
听L-R:听Cameron Irby, Rebekah Barnes, Anson Andrews, David Brasher, Rachael Maddox
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Undergraduate:
1st:听听听 David Brasher, 鈥溾楢 Theatre of Manliness鈥: How Ronny Heaslop鈥檚 Masculinity in E.M. Forster鈥檚 A
Passage to India Serves British Colonialism.鈥 Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jana Giles (English;
Undergraduate)
2nd: Cameron Irby, 鈥淭eaching Electronic Literature: An Argument for a New Literary Medium.鈥 Faculty
Mentor: Dr. Julia Guernsey-Pitchford (English; Undergraduate)
3rd:听 Rachael Maddox, 鈥淣etflix Narrative: The Development of Serial Storytelling.鈥 Faculty Mentor: Dr.
Janet Haedicke (English; Undergraduate)
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Graduate:
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1st: Rebekah Barnes, 鈥淪tephen鈥檚 Artistic Identity: Paternity in Joyce鈥檚 Portrait and Ulysses.鈥 Faculty
Mentor: Dr. Jana Giles (English; Graduate)
2nd:听听 Anson Andrews, 鈥淓agles and Authority: Chaucer鈥檚 Subversion of Classical Authority and Creation
of English Authority.鈥 Faculty Mentor:听 Dr. Will Rogers (English; Graduate)
Undergraduate:听Oral Presentation
First place: Rachael Maddox of Start presented 鈥淪eeing the Forest for the Trees: Unraveling the Roles of Shakespeare鈥檚 Forests.鈥 Maddox鈥檚 mentor is Dr. Julia Guernsey-Pitchford.
Graduate:听Oral Presentation
First place: Catherine Olson of Oil City presented 鈥淩oman de la Rose: A 鈥楩alse Seeming鈥 Multiplicity.鈥 Olson鈥檚 faculty mentors are Dr. Jana Giles and Dr. Rebecca Stephenson.
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Spring 2014
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Graduate winners听First place: Adam Breitenbach 听鈥淓.M. Forster鈥檚 Strategic听听听听听听听听听 Indeterminacy in A Passage to India鈥 听Faculty mentor:听 Dr. Jana Giles |
Undergraduate First place: Jillian Allbritton听 鈥淪tinking Lizaveta: the Humble Saint of The Brothers Karamazov鈥 Faculty mentor:听 Dr. Jana Giles |
Spring 2013
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| Graduate winners First place: Adam Breitenbach Department of English "The Monkey Wrench Gang and Environmental Radicalism" Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jana Giles Second place: Justina Salassi Department of English "Hipster Kitsch: Toward and Appreciation of the Other" Faculty Mentor: Dr. Mary Adams Third place: Katherine Roy Department of English "The High Price of Dreaming: The Performance of Masculinity in August Wilson's Fences and Suzan-Lori Parks' Topdog/Underdog" Faculty Mentor, Dr. Janet Haedicke |
Undergraduate First place: Melinda Johnson Department of Foreign Languages "English in Korean Popular Culture" Faculty Mentor: Dr. Rebecca Stephenson Second place: Danielle Jones Pharmacy "The Influence of Catalunya on the Life and Works of Antoni Gaudi" Faculty Mentor: Dr. Ruth Smith ![]() ![]() |
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Spring 2012
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| Graduate winners First place: Andrew Price Department of English 鈥淟iterary Hoaxes鈥 Faculty mentor Dr. Mary Adams. Second place: Hannah Clifton Department of English 鈥淜ing Arthur in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight鈥 Faculty mentor Dr. Rebecca Stephenson. |
Undergraduate First place: Shanae Thomas Department of English 鈥淎my as a Decider in the novel Roxana鈥 Faculty mentor Dr. David Nunnery. |
听Spring 2010
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| First place:听Stephanie Pierce, 鈥淢ad and Melodious: An Analysis of Ophelia鈥檚 Songs in Hamlet.鈥澨鼺aculty mentor Dr.
LaRue Sloan. Second place:听Maure Kyser, 鈥淭he Construct of the Ideal Woman in The Rape of Lucrece.鈥 Faculty mentor Dr. LaRue Sloan. Third place.听Kristi Thomson, 鈥淭urning Tragedy into Triumph in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.鈥澨鼺aculty mentor Dr. Julie Guernsey-Pitchford. |
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Spring 2009
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| First place Winners | |
| Brittany Layne Stringer Department of Communications 鈥淐ommunicating Health: Childhood Obesity and Elementary Health Education鈥 Mentor, Dr. Mara Loeb |
Vanelis Rivera Department of English "Lacing Up Sexuality and Unlacing Independence: Moll鈥檚 Wearing of a Codpiece and Breeches in The Roaring Girl鈥 Mentor, Dr. LaRue Sloan. |
![]() President Cofer awards Vanelis Rivera 1st place for her research paper on Moll Frith. |
Second place:听Lauren Fix Department of English.听 鈥淯ntil Death Do Us Part: A Study of Marriage in The Tragedy of Othello.鈥澨 Mentor, Dr. LaRue Sloan. Third place:听Tara Kester Department of History.听 鈥淭he Aftermath of the 1967 Newark Riots: Not a Legacy, Just a Continuation.鈥澨 Mentors, Dr. Monica Bontty and Dr. Jeffrey Anderson. |