The following list includes current and historic, individual student research projects, public presentations from conferences, symposia and exhibitions*, and peer-reviewed publications. For abstracts on each project see Students as Scholars.
Students can get a list of their projects by going to CLIQ in the Gateway. Under the CLIQ menu, go to Profiles and then My ePortfolio. If you are an alum and would like a copy of your projects, please submit a research project request form.
*“Supported by:” on Student Conference Presentation records indicates the entity or funding mechanism that supported the student’s participation in the conference, i.e. travel expenses, poster costs, etc. For on-campus conferences, the supporting entity is usually the academic department sponsoring the event.
**“Supported by:” on Student Research Project records indicates the entity or funding mechanism that supported the student’s research costs, i.e. supplies, materials, equipment, stipends, local or international research travel, etc.
2021
| Student Name | Project | Faculty/Mentor |
|---|---|---|
| Cara Elizabeth Dougherty | Cavendish and Montagu: Female Education as a Theme in Literature and in Life Conference: 2021 Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality by Students (ROWGS) Symposium Supported by: Office of the President, Women's Gender & Sexuality Studies Department | Jacob Sider Jost |
| Marissa Fabbo | Uncovering a Forgotten History: Natalie Clifford Barney's Women Lovers or The Third Woman and the Impact of Self-Censorship on Life Writing Conference: 2021 Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality by Students (ROWGS) Symposium Supported by: Office of the President, Women's Gender & Sexuality Studies Department | Wendy Moffat |
| Juliana C Rhinehart | Michael Field Diary Transcriptions Supported by: R&D SFR Number of Weeks: 8 | Sarah Kersh |
2020
| Student Name | Project | Faculty/Mentor |
|---|---|---|
| Julia Marie Barone | Midcentury Suspension (fall 2019) / The Public Health of Modernism (spring 2020) Supported by: R&D Dana Research Assistant Number of Weeks: 26 | Claire Seiler |
| Benjamin Jacob Doern | Hollywood and the American Comic Book Industry Supported by: R&D Dana Research Assistant Number of Weeks: 26 | Gregory Steirer |
| Jacquelin Toni Greger | Home, Work, and Privacy in "Vibration Cooking" Supported by: R&D Dana Research Assistant Number of Weeks: 13 | Siobhan Phillips |
2019
| Student Name | Project | Faculty/Mentor |
|---|---|---|
| Maia Baker | The Spatialization of Identity in Their Eyes Were Watching God Conference: Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality (ROWGS) Student Research Symposium Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department | |
| Jeremy Thomas Barnes | "Angry Birds: Mobile Gaming." Co-authored with Jeremy Barnes (蘑菇视频 alumnus). In How to Play Video Games, edited by Matthew Thomas Payne (University of Notre Dame) and Nina B. Huntemann (University of Massachusetts, Amherst). New York University Press, 2019. | Gregory Steirer |
| Alaina Jordan Einsig | Letters and Poems of Michael Field Supported by: R&D Dana Research Assistant Number of Weeks: 13 | Sarah Kersh |
| Rafaela Silvia Marinello | Interest in the Long Eighteenth Century Supported by: R&D Dana Research Assistant Number of Weeks: 13 | Jacob Sider Jost |
| Kayleigh Elizabeth Rhatigan | ".. .like the sky, constantly changing": Queer Futures and the Fluid Alien Body in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis Conference: Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality (ROWGS) Student Research Symposium Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department | |
| Audrey Devon Schlimm | Heavenly Perspective: Thomas Traherne and Seventeenth-Century Visual Culture Supported by: R&D Dana Research Assistant Number of Weeks: 8 | Carol Johnston |
| Nadia Gabrielle Tivvis | Return to Neveryork: Queer Time, Afrofuturism, and Radical Queer Politics In Delany's Cyclical Cities Conference: Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality (ROWGS) Student Research Symposium Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department |
2018
| Student Name | Project | Faculty/Mentor |
|---|---|---|
| Noah Robert Fusco | Midcentury Suspension Number of Weeks: 13 | Claire Seiler |
| Janel Pineda | Resistance and Resilience in Salvadoran Storytelling Conference: Spring 2018 International Research Symposium Supported by: Center for Global Studies and Engagement (CGSE) | Carolina Castellanos Gonella,Sarah Kersh |
| Alexi Leah Struzenski | Digital Streaming Bibliography Supported by: R&D Dana Research Assistant Number of Weeks: 13 | Steven Malcic |
2017
| Student Name | Project | Faculty/Mentor |
|---|---|---|
| Noah Robert Fusco | Eighteenth-Century Poets Connect Supported by: R&D Dana Research Assistant Number of Weeks: 8 | Jacob Sider Jost |
| Shannon Adele Nolan | Poetry of Michael Field and the Victorian Queer Archive Supported by: R&D Dana Research Assistant Number of Weeks: 13 | Sarah Kersh |
| Samuel James Portelance | The Comic Book Industry and Hollywood Supported by: R&D Dana Research Assistant Number of Weeks: 26 weeks | Gregory Steirer |
2016
| Student Name | Project | Faculty/Mentor |
|---|---|---|
| Maximilian Lothar Burrows | Amazing By The Numbers Conference: Dickinson Digital Humanities Workshop Supported by: Mellon Digital Humanities Grant | |
| Georgia Hoard Christman | Visualizing the Poetry of Michael Field Conference: Bucknell University Digital Humanitites Conference Supported by: R&D Kenderdine Travel Grant | Sarah Kersh |
| Edgar Estrada | The Pulp Magazines Project Supported by: A.W. Mellon Digital Humanities Grant Dana Research Assistant Number of Weeks: 13 | Patrick Belk |
| Kathleen Margaret Jarman | Visualizing the Poetry of Michael Field Conference: Bucknell University's Digital Scholarship Conference Supported by: R&D Kenderdine Travel Grant | Sarah Kersh |
| Anna Louise Morrison | The Pulp Magazines Project Supported by: A.W. Mellon Digital Humanities Grant Dana Research Assistant Number of Weeks: 4 | Patrick Belk |
| Dejvi Ndreca | Amazing By The Numbers Conference: Dickinson Digital Humanities Workshop Supported by: Mellon Digital Humanities Grant | Patrick Belk |
| Shannon Adele Nolan | Poetry of Michael Field and Victorian Queer Archive Supported by: R&D Dana Research Assistant Number of Weeks: 13 weeks | Sarah Kersh |
| Leigh Katherine Tracey | Mapping Shakespeare Conference: Dickinson Digital Humanities Workshop Supported by: Mellon Digital Humanities Grant | Patrick Belk |
| Katherine A Vitale | The Pulp Magazines Project Supported by: A.W. Mellon Digital Humanities Grant Dana Research Assistant Number of Weeks: 13 | Patrick Belk |
| Katherine A Vitale | Mapping Shakespeare Conference: Dickinson Digital Humanities Workshop Supported by: A.W. Mellon Digital Humanities Grant Dana Research Assistant | Patrick Belk |
2015
| Student Name | Project | Faculty/Mentor |
|---|---|---|
| Georgia Hoard Christman | Annotated digital edition of the collection Sight and Song (Michael Field, 1892) Supported by: Mellon Digital Humanities Grant Number of Weeks: 8 | Sarah Kersh |
| Victoria Leigh DeLaney | The Pulp Magazines Project Supported by: A.W. Mellon Digital Humanities Grant Dana Research Assistant Number of Weeks: 8 | Patrick Belk |
| Laura A Hart | The "Object"ification of People and the "Person"ification of Objects: Restoring Humanity to Soldiers Objectified by the Great War in Peter Weir's Gallipoli (1981) and Bertrand Tavernier's La Vie et Rien d'Autre (1989) Conference: Central Pennsylvania Consortium Conference: Legacies of the Great War: Remembering World War I after 100 Years Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium, English Department | Wendy Moffat |
| Kathleen Margaret Jarman | Annotated digital edition of the collection Sight and Song (Michael Field, 1892) Supported by: Mellon Digital Humanities Grant Number of Weeks: 8 | Sarah Kersh |
| Kathleen Margaret Jarman | Gathering information on new John Milton volumes acquired by the archives Supported by: R&D Dana Research Assistant Number of Weeks: 26 | Carol Johnston |
| Sean Joseph Jarman | The battlefront letters of Dr. Thomas Salmon Supported by: R&D Dana Research Assistant Number of Weeks: 13 | Wendy Moffat |
| Mary Katherine Naydan | Epistemology of the Great War: Narratology and Female Authority in Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier Conference: Central PA Colleges Conference: Legacies of the Great War: Remembering World War I after 100 Years Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium | Wendy Moffat |
| Harris Risell | The Comic Book Industry and Hollywood Supported by: A.W. Mellon Digital Humanities Grant Dana Research Assistant Number of Weeks: 8 | Gregory Steirer |
| Genevieve Elise Veres | Bioware and the Politics of Video Game Authorship Supported by: R&D Dana Research Assistant Number of Weeks: 26 | Gregory Steirer |
2014
| Student Name | Project | Faculty/Mentor |
|---|---|---|
| Leah Judith Shafer | Baldwin's Epistolary Designs Conference: Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Spring Conference Supported by: R&D Kenderdine Travel Grant | Siobhan Phillips |
| Melissa Lin Sturges | Rewriting Hyboria: Robert E. Howard's Conan as Intellectual Property. Supported by: R&D Dana Research Assistant Number of Weeks: 13 | Gregory Steirer |
2013
| Student Name | Project | Faculty/Mentor |
|---|---|---|
| Lisa Maria Borsellino | Mid-century Suspension Supported by: R&D Dana Research Assistant Number of Weeks: 13 | Claire Seiler |
| Mary Katherine Naydan | Patronage, Magazines, and the Economics of Eighteenth-Century Poetry Supported by: R&D Dana Research Assistant Number of Weeks: 8 | Jacob Sider Jost |
| Emma Jeanne Rodwin | Mid-Century Suspension Supported by: R&D Dana Research Assistant Number of Weeks: 8 | Claire Seiler |
| Leah Judith Shafer | Correspondence among African-American Poets, 1960-1980 Supported by: R&D Dana Research Assistant Number of Weeks: 6 | Siobhan Phillips |
2012
| Student Name | Project | Faculty/Mentor |
|---|---|---|
| Holly Madine Bowers | Bibliographic and Archival Research for Book Project "Impossible Year" Supported by: R&D Dana Research Assistant Number of Weeks: 13 | Wendy Moffat |
| Merit Elisabeth O'Hare | Emil R. and Tamar Weiss Prize Supported by: Emil R. and Tamar Weiss Prize | |
| Colin Myles Tripp | False Starts: The Rhetoric of Failure and the Making of American Modernism Supported by: R&D Dana Research Assistant Number of Weeks: 8 | David Ball |
2011
| Student Name | Project | Faculty/Mentor |
|---|---|---|
| Emily Elizabeth Arndt | A Romantic Natural History (hypertext resource) Supported by: R&D Student Faculty Research Endowment Award Number of Weeks: 8 | B Ashton Nichols |
| Megan Natoli Liberty | "But to Return to the Pictures": The Forgotten Photographs of Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Conference: 2011 Senior Research Symposium Supported by: Academic Affairs | |
| Eliza Rose Park | Emil R. and Tamar Weiss Prize Supported by: Emil R. and Tamar Weiss Prize |
2009
| Student Name | Project | Faculty/Mentor |
|---|---|---|
| Amanda Ruth Lagji | "Willing Liberates": Nietzschean Heroism in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions. Conference: 2009 Senior Research Symposium Supported by: Academic Affairs | Sharon Stockton,Thomas Nadelhoffer |
| Meredith Leigh Milnes | False Starts: The Rhetoric of Failure and the Making of American Modernism Supported by: R&D Dana Research Assistant Number of Weeks: 26 | David Ball |
| Eliza Rose Park | False Starts: The Rhetoric of Failure and the Making of American Modernism, 1850-Present Supported by: R&D Student Faculty Research Endowment Award Number of Weeks: 8 | David Ball |
2008
| Student Name | Project | Faculty/Mentor |
|---|---|---|
| Thomas Bradley Elrod | "Heavenly Perspective": Thomas Traherne and Seventeenth-Century Visual Tradition Supported by: R&D Dana Research Assistant Number of Weeks: 26 | Carol Johnston |
| Caroline Anne Peri | The Power of White Consumer Ideology over the Black Female Body - Hagar's Path to Identity in Toni Morrison's 'Song of Solomon' Conference: ROWS - Research on Women by Students Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department |
2007
| Student Name | Project | Faculty/Mentor |
|---|---|---|
| George Whitfield Fitting | Bibliographic Entry for Forster Biography Supported by: R&D Dana Research Assistant Number of Weeks: 13 | Wendy Moffat |
| Katlin Elizabeth Burwell Harker | Forever Cursed: The Portrayal of Females in Mongo Beti's 'The Poor Christ of Bomba' and Ferdinand Oyono's 'Houseboy' in Relation to Eve Conference: ROWS - Research on Women by Students Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department | |
| Christine Marie Huron | Bridging the Gulf: Feminist Consciousness on War and Gendered Space Conference: 2007 Senior Research Symposium Supported by: Academic Affairs | |
| Elizabeth A Mountenay | Unstated Indignities Burned Deeply into the Son's Mind: Masculine Anxiety and Feminine Space in World War II Novels, 1945-51 Conference: ROWS - Research on Women by Students Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department | |
| Brandy Jo Spielman | A New Chicana Story: Rape as a Metaphor of Power in the Poetry of Carmen Tafolla Conference: ROWS - Research on Women by Students Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department |
2004
| Student Name | Project | Faculty/Mentor |
|---|---|---|
| David Edward Emerick | Writing about Rape: The Economics of Fantasy Supported by: R&D Dana Research Assistant Number of Weeks: 4 | Sharon Stockton |
| David Edward Emerick | A Study of Contemporary Scottish Fiction Supported by: R&D Dana Research Assistant Number of Weeks: 8 | Leslie Winston |
| Sara Nichole Hoover | Bloomsbury in Pennsylvania: A Multimedia Presentation Conference: Bloomsbury-A Centennial Celebration | Wendy Moffat |
2003
| Student Name | Project | Faculty/Mentor |
|---|---|---|
| Katherine Kelly Ginn | Psychology, Literature, and the Evolution of Rape in the Twentieth Century Conference: Society for Literature and Science Supported by: R&D Kenderdine Travel Grant | Sharon Stockton |
| Sara Nichole Hoover | Himself 'That Way': Transmitting Gay Cultural History in Merchant/Ivory's Adaptation of E. M. Forster's Maurice. Conference: Literature/Film Association Conference Supported by: 蘑菇视频 | Wendy Moffat |
2002
| Student Name | Project | Faculty/Mentor |
|---|---|---|
| Katherine Kelly Ginn | Writing about Rape: The Economics of Fantasy Supported by: A.W. Mellon Foundation Student Faculty Research Endowment Award Number of Weeks: 8 | Sharon Stockton |
| Sophia Nicole Harris | Rebelling Against "The Man'': The Transgressive Feminine Body in Cindy Sherman's "Untitled Film Stills" and Susanna Kaysen's "Girl Interrupted" Conference: The 9th Annual Research on Women by Students Symposium (ROWS) Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department | Sharon Stockton |
| Sara Nichole Hoover | Forster in America Supported by: R&D Dana Research Assistant Number of Weeks: 8 | Wendy Moffat |
| Abigail Jane Watson-Popescu | Seventeenth-century English poetry Supported by: A.W. Mellon Foundation Student Faculty Research Endowment Award Number of Weeks: 8 | Carol Johnston |
2001
| Student Name | Project | Faculty/Mentor |
|---|---|---|
| Amanda Elizabeth Eveler | Lost in Love: Subjectivity, Control and Transcendence Through Passion in Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body Conference: Annual CPC Women's Studies Conference Supported by: R&D Student Initiative Fund (SIF) | Sharon Stockton |
| MaryJane Louise Millington | Emil R. and Tamar Weiss Prize Supported by: Emil R. and Tamar Weiss Prize |
2000
| Student Name | Project | Faculty/Mentor |
|---|---|---|
| Matthew James Durand | Emil R. and Tamar Weiss Prize Supported by: Emil R. and Tamar Weiss Prize | |
| Amanda Elizabeth Eveler | n/a Supported by: Dana Research Internship (Pre-R&D) Number of Weeks: 26 | Wendy Moffat |
1998
| Student Name | Project | Faculty/Mentor |
|---|---|---|
| Maryann Frances Peterson | Emil R. and Tamar Weiss Prize Supported by: Emil R. and Tamar Weiss Prize |
1997
| Student Name | Project | Faculty/Mentor |
|---|---|---|
| Jennifer Lindbeck Rose | Romantic Natural History 1750-1850 Supported by: A.W. Mellon Foundation Student Faculty Research Endowment Award Number of Weeks: 8 | B Ashton Nichols |
1996
| Student Name | Project | Faculty/Mentor |
|---|---|---|
| Jonathan Joshua Kupetz | Emil R. and Tamar Weiss Prize Supported by: Emil R. and Tamar Weiss Prize | |
| Jason Paul Murray | The Modernist Reader: E.M. Forster's Implied Reader in Cultural context Supported by: A.W. Mellon Foundation Student Faculty Research Endowment Award Number of Weeks: 8 | Wendy Moffat |
| Jason Paul Murray | The Modernist Reader: Forster's Implied Reader in Cultural Context Supported by: PDF-Presidential Discretionary Fund Number of Weeks: 8 | Wendy Moffat |
1995
| Student Name | Project | Faculty/Mentor |
|---|---|---|
| John Dickson Harper | Emil R. and Tamar Weiss Prize Supported by: Emil R. and Tamar Weiss Prize |
1994
| Student Name | Project | Faculty/Mentor |
|---|---|---|
| Ashley Warlick Friis | Emil R. and Tamar Weiss Prize Supported by: Emil R. and Tamar Weiss Prize |
1993
| Student Name | Project | Faculty/Mentor |
|---|---|---|
| Emily Ann Wylie | An Introduction to the Short Fiction of American Writer Eudora Welty Supported by: A.W. Mellon Foundation Student Faculty Research Endowment Award Number of Weeks: 8 | Carol Johnston |
1992
| Student Name | Project | Faculty/Mentor |
|---|---|---|
| Bronwyn Jones Bosse | Silencing other Selves, The Wordsworthian Autobiographer Supported by: A.W. Mellon Foundation Student Faculty Research Endowment Award Number of Weeks: 8 | B Ashton Nichols |
1991
| Student Name | Project | Faculty/Mentor |
|---|---|---|
| John Edward Costango | Student Co-direction of the Writing Component of the FOCUS program Supported by: A.W. Mellon Foundation Student Faculty Research Endowment Award Number of Weeks: 8 | Judy Gill |
1990
| Student Name | Project | Faculty/Mentor |
|---|---|---|
| Lisa Marie Travaglini | Emil R. and Tamar Weiss Prize Supported by: Emil R. and Tamar Weiss Prize |
1989
| Student Name | Project | Faculty/Mentor |
|---|---|---|
| Christie Ward | Emil R. and Tamar Weiss Prize Conference: Emil R. and Tamar Weiss Prize Performances Supported by: Emil R. and Tamar Weiss Prize |