Dissertations Accepted in the 2012–2013 Academic Year
Literature
Kathryn Eileen Davis
Liberty in Jane Austen’s Persuasion, directed by Professor Theresa Kenney
Ann Marie Klein
The Dignity of Work in Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Scotist Pindaric Response to Carlyle’s Ethics, directed by Professor Bernadette Waterman Ward
James Michael Moore
Crowding out Evil with Good: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Paradoxical Vision of Sin and Redemption, directed by Professor John Alvis
Elizabeth Cathleen Reyes
Ishmael’s Cetological Quest: A Dantesque Progression of Imagination in Melville’s Moby-Dick, directed by Professor Louise Cowan
Kathryn Martin Smith
Jorie Graham in Limbo: Desire and Metaphysical Presence in Her Poetry, directed by Professor Eileen Gregory
Philosophy
Rev. David Basil Burns
St. Thomas Aquinas’s Philosophy of Love: A Commentary on Mutua Inhaesio as the Most Proper Effect of Love in IA IIAE, QQ 26-28 of the Summa Theologiae, directed by Rev. James Lehrberger, O.Cist.
Politics
James William Guest
Justice and Happiness in Aristotle’s Philosophy of Human Things, directed by Professor Leo Paul deAlverez
Michael Patrick Harding
Nietzsche’s Philosophic Politics and the Crisis of the West, directed by Professor Thomas West
Braniff Graduate Student Association (BGSA) Conference Stipends
The following students were awarded conference stipends of up to $700 this academic year for use in presenting papers at academic conferences. These stipends were funded in part by the BGSA student fees and in part by Dean David Sweet of the Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts.
Kelly White, IPS Philosophy, “Liberty or Licentiousness: The Undermining of Freedom,” Liberty and a Free Society: Institute for Humane Studies Summer Seminar, Towson, Maryland, June 2012.
Tiffany Niebuhr, IPS Literature, “A Spoonful of Humor Makes the Logic Go Down: Narrative Ethos in Northanger Abbey,” The Language of Humor in Literature and Film, West Virginia University, September 2012.
Rachel Shunk, IPS Literature, “Pacience to a Poet: A Response to Fortune in ‘The Franklin’s Tale,’” “From Goddess to Strumpet: The Wheel of Fortune,” Southeastern Medieval Association Conference, Gulfport, Mississippi, October 2012.
Hannah Lyn Venable, IPS Philosophy, “Technology: Demonstrating Our Detached, Disinterested Desire to Know,” Technology and Human Flourishing: Baylor Symposium on Faith and Culture, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, October 2012.
Matt Brumit, IPS Literature, “‘To be death’s conquest’: Sonnet 6 and the Ultimate Sex Act,” South Central Modern Language Association Conference, San Antonio, Texas, November 2012.
Eliot Wondercheck, IPS Literature, “‘We’ll Chant This Argument as a Countercharm’: The Function of Book 10 in Plato’s Republic,” 13th Educational Forum, American Foundation for Greek Language and Culture-Interdisciplinary Center of Hellenic Studies, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, February 2013.
Ann Marie Klein, IPS Literature, “Laus Deo: Bridges’s Response to Hopkins,” International Hopkins Conference, Regis University, Denver, Colorado, March 2013.
Socorro Rico, MA Art, Members’ Exchange Portfolio, Southern Graphics Council International Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 2013.
Sarah Francis, MA Art, Members’ Exchange Portfolio, Southern Graphics Council International Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 2013.
Kane Turner, IPS Politics, “‘How shall we find the concord of this discord?’ Poetry, Philosophy and the New Law in A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Southwestern Political Science Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 2013.
George Alecusan, IPS Politics, “The Principles of the Electoral College and the Politics of Electoral Reform,” Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois, April 2013.
Pavlos L. Papadopoulos, IPS Politics, “Sophocles’s Philoctetes and Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics,” Panel on Virtue and Classical Political Theory, Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois, April 2013.
John Matthew Peterson, IPS Politics, “Aristotle’s Tragic Comedy: The Laughable in the Ethics,” Panel on Virtue and Classical Political Theory, Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois, April 2013.
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