The Warren Center will host a year-long faculty seminarto examine the relationship between language and visual artifacts. Theseminar will provide the opportunity to explore the cognitive, social,and affective spaces between word and image where fields of scholarlyinquiry are being reconfigured. Participants will explore questionssuch as: How are shifting social and cultural relations between wordand image transforming critical practices in the humanities, socialsciences, and sciences? What are the key differences among the diversestrands of contemporary inquiry into the relation of word and image?What guiding questions bind these diverse strands of inquiry intoshared scholarly projects? What is at stake in maintaining currentdisciplinary distinctions even as scholars of the relation of word andimage profit from the flexibility afforded by interdisciplinarypractices?

TheWarren Center invites applications from scholars in all disciplineswhose lively presence will help to focus our work and stimulatediscussions. We expect that this seminar will attract colleagues frommany contexts: from the fields of art and art history, film studies,literature and language, philosophy, history, classics, communicationstudies, religious studies, and the qualitative social sciences. Weseek a visiting fellow with an interest in the visual arts, visualculture, literature and textuality both broadly and specificallyconceived, along with a willingness to interrogate basic methodologicaland disciplinary assumptions. The seminar meets weekly and will allowthe visiting fellow ample time to pursue a major research project. Thecombined interests of the visiting fellow and the Vanderbilt facultyfellows will determine the form and content of seminar discussions.

Thevisiting fellow is provided with a spacious office within the Center'sown building.   The fellowship pays a stipend of up to $40,000 andprovides $2,000 in moving expenses. Application materials may bedownloaded from our website.

For more detailed information and application forms, click here, or please contact:

Mona Frederick, Executive Director
Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities
VU Station B #351534, Nashville, TN 37235-1534
Tel: (615) 343-6060 — E-mail:rpw.center@vanderbilt.edu
www.vanderbilt.edu/rpw_center/

Completed applications must be postmarked by January 18, 2006.

Reference:
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/rpw_center/fellows.htm