The following students will travel to archives and conferences aided by the ESA travel grants funded by English alumni:
[The process for awarding these grants was based on a time-stamped Google form asking for the name of paper and conference / project and archive. Students in their 7th year and above were prioritized, after which grants were awarded to students in the order their forms were submitted.]
- Lara Rodriguez, visiting the Ward M. Canaday Center at The University of Toledo, to study the Etheridge Knight Papers, December 2015.
- Lauren Bailey, presenting her paper “Opening the ‘door to Darkness’: Reading the Two Women Knitting Black Wool in Heart of Darkness” at Natural and Unnatural Histories, Asheville, NC, March 10-13, 2016. https://incs2016.appstate.edu/schedule/detailed-schedule
- Dadland Maye, presenting his paper “Queer for the Large American Place: LGBT for the Small Caribbean Space,” at the Caribbean Philosophical Association’s Shifting the Geography of Reason XIII: Theorizing from Small Places, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, June 16-18, 2016.
- Felix Bernstein, presenting his paper “Canon Repellant” for the M/ELT (Modernist/Experimental Literature and Text-Art) program at UCLA, January 27, 2016. http://www.arras.net/fscIII/?p=2511
- Kultej Dhariwal: presenting his paper “Form, Fiction, and the Historical Comic” at Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, Seattle, WA, March 22-25, 2016. http://ncp.pcaaca.org/session/comics-and-comic-art-journalism-and-shades-reality] (received Student Affairs grant, ESA grant offered to next applicant:)
Ryan Tracy, presenting his paper “Bloom ‘Overdrawn,’ or, Ulysses‘ Bad Debt” at The XXV International James Joyce Symposium, University of London, June 13-18, 2016. http://anniversaryjoyce.com/
- Christina Katopodis, presenting her paper “Reading Silent Music in Emerson and Thoreau: Finding the Sonic Self in the American Wilderness,” at NeMLA 2016, Hartford, CT March 17-20,2016. https://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention.html
- Rachel Kravetz, visiting the Yale Center for British Art, for research on her dissertation chapter “J.G. Frazer: The Grotesque Against the Picturesque,” March/April 2016.
- Jenny Leroy, co-convening G19: The Graduate Student Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, and hosting a lunch on Friday Mar 18, at C19: Unsettling – The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Penn State in State College, PA, March 17-20, 2016. https://c19conference.wordpress.com/events/
- Michele Chinitz, presenting her paper “Affect, the Arts, and Displacement in Teju Cole’s Open City” at American Literature in the World, Yale University, April 8, 2016. http://amlitintheworld.yale.edu/2016-conference/
- Lindsey Albracht, presenting her paper “Designing Activism into First-Year Composition: Small Activism for Big Investment for Student Writers” at The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), Houston, TX, April 6-9, 2016. http://www.ncte.org/cccc/conv
- Madison Priest, presenting her paper “Edith Wharton’s Aesthetics of Failure” at NeMLA, Hartford, CT, March 17-20, 2016. https://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention.html
- Julia Glinz Fuller, presenting her paper “The New Woman as Sportswoman in Sarah Grand and Mary Beaumont” at NeMLA, Hartford, CT, March 17-20, 2016. https://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention.html
- Hilarie Ashton, presenting her paper “Are You There, (Oh) G-d: Rapture in Pop Music Sound/Voices” at EMP Pop Conference, April 14-17, 2016, Seattle, WA. http://www.empmuseum.org/programs-plus-education/programs/pop-conference/pop-conference.aspx
- Erin Spampinato, presenting her paper “We Are Not at Home”: Rape the Problem of Other Minds in The Man of Property” at Interdisciplinary Conference on Sexual Violence, April 15-16, 2016, Blacksburg, VA.