Joel Faflak, Western University

Research

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Latest funding

Wasting Time with Romanticism
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$27,245
Wasting Time with Romanticism
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$41,935
Mobilizing narratives for policy and social change
SSHRC · 2016 · Co-investigator
$200,000

All 7 grants and awards

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Wasting Time with Romanticism

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Faflak, Joel R.

Keywords: 19th-century British literature; romanticism; psychology; waste; affect; imagination; higher education

$27,245

Wasting Time with Romanticism

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Faflak, Joel R.

Keywords: 19th-century British literature; romanticism; psychology; waste; affect; imagination; higher education

$41,935

Mobilizing narratives for policy and social change

Co-investigatorSSHRC2016Partnership Development Grants

Principal investigators: Le Ber, Marlene J.

Keywords: mobilizing narrative; social change; policy change; cross-sectorial partnerships; transdiciplinarity; community-university partnerships

$200,000

Romanticism and the psychopathology of happiness 1750-1850

Principal investigatorSSHRC2010Standard Research Grants program

Principal investigators: Faflak, Joel R.

Keywords: British romantic literature and culture; 1750-1850; nineteenth-century literature and culture; histories of psychiatry and psychoanalysis; eighteenth- and nineteenth-century philosophy; psychoanalytic theory; critical theory; moral management

$62,737

Romanticism and Evolution

Principal investigatorSSHRC2010Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada

Principal investigators: Faflak, Joel R.

Keywords: interdisciplinary conference; history of evolution and evolutionary thought; evolutionary theory; romantic and Victorian literature and culture; history of science and philosophy

$25,000

Romantic psychiatry and the trauma of sensibility, 1789-1862

Principal investigatorSSHRC2007Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Faflak, Joel R.

Keywords: British literature; culture; and science 1750-1900; history of literature and psychology; web resource

$67,116

The serious stamp of science: the case history of literature (1785-1897); website resource of case histories

Principal investigatorSSHRC2003Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Faflak, Joel R.

Keywords: British literature (1750-1900); case history; history of literature and psychoanalysis; web resource

$52,671

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor Faflak, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Wasting Time with Romanticism" (2022), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]