Erin Dulin, Mary-Catherine Berger, Gabrielle Bryant, and Aiyana Jones in Atlanta.

The "delegation" from UNC Charlotte was a great success at the Sigma Tau Delta Conference in Atlanta. Erin Dulin presented a paper on Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton, while Gabrielle Bryant and Vasiliki Gkoulgkountina (see below) presented wonderful creative works titled, respectively, "Melancholia" and "One Thousand Lives."  We were also fortunate to have Abby Cotton, who is in the Graduate Program, deliver a paper titled "'Make Me a Mandrake'": Donne and Transcorporeality."

Vasiliki Gkoulgkountina reading her poetry,

Thanks to all of the donors who made this rich experience possible.  The conference events were not only important for our students, but they clearly demonstrated the remarkable quality of the many programs in English at UNC Charlotte.  All of the students who attended were impressive ambassadors of the University and deserve acclaim for their poise and their work.  And all of this was possible, of course, because of our generous donors.

We now have rooms booked in a very competitive environment!  Atlanta is booked with many Conferences, but we got rooms for everyone.  And we have a van to drive down as a group!!

One of the papers that's ready to go is Erin Dulin's "Intersections of Disability and Industrialism in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton," an intriguing analysis of the most renowned work of fiction by the great Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865).

A very young Elizabeth Gaskell