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NOME BANDO
William S. Vaughn Visiting Fellowship
ENTE FINANZIATORE
Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities - Vanderbilt University
(Nashville, TN, U.S.A.)
DATA SCADENZA
18 gennaio 2017
OGGETTO
Attività di ricerca da realizzarsi presso il Robert Penn Warren Center
nell’ambito del tema “Telling Stories: Modes, Media, and Meanings”, per
esplorare approcci scientifici e divulgativi innovativi nello storytelling
emergenti da diverse discipline umanistiche.
Possibili questioni affrontabili:
• come funzionano i diversi modi (ad es. letterario, giornalistico, artistico)
di storytelling?
• Qual è la relazione tra modi tradizionali di storytelling e modi
emergenti (mondi generati dal computer o storytelling digitali)?
• Qual è il ruolo dei mezzi? Mezzi orali, a stampa, visivi; storie raccontate
con forme miste (mostre museali, statistiche, cultura materiale, mondo
naturale, medicina narrativa, big data)
1 anno.
DURATA
DESTINATARI E
REQUISITI
Studiosi in tutte le discipline e a qualsiasi livello accademico.
FINANZIAMENTO
Fino a $50,000, $2,000 per spese di viaggio
DOCUMENTAZIONE E
MODULISTICA
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/rpw_center/visitingfellowship.php
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Visiting Faculty Fellowship
2017/2018 William S. Vaughn Visiting Fellowship
"Telling Stories: Modes, Media, and Meanings"
Program co-directors: Laura Carpenter (Associate Professor of Sociology) and Catherine Molineux (Associate Professor of History)
The Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities will host a year-long interdisciplinary faculty
seminar to explore storytelling. Telling stories is fundamental to human life, but what makes certain
stories “telling”? When, where, why, by whom, and to what ends do stories get told—and who listens
to them? Many academic disciplines have witnessed renewed interest in the meanings and functions
of stories, and the modes by and media in which people tell them. This year-long Warren Center
Faculty Fellows Seminar will explore innovative scholarly and popular approaches to telling stories
emerging from the various humanistic disciplines and consider how these new approaches reframe
the politics and ethics of storytelling.
Taking a humanistic, interdisciplinary approach to pressing empirical, theoretical, and
methodological issues associated with storytelling has the potential to deepen understanding of what
makes some stories “tell” or compel. Members of the seminar may explore questions such as the
following:
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How do different modes of telling stories—e.g. literary, scholarly, journalistic, dramatic,
oratorical, artistic, or cartographic—work and what do they accomplish?
What is the relationship between these traditional storytelling modes and emerging modes,
such as computer-generated worlds or digital storytelling?
In what ways do media matter? In addition to oral, aural, print, and visual media of many
kinds, Warren Center Fellows may consider the stories told by mixed forms (e.g., museum
exhibitions, statistics, material culture, the natural world, graphic novels, narrative medicine,
or big data). .
Innovations in these areas offer opportunities to open new conversations across disciplines.
We invite applications for the William S. Vaughn Visiting Fellowship from lively, collegial scholars
in all disciplines. The combined interests of the Visiting Fellow and the Vanderbilt Faculty Fellows
will determine the form and content of seminar discussions. We anticipate that the successful
applicant will have completed the terminal degree in her/his field at the time of application and will
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have a record of scholarly publications. The seminar meets weekly and will allow the Visiting
Fellow ample time to pursue a major research project.
The Visiting Fellow is provided with a spacious office within the Center’s own historic
building. The fellowship pays a stipend of up to $50,000 and provides $2,000 in moving
expenses. Application materials may be downloaded from our
website: vanderbilt.edu/rpw_center. Complete applications must be submitted by January 18,
2017.
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