The main reason for my initial interest in this fellowship, and partly why I am so eager to begin working within my cohort, is the interdisciplinary nature of the Brackenridge fellowship. Not only is my project itself interdisciplinary, but my personal and professional interests are rather diverse as well, so this boundary-crossing aspect of the…
Tag: Literature
Long-line Poetry’s Lurking Likeness
If you have read a single thing in Middle English, it was probably Chaucer. And it was probably Chaucer’s General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales: “Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote/The droghte of March hath perced to the roote…” You may know that Chaucer wrote in a specific pattern of stresses—iambs—and you may know…
Introduction – My Path to the Brackenridge Fellowship
My name is Max Reiver, I use he/him and they/them pronouns, and I am thrilled to participate in this year’s Brackenridge Fellowship. I am entering into my fifth year at Pitt, majoring in Japanese and English literature. As I reflect on my journey to this fellowship, I am struck by the variety of experiences that…
Fellowship Introduction
Hello everyone! My name is Mikayla Joffe and I am a rising Junior at Pitt studying Writing and Psychology. For the Brackenridge Fellowship I will be studying the accuracy of mental illness depictions in classic Russian literature. I will be looking into the characterization of seemingly mentally ill characters in famous Russian novels and investigating…
Brackenridge Introduction – Sarah C. Street
Introduction Hello, everyone! I’m Sarah, a Literature and Classics major (who is contemplating adding a Linguistics minor!). I am the Vice President of the Fantasy Studies Fellowship here at Pitt, and I also served on the conference committee for the Undergraduate Literature Conference this year, even though we unfortunately had to cancel due to the…