Book Traces @ UVa Digital Exhibition
Please click here to view the exhibition. (Best viewed on a desktop computer)
I invite you to discover the digital, Omeka-based exhibition I proposed, designed, and executed for Book Traces @ UVa. I worked under curator Holly Robertson, professor Andrew Stauffer, and Kristin Jensen, our project manager.
I invite you to discover the digital, Omeka-based exhibition I proposed, designed, and executed for Book Traces @ UVa. I worked under curator Holly Robertson, professor Andrew Stauffer, and Kristin Jensen, our project manager.
Writing Samples
The links below lead to blog posts I wrote and researched for Book Traces @ UVa from May 2016 to March 2017.
Understanding France’s scandalous Dreyfus Affair through the friendship and correspondence of two Jewish outsiders
Phrenology, a seemingly silly vintage science with dangerous consequences
How a runaway teenage heiress’s gift to her French tutor exposes the “Crowding Memories” of early 20th-century feminity
"To Norah C. Carroll, From Herself!!"
Wythe Leigh Kinsolving’s “Fairytale” view of WWI
Professor Algernon Coleman shows us how scholars still work the same way
Dissertation Abstract
"Recasting Iron: Alternative Imaginations of an Ephemeral Eiffel Tower, 1889-1909."
There is perhaps no shorthand more banal for France and Frenchness than the omnipresent form of the Eiffel Tower. The public imagination has come to regard the iron monument as an inevitability, eliding the uncertainty of its early period. Indeed, Gustave Eiffel’s firm’s lease on the Champs de Mars was to expire in 1909, when the Tower was to be moved or demolished entirely.
During this “trial run," the Eiffel Tower was just as ephemeral as the key- chains and postcards that litter its public perception. Its two decades of transitory status allowed alternative formal imaginations of the Tower to flourish. This dissertation will examine counterfactual versions of the Eiffel Tower in realms literary, artistic, commercial, discursive, and political in order to restore the malleable mentality of 1889-1909 to the monument’s history and interrogate its symbolic and cultural significations.
There is perhaps no shorthand more banal for France and Frenchness than the omnipresent form of the Eiffel Tower. The public imagination has come to regard the iron monument as an inevitability, eliding the uncertainty of its early period. Indeed, Gustave Eiffel’s firm’s lease on the Champs de Mars was to expire in 1909, when the Tower was to be moved or demolished entirely.
During this “trial run," the Eiffel Tower was just as ephemeral as the key- chains and postcards that litter its public perception. Its two decades of transitory status allowed alternative formal imaginations of the Tower to flourish. This dissertation will examine counterfactual versions of the Eiffel Tower in realms literary, artistic, commercial, discursive, and political in order to restore the malleable mentality of 1889-1909 to the monument’s history and interrogate its symbolic and cultural significations.