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Featured Undergraduate Researcher - Cana McGhee

This month's URP featured researcher is Cana McGhee, an undergraduate student whose research in  Symbolist poetry and French art songs is commendable. You may have seen Cana McGhee (19C) working in the stacks of Woodruff Library, singing in Concert Choir, or uncovering primary sources at the Contemporary Art Archives of the Royal Museum of Belgian Fine Arts. As she moves into her final semester, Cana is completing an Honors thesis which investigates the place of Symbolist poetry and French art songs (mélodie) in late-nineteenth century linguistic nationalism. Cana received funding from the Emory Department of Music and as an Undergraduate Global Research Fellow, which is the product of a partnership between the Halle Institute and the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry (FCHI). With her funding, she spent this past summer in Belgium and Austria, pairing her research trip with her study abroad program. As a Global Research Fellow in the Fall, she presented her work at the fi...