Friday, April 13, 2018

English Department Students Present at URCA 2018

Wednesday, April 11 marked the ninth annual College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Symposium, with seven students from our majors and minors participating. We are proud of the effort that our students put into these impressive presentations. Congratulations to you all!

Maggie Andrews, Creative Writing, English, and Public Relations major (left), presented a poster with Hanna Stryker (right) titled, "Patient-Centered Communication: A Catalyst for Disclosure"


Sara Ludwig (right) with her faculty sponsor Dr. Sharleen Mondal (left). Ludwig presented "The Oppressed Woman: A Look at Exceptionalism in the Treatment of Women in Americanah."  The presentation was adapted from work in Dr. Mondal's Literature and Gender course. 
Garrison Stima, Creative Writing and Religion major, presented an excerpt from his senior thesis in Religion, "A Conversation With the Late René Girard."

From left to right: Sabrina Maristela, Dr. Hilary Donatini, and Jakob Demers. Both Maristela, an English minor, and Demers, a Creative Writing and English major, gave presentations adapted from essays in Donatini's seventeenth-century English literature course.  Maristela presented "'To Justify the Ways of God to Men': Just Punishment in Paradise Lost" and Demers presented "'From Man's Effeminate Slackness It Begins': Masculinity in Milton's Eden"

Corinne Spisz, Integrated Language Arts major, also adapted an essay from Dr. Donatini's seventeenth-century course in her presentation, "'To His Coy Mistress': The Irony of Time and Love."

Amanda Wise, Creative Writing major, reads from her short story, "Starry Night." Her faculty sponsor was Dr. Joe Mackall.