The Office of Research and Creative Scholarship thanks the Faculty Development and Research Council for their contribution of time in service to review this year’s FAFG applications and develop their recommendations. Congratulations to the following recipients of the Faculty Advancement Fund Grant:

  • Amy Beecher, Department of Visual and Media Arts: Container Store Cantastoria: A Contemporary Picture Story Recitation
  • Gino Canella, Department of Journalism: Activist Media: Book
  • Lindsay Griffin, Communication Science Disorders: Determining an optimal delivery method for tongue strengthening
  • Amer Latif, Marlboro Institute: Reading the Qu’ran with Rumi
  • Ed Lee, Department of Visual and Media Arts: F*** You, It’s Funny
  • Pablo Muchnik, Marlboro Institute: Judging the ‘Inner-Judge’: Kant on the Limits of Sincerity and the Infallibility of Conscience
  • Rituparna Mitra, Marlboro Institute: In Partition’s Ruins: Beyond Trauma in South Asian Literature
  • Ougie Pak, Department of Visual and Media Arts: RED CARD
  • John Rodzvilla, Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing: Looking Beyond the Advance: Trade Publishing and #publishingpaidme
  • Magda Romanska, Department of Performing Arts: Transmedia Performance Project: Hamlet/Ophelia/Machine
  • Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann, Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing: Cuba – 1968: World Historical Location
  • Rae Shaw, Department of Visual and Media Arts: Untitled Black Kung Fu Chick Mobile Game App

The Faculty Advancement Fund Grant (FAFG) supports the scholarly and creative activities of the full‐time tenured and tenure-track faculty members. The Fund was established to enable the professional work of Emerson’s faculty in its efforts to sustain academic excellence in teaching, research/creative activity, and service. The Faculty Advancement Fund Grant supports proposals deemed likely to substantially improve the quality of research, publication, creative activities, teaching, and service that advance the mission of the College and the careers of its faculty.