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An aspiring writer learns from her faculty mentor—a published author

Edward Schwarzschild and LeeFrances Rappaport
 

Edward Schwarzschild and LeeFrances Rappaport

Research is a vital part of the University at Albany undergraduate experience. Research stimulates critical thinking, encourages experimentation and promotes intellectual accomplishment. Abundant opportunities exist for students to partner with faculty researchers in a variety of disciplines—from the arts to the social sciences to the nanoscale sciences. Here is one such example:

LeeFrances Rappaport
 

LeeFrances Rappaport

 

LeeFrances Rappaport
Cranston, RI
University Scholars Program
English major
Professional goals: author; focusing on creative short stories and novels
Quote: This research project pertained directly to my interests and I was happy for the opportunity to write a piece of historical fiction in collaboration with a professor who is also a published author.

Edward Schwarzschild
 

Edward Schwarzschild

 

Edward Schwarzschild, faculty mentor
Department of English
Assistant Professor Edward Schwarzschild's first novel, Responsible Men, was published in 2005 and it was named one of the best books of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle. His next book, a collection of short stories entitled No Rest for the Middleman, will be published in 2007. A former Helen Deutsch Fellow in Creative Writing at Boston University and a recent Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, he has published stories and essays in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Southwest Review, StoryQuarterly, Moment Magazine, and The Yale Journal of Criticism. He holds a joint appointment in the English department and the New York State Writers Institute

LeeFrances' Research Project:
Using History to Write Contemporary Fiction

My project focused on writing fiction that is at once historical and contemporary. We studied how to read and write narratives that incorporate historical research. We were challenged to investigate and analyze the ways in which specific knowledge about the particulars of the past can help to create a more "real" fictional world and we put what we learned into practice as we wrote fiction about 20th century Russia and Germany.

 

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