Prof. Berent was selected to participate in the 2017/18 Humanities Center Fellowship Group on the theme of “Whose Story?” for her project titled, “Our Language, Our Selves.” The Humanities Center Fellowship program brings together scholars from various disciplines and provides a focused period of time for Northeastern Humanities Fellows to pursue research, to collaborate with others around a common theme, and to share their work with the Northeastern community.

The fellows group, composed of nine faculty fellows and two graduate students, will meet regularly for discussion and to workshop pre-distributed chapters of their writing projects. The work will include occasional public presentations that will showcase their projects for the larger university community and beyond, an end-of-year symposium, and one course release.

This year’s theme, “Whose Story?” will be focused on the stories we tell ourselves, in their many varieties. The group seeks an interdisciplinary, humanistic conversation about how contemporary narratives of identity and experience, belonging and exclusion, are fostered or censored and how social and cultural institutions mediate the circulation of these narratives. Prof. Berent’s project, “Our Language, Our Selves” explores language, its evolution and its role in the stories we tell about ourselves, the story tellers.

Congratulations Prof. Berent!