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The University of Rhode Island's Center for the Humanities was established by Faculty Senate legislation in 1994 and is designed to foster intellectual exchange and independent inquiry, analysis, and interpretation of the Humanities in research, teaching, and learning. It is affiliated with the University of Rhode Island's College of Arts and Sciences, the Dean of which is Winifred Brownell. The Center's activities include a speaker series, research grants for faculty and graduate students, and an annual Humanities Festival. The Center also showcases the work of faculty who are teaching and doing advanced research in the Humanities across the University. ==Board== Peter Covino is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing, Avant-garde and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics; Italian American, Translation, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Rhode Island English Department. His work has been published in many journals, including ''Quarterly West'', ''The American Poetry Review'', ''The Cimarron Review'', ''The Yale Review'', and ''The Paris Review'', among others. Naomi Mandel is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature in the University of Rhode Island English Department. Her current work focuses on the relationship between violence, reality, and truth in contemporary fiction. She has been published in ''boundary 2'', ''Modern Fiction Studies'', and ''Modernism/Modernity'', among others. Karen Markin is the director of the University of Rhode Island's Office of Research Development. Annu Palakunnathu Matthew is currently the director of the Center for the Humanities. She is a Professor of Art (Photography) in the University of Rhode Island's Department of Art and Art History. Matthew’s photo-based work draws for her experience of having lived between cultures and about being an immigrant in the USA. Among other notable awards, Matthew won a 2012 Fulbright Fellowship and was artist in residence at the MacDowell Colony in 2010. Ian Reyes is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies for the Harrington School of Communication and Media at URI. His research represents critical, socio-cultural approaches to media including audio recording, popular music, and video games. He has been published in ''Communication Quarterly'' , and the ''International Journal of Listening'', among others. Catherine Sama is a Professor of Italian in the University of Rhode Island's Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literature. She specializes in Italian dramatic cinema from Neorealism to the present; genocide in Italian literature & film; Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron; and Venetian women writers, including Veronica Franco (1546-91), Moderata Fonte (1555-92), Luisa Bergalli Gozzi (1703-79) and Elisabetta Caminer Turra (1751-96). She has been published in ''Eighteenth-Century Studies'', and by Stanford University Press and University of Chicago Press. Evelyn Sterne is an Associate Professor of History and director of Graduate Studies for the History Department at the University of Rhode Island. Her research interests include the Twentieth-century United States, religion, immigration, politics and labor. She has been published by Cornell University Press and in ''Social Science History''. Alan Verskin is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Rhode Island. His research interests include Islamic law, the intellectual and social interaction between Muslims, Christians and Jews in the pre-modern Middle East; women, gender, and family dynamics. He has been published in ''Der Islam: Journal of the History and Culture of the Middle East'', and ''La Revue des Etudes Juives'', among others. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「URI Center for the Humanities」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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