Doctoral student Georgina Fooks has been awarded a Friends of the Princeton University Library Research Grant to conduct archival research this September. The generous grant funds researchers across the world to visit the Special Collections at Princeton University Library, which include the papers of a number of important Latin American writers.
This research will support Georgina's DPhil project, entitled 'A Translational Poetics: Between Language(s) and Image in the Works of Alejandra Pizarnik and Susana Thénon'. Princeton holds the papers of Alejandra Pizarnik, one of Argentina's most important poets, and Georgina will be looking at her manuscripts, translations, diaries, letters, and artworks during her four-week visit. She will explore the relationship between Pizarnik's written work and visual art, and look at manuscripts to understand her composition and editing process.
Georgina said, 'I'm very grateful to all in the MML faculty who have taught me and made my research possible, and especially to those who supported my application to Princeton.'
