English

 

National Writing Project

The Oklahoma State University Writing Project offers teachers in Oklahoma a school-university partnership in developing strategies for writing, teaching writing, and research. As a result, the teachers will become active writers and/or researchers, their students will write more often, and the quality of their writing will improve. In addition, the university will improve the quality of its teacher education program in writing.

Sponsor: Michigan State University

PI: Richard Batteiger

 

The Americas and the British Literary Imagination, 1660-1750

Travel support to the Huntington Library in San Marino, California to do final research in the special collections in British Americana for a book that delineates the evolution of the British colonial protagonist and the development of British imperialist apologetics in these years.

Sponsor: Oklahoma Humanities Council

PI: Richard Frohock

 

Examination of Language used by Plantation and Town Inhabitants in Mid Eighteenth Century Virginia

This research examines language use in mid-eighteenth century Virginia. It focuses on the inhabitants of both plantations and town and will provide a description of the kinds of language used in the multi-ethnic area.

Sponsor: Oklahoma Humanities Council

PI: Susan Garzon

 

The Correspondence of Thomas Young, Tutor to John Milton and Patrick Young, the Royal Librarian

This research examines the transcription and translation of seventeenth-century Latin correspondence between Thomas Young, Puritan divine and tutor to John Milton and Patrick Young, the Royal Librarian under James I and Charles I. The holograph letters between the two men have never been translated nor assessed by Renaissance or Milton scholars.

Sponsor: Oklahoma Humanities Council

PI: Edward Jones

 

Marianne Moore (1887-1972)

Travel support to Philadelphia to do research at the Rosenbach Museum and Library on Marianne Moore, long regarded as the foremost woman poet of her generation. The Rosenbach contains all of Moore’s literary and personal effects, including 35,000 pieces of correspondence.

Sponsor: Oklahoma Humanities Council

PI: Linda Leavell