The YAWP: Villanova's Graduate English Program Blog

 Anne Jones, now a second-year student in our MA program, earned a Summer Research Fellowship for the summer of 2020. These are competitive stipends in the amount of $3000 to support scholarly efforts conducted during June, July, and August. During a normal summer, recipients would often travel to archives relevant to their work. Of course, this has not been a normal summer!  Anne shared some information and reflections about her project with the YAWP: M. K. Gandhi’s writings have been crucial to the ideologies that informed the Indian independence movement. In works like Hind Swaraj , he outlined his belief that political self-rule for India had to be bound with economic independence and civil disobedience. For Gandhi, these tenets materialized through the use of a crucial object: the charkha or spinning wheel. Spinning one’s own cotton/cloth, he argued, would mobilize India’s rural population and assist India’s economic independence by rejecting imported British cloth. What he did no

One of our new graduate students, Christoforos Sassaris, has recently worked on an exhibition exploring the history of race, health, and epidemics. According to Sassaris, "As one of the interns in the Mellon Scholars Program at the Library Company of Philadelphia, I had the opportunity to work on this exhibition, which is highly relevant . I am very thankful to have taken part in this project." You can explore the digital exhibition here .