{"id":10960,"date":"2019-06-13T12:14:54","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T16:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=10960"},"modified":"2019-06-13T12:14:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T16:14:54","slug":"hay-undergraduate-fellowships-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/hay-undergraduate-fellowships-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcement | John Hay Library Undergraduate Fellowships"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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L-R: Alan Mendoza Sosa ’20, Finch Collins ’21, and Evan Kindler ’20, pictured outside the John Hay Library<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The John Hay Library Undergraduate Fellowship Program<\/a> serves to assist Brown students with primary source exploration, inviting them to follow their curiosity, questions, and creativity through self-directed projects focused on an area within the vast special collections resources available within the Library. Working closely with Library staff over 10 weeks, the students will each produce an individual research project, to be presented at a symposium on September 19, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This summer’s inaugural cohort of John Hay Library Undergraduate Fellows includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alan Mendoza Sosa ’20 <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

“Nightsky\u2019s Glitter”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alan\u00a0will create an experimental queer poetry chapbook inspired by and incorporating elements from the gay pulp fiction collection, the Scott O’Hara papers, the Katzoff collection, and the Smith magic collection. The book will explore themes of gender, sexuality, embodiment, and language, while questioning queer media representation, the social distinction between \u201chigh\u201d and \u201clow\u201d literature, and between \u201cacademic\u201d and \u201cpopular\u201d culture.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n