{"id":57239,"date":"2015-05-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-english-professor-wins-prestigious-fellowship-from-american-academy-in-berlin\/"},"modified":"2015-05-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T00:00:00","slug":"uri-english-professor-wins-prestigious-fellowship-from-american-academy-in-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2015\/05\/uri-english-professor-wins-prestigious-fellowship-from-american-academy-in-berlin\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 English professor wins prestigious fellowship from American Academy in Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tMary Cappello is first 溏心vlog免费B站 professor to receive Berlin Prize<\/b><\/p>\n

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 27, 2015 \u2013 Why does a rainstorm depress some people and make others happy? Why is a sunset heartbreaking for some, breathtaking for others? Why does the music of Joni Mitchell make some weep, others rejoice?<\/p>\n


\nOur moods determine our behavior, but what exactly is a mood and how can it be defined in literature and art? <\/p>\n


\n溏心vlog免费B站 English professor Mary Cappello will explore that question as the recipient of the highly competitive Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin, Germany. She is the first 溏心vlog免费B站 professor to receive the award.<\/p>\n


\nCappello is among 21 writers, artists, historians, scholars and composers chosen from throughout the United States for semester-long fellowships. Cappello will research and write in Berlin this fall.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cReceiving this fellowship is a tremendous honor,\u201d says Cappello, of Providence. \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to the extraordinary opportunity to share my work in an entirely new locale and learn from the groundbreaking work of other fellows in residence and distinguished visitors to the Academy, while experiencing the kind of thinking and writing being produced by artists and intellectuals in Berlin, where I\u2019m hopeful to forge lasting new relationships.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nIn Berlin, she\u2019ll explore sound installations and sound study programs as part of her soon-to-be-published book, \u201cLife Breaks In: A Mood Almanack.\u201d <\/p>\n


\n\u201cSounds touch me, and mood is the window of allowance, wide or narrow, to let sound in,\u201d says Cappello. \u201cMy moods are equivalent to what I let myself touch, and be touched by in turn, but also what I have no choice in the matter of being encased in.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nShe plans to conceptualize \u201cmood rooms\u201d \u2013 with other artists \u2013 as alternative performance and meeting places. The rooms would be \u201cmood-inducers,\u201d with moods themselves as invisible rooms \u2013 or the mercurial, ever-present dwellings that form people.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cWhat is mood? Is the idea of the mood room particularly contemporary?\u201d says Cappello. \u201cDoes it speak to a pressing need or quest? Would a mood room represent a place of intimacy in an age of fractured attention?\u201d<\/p>\n


\nMood is the perfect topic for essayists, says Cappello. It is almost impossible to define, yet shapes our motives, acts, beliefs and feelings. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cThe challenge of this book from the start has been the impossibility of drawing a line around my subject,\u201d says Cappello. \u201cIt\u2019s taken me to places I wouldn\u2019t have anticipated, which is also the pleasure and challenge of the genre I work in \u2013 lyric essay.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nThe Berlin Prize is awarded annually to scholars, writers, composers and artists who represent the highest standards of excellence in their fields. Fellows receive a monthly stipend, partial board and accommodations at the Academy\u2019s lakeside Hans Arnhold Center in Berlin-Wannsee. <\/p>\n


\nThe prize gives recipients the time to step back from their daily obligations to work on academic and artistic projects they might not otherwise pursue, and to engage with their colleagues in Germany. The German newspaper Der Spiegel called the Academy \u201cthe world\u2019s most important center for American intellectual life outside the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nCappello and the other winners were chosen by an independent committee. Other projects include examining East German urban-planning efforts in Vietnam, a small-scale methamphetamine production in rural Missouri and contemporary Islam through the work of Arab poets since World War II. <\/p>\n


\n\tA professor at 溏心vlog免费B站 since 1991, Cappello is the author of four books of literary nonfiction, including \u201cCalled Back: My Reply to Cancer, My Return to Life,\u201d \u2013 winner of a ForeWord Book of the Year Award and Independent Publishers Prize \u2013 and \u201cAwkward: A Detour,\u201d a Los Angeles Times bestseller. <\/p>\n


\nWith recent essays in The Georgia Review, Salmagundi and Cabinet Magazine and features in The New York Times, Salon.com, The Huffington Post and on NPR and MSNBC, she is the recipient of The Bechtel Prize for Educating the Imagination from Teachers and Writers Collaborative; the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize from Duke University\u2019s Center for Documentary Studies; and a Guggenheim Fellowship. <\/p>\n


\nShe is a former Fulbright Lecturer at the Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow, and the recipient of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Foundation 2015 Scholarly Excellence Award.<\/p>\n


\nHer most recent book, \u201cSwallow,\u201d emerges from the Dr. Chevalier Jackson Foreign Body Collection in Philadelphia\u2019s M\u00fctter Museum, where she also was co-curator of the re-furbished Foreign Body display. Dr. Jackson was a renowned Philadelphia otolaryngologist who developed methods and tools for removing foreign objects from human airways. The collection includes 2,374 inhaled or swallowed objects that he removed from patients\u2019 throats and lungs. <\/p>\n


\nCappello also hopes to start work on another book tentatively called, \u201cWaylaid By Interest,\u201d an exploration of the nature of interest and aversion.<\/p>\n


\nWinifred Brownell, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, says she is \u201cthrilled\u201d that Cappello won the fellowship, calling her one of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s \u201cmost brilliant and acclaimed writers.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\u201cThe highly regarded Berlin Prize will allow her to interact with outstanding intellectuals from a variety of disciplines, meet with top German artists, scientists and scholars in acoustic studies and complete her book,\u201d says Brownell. \u201cI\u2019m confident that she will contribute significantly and gain considerably from what will be a transformative experience to interact with some of the top minds in the world.\u201d <\/p>\n


\n Pictured above: Mary Cappello, a professor of English and creative writing at the 溏心vlog免费B站. Photo by Jean Walton.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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