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News & Notes: Five new members of Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts announced for 2011-12

Chosen from 890 applicants, these scholars will have the opportunity to pursue postdoctoral work at the University over the next three years. The society consists of eight faculty members and 14 postdoctoral fellows and is directed by English professor Susan Stewart.

Freed-Thall will be one of the instructors for both HUM 217: History, Philosophy and Religion I and HUM 218: Literature and the Arts II, as well as teaching a course in the Department of French and Italian on emotion in modernity.

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Jones will teach a seminar and freshman seminar focused on race and slavery. Lande will teach a two-semester course on Western culture. Lockhart will research and teach on French and Italian opera in the 18th and 19th centuries, and Meadow will teach two courses on gender and sexuality.

The society was created in 2000 by emeritus trustee Lloyd Cotsen ’50 and is dedicated to bringing out innovative approaches to scholarship and teaching. The society accepts students from the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences.

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