| EH-288079-22 | Education Programs: Institutes for Higher Education Faculty | University of Nebraska, Lincoln | Willa Cather: Place and Archive | 10/1/2022 - 12/31/2023 | $156,581.00 | Melissa | J. | Homestead | | | | University of Nebraska, Lincoln | Lincoln | NE | 68503-2427 | USA | 2022 | American Literature | Institutes for Higher Education Faculty | Education Programs | 156581 | 0 | 154055.79 | 0 | A two-week residential institute for 25 higher education faculty to explore place-based and archival approaches to the life and works of American novelist Willa Cather (1873-1947).
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln seeks funding to support an institute exploring place-based and archival approaches to the life and works of American novelist Willa Cather. At UNL participants will have access to unparalleled archival holdings of Cather materials and expertise of a leading center for digital humanities, and at the National Willa Cather Center in Red Cloud, they will experience landscapes and buildings represented in Cather’s fiction that function as a kind of archive. The institute will take a critical approach to all three kinds of archives (special collections, digital resources, and place), considering how they are mediated and what is absent. Cather’s fiction celebrated the achievements of recent European immigrants who settled on the Great Plains but ignored the then-recent forced relocations of indigenous people to make way for settlement. Both the European immigrant presence and absence of the Pawnee will receive particular attention. |
| FA-11728-77 | Research Programs: Fellowships for University Teachers | Bernice Slote | Willa Cather: A Biography | 1/1/1978 - 12/31/1978 | $20,000.00 | Bernice | | Slote | | | | University of Nebraska, Lincoln | Lincoln | NE | 68503-2427 | USA | 1976 | American Literature | Fellowships for University Teachers | Research Programs | 20000 | 0 | 20000 | 0 |
To write a full-scale, detailed, critical biography of Willa Cather which will portray her as distinctly American in both her life and her art, but still a classic example of the fusion of world understanding and of local affection. Study will emphasize new material on l) her family background, 2) her early years, 3) her journalistic career, 4) her personality, and 5) her assessment of human values in American life. |
| FEL-257166-18 | Research Programs: Fellowships | Melissa J. Homestead | The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis | 9/1/2018 - 8/31/2019 | $50,400.00 | Melissa | J. | Homestead | | | | University of Nebraska, Lincoln | Lincoln | NE | 68503-2427 | USA | 2017 | American Literature | Fellowships | Research Programs | 50400 | 0 | 50400 | 0 | Completion of a book-length study of the
personal and professional relationship of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis.
I am applying for support to complete a a biographical study of the relationship between American novelist Willa Cather and Edith Lewis, a magazine editor and advertising copywriter with whom Cather shared a home in New York City for 38 years. Lewis's professional expertise allowed her to act behind the scenes as Cather's editor, making significant changes to her prose in typescript, and to advise Cather on the management of her public persona. Their relationship was also social, familial, and domestic--they shared a home, networks of friends, and social relationships with each other's biological families. I argue that this "creative partnership," which combined the personal and the professional, enabled Cather's emergence as a major novelist. |
| FT-254220-17 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Melissa J. Homestead | The Creative Partnership of American Novelist Willa Cather and Editor Edith Lewis | 6/1/2017 - 8/31/2017 | $6,000.00 | Melissa | J. | Homestead | | | | University of Nebraska, Lincoln | Lincoln | NE | 68503-2427 | USA | 2017 | American Literature | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 6000 | 0 | 6000 | 0 | A book-length study of the collaboration between Willa Cather and Edith Lewis.
I propose to spend summer 2017 working on two chapters of my book “The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis,” which reconstructs and analyzes the relationship between Cather, an American novelist, and Lewis, a magazine editor and advertising writer with whom Cather shared a home in New York City for nearly four decades. The book, which will consist of an introduction and seven chapters, is under contract with Oxford University Press with a final delivery date of 1 September 2019. By May 2017, I anticipate having produced complete drafts of the introduction and three chapters. During the fellowship term, I propose to write two more chapters, one on Cather and Lewis’s shared Southwestern travels and Cather’s two novels drawing on those experiences, and another on Lewis’s career as an advertising copywriter and Cather’s engagements with commercial and celebrity culture in the 1920s. |
| PR-253389-17 | Preservation and Access: Research and Development | University of Nebraska, Lincoln | Keeping Data Alive: Supporting Reuse and Repurposing of 3D Data in the Humanities | 1/1/2017 - 12/31/2018 | $74,368.00 | Heather | Marie | Richards-Rissetto | | | | University of Nebraska, Lincoln | Lincoln | NE | 68503-2427 | USA | 2016 | Archaeology | Research and Development | Preservation and Access | 74368 | 0 | 71719.42 | 0 | A project to develop 3D architectural models of
Mayan cities in an open source database for reuse and repurposing in other architectural
reconstructions, leading to the creation of an open source platform to host,
deliver, and visualize 3D models linked to descriptive data.
The goals of this one year
project are to develop workflows to: (1) generate, store, and make accessible
3D models of architecture in an open source database that scholars can (re)use
and repurpose to create their own multi-scalar reconstructions ranging from
individual buildings to entire cityscapes and (2) host, deliver, and visualize
3D models, linked to metadata, paradata, and descriptive data, in an open
source 3D visualization environment. The project includes front-end and back-end
deliverables that will contribute to data sustainability and accessibility in
the humanities. Front-end deliverables include a project website hosting
workflows with tutorials and a proto-database for beta-testing and capturing
user feedback. Back-end deliverables include "white paper" describing
the initial database design, data structuring, initial findings, ongoing
challenges, and next steps. |
| PW-285125-22 | Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | University of Nebraska, Lincoln | A Digital Library of Willa Cather's Literary Manuscripts | 2/1/2023 - 1/31/2026 | $304,207.00 | Andrew | Wade | Jewell | Melissa | J. | Homestead | University of Nebraska, Lincoln | Lincoln | NE | 68503-2427 | USA | 2022 | American Literature | Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | Preservation and Access | 304207 | 0 | 304207 | 0 |
The Willa Cather Archive proposes to create a digital library of American novelist Willa Cather's literary manuscripts (broadly construed to encompass all pre-publication forms of her work). These materials are currently distributed across a range of repositories and are largely ignored by scholars and students of her writing. Our plan is to create a digital library of these materials that includes: 1) high-resolution images of each document, sufficient to facilitate close inspection of its details; 2) rich metadata about each item capturing its relationship to Cather's published work and other documents, its physical properties, the editorial hands visible on it, and other details about its creation; and 3) an expert-authored document analysis that describes, in straightforward prose, details about the manuscript that will help users make sense of its meaning and its place in the evolution of a particular work, including its relationship to other documents in the digital library. |
| RE-21199-94 | Research Programs: Editions | University of Nebraska, Lincoln | The Willa Cather Scholarly Edition | 4/1/1994 - 10/31/1997 | $79,485.00 | Susan | J. | Rosowski | | | | University of Nebraska, Lincoln | Lincoln | NE | 68503-2427 | USA | 1994 | American Literature | Editions | Research Programs | 69485 | 10000 | 69485 | 10000 | To support the preparation of an edition of the writings of Willa Cather. |
| RO-11475-73 | Research Programs: Basic Research | University of Nebraska, Lincoln | The Art of Willa Cather | 11/1/1972 - 6/30/1974 | $14,125.00 | Robert | E. | Knoll | | | | University of Nebraska, Lincoln | Lincoln | NE | 68503-2427 | USA | 1973 | Literature, General | Basic Research | Research Programs | 14125 | 0 | 14125 | 0 |
To investigate the nature, ramifications and significance of American novelist Willa Cather within a concentrated period of intellectual and critical cooperation. A working seminar on the "Art of Willa Cather" will be held. |
| RQ-260744-18 | Research Programs: Scholarly Editions and Translations | University of Nebraska, Lincoln | The Complete Letters of American Writer Willa Cather | 1/1/2019 - 12/31/2021 | $278,000.00 | Andrew | Wade | Jewell | | | | University of Nebraska, Lincoln | Lincoln | NE | 68503-2427 | USA | 2018 | American Literature | Scholarly Editions and Translations | Research Programs | 278000 | 0 | 277959.75 | 0 | Work on the final stage of an online, open access edition of
the complete correspondence of American novelist Willa Cather (1873-1947). (36
months)
We propose to edit American author Willa Cather’s complete correspondence for digital publication on the free and open-access Willa Cather Archive (cather.unl.edu). Thanks to previous NEH support, we are well on our way to completing the first stage of this edition. We are now asking for support to complete the edition so the remaining 1,500 letters--dispersed in over 70 repositories and full of tremendous detail about Cather's life, work, and relationships--can be included. This digital edition will feature texts transcribed and marked up in TEI P5 conformant XML, high-quality digital images of original documents, full multimedia annotations, and innovative search and browsing features including automatically-generated indices of names, titles, and geographic locations. The whole edition will be strengthened by its integration into the Willa Cather Archive, indisputably the central online resource for scholarly study of the author. |
| RQ-50816-14 | Research Programs: Scholarly Editions and Translations | University of Nebraska, Lincoln | The Complete Letters of Willa Cather | 10/1/2014 - 9/30/2018 | $271,980.00 | Andrew | Wade | Jewell | | | | University of Nebraska, Lincoln | Lincoln | NE | 68503-2427 | USA | 2014 | U.S. History | Scholarly Editions and Translations | Research Programs | 271980 | 0 | 271980 | 0 | Work on the first stage of an online, open access edition of the complete correspondence of American novelist Willa Cather (1873-1947). (36 months)
We propose to edit Cather’s complete correspondence for digital publication on the completely free and open-access Willa Cather Archive (cather.unl.edu). We are asking for NEH support for the first stage of this edition: 1,500 letters, or half the complete currently-known corpus. This digital edition will feature texts transcribed and marked up in TEI P5 conformant XML, high-quality digital images of original documents, full multimedia annotations, and innovative search and browsing features including automatically-generated indices of names, titles, and geographic locations. The whole edition will be strengthened by its integration into the Willa Cather Archive, indisputably the central online resource for scholarly study of the author. |
| RZ-20108-97 | Research Programs: Collaborative Research | University of Nebraska, Lincoln | The Willa Cather Scholarly Edition | 5/1/1997 - 7/31/1999 | $40,000.00 | Susan | J. | Rosowski | | | | University of Nebraska, Lincoln | Lincoln | NE | 68503-2427 | USA | 1997 | American Literature | Collaborative Research | Research Programs | 30000 | 10000 | 30000 | 10000 | To support the continuing preparation of a critical edition of the works of American novelist Willa Cather (1873-1947). |
| RZ-20510-99 | Research Programs: Collaborative Research | University of Nebraska, Lincoln | The Willa Cather Scholarly Edition | 5/1/1999 - 4/30/2002 | $98,500.00 | Susan | J. | Rosowski | | | | University of Nebraska, Lincoln | Lincoln | NE | 68503-2427 | USA | 1999 | American Literature | Collaborative Research | Research Programs | 85000 | 13500 | 85000 | 13500 | The continuing preparation of an edition of Willa Cather's works.
We are applying for the support to complete a 17-year project of the Willa Cather Scholarly Edition, which is providing the only accurate and fully researched texts of this major American writer. We request from NEH support for a three-quarter Assistant Editor, released time from teaching for the General Editor and Textual Editor, a workshop, and some travel allowance. We will focus during the grant period upon the final three volumes of the Edition, conducting collations, establishing the critical texts, preparing textual and explanatory apparatuses, submitting to CSE inspections and thence to the Press: Alexander's Bridge, The Song of the Lark, and One of Ours. Also during this grant period we will complete work on four volumes now underway: The Professor's House, Lucy Gayheart, Shadows on the Rock, and My Mortal Enemy. |