A $750,000 grant to the University of Houston (UH) will help to produce new digital scholarship and projects based on the thousands of written works authored by Latinos from colonial times until 1960. According to a UH statement, the Mellon Foundation grant will give scholars in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences expanded access to discover knowledge from books, newspapers, manuscripts, and personal papers produced by Latinos and archived by the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage (“Recovery”) program and UH’s Arte Público Press.
“The recent grant from The Mellon Foundation will assist the University of Houston tremendously as it continues to be a leader in recovering and preserving the rich literary heritage of U.S. Hispanic authors through Arte Público Press,” said Antonio Tillis, dean of the UH College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, in a statement.
Arte Público Press is the largest publisher of contemporary and recovered literature by Hispanic authors from the United States.
“This grant will enable furthering the mission of highlighting contemporary creative works that tell the unique stories of migration, transnationalism, and nationalisms,” Tillis said.
UH is one of only three Tier One public research universities in the United States designated as a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HIS) by the US Department of Education. The school also houses a Department of Hispanic Studies open to all of its 43,500 students regardless of their language or ethnicity.
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