Defenses

Jennifer Hargrave successfully defends her dissertation (April 2016)

 

Lindsey Chappell successfully defends her dissertation (Feb. 2017).

 

Sophia Hsu successfully defends her dissertation (April 2017).

 

Graduation, 2016

Jennifer Hargrave and Abby Goode celebrate after the Doctoral Hooding Ceremony.

The Nineteenth-Century Reading Group meets with literature and snacks

Brunch with Gissing’s New Grub Street
2014: tea, cakes, and Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho

 

2016: warding off scurvy and failure with Conrad’s Lord Jim
2015: crackers and Dickens’s A Christmas Carol (Smoking Bishop not pictured)
2015: The reading group attempts to perform a carol on plastic whistles.

 

Graduate seminar students enjoy a Victorian tea with Prof. Helena Michie

The Victorian Banquet, 2009 (watch a video of the banquet here!)