English majors present at EAPSU conference
Four English majors journeyed north for the annual EAPSU undergraduate English conference, held this year at Mansfield University, on April 1. Each made a presentation based on a paper written in an Ursinus class. Lauren Geiger’s presentation on “Feminism, Marxism, and Sarah Orne Jewett’s ‘A White Heron’” was inspired by her work in a class on Literary Theory, while Serena Mease’s talk “Train Whistle Guitar: A Blues/Modernist Novel” was conceived in a senior seminar on Blues Traditions in American Literature. Two other students reshaped their work from a class on Austen and the Brontes: Macy Smith, who wrote on “Functions of Surveillance in Villette and Jane Eyre,” and Kara Travis, who presented “’A Personage in Disguise’: Addressing Visibility and Identity in Jane Eyre and Villette by Charlotte Bronte.”