Undergraduate and Professor Publish Article on Swenson Poetry Path | English - 1

Undergraduate andProfessor Publish Articleon Swenson Poetry Path |English

07/13/2017

Marissa Shirley Allen, an Undergraduate ResearchFellow who works as a tutor in the Writing Center, andProfessor Joyce Kinkead have a feature article in theJune issue of Teacher Librarian, a journal for schoollibrary professionals. “Literary Landmarks: Honoring LocalWriters” describes Allen’s work in developing the brochurefor a May Swenson Poetry Path in 2015. Her researchproject was supervised by Kinkead and Professor PaulCrumbley, a noted Swenson scholar. The authors point out that whatever the format, literarymaps connect authors and places in meaningful waysthat can enhance students’ learning and understandingof literature. Increasingly, literary tourism is of interest,whether in traditional print maps or multimodalapplications. Google’s LitTrips is just one example.Literary-based maps and trails offer a “kind of secularpilgrimage to visit sites associated with writers and imagedspaces,” according to Lindy Stiebel, who is quoted in thearticle. Kinkead spearheaded a similar project in 1990that resulted in a literary map for Utah and a bibliographicguide to accompany it.The Swenson Poetry Path brochure is available in severallocations, including the Department of English and the Cityof Logan and Cache Valley Tourist Bureau. Allen’s workwas funded, in part, by the Cache Valley Historical Societyas well as the Department of English.