Spring Semester2008
- 9 April 2008
- Preliminary conference schedule has been posted.
- 4 April 2008
- Thesis Defense Schedules for Spring semester 2008
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March 28
10:30 – Kristine Jennings (K. Montwieler, dir.; Boren & Raymond Burt, readers)
April 3
9:30 Aimee Wilson (K. Montwieler, dir., Boren & Hollingsworth, readers)
April 4
9:30 – Danielle Woods (Gilbert, dir; Newlin, Walker, readers): “Defying Domesticity: Steinbeck’s Critique of Gender Politics of the Postwar Generation in East of Eden”
April 7
2:00 – Adam Cheshire (Kamenish, dir. ; Laudadio & Wentworth, readers)
April 8
9:00: Elizabeth De Nittis (Gilbert, dir.; Montwieler & Sweeney, readers): "Gender and the Grotesque in the Short Fiction of Joyce Carol Oates."
4:00 – Emily Stockdale ( Hollingsworth, dir ; Byington, Gould, readers): “Language and the Creation of Characters in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things”
Apr. 9
10:00 – Kat Bodrie (Waxman, dir; Gilbert & Montwieler, readers): “Let’s Talk about Sex (or Not): The Fallen Woman’s Linguistic Dilemma and the Double Standard in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles and The Mayor of Casterbridge”
11:00 – Justine Mikaloff (Walker, dir; Reilly, Wentworth, readers): "Unveiling Her Majesty's Purposes: Malory's Guinevere As Structural Center."
2:00 – Dawn Henderson Brown (Walker, dir; Hollingsworth & Montwieler, readers): “Original and Eternal Seduction: Satan’s Psyche in Paradise Lost”
3:00 –Melissa Puritis (Waxman, dir; Byington & Newlin, readers): “Speculation on Suicide: A Study on the Conclusion and Its Reception of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening”
April 10
11:00 – Cara Williams (Sweeney, dir; Gould & Laudadio, readers)
12:30 – Nick Crawford (Laudadio, dir; Ashe & Sweeney, readers)
April 14
1:00 – Drew Virtue (Atkins, dir; Ashe & Bushman, readers)
3:00 – Jacki Booth (Bushman, dir., Atkins & Walker, readers): “The Art of Teaching: A T.A.’s Journey from the Stage to the Classroom and Back Again”
- 28 March 2008
- Minutes for 3/28/2008 have been posted.
Fall Semester 2007
- 22 November 2007
- Potluck for everybody! Friday Nov. 30th at 7:00 p.m. The potluck will be held at Emily's and Aimee's house at 210 Ann Street. Come and eat!
- 11 November 2007
- The date for our conference, "Writing the Wave," has moved to April 19th.
- 07 November 2007
- Our writing Conference has a title and a date! See Conferences and Papers for more details.
- 02 November 2007
- Our seminar on Abstract writing with Dr. Ellerby and John Walter was success! Check with Cara, Kat, or Karl for details.
- 01 November 2007
- If you are defending your thesis this fall, please email waxmanb (Dr. Waxman) the day and time, the title of your thesis, the name of your director and 2 readers, and location (if different from the Faculty Commons).
- 31 October 2007
- Dr. Ellerby and Mr. John Walter will be presenting a workshop on writing abstracts in the Faculty Commons on Friday, November 2 at 4 PM. And Nick's got pie!
- 31 October 2007
- On Wednesday, November 28th, Patrick Williams will be defending his thesis "From Prophecy to Fantasy: Re-envisioning Romanticism as Postmodern Fantasy Fiction."
Last updated 9 April 2008
