THE BARRICELLI MEMORIAL GRANT FOR GRADUATE RESEARCH

The Barricelli Memorial Grant for Graduate Research was established in 1997 to honor the late Dr. Jean-Pierre Barricelli. The organizing committee created an endowment to provide financial support for graduate students at the University of California Riverside in the process of writing their doctoral dissertations in literature and another field of study.

The grant seeks to encourage and enable highly motivated graduate students to pursue comparative studies in literature and another/other disciplines(s), including but not limited to the arts. Each scholar receives $1,500 of research support and an opportunity to present his/her work at the annual Winter Colloquium, hosted by the Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages.

Historically, the Barricelli selection committee has favored applications from students engaged in comparative studies between literature and the arts; however, it also welcomes applications from students undertaking interdisciplinary work with literature and the law, science, and other disciplines not typically included in the arts and humanities.

HOW TO APPLY

Conditions of Eligibility

To be eligible for a Barricelli Memorial Grant, an applicant must:

• attend UCR as a graduate student in good academic standing;
• have demonstrated superior standards of intellectual ability and scholastic achievement during his or her graduate coursework;
• be at the ABD ("All But Dissertation") stage, i.e. have completed all Ph.D. qualifying exams.

Application Deadlines

• There will be an annual call for applications in mid-March
• April 21, 2008: Deadline for receipt of all applications.
• May 2, 2008: Deadline for announcement of awards.

Application Materials

An application in the form of an original hard copy and electronic copy (MS Word) must be submitted no later than Feb. 9, 2007 to:

Prof. Thomas F. Scanlon
Chair, Comparative Literature & Foreign Language
2401 Humanities and Social Science Building
University of California-Riverside
Riverside , CA 92521
(951) 827-1390
thomas.scanlon@ucr.edu

Each application must include the following materials:

• a letter of application from the candidate describing his or her research and its relevance to the Barricelli Memorial Grant. The letter should include a discussion of the stage of writing and program for completion;
• a current curriculum vitae;
• two letters of recommendation from faculty members that assess the applicant’s intellectual strengths and appropriateness of his or her project for this grant.

Scholarship Conditions

A Barricelli Scholar receives $1,500 in research support for work on his or her dissertation. Recipients are allowed to supplement the award with other scholarships, assistantships and research grants.

PREVIOUS AWARDEES

JEAN-PIERRE BARRICELLI

Dr. Jean-Pierre Barricelli was an energetic and vocal advocate of a broadly humanistic education at Riverside for 34 years, until his death on July 1, 1997. His scholarly achievements include 17 books and over 100 articles, including important studies on Leopardi, Dante, and the interrelationship of literature with music, drama, and law. He was active and instrumental in a number of professional societies, including the Association of Literary Scholars, the Pacific Ancient and Modem Literature Association (of which he was once president), the Modem Language Association, and the Comparative Literature Association. He lectured widely each year with a vigorous travel schedule in the U.S. and around the globe.

Professor Barricelli took his Bachelors, Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Comparative Literature and Romance Languages all at Harvard (where he fenced, played varsity baseball and was co-captain of the team). He taught at Western Reserve, Harvard, and Brandeis Universities, and was a visiting professor at New York University, UC San Diego, and at universities in Norway. His academic honors include Fulbright awards (Paris in 1950 and Bergren, Norway in 1962), a Rockefeller Foundation Grant, and the UCR Distinguished Teaching Award in 1970.

At UCR in 1976 he was a founder of the Department of Literatures and Languages, now Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages, of which he was twice chairman. Also in 1976 he was a founder of the annual Eaton Conference in Science Fiction. He devised a popular undergraduate Humanities course at UCR in "The Quest for Values" which epitomized his unique ability to synthesize the literature, visual arts, and music of Africa, Asia and Europe.

In our increasingly specialized and science-oriented world, Dr. Barricelli was devoted to communicating the values inherent in the arts and humanities, to advocating academic breadth, and to encouraging comparative projects. His devotion in a sense anticipated the growing realization that we can learn much from the creative enterprises of world civilizations. He himself lived that creed beyond the academy by composing music, conducting orchestras, writing music reviews for 34 years for the Riverside Press-Enterprise newspaper, acting, creative writing, and painting.

His strong and eloquent advocacy of the arts and humanities are very sorely missed by students and colleagues at UCR and elsewhere in the academic community. His immense breadth and scope of learning have left a legacy from which we all continue to learn.

GRANT ADMINISTRATION

Barricelli Memorial Grant Committee:

Prof. Thomas F. Scanlon
Chair, Comparative Literature & Foreign Language, UC Riverside

Prof. Franca Barricelli
Chair, Department of History, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh

Prof. Carlos Cortés
Emeritus, History Department, UC Riverside

Prof. Emory Elliott
English Department, UC Riverside

Prof. Stanley Stewart
English Department, UC Riverside

For further information or an application, please contact

Ms. Bonnie Anketell
Graduate Student Affairs Staff
Comparative Literature & Foreign Language
2401 Humanities and Social Science Building
UC Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
(951) 827-1523