 Emily VanDette, Ph.D. |
Emily VanDette, SUNY Fredonia assistant professor for English Department, has been granted a $6,000 summer research stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington, D.C. Nominated by John Kijinksi, dean for College of Arts and Sciences, VanDette is among the eight percent of applicants who were successful.
This financial support will ensure VanDette two months of full-time archival research to complete her book, “Sibling Romance in American Fiction, 1835-1900." She will be recovering the history of Caroline Lee Hentz, an antebellum Southern novelist, through archives at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
VanDette specializes in 19th-century American literature with a focus on the recovery of American women’s literature.
Courses she teaches at SUNY Fredonia include American Literary Roots, Realism and Naturalism in American literature, and “Scribbling Women”: 19th-century American Women Writers.
She earned her doctorate in English at Penn State University and her bachelor’s degree in English with a minor in philosophy from SUNY Fredonia.
