Summer 2006 SURF Grant Projects
Imperial Waste Management: A Victorian Fantasy of National Regeneration and Reform - Tim Carens and Daniel Powell
Digging into English archives, Professor Carens and Daniel Powell investigate Victorian reform and its connections with waste of many sorts. Read more ....
Poisoning Justice: Staging Tyranny in Shakespeare - Catherine Thomas and Heather Alexander
At collections housed at Pennsylvania State University and the British Library, Professor Thomas and Heather Alexander gather and analyze competing definitions of tyranny in the literature and culture of sixteenth and seventeenth century England. Read more...
The Myth of the Organic Community: Environment and Cultural Identity in the Contemporary British Novel - Doryjane Birrer and Larissa Brian
Professor Birrer and Larissa Brian explore ironic visions of the organic community in contemporary British novels, showing how novelists expose myths of an idyllic rural past as both ideologically suspect and environmentally compromised. Read more...
"We like poems that change the light in the room in which we are reading." - Carol Ann Davis and Meghan Lee
Professor Davis and Meghan Lee consider poetry and editorial selection, as they read and select works for Crazyhorse.
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