In 2020, CMCS celebrated its 20th anniversary! To mark the occasion, we invited 20 people who have been integral to the Center’s success and longevity to share an object that they… Read More
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Virdi Publishes on Disability & Material Culture
Looking for some winter break reading? Be sure to check out Dr. Jaipreet Virdi’s recent publication “Material Traces of Disability: Andrew Gawley’s Steel Hands, ” which appears in a special issue of Nuncius: The Journal… Read More
CMCS Fall Grant Awardees
This application cycle, CMCS awarded four grants from the Graduate Research Fund in Black and African American Material Culture Studies. See below for more information!
Wasserman Awarded MLA’s William Riley Parker Prize
The Modern Language Association of America announced the winner of its fifty-seventh annual William Riley Parker Prize for an outstanding article published in PMLA, the association’s journal of literary scholarship.… Read More
16th Emerging Scholars Symposium — April 24, 2021
Mark your calendars! CMCS is pleased to announce that the 2021 Emerging Scholars Symposium, “Animaterialities: The Material Culture of Animals (including Humans),” will take place virtually on April 24, 2021. Our… Read More
DELPHI Information Session: Dec 2, 5-6pm
The Center for Material Culture Studies is pleased to announce information related to DELPHI 2021. The Institute will run from June 1-11th, 2021, in an entirely virtual format. DELPHI Summer Research Fellowships are awarded to MA… Read More
DELPHI 2020: Fellows & Their Projects
Endowed by the National Endowment for the Humanities and a generous bequest from a private donor, the Delaware Public Humanities Institute (DELPHI) has been facilitating the professional growth and development of material… Read More
Wasserman Discusses “The Death of Things” – Nov. 19, 2pm
On Thursday, November 19 at 2pm, Professor Sarah Wasserman will deliver a talk about her new book The Death of Things: Ephemera and the American Novel. The virtual event is hosted by ASAP (Association for… Read More
Suffragist Saturday Symposium — Nov. 21, 2pm
Saturday Symposium–Our Vote: Suffragist Saturday Join the College of Arts & Sciences for a Saturday Symposium to celebrate the 100th anniversary of women’s right to vote! This interdisciplinary program will… Read More
Nov. 12 Lecture by Ikem Okoye – “Elusive Things: Materialities and Spatialities in the Vicinity of Nigér”
On November 12th at 6pm, Professor Ikem Okoye will deliver a talk as a part of the AKPIA Lectures in the Department of Architecture at MIT. To listen in to… Read More