Ohio State-Newark Students Dazzle at CEA Conference
Undergraduate students wowed attendees of the College English Association (CEA) annual conference in St. Louis on Friday, March 28. Ohio State Newark students Sarah Boulard and Michael Morrison and their former classmate Mason Nojonen, now attending classes in Columbus, presented to the conference.
Their panel presentation, "Identifying the Other, Masking the Self: The Rhetoric of Travel Writing," had previously been selected by the president of the CEA as his designated "Presidential Forum." The presentation was selected in part because, to the knowledge of the conference organizers, this was the first undergraduate panel ever selected to present during the 39 years of an annual conference held by the 69-year old association.
The students presented to a full room on Friday morning and took 30 minutes of questions from the audience, who rewarded them with round of applause.
According to the students' advisor, Elizabeth Weiser, Ph.D., assistant professor, rhetoric, composition and literacy, some audience members remarked that they wish they "had been as poised as an undergraduate."
Boulard spoke on "Traveling Through Time;" Nojenen on "Discovering the Travel Writer;" and Morrison on "Speaking with Authority."
"I don't think I have been prouder during my four years here," said Weiser. "They were really superb." She is working with the students on a joint article to be presented this summer.
To learn more about the student presentation at the CEA conference, contact Dr. Weiser at 740.366.9175 or by email at weiser.23@osu.edu.
