Plymouth Native Victoria Young Named Stonehill SURE Scholar

EASTON, MA (04/10/2013)(readMedia)-- A total of 50 Stonehill College students will work with 32 faculty members on a variety of research projects over the coming summer of 2013 and Plymouth native Victoria Young, a junior at the College, will work with Scott Cohen, Associate Professor of English, on Roads Less Traveled: Intersections of Tourism and Commercialism in Britain and Abroad.

The team will examine the writings of two modern British novelists, Jean Rhys and Vita Sackville-West to search for connections between the tourism industry in Europe and beyond, commercialism associated with the colonial power of Britain, and the complicated roles of gender and race in the modern period. Specifically, Young and Cohen will investigate critical reviews of the authors, study primary source materials relating to tourism and colonialism, and place their discoveries into conversation with critical theories about travel, commercialism, and feminism.

Young, an English major, will draft a conference paper, submit a critical essay for publication and develop a short interactive eBook for use in the classroom.

The scholars and their faculty mentors are the 18th group to work under the Stonehill Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program, which provides students with an opportunity to perform significant, publishable research under the guidance of an experienced faculty researcher. The research experience will help to provide students with a competitive advantage in graduate and professional school applications and in post-college employment opportunities, as well as to provide assistance to faculty in research activities.

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