Sophie Kerr recepient Emma Sovich '08 garners media attention

Emma Sovich '08, this year's Sophie Kerr prize winner, was featured in a wonderful segment on WJZTV news. You can view the video by clicking here.

Emma's win has received coverage far and wide in the print media courtesy of the Associated Press. In addition, Emma was profiled in the Washington Post, on the front page of the Baltimore Sun, and even in a New Zealand publication. You can find the articles here, here, and here, respectively.

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Dr. Kathryn Moncrief is co-editor of newly published book on English drama

Dr. Kathryn M. Moncrief, Chair of the Department of English at Washington College, is the co-editor and a contributing author of Performing Maternity in Early Modern England, newly released by the England-based Ashgate Publishing Company.

The book is a collection of essays that explore the literary, cultural and historical aspects of maternity from 1540 to 1690 in plays and other texts—including midwifery manuals, medical guides and diaries from the period. It features writings by several top scholars in the field, including Dr. Moncrief and her co-editor, Dr. Kathryn R. McPherson of Utah Valley State College.

Performing Maternity in Early Modern England isn't the only collaborative effort of Drs. Moncrief and McPherson; they also are currently leading a Shakespeare Association research seminar, "Gender and Instruction in Early Modern England," and have begun work on a book on the same topic

Dr. Moncrief received her B.A. from Doane College, her M.A. from the University of Nebraska, and her Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. She became Chair of the Washington College Department of English in the summer of 2007.

The original Press Release can be viewed here.

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Molly E. Weeks '07 works as Calvert County Librarian

Molly E. Weeks '07 has been putting her English major and Creative Writing minor to good use lately. She has accepted a position as a full-time Public Services Librarian in Calvert County, MD; and she and many other WAC alums are published every month in an online literary magazine called Crunchable (http://www.crunchable.net).


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October 2007

From the Faculty Newsletter:

Tom Cousineau published a review of French philosopher Alain Badiou's On Beckett in the Journal of Beckett Studies.

Meredith Davies Hadaway's poem, "Yahrzeit," has been nominated for a 2007 Pushcart Prize.

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Summer News

From the Faculty Newsletter:

Tom Cousineau gave a talk entitled "Mimetic Desire vs. Chiasmic Form: A New Reading of Hamlet,” at the annual meeting of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion in Amsterdam. His review of Paul Armstrong's Play and the Politics of Reading: The Social Uses of Modernist Form appeared in the summer 2007 issue of Studies in the Novel.

Josh Shenk’s review of Andrew Ferguson’s Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe’s America, was published in the July 8^th edition of the New York Times.

Kerry Delaney '07 enters University of Iowa's Ph.D. program

From the English Department Website:

English major Kerry Delaney, who was a participant in Washington College's Semester in London program, has accepted the University of Iowa's invitation to join their English department as a Ph.D. candidate. Delaney had also been accepted into graduate programs in English literature at the University of York, the University of Virginia, and the University of Colorado at Boulder. She intends to continue her studies of Early Modern English drama and theater. Delaney's undergraduate thesis is on the topic of witchcraft and witch-hunts in Early Modern English society.

A prominent student of English literature within Washington College, Delaney is a member of Sigma Tau Delta, and presented a paper on Victorian author Amy Levy's novel Reuben Sachs: A Sketch at the June 2006 Literary London Conference at Greenwich University in England. Delaney is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest honor society.

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