The Fred Fosher Excellence in Writing Award
The Academic Excellence Conference
The Academic Excellence Conference
The Keene State College Academic Excellence Conference has several goals. The faculty want students, who are producing excellent work, to be given the opportunity to share that work with a broad audience. Another goal is to help students prepare for submitting proposals for presentation at professional conferences. Each year English department faculty take pride in sponsoring student work at the Acacemic Excellence Conference. The presentation titles below demonstrate the reading and writing actitivies of advanced students in the department:
Thea Anderson, "The Role of the Trickster in Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We and Richard Wright’s The Man Who Lived Underground (faculty sponsor: Anna Kaladiouk)
Katharine Schillemat, "A Holy Fit: The Sacred Connection in After and Before the Lightning" (faculty sponsor: Sally Joyce)
Sarah Cushing, Rebecca Houle, Jahleh Ghanbari and Cate Reynolds, "Final Projects from English 203: Women's Writing: Rhetoric and Representation" (faculty sponsor: Kirsti Sandy)
Monique L. Reno, Nicole Shippee, and Torin Hjelmstad, " Integrity in Action: Writing with Moral Courage" (faculty sponsor: Ali Lichtenstein)
Jeffrey Stein, "The Genealogy of the Value of Morality in the Old Testament" (faculty sponsor: Michael Haines)
Katharine Schillemat, "Walking with Dorothy: Dorothy Wordsworth's Journals as Literature of Place" (faculty sponsor: William Stroup)
Martha Schmidt, "Keats and Nature" (faculty sponsor: William Stroup)
John McDermott, Walking the Appalachian Trail (faculty sponsor: Mark C. Long)
Grisel Levene, Nancy Roberts O’Neill, Nicole Simonson, Rebecca Soderberg, “Women of Many Ages: A Diverse Writing Course” (faculty sponsor, Ali Lichtenstein)
Steven Gravelle, “Speak Up! A Trilogy of Plays for Social Change in America” (faculty sponsor, Robin Dizard)
Bethany Lasko, “The Downfall of Man in Place of Eve in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” (faculty sponsor, William Stroup)
Elizabeth Biron, Steven Gliddon, Lauren Baggott, “Who’s Your Hero? A Conversation with a Few Modern American Novelists” (faculty sponsor, Anne-Marie Mallon)
Heather Bogardus, “The Importance of Historical Context: George Orwell’s Animal Farm” (faculty sponsor, William Stroup)
Elizabeth Lounder, “Subconscious Threading,” (faculty sponsor, Robin Dizard)
Barrett Richard, Kelly Gennett, Derrick Glow, Danielle Spardo, John Skelton, “Academic Writing: Using Amherst Writers and Artists Methodology in the College Classroom” (faculty sponsor, Ali Lichtenstein)
Laura Bogart, "Shelley's Theory of Natural Diet and its Relation to Modern Society (faculty sponsor, Dr. William Stroup)
Mark Metevier, "The Cultural Influence of China: Mona in the Promised Land (faculty sponsor, Dr. William Stroup)
Cathleen Brennan, "Land of the Free, Home of the White: The Chinese Struggle to Gain Citizenship in Ninetennth-Century America" (faculty sponsor, Dr. Mark C. Long)
Shawn Kelly, The Will of a Vampire, the Fate of the Vampire" (faculty sponsor, Dr. Anna Kaladiouk)
Gregory Gilewski, "'Ode to a Nigthingale': A portrayal of Becoming One with Heidegger's 'Authentic Self'" (faculty sponsor, Dr. William Stroup)
Judith Grophear, "Dostoevsky's Prince and the Women's Question" (faculty sponsor, Dr. Anna Kaladiouk)