ACM has discontinued management of its three off-campus study programs learn more. Students can still apply directly to affiliated programs. While the ACM Newberry Seminar: Research in the Humanities is discontinued, students and faculty can still participate directly with Newberry Library programs and activities. Find out more about the collection , see upcoming events , learn more about doing research at the Newberry , and even help the Newberry transcribe its digital collection.
Faculty can continue to apply to the ACM Newberry short-term fellowships. Led by distinguished faculty, students explored compelling, interdisciplinary themes in the humanities; developed their abilities as researchers; and produced substantial, well-documented research projects equivalent to a senior thesis or graduate-level work. Resources range anywhere from the Middle Ages to the midth century.
The Newberry is open to the public and has an active educational and cultural presence in Chicago. It offers a host of exhibits, lectures, classes, concerts, and other public programming. The library also provides public reading rooms and free wireless internet. Please visit the Newberry Library website for more information.
Please see below for a list of past Newberry Seminar topics and visiting faculty directors since the program began in From the history of the ABCs to mass media to the inner life of book readers through history, reading itself has come to be seen as worthy of study in itself. Prevost and Savarese will focus on readers on the margins of society.
Prevost has researched Agatha Christie, seeking to understand how British-empire readers turned her from a provincial mystery writer into a global celebrity. Savarese became interested in marginalized readers after completing a book last year about reading literary fiction with autistic people across the spectrum See It Feelingly: Classic Novels, Autistic Readers, and the Schooling of a No-Good English Professor. Guest speakers from area universities will bring expertise on the history and neurology of reading, offering new approaches to the social and physical worlds that readers inhabit.
