2002-2003 Edward M. Wise Dissertation Fellow & Awardees

The second Edward M. Wise Dissertation Fellowship was awarded to Erik Mortenson, Ph.D. Candidate, English for his dissertation, "Heaven in a Cornice: The Practices and Politics of the Beat Return to the 'Moment.'" Abstract
This dissertation draws on the phenomenological tradition of philosophy as well as discussions of the Modern and Postmodern to explore the role of the "moment" in Beat Generation writings. Through an expansion of the Beat canon, it exmines how such writings rework notions of space and time in an attempt to countermand the repressive social and political forces present during the postwar period.

Other Awards

The Center also made three $1,000 awards. One was to Robert Sloan Lee, Ph.D. Candidate, Philosophy, for his dissertation, "Miracles and Naturalism: A Philosophical Analysis." The other awards went to Kyoung Lee from English for the dissertation, "Domesticating the Early Modern Witch: From Shakespeare's Joan of Arc to Dekker's Mother Sawyer" and to Parvinder Mehta of the English department for "(Re)Negotiating Identities: Borders and Boundaries in Immigrant/Transnational Discourse."