Two A&S Faculty Awarded NEH Fellowships
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 14, 2009) − Two University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences faculty
members have been named as recipients of National Endowment for
the Humanities Fellowships. Daniel Breazeale, professor and
acting chair of the Department of Philosophy,
and Peter
Kalliney, associate professor in the Department
of English, were both awarded individual research fellowships for university teachers.
Together their grants total $100,400. UK is the only institution in Kentucky to have more than
one faculty member awarded an NEH grant or fellowship this year. Breazeale and Kalliney are
also the only faculty at a Kentucky institution to receive NEH fellowships as individuals
during the 2008-2009 academic year.
"It is a great testament to the quality of our faculty when two of the college's own are awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships in the same year," said Phil Harling, interim dean of A&S. "I salute Dan Breazeale and Peter Kalliney on their outstanding scholarship."
Breazeale will utilize the NEH fellowship during the 2009-2010 academic year to work on a project titled "Fichte's Path from Kant to the Wissenschaftslehre. Zurich Writings (1793-1994)." J.G. Fichte's classic philosophy work Wissenschaftlehre ("Doctrine of Science" in English) provides the essential link between the philosophy of Kant and the "absolute idealism" of Schelling and Hegel. Breazeale will translate Fichte's writings from the period 1793-1794, when Fichte was engaged in significant philosophical work leading up to the writing of Wissenschaftslehre. The translation will be prefaced by two essays explaining why these writings are essential for understanding the history of German idealism, as well as for obtaining an appreciation of Fichte's system of philosophy. This is the sixth NEH research fellowship Breazeale has received since 1979.
Kalliney, who will spend the 2010-2011 academic year engaged in work funded by his NEH grant, will be engaged in the study of African, British and Caribbean literary figures in the mid-20th century. His project, titled "Cultural Institutions of the Transatlantic World, 1930-1970," is designed to explore global literary connections during that time period. Kalliney will seek to explain how leading figures of 1930s modernism such as T.S. Eliot, Louise MacNeice and Stephen Spender became admirers of late colonial and early postcolonial literature in the 1950s. Kalliney's work will also ask why the first generation of postcolonial writers - including Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipual, Chinua Achebe and Ngugi wa Thiong'o - actively sought alliances with metropolitan intellectuals. Kalliney will seek to expose the role of midcentury cultural institutions including the BBC, influential publishers and university English departments in creating professional incentives for disparate groups of intellectuals to see each other as fellow literary professionals.
Created in 1965 as an independent federal agency, the National Endowment for the Humanities supports learning in history, literature, philosophy, and other areas of the humanities. It is the largest funder of the humanities in the United States.
See a complete list of NEH fellowship and grant recipients, organized by state.
"It is a great testament to the quality of our faculty when two of the college's own are awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships in the same year," said Phil Harling, interim dean of A&S. "I salute Dan Breazeale and Peter Kalliney on their outstanding scholarship."
Breazeale will utilize the NEH fellowship during the 2009-2010 academic year to work on a project titled "Fichte's Path from Kant to the Wissenschaftslehre. Zurich Writings (1793-1994)." J.G. Fichte's classic philosophy work Wissenschaftlehre ("Doctrine of Science" in English) provides the essential link between the philosophy of Kant and the "absolute idealism" of Schelling and Hegel. Breazeale will translate Fichte's writings from the period 1793-1794, when Fichte was engaged in significant philosophical work leading up to the writing of Wissenschaftslehre. The translation will be prefaced by two essays explaining why these writings are essential for understanding the history of German idealism, as well as for obtaining an appreciation of Fichte's system of philosophy. This is the sixth NEH research fellowship Breazeale has received since 1979.
Kalliney, who will spend the 2010-2011 academic year engaged in work funded by his NEH grant, will be engaged in the study of African, British and Caribbean literary figures in the mid-20th century. His project, titled "Cultural Institutions of the Transatlantic World, 1930-1970," is designed to explore global literary connections during that time period. Kalliney will seek to explain how leading figures of 1930s modernism such as T.S. Eliot, Louise MacNeice and Stephen Spender became admirers of late colonial and early postcolonial literature in the 1950s. Kalliney's work will also ask why the first generation of postcolonial writers - including Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipual, Chinua Achebe and Ngugi wa Thiong'o - actively sought alliances with metropolitan intellectuals. Kalliney will seek to expose the role of midcentury cultural institutions including the BBC, influential publishers and university English departments in creating professional incentives for disparate groups of intellectuals to see each other as fellow literary professionals.
Created in 1965 as an independent federal agency, the National Endowment for the Humanities supports learning in history, literature, philosophy, and other areas of the humanities. It is the largest funder of the humanities in the United States.
See a complete list of NEH fellowship and grant recipients, organized by state.