Loyola University Chicago

To: All Students in the College of Arts and Sciences
From: Dr. Edward Wheatley, Department of English

Applications for the Newberry Library Undergraduate Seminar are currently being accepted. This year's seminar is entitled “Islands: Missionaries, Migration, and Labor in the Atlantic World and on the Pacific Rim" and will be taught by Eric S. Gellman (Professor of History, Roosevelt University) and Lori Pierce (Professor of American Studies, DePaul University). For further details, visit the Newberry Library's Undergraduate Seminar Web site.

Five Loyola undergraduates will be selected to participate in this six-credit, interdisciplinary seminar, which also includes students from DePaul, Roosevelt, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. The seminar allows you to combine an intensive classroom experience with independent research carried out in the Newberry Library, one of the country's richest archives of primary source materials on history and culture. The seminar will meet Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1-4 p.m. from 12 January to 4 May 2009.

The seminar is open to qualified students in all disciplines. Those interested in applying to graduate school and to many professional schools, whether law school or library science, have found the Newberry Seminar an exhilarating challenge and an opportunity to work with both students and faculty from other universities at a very high level.

The application form can be downloaded here, and further information can be found at the Newberry Seminar Web site. Please email me at ewheatl@luc.edu if you have further questions.

Applications are due on or before noon on Thursday, November 5, 2009. Particpants will be selected and notified by November 9, before the pre-registration period.

Professor Edward Wheatley
Department of English, LSC, CC 455
Loyola University Chicago
1032 W. Sheridan Rd.
Chicago, IL 60660 

Previous NLUS Topics:  

2009: "New Nation, New Culture: The United States in the Age of the Early Republic, 1770-1850," Larry Howe (English, Roosevelt University) and Diane Dillon (Newberry Library)

2008: “Islam and the West: European and American Views of the Muslim World, 1450-1900,” Katrin Schultheiss (University of Illinois at Chicago) and Kim Searcy (History, Loyola)

2007: “Constructing the Queen:  Elizabeth I in Correspondence, Portraiture, Plays, Poetry, Pulp Fiction, and Motion Pictures.  

2006: “Exchange before Orientalism: Encounters between Asia and Europe, 1500-1800,” Ellen McClure (French, UIC) and Laura Hostetler (History, UIC). 

2005: "Sites of Democracy and Difference: U.S. Popular Culture and Entertainment, 1880-1930," Ann Brigham (English and Women's and Gender Studies, Roosevelt) and Lewis Erenberg (History, Loyola) 

2004: "New Nation/New Culture: American Culture in the Early Republic, 1770-1850," Douglas Bradburn (Roosevelt) and Lawrence Howe (English, Roosevelt)  

2003: "Constructing the Queen," Regina Buccola (English and Women's Studies, Roosevelt) and Robert Bucholz (History, Loyola)  

2002: "The Pan-Hispanic World, 1492-1825," Glen Carrnan (Spanish, DePaul) and Valentina Tikoff (History, DePaul)  

2001: "Experiencing the Civil War," Robin Grey (English, UIC) and Margaret Storey (History, DePaul)  

2000: "London Town and Bath Spa: Two Concepts of Eighteenth-Century Urbanity," Robert Bucholz (History, Loyola) and Caryn Chaden (English, DePaul)  

1999: "Mapping Identities: Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Configurations in Modernist Representations," Pamela Caughie (English, Loyola) and Ayana Karanja (Black World Studies, Loyola)  

1998: "New Nation/New Culture: American Culture in the Age of the Early Republic," John Burton (History, DePaul) and Lawrence Howe (English, Roosevelt)  

1997: "Competing Landscapes in the Struggle for an American National Identity," Robin Grey (English, UIC) and David Sokol (Art History, UIC)