A Research Conversation with Professor Alexandria Peary

In this presentation, Professor Peary will describe how using multiple and sometimes unorthodox methods (archival research, interviews, site visits) to write a trilogy (poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction) on Pforzheim helped her find workarounds for missing documents and manage other obstacles during her 2024-2025 Fulbright. Out of that flexibility of method came moments of astonishment: interviewing a 103-year-old Royal Air Force Pilot who bombed Germany; bringing a family to a "euthanasia" site exactly eighty-five years to the day their grandfather was killed; and reuniting lost branches of two families, one of which was her own. As a result, a new focus emerged in her research of city-hall rhetoric in Pforzheim, 1933-1950, it's the story of two men, both mid-level civil servants, and their fates during the Nazi regime.
 

This event is free and open to the public. It will take place in person and will also be livestreamed on zoom. Registration is required.

This event is cosponsored by the Center for Research and Creative Activities and the English department.