All Spotlights » English M.A. Alumni Accomplishments: Conferences
April Best presented "The Displacing Effect of Other in Flannery O'Connor's The Displaced Person," at the Midwestern Conference on Christianity and Literature at Calvin College, held April 18-20, 2012.
Brittney Winters presented "God's Chosen People: African-Americans in Flannery O'Connor's The Artificial Nigger," at the Midwestern Conference on Christianity and Literature at Calvin College, held April 18-20, 2012.
Holly Kaupa presented "Creating a Bigger World: Culture Re-Structuring in The House on Mango Street and the Bildungsroman," at the Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language, and Media at Northern Illinois University, held March 30-31, 2012.
April Best presented "The Veil of Water: The River in Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones," at the Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language, and Media at Northern Illinois University, held March 30-31, 2012.
Brittney Winters presented "Between Innocence and Experience: Marginalization of the 'Other' in Kerouac's On the Road" at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900 in Louisville, KY, held February 25, 2012.
Mary Hancock presented "Maintaining Faith and Achieving Balance Through Inward Violence in Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man is Hard to Find," at the American Literature Association Conference in Savannah, GA, held September 2011.
Mary Hancock presented "Clever Portia and the Mastering of Gender Structures in William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice," at the Third Annual Graduate and Undergraduate Student Conference on Literature, Rhetoric, and Composition at University of Tennessee, held April 2011.
Lisa Burgess presented "Three-Sex, Two-Sex, One-Sex: Gender Construction in Plato, Ovid and the Bible," at the Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language and Media at Northern Illinois University, held April 1-2, 2011.
Pauline Bleuse will present "The Use of a Fictional Language to Relate Controversal Content in Burgess' A Clockwork Orange," at the 2013 MLA Convention in Boston.
Rachel Curtis presented "Surviving English and English as Survival: Re-envisioning Grand Valley State's English Major" with Dr. Corinna McLeod and Dr. Ashley Shannon at the MCEA conference at GVSU on Oct. 26, 2012.
April Best presented "Race and Mobility in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin" at the MCEA conference at GVSU on Oct 26, 2012.
Thomas W. Howard presented "The World Will Burn Green: Survival of Morality in Grendel's Modernism" at the MCEA conference at GVSU on Oct. 26, 2012.
Pauline Bleuse presented "Survival in Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived at the Castle" at the MCEA conference at GVSU on Oct. 26, 2012.
Jennifer Furner presented "Home Sweet Road: Surviving through Travel in Housekeeping" at the MCEA conference at GVSU on Oct. 26, 2012.
Jennifer Furner presented "Reflection and Responsible Agency: Understanding Oneself as Integral to the Classroom Ecology" at the MCEA conference at GVSU on Oct. 26, 2012.
Jason Kahler presented "Choosing to be Heard: Student-Selected Responding in First-Year Writing" at the MCEA conference at GVSU on Oct. 26, 2012.
Skyler Latshaw presented "He Was Sure They Were Being Watched but He Saw No One: Foucalt's Panoptic Gaze and the Psyche of the Father in Cormac McCarthy's The Road" at the American Literature Association's Symposium on Cormac McCarthy Ernest Hemingway and Their Traditions in New Orleans, held Oct. 4-6, 2012.
