2018 Participants

Back row: Jordan Carroll, Katie Walkiewicz, Co-director Priscilla Wald, Co-director Sean Goudie, Ben Bascom

Front Row: Juliana Chow, Sunny Xiang, Christine (Xine) Yao, Mary Kuhn, Chris Perreira

•  Ben Bascom, Assistant Professor of English, Ball State University

      Project Title: Feeling Singular: Masculinity and Desire in the Early United States

•  Jordan Carroll, Postdoctoral Scholar and Associate Director, ModLab Digital Humanities Lab, Department of  English, University of California, Davis

      Project Title: Publishing the Unpublishable: Obscenity and Editorship in U. S. Literary Culture

•  Juliana Chow, Assistant Professor of English, Saint Louis University

 Project Title: Diminishment: Partial Readings in American Regionalism and the Casualties of Natural     History 

•  Mary Kuhn, Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities, University of Virginia

      Project Title: The Garden Politic: Radical Plants in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

•  Christopher Perreira, Assistant Professor of American Studies, University of Kansas

      Project Title: Manufacturing Prisoner-Patient Consent: Race, Violence, and the Medical Archive

•  Kathryn Walkiewicz, Assistant Professor of Literature, University of California San Diego

      Project Title: Un-tied States: Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Indigeneity and Territory

•  Sunny Xiang, Assistant Professor of English, Yale University

      Project Title: Neutral Tones: A Sense of Race

•  Christine Yao, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia

      Project Title: Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America

	Participants take notes as they listen to each other's project descriptions on day one.
	Co-director Priscilla Wald weighs in on a discussion led by Jordan Carroll and Chris Perreira.
	PSU graduate student Miriam Gonzales talks about her work with Professor Matt Tierney as First Book Institute participants and PSU graduate students begin the BBQ luncheon.
	Participants Ben Bascom and Christine (Xine) Yao introduce themselves to PSU graduate students Rob Nguyen and Yi-Ting Chang at the luncheon.
	Graduate student Maria Maza engages in discussion with participant Ben Bascom as Rob Nguyen and Yi-Ting Chang talk to participants over BBQ.
	Maria Maza and Ben Bascom continue their discussion.
	Graduate student Curry Kennedy listens as participants Christine (Xine) Yao and Katie Walkiewicz describe the institute so far.
	Chris Perreira, Priscilla Wald, Sean Goudie, Mary Kuhn, and Jordan Carroll listen as Sunny Xiang and Katie Walkiewicz lead discussion
	Mary Kuhn, Jordan Carroll, and Juliana Chow listen to the day's discussion leaders.
	Sunny Xiang and Katie Walkiewicz lead an energetic discussion on the final day of the institute.
	Jordan Carroll, Graduate RA Liana Glew, Katie Walkiewicz, Co-director Priscilla Wald, Co-director Sean Goudie, Ben Bascom, Juliana Chow, Sunny Xiang, Christine (Xine) Yao, Mary Kuhn, and Chris Perreira pose in front of the Burrowes Building on the final day.