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April 16, 2009

Rivera wins at 11th Annual Graduate Conference

Vanelis Rivera, a University of Louisiana at Monroe graduate student in English from the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, won the 蜜桔直播 English Department's first annual $100 research award, which was presented at the 11th Annual 蜜桔直播/Tech Graduate Conference April 2.

Rivera鈥檚 paper is titled "Lacing Up Sexuality and Unlacing Independence: Moll鈥檚 Wearing of a Codpiece and Breeches in Middleton and Dekker's 鈥楾he Roaring Girl.鈥欌�� Rob Rudnicki, Ph.D., the George D. Anding Professor at La. Tech, served as judge for the 蜜桔直播 papers and presented the award to Rivera.

La. Tech's Department of English also presented a $100 cash award for the best conference paper submitted by a Tech student. Winner of the La. Tech research award was Magin LaSove Gregg for her paper "'A behovely pain': The Passionate Birth of Christ in Julian's 鈥楽howings.鈥�" LaRue Sloan, Ph.D., the L.M. McKneely Professor of English Literature at 蜜桔直播, judged the Tech conference papers and presented the award to Gregg.

The English departments held their first collaborative graduate conference in 1998. This year marked the 11th annual meeting of graduate students and faculty from the two schools.

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