Student Research

On 25-27 March, four undergraduate English majors and one graduate student presented their research at the Sigma Tau Delta Conference, a research convention organized by the international honors society for English studies. 

Alaina J. Elder. “’Mary Who?’: Patriarchal Denial and Feminine Anonymity in Swann and A Room of One’s Own.”

Justin Ferguson. "The Master's Daughter: Electra Ophelia as Doppelaganger for Oedipal Hamlet in the 2008 Stratford Presentation of Hamlet."

Kristina Gabrys. “One Poem.”

Katharine Van Arsdale. “Nature, Mother, Madonna: Feminist Theology in The Secret Life of Bees.”

Katherine Paul. “Out of the Darkness: Masaccio’s Expulsion from Paradise.”

• Honors poster presentations and symposium presentations:

Erin McLean:  “That glorious fire it kindled”: Extremes of (un)Righteous Sexuality in Books I and III of Spenser's Faerie Queene

Robert Moncrieff:  “A Good Man is Hard to Find”: A Film Adaptation of Flannery O’Connor’s Short Story

Katherine Van Arsdale:  Eve in the Image of Man: Feminist Concerns in Paradise Lost

Anna Park:  Tragically Ever After: Aenied and the Roman Catharsis

Justin Meseraull:   “All It Can Take Is My Body”: Artistic Identity in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Naomi Keiko Andress:  Things Secret, Things Revealed: Researching, Drafting, One Man’s Narrative

Alaina J. Elder: Jaquenetta’s “Otherness”: Recovering Languages of Agency and Control in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost