Four English Students Published in CONCEPT

Four Villanova graduate English students have published original scholarship in CONCEPT, Villanova's interdisciplinary journal of graduate studies, this spring.
The students are Caitlyn Dittmeier (Networks of Foam: Becoming through Relation in Marianne Moore's Shoreline Poems), Anne Jones (Tracing the Missing Letter: Reassembling Nonhuman Agency in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake), Nicholas Keough (Boys Will Be Boys: Constructions of Toxic Masculinity in Dramatic, Metaphorized, and Real-Life War Spaces), and Olivia Stowell
(A Form of Work We’d Rather Not Do Alone: Chen Chen, Poetics of Relationality, and the Intersubjective Lyric I).
CONCEPT accepts submissions from Villanova graduate students in all fields of the arts and sciences. Submissions are reviewed by graduate student editors, faculty editors and peer reviewers, with final decisions made by the editors.
According to Managing Editor John E. Kurtz, PhD, Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, "We received more submissions this year than any previous year in my tenure. Our students submitted thoroughly researched and beautifully written papers on a wide array of topics. This bounty of high quality made the choice of the year’s top paper challenging indeed."
This year, CONCEPT includes papers covering Classical Studies, English, Gender and Women’s Studies, History, Psychology and Theatre. The journal seeks to honor and highlight not only exemplary papers within their respective disciplines but also scholarship with wide interdisciplinary appeal. It is published in partnership with the Office of Graduate Studies and Falvey Memorial Library.
Says Dean of Graduate Studies Emory Woodard, PhD, "These are truly challenging times on many fronts, yet our graduate students and faculty continue to amaze me with their extraordinary efforts. The CONCEPT authors, editors and reviewers are fine examples for our graduate students and indeed our entire graduate community."
You can read the current issue of CONCEPT here.