Faculty Development Seminars

With major support from the Dean of the College of Letters and Sciences, the Institute for Research in the Humanities and the Center for the Humanities inaugurated Faculty Development Seminars in the Humanities beginning in spring 2007. The Seminars provide a formal setting for faculty that promotes sustained collaboration and dialogue across disciplinary lines on a specific topic. This pilot project is designed to enhance the quality of Humanities Research at UW-Madison.

The Seminars enable an individual senior faculty member or a team of two senior faculty to teach fellow faculty for ten weeks (a weekly two hour seminar) on a topic of interest across the Humanities. The presiding faculty member(s) receives course credit and her/his Department receives funds for a replacement lecturer. The ten faculty members taking the course receive research funds to recognize their selection and to cover the costs of materials.

Call For Proposals DEADLINE: February 26th, 2010

The Faculty Development Seminars in the Humanities enable an individual senior faculty member or a team of two senior faculty members to teach fellow faculty for ten weeks (a weekly two-hour seminar) on a topic of interest across the Humanities. The presiding faculty member(s) will receive course credit and her/his Department will receive funds for a replacement lecturer. The ten faculty members taking the course will receive research funds to recognize their selection and to cover the costs of materials. The presiding senior faculty member(s) as well as the participating faculty members will be chosen by a selection committee.

This is a call for proposals from senior faculty for the fourth year of Seminars in the 2010-2011 academic year. Two of these proposals will be chosen, one for each semester. One of these seminars will be led by an individual faculty member; the other seminar may be team taught by two faculty members from different departments in the Humanities (both faculty members will receive teaching credit and their Departments will receive funds for replacement lecturers).

Previous topics have included:

  • Ovidianism: the Metamorphosis of Ovid
  • International Governance
  • Migration and Diaspora
  • Visuality
  • Digital Humanities
  • Representing Culture in an Age of Networks: The Wire and others
  • Higher Education: Aims and Justice

Please send:
1) one page proposal for the seminar
2), a one page preliminary syllabus for the ten weeks (the proposed format or weekly topic, sample readings)
3) a curriculum vitae

to Sandy Nuzback
The Center for the Humanities
321 University Club Building
263-3412 or snuzback@wisc.edu

The deadline for proposal submission is February 26th, 2010

If you have questions please contact Susan Friedman (Institute for Research in the Humanities; friedman.ss@gmail.com) or Sara Guyer (Center for the Humanities; guyer@wisc.edu).

This initiative is funded by the Office of the Dean, College of Letters and Science; the Center for the Humanities; and the Institute for Research in the Humanities