Faculty Fellows Seminar

The Humanities Institute Faculty Seminar meets weekly during the academic year to explore an annually selected issue or theme that lends itself to inquiry across a broad disciplinary spectrum. Designed to promote intellectual collaboration and collegiality across college and departmental lines, the seminar is open to faculty by application. Advanced graduate students may also apply to take the seminar for course credit. Successful faculty applicants are appointed as Humanities Institute Fellows and receive a one-course teaching load reduction for the semester of their appointment in the Institute. Each faculty fellow typically leads one session of the seminar on work or interests related to the annual theme.

Each year, the fellows also invite four or five distinguished visitors whose work has been formative for the issues under discussion to guest-lead sessions of the seminar and deliver public lectures in the Institute's Distinguished Visiting Lecturers Series. Faculty from the colleges of Liberal Arts, Fine Arts, and Communication, from the schools of Law and Architecture, and from the McCombs School of Business have participated in the interdisciplinary seminar. Many Faculty Fellows take the opportunity to work on a large project or book during the semester of the seminar.

Past annual themes have included: "The Future of Disciplinary Knowledge," "Texas in Global Contexts," "Modernity," "The Work of Religion: Past, Present, and Future," "Remembering and Forgetting, Collecting and Discarding," and "The Human and its Others."

For more information, please contact the Institute at (512) 471-2654 or information@humanitiesinstitute.utexas.edu.