EKU English capstone students SWEEP Best Poster Presentation Awards at the 2021 Blue Ridge Undergraduate Research Conference

The following members of the Spring 2021 English capstone course won a 3rd place award for Best Oral Presentation and swept the awards for Best Poster Presentation in the Humanities/Arts/Literature portion of the 2021 Blue Ridge Undergraduate Research Conference held virtually at Lincoln Memorial University:

Best Poster Presentation

First Place: 
Mykaela Chaffin, “Duality and Power in Shakespeare’s Richard II”

Second Place: 
Jesse Day, “‘Forgery Is Calumny’: Obscured Authenticity in William Gaddis’s The Recognitions”

Third Place (tie):
Brandi Mills, “Persepolis and the Growing Role of Graphic Novels as Literature”

Jami Fisher, “Jane Eyre: A Novel Driven by Racial Conflict and Stereotypes”

Best Oral Presentation

Third Place: 
Samantha Smith, “Archetypal Characters in A Streetcar Named Desire”

Published on April 13, 2021