Scholarship and Creativity Day: April 28, 2007

At the seventh annual Scholarship and Creativity Day, many English majors presented their research and creative projects for fellow students, faculty, staff, and families. 

Below is a list of the presenters, their faculty advisors, and their topics:

• Jolene Brink (S. Mara Faulkner, OSB)
  The Relationship Between Poetry and Conflict: A Study of the Wars in Guatemala, Bosnia and Somalia
  
  
• Leah Niebur (Dr. Mike Opitz)
  How to Kill a Myth and Plead the Fifth: The Mechanics of Andy Warhol and Barthian Mythology
  
  
• Grace Brogan (S. Eva Hooker, CSC)
  Poetry
  
  
• Alison Frank (S. Mara Faulkner, OSB)
  Refused at the Door
  
  
• Rachel Peterson (S. Mara Faulkner, OSB)
  A Reading of "The Calm Before"
  
  
• Kelly Marie Prosen (Dr. Noreen Herzfeld, Fr. JP Earls)
  Beyond the Unmoved Mover: Rahner's Theology of Grace in The Lord of the Rings and the Chronicles of Narnia
  
  
• Kelly Marie Prosen (Dr. Christina Shouse-Tourino)
  Ellison's Blind Spot: Women's Sexuality in the Invisible Man
  
  
• Michael Rubbelke (Dr. Mike Opitz)
  Silent Text: J.D. Salinger's Silence and the Problem of the Author
  
  
• Matt Smith (Dr. Kaarin S. Johnston, Dr. Mike Opitz)
  Creating an Independent Film from Concept to Screen
  
  
• Sweetman, Patrick G and Leah Niebur (Dr. Mike Opitz)
  Steal This Book vs. Steal This Album!: Examining the Countercultures of the 1970's and 2002
  
  
• Sara Trent (S. Mara Faulkner, OSB)
  Perspectives to Dissolve Reality: Voices of Robert Hass & Allen Ginsberg within Original Poetry
  
  
• Megan M. Vetsch (Dr. Mike Opitz)
  Tattoos: How the Middle Class Finds Meaning Behind the Myth
  
  
• Nicholas Bingham, Joseph Bowen, Jolene Brink, Mary Dellenbach, Kristin Haubrich, Andrea Lewandowski, Peter Mullin, Brett Pequin, Daniel Phillipe, Jessica Ranfranz, Gretchen van der Hagen, and Erin Wentz (Dr. Hadara Bar-Nadav)
  Advanced Creative Writing Class Presentations

For more information about Scholarship and Creativity Day and these presenters, click here.