Jack Steffan guest lectured in the London Shakespeare class, discussing his research “Six Lines that Matter: Pirates, Justice, and Corrupt Authority in Hamlet“
Amiee Zhao publishes “Hamlet in China’s ‘Lying Flat’: Resistance Through Refusal” in the American Journal of Undergraduate Research, October 2025.
Aanya Ravichander publishes in the British Journal of Medicine Medical Humanities Blog, August 2024, on “Metaphors in the Care of Pediatric Sexual Abuse Survivors”
Chitra Yarasani publishes in the Atlanta Journal Consititution, July 2024, about an experience that started as a conversation in my office
Lauren Katz publishes “The Female in Frankenstein,” in The Apollon, summer 2024 (a project started in ENG 256)
Theo Lin publishes “Beowulf as Germanic Mythological Cannon,” Rock Creek Review, May 2024 (a project started in ENG 255)
Hely Patel publishes “Cultures of Stigma: Representations of Mental Health in Bollywood’s Hamlet, Haider,” in the Emory Undergraduate Research Journal, spring 2023 (a project started in ENG 311)
Audrey Ruan publishes “William Carlos Williams: Physician Poet Scrawls Theory of Medical Humanities Throughout Prescription Pad,” in Medical Humanities, summer, 2020 (a project from a research trip to Yale’s Beinecke Library)
Avery Hill & Kathryn Higinbotham publish in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, 2020 (about their intern experience with Common Good Atlanta)
Jack Wolfram publishes “Saturday Night Lear: SNL as Shakespearean Fools,” winter 2020, in The Apollon (a project started in ENG 311)
Sam Gardner publishes about helping to bury the homeless with dignity, Spring 2018 — and Sam’s article that brought the work to statewide attention
Preston Smith publishes about coaching children of incarcerated mothers in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, summer 2018
Research, travel, and adventure with Oxford students:
Vrushali Thakkar presented her research on ““Metaphors for Pediatric Pain” at the British Society for Literature and Science, University of Birmingham, UK and at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research, 2022.
Elena Vallis presented her research on the metaphor of “Burnout: A Flawed Metaphor for Low Cycles of Energy and Motivation” at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research, Los Angeles, 2024.
Ari Gurovich presented his research on “Scapegoating as Political Power in Beowulf” at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research, Los Angeles, 2024.
Aanya Ravichander and Aditi Mahendran presented their research on “Metaphors and Childhood Sexual Abuse Treatment” and “The Impact of Metaphorical Labels on Perception at the Georgia Conference for Undergraduate Research, 2024. (in the Emory van at 4:27 a.m.!)
Madeline Kleinerman presented at “‘All the Faded Roses Shed’: Beauty, Mortality, and Divinity in Paradise Lost at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research, Wisconsin, 2023.
Nicole Kassabian presented “Shakespeare and #MeToo” at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research, Wisconsin, 2023.
Lauren Katz presented “The Female in Frankenstein: Man’s Attempt to Abort Femininity” at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research, Wisconsin, 2023.
Ellie, oral presentation: “Even Silent Women Seldom Survive: Disobedience, Silence, and Audre Lorde in Shakespeare’s King Lear and Measure for Measure“
Oxford Writing Center tutors visiting Burruss Prison for a combined writing discussion. Thank you Cherry, Nicole, Amelia, and Tyler! February 2025
Restorative Justice at Burruss on February 14! We used King Lear as a test case for conflict resolution, with Mike playing Lear, Ebony as Regan, Jackson as Goneril, Kaden as Kent, Christopher as Cordelia, and Dyson facilitating. The rest of us watched the magic. Thank you Dyson, Harley, Avery, and Ebony for spending Valentine’s Day in pursuit of justice. February 2025
With former student Preston Townsend filming at Emory! March 2025
March writing center at Burruss: Thank you Dr. Cheatle, James, Ellie, Adra, and Elim | March 2025
Aditi, poster, “”The Impact of Metaphorical Labels on Perception,” has been accepted for presentation as “Accepted Student Poster Presentation”
Spring, 2023: Celebrating Shakespeare’s Death- and Birthday
Spring, 2023: National Conference for Undergraduate Research
Spring, 2022: Students visit prison and speak at State Capitol
Spring, 2022: Mixtape projects
Spring, 2022: National Conference for Undergraduate Research
Summer book discussion, The Likeness, by Tana French
Thirteen of us read Midsummer Night’s Dream together on August 9. They made the play fresh, fun, and surprising to me at every point (and improved my C H A T skills):
Visiting the Georgia Tech Paper Museum to make paper via seventeenth-century methods (plus dinner in westside ATL):
Road trip to GSU to hear Stephen Greenblatt (plus dinner in downtown ATL):
Jordan, Mollie, Noah, and Jacob, presenting on their research at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research (2019)
Katie, presenting on her criminal justice research at the Georgia Undergraduate Research Conference (2018)
Making Flan from Bryce’s grandmother’s recipe
Dave Evans’ Critical Education article on “The Elevating Connection of Higher Education in Prison: An Incarcerated Student’s Perspective” (2018) and Carlito Tarwater’s Wake Forest Journal of Law & Policy’s “The Mind Oppressed” (2016)
Darby Foster’s guest post on “Data-Mining King Lear” (2017)
Trey Smith’s Forbes & Fifth article on “Lear’s Tyranny in Qaddafi’s Libya” (2016)