{"id":66995,"date":"2026-01-27T12:18:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T17:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/?p=66995"},"modified":"2026-01-27T12:18:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T17:18:22","slug":"summer-spark-by-aghi-formerly-blast-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/2026\/01\/27\/summer-spark-by-aghi-formerly-blast-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Spark by AGHI (formerly Blast Courses)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Graduate Summer Teaching Opportunity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, in partnership with Johns Hopkins\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/odyssey.jhu.edu\/\">Odyssey Lifelong Learning program, organized by the Office of Alumni Relations<\/a>, invites course proposals from Johns Hopkins humanities PhD students for a new summer teaching opportunity called Summer Spark by AGHI. Building on the success of our asynchronous Blast humanities courses between 2020 and 2025, Summer Spark will sponsor four graduate instructors to design their own interactive online seminars to run as weekly Odyssey courses between <strong>July 6th and July 31st, 2026<\/strong>. Graduate instructors will receive a stipend of $2,500 for four course meetings of one-and-a-half hours each, as well as course promotion and evaluation assistance through Odyssey and individual pedagogical support through Hopkins\u2019 Center for Teaching Excellence and Innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To apply, please upload a cover letter, short course description (up to one page), and faculty letter of reference to Interfolio [<a href=\"https:\/\/apply.interfolio.com\/179558\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">apply.interfolio.com\/179558<\/a>] by <strong>Monday, February 9th at 5:00 p.m. <\/strong>Successful applicants will be notified by the end of February, with course promotions to start in early May. Preference will be given to graduate applicants who have completed the CTEI\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/teachingacademy.jhu.edu\/training\/teaching-institute\/\">Summer Teaching Institute<\/a>, either in person or online. Eligibility is limited to students below year five of their PhD program, or who will be entering their sixth year during summer 2026; students who will be beyond their sixth year are ineligible. International PhD students will need to apply for CPT, information on and the application for which can be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/ois.jhu.edu\/students\/current-f-1-students\/f-1-training-and-employment\/curricular-practical-training\/\">https:\/\/ois.jhu.edu\/students\/current-f-1-students\/f-1-training-and-employment\/curricular-practical-training\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>ABOUT THE AGHI<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute (AGHI) aims to advance humanities scholarship and teaching at Johns Hopkins and promote literature, art, philosophy, history, and other cultural studies in Baltimore and the wider community. The Humanities Institute serves as a focal point of programming for the 13 humanities departments in the university\u2019s Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, other departments in humanistic social sciences, and <a href=\"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/academics\/departments-programs-and-centers\/\">related centers, programs, and institutes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>ABOUT ODYSSEY<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Johns Hopkins Alumni Association offers a wide selection of non-credit, personal enrichment courses and workshops taught by Johns Hopkins alumni, faculty, and global community experts through its Odyssey lifelong learning program. For more than 25 years, Odyssey has brought together alumni, faculty, staff, and global experts to share their knowledge through diverse workshops, lectures, and experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduate Summer Teaching Opportunity The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, in partnership with Johns Hopkins\u2019 Odyssey Lifelong Learning program, organized by the Office of Alumni Relations, invites course proposals from Johns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":397,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/397"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66996,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66995\/revisions\/66996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}