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• Generate arguments and other writing based on close reading and analysis of texts
• Analyze literature within a historical and/or cultural context
• Explain and appraise the methodologies and theories of literary studies
• Apply methodologies and theories to literature within a particular historical and/or cultural context

• The Carl R. Greer/Andrew D. Hepburn Awards in English
  Four awards: Past awards ranged from $700 to $5000.
• The Edward J. Montaine Awards in English
  Three awards: Past awards ranged from $1000 to $3000.
• The Almy Awards in Critical Studies
  Two awards, about $400 to $600 each.

Literature majors have worked on a range of topics such as:

• "Decameron, Epidemics, and the Role of Literature"
• "Risk Consciousness in the Fiction of Don DeLillo"
• "Going to the Mountains is Going Home: Constructing Early 20th-Century American Wilderness and National Parks"
• "The Adaptive-Haptic Gaze of Dance: Subverting Female Identification in the Transition from Page to Screen"
• "Off the Script: Performing Female Identities in Victorian Literature"
• "Reconsidering the Unreliability and Treatment of Mentally Ill Narrators"
• "Risk Consciousness in the Fiction of Don Delillo"
• "A Stifled Carnival: Stand-Up and the Audience"
• "The Myth of the New Heroine: The Protoevangelium in Young Adult Fiction"
• "Staging Race in Early Twentieth-Century America"
• "The Daily Grind: Performing a Comedy Sketch"
• "Ophelia and Virginity: An Analysis of Early Modern and Modern Ideas"
• "Coming out Films: Speech, Cinema, and the Making of a Queer Subject in Film"
• "Language, Temporality, and Ecology in Kingsnorth's The Wake"
• "Echoes of Pleasure and Audiophilic Cinema"

STUDENT SPOTLIGHTS: 

• James Bromley | Professor, Literary London Associate Director | bromlejm@MiamiOH.edu
• Mary Jean Corbett | Interim Chair, University Distinguished Professor | corbetmj@MiamiOH.edu
• Madelyn Detloff | Professor, Interim Director of Graduate Studies | detlofmm@MiamiOH.edu
• Erin Edwards | Associate Professor | edwarde4@MiamiOH.edu
• Andrew Hebard | Associate Professor | hebarda@MiamiOH.edu
• Nalin Jayasena | Associate Professor, Associate Chair for Administration and Curriculum | jayasen@MiamiOH.edu
• Katie Johnson | Professor, Co-Director of Paris Cultural Capital | johnso33@maimoh.edu
• Cynthia Klestinec | Professor | klestic@MiamiOH.edu
• Tim Melley | Professor, Director of the Humanities Center | melleytd@MiamiOH.edu
• Patrick Murphy | Professor, Co-Director of Literature Program | murphyp3@MiamiOH.edu
• Michele Navakas | Professor, Co-Director of Literature Program | mnavakas@MiamiOH.edu
• Kaara Peterson | Associate Professor, Literary London Director | petersk7@MiamiOH.edu