English Department's master's essay event set for Friday

The English Department's spring 2009 master's essay presentations will be given from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, May 15, in the O'Shaughnessy Room, O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center. Light refreshments will be served at 4:45 p.m.

Several graduating students will discuss the process of creating and writing their essays. Everyone is welcome; students enrolled in the graduate English program are encouraged to attend and hear from those who have completed this final project.

The program:

Jonalee Buckel
"The Thwarted Subject of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man: A Cultural Trauma Theory Perspective"
Jon Dittman
"‘Human Nature and God Blend into One': Dante's Evolutionary Understanding of Love from his Vita Nuova through the Commedia"
Jessica Levesque
"The Performance of Blackness in African-American Poetry: An Analytical Coupling of Written and Oral Texts"
Desirée Libengood
"‘For the Good of the Community': Best Practices for Teaching Refugee and Immigrant High School Students"
Heather McNiel
"A Clone at Last? (Re)producing and (Re)conceptualizing the Human in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go"
Patricia Moir
"Surviving the Toxic Environment: Reduction and Redemption in Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis"