Department of English & Theatre News Julie Hensley Wins - August 26, 2009 For a collection of poems inspired by the birth of her son, EKU's Julie Hensley has won the 2009 Emerging Writers Award. >>
Wednesday, February 23
12:30-1:45: English Literature
- *Mary Jasper Vitatoe, "Unity and Collapse, Connection and Disconnection: Deconstuctionist Theory and E. M. Forster’s Howards End and A Passage to India """
- *Maria Hansford, "Hall of Mirrors: Three Byronic Characters in Shelley’s Frankenstein"
- *Margaret McKnight, "Narration's Room in Wuthering Heights"

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1:45-3:00: Women and/in Literature
- Carolyn Smith, "Anne Bradstreet: Feminism and the Feminine Mystique"
- *Joshua Begley, "Words Made Flesh: The Importance of Words, Poems, and Poets in Emily Dickinson’s Poetry"
- Holli Hendrix, "Individuality Within or Without"
- Kimberly Mayfield, "Tess: A Natural Woman; Landscape and Setting in Tess of the D’Urbervilles"
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3:00-3:45: Creative Writing II
- Erin L. Hamilton, "Mourning Roses"(short fiction)
- *Jessica Beth Howard, "The Locust’s Shell" (memoir) and "Poem for the Non-Literary" (poem)
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3:45-4:45: Medieval Literature
- Brandi Williamson, "Dreamers and Mirrors in ‘The Dream of the Rood'"
- Craig Cable, "Pagan Palimpsest in Beowulf"
- Toby Minton, "Gawain's Personal Truth Loop in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
- Samantha Rush, "Audiences, Narrators, and Heroes in 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' and The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell"

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*Denotes member of Sigma Tau Delta English honor society.
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