We are delighted to announce our first undergraduate award recipients of the Antoni Kosinski and Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski Endowed Research Fund in French Studies (RBK Undergraduate Research Award). Let’s give it up for Danna Corsini and Regis A. Curtis!
Danna Corsini will be supported by an RBK Undergraduate Research Award to conduct research on representations of women and power in French-language fairy tales from the 17th century to the modern period. Danna is especially interested in comparing visual representations of women and animals in fairy tale illustrations and films. Danna will use her research to create a teaching resource and activity guide on French fairy tales, gender and media to help teachers bring this material to students in English-language classrooms.
Regis A. Curtis will be supported by an RBK Undergraduate Research Award to conduct research on “Community Memory and the HIV/AIDS Crisis through European Cinema.” Focusing on the memory of HIV/AIDS in French and German cinema, Regis’s archival and field work further investigates queer narrative and memory making in spaces such as the celebrated Parisian LGBTQ bookstore, Les Mots à la bouche. Research from this project will feature in Regis’s BPhil thesis and a creative portfolio.
Both projects advance Dr. Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski’s living legacy of impactful research in French studies, Gender, Sexuality and Women’s studies, and European studies. We are very proud of our inaugural RBK Undergraduate Research Award recipients and very grateful to Antoni and Renate for supporting undergraduate research in the Department of French and Italian!