Painted Ladies of Rome: The Role of Beauty in Defining Female Excellence

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Cassandra Ball Faculty Mentor: Michael Pope, Comparative Arts and Letters Ancient Rome was a culture obsessed with excellence, and much scholarly ink has been spent identifying and elucidating the intricate matrix of ideal Roman masculinity. Meanwhile, relatively little scholarly attention has been paid to the concept of feminine excellence, or the means by which Roman […]

Red Vienna Sourcebook

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Blake Taylor and Dr. Rob McFarland, German and Russian Department Under the guidance of my ORCA mentor, Professor Rob McFarland, I teamed up this semester with an international working group that is producing the Red Vienna Sourcebook, a reference work that will help North American scholars to supplement their knowledge of German-speaking Europe in the […]

Early Ecologies: Distance Reading Popular Scientific Journals in Turn-of-the-Century Sweden

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Erin Modersitzki and Dr. Christopher Oscarson, Comparative Arts and Letters Introduction The understanding of art and literature depends on an ability to contextualize it within the discourses from which it emerges. This project combined two important new strands of literary research to flesh out the context in which the idea of ecology emerged in Sweden: […]

Change for Women, Change the World

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Kiana Stewart and Dr. Daryl Lee, French Department Introduction My project goal was to translate from French to English significant chapters of a study on gender-based violence (GBV) in Senegal documented by Dr. Fatou Diop Sall. Dr Sall is the head coordinator of GESTES, a Senegalese research group focused on gender equality. A previous group […]

Finding Sources for the Red Vienna Sourcebook

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Madeline McFarland and Dr. Michelle James, German and Russian Department Introduction In between the World Wars, German-speaking Europe was split into two major groups: The Weimar Republic, which consisted of current Germany, and the SocialDemocratically run Austria. Due to this SocialDemocratic government, the capital (and eventually time period) was referred to as “Red Vienna.” While […]

The Critically Annotated Collected Works of Elisa von der Recke and Women’s Articles in Vienna’s “Die neue freie Presse:” A Digital Companion to Red Vienna, White Socialism and the Blues: Ann Tizia Leitich’s America

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PI: Michelle James Co-PI: Rob McFarland Without funding there would be no Sophie project, which is why the first item in this report on the Sophie activities during 2015 must be an expression of our gratitude to both the ORCA office and to the College of Humanities, on behalf of the faculty members involved, and […]

The Essay Genome Project

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PI: Patrick Madden First of all, and most importantly, I want to thank everyone at ORCA and in my college and department who approved and funded this project. The financial support of the Mentored Environment Grant made possible a lot of interesting and far-reaching research for me and my students. I deeply appreciate the generosity. […]

Dorothy Wordsworth’s Travel Writings: A Digital Critical Edition

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PI: Nicholas Mason Thanks to the MEG award we received in 2014-15, my colleague Paul Westover and I have been able to mentor six outstanding BYU students in archival research and scholarly editing and have made significant progress toward the publication of a major new critical edition of the works of the nineteenth-century poet and […]

Victorian Short Fiction Project

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Leslee Thorne-Murphy Evaluation of Academic Objectives Our project was to prepare a digital collection of short stories, The Victorian Short Fiction Project (VSFP), for a scholarly review process. The VSFP is a digital anthology of Victorian-era short stories compiled and edited by students in undergraduate Victorian literature classes here at BYU. Leslee Thorne-Murphy designed the […]

Change for Women, Change the World

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Stewart, Kiana Change for Women, Change the World Faculty Mentor: Dr. Daryl Lee, French Department Introduction My project goal was to translate from French to English significant chapters of a study on gender-based violence (GBV) in Senegal documented by Dr. Fatou Diop Sall. Dr Sall is the head coordinator of GESTES, a Senegalese research group […]