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Chris DeVault
a 2004 graduate, is currently in his first year of the University of
Miami's Ph.D. program. He recently became engaged to his girlfriend of
three years, Ann, on 10/28 and Ann and they are looking at a Summer 2007
wedding.
Roopika Risam
in February of 2006 presented a paper at the "(Re)Markable
Identities: Confronting, Corrupting, and Conflating Cultural Discourses"
Conference at Arizona State University.
Christopher N. Warren
Christopher N. Warren, a Georgetown University MA in English,
is currently completing his D.Phil. at Merton College, Oxford. He has
been offered a four-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of
Chicago, where he will be a Harper Fellow and Collegiate Assistant
Professor in the Humanities. Chris has also recently published an essay
on Hobbes, Milton, and dissent in the Winter 2007 issue of English
Literary Renaissance.
Robyn Russo, Jennifer Didsbury,
Kathryn Jett and Lindsay Dunne
formed a panel entitled, “Representations of Working-class Women”
at the Sixth Annual Washington Area Consortium Graduate Student
Conference, sponsored and hosted by The George Washington University
English Graduate Student Association on March 31, 2007.
Kathryn’s paper was titled “All Sass and No Class: Oscar Nominated
Actresses in Working-class Roles.” Robyn's paper was titled “You Can't
Go Home Again . . . But You Can't Come in Here, Either: The Liminal
Women of Working-Class Texts.” Jennifer's Presentation was called
“Toward a New Myth: Bone as a Working Class Heroine in Bastard Out
of Carolina.”
Lindsey Dunne also read a paper as part of another panel, entitled,
“Unmappable Terrain: Shifting Conceptions of Science and Nature in
John McPhee's Atchafalaya.”
Robyn, Jennifer and Kathryn will also present the same panel at the
working Class Studies Association June 14-17, 2007 at Macalester
College in St. Paul, MN
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