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Don Weber
Headed for the Bellagio Center
January 2003
Professor of American Studies
and English, Donald Weber has received a fellowship to the Bellagio Center
for his project “The Anxiety of Belonging: Multiculturalism and Identity
Politics in U.S. and U.K. Literary and Popular Culture.” He will
compare how the idea of belonging
and the constructions of ethnic identity are explored in the literary
and popular cultures of the U.S. and U.K. On a theoretical level, he wants
to explore the charge of French sociologists, such as Bourdieu, that multiculturalism
is another example of American academic imperialism, together with the
notion that, due to America sociologists,
the term “identity” has become overburdened and lost all explanatory
power. Fellowships to the Bellagio Center, a historic estate on the shores
of Lake Como run by the Rockefeller Foundation, are highly prestigious
and go to established scholars judged by their peers to be
doing cutting-edge work.
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