Shannon Neal
Shannon Neal is a first year PhD student who researches modernist and twentieth-century literature through the lenses of materiality, affect, and gender. They received an MA in English Language and Literature from the University of Maryland in 2023 and worked as a communications professional after graduating. Prior to their MA they worked in the public humanities in archives, libraries, and museums and as a poetry screener for the literary journal Cherry Tree.
Awards & Grants
Hyattsville Teens + Book Arts
Our hands-on public humanities project will bring Book Arts education to the Prince George’s County Memorial Library System.
Author/Lead: Shannon Neal, Nat McGartlandNon-ARHU Contributor(s): PGCMLS
Funding Agency:
The Center for Literary and Comparative Studies
Nat McGartland and Shannon Neal will bring Book Arts workshops to the Teens Action Group at the Hyattsville Branch this Spring. By bringing tools, materials, and touchable examples to our workshops, we aim to make Book Arts accessible following the CAARES principles of equity and equal access. Workshops will include: letterpress printing, book binding, paper making, creating bookmarks and postcards, and engaging with reading and writing through experimental poetry. These workshops aim to build leadership skills, creative confidence, artistic skills, and engagement with the humanities outside of a test-based environment.
STORIES OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND - AN NEH FUNDED PROJECT
The Southern Maryland Studies Center received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for the project: Stories of Southern Maryland.
Author/Lead: Shannon NealFunding Agency:
NEH
This project focuses on the transcription of 40 oral history interviews documenting the history and culture of Southern Maryland. The selected oral histories cover themes that give voice to minorities and covers subjects that prove to be important research material given current events, such as segregation, the influenza epidemic, and The Great Depression in Southern Maryland. The resulting transcripts will be available to the public at no cost through ADA compliant pdf files that will be posted on our website as they are completed. Shannon Neal transcribed and formatted the oral histories.
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