English Instructor Paula Priour Awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Grant

We're excited to announce that Paula Priour is one of 16 scholars to be awarded a summer institute grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities. She will be participating in the Steinbeck Institute in July. Paula is thrilled for this extraordinary opportunity to engage with colleagues. "I'm teaching Steinbeck's Cannery Row right now, and it's maybe my favorite book of the year's curriculum, so you can imagine my excitement."  

THE STEINBECK INSTITUTE: July 1-20, 2018

John Steinbeck was a social protest novelist, an ecological visionary and an incisive commentator on American values and  ideals -- one who spent most of his career exploring what “the common good” really meant.

Please "Read More" for details on this prestigious grant.
(Extrapolated from NEH website) These primarily residential programs encourage schoolteachers and college teachers to study common texts, visit collections in libraries and museums, exchange ideas about the art of teaching, and share insights and materials with their colleagues and students. 

Steinbeck’s sense of place and history was enriched by a long-standing interest in science. His friendship with marine biologist Edward F. Ricketts from 1930-1948 had a deep and lasting impact on his work, evident in the book that was his personal  favorite, Sea of Cortez (1941).

Steinbeck’s moral and ecological sensibilities are deeply intertwined and suffuse all of his work, fiction and  nonfiction. Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Steinbeck Institute, “John Steinbeck: Social Critic and Ecologist” reflects its mission of exploring intersections between the humanities and sciences. The first part of the Institute focuses on John Steinbeck the novelist, and the second part considers Steinbeck’s ecological connections. From July 1-20, 2018, NEH Summer Scholars will come to the Monterey Peninsula, two hours south of San Francisco, to study John Steinbeck's writing, his cultural impact, and the ecological vision he shared with marine biologist Edward F. Ricketts.

The institute includes field studies in the Salinas Valley and on the Monterey coast. This National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute will explore Steinbeck’s intersecting visions and consider why his work deserves complex consideration in ways that are not usually taught. We will discuss the continuing relevance of his sense of place, his great labor trilogy, his ecological and scientific perspectives, his treatment of race and ethnicity, and his probing commentaries on Cold War America and looming threats to the nation. This Summer Institute’s holistic approach to Steinbeck’s work will help bridge the divides between humanities and sciences, between literary analysis and historical contexts, between historical and contemporary perspectives, and between fiction and nonfiction.
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