ABSTRACT
“Culture becomes not a haven of ideas or a fixed state of experience but a social imaginary erupting out of a storied cultural real.” (Stewart 1996, 63-4)

I remember the day when my father, a West Virginia University professor, accompanied some of his students to Charleston for Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol in February 2018. He texted me a grainy photo of teachers in red shirts standing inside the building, in a room made entirely of marble, in front of a student’s research poster.