2018 First Book Institute
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