Two English Professors Awarded Summer Fellowships by the Dresher Center for the Humanities

The Dresher Center for the Humanities has announced its 2025 Summer Fellows, and two of the four come from the English Department: Dr. Keegan Cook Finberg and Dr. Emily Yoon. They will both receive support for current research and writing projects, which are described below.

Congratulations to Dr. Finberg and Dr. Yoon on being awarded this summer fellowship!

Keegan Cook Finberg, Assistant Professor in English, will research and write an essay for peer-review, “Utopian Resistance and Imperial Steinian Form in Harryette Mullen’s Trimmings and S*PeRM**K*T,” to be published in The Edinburgh Companion to Women's Experimental Literature since 1900. The essay examines two books of poetry by African American poet Haryette Mullen, which thematize neoliberal forms of racialized commodification and marketization of gender in the 1990s.

Emily Yoon, Assistant Professor in English, will work to revise her book proposal and refine two chapters to serve as writing samples to submit to academic presses. Her book project, Little Intimacies: Ecologies of Race, Migration, and Relation in Minority Literatures, takes a comparative approach to investigate how the environments in which global migrations occur inform how minoritized characters experience and understand race and relation.