News, Publications, and Presentations
Dr. Megan Murton
Delivered a paper entitled "Zooming Out: Narrative Occlusion in Chaucer" at the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium in April 2024. She also served as the invited respondent for a panel on "Christian Subjects in Formation" and co-organized and chaired two panels on Voice and Subjectivity.
Published an article, "Chaucer's Fortune: A Necessary Invention" which will appear in The Chaucer Review 59.2 (April 2024)
Presented the annual Grace Lecture at the College of the Holy Cross on April 19th. Her talk was entitled "Falling in Love with Courtly Love: C.S. Lewis Reads Chaucer."
Dr. Amanda Auerbach has published an article, "Anti-Hierarchical Development in Anne Bronte's Agnes Grey" in Bronte Studies and two poems in Lana Turner Journal. She presented her paper "Mental Health Management and Free Indirect Style in Jane Austen’s Emma" at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies April 5.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14748932.2024.2304894?src=exp-la
https://www.lanaturnerjournal.com/
Emily Grace (PhD Student) was offered a place in the 2024 session of the Kylemore Summer School. The program is run by the University of Notre Dame and offers participants two funded weeks of seminars, lectures, and cultural enrichment experiences in Ireland with other program participants and visiting writers and scholars.
Dr. Kevin Rulo accompanied Felipe Avila (Nursing '25) and Amelia Bamsey (Economics '26) as they presented their research at the Mid-Atlantic Writing Center Association Conference on March 23, held at George Mason University. Felipe presented "Reimagining Inclusion: A Look at Student Perceptions of the Writing Center at a Private University." Amelia presented "Robots in the Writing Center: Examining the Ethics of AI Service to Students and Tutors." Both papers began as research projects in English 328 Writing Center Theory and Practice, overseen by Drs. Okuma and Rulo.
Dr. Daniel Gibbons
Elected for a second term on the Board of Directors of the Conference on Christianity and Literature.
Presented “Forms of Openness in the Scholarly and Lyric Writing of Heather Dubrow” Invited paper for a panel on the work of scholar and poet Heather Dubrow Renaissance Society of America Conference, Philadelphia, PA, 2024
Presented “Ethical Nonbeing in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo and Juliet” Invited paper for a panel on Shakespeare and the Unseen Sixteenth Century Society Conference, Baltimore, MD, 2023.