About Us

About the Research Associates

Calvin Wang is a fourth-year English major. Beyond his work with migration narratives, he is also interested in contemporary art. His ongoing thesis project explores spectatorship, ecology, and technology in Pierre Huyghe’s installation work.

Serin Lee is a third-year student majoring in English and Creative Writing. Having spent her time evenly between Iowa City and Seoul, she is interested in poetry, translation, and image-text relations in situations of human displacement and mobility.

Reema Saleh is a fourth year in the College studying Public Policy and English & Creative Writing. She is excited about navigating the relationship between migration, diaspora, and literary expression through writing and spatial mapping. Through the Undergraduate Research Cluster, she worked on creating the global map and mapping Palestinian diaspora poetry in the twenty-first century.

Marjorie Antohi is a fourth year in the College studying English Language and Literature and Computer Science. Her interests include migration narratives, software engineering, and the intersection between humanities and technology.

 

About the Contemporary Migrations Research Cluster

The University of Chicago English Department’s new Undergraduate Research Cluster allows students to get deeper, more sustained engagement with innovative research topics than the standard classroom experience traditionally allows. The Research Cluster is centered on important topics that draw on areas of faculty strengths and student interest, and is made up of a series seminars that address that topic over the course of the academic year. Students interested in the topic are encouraged to enroll in the Cluster’s seminars, and to apply for the Research Associate positions that are awarded to a small group of students. The Reearch Associates work closely with involved faculty and the Cluster’s preceptor to turn their work from the seminars into a collaborative project, which they undertake during Spring quarter.

The Contemporary Migrations: Mapping Poetry project represents the dedicated and impassioned work undertaken by the inaugural cohort of undergraduate Research Associates–Marjorie Antohi, Serin Lee, Reema Saleh, and Calvin Wang–working with Bellamy Mitchell, the Cluster’s first preceptor. They have been supported by Cecilia Smith, Director of the University of Chicago’s Map Collection and the GIS Hub.

The Contemporary Migrations Group Advisory Panel:

Edgar Garcia

Ghenwa Hayek

Josephine McDonagh

Bellamy Mitchell

Srikanth (Chicu) Reddy