Dresher Center Summer 2025 Fellows

This summer, four UMBC faculty members were awarded summer fellowships from the Dresher Center.

Keegan Cook Finberg, Assistant Professor in English, will research and write an essay for peer-review, “Utopian Resistance and Imperial Steinian Form in Harryette Mullen’s Trimmings and S*PeRM**K*T,” to be published in The Edinburgh Companion to Women's Experimental Literature since 1900. The essay examines two books of poetry by African American poet Haryette Mullen, which thematize neoliberal forms of racialized commodification and marketization of gender in the 1990s.

Emily Yoon, Assistant Professor in English, will work to revise her book proposal and refine two chapters to serve as writing samples to submit to academic presses. Her book project, Little Intimacies: Ecologies of Race, Migration, and Relation in Minority Literatures, takes a comparative approach to investigate how the environments in which global migrations occur inform how minoritized characters experience and understand race and relation.

Kyung-Eun Yoon, Assistant Professor in Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication, will work to advance her project, "K-Pop and Memes in Protest Discourse: Identity and Collective Membership in the 2024-2025 South Korean Impeachment Protests," which examines the dynamic protest culture surrounding the 2024-2025 South Korean impeachment protests, focusing on how younger generations integrated K-pop culture and memes into their activism.

Natalie Groom, Affiliate Artist of Clarinet in Music, will is to research, study, engrave, and publish a Trio for clarinet, horn, and bassoon that was written by music history pioneer Pauline Oliveros (1932—2016). Some brief records indicate the Trio was written in 1955, but no records indicate that the work was published or performed.