URAP

Andrew Leong - Professor , English

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

Japanese and English-language literary columns in Japanese American newspapers played crucial roles in pre-World War II immigrant society, offering opportunities for readers and contributors to think and feel more deeply and imaginatively about their lives in the United States. This project includes retrieving, categorizing, and studying literary texts...

Andrew Leong - Professor , English

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

Tessaku_ Tessaku (鉄柵, or “Iron Fence”) is a Japanese-language literary journal that was published by incarcerees in the Tule Lake Segregation Center during World War II. It consists of nine issues, totaling 751 pages, running from March 1944 to July 1945, and includes poetry, fiction, and essays composed by...

Bryan Wagner - Professor, English

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: Off Campus

We are publishing an open digital textbook on art and expression in New Orleans. We have a particular focus on vernacular music traditions, especially jazz. The textbook will include original, extraordinary multimedia content produced by a collective of professors, writers, artists, archivists, activists, and community leaders. We are creating and...

Bryan Wagner - Professor, English

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

This project involves translating testimonies given by slaves accused of conspiring to revolt. The testimonies are in French and Spanish. We will be working mostly with typescripts and in some cases with original manuscripts. We will also be integrating the new translations into an online digital edition of primary materials...

Bryan Wagner - Professor, English

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

We will be collecting and annotating historical documents, photographs, songs, and videos related to the history, culture, and literature of New Orleans...

Bryan Wagner - Professor, English

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Students will help to produce an annotated bibliography of articles from African American historical newspapers addressing the transition from slavery to freedom...