DePaul SURG Grant Award Winner!
I'm very excited and so grateful to share that my proposal for the Summer Undergraduate Research Grant at DePaul has been approved! I’ll be diving into the world of hybrid publishing, a model where authors share costs with professional publishers, to explore how it challenges long-held ideas about legitimacy, credibility, and who gets to shape the literary landscape.
The project itself will be a kind of hybrid: blending literary review, digital ethnography (Reddit threads, Substack newsletters, and lit-world Instagram), and conversations with publishing professionals. I’m especially interested in the rhetorics of value, gatekeeping, and creative control and what that reveals about the future of publishing.