Graduating English Majors Present Major Research Projects
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Posted: Thursday, April 30, 2015 6:38 PM
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The presentations are designed to demonstrate the analytical, research, writing and rhetorical skills the students honed during their studies. The capstone course is required of candidates in the traditional track of the B.A. in English. The course engages students in advanced critical analysis, leading to an original research project. Students produce an extended critical essay based on the research and make an oral presentation to fellow students and faculty.
Dr. Nancy Bunker teaches the capstone course.
These are the English majors graduating this year and the topics of their capstone presentations:
Cody Gunderson: “The Pale Criminal: Beauty and Tragedy in Dostoyevsky’s ‘Crime and Punishment.’”
Magdalene Patrick: “The Psychological Effects of Slavery in Toni Morrison’s ‘Beloved.’”
Brea Rockwell: “Elie Wiesel’s Night: Silence and Self-Destruction.”
Faith Womack: “Literary Modernism and Dance: Ibsen, Joyce , Hurston, and Scenes of Dance.”
Patty Harrison: “’The Wife’s Lament’: An Elegiac Envelope Poem, A Peace-Weaving Woman’s Song.”
Jamila Brooks: “Fighting Through Postcolonial Societies with Bessie Head and Ama Ata Aidoo.”
Matthew Wentz: “Manipulative Antiheroes as Cultural Moralists.”
Amanda Irons: “Writing the Lightning: The Effects of Code-Switching in the Works of Junot Diaz.”
Immanuel Burney: “The Negro Male’s Quest to Establish Social Responsibility in Mid-Century America.”
Katie Phillips: “Struggling for Acceptance: Sisterhood and Alternative Lifestyles in the Victorian Era.”
Patrick Klingaman: “William Wycherley’s World of Wit and Marriage: The Effect of City Life on Marriage Portrayal in ‘The Country Wife and The Plain Dealer.’”