English PhD student wins USask graduate thesis award
Kyle Dase wrote on “Friendship and Sociability in the Verse Letters of John Donne”
Congratulations to Kyle Dase, who has been awarded the 2022-23 University of Saskatchewan Graduate Thesis Awards, PhD in Humanities and Fine Arts, for his dissertation, “Friendship and Sociability in the Verse Letters of John Donne.”
Dr. Dase’s dissertation employs the interpretative framework of sociability to analyze the verse letters of John Donne. Donne’s letters are contextualized as “literary objects that are not only representative of social exchange, but are themselves social artifacts whose presence in multiple contexts and perspectives performs and generates social connection.” The dissertation examines classical models of friendship in the letters; the letters as metaphors of the sender despite physical absence; and the social configurations and reception of early modern manuscripts. The study uncovers a need for a new editorial practice emphasizing “sociability and social relationships by employing a network visualization as its primary user interface.”
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