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Individual Research Fellowships for Rice Faculty

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The Center awards up to three teaching-release fellowships to Rice faculty each academic year, and to date has awarded a total of sixty-one.  The fellowships are meant to facilitate the completion of a single-author book-length project or the initiation of a new project, in order to help faculty in the development of their careers. Fellows are released from teaching for one semester to pursue their research projects. The next competition will commence in fall 2008.

Congratulations to the 2008-09 Individual Research Fellows:

	Marcia Citron Martha and Henry Malcolm Lovett Distinguished Service Professor of Musicology. “When Opera Meets Film.” Dr. Citron will complete her second book on the aesthetics of opera and visual media. Consisting of case studies, the book will cover both opera-film and mainstream film and will focus on aesthetics, subjectivity and desire as ways of analyzing how characters and viewers interact with operatic music. The book will provide insights into the cultural role of opera in an environment that is increasingly challenging for classical music. A key premise is that opera reveals something fundamental about the film and the film something fundamental about the opera.
	Leo Costello Assistant Professor of Art History. “J.M.W. Turner and the Subject of History.” Dr. Costello will complete a project relating the aesthetic achievements of the nineteenth-century British painter to politics, economics and intellectual history. His book will yield a multidisciplinary account of the life and work of J.M.W. Turner and of early nineteenth-century Britain’s ability to conceive and represent itself in a time of unprecedented historical change. The book will shows that Tuner’s work elaborates the changing notions of individual subjectivity in an age of developing and fragmenting nationhood.
	Julie Fette Assistant Professor of French Studies. “Professional Prejudice: Xenophobia in Medicine and Law in Interwar France.” During the term of her fellowship, Dr. Fette will complete a social history of exclusion in the legal and medical professions in interwar France and during the Vichy era. Through an interdisciplinary approach informed by sociology and history, the book in progress examines the intersection of scholarship on xenophobia, nationalism and immigration. The study assesses continuities and ruptures between the authoritarian Vichy regime during World War Two and the democratic French Republics that came before and after it. Dr. Fette’s book will also contribute to the academic debate over the relationship between xenophobia and anti-Semitism.

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