Independent Research Project Preliminary Report Schedule (Please correct topics and titles and send me links to PowerPoint or other audio-visual aids you will need.)
 If you are curious about the Class of 2015's research projects, click here for the preliminary report schedule which contains short descriptions of their projects and is linked to some of their presentation support materials.

  Friday, December 15, 9:00 AM-11:00AM, in ATH 435

Samia Abdur-Rahim: Paradise Lost: Annotation as an Assertion of Beliefs.  Manuscript annotations in a copy of the 1727 13th edition of John Milton, Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained  focusing on Book I as evidence of C18-early C19 reader response to Milton (1st edition, 1667, 2nd revised edition, 1674).

Madelyn Brown: James Stephens' Readership as Seen in Eleanor Falley's Collection: readership of James Stephens, Irish nationalist author, based on edition copies in Goucher's collection.

Tristyn Brown: Illustrating the Chiefest and Greatest of Calamities: Tolkien’s Watercolor “Conversations with Smaug”in J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1938)..

Bronwyn Burke: Kissing the Kiss of Betrayal: Veneration in the Berners Hours.

Lily Craig: An English illuminated MS page based the style and mise-en-page of Psalm 38 in Walters MS W.102

Lucas Guire: A Modernized Medieval Calendar

Georgia Knox: Take a Seat: A study of The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's guide with a focus on Hepplewhite Chairs and Chair Backs.  A. A. [Alice] Hepplewhite.  Print Book1794, 3rd ed. improved.  London : Published by I. and J. Taylor, 1794. 

Han Levenson: The Battle for the Soul: Hunting Imagery in Walters MS W.37, an horae in the Use of Liege.

Eva Ojekwe: Visual Literacy and Anthropomorphism in Samuel Croxall 1848 edition of Aesop’s Fables