Ohio University’s English Department awarded competitive scholarships this summer to eight students who are conducting research for their respective dissertations and projects.
The scholarships could be used to fund travel to libraries, to attend workshops, to purchase books, software, and other materials, or to support other academic endeavors.
Recipients’ projects ranged from international research trips to South Africa and Belgium to archival research at the British Library and Princeton University.
In order to receive a scholarship, students had to submit a project plan that explained the goals, background, and anticipated outcomes for their research, along with a curriculum vita, a proposed budget, and a signed statement of support from a mentor or dissertation adviser.
Recipients of summer scholarships include students working in literature, creative writing, and rhetoric/composition:
- Renee Benham, who traveled to London to research nursing in nineteenth-century literature.
- Kristin Distel, who visited Princeton University’s archival libraries and examined Toni Morrison’s drafts, lecture notes, and correspondence.
- Priyadarshini Gupta, who consulted research materials and archival documents for her dissertation on the literature of Sept. 11.
- Kelly Masterson, whose work on Shakespeare’s The Two Gentlemen of Verona took her to the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.
- Michelle Pretorius, who traveled to South Africa and conducted research at the National Library Archives in Cape Town.
- Derek Robbins, who visited Missoula, MT, as part of his epistolary poem project on Richard Hugo.
- Kelly Sundberg, whose work on an upcoming memoir took her to Belgium, where she participated in an artist’s residency.
- Kirk Wisland, who conducted research for his nonfiction project on his family history and the AIDS crisis.
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