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Denman Undergraduate Research Forum Features Work of English Majors
The Denman Undergraduate Research Forum on May 14th featured research from hundreds of Ohio State students from every discipline, including ten English majors, one of whom won second place in the Humanities division. Watch a slideshow featuring English Department participants.Graduating Senior Stefanie Peters won second place in the Humanities division for her project, "(Re)writing Shakespeare: Responding to Shakespeare Creatively and Critically." Peters, whose adviser was Professor Lee K. Abbott, used Shakespeare's work as the source text for her own short stories.
The benefits for English majors participating in the forum are many. Graduating Senior Casey Geist explained how her project, titled "Shakespeare for Sale: An Examination of the Bard's Role in Contemporary Film and American Popular Culture," fit into her education in the English Department and at Ohio State. "I'm going to be an English teacher, and I'm trying to think about how I'll teach Shakespeare. Shakespeare is not something a lot of people want to teach. I think watching films like Richard and Hamlet that are interesting in their own right, and talking about overlap between the films and plays will make Shakespeare relevant to students." Geist's advisor was Professor Alan Farmer.
Julian Condo, a graduating senior, was able to study in depth a topic he first explored in high school. "My junior year of college I had an honors seminar with Professor Marlene Longenecker, and we got into Keats. I wrote a term paper about patterns and structures within certain poems and the progress of the odes as a whole. I had a lot of success with that and decided to do my senior thesis on it." His presentation was titled "Progress among the Odes of John Keats" and his adviser was Professor Marlene Longenecker.
In preparing "Broad Implications: Yeats' 'The Second Coming' and its Influence," Graduating Senior Daniel Craig learned skills he'll apply in future studies. "Completing such a long-term project has really trained me to become self-motivated. I'm starting law school in the fall, so it was very important that I set deadlines. I was also very interested in what I was doing. When it was all done, it was the most satisfying feeling in the world. And I appreciated that my education gave me the opportunity to do something like this." Craig's adviser was Professor Jessica Prinz.
