Fall 2020 English Student Accomplishments, Part II: Senior Capstone and Honors Projects

Katie Cowger presenting her Honors Thesis 

First off, a hearty congratulations to all the students who recently completed their senior capstone projects and presented them on Flipgrid! If you didn't get the chance to watch them yet, you can still join Flipgrid and watch (and comment) here: https://flipgrid.com/peters1300

The Senior Capstone presentations include:

Preston Manning's "Corrupted Blood" (an excerpt from his novel)

Mitchell Potts', "The Abject Objects in Faulkner's As I Lay Dying"

Cody Baggerly's "Lust, Pride, and Jealousy: A Discourse in Shakespeare's Love"

Kara Hodo's "Uncovering the Cause of Creepy" 

Bryce Clark's "The Stomach of Saturn" (short story)

Nikki Hatton's "Black Voices in the HS Classroom"

Amanda Daniel's "Miltimodal Systems in Education"

Megan Green's "Inside the Language of Orange is the New Black"

Teresa White's "Politics of Performance in Esme Weijun Wang's "High Functioning""

Kristen Mendoza-Keenom's "How to Build a Monster: The Frankenstein Effect in Romantic Literature and Modern Society"

Katie Cowger's "If the Savage One is Me: Disney's Dangerous Single Story of Indigeneity" 

Gloria Evans' "The Duality of a Dream or Destiny Deferred: Songs of Sympathy Across the Spectrum of Suffering"

Austin Ward's "V for Victim

Hanna Barnhart's "Confronting White American Identity: The Underexamined Black American Identity"

Jackson Embry's "Teaching AAVE and Black Culture in the English Arts Classroom"

Dani Woolly's "Mistaken Identity" (an excerpt from a novel)

Fall 2020 University Honors Showcase:

Six English majors also presented their scholarship at the Fall 2020 University Honors Showcase on Thursday, December 3rd. Kara Hodo presented two projects (one of which is represented in her Capstone project above), and Katie Cowger presented her Honors Thesis project, which is the culmination of all her Honors research! Congratulations on these great achievements! 

The presentations included: 

Katelen Cowger, English and Native American Studies, Thesis (Dr. Sarah Peters)

 

Kara Hodo, English, Project (Dr. Sarah Peters) & Kara Hodo, English, Project (Dr. Rebecca Nicholson-Weir)

Teresa White, English, Project (Dr. Rebecca Nicholson-Weir)

Megan Green, English, Project (Dr. Joshua Grasso)

Bryce Clark, English, Project (Dr. Joshua Grasso)

Click here for photos from the Honors Showcase like the one above: https://www.ecok.edu/honors-showcase-0

Fall 2020 English Department Student Accomplishments (part 1)!

Despite COVID and the very strange semester, the English Department continues to do what it does best:  teach students to think critically and examine their world. This is the first in a series of posts that will highlight some of our student accomplishments this semester! 

For our first post, Dr. Donelson has shared the research of two students from her English 1213: Composition II course. Check out their eye-catching, cutting-edge research below!

Vivian Tapia, "How Music Affects Our Brain" 

Razia Riaz "Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy"  

More to come in Part 2! And if you have great news or accomplishments, please share them with me at jgrasso@ecok.edu.