Long-Term Research Fellowships at The Huntington Library

FAIN: RA-269828-20

Huntington Library (San Marino, CA 91108-1218)
Steve Hindle (Project Director: August 2019 to March 2023)
Susan Juster (Project Director: March 2023 to present)

24 months of stipend support (3 eight-month fellowships) per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows.

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens is pleased to request $375,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to renew its support for a total of 72 fellowship months for three years starting in 2021-22, in addition to $5,000 per year for selection costs. This request represents an increase in funding over the previous NEH award of $317,400.

Associated Products

Diagnosing America: The Literatures of Mental Health in the US (Article)
Title: Diagnosing America: The Literatures of Mental Health in the US
Author: Lisa Mendelman
Author: Gordon Hutner
Abstract: Once one is alive to it, scholarship on the literatures of mental health in the US seems to be everywhere, though it is evolving out of so many different sources that its parameters as a subfield can be hard to establish. That is, many studies not overtly focused on psychology and well-being investigate these concerns—from studies of national political mindsets to gendered, racialized, and otherwise biopolitically defined life experiences. The ever-widening scope of the health humanities can also be seen either to include an expanding ring of mental health studies or, in a post-Cartesian world, to be nearly synonymous with studies of psychic life. The scholarly turns to neuroscience, affect, and ontology express a similar set of interests, even as they align with a broader cultural attention to the so-called mental health epidemic that the COVID-19 pandemic, climate disasters, race-based violence, and our myriad other global health crises exacerbate.
Year: 2023
Primary URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/8/article/906253/pdf
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Format: Journal
Periodical Title: American Literary History, vol. 35, no. 3
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Modeling Therapy as Discourse in the Twentieth-Century US Novel (Article)
Title: Modeling Therapy as Discourse in the Twentieth-Century US Novel
Author: Lisa Mendelman
Author: Mark Algee-Hewitt
Author: Anna Mukamal
Author: Kendra Terry
Abstract: When literary scholars study therapy in fiction, they often gravitate to examples featuring patients and doctors as characters embedded in scenes of intradiegetic therapy. Such explicit representations have been most readily available to traditional literary critical methods and yield a rich field of interpretive possibilities. Yet by focusing exclusively on such recognizable structures of characterization and plot, we miss alternative ways that therapy and literature interface. Our project turns to the computational methods of cultural analytics as a means of identifying how the discourse of therapy is embedded within the twentieth-century US novel. Specifically, we trace points of contact between what we will define as therapy discourse as it emerges in the embodied encounter between patient and clinician and in the language of a sample of over 9,000 twentieth-century US novels. Our analysis thereby moves away from considering therapy as a diagnostic tool, either for characters or authors, and toward thinking about therapy capaciously (a) as a discourse that is computationally tractable across different kinds of text, and (b) as a discourse operating at smaller scales than critics have yet explored.
Year: 2023
Primary URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/8/article/906252
Primary URL Description: For nearly 30 years, Project MUSE has been the trusted and reliable source for access to essential humanities and social science research, as an integral part of the scholarly communications ecosystem and platform of choice for respected not-for-profit publishers. The database collaborates with hundreds of mission-driven publishers to curate quality scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Project MUSE is available to libraries, so people can use it to unearth discoveries of their own.
Access Model: Subscription only
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: American Literary History, vol. 35, no. 3
Publisher: Oxford University Press

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