Kath Scott

Eat Your Heart Out: Cannibalism, Incorporation, and Transgression in Contemporary and Traditional Fairy Tales

Name: Kath Scott Major: English Advisor: Susanna Sacks When cannibalism is presented in media, it is often mistaken for gratuitous violence, but cannibalism was […]

Sunscreen

Name: Zoe Covey Major: English Advisors: Dr. Christopher Kang and Dr. Thomas Prendergast Sunscreen is a 68-page long novella following different members of a […]

AMERICAN DRAGON: A Story of an Asian American Woman Finding Her Way Home

Name: Hannah Jun Langer Major: English, Studio Art Minor: History Advisors: Thomas Prendergast and Cassidy Ely AMERICAN DRAGON: A Story of an Asian American […]

Immersive Fantasy: An Exploration of Cultural Diversity in Fantasy Novels

Name: Sarah Rapacz Major: English Minor: Art Advisors: Dr. Claire Eager, Dr. Jennifer Hayward Immerse is a medieval fantasy novel exploring the relationships between […]

Annabelle Vosmeier

“The Bliss Of Solitude”: In Search of Fulfilled Single Characters in Seventeenth through Twentieth Century Anglophone and Francophone Literature

Name: Annabelle Vosmeier Majors: English, French and Francophone Studies Advisors: Dr. Claire Eager, Dr. Laura Burch This study analyzes the representations of single women […]

Paradoxical Descriptions of Divine Beings

Student Name: Tiago Garcia Ferrer Majors: English, Religious Studies Advisors: Bhakti Mamtora & Bryan Alkemeyer Most Joyful Award Within almost every mythology on earth […]

Protest or Riot?: The Role of News Media in Characterizing the Unrest in Ferguson

Student Name: Emma Reiner Major(s): Political Science (concentration in US Politics) and English Advisor(s): Dr. Désirée Weber and Dr. Susanna Sacks This project focuses […]

Eliza Letteney

Haunted Households: Adaptation, Genre, and Gender Politics in Horror and the Gothic

Name: Eliza Letteney Major: English Minor: Communication Studies Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Hayward and Dr. Tom Prendergast (second reader) My lifelong love of horror brought […]

Morgan Fields

A Re-evaluation of Texts Taught in High School English Classrooms: Why a Need for a Curriculum Reboot is Necessary

Name: Morgan Fields Majors: English, Education Minor: Philosophy Advisor: Dr. Leslie Wingard Most Applicable in the Current Moment Award This Independent Study is an […]

Holly Engel

Sinister Cinema: Depictions of Evil in the WWII and Postwar Thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock and Henri-Georges Clouzot

Name: Holly Engel Major: English, French Minor: Music Advisors: Dr. Marion Duval, Dr. Thomas Prendergast Best Use of Genre Award British/American director Alfred Hitchcock […]

Anna Halgash

The Music of the People: Appalachian Ballads and the Search for the Authentic in the 1960s American Folk Music Revival

Name: Anna Halgash Majors: English, History Advisors: Dr. Joan Friedman, Dr. Susanna Sacks This research explores why Appalachian ballads resonated with so many folk […]

Sierra Foltz

At the Corner of Two Walls

Name: Sierra Foltz Major: English Minor: Political Science Advisor: Dr. Christopher Kang T. S. Eliot said, “immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets […]

Claire Davidson

Can Climate Fiction Novels Inspire Social Change? A Literary and Empirical Ecocritical Analysis

Student Name: Claire Davidson Majors: Sociology, English Advisors: David McConnell, Susanna Sacks Dr. Melissa M. Schultz Sustainability and the Environment Award Collective action to […]

Love Will Come to You, the fourth and final book in Robert Kugler's '95 YA series

Alumnus authors fourth and final book in YA series

Robert Kugler ’95 credits Wooster’s emphasis on writing for his success as educator and writer

Bob Dyer '74

English alumnus credits Wooster education for journalism skills

Accomplished Ohio journalist Bob Dyer ’74 retires from distinguished career at the Akron Beacon Journal

Mesky Brhane ’89

Liberal arts education prepared English and French alumna for post-graduation achievements

Mesky Brhane ’89 supports vulnerable populations through her role at World Bank

APEX Fellowship | Sierra Foltz

Major: English Class Year: 2021 Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Ison Andrew Award of Excellence Interning for The Muse Writer’s Center in Norfolk, Virginia, I audited […]

Morgan Fields

APEX Fellowship | Morgan Fields

Major(s): English, Education Class Year: 2021 Faculty Mentor: Matt Krain Andrew Award of Excellence At Camp Nuhop in Mohican State Park, I worked to […]

Holly Engel

APEX Fellowship | Holly Engel

Major: English, French & Francophone Studies Class Year: 2021 Faculty Mentor: David McConnell I served as an editorial intern at Ohio Magazine in Cleveland, […]

: Hayward (center) com worked with colleagues (from left to right) Benjamin Hernández Pacheco, Michelle Prain Brice, Tess Henthorne ’16, Maria Paz Zegers Correa at the Digital Imaging Lab of the National Library of Chile in the summer of 2019.

Jennifer Hayward leads Chilean newspaper digitization project

The National Library of Chile publishes nineteenth century Anglophone newspapers digitized by a transnational team that includes Wooster students