Student News

In March Patricia Baehler (MAE '08) attended the "Open Secrets" Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference at Indiana University. She presented her paper "Fanny Hill: Memoirs of Virginity Lost" as part of the Erotic Secrets panel.

Lorelei Blackburn (MAW '08) recently attended and presented papers at three conferences.She her paper, "eXtreme Teaching: The practical realities of teaching former child-soldiers in Sub-Saharan Africa and how they relate to teaching traumatized populations in the U.S." at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in New Orleans on April 5. Lorelei presented her paper, “Cinematic Sublimity: The Exclusion of Love in Contemporary Faith-Healing Media” at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference in San Francisco on March 19. And she presented her paper, “Toward a Holistic Rhetoric: The recovery of scripture as a viable rhetorical appeal” at the University of New Hampshire 2008 Graduate Conference "Challenging Faith: Intersections of Belief and Doubt in Literature, Composition, and the Profession" in Durham, NH on March 8.

David Hudnall's (MAW '08) book, Illinois Trivia, has been published by Blue Bike Books.

Aaron James Ottinger (MAE '08)will present his paper “The Otherness of Home: Mary Evans and Samuel Taylor Coleridge” at the 2008 Coleridge Summer Conference, July 23-30th. The conference was established in 1988 by the Friends of Coleridge, who also publish “The Coleridge Bulletin.” The paper focuses on how “Coleridge localizes the oppressive Other in the form of a Sublime, maternal (English) being” in one of the poet’s, ostensibly, minor works. Towards the conference, Aaron also received a generous grant from the Charles Lamb Society, as well as conference support from the English and Humanities departments here at DePaul.