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
Katie Burnett, Jim Civis, Diedre Evans, Jamie Farley, Darren Jackson, Michael Levan, Virginia Murphy, Neil Norman, Melissa Rack, Tyler Weseman, Zondie Zinke
Incoming MAs, 2007-2008
Matthew Blanshei, Laura Cline, Chase Erwin, John Paul Hampstead, Rebecca Helton, Michael Hudson, Patty Ireland, Shannon Korda, rent Krammes, Kierstyn Lamour, Carmin Melton, Monica Miller, George Pate, Leah Rang, Eric Swanson, Yoko Ueno, Noel Wall, Matthew Walters, Rebecca Warren