Beate Brunow, a doctoral candidate in German Literature and Culture with a minor in Women’s Studies, won first place in the Arts and Humanities category at the 2009 graduate research exhibition. The title of her project is: Dramatic Inquiries: Encountering Performances of Female Creativity. The poster summarizes Beate’s proposed dissertation project in which she concerns herself with artist dramas of the nineteenth century. She focuses on women writers and their presentations of female artists and the discourses and conflicts around their creative process.  The creative process and its surrounding conflicts constitute the core of this genre, and women’s dramas have often been devalued based on the presented conflicts which are not recognized as valid artist-conflicts. She argues that is it the gendered conceptualization of creativity accompanied by the conventional conflicts of the male artist which keep women writers and their representations of female creativity at the margins (or even outside) of the genre. Beate argues that we have to open up the discourses that establish and define creativity in order to re-think and re-conceptualize the genre of the artist drama.