Congratulations to Draper Travel Grant Recipient, Christopher Iverson

We are pleased to congratulate Christopher Iverson, the most recent recipient of a Draper Travel Grant, on his award! Christopher will use the grant to attend the University of Washington's conference "Acceptance in German Literary and Visual Culture," where he will be presenting his paper Rubble Films of the European and American Screens later this month.

A friendly reminder to all students that five Draper Travel Grants are awarded per academic year and that applications are accepted during five different periods. The next submission deadline will be June 30th. Currently matriculated Draper students who will be delivering papers or posters at scholarly conferences should fill out and deliver the necessary forms to the Draper office or via email to draper.program@nyu.edu by 5:00 pm, 6/30. The application is available through our website at http://draper.fas.nyu.edu/object/draper.forms. Along with the completed application, please submit confirmation that a conference has accepted the paper or project for presentation.
Again, we congratulate Mr. Iverson and wish him the best of luck on his presentation!

Draper's Doctoral Successes: Ph.D. Acceptances 2012

Congratulations to all of our current students and alumni who have been accepted to doctoral programs!

If you would like to add your own Ph.D. news to our list, please email us at draper.program[at]nyu.edu.

• Keith Aksel (alumnus 2010) was accepted to the History program at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
• Hilarie Ashton was accepted to the English program at the CUNY Graduate Center. She will start in fall 2013.
• Leslie Bowman will start the English and Religion program at Claremont Graduate University.
• Michelle Dennis was accepted to the English programs at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and the University of Michigan. She'll be attending the University of Michigan.
• Bejamin Foley (alumnus, 2008) will start at Rutgers' Sociology program.
• Nicholaus Gutierrez (alumnus, Jan. 2012) will start at Berkeley's Rhetoric program in the fall.
  
• Lee Huttner was accepted to the English program at Northwestern
  
• Craig Knox will start his doctoral work at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto. He was awarded four years of full funding.
  
• Sarah Catherine Latanyshyn was accepted to the Ethnomusicology program at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the musicology program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She will attend UCSB with a four year Doctoral Scholars Fellowship 
•  Ji Hyun Lee (alumna, 2010) was accepted to the English programs at Northeastern (with the University Excellence Fellowship), SUNY Stony Brook (with the Graduate Council Fellowship), and Cornell (with funding). Ji Hyun will attend Cornell in the fall where she is looking forward to the opportunity to study trauma with Cathy Caruth.
  
• Daniel Libatique will attend Boston University's Classics program in the fall.
• Eric Longfellow was accepted to the English Studies and Creative Writing program at Illinois State University.
• Pamela Nogales will start at NYU's American History program in the fall.
• William Paris (alumnus, Jan. 2012) was accepted to the Philosophy program at the University of Pennsylvania
  
• Yun Emily Wang was accepted to the Ethnomusicology programs at Memorial University and the University of Toronto, as well as the Humanities program at Concordia University. She will start at the University of Toronto in the fall.
• Lindsey Whitmore was accepted to the Women's and Gender Studies program at Rutgers and the Cultural Studies program at SUNY Stony Brook. She will start at Rutgers in the fall.

Good luck to all of you!
Please keep us updated on your endeavors!

Richard Sieburth Receives Guggenheim Fellowship, 2012

Draper is pleased to congratulate Richard Sieburth, Draper’s master teacher in Literary Cultures, for receiving a 2012 Guggenheim fellowship for translation. He is working on a new edition of Late Baudelaire.

Sieburth, who holds appointments in NYU's Comparative Literature and French departments, is an accomplished translator, whose previous publications include a dozen translations from the French and German, such as Georg Büchner’s Lenz, Walter Benjamin’s Moscow Diary and Gérard de Nerval’s Selected Writings and The Salt Smugglers, as well as critical volumes in the field of Pound studies. Most recently, he released Ezra Pound, New Selected Poems & Translations through New Directions.

Brooklyn Rail offers an excellent interview with the Guggenheim fellow circa 2010. Read Sieburth’s thoughts on the exact craft of translation and on the role of the author’s ego. http://www.brooklynrail.org/2012/03/books/richard-sieburth-with-adam-fitzgerald