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Graduate News & Notes

Here are some of the accomplishments of our current and past graduate students:

Posted: 10 June 2008

Sara-June Treadwell received the 2008 Dale and Mary Jo Comstock Distinguished Thesis Award for her thesis "Alternative Representations of the Female Voice in Shakespeare's Othello and Webster's The Duchess of Malfi." This is the third year in a row that an English Graduate student has received the award---not a bad record.

Chris Mayer and Sonya Dunning each won College of Arts and Humanities Summer Graduate Scholarship Awards

Jeremy Vetter has had a short story accepted for publication by The Sonora Review, and it was nominated by the editor for a Pushcart prize.

Lissa Richardson has had a paper accepted for the Midwest Popular Culture Association / Midwest American Culture Association conference in October.

Several students presented at SOURCE this year:

Dustin Sander (twice, mentored by Patsy Callaghan and Kathy Whitcomb)
Chris Mayer (mentored by Laila Abdalla)
Sonya Dunning (mentored by Laila Abdalla)
Lissa Richardson (mentored by Patsy Callaghan)
Ryan Phill (mentored by Patsy Callaghan)
Amanda Ross (mentored by Patsy Callaghan)
Yoko Allen (mentored by Lori Gray)

Dustin, Yoko, and Amanda received awards for their SOURCE presentations.

Posted: 10 March 2006
JOLYN REISDORF presented her paper entitled "Do as I Say Not as I do: The Lessons in Jane Eyre " at the "Passing and Questions of Legitimacy" conference at the University of Tulsa , February 18-19, 2006. She was also awarded a travel grant from the Office of Graduate Studies for her trip.

MELISSA JOHNSON and SCOTT TOMBERLIN facilitated a discussion of the film "Picnic at Hanging Rock" with Dr. Liahna Armstrong as part of the DHC Kamola Forum on January 23, 2006.

SCOTT TOMBERLIN had a review of Abigail Child's book This is Called Moving: a Critical Poetics of Film accepted for publication in the RMMLA Newsletter.

JEN RAMM has had one of her short stories accepted for a graduate conference at Virginia Tech University in April, 2006.

Posted: 5 January 200 6
PAULA COLLUCCI will be presenting her paper on "Virginia Woolf's Postmodern Pioneering" at a conference on (Re)Markable Identities: Confronting, Corrupting, and Conflating Cultural Discourses at Arizona State University February 24-26, 2006.

Posted: 1 December 2005
Two of our current graduate students participated in the RMMLA conference in Coeur d'Alene , Idaho , October 20-22, 2005:

JESSICA DURGAN presented a paper entitled "Demystifying the Created Art of Film in Gravity's Rainbow ." Jessica also received a travel grant from the Office of Graduate Studies to attend the conference.

SCOTT TOMBERLIN participated in a discussion panel on "Australian Film and Literature: Beneath the Down Under" moderated by Dr. Liahna Armstrong.

Posted: 10 June 2005
Two of our graduate students won awards for their presentations at SOURCE :

For the second year in a row, GARY REES won an award for Outstanding Graduate Student Oral Presentations for his paper, "Mark Twain and Fractured Nostalgia," under the mentorship of Dr. Steve Olson.

MELISSA JOHNSON received Honorable Mention for her paper "Spellbound and the Resolution of Temporary Masculinity," under the mentorship of Dr. Liahna Armstrong.

Posted: 20 May 2005
Seven of our graduate students presented papers at SOURCE yesterday:

• COREY DOSCH
• JESSICA DURGAN
• SANDI ROURKE
• PAULA COLLUCCI
• MARNIE HARTILL
• MELISSA JOHNSON
• GARY REES

Two of our graduate students have received research grants from the Faculty Development and Research Committee to travel for archival research on their thesis/project:

Amy Goeltzenleuchter
Creative Writing Project: Revisiting the Raft

Marnie Hartill
Thesis: Coleridge and Southey's Pantisocratic Dichotomy (1794-1795): Empire & Idealism

Jessica Durgan had her paper "Physics and Film in Postmodernism: Demystifying the Created Art in Gravity's Rainbow " published in the online journal Synoptique :

http://www.synoptique.ca/core/en/articles/durgan_physics/

Posted: 11 April 2005
Two students presented papers at the "Boundaries of Literature" conference at Baylor University in Waco , Texas , on April 1-2, 2005.

Marisa Humphrey presented a paper entitled "Oedipa Maas: Interdisciplinary Postmodern Reader"

Sandi Rourke presented a paper entitled "Intertextual Readings of the Body in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Text in Historical Context"

Posted: 12 January 2005
Jessica Durgan will present a paper entitled "A Literacy About-Face: How the High Art of Literature Has Come to Beg at the Hooves of the Former Black Sheep of Film" at the 15th annual Mardi Gras Conference at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, February 2-3, 2005.

Melissa Johnson will present a paper entitled "Spellbound and the Resolution of Temporary Masculinity" at the 11th Annual Southwest Graduate English Symposium at Arizona State University , March 25-27, 2005.

Posted: 7 October 2004
Amy Goeltzenleuchter has been awarded a travel grant from the Office of Graduate Studies & Research to present her paper "Reliving the Moment for the First Time: Performance and Visuality in Punk Fashion" at the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association annual conference in Buffalo , New York , on November 5-7, 2004.