by J J CohenITM readers may be interested to learn that Judith Butler has been awarded $1.5 million by the Mellon Foundation to fund a Critical Theory Institute with the subject of "Thinking Critically About War."
Here is the UC Berkeley news story -- which also mentions that Butler has been awarded an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, Ford Foundation support, and a Humanities Research Fellowship from Berkeley. So that's where all the humanities funding is disappearing to these days: Judith Butler, can't you leave something for the rest of us?
Butler's latest book is Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?
Un-fucking-believeable. What incredible news and what a gift for and to the humanities. Vive la Butler.
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ReplyDeleteFrames of War arrived in the mail a couple days ago, so I'd like to think my buying the book is what put Butler over the edge for the grant...
loved her in examined life...
ReplyDeleteJeff, you neglected to mention too that Barbara Newman (an eminent medievalist at Northwestern) also received one of those Mellon awards. Good day to be one of us...
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