North Attleboro Native Nicholas Howard Earns Summer Research Award

EASTON, MA (04/09/2012)(readMedia)-- North Attleboro native Nicholas Howard will be one of 50 students from Stonehill College working with faculty members at the College this summer on research projects through the Stonehill Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program. The SURE Program provides students with an opportunity to perform significant, publishable research under the guidance of an experienced faculty researcher.

Howard, a junior English major at Stonehill, will work with (Professor Matthew Borushko, assistant professor of English), on Romanticism and Beauty.

This project will research the aesthetic category of beauty in the literature of the Romantic Age in Britain (approximately 1780-1840) for Professor Borushko's new book, Romanticism and Beauty. Howard will assist with reading Romantic era texts to identify, classify and compile a database of instances where authors turn to beauty in the literature studied. By compiling this information, they hope to determine why the authors are focusing on beauty and what is the ultimate outcome of doing so; how does it affect the aesthetic legacy of the piece and Romantic literature in general? In addition to Professor Borushko's book, the pair hopes to submit a paper for consideration at an upcoming academic conference.

The scholars and their faculty mentors are the 17th group to work under the Stonehill Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program. SURE Scholars will engage in weekly meetings to discuss the progress of their projects and other topics of general interest, and will be paid a stipend for their full-time service. All SURE Scholars will present summaries of their summer's work at an all-campus poster session in the early fall.

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