2023-24 RECIPIENTS:
Flash Grant Recipients for the Fall 2023 theme "Speculation and Adaption:”
Elysia Balavage
Department of English
Support for Guest Speaker, Dr. Ben Clarke, Associate Professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and leading scholar in Working Class Literary Studies
Cara Byrne
Department of English
Support for travel to annual Midwest Modern Language Association conference to present paper, titled “Can COVID-19 books still speak to children?”
Flash Grant Recipients for the 2024 Cleveland Humanities Festival theme "Awe:”
Denise Caterinacci
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Support for film screening of Resin with director Renzo Carbonera
Jue Liang
Department of Religious Studies
Support for development of Ghosts, Zombies, and Monsters: What We Fear and Loathe in Religions, an introductory-level course that queries religious imaginations, which are constantly haunted by myriad frightening and loathsome beings
Yukiko Nishida
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Support for guest speaker, Dr. Yukitada Onitsuka, Tuba Professor at Youngstown State University, Principal Tubist at Youngstown Symphony Orchestra and South Bend Symphony Orchestra
Lindsay Turner
Department of English
Research support for a series of new poems that employ formal techniques of repetition to depict both the wonder and the boredom of acts of care and which will be included in Turner’s fourth collection of poems, The Circle, which explores themes of labor, reproduction, and domesticity in a suburban landscape
Justin Willson and Jullian Kruse
Department of Art History and Art
Support for Printed Media: New Horizons, a project which fostered speculation on questions related to conceptual frameworks linking prints and drawings from the East Slavic world to those from Western Europe in the eighteenth to twentieth centuries,
revealing how epistemic frameworks are both reflected in and shaped by works on paper
Ching-Hsuan Wu
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Support for guest speaker, Paul Fischer, professor of religions and philosophy at Western Kentucky University,who discussed how Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism and the ways that these teachings have influenced people’s lived experiences in relation to reverence and humility