I’m interested in race representation in media, particularly children’s media. In this case, I’d like to research children’s literature, which is often didactic in nature, and is given to children at a critical time in their learning and development– How is race representation handled in children’s literature and what potential effects could white-washing have in this area of media? For the creative portion of this project, I’d like to take several popular children’s books… Read More

“The Color Purple” by Alice Walker is a moving tale about race, gender, sexuality, perseverance, and love. Though it is not the only novel to be written as a series of letters, it is a good example of how epistolary novels can convey a story and drive a plot through the eyes of only one or two characters with only the details provided in the letters. With the letters only addressed to… Read More

For my hybrid project, I would like to study poems which celebrate paintings. I am interested in how these celebratory unions can allow word and image increase one another’s power, and in the manner in which the essence of the image can be drawn out of its corporeal form to be invoked through language–both imagined and re-imagined in an instant. Essentially, I am curious about the way the image has an out-of-body… Read More

  This is an oft-repeated phrase uttered by moviegoers after viewing a film adaptation of their beloved books and stories. For example, fans of the book series Game of Thrones urge that the books are better than the popular HBO series, and complain on how the show creators would change, omit, or modify material from the original, written source text. The reason I illustrate these complaints is because I want to demonstrate… Read More

I see my hybrid project following one of two possible tracks: Track 1: In what ways do we judge a book by its cover? I want to explore the design and printing of book covers and how that cover image (or with the title and author’s name, it becomes a word-image) can affect the words within the book. I think it would be interesting to take a few of my favorite books… Read More

Project idea/question: In many of Blake’s works, the words in the poem do not necessarily match the accompanying depiction. Is there a way to alter his poems so that the meaning of the content and the meaning of the image align? Preliminary Bibliography:    Bagwell, Amy. “Altered Books.” AmyBagwell.com. Web. 6 Mar 2016. Lussier, Mark. “The Contra-Diction of Design: Blake’s Illustrations to Gray’s ‘Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat.’” Visible… Read More

I really liked Tom Phillips work and I want to explore erasure poems further. I would definitely want to try creating my own and place it in a larger narrative from the course. Maybe that will take me in the direction of exploring racism or erasure/remixing of poems in terms of originality versus adaptation. Works Cited Cuoco, Lorin, ed. The Dual Muse: The Writer as Artist, the Artist as Writer. Philadelphia: John… Read More