Susan Rosenbaum awarded a Creative Research Medal for her work on the digital humanities project, Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde

Congratulations to our own Susan Rosenbaum, who has been awarded a Creative Research Medal for her work on the digital humanities project, Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde! The university established the Creative Research Medals in 1980 to recognize a distinct and exceptional research or creative project, performed by a mid-career faculty member, with extraordinary impact and significance to the field of study.

Susan Rosenbaum, associate professor in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences’ English department, collaborated with colleagues at Davidson College and Duquesne University in a field-changing digital humanities project, Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde. The project, which has brought Mina Loy from the margins of modernist studies into the spotlight, is a scholarly contribution of various approaches, depending on which part of the website is visited. The website offers a scholarly guide to Loy’s career including close readings of her writing, designs and visual art; edited biographies of Loy and her cohort; a venue for student scholarship featuring digital humanities tools; and an intensive immersion in Loy’s style, writing, life and travels. Combining archival research and creative activity and linking elements of avant-garde design to original scholarship, this initiative has sparked greater interest in modernist women writers and paved a new path for research