{"id":8458,"date":"2019-10-24T21:04:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T21:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2019\/10\/28\/supporting-scholars-and-their-scholarly-work\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:30:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:30:22","slug":"supporting-scholars-and-their-scholarly-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/supporting-scholars-and-their-scholarly-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Supporting scholars and their scholarly work"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the summer, two professors from the Furman Department of English were among the nearly 40 scholars selected for residencies at the Research Triangle Park-based National Humanities Center. Funded through The Duke Endowment, Nick Radel and Michele Speitz used the four-week stint to make headway on their scholarly works. \u201cI would still be writing if not for that gift of time,\u201d said Radel about his work on scholarship surrounding \u201c<\/span>Richard II.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Speitz, who focused on her monograph, \u201cTechnologies of the Sublime: Romantic Materialisms and the Mechanical Supernatural,\u201d said, \u201cIt\u2019s hard to imagine a better place for propelling your scholarly activity. I\u2019ve never been so free to pursue my ideas, nor have I ever made as much progress on my work \u2026”<\/p>\n

Furman President Elizabeth Davis also noted the “extraordinary opportunity” the residencies provide. \u201c<\/span>[The funding from The Duke Endowment] makes it possible for our faculty to attend and grow as scholars in their fields, which, in turn, creates a more robust learning experience for our students.\u201d Read more in an article appearing on The Duke Endowment website<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During the summer, two professors from the Furman Department of English were among the nearly 40 scholars selected for residencies at the Research Triangle Park-based National Humanities Center. Funded through […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-english","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}