Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Poetics, The Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University

The Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry announces a new Junior/Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Poetics, funded by a Challenge Grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, for an academic year of study, teaching, and residence in the Center.  Please note that Post-Doctoral Fellows, who must have the Ph.D. in hand before submission of their applications, are awarded to those who have held the Ph.D. for no more than six years before receiving the fellowship.  This Fellowship is to highlight the importance of the ongoing critical, theoretical, and creative engagements with poetry across Emory University, as well as highlighting the Robert W. Woodruff Library’s Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Library (MARBL) as a major center for research in poetry.  The general purpose of the FCHI’s Post-Doctoral Fellows Program is to stimulate and support humanistic research of scholars in the early stages of their careers with time, space, and other resources.  An essential feature of the Program is that Fellows are expected to make intellectual contributions not only within the Center but, more widely, to humanistic studies at Emory University.  Thus Poetics Fellows will be expected to offer an upper-level undergraduate course on a subject of their choosing during the spring of their fellowship year.
 
The FCHI Fellows Program is designed to offer research opportunities both to those trained in the humanities as traditionally defined and to others working with humanistic issues.  Research projects must be humanistic, but applicants may hold the Ph.D. in any discipline.  Especially appropriate are applicants whose research is likely to contribute to intellectual exchange among a diverse group of scholars within the disciplines of the humanities.