问题LitFest

The annual 问题LitFest gives undergraduates the opportunity to present creative and critical papers to audiences made up of their peers, 他们的教授, and the members of the local literary community. Students also have the opportunity to win awards for their writing.

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND CREATIVE WRITING

梅尔文米. 彼得森文学论坛
Hemminger-Brown讲座

Hollow Crowns: Shakespeare's Histories and Netflix's 皇冠

2023年4月14日,星期五,晚上7点.m.
哈克尼斯大厅162室
Schroeder Family School of Business Administration Building

凡妮莎Rapatz的大头照

凡妮莎Rapatz博士, is an Associate Professor of English at Ball State University, where she specializes in early British literature. Her book Convents and Novices in Early Modern English Dramatic Works (2020) considers the dramatic afterlives of Catholic spaces and figures in the wake of the Reformation. 目前, she is working on a pop culture Shakespeare project that examines contemporary films and television series set in a variety of historical periods that deploy Shakespeare's allusions and performances as vehicles to reflect upon contemporary personal, 社会, 以及历史身份.

问题LitFest

第十一届文学年会

2023年4月15日星期六
学生小组讨论:上午9:30.m., 10:45 a.m.和中午.
Rooms 271, 272, and 273, Schroeder Family School of Business Administration Building
Attendance is FREE and open to the public.

On the morning before the formal start of the conference, students in literature classes drew chalk broadsides on the sidewalks of the campus. 在17人之间 th 和19 th 世纪, such broadsides were commonly used to communicate news and events or to post ballads or poetry in public spaces. The broadsides created for this year’s LitFest were selected from the students' reading in the Spring semester.

 The 2023 conference officially began on Friday evening with the Hemminger-Brown lecture at the 梅尔文米. 彼得森文学论坛. Dr. 凡妮莎Rapatz, Associate Professor of English at Ball State University, gave a lecture titled “Hollow Crowns: Shakespeare’s Histories and Netflix’ 皇冠.”

The conference continued on the Saturday morning with a series of student panels. 查看完整的时间表.

在会议结束时, the Department of 英语与创意写作 presented its 2023 awards:

GRABILL奖

创造性的非小说

  • Third: Sam Fowler for “Forgotten Student”
  • Second: Alexis Carpenter for “Playlist for When You’ve Traded Your Home of Seventeen Years for a Mold-Infested Dorm, Only to Realize You Don’t Actually Know What You Are Doing With Your Life”
  • 第一名:山姆·塔特《威廉希尔中文网》

小说

  • 第三名:海登·克拉佩克《英国威廉希尔中文网站》
  • 第二名:Trix Nico《威廉希尔中文网站》
  • First: Alexis Carpenter for “From Rachmaninov to Rocket Man”

诗歌

  • 第三名:埃弗林·凯西《威廉希尔中文网》
  • Second: 卡罗琳·戈尔曼 for “You Mortal Beings Are the Instrument By Which the Universe Creates”
  • First: Alexis Carpenter for “Out of the Blue, Into the White”

学术论文

  • Third: 伊丽莎白染料 for “The Concept of Gender in H.D.“庇护花园”。
  • Second: 克里斯蒂娜Jesenski for “Badass Brides: Strength, 痛苦, and the Subversion of Patriarchy in Hrotsvit’s 智慧 和Galawdewos Walatta-Petros的一生
  • First: Gabrielle Hardoin for “‘Back She Turned’: Insight into the Superiority of Women in John Milton’s 《威廉希尔中文网站》 using Sir Walter Raleigh’s ‘The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd’”

克林格写作奖

卡罗琳·戈尔曼 for “Frankenstein as Poet: Apprehending the Unapprehendable”

THE LARRY CALDWELL SENIOR AWARD FOR DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE AND SPIRIT

伊丽莎白McCook

过去在问题LitFest上的演讲者

  • 2022年——拉里·考德威尔——论约翰·济慈
  • 2021 – Michael Kim Roos – on Bob Dylan
  • 2019 -爱德华·P. 评论库尔特·冯内古特
  • 2018 – Cecelia Tichi – on Edith Wharton and Jack London
  • 2017 – Jacqueline Briggs Martin – on Children’s Literature
  • 2016 -马修·J. 博尔顿——论TS艾略特
  • 2015 – William Hemminger – on Wallace Stevens
  • 2014 – Robert Paul Lamb – on Mark Twain
  • 2013 – Arthur Brown – on Stephen Crane
  • 2012 – Charles Conaway – on William Shakespeare