University of St. Thomas

Graduating students in the Master of Arts in English program will provide a brief overview of their master's essay and talk about their experience with the research and writing process. The public is invited to join family and friends, current students, and faculty for this evening reception event. R.S.V.P.'s and questions about this event can be sent to Joyce Poley, graduate program coordinator, at gradenglish@stthomas.edu.  

Following is a list of our presenters:

• Marie Campbell--“'No freedom to fight for at home': Sydney Owenson’s Disillusionment With Union Between The Wild Irish Girl and Woman; or, Ida of Athens"
• Bethany Fletcher--"Female Genius and Female Friendship in Landon’s Ethel Churchill and Jewsbury’s The History of an Enthusiast"
• Lindsay Tuttle Levang--"Breaking the Conventions to Keep the Commandments: Reinventing Marriage in G. K. Chesterton’s Manalive"
• Rachel MacDonald--"(Re)Reading for Departure: Mary Karr, Trauma, and Textual Memory"
• Melissa Pistillo--"Real Women, Real Friends:  An Examination of Female Friendship in Beroul’s The Romance of Tristran"
• Kathryn Pulley--"A Dissident Loose End: Corbitant and Native Representation in Lydia Maria Child's Hobomok"
• Vadim Rubinchik--"'Solve this problem, dear Emily, if you possibly can:' Audience-Centered Mathematics of Emily Dickinson"
• Lucy Saliger--"Tracing Radical Yearnings in the Ascension Narrative :‘Knowing’ Ourselves in Jimenez’s Trilogy and Upward-Through-Education Stories"
• Nicole Smith--“'Delight to move men to take that goodness in hand': An Analysis of Morality in Sarah Kane’s Blasted"
• Jennifer Waldenberger--"Latimer’s Mental Illness Defined?: George Eliot’s The Lifted Veil and the Pre-History of Schizophrenia"
• Nouchie Xiong--"Exploring the Bicultural Experiences and Feminist Voices of Hmong Women in Mayli Van's 'We Women of the Hmong Culture'"