Kay Chubbuck
Interested in the convergence of literature and the visual arts in the late nineteenth century, Kay wrote her dissertation - and then her first book - on the intersection between travel writing and photography about East Asia during the reign of Queen Victoria. More recently, she has been researching how Japanese art influenced European and American culture between 1868 and 1912: a book that includes a substantial chapter on Impressionism. Her interests, however, are not just scholarly. This past summer, Kay worked on a rain forest restoration project with EarthWatch in Costa Rica; earned her Advanced Open Water certificate in scuba diving in Hawaii; and attended the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference on a fiction scholarship. She also paints and is an amateur photographer.
