Department of English

Graduate Student Awards and Papers

Awards: 2005-06/2006-07

  • Ubaraj Katawal, teaching assistant
  • Amber Vayo-Keefe, teaching assistant
  • Sebastian Liebold, German Fulbright Scholarship
  • Katja Kurz, DAAD Scholarship
  • Hannah Pehlgrimm, German Fulbright Scholarship

Awards: 2006-07/2007-08

  • Gina Desmarais, teaching assistant
  • Nicole Rabin,teaching assistant
  • Jill Bahadir, German Fulbright Scholarship

Papers and other honors: 2006

Genie Giaimo

  • Presented preliminary research for her MA thesis entitled "From a Body Acted Upon, to a Body Action: The Significance of Ehnicity & Race in Contemporary Detective Fiction" at the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association Conference in Baltimore, Maryland on October 29, 2006
  • Was recently invited to present her MA thesis work at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) National Conference in Boston in April 2007

Katya Kurz

  • Clark University's Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference, March 29, 2006: "The Second Generation-Suburban Asian American Teenagers in Their Formations of Identity" (advisor, Betsy Huang)
  • Academic Spree Day, April 26, 2006

Sebastian Liebold

  • Clark University's Graduate Student Multidisciplinary Conference, March 29, 2006: "An Exiled German Jew Perscuted as a Nazi? In Search of Arnold Bergstraesser" (advisor, SunHee Kim Gertz)

Jennifer McCollum

  • Clark University's Graduate Student Multidisciplinary Conference, March 29, 2006: "A Woman in the Water: Nineteenth-Century Shifts in the (Mis)Representation of Female Suicide" (advisor, Lisa Kasmer)

Jean-Paul Breauxm

  • Co-authored with Professor SunHee Kim Gertz)

Amber Vayo-Keefe

  • Accepted to American University (Washington DC) to study for a MS in Justice, Law, and Society (January 2007)