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For 12 Weeks, Dr Elizabeth Smyth conducted research at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and the National Museum of African Art in Washington DC (USA) as part of a Queensland-Smithsonian Fellowship. This presentation offers insight into the Fellowship application process and the recipient's personal experience of researching at the Smithsonian Institute, the world's largest museum, education and research organisation. 
Topics address will include funding, proposed project, research priority, DC during unprecedented snowstorms and war, libraries and archives, distractions, outcomes and a changed perspective.

Dr Elizabeth Smyth is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Australian Literature at the Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing (JCU). Her research interests include Ecocriticism, Georgic Studies and literary representation of the Australian Wet Tropics.