The Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Indiana University, formally opened in October 2004, is home to one of the liveliest and most exciting inter-disciplinary communities at Indiana University-Bloomington. The Center brings together faculty and graduate students to discuss new work and new intellectual directions in the broad field of Eighteenth-Century Studies. Our faculty include over twenty active members from six different departments (English, History, Comparative Literature, German, French, Religion). On top of our regular meetings throughout the year, the pinnacle of our annual cycle is the Bloomington Eighteenth-Century Workshop, an intensive, inter-disciplinary four-day event each May which brings some 12-15 scholars to Bloomington to join Indiana faculty and graduate students in presenting and discussing pre-circulated papers on a broad topic. For the topics and programs of the previous Workshops, running since 2002, please see our Workshop web page. The call for papers for the following year'’s Eighteenth-Century Workshop is advertised in the early fall.
The Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies also supports an annual invited lecture, a graduate dissertation fellowship competition, and a PhD minor concentration.
For further inquiries please contact the Director, Professor Dror Wahrman, dwahrman @ indiana . edu, or the Center'’s administrator, Dr. Barbara Truesdel, voltaire @ indiana . edu.