Research Triangle Park, NC. The National Humanities Center has announced the appointment of 39 Fellows for the academic year 2005-06. Representing history, literature, philosophy, and other humanistic fields of study, these scholars will come to the Center from the faculties of 33 colleges and universities in the United States, England, and Germany. They will work individually on research projects in the humanities, and will exchange ideas in seminars, lectures, and conferences. In addition to these appointed Fellows, the Center will welcome the well-known critic and scholar Helen Vendler as a distinguished visitor for a month.

"I look forward to welcoming this exciting group of scholars," said Geoffrey Harpham, Director of the National Humanities Center. "They represent a truly remarkable range of interests."

The Center received 535 applications in its fellowship competition for 2005-06. The appointed Fellows will also include four scholars who have received Burkhardt Fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies.

The National Humanities Center will grant $1.3 million to enable its chosen Fellows to take leave from their normal academic duties and pursue their research at the Center. Funding for these fellowships is made possible by the Center's endowment, by contributions from alumni Fellows of the Center, and by grants from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, the Florence Gould Foundation, the Lilly Endowment, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The National Humanities Center, located in the Research Triangle Park of North Carolina, is a privately incorporated independent institute for advanced study in the humanities. Since 1978 the Center has awarded fellowships to leading scholars in the humanities, whose work at the Center has resulted in the publication of more than 900 books in all fields of humanistic study. The Center also sponsors programs to strengthen the teaching of the humanities in secondary and higher education.

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