2002 Graduate Student Teaching Awards

 

 

 

David Murdock

PhD Level

 

“He plans every class to be packed with so many interesting related stories and discussions that often class has ended before I have time to glance at my watch.”

 

 

 

 

Jessica Abernathy

Master's Level

 

“Her dynamic approach to teaching stimulates the class . . . She’s just awesome.”

 

 

 

 

                                                          Selected Nominees (Finalists)            

Robin Bates, Carol Carpenter, Malissa Dunn, John Miller, Katharyn Privett, Cathy Rex

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

Graduate Students Honored

 

 

Alise Chabaud

 

Betty Travis Naugle Fellowship in Technical and Professional Communication

 

 

 

 

Heather L. Lord

Betty Travis Naugle Fellowship in Technical and Professional Communication

 

 

 

Nathan L. Meier

Academic Award in Technical and Professional Communication

 

 

 

John Miller

 

Graduate Dean's Award for Excellence

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Graduate Student Conference Presentations 2001-2002

 

 

 

Matthew Binney

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

 

Diane Boyd

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

 

Alise Chabaud

Society for Technical Communication

 

Patsy Fowler

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

 

Jennifer Garlen

Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Literature

 

John Kwist

Florida State Film and Literature, SSSL

 

Lowell Lambert

Society for Technical Communication

 

Heather Lord

Society for Technical Communication

 

Nathan Meier

Society for Technical Communication

 

Shea Stuart

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

 

Shawna Thorp

North American Society for the Study of Romanticism

 

Leslie Worthington

American Conference on Romanticism

New Voices 2001: National Graduate Conference in English Studies

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

Best Conference Presentation by a Graduate Student

 

 

 

   Shea Stuart

“’This is not behaving well by the absent’: Isolation, Discipline, and the Displaced Village in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park

 

Association of College English Teachers of Alabama

February 2001

 

 

 

 

  

   Shawna Thorpe

  

“Ambiguous Nationalism: Textual Ambivalence in Felicia Hemans’ ‘Welsh Melodies’”

 

North American Society for the Study of Romanticism

August 2001

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

Best Paper by a Graduate Student

 

 

   Ahsan Chowdhury

The Secret Sharers or the Crescent and the Cuckold’s Horns: Mute Ventriloquism and Anticolonial Mimicry in Shakespeare’s Othello

 

ENGL 7660: Studies in Drama

Professor Constance Relihan

 

 

   Nominees

 

   Jessica Abernathy

Subversive Voices and Rebellious Muses: Reinvented Women in the Poetry of Eavan Boland and Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill

 

English 7650: Studies in Poetry

Professor Jon Bolton

 

   Nick Boone

Thomas Tryon’s Mechanism of Introspection: Escaping the Habitus and Becoming the Marginalized

 

English 7740: British Literature and Culture

Professor Tim Dykstal

 

   Sarah Bowles

Cleanliness is Next to Godliness: The Spirituality of Domesticity in the Novels of Evan Connell and Andrea Lee

 

English 7670: Studies in Fiction

Professor Drew Clark

 

   Adrea McDonnell

Subversive Feminine Thought in The History of Emily Montague: Frances Brooke’s Double-Edged Conduct Book

 

English 7800: Studies in Critical Theory

Professor Paula Backscheider

 

   John Miller

Representation without Minimalisation in The America Play

 

English 7660:Studies in Drama

Professor Mark Silverstein

 

   Katherine Perry

But How Are They Different?  Contact Zones and New World Ideas in the Works of Anne Bradstreet and Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz

 

English 7760:American Literature and Culture

Professor Hilary Wyss

 

   Amy Qualls

Recovering Silent Voices: An Examination of Women in Colonial American Court Documents

 

English 7760: American Literature and Culture

Professor Hilary Wyss

 

   Stephen Rygiel

The Difference is Wandering: Stein’s White Man’s Burden as a Sign of the Times

 

English 7580:  Major American Authors

Professor Margaret Kouidis

 

 


 

 

Graduate Student Service

 

 

Jennifer Riley Campbell

Graduate Studies Committee

 

Mary Stephens Diamond

Technical and Professional Communication Committee

 

Jessica Van Slooten

Great Books Committee

 

Dana Nichols

Composition Committee

 

Mary Stephens Diamond

Alise Chabaud

English Center Committee

 

Jennifer Riley Campbell

English Graduate Organization

PhD, Co-Chair

 

John Miller

English Graduate Organization

Master’s,Co-Chair

 

Pierre Cyr

Assistant to Coordinator of Composition

 

Jessica Van Slooten

Assistant to Coordinator of Great Books

 

Derrick Spradlin

General Assistant to Coordinator of Instructional Technology

 

Amy Jo Formby

Web Assistant to Coordinator of Instructional Technology

 

 

 

Jennifer Riley Campbell

Committee on the SACS-Compliant GTA Practicum and Co-Teaching Program

 

Carol Carpenter

Committee on the SACS-Compliant GTA Practicum and   Co-Teaching Program

 

David Murdock

Graduate Student Council Senator

 

Dana Nichols

Committee on the SACS-Compliant GTA Practicum and   Co-Teaching Program

 

Christy Pagans

Graduate Student Council Senator

 

Shawna Thorp

Screening Committee for British Romanticism

 

Jessica Van Slooten

Screening Committee for Creative Writing-Poetry

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Hughes Mount, Jr.

Academy of American Poets Prize

 

 

        Winners

Jerry Hinnen, "Sonnet of the Apes"

 

 

Katherine Perry, "A Pauper's Art"

 

 

        Honorable Mention

Cindy M. Staudt, "Daughters of the Sun"