For the second year in a row, Antonio Barrenechea, Associate Professor of English, has been selected to participate in one of the two Jessie Ball duPont Summer Seminars sponsored by the National Humanities Center. His seminar, “Sound Studies in the Humanities and Beyond,” will meet May 31 to June 19 in Chapel Hill, N.C. His application was approved in conjunction with his on-going project on the poetics and politics of excess in the cinema of the Americas.