Our English Master’s Students are Active Scholars!
As classes began in August 2016, English graduate students Susan Rojas and Savannah Jensen had the unforgettable opportunity to present at the prestigious Sixteenth Century Society Conference hosted this year in the historic city of Bruges, Belgium. The Sixteenth Century Society Conference hosted hundreds of scholars from all around the world. “The conference’s program guide still impresses me,” says Jensen. “It was a small book with over two–hundred pages of panels. There were panels on literature, art, religion, and history. When I attended panels that didn’t focus on literature, I felt like I was really getting a much broader understanding of what life was like in the sixteenth century.”
The professional growth given to me by the MA program is immeasurable. Because of the size of the program, I was able to foster close, personal relationships with the faculty and my cohort. The MA program allowed me to travel around the country presenting at various conferences and gave me in-depth pedagogical training, both of which have allowed me to excel as a public school teacher.
~ Kaela Stage, Writing Teacher, Findlay Middle School, Las Vegas
Look at some of the other exciting conference locations where our students presented their research:
Susan Rojas, English MA student
- Sixteenth Century Society and Conference in Bruges, Belgium
Chloe Kolman, English MA student
- International Film Adaptation Conference in Thessaloniki, Greece— Presenter, Spring 2017
- Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference in San Diego, CA. — Presenter, Spring 2017
- 36th Annual First Year Experience Conference— Presenter, Spring 2017
- Florida Library Association Conference— Presenter, Spring 2017
Kaela Stage, English MA student
- Inaugural Gender and Sexuality Conference, University of Central Oklahoma, Presenter, Fall 2016
- 1st Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities at the University of West Georgia, Fall 2016
Mark Massaro, English MA student
- Popular Culture Association Conference in San Diego, CA, Presenter, Spring 2017
Christina Prosnak, English MA student
- Popular Culture Association Conference, San Diego, CA, Presenter, Spring 2017
Kelsey Fischell, English MA student
- Popular Culture Association Conference, San Diego, CA, Presenter. Spring 2017
Kindra Taylor, English MA student
- Popular Culture Association Conference, Nashville, TN, Presenter, Fall 2016
