English Department

Project description:

To visit archives of Walt Whitman’s and Frederick Douglass’s work as thesis research, as well as to meet with Whitman scholars Kenneth Price and Karen Karbiener at this year’s MLA conference in New York, to experience the America in both authors’s literature, and to explore further research and graduate studies.

To further research, expand, and revise my essay "Sex, Death, and The Erotic Fantasy of Shakespeare’s Heart in “The Portrait of Mr. W. H.,” with the eventual goal of journal submission.

I am applying for the Eddings Opportunity Grant in hopes of gaining financial assistance to attend the Poet's House in New York City to complete a creative research project.

I intend to travel to London, England to attend a conference on John Keats and do archival research at the British Library. I will then go to the Lake District in Northern England, where I will replicate Keats' walks taken in 1818. I will collect journal entries and notes, which I will then synthesize into an academic paper on the relationship between academic discourse surrounding Keats, his lived experience, and his poetry and letters.

Tuition and fees for Port Townsend Writers' Conference 2018

I will visit at least seventeen Allen Ginsberg and other Beat poets' locations in San Francisco.

I plan to write, illustrate, layout, print, and bind a children’s book about an overstimulated duck with too many facial features entitled, Here is a Picture of Me Minding My Manners.

Project Description:

A short trip along the coastal side of Oregon to Charleston to attend a marine biology seminar.

An independent research project on the life and literature of Virginia Woolf.

To fund time spent on a post-graduation creative project during the summer of 2017, which would otherwise be spent working a job to pay for food/rent.

Series of fictional stories which will de/reconstruct the various ways we narrativize psycho-somatic experiences that are often cast as nonnormative, divergent, or other.

Travel to Myanmar in order to obtain resources at the British Consulate Library and speak with scholars at the University of Yangon.

Project Description:

To attend Swedish Film Institute and Bergman Center in Stockholm

Travel expenses for creative project/attendance of Disquiety Intnl Literary Program in Lisbon

Travel expenses for trip to Huntington Library Archives for project on Wallace Stevens

Travel expenses and printing for creative chapbook project: memory/regional writing