Long-Term Research Fellowships at the Newberry Library

FAIN: RA-50132-14

Newberry Library (Chicago, IL 60610-3305)
Daniel Greene (Project Director: August 2013 to March 2014)
Diane Dillon (Project Director: March 2014 to October 2015)
Donald Bradford Hunt (Project Director: October 2015 to December 2019)

24 months of fellowship stipend support per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows.

The Newberry Library requests funding for three years (36 months per year) of fellowship support to continue a highly successful program of residential humanities fellowships at the Newberry Library. Over many decades this program has generated a rich harvest of humanities scholarship while also serving as a catalyst for creating a dynamic intellectual community within this research institution. This proposal details the achievements and impact of the program and outlines the Library's procedures for publicizing the program, selecting the fellows, and fostering their scholarly activities.

Associated Products

Johnnies, Tommies, and Sammies: Music and Transnational Identities (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Johnnies, Tommies, and Sammies: Music and Transnational Identities
Author: William Brooks
Abstract: Abstract not available.
Date: 11/15/2015
Conference Name: American Musicological Society International Conference

'America, I Love You': Progressives, Preparedness, and Profit (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: 'America, I Love You': Progressives, Preparedness, and Profit
Abstract: Abstract not available.
Author: William Brooks
Date: 04/06/2016
Location: The University of Chicago

Seeming to See: Imagination, Optics, and King Lear (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Seeming to See: Imagination, Optics, and King Lear
Author: Suparna Roychoudhury
Abstract: Abstract not available.
Date: 03/24/2016
Conference Name: Shakespeare Association of America, New Orleans

Shakespeare, Imagination, and Early Modern Optics (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Shakespeare, Imagination, and Early Modern Optics
Author: Suparna Roychoudhury
Abstract: Abstract not available.
Date: 02/16/2016
Conference Name: Renaissance Seminar, University of Chicago

Johnnies, Tommies, and Sammies: Music and the Making of the Allies in 1916 (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Johnnies, Tommies, and Sammies: Music and the Making of the Allies in 1916
Abstract: Collaborative lecture-performance with Gayle Magee and Christina Bashford, with performances by Laurie Matheson, Justin Vickers at the Newberry Library
Author: William Brooks
Author: Gayle Magee
Author: Christina Bashford
Author: Laurie Matheson
Author: Justin Vickers
Date: 05/10/2016
Location: The Newberry Library
Primary URL: https://www.newberry.org/05102016-johnnies-tommies-and-sammies-music-and-making-allies
Primary URL Description: Newberry calendar

Not Just a Pretty Tune: What Can Be Learned from Sheet Music (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Not Just a Pretty Tune: What Can Be Learned from Sheet Music
Abstract: Sheet music is, of course, a vehicle for notating sound-for writing down a piece of music. But sheet music imprints tell us much more than how the music goes, and a careful comparison of details (in conjunction with other sources) often brings into view a hidden history that reveals much about the function of a song. This talk will focus on just one example: the 1917 song "After the War Is Over," in all (well, at least some) of its transformations.
Author: William Brooks
Date: 06/08/2016
Location: The Newberry Library
Primary URL: https://www.newberry.org/06082016-not-just-pretty-tune-what-can-be-learned-sheet-music
Primary URL Description: Newberry calendar page

Johnnies, Tommies and Sammies: Music and the WWI alliance (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Johnnies, Tommies and Sammies: Music and the WWI alliance
Abstract: Abstract not available.
Author: William Brooks
Author: Gayle Magee
Author: Christina Bashford
Author: Laurie Matheson
Author: Justin Vickers
Author: Geoffrey Duce
Date: 03/05/2017
Location: Orland Park Public Library

Johnnies, Tommies and Sammies: Music and the WWI alliance (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Johnnies, Tommies and Sammies: Music and the WWI alliance
Abstract: Abstract not available.
Author: William Brooks
Author: Gayle Magee
Author: Christina Bashford
Author: Laurie Matheson
Author: Justin Vickers
Author: Geoffrey Duce
Date: 04/09/2017
Location: Illinois State University

Johnnies, Tommies and Sammies: Music and the WWI alliance (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Johnnies, Tommies and Sammies: Music and the WWI alliance
Abstract: Abstract not available
Author: William Brooks
Author: Gayle Magee
Author: Christina Bashford
Author: Laurie Matheson
Author: Justin Vickers
Author: Geoffrey Duce
Date: 05/18/2017
Location: Annual AMS/Library of Congress Lecture, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Primary URL: https://www.loc.gov/concerts/amslecture-musicandwwi.html
Primary URL Description: Library of Congress site

A Close Reading of Really Small Things (Article)
Title: A Close Reading of Really Small Things
Author: Cynthia Wall
Abstract: Abstract not available.
Year: 2016
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: The Wordsworth Circle 47, no 2-3
Publisher: The Wordsworth Circle

Virtual Roundtable on “Description in the Novel” (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Virtual Roundtable on “Description in the Novel”
Author: Wai Chee Dimock
Author: Heather Love
Author: William Mills Todd III
Author: J. Keith Vincent
Author: Cynthia Wall
Abstract: This roundtable on description in the novel took place on May 3, 2016, at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University. Concluding the inaugural year of the Novel Theory Seminar, the roundtable featured presentations by Wai Chee Dimock, Heather Love, William Mills Todd III, J. Keith Vincent, and Cynthia Wall. To solicit brief position papers from each of these scholars, who represent five different areas of expertise within literary studies, we sent them the following prompt: Questions to consider might involve, for instance, the ways in which description has been pivotal for the novel as a literary form that aims to amalgamate fictionality with referentiality; how description is (or isn’t) surplus to the requirements of plot; how description serves to thicken and/or spatialize time while it suspends story; how it contributes to the modeling of fictional worlds; how it secures (or doesn’t) the boundaries between persons and things, characters and settings; and whether and how literary description differs from other descriptive modes and practices.
Date: 11/15/2016
Primary URL: http://www.publicbooks.org/virtual-roundtable-ondescription-in-the-novel/
Conference Name: Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University

"Allegorical Punctuation," (Book Section)
Title: "Allegorical Punctuation,"
Author: Cynthia Wall
Editor: Jane Roberts
Editor: Trudi L. Darby
Abstract: This volume brings together a compendium of world-class research on English, from the Anglo-Saxons to Big Data. Selected from papers presented at the 2016 conference of the International Association of University Professors of English, the essays demonstrate the strength of English studies across the world, with contributions from scholars in China, Finland, Israel, Italy, Japan and Portugal, as well as from Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. The essays not only cross geographical boundaries, but also disciplinary ones. Contributors write about English through the prism of gender studies, history, linguistics, the digital humanities, theatre history and the history of the book; topics covered include mainstream writers such as Shakespeare and Milton, and shine light on less well-known topics such as Welsh poetry of the Wars of the Roses and captivity narratives in seventeenth-century North America. Bringing together perspectives on English from around the world, English Without Boundaries is a unique collection showing the energy and breadth of English studies today.
Year: 2017
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Book Title: English Without Boundaries: Reading English from China to Canada,

“Grammars of Approach." (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: “Grammars of Approach."
Abstract: Invited lecture on "Grammars of Approach" at the University of Toronto
Author: Cynthia Wall
Date: 03/01/2018
Location: University of Toronto

Princess Magdalena Sibylle's Golden Horn: Dynastic Women and Cultural Transfer Between Denmark and Saxony (Book Section)
Title: Princess Magdalena Sibylle's Golden Horn: Dynastic Women and Cultural Transfer Between Denmark and Saxony
Author: Mara Wade
Editor: Svante Norrhem
Editor: Jill Bepler
Abstract: not available
Year: 2018
Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag
Book Title: Telling Objects - Contextualizing the Role of the Consort in Early Modern Europe

Phantasmatic Shakespeare: Imagination in the Age of Early Modern Science (Book)
Title: Phantasmatic Shakespeare: Imagination in the Age of Early Modern Science
Author: Suparna Roychaudhury
Abstract: Representations of the mind have a central place in Shakespeare’s artistic imagination, as we see in Bottom struggling to articulate his dream, Macbeth reaching for a dagger that is not there, and Prospero humbling his enemies with spectacular illusions. Phantasmatic Shakespeare examines the intersection between early modern literature and early modern understandings of the mind’s ability to perceive and imagine. Suparna Roychoudhury argues that Shakespeare’s portrayal of the imagination participates in sixteenth-century psychological discourse and reflects also how fields of anatomy, medicine, mathematics, and natural history jolted and reshaped conceptions of mentality. Although the new sciences did not displace the older psychology of phantasms, they inflected how Renaissance natural philosophers and physicians thought and wrote about the brain’s image-making faculty. The many hallucinations, illusions, and dreams scattered throughout Shakespeare’s works exploit this epistemological ferment, deriving their complexity from the ambiguities raised by early modern science. Phantasmatic Shakespeare considers aspects of imagination that were destabilized during Shakespeare’s period—its place in the brain; its legitimacy as a form of knowledge; its pathologies; its relation to matter, light, and nature—reading these in concert with canonical works such as King Lear, Macbeth, and The Tempest. Shakespeare, Roychoudhury shows, was influenced by paradigmatic epistemic shifts of his time, and he in turn demonstrated how the mysteries of cognition could be the subject of powerful art.
Year: 2018
Primary URL: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140109047570
Primary URL Description: Publisher's website
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Type: Single author monograph
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

Grammars of Approach: Landscape, Narrative, and the Linguistic Picturesque (Book)
Title: Grammars of Approach: Landscape, Narrative, and the Linguistic Picturesque
Author: Cynthia Wall
Abstract: In Grammars of Approach, Cynthia Wall offers a close look at changes in perspective in spatial design, language, and narrative across the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that involve, literally and psychologically, the concept of “approach.” In architecture, the term “approach” changed in that period from a verb to a noun, coming to denote the drive from the lodge at the entrance of an estate “through the most interesting part of the grounds,” as landscape designer Humphrey Repton put it. The shift from the long straight avenue to the winding approach, Wall shows, swung the perceptual balance away from the great house onto the personal experience of the visitor. At the same time, the grammatical and typographical landscape was shifting in tandem, away from objects and Things (and capitalized common Nouns) to the spaces in between, like punctuation and the “lesser parts of speech”. The implications for narrative included new patterns of syntactical architecture and the phenomenon of free indirect discourse. Wall examines the work of landscape theorists such as Repton, John Claudius Loudon, and Thomas Whately alongside travel narratives, topographical views, printers’ manuals, dictionaries, encyclopedias, grammars, and the novels of Defoe, Richardson, Burney, Radcliffe, and Austen to reveal a new landscaping across disciplines—new grammars of approach in ways of perceiving and representing the world in both word and image.
Year: 2019
Primary URL: https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo29123899.html
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780226467832

Prizes

Robert Lowry Patten Prize
Date: 12/1/2019
Organization: Studies in English Literature, Rice University
Abstract: Best Contribution to Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Studies

Shortlist: Kenshur Prize
Date: 7/1/2020
Organization: Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Indiana University
Abstract: Best Book in Eighteenth-Century Studies

The "Emblemata Politica" in Context: Georg Rem's Manuscript (Web Resource)
Title: The "Emblemata Politica" in Context: Georg Rem's Manuscript
Author: Mara Wade
Abstract: The book at the heart of this digital resource is a newly identified volume in the collection of the Newberry Library: Georg Rem’s Inscriptiones picturae et emblemata quae in aula magna curiae Norimbergensis publice extant (VAULT Wing MS 279). The Inscriptiones is a hybrid book: it contains a printed copy of Rem’s and Peter Isselburg’s Emblemata Politica (1617), which depicts emblems from the Great Hall of the Nürnberg town hall, surrounded by pages of notes and descriptions written by Rem himself no later than 1620. This digital resource is at the heart of this project. In this website, you will be able to explore Rem’s unique manuscript and learn about the many stories it has to tell us about its creators, their interests, and the cultural forces that shaped their experience. “Emblematica Politica in Context” underscores the importance of funding long-term research, the synergies between research libraries and scholars, and the excitement for scholars, students, librarians, and research staff working across the disciplines of book history, Renaissance Studies, and digital humanities.
Year: 2018
Primary URL: https://publications.newberry.org/digital/emblemata-politica/index
Primary URL Description: Open access web resource

Grammars of Approach: Landscape, Narrative, and the Linguistic Picturesque (Book)
Title: Grammars of Approach: Landscape, Narrative, and the Linguistic Picturesque
Author: Cynthia Wall
Abstract: In Grammars of Approach, Cynthia Wall offers a close look at changes in perspective in spatial design, language, and narrative across the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that involve, literally and psychologically, the concept of “approach.” In architecture, the term “approach” changed in that period from a verb to a noun, coming to denote the drive from the lodge at the entrance of an estate “through the most interesting part of the grounds,” as landscape designer Humphrey Repton put it. The shift from the long straight avenue to the winding approach, Wall shows, swung the perceptual balance away from the great house onto the personal experience of the visitor. At the same time, the grammatical and typographical landscape was shifting in tandem, away from objects and Things (and capitalized common Nouns) to the spaces in between, like punctuation and the “lesser parts of speech”. The implications for narrative included new patterns of syntactical architecture and the phenomenon of free indirect discourse. Wall examines the work of landscape theorists such as Repton, John Claudius Loudon, and Thomas Whately alongside travel narratives, topographical views, printers’ manuals, dictionaries, encyclopedias, grammars, and the novels of Defoe, Richardson, Burney, Radcliffe, and Austen to reveal a new landscaping across disciplines—new grammars of approach in ways of perceiving and representing the world in both word and image.
Year: 2019
Primary URL: https://www.worldcat.org/title/grammars-of-approach-landscape-narrative-and-the-linguistic-picturesque/oclc/1084410939&referer=brief_results
Primary URL Description: WorldCat entry
Secondary URL: https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo29123899.html
Secondary URL Description: Publisher's website
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Type: Single author monograph
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

SuperFly: Françoic Makandal’s Colonial Semiotics (Article)
Title: SuperFly: Françoic Makandal’s Colonial Semiotics
Author: Monique Allewaert
Abstract: n this article I collate vernacular and elite academic stories about François Makandal,focusing particularly on his production of fetishes, which I (following his usage) call macandal. I show that the codes at work in macandal artifacts involve a materialism and semiotics that together constitute a critical methodology. I then use the methodology at work in macandal artifacts to read one key piece of the archive pertaining to Makandal: his judge and executioner Sébastien-Jacques Courtin’s Mémoire.
Year: 2019
Primary URL: http://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/76eb/6d174ce7a8800e0fb81baada823921284ec8.pdf
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: American Literatur

Electric Dialectics: Martin Delany’s Atlantic Materialism (Book Section)
Title: Electric Dialectics: Martin Delany’s Atlantic Materialism
Author: Monique Allewaert
Editor: Nathan Hensley and Philip Steer
Abstract: Ecological Form brings together leading voices in nineteenth-century ecocriticism to suture the lingering divide between postcolonial and ecocritical approaches. Together, these essays show how Victorian thinkers used aesthetic form to engage problems of system, interconnection, and dispossession that remain our own. The authors reconsider Victorian literary structures in light of environmental catastrophe; coordinate “natural” questions with sociopolitical ones; and underscore the category of form as a means for generating environmental—and therefore political—knowledge. Moving from the elegy and the industrial novel to the utopian romance, the scientific treatise, and beyond, Ecological Form demonstrates how nineteenth-century thinkers conceptualized the circuits of extraction and violence linking Britain to its global network. Yet the book’s most pressing argument is that this past thought can be a resource for reimagining the present.
Year: 2018
Primary URL: https://www.fordhampress.com/9780823282135/ecological-form/
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Book Title: Ecological Form: System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire

Reimagining Expansion: New Narratives of Race, Gender, and Violence (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Reimagining Expansion: New Narratives of Race, Gender, and Violence
Author: Catharine Franklin
Abstract: “Reimagining Expansion: New Narratives of Race, Gender, and Violence"
Date: 10/01/2018
Conference Name: Western History Association Conference

Picturing Peace: Johann Vogel’s Emblematical Meditations on Peace, Nürnberg 1649 (Book Section)
Title: Picturing Peace: Johann Vogel’s Emblematical Meditations on Peace, Nürnberg 1649
Author: Mara Wade
Editor: Sigrun Haude, Christian Schneider, and Gerhild Scholz Williams
Abstract: The Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648) lies at the intersection of early modern and modern times. Frequently portrayed as the concluding chapter of the Reformation, it also points to the future by precipitating fundamental changes in the military, legal, political, religious, economic, and cultural arenas that came to mark a new, the modern era. Prompted by the 400th anniversary of the outbreak of the war, the contributors reconsider the event itself and contextualize it within the broader history of the Reformation, military conflicts, peace initiatives, and negotiations of war.
Year: 2019
Primary URL: https://brill.com/view/title/55135
Publisher: Brill
Book Title: Rethinking Europe: War and Peace in Early Modern German Lands,

Emblematik als Friedensinstrument: Johann Klajs Friedensdichtungen (Book Section)
Title: Emblematik als Friedensinstrument: Johann Klajs Friedensdichtungen
Author: Mara Wade
Editor: Dirk Niefanger
Editor: Werner Wilhelm Schnabel.
Abstract: Johann Klaj (um 1616–1656) gilt als einer der formal und sprachlich experimentierfreudigsten Dichter des deutschen Barock. Sein in nur gut einem Jahrzehnt entstandenes Werk wird hier aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln eingehend behandelt und kontextualisiert. Das Interesse gilt sowohl ästhetischen und rhetorischen Fragen als auch kunst-, musik- und medienhistorischen Aspekten sowie den kulturellen und sozialen Rahmenbedingungen seines Schaffens.
Year: 2019
Publisher: Frühe Neuzeit
Book Title: Johann Klaj (1616–1656). Friedensdichter, Poet, Theologe

Hidden in Plain Sight: Melchior Lorck’s Emblematized Adages (Book Section)
Title: Hidden in Plain Sight: Melchior Lorck’s Emblematized Adages
Author: Mara Wade
Editor: Agnés Guiderdoni
Editor: Ralph Dekoninck
Editor: Walter Melion
Abstract: Quid est secretum? Visual Representation of Secrets in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700 is the companion volume to Intersections 65.1, Quid est sacramentum? Visual Representation of Sacred Mysteries in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1700. Whereas the latter volume focused on sacramental mysteries, the current one examines a wider range of secret subjects. The book examines how secret knowledge was represented visually in ways that both revealed and concealed the true nature of that knowledge, giving and yet impeding access to it. In the early modern period, the discursive and symbolical sites for the representation of secrets were closely related to epistemic changes that transformed conceptions of the transmissibility of knowledge.
Year: 2020
Publisher: Brill
Book Title: Quid est Secretum?

Women’s Networks of Knowledge: The Emblembuch as Stammbuch (Article)
Title: Women’s Networks of Knowledge: The Emblembuch as Stammbuch
Author: Mara Wade
Abstract: In: Knowledge in Motion. Ed. Christian Schneider and Gerhild Scholz Williams. Daphnis 45, 1–2 (2017): 492–509.
Year: 2017
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Daphnis

Gamboa’s World: Justice, Silver Mining, and Imperial Reform in New Spain. (Book)
Title: Gamboa’s World: Justice, Silver Mining, and Imperial Reform in New Spain.
Author: Christopher Albi
Abstract: Gamboa’s World examines the changing legal landscape of eighteenth-century Mexico through the lens of the jurist Francisco Xavier de Gamboa (1717–1794). Gamboa was both a representative of legal professionals in the Spanish world and a central protagonist in major legal controversies in Mexico. Of Basque descent, Gamboa rose from an impoverished childhood in Guadalajara to the top of the judicial hierarchy in New Spain. He practiced law in Mexico City in the 1740s, represented Mexican merchants in Madrid in the late 1750s, published an authoritative commentary on mining law in 1761, and served for three decades as an Audiencia magistrate. In 1788 he became the first locally born regent, or chief justice, of the High Court of New Spain. In this important work, Christopher Albi shows how Gamboa’s forgotten career path illuminates the evolution of colonial legal culture and how his arguments about law and justice remain relevant today as Mexico debates how to strengthen the rule of law.
Year: 2021
Primary URL: https://unmpress.com/books/gamboas-world/9780826362957
Primary URL Description: Publisher's webpage for book.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 978-0-8263-629
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

A Transalpine Motif in Counter-Reformation Italy: Animal Analogies with the Ages of Man and Cristofano Bertelli’s Steps of Life, (Article)
Title: A Transalpine Motif in Counter-Reformation Italy: Animal Analogies with the Ages of Man and Cristofano Bertelli’s Steps of Life,
Author: Sara F. Matthews-Grieco
Abstract: Cristofano Bertelli’s companion broadsheets, printed in Modena in the 1560s, represent a failed attempt to introduce a new iconographic theme to the Italian print market. Contrary to the vibrant success of transalpine prints representing the Steps of Life with animal analogies, Bertelli’s initiative did not stimulate Italian visual culture to produce the multiple copies, imitations and derivations long enjoyed by this motif in areas north of the Alps. The only other, comparable images to appear in the peninsula in the course of the sixteenth century would seem to be Titian’s allegorical triple portrait (Venice, 1550–1565), and a pair of large, anonymous woodcuts from the later Cinquecento, possibly made in Venice. The recalcitrance of Counter-Reformation Italy towards this imported topos (probably Parisian in origin, and plau-sibly due to the presence of Lorenzo Penni in the Bertelli workshop) is difficult to account for, especially when a retail vogue for a similar genre—the multi-vignette moralising broadsheet— was trending in local print markets. There is no direct explanation for the apparent indifference met by Bertelli’s attempt at iconographic innovation. Nonetheless, a cluster of factors relative to print culture and animal lore North and South of the Alps provides indirect but ample evidence to account for the ‘flop’ of Bertelli’s broadsheets. Among these, the Christian visual tradition features prominently, contributing to viewer diffidence towards serial analogies between humans and animals. The market for illustrated books on animals is also considered, as it testifies to a transalpine divide with regard to moralised natural history and, in Italy, an inhospitable cultural climate for the Steps of Life motif.
Year: 2021
Primary URL: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/JWCI84010123
Primary URL Description: Journal webpage for article
Access Model: Subscription only
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes
Publisher: University of Chicago Press Journals

Insect Knowledges, Power, and the Literary (Article)
Title: Insect Knowledges, Power, and the Literary
Author: Monique Allewaert
Abstract: In this prolegomenon to my book in progress, I posit insects as an especially apposite focal point through which to investigate the constellation of European, Indigenous, and Afro-diasporic knowledges about West Indian nature. I also delineate how this focus on insects allows us to think anew long-standing literary critical problems of setting, semiotics, and figuration.
Year: 2021
Primary URL: https://academic.oup.com/alh/article-abstract/33/3/460/6337266?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Primary URL Description: Article on journal website
Access Model: Subscription only
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: American Literary History
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Violence and Indigenous Communities Confronting the Past and Engaging the Present (Book)
Title: Violence and Indigenous Communities Confronting the Past and Engaging the Present
Editor: Susan Sleeper Smith
Editor: Jeff Ostler
Editor: Joshua L. Reid
Abstract: In contrast to past studies that focus narrowly on war and massacre, treat Native peoples as victims, and consign violence safely to the past, this interdisciplinary collection of essays opens up important new perspectives. While recognizing the long history of genocidal violence against Indigenous peoples, the contributors emphasize the agency of individuals and communities in genocide’s aftermath and provide historical and contemporary examples of activism, resistance, identity formation, historical memory, resilience, and healing. The collection also expands the scope of violence by examining the eyewitness testimony of women and children who survived violence, the role of Indigenous self-determination and governance in inciting violence against women, and settler colonialism’s promotion of cultural erasure and environmental destruction. By including contributions on Indigenous peoples in the United States, Canada, the Pacific, Greenland, Sápmi, and Latin America, the volume breaks down nation-state and European imperial boundaries to show the value of global Indigenous frameworks. Connecting the past to the present, this book confronts violence as an ongoing problem and identifies projects that mitigate and push back against it.
Year: 2022
Primary URL: https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810142961/violence-and-indigenous-communities/
Primary URL Description: University press website
Access Model: Book
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Type: Edited Volume
ISBN: 081014297X

Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad. (Book)
Title: Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad.
Author: Miriam Thaggert
Abstract: Miriam Thaggert illuminates the stories of African American women as passengers and as workers on the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century railroad. As Jim Crow laws became more prevalent and forced Black Americans to "ride Jim Crow" on the rails, the train compartment became a contested space of leisure and work. Riding Jane Crow examines four instances of Black female railroad travel: the travel narratives of Black female intellectuals such as Anna Julia Cooper and Mary Church Terrell; Black middle-class women who sued to ride in first class "ladies’ cars"; Black women railroad food vendors; and Black maids on Pullman trains. Thaggert argues that the railroad represented a technological advancement that was entwined with African American attempts to secure social progress. Black women's experiences on or near the railroad illustrate how American technological progress has often meant their ejection or displacement; thus, it is the Black woman who most fully measures the success of American freedom and privilege, or "progress," through her travel experiences.
Year: 2022
Primary URL: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=28nsg7gk9780252044526#:~:text=Riding%20Jane%20Crow%20examines%20four,Black%20maids%20on%20Pullman%20trains.
Primary URL Description: University press website
Access Model: Book
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 0252086597

Prizes

Mary Nickliss Prize in U.S. Women's and/or Gender History
Date: 3/31/2023
Organization: Organization of American Historians
Abstract: The Mary Nickliss Prize is given annually to an academic historian for "the most original" book in United States Women's and/or Gender History (including North America and the Caribbean prior to 1776). The OAH defines "the most original" book as one that is a path breaking work or challenges and/or changes widely accepted scholarly interpretations in the field. If no book submitted for the prize meets this criterion, the award shall be given for "the best" book in U.S. women's and/or gender history. "The best" book recognizes the ideas and originality of the significant historical scholarship being done by historians of U.S. Women's and/or Gender History and makes a significant contribution to the understanding of U.S. Women's and/or Gender History.

Handmaidens for Travelers: The Pullman Company Maids (Exhibition)
Title: Handmaidens for Travelers: The Pullman Company Maids
Curator: Miriam Thaggert
Abstract: The Pullman Company maids have long been overshadowed by the more well-known Pullman porters. Handmaidens for Travelers, on view in the Newberry galleries June 3 through September 16, is helping to tell their stories. For many Americans, riding on a Pullman train gave them access to unparalleled service, style, and luxury. For the Pullman Company’s Black employees, the same train compartment offered stable employment while presenting formidable risks and challenges. Billed as “handmaidens for travelers,” Pullman maids navigated the demands of white passengers and the watchful eye of the Pullman Company itself every time they boarded the train. Drawing on extensive research in the Pullman Company Records at the Newberry, Handmaidens for Travelers highlights the complexity of the maids’ experiences. Visitors can see a range of archival materials, including several that have never before been presented to the public: applications and employee cards, an instruction manual for maids, advertisements, photographs, and one maid’s handwritten account of her work history.
Year: 2022
Primary URL: https://www.newberry.org/calendar/handmaidens-for-travelers-the-pullman-company-maids
Primary URL Description: Institutional exhibition website

Black Travel and the Pullman Company Maid (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Black Travel and the Pullman Company Maid
Abstract: Drawing upon her rigorous research within the Newberry Library’s Pullman Company Archives, Miriam Thaggert details the pleasures and perils of Black women train travelers with a focus on the unique experiences of the Pullman Company maid, the Pullman’s “Handmaidens for Travelers.” Miriam Thaggert will be in conversation with Mia Bay.
Author: Miriam Thaggert
Author: Mia Bay
Date: 6/29/2022
Location: Newberry Library
Primary URL: https://www.newberry.org/calendar/black-travel-and-the-pullman-company-maid
Primary URL Description: Newberry Library website

Die Dedikationen und Vorreden der Musikdrucke von Michael Praetorius (1571- 1621) im Hinblick auf internationale Netzwerke und Mäzenatentum am Wolfenbütteler Hof (Book Section)
Title: Die Dedikationen und Vorreden der Musikdrucke von Michael Praetorius (1571- 1621) im Hinblick auf internationale Netzwerke und Mäzenatentum am Wolfenbütteler Hof
Author: Mara Wade
Editor: Sven Limbeck
Editor: Sigrid Wirth
Editor: Rainer Schmitt
Abstract: Die Jahrhundertwende um 1600 gilt in der Musikgeschichte im Allgemeinen als Zeit des asthetischen Umbruchs. Der 400. Todestag des Wolfenbutteler Hofkapellmeisters Michael Praetorius (1571-1621) bietet den Anlass, neue Schlaglichter auf einen Akteur dieses Umbruchs zu werfen. Als Komponist, Schriftsteller und Organisator des musikalischen Lebens hat Praetorius die entscheidenden, vor allem aus Norditalien kommenden Innovationen der Musik zeitgleich aufgegriffen, kompositorisch angewendet und den Musikschaffenden seiner Zeit publizistisch vermittelt. Die in diesem Band versammelten Studien konturieren die epochale Rolle von Praetorius in den asthetischen, epistemischen und soziologischen Kontexten seiner Zeit. Sie widmen sich im Einzelnen daher dem konfessionellen Wandel und den spathumanistischen Praktiken der Gelehrsamkeit, die ihre Wirkung sowohl im Werk von Praetorius als auch in dessen Rezeption entfalten, wie auch den politischen und musikalischen Netzwerken als Arbeitsstrategie des fruhneuzeitlichen Musikers. In mehreren Detailstudien werden diverse auffuhrungspraktische Probleme untersucht sowie die Beitrage des Hofkapellmeisters zu musikasthetischen Entwicklungen und Klangarchitekturen gewurdigt.
Year: 2022
Primary URL: https://www.hab.de/en/musik-im-umbruch/
Primary URL Description: Publisher website
Access Model: Book
Publisher: Wolfenbütteler Renaissanceforschungen
Book Title: Musik im Umbruch: Zum 400. Todestag von Michael Praetorius
ISBN: 9783447116916

Political Emblems and the Common Good (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Political Emblems and the Common Good
Author: Mara Wade
Abstract: Political Emblems and the Common Good
Date: 7/25/2022
Primary URL: https://www.emblemstudies.org/ses2022-registration/
Primary URL Description: Conference website
Conference Name: Society for Emblem Studies 2022

Keynote Lecture: “The Agency of the Queen: Queen Sophie (1557-1631) and the Education of the Lutheran Princess (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Keynote Lecture: “The Agency of the Queen: Queen Sophie (1557-1631) and the Education of the Lutheran Princess
Author: Mara Wade
Abstract: Keynote Lecture: “The Agency of the Queen: Queen Sophie (1557-1631) and the Education of the Lutheran Princess
Date: 10/12/2022
Primary URL: https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/da/activities/curia-danica-hofhistorisk-symposium-2022-med-temaet-dronningegern
Primary URL Description: Conference website
Conference Name: Dronningegerninger – og kvindeligt handlerum ved hoffet (Conference celebrating the 50th Jubilee of Queen Margarethe of Denmark)

Invited Lecture: “The Emblem Book Customized as a Stammbuch: Valentin Ludovicus’ Entry into the Album of Christian Weigel (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Invited Lecture: “The Emblem Book Customized as a Stammbuch: Valentin Ludovicus’ Entry into the Album of Christian Weigel
Author: Mara Wade
Abstract: “The Emblem Book Customized as a Stammbuch: Valentin Ludovicus’ Entry into the Album of Christian Weigel
Date: 09/24/2021
Primary URL: https://networks.h-net.org/node/79435/discussions/8057837/konf-handschrift-im-druck-annotieren-korrigieren-weiterschreiben
Primary URL Description: H-net conference page
Conference Name: Handschrift im Druck

Invited Lecture: “More Than the Sum of its Parts: The Hybrid Emblem Book,” (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Invited Lecture: “More Than the Sum of its Parts: The Hybrid Emblem Book,”
Author: Mara Wade
Abstract: Invited Lecture: “More Than the Sum of its Parts: The Hybrid Emblem Book,”
Date: 10/14/2021
Primary URL: https://hnanews.org/2021-lovis-corinth-colloquium-xi-customized-books-in-early-modern-europe-1400-1700/
Primary URL Description: Symposium website
Conference Name: Corinth Symposium, “Customized Books in Early Modern Europe, 1400 – 1700”

Invited Lecture: “The Sociability of the Emblem: Martin Opitz signs a Stammbuch.” (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Invited Lecture: “The Sociability of the Emblem: Martin Opitz signs a Stammbuch.”
Author: Mara Wade
Abstract: Invited Lecture: “The Sociability of the Emblem: Martin Opitz signs a Stammbuch”
Date: 10/18/2021
Conference Name: Kolloquium, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel

Invited Lecture: “Performative Emblematik: Der emblematische Friedensaufzug beim schwedischen Friedensbankett am 25. September 1649,” (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Invited Lecture: “Performative Emblematik: Der emblematische Friedensaufzug beim schwedischen Friedensbankett am 25. September 1649,”
Author: Mara Wade
Abstract: Invited Lecture: “Performative Emblematik: Der emblematische Friedensaufzug beim schwedischen Friedensbankett am 25. September 1649,”
Date: 3/24/2022
Primary URL: https://www.germanistik.phil.fau.de/files/2022/03/programm-tagung-theaterkultur.pdf
Primary URL Description: Conference website
Conference Name: “Theaterkultur der Frühen Neuzeit im Alten Reich,” Nürnberger Akademie, Nürnberg

Paper Presentation: “Inscriptiones picturæ et emblemata: How Nürnberg’s Town Hall Emblems Came to the Newberry Library, Chicago” (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Paper Presentation: “Inscriptiones picturæ et emblemata: How Nürnberg’s Town Hall Emblems Came to the Newberry Library, Chicago”
Author: Mara Wade
Abstract: Paper Presentation: “Inscriptiones picturæ et emblemata: How Nürnberg’s Town Hall Emblems Came to the Newberry Library, Chicago”
Date: 4/1/2022
Primary URL: https://www.rsa.org/page/RSADublin2022
Primary URL Description: Conference website
Conference Name: Renaissance Society of America, Dublin, Ireland

Conference session Belli, Bravi e Giovani: Male Beauty and the Accoutrements Thereof in Renaissance Italy, (Conference/Institute/Seminar)
Title: Conference session Belli, Bravi e Giovani: Male Beauty and the Accoutrements Thereof in Renaissance Italy,
Author: Sara Matthews-Grieco
Abstract: Conference session Belli, Bravi e Giovani: Male Beauty and the Accoutrements Thereof in Renaissance Italy
Date Range: 67th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America
Location: 4/22/2021
Primary URL: https://www.rsa.org/m/event_details.asp?id=1477186
Primary URL Description: Conference website

Emblems, Gender, Hybrid Bodies (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Emblems, Gender, Hybrid Bodies
Author: Sara Matthews-Grieco
Abstract: Emblems, Gender, Hybrid Bodies
Date: 11/26/2020
Conference Name: Corps troublants. Images et imaginaires dans la première modernité, Académie de France à Rome, Villa Médicis

Fielding’s Prepositional, Textual Inns (Article)
Title: Fielding’s Prepositional, Textual Inns
Author: Julie Park
Abstract: n/a
Year: 2021
Primary URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/twim20/37/3?nav=tocList
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: “Getting Perspective,” Word & Image 37:3

Gothic Syntax (Book Section)
Title: Gothic Syntax
Author: Cynthia Wall
Editor: Chloe Wigston Smith and Beth Tobin
Abstract: n/a
Year: 2022
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Title: Small Things

The Allegorical Preposition (Book Section)
Title: The Allegorical Preposition
Author: Cynthia Wall
Editor: Jane Roberts and Trudi L. Darby
Abstract: n/a
Year: 2017
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Book Title: English without Boundaries: Reading English from China to Canada

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