INSTITUTE FELLOWS
Mellon Post Doctoral Fellows
Past:
Mimi Yiu (A.B. British Columbia, Ph.D. Cornell), 2005-2006
Project Title: "Building Platforms: Staging the Architecture of Early Modern Subjectivity."
Daniela Bleichmar (A.B. Harvard, Ph.D. Princeton), 2004-2006
Project Title: "Visual Culture and Natural History in the Spanish Empire"
Alison Sandman (A.B. Harvard, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin), 2003-2005
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USC Faculty Fellows
Emily Hodgson Anderson, Assistant Professor of English
Project title: "Staging the Passions: Female Self-Expression in Eighteenth-Century Narrative and Performance."
Heather James, Associate Professor of English
Project title: “Audacious Forms: Ovid in Renaissance Poetry and Political Thought.”
Karen Lang, Assistant Professor of Art History
Project title: “Tischbein's Portrait of Goethe in the Roman Campagana (1786-87): The Past, Present, and Future of the late Eighteenth Century.”
Natania Meeker, Assistant Professor, French and Italian
Project title: "The Female Libertine and the Making of Modern Thought in Ancien Regime France"
Karen Pinkus, Associate Professor of Italian, French, and Comparative Literature
Project title: "Alchemical Mercury: Gold and Ambivalence from the Early Modern through the Digital Ages."
Megan Hibler Reid, Assistant Professor of Religion
Project title: "Rethinking Religious Transgression in the Islamic Near East: 1450-1600"
Joseph Boone, Professor of English, Gender Studies and Comparative Literature
Maria Elena Martinez, Associate Professor of History
Rebecca Lemon, Associate Professor of English
Cynthia Herrup, Professor of History and Law
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Current USC Dissertation Fellowships
Lucia Hodgson, English
Project title: "Writing on the Child: The Discourses of Childhood and African-American Women's Narratives in Early and Antebellum America."
Kathryn Strong, English
Project title: "The Eye of Fashion: Women’s Dress and the Novel in England’s Long Eighteenth Century."
Alice Marie White, English
Project title: "Re-visioning Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen and Feminism, 1813-2005."
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Past USC Dissertation Fellowships
Hillary Brown, Art History
Project title: “Women as Collectors and Connoisseurs in Eighteenth-Century England.”
Kevin Laam, English
Project title: “From Heaven Unto Earth: Happiness and the Seventeenth-Century Christian Subject.”
Tillman Nechtman, History
Project title: “Nabobs: Defining the British Nation and the Indian Empire in the Late-Eighteenth Century.” (Tillman is now assistant professor of history at Skidmore College.)
