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“As a classroom community,” bell hooks writes, “our capacity to generate excitement is deeply affected by our interest in one another, in hearing one another’s voices, in recognizing one another’s presence.”
I’m very proud to have mentored these published students:
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Chitra Yarasani publishes in the Atlanta Journal Consititution, July 2024, about an experience that started as a conversation in my office
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Lauren Katz publishes “The Female in Frankenstein,” in The Apollon, summer 2024 (a project started in ENG 256)
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Theo Lin publishes “Beowulf as Germanic Mythological Cannon,” Rock Creek Review, May 2024 (a project started in ENG 255)
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Hely Patel publishes “Cultures of Stigma: Representations of Mental Health in Bollywood’s Hamlet, Haider,” in the Emory Undergraduate Research Journal, spring 2023 (a project started in ENG 311)
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Audrey Ruan publishes “William Carlos Williams: Physician Poet Scrawls Theory of Medical Humanities Throughout Prescription Pad,” in Medical Humanities, summer, 2020 (a project from a research trip to Yale’s Beinecke Library)
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Avery Hill & Kathryn publish in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, 2020 (about their intern experience with Common Good Atlanta)
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Jack Wolfram publishes “Saturday Night Lear: SNL as Shakespearean Fools,” winter 2020, in The Apollon (a project started in ENG 311)
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Sam Gardner publishes about helping to bury the homeless with dignity, Spring 2018 — and Sam’s article that brought the work to statewide attention
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Preston Smith publishes about coaching children of incarcerated mothers in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, summer 2018
Research, travel, and adventure with Oxford students:
Spring, 2024: National Conference for Undergraduate Research
Spring, 2023: Celebrating Shakespeare’s Death- and Birthday
Spring, 2023: National Conference for Undergraduate Research
Spring, 2022: Students visit prison and speak at State Capitol
Spring, 2022: Mixtape projects
Spring, 2022: National Conference for Undergraduate Research
Summer book discussion, The Likeness, by Tana French
Thirteen of us read Midsummer Night’s Dream together on August 9. They made the play fresh, fun, and surprising to me at every point (and improved my C H A T skills):
Visiting the Georgia Tech Paper Museum to make paper via seventeenth-century methods (plus dinner in westside ATL):
Road trip to GSU to hear Stephen Greenblatt (plus dinner in downtown ATL):
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Jordan, Mollie, Noah, and Jacob, presenting on their research at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research (2019)
Katie, presenting on her criminal justice research at the Georgia Undergraduate Research Conference (2018)
Making Flan from Bryce’s grandmother’s recipe
Dave Evans’ Critical Education article on “The Elevating Connection of Higher Education in Prison: An Incarcerated Student’s Perspective” (2018) and Carlito Tarwater’s Wake Forest Journal of Law & Policy’s “The Mind Oppressed” (2016)
Darby Foster’s guest post on “Data-Mining King Lear” (2017)
Trey Smith’s Forbes & Fifth article on “Lear’s Tyranny in Qaddafi’s Libya” (2016)
Grace Horlock wins William Gilmer Perry Award for best freshman essay at Georgia Tech
Road Trip to see Benedict Cumberbatch play Hamlet: