Dr. Candice Bosse Receives Whiting Foundation Grant

Dr. Candice Bosse, assistant professor of Spanish and Women’s Studies, has received a Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Grant to facilitate the writing of her second book, Voices of Honduran Women: Here Women Do Not Write. Her first book, Becoming and Consumption: The Contemporary Spanish Novel, was published in 2007.

In July, Bosse will travel to Tegucigalpa, Honduras, to conduct research in the Biblioteca Nacional, a key Central American national library, and to interview Honduran women poets. She will be completing work started in 2006, when she interviewed two Houduran poets, Lety Elvir and Claudia Torres. On this trip, Bosse will interview three more poets, exploring how each “articulates the creation of self” in relation to her role in Honduran society. She plans to use some of this material to create new courses in the Modern Language and Women’s Studies departments at Keene State.