Denbo Center Fellows
With the support of the UT Chancellor’s Office, the Office of Research and Engagement, our affiliated arts and humanities departments, and the College of Arts and Sciences, the Denbo Center supports the creation of groundbreaking humanities research through our fellowship programs. These individuals—Faculty Fellows, Graduate Fellows, and a Marco Haslam Dissertation Fellow—are listed below.
Faculty Fellows
Amanda Evans
Assistant Professor, School of Art
Project: When the River Becomes a Cloud, an interdisciplinary public art installation in rural East Washington – her time at the center will be devoted to writing a book based on the completion of the project
R.D. Perry
Associate Professor, Department of English
Project: An examination of the formal structure of The Canterbury Tales, specifically its incompleteness as an aesthetic mode
Rachel Schneider
Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies
Project: A study of white Christians and faith-based development in South Africa
Emma Schroeder
Assistant Professor, Department of History
Project: A history of women’s technological activism from the 1960s to the 1980s
Moussa Seck
Assistant Professor, Department of World Languages and Cultures
Project: A study of how migration shapes and reimagines identity in literature by francophone African and Afro-descendant writers
Marie Balsley Taylor
Assistant Professor, Department of English
Project: A history of America’s first printed Bible written in the indigenous language Wampanoag and published in 1663
Graduate Students
Taylor DeMichael
Marco Haslam Fellow, Department of English
Project: Predestined: Religious Trauma, Hellish Anxieties, and the Calvinist Theatre
Annamaria Haden
Department of History
Project: An analysis of media depictions of atomic animals, or animals affected by nuclear radiation
Morgan Schneider
Department of World Languages and Cultures
Project: An exploration of representations of devils, demons, and other diabolical figures in the Hispanic transatlantic world
Dave Strickler
Department of History
Project: A history of the role played by bodies of water in the work of historian and sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois
Maggie Warren
Department of English
Project: A study of elegies by female poets of color