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The Department of English sponsored an exciting staging of “Waiting for Godot,” directed by Senior Brad Hinkle, a double major in British & American Literature major and Political Science. The production, April 24 and 27 in Bothwell Auditorium, included two English majors (Jenny Jackson and Mason Schaefer).

Blackburn graduate Stephanie Brake, now teaching high school Language Arts in Hillsboro, MO, has sent word that she will be married in November.

Three seniors successfully completed their seminars this spring: Jillian Stambaugh (analysis of characterization in several works of Mary Shelley); Jenny Jackson (existential themes in Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead), and Marie Sutterfield (a study of three poets who committed suicide--Charlotte Mew, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Sexton);

The Department also held a reading for a new play co-authored by Matt Belmont (Written Communications major) and Danielle Owen (Business major), called “352.”
A number of students volunteered to read parts in this compelling, relevant script about a school shooter.

Professor Ren Draya recently attended a Shakespeare authorship conference held at Concordia University, in Portland, Oregon. With a colleague from Washington State University, Dr. Michael Delahoyde, she presented a paper on “Titus Andronicus.” Last fall, in Carmel, Dr. Draya headed up a discussion of the two plays staged for the group: “Macbeth” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”