Carrie Bebermeyer passed her Master's Exam and graduates this term.

Eric Bryan was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Iceland next academic year, will present "Heaven" or "Valholl,"? The Development of Death, Burial, and the Afterlife in Early Icelandic Folktales" at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo this week, where he will also chair the session on The Apocryphal Canterbury Tales, and he chaired the session on Unorthodox Heroes of Medieval English Literature at the Mid-America Medieval Association Conference in February.

Bob Blaskiewicz was awarded both a Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship for next year and a Brennan Dissertation Fellowship for this summer to research in Philadelphia and New Haven, gave the paper "The Eternal Presence of the Past: Time and Trauma in Slaughterhouse-Five" at the SLU Graduate Student Conference, served as the president of GSA, and has been elected to be the GSA Vice-President for Frost Campus.

Teresa Clancy passed her Master's Exam and graduates this term

David Cormier presented "Rereading Lucy Hutchinson: Ebb, Flow, and The Resurrection of a Female Voice" at the South Central Renaissance Conference at Pepperdine University and has been accepted to the Nation Writing Project's Summer Leadership Institute at Plymouth State University, where he will be working with writing teachers from all over New England developing ways to enrich writing classrooms from the elementary level up to the college level. He served as GSA Representative for EGO.

Chris Dickman passed his Master's Exam and graduates this term.

Lea Luecking Frost passed her Ph.D. exams.

Ty Hawkins passed his Master's Exam, finished his MA thesis and graduates this term. His short story "To an Early Dinner" has been accepted for publication in Rive Gauche.

Brian Jackson presented a chapter from his dissertation at the Illinois Philological Association in April, was nominated for a Faculty Excellence Award given by the Student Government Association, and with Aaron Belz gave a poetry reading at the University of Illinois in Springfield on April 22 as part of their University Speaker's Series, which, we should note, was a paying gig. He served as the Graduate Committee Representative for EGO.

Keith Kelly presented "Old Norse Influences on the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien," and "Medievalism and its Representations in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy" at Middlebury College in January, both of which were sponsored by the Departments of English and History, and by Ross Commons; presented "Outlaws vs. Lawyers: the Outlaw as Champion of Justice in the Face of Rising Legal Literacy," 32nd Annual Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, The University of the South in April, received the Fournier Award for Excellence in Teaching, and passed scrutiny for dissertation, titled "The Outlaw vs. the Lawyer: English Cultural Identity and the Role of the Outlaw Hero as Champion of Justice."

Lynn Linder passed her Master's Exam with distinction and graduates this term, and served on the Technical Communication Textbook Review and MA Track Curriculum Sub-Committee.

Gina Merys received both a Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship and the Dr. Mary Louise Adams Endowed Dissertation Fellowship, presented "Equivalent Importance and Knowledge Making: Literacy and Classroom Power" at the Research Network Forum at CCCC in March, served on the Writing Program's Textbook Review Sub-committee, served as Vice President of EGO, and volunteered for the Walter J. Ong Conference.

Tim Moylan served as GSA Treasurer and on the Writing Program's Textbook Review Sub-committee.

Janet Kiel Nelson served as Treasurer for EGO.

Jessica Notgrass served on the Writing Program's Textbook Review Sub-committee.

Micki Nyman will publish "Positioning Orlando as Subject in Lacan's Imaginary" in the Spring 2005 Virginia Woolf Miscellany, advanced to candidacy this past February, will present "Virginia Woolf Mixing it up in Lacan's Imaginary" at the Virginia Woolf Conference at Lewis and Clark College this June, and her review of Mary Ann Caws' Memoir: To the Boathouse will appear in the fall ANQ, served on the Writing Program's Textbook Review Sub-committee and as the Undergraduate Committee Representative for EGO, and volunteered for the Walter J. Ong Conference.

David Olson passed his Master's Exam and has completed the MA degree. He will start the Ph.D. program in the fall.

Annie Papreck had her article "Shaw, Baseball, and Episodic History" published in the Spring 2005 edition of The Independent Shavian. And after her failed attempt to make the Yankees' starting rotation, she has accepted a full-time teaching position at the University of Southern California for Fall 2005.

John Reep has successfully defended his dissertation and will graduates next week.

Annie Rues passed her Master's Exam and graduates this term, and served on Writing Program's Textbook Review Sub-committee.

Deborah Scaggs presented "Dissenting Voices and Marginal Identities: Reading Hamlet and The Whore of Babylon as Cultural Struggle" at the Shakespeare Association of America in Hamiliton, Bermuda, and will present "Navigating The Tempest: Exploring New Worlds" for the Shakespeare Festival at Forest Park this summer. She served as a reader for both Bedford/St. Martin's and Longman and on the Writing Program's Textbook Review and Technical Communication Textbook Review and MA Track Curriculum Sub-Committees, and has begun serving as a Recommended Reading Contributors for the Renaissance section of Blackwell's Literature Compass. She served as Secretary of EGO and has been reassigned as the AWPA for the 2005-2006 school year.

Sara Schwamb passed both her Latin and German language exams, will present "Banning Our Brothers: Excommunication in the Medieval Church and Early Mennonite Communities" this week at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalazmazoo, and helped organize and coordinate the Walter J. Ong Conference.

Laurie Smith presented "Accessing Faith-based Dialogue in the Composition Classroom" at the CCCCs in San Francisco and will present a similarly themed paper in May at the Conference on Rhetoric and the Christian Tradition to be held in Chicago, wrote chapter tests for the textbook The Rhetoric of Western Thought, which will be published/packaged as part of the educational supplements for the text some time this summer, served on the Writing Program's Textbook Review and Technical Communication Textbook Review and MA Track Curriculum Sub-Committees, and volunteered for the Walter J. Ong Conference.

Katie St. Peters served as President of EGO.

Roxanne Schwab has completed her Ph.D. and will present a paper at the American Literature Association Conference in Boston at the end of May.

Sarah Schwab passed her Master's Exam and graduates this term.

John Walter presented "Holt's Who's Afraid of Beowulf?" and Pratchett's "The Last Hero: Comedic Fantasy and the Reception of Old Norse Literature" at MLA, was inducted into the Jesuit honor society Alpha Sigma Nu, and prepared the Walter J. Ong, SJ, Archives exhibit which is currently on display in the St. Louis Room of Pius Library. He was interviewed by Australian Media Studies students about Walter J. Ong, SJ, and by a local high school student about The Lord of the Rings. For the Writing Program, he served on the Technical Communication Textbook Review and MA Track Curriculum Sub-Committee and presented "Computer-mediated Communication in the Classroom." He remains on the editorial board of Kairos and as a member of the CCCC Committee on Computers in Composition and Communication.

Lauren Yaeger passed her Master's Exam and graduates this term.