Independent Research Project Preliminary Report Schedule

 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.

Thursday, May 19 (during Exam Week) 9:00 AM-11:00AM

Cal Brown: Changing Illustrations of Satan from the Medieval Era to the Enlightenment: Contextualizing Gustave Dore's Imagination of Milton's "Satan" in the 1866 Paradise Lost  (London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, Ludgate Hill, E.C., 1866).

Lauren Brown: “The Art of Sharing Poetry” : A Tudor-Era Style Manuscript of Poetry

Dan Kim: Analysis of the Layout and Contents of I Seem to Be a Verb (Buckminster Fuller, Jerome Angel and Quentin Fiore [NY: Bantam, 1970])

Molly King: Maps and the Text of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit: 1938 American First  Edition and Later Reprints

Tess Landon: Selēnarhia, or The Government of the World in the Moon: Cyrano de Bergerac, Tr. Thomas St. Serf (London: J. Cotrell, 1659)--Musical Notation in Place of Nouns in the Text

Cam Mackay-Smith: Bestiary Design and their Use of Animals in Moral Exempla: The Aberdeen Bestiary and Its "Phoenix" (Aberdeen University Library MS 24, ca. 1200 CE)

Oona McKay: Not for What they Contained: the Myth Building of the New York Grolier Club

Avery Measley: Monstrosity Imagined in Lynd Ward's Edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Heather Parkin: Literary Scraps: Working from Scratch with a Commonplace Book

Sophia Tumolo: Bibliographic Analysis of Two Scrapbooks Kept by a Goucher Student During Her Freshman and Sophomore Year in the 1930s.

Ben Uscamayta-Alvarado: Analysis of the World War II Diary, Lest I Forget, and the Related Archive of Vernon C. Goetz