Theresa Geller Wins Mellon Research Fellowship

Theresa Geller, EKI associate professor of film theory and history in the English department, has received an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Mid-Career Fellowship entitled “Thinking the Humanities in the 21st Century” at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University for the 2015–16 academic year. 

According to Yale, the fellowship is directed toward faculty at four-year liberal arts colleges who have received tenure within the last five years. It will welcome three outstanding scholars in each of the academic years 2015–2018, where they will pursue research programs in any area of the humanities and related fields and enter into intellectual exchanges with faculty, fellows, and other visitors to the Whitney Center. 

During Geller’s research year, she will work on a book-length project titled Modes of Entrustment, which will examine affect and intersubjectivity in contemporary queer film and media. Geller says, “As someone in the rare position of teaching film studies as humanities, I have been compelled to think through the ways media model humanistic inquiry broadly conceived.”