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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Middlemarch Mini-Conferences

Students will present research from their final projects for the senior seminar, "George Eliot's MIddlemarch" during the next three classes. Take a look at these excellent projects.


Wednesday, April 23

  • Will Corliss - “Middlemarch Reimagined: A Written Amendment of Mr. Casaubon’s Last Will and Testament”
  • Emma Cahill - “Combining Literary Worlds: Jane Austen & George Eliot, Intertwined”
  • Amanda McKean - “Media Overload and Empathic Distress: Grounding Oneself in Middlemarch’s Web” 
  • Riley Nelson - "Middlemarch and the Ordinary Life" 

Monday, April 28

  • Catherine Piergiovanni
  • Mickey Wilcox - “Middlemarch’s Unnoticed Sympathy”
  • Sam Allen - “Marriage, Feminism, and Middlemarch
  • Emily Hanlon - “'Nobody thinks Mr. Ladislaw a proper husband for you': Knowledge, Gender, and Romantic Relationships in Middlemarch"

Wednesday, April 30

  • Matthew Sabol - “Perception of and Responses to Female Morality in George Eliot’s Middlemarch
  • Will Harlan - “You Are Your Own Worst Enemy: The Tragedy of Introspection in George Eliot’s Middlemarch
  • Carlos Alvarez - “Definition, Value, & Appreciating the World Around You”
  • Mary Bondurant - “Perspectives and Misunderstandings”
  • Madeleine Brooks- “A Woven Middlemarch