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Rochelle Zuck received a Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities grant

Author: lskramer

Rochelle ZuckThe Fall 2024 Digital Scholarship Grant was awarded to Rochelle Zuck, Associate Professor in the Department of English. Zuck’s project will fund the completion of one chapter, the introduction, and the epilogue of her current book project Circulating Empire: Circulating Libraries, the English Book Trade, and Colonial Narratives in the Long Eighteenth Century. This book explores the ways in which popular fiction of the long eighteenth century, particularly that produced for circulating library patrons, was a key site in which British identities (individual, national, and imperial) and understandings of British colonies were produced and circulated. It examines works that purported to be “true histories” of women’s experiences within empire and explores the ways in which British writers used women and their circulations to narrate stories of multiple sites within the British empire to both justify and complicate the British imperial aims and intervene in broader literary conversations about the nature and role of the “Author.”