*Deadline Extended to February 1, 2017

PennSound and the Price Lab for Digital Humanities invite graduate students from the School of Arts and Sciences who study the traditional humanities or in the humanistic social sciences to propose projects that use digital technology to explore the role of sound in the humanities and engage the extensive multimedia holdings of the Pennsound archive. This new Fellowship will be awarded to one student who will receive support from the PennSound staff and a stipend of $4,000 (paid in two $2,000 installments) in order to complete their project. Fellowship recipients will also have access to the resources of the Kelly Writers House, a literary community and arts space on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. In addition, fellows will be invited to participate in the Price Lab’s biweekly Mellon Digital Humanities Seminar Series.

The Fellowship, sponsored by PennSound and the Price Lab for Digital Humanities, will run through the 2017 - 2018 academic year and culminate in a presentation of a work in progress in April 2018. If they wish, fellows can begin their research as early as July 2017. Fellows will receive the stipend in two parts; $2,000 will be paid at the beginning of fall semester and $2,000 will be paid at the end of spring semester pending acceptable progress on the project. To apply, please submit a current CV and a cover letter describing your project, both as PDFs, by February 1, 2017 to pennsoundprice@writing.upenn.edu (DEADLINE EXTENDED).

PennSound was founded in 2005 by professors Al Filreis and Charles Bernstein with a single goal in mind: to provide a free, online poetry archive, whose contents would be openly available to anybody for educational and non-commercial use. For an overview of PennSound — including a discussion of the project's pedagogical implications — we invite you to explore the archive here or to listen to PennSound podcast #6.

As the centerpiece of the School of Arts and Sciences strategic initiative Humanities in the Digital Age, the Price Lab for Digital Humanities supports innovative uses of technology in the study of history, art, and culture. We work in close partnership with the Penn Libraries and Penn Museum of Archeology and Anthropology to help train faculty and students in the latest digital tools and methods, encourage development of new computing-intensive humanities courses, and promote collaborative faculty-student experiments and research projects.