Areas of Interest |
Southern Gothic, Victorian Gothic, Gender Studies, Queer Theory, Disability Studies, Louisiana Literature, Creole Studies
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Research
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The Historic New Orleans Collection, Summer 2023
Derven Scholar, worked with THNOC education staff to plan, create, and facilitate educational programs or develop resources that can be used in K-12 classrooms. This involved oral history interviews with Louisiana Creoles: I amassed 16 interviews and 1450 minutes of interviews. The Gravestone Project, Summer 2023-present Pursuing a digital humanities exhibit, I considered memorialization culture among Louisiana Creoles. This included field visits to cemeteries around S. Louisiana, observation, photographing, and cataloging grave headings, symbolism, and items left on graves. This also included an IRB-approved qualitative survey about Louisiana Creole and Cajun memorialization culture. |
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Conference Presentations
“Creole Monsters: Circum-Atlantic Cultural Reproductions as Creatures to be Feared.” PCA South, New Orleans, LA, September, 2023.
“‘You and others shall yet be mine’: Gender Fluidity, Queer Desire, and Polyamory in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.” PCA/ACA, San Antonio, TX, April, 2023.
“‘My only fault was being sick’: Resistance, Disability, and Race in Mary Prince’s History.” NASSR, Huntsville, TX, March, 2023.
“‘I wouldn’t give myself’: Understanding The Awakening’s Contentious Conclusion through Narrative Voice.” International Conference on Narrative, Dallas, TX, March, 2023.
“‘You and others shall yet be mine’: Gender Fluidity, Queer Desire, and Polyamory in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.” PCA/ACA, San Antonio, TX, April, 2023.
“‘My only fault was being sick’: Resistance, Disability, and Race in Mary Prince’s History.” NASSR, Huntsville, TX, March, 2023.
“‘I wouldn’t give myself’: Understanding The Awakening’s Contentious Conclusion through Narrative Voice.” International Conference on Narrative, Dallas, TX, March, 2023.
Awards & Honors
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James Sims Literature Scholarship Endowment for Best English Graduate Student Paper, University of Southern Mississippi, 2023.
The Ben Mounger Rawls Award Endowment for Outstanding Creative Writing Student, University of Southern Mississippi, 2023. Partners for the Arts Emerging Artist Award, University of Southern Mississippi, 2023. College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Travel Award, University of Southern Mississippi, 2023. Howard Wilson and Helen V. Bahr Scholarship Endowment, University of Southern Mississippi, 2023. EGO Graduate Student Travel Award, University of Southern Mississippi, 2023. Graduate Student Travel Bursary, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, 2023. |
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