Department doctoral student Terri Donofrio has received a Honors Humanities Doctoral Teaching Fellowship from the Honors Humanities Program at the University of Maryland.

The Honors Humanities Doctoral Teaching Fellowship is an apprenticeship program for early-career Ph.D. students who aspire to faculty positions in the humanities, and who are pursuing teaching experience during their doctoral degree program. The teaching fellow’s primary responsibility is to be involved in teaching the Honors Humanities sophomore theory seminar, ARHU205: Modes of Knowing and Doing in the Arts and Humanities.

ARHU205 is a rigorous, interdisciplinary survey of the major foundational and contemporary critical issues and methodologies facing scholars across the fields of the humanities, broadly construed. This theory-intensive course requires relatively vast knowledge of traditional and emergent theoretical currents, including but not limited to: feminisms and queer theories; critical theories of race and ethnicity; modernism and postmodernism; structuralism and poststructuralism; cultural studies and postcolonial theories; and intersectionality. The ideal candidate will have some familiarity with these concepts and theoretical approaches; more importantly, the teaching fellow should be interested in intensive study and teaching in these areas.