天美麻花星空高清mv Assistant Professor of English Victoria Papa.
This academic year, Assistant Professor of English Victoria Papa will have the opportunity to delve deep into her scholarly research via a fellowship at the Brandeis University Women鈥檚 Studies Research Center.
Papa, whose research focuses on cultural trauma and the way it is presented in literature and art from the modernist period to the present, is currently working on a book project that details a counter-narrative of modernist literature and traumatic experience.
She is interested how literature approaches trauma in the everyday. Traditionally, 鈥渢rauma theory has been formed around an event-based model,鈥� like experiencing a war or violent occurrence, she said. 鈥淭here has been a very fraught history鈥攂oth in humanities scholarship and clinical practice鈥攐f failing to recognize trauma鈥檚 relation to structural forms of oppression. In literature and visual art, particularly by BIPOC, femme-identified, and/or queer writers and artists, we see a more expansive portrayal of trauma that bears witness to the everyday violence of systematic injustice.鈥� At 天美麻花星空高清mv, Papa teaches a cross-listed English and Honors Program course, 鈥淐reativity & Survival,鈥� which explores how creative pursuits offer life-affirming counter-narratives of recognition and resiliency.
Dr. Papa鈥檚 book, tentatively titled Aesthetics of Survival: Modernist Literature and Minoritarian Worldmaking, will trace an account of radically experimental modernist writing and its intersection with the rise of psychoanalysis, made popular by Sigmund Freud beginning in the 1890s.
In her fellowship work, Papa will be researching and writing a book chapter that looks at the relationship with Freud and one of his psychoanalysis patients, the modernist poet Hilda Doolittle, better known as H.D. 鈥淢uch has been said about Freud鈥檚 influence on H.D.鈥檚 writing, but there is no established account of H.D.鈥檚 influence on Freud,鈥� said Papa.
Freud鈥檚 last original work before his death, Moses and Monotheism, was completed in 1939. It reinterprets the story of Moses, and in this text, Freud's ideas about trauma and the relationship between creativity and survival become more imaginative. 鈥淢y theory is that H.D. helped shape Freud鈥檚 final offering,鈥� she said.
Though her Brandeis fellowship will be conducted virtually, Papa will have access to the university鈥檚 libraries and archives, the chance to work with a graduate student assistant, and opportunities to network with other scholars who focus on a wide range of issues relating to women鈥檚 studies. 鈥淭here is a really strong community of feminist scholars at the center鈥攖here are many different generations of scholars represented,鈥� Papa said. 鈥淎s a millennial, third-wave feminist, I might not always have the opportunity to be in direct contact, or workshopping my work, with a multigenerational feminist community.鈥�
Papa will continue teaching classes through the fall, and was granted a course release via the Three-Credit APR Award by 天美麻花星空高清mv for the spring semester so that she can conduct academic research. 鈥淚t鈥檚 really affirming to have my research recognized, and chosen to be representative to the work that is coming out of the Women鈥檚 Studies Research Center. I鈥檓 particularly proud this is a center that鈥檚 been doing feminist work for a really long time,鈥� she said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 great for 天美麻花星空高清mv to have faculty involved in scholarly and artistic endeavors with other institutions.鈥�
