberg said. “You hope for the best, but you prepare yourself for the possibility of not receiving the award.”
Named in honor of Millicent C. McIntosh, the late president of Barnard College, the fellowship is supported by a grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation and administrated by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Each fellowship carries a stipend of $15,000. The recipient’s home institution is expected to contribute another $5,000, in addition to full salary and faculty benefits. The grants are intended for educators who find it difficult to take on traditional residential fellowships away from their home institution due to family reasons or other
responsibilities.
Nerenberg and Angle have already detailed their spending plans for the stipend in their applications. Angle, who is also Director of the Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies and Chair of the East Asian Studies Program, intends to hold a talk on Chinese philosophy on campus with U.S., Chinese, and Taiwanese scholars.
“The main thing I’ll do with my grant is host a conference called ‘Neo-Confucianism and Global Philosophy,’” Angle said. “It will be held in the newly-expanded East Asian Center in Feb. 2006. I’ll also use some of the money to pay costs for Chinese philosophers to spend two weeks in Middletown. And it will pay for a trip of mine to Hong Kong next spring, for a week.”
Nerenberg is currently exploring three cases of homicide in Italy and their portrayals in Italian media. She plans to use the grant to travel to Italy and conduct research in state archives.
“My current research explores three homicide cases in post-1989 Italy, examining their various representations in literary and cinematic narrative as well as print and broadcast journalism,” Nerenberg said. “To this end, I will be traveling to Rome this fall and next summer to conduct research in the state TV archives, known as the RAI, where I will study the reportage of these sensational cases.”
Some of Nerenberg’s ambitious plans are contingent upon circumstances beyond her control.
“I am still in the process of seeking permission to consult court documents for one of the trials involving two perpetrators who were, at the time of their crime, minors,” she said. “If I am given permission by the court, whose decision is still pending, I will travel to Turin for approximately two weeks in the spring.”
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