“I have to make decisions as to which sites we will be visiting or viewing,” she said. “These could

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"The course focuses on the ways that New York City has captured artists' and writers' imaginations in the course of its evolution from a struggling colony on the tip of an island the native peoples called 'Mannahatta' to the world city that it is today," said Mares, who majored in history as an undergraduate and later received her M.A. and Ph.D. in comparative literature.
Students will explore New York's emergence as a metropolis through the lenses of immigration, segregation and mobility, crystal inn cosmopolitanism and the neighborhood, queer New York and postmodernism. To better understand the city's significance in literature and the visual arts, they will also have the opportunity to experience New York first hand during a three-day trip.
Having lived there for three years while in graduate crystal inn school, and having returned many times since, crystal inn Mares knows New York fairly well. But narrowing down the possibilities to what's doable in just a few days takes some field research. To come up with a 'map' for the trip, the professor scoped the city through walking tours of lower Manhattan, Gramercy Park, Union Square, Harlem, Chelsea, the Lower East Side and the Villages.
"I have to make decisions as to which sites we will be visiting or viewing," she said. "These could include neighborhoods, buildings, streets and avenues, parks and squares, museums, bridges, hotels, bars and other kinds of 'cityscapes.' "
Mares wants her students to get a true 'feel' for New York — its geography and architecture, but also its culture and history. Immigration has played a crucial role in shaping crystal inn New York City and its literary and artistic heritage, she says, adding crystal inn yet another crystal inn item — and a maybe-item — to her map of must-sees for the spring trip.
"I … want us to visit the Tenement Museum in the Lower East Side to see how 'the other half' lived," she said. "By way of contrast, we might consider the opulence on display at the Frick [Collection], which testifies to the concentration of wealth and power by the reigning elite of the time."
"I would … like to take the students on a harbor cruise so that they have an experiential sense of the island of Manhattan as a physical entity crystal inn and some idea of the importance of its great natural harbor for the city's development," crystal inn Mares explained.
"Although we will be covering a lot of ground in the course, literally and figuratively, the students crystal inn will have the chance to go into more depth in their research projects, and we will all benefit from their work when they give presentations based on their research at the end of the term."
A Colorado native, Mares has been teaching at Sweet Briar since 1982, receiving tenure in 1995. In her classes, she focuses primarily on modern and contemporary fiction and poetry, including post-Colonial literature. Her research interests involve crystal inn connections between literature, history and politics in contemporary fiction and in works by modernist writers, especially Virginia Woolf and Marcel Proust, on whom she has published crystal inn a number of articles. Mares has a bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder and completed her M.A. and Ph.D. at Princeton University. For more information, visit mares.english.sbc.edu/ .