The National Endowment for the Humanities has recently bestowed $34.79 million in grant funding for 97 humanities projects throughout the country. The awards support founding era papers projects, exhibitions and media projects, professional development opportunities for teachers, and the preservation of important humanities collections. Five of these grants were awarded to higher education institutions leading projects related to prominent American women writers, poets, and activists.
Loyola University Chicago has received $299,669 for “The Amy Lowell Letters Project.” Led by Melissa Bradshaw, senior lecturer of English, the new grant will fund the preparation for publication of an open-access, digital edition of the letters of American poet, editor, and critic Amy Lowell. The archive will contain some 1,400 letters related to Lowell’s career in poetry.
The trustees of Amherst College in Massachusetts have received $190,000 to support a teacher development project at the Emily Dickinson Museum, located just off the college’s campus. The grant will fund two week-long residential workshops for cohorts of 36 K-12 educators each on Emily Dickinson’s poetry. The workshop project will be led by co-directors Brook Steinhauser and Elias Bradley.
Stockton University in Galloway, New Jersey, has been awarded $299,998 to fund the preparation for publication of an open-access, digital edition of the complete letters of early American writer Catharine Maria Sedgwick. The project will be led by Deborah Gussman, a professor of literature who has conducted extensive research on Sedgwick and other American authors from the nineteenth-century.
Ramapo College of New Jersey has received $300,000 with a $150,000 matching grant for the college’s “Jane Adams Papers Project.” The new funds will assist project director Cathy Hajo and her team with the preparation and publication of volumes 6 and 7 of the selected papers and a digital edition of letters of social reformer Jane Adams. The overarching aim of the project is to serve as a lab for undergraduate students to gain experience in historical research, writing, public history, and digital humanities.
The University at Buffalo in New York has received $300,000 for the preparation and publication of selections from 12 literary notebooks of American modernist poet Marianne Moore. The Marianne Moore Digital Archive contains digital reproductions and transcriptions of more than 100 of Moore’s notebooks, featuring annotations that help contextualize her writing and life. The archive is led by founding director Cristanne Miller, the SUNY Distinguished Professor and Edward H. Butler Professor of Literature.