2013 First Book Institute Participants and Projects

Sean Goudie, Priscilla Wald, Samaine Lockwood, Sonya Posmentier, Adrienne Brown, Sarah Juliet Lauro, Christen Mucher, Todd Carmody, Ted Martin, Danielle Heard

• Adrienne Brown, Assistant Professor of English, University of Chicago
  Project Title: The Black Skyscraper: Modern Architecture and the Shape of Race and Writing
• Todd Carmody, Lecturer on History and Literature, Harvard University
  Project Title: "Racial Handicap": The Disability History of Racial Uplift
• Danielle Heard, Assistant Professor of English, University of California at Davis
  Project Title: Mavericks of Masquerade: Comic Strategies of Post-Blackness
• Sarah Juliet Lauro, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English, Clemson University
  Project Title: Rise Up! Living Death in Slavery, Rebellion, and Resistance
• Samaine Lockwood, Assistant Professor of English, George Mason University
  Project Title: Recollecting Regionalism: Queer Women, New England, and the Work of US History, 1875-1915
• Theodore (Ted) Martin, Assistant Professor of English, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
  Project Title: Contemporary Drift: Genre and the Measures of the Present
• Christen Mucher, Assistant Professor of American Studies, Smith College
  Project Title: Becoming Indigenous: Colonial Memory, American Antiquities, and Native Pasts
• Sonya Posmentier, Assistant Professor of English, New York University
  Project Title: Cultivation and Catastrophe: Forms of Nature in Modern Poetry of the Black Diaspora

Additional Photos from the 2013 First Book Institute

	Co-Director Priscilla Wald leads a workshop.
	Co-Directors Sean Goudie and Priscilla Wald head a session on revising introductions.