[Comedias] Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellowships

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Dear AHCT Friends,



Please see the following message from Barbara Fuchs at UCLA (see below)



Best,

Bruce



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Please distribute this important announcement regarding fellowship opportunities at UCLA:
 
sponsored by
UCLA Center for 17th-& 18th-Century Studies
www.1718.ucla.edu
and the
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
www.clarklibrary.ucla.edu
 
Postdoctoral fellowship information can be found here:
www.1718.ucla.edu/research/postdoctoral/
 
Post-doctoral application forms can be accessed directly via this link:
http://www.1718.ucla.edu/fellowship-application/



Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellowships
This theme-based resident fellowship program, established with the support of The Ahmanson Foundation of Los Angeles and the J. Paul Getty Trust, is designed to encourage the participation of junior scholars in the Center's yearlong core programs.

The core program for year 2020–21:

Resituating the Comedia
 
—a core program organized by Barbara Fuchs (University of California, Los Angeles)
Studies of the 17th-century Hispanic comedia have been reinvigorated by a strong turn to both early modern and contemporary performance. Scholars have also explored the transnational reception of the corpus, its translation, and its adaptation. This focus on performance and transnational reception has changed our understanding of the corpus, as of individual plays within it, by foregrounding questions of ideology and canonicity, situatedness and transformation.
 
Building on the efforts of UCLA’s Working Group on the Comedia in Translation and Performance and its Diversifying the Classics initiative, as well as the Clark’s strong holdings in both French and English reworkings of the comedia, this year-long program explores new contexts for Hispanic classical theater. In addition to presenting new research, the program will provide an opportunity for practitioners to encounter new plays, for working translators to share methodologies and interact with practitioners, and for all involved to become acquainted with the Clark’s collections in the history of European drama and performance.
 
Three conferences will highlight and examine new comedia studies, with its emphasis on performance and transnational reception. Roundtables and workshops with local scholars and practitioners, as well as sessions to present Clark materials, will complement the papers.
 
Conference 1: Making Classics: Canonicity and Performance
November 13–14, 2020
 
How has the field’s attention to performance transformed our understanding of the comedia? How does performance transform the canon, whether by highlighting new works or by reenvisioning them? This conference will take place in conjunction with the Nov. 13–15, 2020 LA ESCENA Festival of Hispanic Classical Theater at A Noise Within, in Pasadena.
 
Conference 2: Made for the Stage: Translation and Performance
February 5–6, 2021
 
How has a new generation of comedia translators taken up the challenges of performance? What are the best practices in translating for performance, and the available channels for dramaturgical collaboration? How do translators’ choices impact the literary and performance canon? This conference will include a workshop on translating for performance.
 
 
Conference 3: The Comedia beyond Spain: Circulation and Adaptation
May 7–8, 2021
 
How does the circulation of the comedia transform it in transnational and imperial contexts, in the New World and the Old? How is canonicity impacted from abroad? How does the transnational impact of the comedia complicate both domestic periodization and national literary histories? Finally, how does adaption engage new contexts, whether geographic, historical, or ideological?
 
Scholars will need to have received their doctorates in the last six years, (no earlier than 1 July 2015 and no later than 30 September 2021). Scholars whose research pertains to the announced theme are eligible to apply. Fellows are expected to make a substantive contribution to the Center’s workshops and seminars. Awards are for three consecutive quarters in residence at the Clark.

Stipend: $50,760 for the three-quarter period including paid medical benefits for scholar and dependents.
Application deadline: 1 February 2020

 









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