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  • Victoria Pipas '21

    April 21, 2021

    Victoria Pipas has continued to focus on poetry of the English Renaissance, and particularly on the works of Edmund Spenser, paying close attention to the reception of classical genres in the medieval and Renaissance periods and also the French humanist influences. In her M.A. essay Victoria explored how early sixteenth-century humanist descriptions of Rome's decay shaped Spenser's poetic conceptualizations of matter. She looks forward to continuing to pursue this line of inquiry as I begin a PhD in English at Harvard University this fall.

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  • Nathan Leach '21

    April 21, 2021

    Nathan Leach spent the year studying the fiction of Fyodor Dostoevsky and James Baldwin, with a focus on lived ethics and the theme of suffering. His M.A. essay treated Baldwin's reception of Dostoevsky, exploring how Dostoevsky served Baldwin's model for how suffering can be transformed into art and human togetherness. Nathan's foremost passion is education, and in the Fall he will start working in Baltimore City Public Schools as an elementary school teacher.

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  • Caroline King '21

    April 21, 2021

    Caroline King has recently completed her master's essay at Dartmouth with a focus on becomings in Paul Preciado's Testo yonqui. She holds a master's degree in Creative Writing from the University of Oxford and graduated from Johns Hopkins University with majors in Psychology, Writing Seminars, and Spanish. Her writing has been published in various academic and literary journals and she has completed a novel which she seeks to publish.

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  • James Johnson '21

    April 21, 2021

    James Johnson did research in medieval Latin and Italian before eventually focusing his M.A. essay on the didacticism of a twelfth-century Latin story collection called Dolopathos. In addition to the graduate theory seminars and workshops, he took courses on Vergil's Eclogues and Georgics, medieval Latin, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Russian fairy tales, and introductory Arabic.

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  • Sophie Frank '21

    April 21, 2021

    Sophie Frank spent much of her year exploring twenty-first century comics through her MA essay on the French graphic novel Blue is the Warmest Color and its film adaptation. She completed this project under the kind and insightful guidance of Professor Annabelle Cone, of the French department, and Professor Paul Young, of Film and Media Studies. In addition to her research, Sophie continued her study of the French and Italian languages, and on a whim, she took an eighteenth-century English literature course (just for fun).

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