Europe

With GGR support, I plan to investigate nineteenth-century Iberian and Latin American periodicals at the Biblioteca Nacional de España (BNE).

Deep and thick sections of landscape representation make materials, ecology, and cultural histories visible.

The Aegean islands are experiencing the dramatic effects of climate change, including droughts, heatwaves, wildfires, rising seas, and massive migration from nearby failing states.

Historical records attest the Bight of Biafra as a significant European entrepôt during the Trans-Atlantic period.

This project seeks to revitalize study of the intimate as a critical site for the humanistic study of empire and its postcolonial legacies.

This project wishes to shed light on authors who have been purposefully forgotten from literary history (Suzanne Giroust de Morency, Elizabeth Guénard, Félicité de Choiseul-Meuse), who emancipated their expression on sexuality from the libertine novel and created a genre of their own.

This semester, Profs. Cheryl Krueger and Ari Blatt, both in the Department of French, are co-facilitating a new, 1-credit reading seminar.

My project considers the contested heritage debate in the former Serbian province of Kosovo on the example of four medieval Eastern Orthodox monasteries, all UNESCO World Heritage sites.

My dissertation reassesses the Jewish experience of Baroque Catholicism by moving away from models of Jewish victimhood and instead highlighting Jewish agency and savviness.

This project consists of a year-long thesis study surrounding the influence of French garden design on the American landscape as traced through the distribution of French botanical art of the 18th century.