• Emmy Hennings, Poems and Short Prose [Translation and annotations for an English edition]
• Rahel Sanzara, The Skilled Hand [Translation and annotations for the English edition of a German novella]
German reading knowledge required.
In this project you will participate in the preparation of a two editions featuring two unknown modernist women writers, with the aim to produce tow annotated editions of their work in English. The first writer is Expressionist and Dadaist writer Emmy Hennings (...)
Aresty Research Assistant
SAS - Germanic, Russian & E. European Lang & (...)
Germanics, Language , Literature, Research abroad (...)
The Arts and Public Health Study works as a collaboration between Jeff Friedman, Director of the Integrate Dance Collaboratory and faculty at the School of Public Health. The project uses both dance/theater along with visual arts, especially photography, to develop a public works-in-progress informal showing, ideally on Day Without Arts (December 1, 2024). We expect to meet with our study participants for 6 weeks, once a week meetings, during the Fall semester to continue the workshops that were (...)
Aresty Research Assistant
MGSA - Dance
Dance, Public Health, Theater, Visual Arts
The New Jersey Folk Festival is a project of the Department of American Studies at Rutgers University New Brunswick. The festival highlights cultures and communities of New Jersey and gives students a hands-on internship
experience in producing public arts and humanities programs.
Each year we research artists and community members who will participate in our programs. Students conduct oral history interviews and archival research leading to the development of festival performances, programs, (...)
Aresty Research Assistant
SAS - American Studies
American Ethnic Studies, American Indian Studies, (...)
The New Brunswick Theological Seminary owns a complete Torah scroll, written in Egypt during the 17th-century (per C-14 dating). While the basic text of each Torah scroll is essentially the same, each scribe wrote, aligned, and formatted the text differently. I seek two students who can assist me to investigate the various textual and paratextual features of this scroll: paragraphing, dotted letters, large and small letters, use or non-use of tagin (crownlets), layout of the two poems (Exodus (...)
Aresty Research Assistant
SAS - Jewish Studies
Humanities, Hebrew
In light of the Rutgers 101: College Writing curriculum redesign, the fellow will research key questions about ongoing best practices in Writing Programs at our peer universities. Specifically, this project proposes a dual-focus study of first-year writing courses: exploring genre-based reading and writing in first-year writing courses, and investigating honors first- year writing courses.
Key questions are as follows:
What do students read in first-year writing courses, and why? What is (...)
Aresty Research Assistant
SAS - English Writing Program
English
