Good News from the Graduate Program
Job Placements
- Robert Baird – Pellissippi State Technical Community College, TN, Tenure-Track
- Anita Bergeson – Maryville College, TN, Instructorship
- April Kilinski – North Georgia College and State University, GA, Tenure-Track
- Anne Snellen – Notre Dame, IN, Teaching Scholar, University Writing Program
Ph.D. Dissertation andn Defenses
Fall 2006 - Summer 2007
- Georgia Caver, Emaricdulfe, by E.C. Esquire: Materials Toward a Critical Edition
- Michelle Greenwald, Democracy & Capitalism in the American Western
- Laura Hoffer, The Half-Life of a Good Place
- Kelvin Massey, The Roots of Middle-Earth: The Influence of William Morris Upon J.R.R. Tolkien
- Susan North, Finding Natures Order: Humanism, Rhetoric, and Stoicism in Francis Bacon’s Philosophy
- Deborah Scaperoth, Not So Immaculately Conceived: Imagining the Protestant Madonna 1850-1910
- Jessica Weintraub, The Theory Currently Known as M
Honors
- Teresa Lopez received the Diversity Graduate Fellowship.
- Bethann Bowman received the Herman Spivey Fellowship.
- Laura Samal received the Durant da Ponte American Literature Dissertation Fellowship.
Welcome to our New Graduate Students
Incoming PhDs, 2007-2008
Sean Barnette, Bethann Bowman, Tricia George, Heidi Gilday, Teresa Lopez, Dennis McGlothin, Colin Mort, Taryn Norman, Adam Prince, Joshua Robbins
Incoming MAs, 2007-2008
Thorin Alexander, Oakley Atterson, Jenny Bowman, Whitney Bryan, Matthew Carlini, Tyler Efird, Reg Ivory, Margrethe Krogh, John Kostas, Lynsey Major, Katherine Martin, Kip Nichols, Laura Orr, Benjamin Philippi, Aine Rhinehart, Timothy Sisk, Lisa Slade, Victoria Swanson, Jeremy Wear, Ryan Woldruff, Kat Zemmel