Making Modernism: Literature, Dance, and Visual Culture in Chicago, 1893-1955

FAIN: EH-281210-21

Newberry Library (Chicago, IL 60610-3305)
Liesl Marie Olson (Project Director: March 2021 to present)
Susan A. Manning (Co Project Director: July 2021 to present)

A three-week, residential institute for 25 higher education faculty to study the modernist movement in Chicago.

The Newberry Library seeks Level I support for a residential, three-week summer institute for twenty-five college and university faculty that will explore Chicago’s vital contribution to the modernist movement. From July 18-August 5, 2022, Making Modernism: Literature, Dance, and Visual Culture in Chicago, 1893-1955 proposes to explore the distinct, groundbreaking styles of Chicago modernism as well as the city’s connections to other metropoles. Directed by Dr. Liesl Olson (Director of Chicago Studies, Newberry Library) and Dr. Susan Manning (Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities, Northwestern University), Making Modernism will offer an expansive look at creative expression in Chicago across the arts. Participants will have the opportunity to engage actively and critically with the Newberry’s archival collections in order to understand the networks that contributed to the explosion of cultural styles associated with the modernist period.