An Online Guide to Derek Walcott's Omeros

About the Project:

We are creating an online guide to Nobel laureate Derek Walcott's poem Omeros. For this digital humanities projects, students will be involved in editing entries, compiling an updated bibliography, creating a glossary to the poem, and choosing images for the website. Published in 1990, Omeros draws loosely on the Homeric epics (the Iliad and the Odyssey) to tell a story of the modern Caribbean. Students will hone skills in scholarly research, website design and management, and digital humanities project development.

Jared Stark received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University. Before joining the Eckerd faculty in 2004, he held visiting appointments at Cornell University and New York University and was awarded a junior faculty fellowship by the American Council of Learned Societies and the Mellon Foundation. His teaching and research focus on interdisciplinary approaches to modernism, the history of the novel, literary criticism, postcolonial literatures, and Holocaust studies. His articles have dealt with topics including Edith Wharton’s fiction, the history of photography, and the literature of the Holocaust.

The First-Year Research Associate Program at Eckerd College honors academically outstanding students with awards of up to $1,000. The program also provides the opportunity, during the freshman year, for the award winners to work closely with a sponsor (faculty or administrative personnel) on a project of mutual interest. Associates might assist with research for faculty publication or new courses, conduct scientific experiments, work with creative artists, or develop projects related to any phase of the academic, cultural, and social life of the college. Scholars are selected on the basis of achievement in high school and on the creativity and depth of responses to items on this application.​

Online submission due no later than February 2, 2026.