University of Wyoming English MA Program

04/09/2024

Upcoming MA in English Thesis defenses for our online cohort (message to request a Zoom link):

Jerilyn Patterson: Plan B Portfolio, "Navigating Intellectual Landscapes: Autonomy, Oppression, and Identity in Literary and Cultural Spaces." April 15, 2024 at 12 p.m.

Jessica Bishop: Plan B Portfolio, "From 'Teacher' to 'Facilitator:' A Critical and Pedagogical Evolution in an English M.A. Program." April 17, 2024 at 9 a.m.

Audrey Gunn: Plan B Portfolio, "Embracing Complexity: Intersections of Information Literacy and English Studies." April 22, 2024 at 9 a.m.

Samantha Raker: Plan B Portfolio, "Exploring Agency Through Plays, Novels, and Prisons." April 24, 2024 at 3:15 p.m.

Neylan Wheat: Plan B Portfolio, "Engaging the Public: Humanities, Archives, and Literary Exploration." April 25, 2024 at 3 p.m.

Cassia Catterall: Plan B Portfolio, "Expanding the fantasy: A look at why expanding fantasy literature in the classroom proves beneficial." April 29, 2024 at 1 p.m.

04/09/2024

Upcoming Thesis Defenses for graduate students in the MA in English program:

Stephanie Galeana Barreto: "The Importance of Curly Hair: Reimaging Hair Positivity through Braiding Methodology and Social Media." April 15, 2024 at 10 a.m. in Classroom Building 211.

Sarah Wagoner: "‘I Don’t Know Which Species is Worse’: Performance of Race, Gender, and Disability Across the Alien Trilogy." April 17, 2024 at 11 a.m. in Hoyt Hall 139.

David Riedel: "The Riedel Chronicles: Adventures in an Anomalous Archive." April 19, 2024 at 9 a.m. in Classroom 103.

Sydney Schmidt: "Teaching The Great Gatsby in the 21st Century: A Guide for Educators." April 19, 2024 at 11 a.m. in Hoyt Hall 125.

Madison Aiman: "GameStop and the Superstonk Saga: Digital Heroes, Ratio-Exploration, and Sentiment Analysis." April 19, 2024 at 2 p.m. in Hoyt Hall 139.

Sylie Hansen: "Resisting Conversion Through Intimacy and Shared Emotion in Narrative: Fuel for Violent Capitalism as Religion vs. Fuel for Community in Native American Renaissance Literature." April 26, 2024 at 2 p.m.

12/05/2023

Please join us for our Graduate Works in Progress Conference THIS THURSDAY!!

7 December 2023, 4:10 - 8:00 in Coe 506

PROGRAM:
Welcome and Introductions (4:10-4:15)

Panel I (4:15-5:15)
Science: Facts, Fictions, Futures
Sarah Wagoner, “Second Command Out There: Black Masculinity and Ridley Scott’s Alien”

David Riedel, “Rhetoric of the Unknown: The Silencing of Alien Abduction Communities and How ‘Just’ Rhetoric Can Liberate Them”

Madi Aiman, “Technology and Finance: Rhetoric, Python, and GameStop”

Break, with food (5:15-5:30)

Panel II (5:30-6:30)
Inner: Imitation, Intimacy, Intersubjective

Natasha Loving, “‘I’m Going to Disneyland’”: Theme Parks, National Parks, and How Tourism Builds Nature

Rachel Pak, “What Is She Like: The Buried Maternal in the Novels of Anne Enright”

Sylvie Hansen, “Slow Entanglements of Violence and Intimate Affective Space in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead”

Break (6:30-6:45)

Panel III (6:45-7:45)
Amid: Re-framing, Re-imagining, Re-storying

Stephanie Galeana Barreto, “Wigs, Frizz, and Coils: Why the Importance of Curly Hair is Much More Than It Seems”

Sydney Schmidt, “Reteaching The Great Gatsby in the 21st Century”

Greg Ronco, “Ab Esse in Éirinn: Looking at Absence Post Celtic Tiger”

Concluding remarks

08/08/2023

Congratulations to Sydney Schmidt (MA '24) for being selected as a participant of the 2023 MLA Public Humanities Incubator Program. Sydney is one of twelve graduate students in the country who will be working under the supervision of top Public Humanists to develop her project before traveling to Philadelphia to present at a special session of the Modern Language Association Annual Convention in January.

Sydney's project, under the supervision of Associate Professor of English Arielle Zibrak, is to redesign and further develop the public-facing aspects of the digital archive of the work of Rebecca Harding Davis, a prolific nineteenth-century American author and activist.

The Rebecca Harding Davis Archive site is hosted by UW English, and will remain a robust part of our Public Humanities Program for many years to come.

08/04/2023

05/10/2022

Congratulations, Leighkaren! Her podcast, "Welcome to Princess Play," is on Spotify.

04/14/2022

Upcoming Thesis defenses for master's degree students in the program.