Cornell University (Ithaca, NY 14850-2820)
Mahinder Singh Kingra (Project Director: August 2020 to March 2023)
DR-278093-21
Fellowships Open Book Program
Digital Humanities
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[Grant products]
Totals:
$5,500 (approved)
$5,500 (awarded)
Grant period:
1/1/2021 – 6/30/2022
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Open Access Edition of Thomas Mann’s War: Literature, Politics, and the World Republic of Letters by Tobias Boes
This project will publish the book Thomas Mann’s War, written by NEH Fellow Tobias Boes (NEH grant number FA-57586-14), in an electronic open access format under the Creative Commons license CC BY-ND 4.0, making it available for free download and distribution. The author will be paid a royalty of at least $500 upon release of the open access ebook.
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Tobias Boes
University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN 46556-4635)
FA-57586-14
Fellowships for University Teachers
Research Programs
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[Grant products][Media coverage]
Totals:
$50,400 (approved)
$50,400 (awarded)
Grant period:
1/1/2015 – 12/31/2015
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Thomas Mann, American Culture, and the Making of a Modern Writer
This proposed book manuscript will examine the processes by which the work of the German modernist author Thomas Mann was translated, imitated, adapted and interpreted in the United States during the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. During this period Mann reached the zenith of his popular acclaim in America, selling hundreds of thousands of books. I will argue that over the course of these decades, a time in which his works were largely unavailable in Germany because of a ban by the Nazis, Mann became the first author in the history of world literature to write books in the conscious knowledge that they would have their main impact in translation. In this, he anticipates contemporary authors such as Milan Kundera, Haruki Murakami, or Orhan Pamuk.
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Elmira College (Elmira, NY 14901-2099)
Corey McCall (Project Director: September 2013 to August 2017)
Charlie Mitchell (Co Project Director: May 2016 to August 2017)
Thomas Nurmi (Co Project Director: May 2016 to August 2017)
AQ-50981-14
Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants
Education Programs
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Totals:
$24,291 (approved)
$24,290 (awarded)
Grant period:
5/1/2014 – 7/31/2017
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NEH Enduring Questions Course on the Value and Role of Art in Human Life
The development of a mid-level undergraduate course for students in nursing, business, and the sciences to explore the value and role of art in human life.
The development of a mid-level undergraduate course for students in nursing, business, and the sciences to explore the value and role of art in human life. Three faculty members (in philosophy, literature, and history) develop a course on the question, Why does art matter? Anchoring the course in W. E. B. Du Bois' 1903 essay, "The Talented Tenth," they situate art within the liberal arts tradition and tie it to questions of value. The first of three units begins with a historical focus. Students read Aristotle, Nietzsche, and Thomas Mann, among others, to explore differences between intrinsic and instrumental value, and between aesthetics and taste. In the second unit students consider the value of the difficult in art. They first read Henry James' 1884 essay, "The Art of Fiction," which argues that "no good novel will ever proceed from a superficial mind." They then read William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. In the final unit, students explore the value of the arts in American society. Martha Nussbaum's Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities prompts inquiry about the relationship between democracy and the arts. Susan Sontag's Regarding the Pain of Others prompts discussion about what it means to look at images of war. The course is intended to bridge the gap between liberal arts and professional programs and expand the nascent honors program, most of whose students have declared majors in nursing, business, and the sciences. To link the arts and professional domains further, students interview local, business, science, and medical professionals about their views on art. A workshop at the Corning Museum of Glass with arts and business leaders probes these views in depth. The faculty engage in interdisciplinary challenges as they meet weekly over the summer of 2014 to finalize the syllabus. They also collaborate after teaching the course by presenting their work at the Institute for Pedagogy in the Liberal Arts at Emory University and at a regional faculty development program.
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Regents of the University of California, Irvine (Irvine, CA 92617-3066)
James Owen Weatherall (Project Director: September 2013 to October 2017)
AQ-51039-14
Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants
Education Programs
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[Grant products]
Totals:
$21,991 (approved)
$21,991 (awarded)
Grant period:
7/1/2014 – 6/30/2017
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NEH Enduring Questions Course on Conceptions of Time in Physics, Philosophy, Fiction, and Film
The development of an undergraduate seminar on conceptions of time in physics, philosophy, fiction, and film.
The development of an undergraduate seminar on conceptions of time in physics, philosophy, fiction, and film. James Weatherall, assistant professor of philosophy at the University of California, Irvine, develops a course to consider What is time? from the perspectives of physics, philosophy, fiction, and film. As its title suggests, this course approaches the question of time as a humanistic inquiry, surveying traditional Chinese philosophy, Abrahamic theology, Ancient Greek philosophy, Kantian and modern philosophy, historical and current physics, and the modern novel. The goal of the course is twofold: to engage students in multiple perspectives on the human conception of time, and to highlight for them critical tensions between the representation of time in the physical sciences and in literature and the arts. The course is divided into two parts. The first part investigates the physics and metaphysics of time; students read selections from Plato's Timaeus, Aristotle's Physics, Augustine's Confessions, Newton's Scholium on Time and Space, Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, and Einstein's Theory of Relativity. In addition, discussion of early Taoist and Zen Buddhist writings on time are paired with the screening of the film Groundhog Day. The second part of the course explores the depiction of time as a subjective experience in fiction, film, and psychology. Readings include James Joyce's Ulysses; excerpts from Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain; Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse; Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49; Vladimir Nabokov's Ada, or Ardor; and Ernst Pöppel's Mindworks. Students write two essays for the course and participate in a weekly online discussion board. The project director interviews students after the first iteration and revises the course based on their feedback.
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Stanford University (Stanford, CA 94305-2004)
Russell Berman (Project Director: March 2008 to June 2010)
FS-50178-08
Seminars for Higher Education Faculty
Education Programs
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Totals:
$185,497 (approved)
$185,497 (awarded)
Grant period:
10/1/2008 – 9/30/2009
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German Exile Culture in California: European Traditions and American Modernity
A six-week seminar for fifteen college and university faculty on the cultural experience and contributions of German artists, writers, and musicians who fled Nazi Germany to settle in Los Angeles in the 1930s and 1940s.
This seminar for college teachers examines the complex cultural interactions that took place when German writers, artists and musicians who had fled Nazi Germany encountered American culture during the 1930s and 1940s. In particular, the seminar focuses on German intellectuals who gathered in the Los Angeles area, including the novelist Thomas Mann, the playwright Bertolt Brecht, film directors Fritz Lang and Billy Wilder, the actress Marlene Dietrich, the philosopher Theodor Adorno, and the composers Arnold Schoenberg and Hanns Eisler. Their works display rich tensions between their European heritages and their encounters with American democracy, in particular the "mass culture" of the film industry. Grateful for the refuge they found, the exiles engaged in thoughtful reflections on the cultural distance between their background and the American they experienced, especially with regard to problems of art and politics, democracy, and modernism.
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American Musicological Society, Inc. (New York, NY 10012-1502)
Anne W. Robertson (Project Director: May 2006 to November 2011)
CH-50421-07
Challenge Grants
Challenge Programs
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[Grant products][Media coverage][Prizes]
Totals (matching):
$240,000 (approved)
$240,000 (offered)
$240,000 (awarded)
Grant period:
12/1/2005 – 7/31/2011
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Publishing Musicologal Research in the 21st Century
Endowment for publication subventions and an award program in musicology as well as fund-raising costs.
The American Musicological Society seeks an NEH challenge grant of $240,000, which with a 4:1 match will yield $1,200,000. These funds will endow four publication-related initiatives of the Society. The bulk of the funds ($900,000) will create a new subvention supporting the publication of first books by young scholars, whose work often represents the cutting edge of scholarly research, but whose careers are often at their most fragile or challenging point. The remainder will go primarily to existing publication subvention programs, supporting musicological books more generally ($125,000) as well as a monograph series sponsored by the Society ($100,000). These subventions aim to optimize the quality of the best scholarly books on music while keeping their prices affordable. Finally, we propose a new award for books on music in American culture ($50,000), a vital area of musical research that appeals to the broadest literary and musical public.
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Stanford University (Stanford, CA 94305-2004)
Russell Berman (Project Director: March 2006 to September 2008)
FS-50091-06
Seminars for Higher Education Faculty
Education Programs
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Totals:
$172,804 (approved)
$172,804 (awarded)
Grant period:
10/1/2006 – 9/30/2007
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German Exile Culture in California: European Traditions and American Modernity
A six-week seminar for fifteen college and university faculty on the cultural experience and contributions of German artists, writers, and musicians who fled Nazi Germany to settle in Los Angeles in the 1930s and 1940s.
This seminar will examine the complex cultural interactions that took place when German writers, artists and musicians who had fled Nazi Germany encountered American culture during the 1930s and 1940s. The German exile community in Los Angeles is especially interesting because of the confrontation between "old-world" understandings of culture and the very different presuppositions underlying the cultural habits of American democracy. The seminar will study works by the novelist Thomas Mann, the playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht, the philosopher and essayist Theodor Adorno, the film director Fritz Lang, and the composers Arnold Schoenberg and Hanns Eisler. The seminar therefore spans several humanities areas: literature, theater, philosophy, cinema and music. We will address underlying issues: the conflict between European cultural conservatism and American democracy, modernism and mass culture, and the larger relationship between the arts and politics.
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Andrea Ruth Weiss
Jezebel Productions, Inc. (New York, NY 10001-4754)
FB-38374-03
Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars
Research Programs
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[Grant products][Media coverage][Prizes]
Totals:
$40,000 (approved)
$40,000 (awarded)
Grant period:
1/1/2003 – 9/30/2003
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Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story
No project description available
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Zachary A. Pall
Secondary School
FI-26181-93
Younger Scholars, 2/86 - 2/95
Fellowships and Seminars
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Totals:
$2,000 (approved)
$2,000 (awarded)
Grant period:
6/1/1993 – 8/31/1993
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The Political Development of Thomas Mann seen through the JOSEPH Novels
No project description available
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Bomee Jung
Secondary School
FI-25256-92
Younger Scholars, 2/86 - 2/95
Fellowships and Seminars
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Totals:
$2,000 (approved)
$2,000 (awarded)
Grant period:
6/1/1992 – 8/31/1992
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Thomas Mann: The Artist's Self-Perception in His Short Stories
No project description available
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Trustees of Indiana University (Bloomington, IN 47405-7000)
Peter Boerner (Project Director: April 1992 to January 1994)
FV-21486-92
Seminars for K-12 Educators
Education Programs
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Totals:
$76,705 (approved)
$69,905 (awarded)
Grant period:
10/1/1992 – 9/30/1993
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Goethe's FAUST and Thomas Mann's DOKTOR FAUSTUS
No project description available
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Dieter W. Adolphs
Michigan Technological University (Houghton, MI 49931-1200)
FB-28452-91
Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars
Research Programs
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Totals:
$30,000 (approved)
$30,000 (awarded)
Grant period:
9/1/1991 – 8/31/1992
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Thomas Mann in America: The Years of Exile, 1934-52
No project description available
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Marguerite D. Allen
Princeton University (Princeton, NJ 08540-5228)
FE-21181-87
Travel to Collections, 11/85 - 2/95
Fellowships and Seminars
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Totals:
$750 (approved)
$750 (awarded)
Grant period:
7/1/1987 – 8/31/1987
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The Portrayal of Women in Thomas Mann's Fiction
No project description available
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Michael J.T. Gilbert
Unaffiliated Independent Scholar (Valparaiso, IN 46383)
FE-20781-86
Travel to Collections, 11/85 - 2/95
Fellowships and Seminars
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Totals:
$500 (approved)
$500 (awarded)
Grant period:
6/1/1986 – 12/31/1986
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Thomas Mann's Non-fictional Writings on Music
No project description available
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Hans R. Vaget
Smith College (Northampton, MA 01063-6304)
FT-26662-85
Summer Stipends
Research Programs
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Totals:
$3,000 (approved)
$3,000 (awarded)
Grant period:
5/1/1985 – 9/30/1985
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The Correspondence of Thomas Mann and Agnes E. Meyer
No project description available
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Harvey Goldman
University of Chicago (Chicago, IL 60637-5418)
FT-006979-79
Summer Stipends
Research Programs
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Totals:
$2,500 (approved)
$2,500 (awarded)
Grant period:
6/20/1979 – 8/19/1979
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The Concept of Vocation in the work of Max Weber and Thomas Mann
No project description available
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Steven R. Cerf
Bowdoin College (Brunswick, ME 04011-8447)
FR-10144-78
Residential College Teacher Fellowships, 1976-1981
Research Programs
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Totals:
$15,000 (approved)
$15,000 (awarded)
Grant period:
9/1/1978 – 5/31/1979
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Georg Brandes' Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature: Brandes' Treatment of European Romanticism
To study Brandes' role as an historian of European Romanticism. This research will show how Brandes', vast readings permitted him to be one of the first literary critics to analyze Romanticism as a pan-European movement. Project will also demonstrate how Brandes' comprehensive perspective and lucid style served as a source for the encyclopedic novels of James Joyce and Thomas Mann.
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Trustees of Indiana University (Bloomington, IN 47405-7000)
Henry H. H. Remak (Project Director: February 1977 to October 1990)
FR-*0877-77
Residential College Teacher Fellowships, 1976-1981
Research Programs
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[Grant products]
Totals:
$33,786 (approved)
$32,689 (awarded)
Grant period:
3/15/1978 – 2/28/1981
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European Romanticism and Its Subsequent Cultural Impact
To lay the groundwork for a normative, structural characterization of the European and American novella by initial concentration on representative German Novellen from Schiller to Grass. Participants will examine a number of structural components identified by scholars over several generations as characteristic of many Novellen.
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Jeanne Dowd Ormond
St. Olaf College (Northfield, MN 55057-1574)
FB-12946-76
Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars
Research Programs
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Totals:
$15,000 (approved)
$15,000 (awarded)
Grant period:
9/1/1976 – 6/30/1977
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Achetypal Patterns in Modern Fiction
To undertake a program of intensive reading in the works of C.G. Jung and his interpreters, primarily Erich Neumann, Jane Harrison, Joseph Campbell, Esther Harding, and Irene de Castillejo. To apply the Jungian model to selected works of Thomas Mann, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Doris Lessing. To study the nature of creative imagination, to determine the aesthetic experience of the teacher, to find the place of poetry in human experience generally--using the psychoanalytic approach to these issues. To attempt to discover, through the reading of literary works by and about women, whether there is a specifically feminine sensibility or psychology, and, if there is, how it relates to human nature in general.
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Henry Hatfield
President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, MA 02138-3800)
FA-11028-75
Fellowships for University Teachers
Research Programs
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Totals:
$12,250 (approved)
$12,250 (awarded)
Grant period:
8/1/1975 – 7/31/1976
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Thomas Mann
To write an inclusive "Works and Life of Thomas Mann". Projects will keep his texts at center of attention hut will not neglect the importance of his milieu or of history from 1914 on in his works. Mann is considered one of the greats of 20th century literature .
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Daniel Albright
President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, MA 02138-3800)
FB-11736-73
Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars
Research Programs
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Totals:
$11,250 (approved)
$11,250 (awarded)
Grant period:
9/1/1973 – 6/30/1974
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Personality and Impersonality in the Modern Novel
Mr. Albright will produce a book about the 20th century novel, a synthetic study of certain themes common to D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Thomas Mann and others and some of their post-war successors.
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Paul Garcia
St. Louis University (St. Louis, MO 63103-2097)
FT-11582-73
Summer Stipends
Research Programs
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Totals:
$2,000 (approved)
$2,000 (awarded)
Grant period:
6/1/1973 – 8/31/1973
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Research and Collection of Spanish Language Criticism of Thomas Mann
To research an aspect of Thomas Mann which has attracted scant attention: the reception and criticism of Mann in the Hispanic world.
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Egon Schwarz
Washington University (St. Louis, MO 63130-4899)
FA-10225-70
Fellowships for University Teachers
Research Programs
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Totals:
$15,500 (approved)
$15,500 (awarded)
Grant period:
9/1/1970 – 9/30/1971
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The Politics of Poetry: A Study of Apolitical German Writers
Two major and two minor German-speaking poets of the first third of the 20th century examined against broad background of intellectual history to show that their traditional apolitical posture was suffused with outspoken right right-wing bias. R.M. Rilke lavished praise on Mussolini's repressive rule; Gottfried Ben became a spokesman for the Nazis during the first year of their dictatorship; Max Kommerall, a sensitive translator and theoretician of poetry, hailed Mein Kampf for its "right and sound instincts;" and Thomas Mann described Ernest Bertram as alienated by "his enthusiastic faith in the approaching 'Third Reich'." Aim to understand not only what attracted such refined artists to fascism but even more how these tendencies affected their work. Interdisciplinary approach--literature, social and political science--with a view of literature as part of the social fabric producing it.
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