“Cultures in Transnational Perspective”

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities at UCLA

Call for Applications

Deadline: February 1, 2010

The Division of Humanities at the University of California, Los Angeles, is currently accepting applications for the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities "Cultures in Transnational Perspective." We expect to appoint four or five fellows who will be appointed to a one-year term renewable for a second year, beginning in the fall of 2010. Fellows must have earned their doctoral degree no earlier than January 2004 and no later than June 2010. The Mellon Fellowship provides a stipend of $53,000, standard fringe benefits, a one-time moving allowance of $1,500, plus a research budget of $2,000. All Fellows will be housed in relevant home departments for which they teach two courses per year (one in Winter and one in Spring quarter). They are required to be in residence and to participate in the monthly Mellon Seminars and annual Mellon Conference, as well as the on-going intellectual life of their home departments. Fellows will also write a progress report due on June 15^th of each year of residence.

The Mellon program at UCLA is designed to explore the emerging field of Transnational Studies. Its aim is to broaden the study of minority cultures from its national focus to global and comparative perspectives. We seek innovative scholarship that explores minority cultures as major components of world culture and history, generated by immigrant and minority writers, artists, filmmakers, playwrights, and musicians residing in metropolitan centers across the world and thereby reshaping the canons of literature, art, and music in their respective countries. The program encourages the investigation of such patterns of encounter over several centuries in order better to understand what is distinctive in different historical periods and different fields of research.

To download the fellowship application form, please click on the link Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities "Cultures in Transnational Perspectives" Application Form 2009-10. Email completed application forms and three letters of recommendation to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . Only electronic applications will be accepted. All application materials are due by February 1, 2010. The program is co-chaired by Professors Françoise Lionnet (French and Francophone Studies; Comparative Literature) and Shu-mei Shih (Asian Languages and Cultures; Comparative Literature).