26 Aug IHC Public Humanities Graduate Teaching Fellows Program
IHC Public Humanities Graduate Teaching Fellows Program 2017-18
The 2017-18 IHC Public Humanities Graduate Teaching Fellows program seeks graduate students to work as instructors in a correspondence program on “Foundations in the Humanities” for prisoners in North Kern State Prison and Kern Valley State Prison. The curriculum for the course consists of brief foundational readings in the humanities, including works by Yusef Komunyakaa, Jack London, Tim O’Brien, Sandra Cisneros, and Annie Dillard.
The Teaching Fellows will work with the IHC Director and meet four to five times during the year to discuss course goals, pedagogical techniques, and best approaches to evaluating and responding to participants’ work. Each Teaching Fellow will work with up to ten participants and provide written comments to participant response essays.
The Graduate Teaching Fellows Program will afford students an opportunity to explore issues of civic engagement and social justice, as well as to gain experience teaching in the humanities, working with non-traditional students, and alternative course delivery.
Graduate Teaching Fellows are also asked to participate in the public programming series for this year, Crossings + Boundaries. Teaching Fellows are required to attend at least four events in the series, most of which will be held at 4 PM on Thursdays. Graduate Teaching Fellows will receive a stipend of $750 for the year, for a cumulative 35 hours of work. Fellows must have prior teaching experience in humanities courses in which they have provided critical feedback on student essays devoted to close reading.
To apply, please submit a CV and letter of application expressing your interest in the project and describing relevant prior experience to ihcucsb@gmail.com by Friday, September 8, 2017. Please feel free to contact IHC Associate Director Erin Nerstad at nerstad@ihc.ucsb.edu with any questions about this program.
Previous Graduate Affiliates Program Fellows:
2016-2017: Community Matters
Corinne Bancroft, English Department
Daniel Grinberg, Film and Media Studies
Matt Harris, Religious Studies
Jasmine Kelekay, Sociology Department
Jennifer Lugris, Art Department
2015-2016: The Humanities and the Brain
Sara Balance, Department of Music
Rebecca Chenoweth, Department of English
Rena Heinrich, Department of Theater and Dance
Evelyn Patrick Rick, Department of Classics
Allison Shapiro, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
John Thibdeau, Department of Religious Studies
Visit here for more information on The Humanities and the Brain.
2014-2015: The Anthropocene: Views From The Humanities
Chloe Diamond-Lenow, Feminist Studies
Corrie J. Ellis, Sociology
Andrew Esch, History
Yanjun Liu, Political Science
Alexandra Magearu, Comparative Literature
Brian Tyrrell, History
Christopher Walker, English
Visit here for more information on The Anthropocene: Views from The Humanities.
2013-2014: The Value of Care
Heather Berg, Feminist Studies
Lauren Ming Holden, Theater and Dance
Cheryl Jaworski, English
Chandra Russo, Sociology
Jay Stemmle, History
Visit here for more information about The Value of Care.