The English Department is pleased to present the 2024 Spring Capstones.

Thursday, May 16 – 5:00-9:00 pm:

  Morken 216 – ENGL 424 – Creative Writing

  Morken 214 – ENGL 434 – Writing, Literature, and Public Engagement

Friday, May 17 – 11:30-4:00 pm:

Morken 103 – ENGL 424 – Creative Writing

Hauge Admn, Room 202 – ENGL 434 – Writing, Literature, and Public Engagement

May 16, 2024 - Creative Writing

5:00 pm - Kaylie Bracy

``Twice`` - Poetry

5:55 pm - Victoria Schultz

``Letters I'll Never Send`` - Creative Nonfiction

6:45 pm - Meghan Mitchell

``And so the Wasteland Sings`` - Fiction

7:30 pm - Rachel Paller

``The Vacuum Salesman`` - Fiction
May 16, 2024 - Writing, Literature, and Public Engagement

5:00 pm - Paris Droop

``The Promise and Perils of Fan-Fiction - The Fascinating Case of BL (Boys-Love) Manga``

5:45 pm - Lydia Downs

``Embracing Diversity Through Teaching Banned Books``

6:30 pm - Sydney Jeffery

``American Zombies: The Anxieties and Fears Behind a Cultural Obsession``

7:15 pm - Jazmin Garcia Hernandez

``The Words That Are My Bones: Impacts of LatinX Feminist Literature``
May 17, 2024 - Creative Writing

11:30 am - Ashley Jacobson

``Late Snow`` - Fiction

12:25 pm - Kalin Burgman

``Wizard City Z`` - Fiction

1:10 pm - Holly Makar

``Of Life and Love`` - Poetry

2:00 pm - Emily Fisher

``The Bounty Hunter`` - Fiction

2:45 pm - Fiona Stirling

``The Girl and the Mire Witches`` - Fiction
May 17, 2024 - Writing, Literature, and Public Engagement

11:30 am - Marina Foster

``Richard Powers' The Overstory: A Novel for Our Time of Environmental Crisis``

12:15 pm - Tiffany Rose

``Let's Talk about Outlander - Why is this Historical Fiction Such a Smash Hit?``

1:00 pm - Eomon Sullivan

``Transgression, Desire, and the Law: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Crime and Punishment``

1:45 pm - Sophia Barkhurst

``In the Empty Spaces: Rewriting the Powerful Women of Classic Myth``