[As we near the
dog days of summer, a series on a handful of AmericanStudies scholars bringing
the fire through their work and voices. I’d love to hear in comments about
scholars whose work lights a fire under you!]
Three exemplary
scholarly projects from a Cornell graduate
student who’s poised to take the next step.
1)
Her published articles: Christine’s two articles
reflect two distinct but complementary sides to her scholarly interests and
work. “Visualizing
Race Science in Benito Cereno” models her unique connections of 19th
century science, race theory, and literary practice, using Melville’s
complex story as a case study. “Gothic
Monstrosity: Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar
Huntly and the Trope of Bestial Indian” rethinks the genre of the
gothic through those ongoing interests and concepts, and recovers a vital role
for Brockden Brown’s early
American novel in the process.
2)
Her HASTAC blog: I’m not sure why I haven’t written
about the Humanities, Arts, Science, and
Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC) previously in this space—but
I’m making amends for that oversight today! HASTAC’s website is a model
scholarly and public community and conversation, and that includes the numerous
unique and engaging blogs it hosts. At Christine’s HASTAC blog,
she has written compellingly about Google
and Sui Sin Far, indie video game developers
and social justice movements, and many other 21st century,
public scholarly topics and questions.
3)
Her dissertation: I’ll let the description of
this ground-breaking project on Christine’s Cornell webpage speak for itself: “Her
dissertation Feeling Subjects: Science and Law in
Nineteenth-Century America challenges the conventional opposition
between affect and the purportedly dispassionate disciplines of American
science and law. Through analyzing writing from the American Renaissance
alongside literature by African American and Asian American writers, the
project explores the roles of feeling and unfeeling in navigating the tension
between the twin discourses of science and law as both tools of oppression and
resistance.” Can’t wait to read it!
Next scholar
tomorrow,
Ben
PS. Scholars you’d
share?
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