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Dr. Megan Murton gave an invited lecture in the School of Philosophy's year-long series marking the anniversaries of the deaths of Aquinas, Bonaventure, and Boethius. Her talk, the first of the series, was entitled "Consolation, Hope, and Prayer: Reading Boethius in Late-Medieval England.

Dr. Amanda Auerbach presented a talk "Free Indirect Style as Positive Self-Talk in Jane Austen's Emma" at the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism meeting in August 2024. She will present "Aversive Consciousness and Eroticism in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre" at the North American Victorian Studies Association meeting September 13.

Matt Steinhafel (Ph.D. candidate) delivered a paper at the annual conference of the American Literature Association (ALA) in Chicago, IL, in May 2024, on "Ralph Ellison and Twenty-First Century Writers," as part of a panel organized by the Ralph Ellison Society. Also his article, "How Ralph Ellison Integrated T. S. Eliot," was published in the UK-based Journal of the T. S. Eliot Society (2024, pp. 93-132). http://www.tseliotsociety.uk

Dr. Megan Murton was invited to present a lecture entitled "From Consolation to Hope: Boethian and Chaucerian Endings" for the graduate medieval colloquium at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill on September 19, 2024.