Meet the 2021-22 Susan Jaffe Tane Fellow Bradley Nelson2024-02-05T18:07:38-05:00

The Susan Jaffe Tane Fellowship

About the Fellowship

The Walt Whitman Initiative Susan Jaffe Tane Fellowship encourages new research on Walt Whitman and his cultural legacy. It aims to support a diverse range of Whitman based scholarship and projects at the Graduate and Undergraduate levels including biographical, literary, historical, social, artistic, political, and  book design. 

The selected Fellow receives an honorarium of $1,500 and is also mentored by member(s) of the WWI for one year, giving them the opportunity to work on both traditional and public scholarship with professional guidance. In addition, the Fellow will receive introductions and access to important archival repositories and collections, including the Whitman research library. 

This fellowship is made possible with the generous support of Susan Jaffe Tane, fellow WWI member.

2021-2022 Susan Tane Fellow, Bradley Nelson

Hi, everyone. I’m Bradley Nelson, a doctoral student in English at the CUNY Graduate Center. My dissertation, “‘As Blind Men Learn the Sun’: Queer Mysticism in 19th and 20th Century U.S. Poetry” takes our bard, Walt Whitman, as its foundation. A lifelong reader and teacher of Whitman, I took a dive into the Whitmeanean deep end in 2019, when I participated in the International Walt Whitman Week in NYC. I currently live in St. Louis, Missouri and teach online writing courses at the CUNY School of Professional Studies. I’m eager to share more of my work with you soon!

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