Fellows
External Fellows
External fellows will include eminent senior scholars in residence for stays ranging from three days to three weeks to a semester, and a recent PhD of extraordinary promise in residence for the academic year.
Residential Fellows:
In residence for the 2009-10 academic year will be Petre Petrov, Assistant Professor of Slavic Literature and Languages at Princeton.
Petre Petrov's university Web site
In residence for the spring term 2010 will be Boris Groys, Global Distinguished Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at NYU.
Boris Groys’s university Web site
Short-term Fellows:
From September 14-17, 2009, Aamir Mufti, associate professor of comparative literature, UCLA, will offer a lecture, colloquium, and other events related to the topic of “Orientalism and Comparative Literature, Past and Future.”
Aamir Mufti’s departmental Web site
Sabine MacCormack, Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C. College of Arts and Letters Chair at the University of Notre Dame, jointly appointed in history and classics, will visit at a date to be determined in December, January, or February.
Sabine MacCormack’s departmental Web site
From March 15–26, 2010, the French philosopher Etienne Balibar will offer two weeks of lectures and colloquia concerning his current work on what he calls “the genealogical scheme.”
Etienne Balibar’s departmental Web site
From May 3-7, 2010, Bruce Robbins, Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University, will lead our first annual week-long faculty seminar. His topic will be “Rethinking Cosmopolitanism.”
Bruce Robbins’s personal Web site
Internal Fellows
Internal fellows are Pitt faculty members awarded time released from teaching in order to advance on important books, in dialogue with other fellows and the larger community formed by the center. For the academic year 2009-10, the first class of internal fellows will include:
Jerome Branche, Hispanic Languages and Literatures
Jerome Branche’s departmental Web site
Adriana Helbig, Music
Adriana Helbig’s departmental Web site
Hannah Johnson, English
Hannah Johnson’s departmental Web site
Adam Lowenstein, English
Adam Lowenstein’s departmental Web site
Joshua Lund, Hispanic Languages and Literatures
Joshua Lund’s departmental Web site