LANCASTER, Pa. - Scott Lerner, associate professor of French at Italian at Franklin & Marshall College, has been awarded a Millicent C. McIntosh Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. Lerner will use the $15,000 fellowship during his academic leave in 2007-08, when he travels to the University of Michigan's Frankel Institute to work on two book projects — After Exile: Narrative and Jewish Experience in Modern France from the French Revolution to Proust, and From Ghetto to Monumental Synagogue: Narrative and Jewish Identity in the Capitals of Risorgimento Italy. The McIntosh Fellowship supports especially promising faculty who demonstrate a deep commitment to excellent teaching and scholarship in the humanities, and who are exceptional citizens of their academic community. The Fellowship is specifically intended for recently tenured faculty who would benefit from additional time and resources to continue their scholarly work, but whose family and other obligations make it difficult for them to be away from their homes for extended periods of time. The Fellowship is named in honor of Millicent C. McIntosh, the late president of Barnard College, a noted humanist and educator, and are supported by a grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation to the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. Lerner earned his B.A. magna cum laude in English from Yale College and his A.M and Ph.D in comparative literature from Harvard University. He has been on the Franklin & Marshall faculty of since 1995 and served as chair of the Department of French and Italian from 2003-2006. Before coming to Franklin & Marshall, he served as a lecturer at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and taught briefly at the Université de Paris VII and Ministère des Affaires Etrangères in Paris. He also taught in the Literature Concentration, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and the Core Program_at Harvard. Lerner is co-editor of Modern Jewish Literatures: Intersections and Boundaries. He is the editor of The Dreyfus Affair in the Making of Modern France and the author of articles in journals in literature, critical theory, Jewish studies and history. His research interests also include Proust, and representations of loss and mourning in literature, film and psychoanalysis. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and has been a visiting scholar at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard. He has served as a referee for NEH, Stanford University Press, PMLA, and Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture and Society. -30- |
