2023 HURF fellows

Selected in fall term, this year’s Humanities Undergraduate Research Fellowship (HURF) fellows have been meeting regularly to workshop their projects and have been participating in seminars on developing research skills, communicating research, understanding the ethics of research, and preparing for graduate school or other career opportunities. They will present their work at the Undergraduate Research Symposium on May 25, 2023. 

Sadie Byler, “Exploring the Relationship between Composer and Choreographer Strauss and Nijinsky’s Ballet Till Eulenspiegel.” Faculty mentor: Abigail Fine.

Casper Byrne, “Monsters in the Closet: The Transformative Possibilities of Gothic Monstrosity in Queer Narrative.” Faculty mentor: Quinn Miller.

Megan Carroll, “The Use of Androgyny in Medieval Texts: What It Says about Femininity.” Faculty mentor: Anne Laskaya.

Lauryn Cole, “Fat and Fabulous: Women’s Bodies in Contemporary Romance.” Faculty mentor: Anna Carroll.

Eric Lane, “‘My body is its image, here’: Diasporic Identity and the Deconstruction of Binary Division in 21st-Century Asian-American Poetry.” Faculty mentor: Corbett Upton.

Kennedy Parish, “The River between Paradise and The Vanishing Half.” Faculty mentor: Tze-yin Teo.

Micah Woods, “Challenging Reductionism and Reorienting Encounters with Organisms to Recognize Subjectivity and Agency.” Faculty mentor: Barbara Muraca.