Researchers of Emory

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...

Chris Batterman  is a junior double majoring in Music and Psychology. He was awarded a Fall 2017 Conference Grant which he used to attend (des)articulaciones 2017. Last month, I had the opportunity to attend and present at the University of Pittsburgh’s conference, (des)articulaciones: (De)conceptualizations: Beyond Identity, Coloniality and the Subaltern. Sponsored by the university’s Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, (des)articulaciones is an international graduate student conference that allows students to present their research and get feedback from colleagues and professors in the field. This year, the conference theme revolved around the idea of the subaltern, communities or identities that have been marginalized or hierarchically positioned at lower statuses. Oftentimes, this subalternity is a result of power structures introduced by colonialism or imperialist policy (i.e., America’s involvement pretty much anywhere). This year’s theme was especially ...