Degrees

Research Area

Early Modern childhood and hybridity in educational, childrearing, and medical texts and literary ones (as of now, especially Shakespeare and Webster).

102W-03: Secrets and Runaways
In this class we will engage a selection of poetry, drama, and long and short fiction through the common theme of the secrets people keep and the choices they make to maintain them. These readings will include: Runaway, by Alice Munro, Run, by Ann Patchett, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare, and The Duchess of Malfi, by John Webster. The course is discussion-based and aims to increase writing comfort and capability through reading and writing about literature. Among the questions and concerns we will encounter are the following: When are secrets worth keeping? When is a revelation truth telling, and when is it betrayal? Can you ever run away from a secret in your past? Can running away from a restrictive life really allow you to let your secret self out into the light of day? Our work will proceed with a view to provide you with the tools necessary for writing thoughtful and articulate college-level papers in this and future courses in all subjects.

The College of Arts and Science Summer Research Award 2008
Graduate Student Paper Prize Winner, Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies 2008
Phi Beta Kappa, Washington University in St. Louis

“‘Music, awake her – strike’: Revivifying Hermione in Garrick and Shakespeare.” New Perspectives in Eighteenth Century Literature. 19 (2009). Forthcoming.
“Lavinia as Co-Author of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. 50.2 (Spring 2010). Forthcoming.

Bethany is originally from Ohio and is enjoying her first southern experience.