{"id":12210,"date":"2023-04-12T14:34:14","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T19:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/english\/?p=12210"},"modified":"2026-03-22T16:04:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T21:04:29","slug":"poet-and-young-adult-novelist-is-on-the-trail-of-sherlock-holmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/english\/poet-and-young-adult-novelist-is-on-the-trail-of-sherlock-holmes\/","title":{"rendered":"Poet and young adult novelist is on the trail of Sherlock Holmes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1060\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2023\/04\/Cavalarro-Web.jpg\" alt=\"Brittany Cavallaro\" class=\"wp-image-12743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2023\/04\/Cavalarro-Web.jpg 1060w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2023\/04\/Cavalarro-Web-300x127.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2023\/04\/Cavalarro-Web-1024x435.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2023\/04\/Cavalarro-Web-768x326.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1060px) 100vw, 1060px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-brittany-cavallaro-18-phd-in-creative-writing\">Brittany Cavallaro, &#8217;18 PhD in Creative Writing<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: <span style=\"color: #993300\">Brittany is the author of the <em>New York Times<\/em> bestselling Charlotte Holmes series for young adults. In addition to the four Charlotte Holmes books, she has a young adult duology set &#8211; <em>Muse<\/em> and <em>Manifest<\/em>. She is also an Instructor of Creative Writing at Interlochen Arts Academy.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dissertation<\/strong>: <em>Unhistorical<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My poetry manuscript and creative dissertation, <em>Unhistorical, <\/em>combines transformative writing, historical narratives, and detective fiction to tell the story of a contemporary romantic relationship that begins in Scotland and falls apart in America, as the narrator finds herself in the role of spectator to her partner\u2019s genius. Many of these poems are written in the elegiac mode, following a speaker who is, as turns, tourist and historian. These poems bookend the manuscript, while a Sherlock Holmes murder mystery is at the manuscript\u2019s center I wanted to tell a mystery story through diary entries and monologue, obscuring the actual whodunit in order to foreground the emotional relationship between detective and detective\u2019s assistant\u2014that is to say, again, genius and spectator. In the bookending sections, I pull antiquated language from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle\u2019s stories to underscore the emotional parallels between this relationship and the Holmes and Watson narrative. As a whole, the poems in <em>Unhistorical<\/em> are interested in inheritance and expectation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to my poetic work, I\u2019m the author of the Charlotte Holmes series of young adult novels for Katherine Tegen\/HarperCollins. The first of these, <em>A Study in Charlotte, <\/em>was released in early 2016, with sequels to follow in 2017 and 2018. These young adult novels reimagine Sherlock Holmes as a brilliant, flawed teenage girl at a boarding school. Along with her best friend Jamie Watson, Charlotte is framed for the murder of her rapist. Like <em>Unhistorical, A Study in Charlotte<\/em> is interested in ideas of inheritance and expectation: here, those expectations are family ones, as Charlotte and Jamie are the great-great-grandchildren of the original Holmes and Watson. In many ways <em>Unhistorical <\/em>and the Charlotte Holmes books feel like two sides of the same project, albeit for different audiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My poetry manuscript and creative dissertation, Unhistorical, combines transformative writing, historical narratives, and detective fiction to tell the story of a contemporary romantic relationship that begins in Scotland and falls apart in America, as the narrator finds herself in the role of spectator to her partner\u2019s genius.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1272,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graduate-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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