The department is pleased to welcome David King, a new lecturer, to our department.

Anne Stone '09 and Maddie Ethington '09 are on the London/ Florence exchange program during Spring 2008. After spending the fall semester in Chicago at the Newberry Library, Kelsey Cole is on the Social Justice, Gender and the Environment study abroad program in Cuernavaca, Mexico.

Amanda Bloomer '08 and Johnathan Skidmore '07 had papers accepted for the Clement S. Stacy Undergraduate Research Conference at Purdue University-Calumet in April 2007.  Skids' essay, which he wrote for English 350 Early Modern Masculinities, is entitled "Edward II: Heterosexual Masculinity"; Amanda Bloomer's essay, "Playing with the Truth: How Games Function as Communication in Edward Albee's The Zoo Story and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," was written for English 347 Modern American Drama.

Jaime Calder '07 was an editorial intern at MAKE, a Chicago literary magazine in Fall 2006. The issue that she worked on (Winter 2007) was released the last week of January 2007: see

Mary Bruce was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for fall of 2006, and she traveled to Russia to do research for a new book and to teach American Studies, English composition, and creative writing at Russian State University for the Humanities. She has also recently published an encyclopedia entry on Henry Vaughn for Masterplots: Christian Literature for Salem Press.

Michelle Anstett '07 and Chadd Kaiser '07 had essays accepted for Illinois Wesleyan University's MUSE undergraduate conference in September.  Michelle's essay is entitled, "'What is Your Parentage?': Women and Foreigners as Threats in Early Modern Literature," and Chadd's paper is "You Make Me Feel...Not Lame...Again: a Study of Shakespeare's Homoerotic Interest and Modern Romantic Thought, as Viewed through The Cure's 'Love Song'."