Call for Applications

"Cultures in Transnational Perspective"
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities at UCLA
Call for Applications
Deadline: February 1, 2008

The division of humanities at the University of California, Los Angeles, will appoint four Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows for a 2-year tenure beginning in the fall of 2008. Fellows must have earned their doctoral degree no earlier than January 2002 and no later than June 2008. The Mellon Fellowship provides a stipend of $50,000 a year, standard fringe benefits, a one-time moving allowance of $1,500, plus a small research budget of $2,000.  Designed to explore the emerging field of Transnational Studies, the aim of the Mellon Program at UCLA is to broaden the study of minority cultures from its national focus to global and comparative perspectives. We seek innovative scholarship that explores minority cultures as major components of world culture and history, generated by immigrant and minority writers, artists, filmmakers, playwrights, and musicians residing in metropolitan centers across the world and thereby reshaping the canons of literature, art, and music in their respective countries.  There is no application form. Applicants should send a cover letter, a description (no more than 1500 words) of the scholarly project relevant to the program, a CV, and three letters of recommendation by February 1, 2008, to: Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities at UCLA, Royce Humanities Group, 212 Royce Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095. The program is co-chaired by Professors Françoise Lionnet (French and Francophone Studies; Comparative Literature) and Shu-mei Shih (Asian Languages and Cultures; Comparative Literature). For more information, please contact Laura Clennon via e-mail at clennon@humnet.ucla.edu.

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