URAP

Marianne Constable - Professor, Rhetoric

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: Off Campus

Chicago Husband-Killing and the New Unwritten Law is a book-length manuscript concerned with a particular defense known as the new unwritten law, which supposedly exonerated women accused of killing their husbands in Chicago at the beginning of the twentieth century. The point of the book is to explore...

Winnie Wong - Professor, Rhetoric

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

This is an ongoing historical research project on the visual culture produced by Chinese painters in Guangzhou, China, for European and American markets during the period of the Canton Trade (1700-1850). The project explores the intersection of art and science, art and plants, art and animals, and lesser known parts...

Winnie Wong - Professor, Rhetoric

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

A collaboration with the Asian Art Museum, this project researches the art and visual culture of Hong Kong, in its history and present...

Winnie Wong - Professor, Rhetoric

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project centers on the daily diary of a literatus in early modern Guangzhou, China. Through reading and translating the diary, we examine the everyday life of an urbane gentleman, his navigation of an early modern city and its social networks. We see the centrality of painting, poetry, music, and...

Winnie Wong - Professor, Rhetoric

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

Research on the modern and contemporary artists Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp, Banksy, Constantin Brancusi, Matthew Wong, Agnes Martin, and others...