13th Annual Thesis and Field Exam Symposium!
The Villanova English department held its (lucky) 13th Annual Thesis and Field Exam Symposium on the evening of Friday, May 5th. We had four presenters: Theo Campbell “Customs Handed Down to Us”: Colonialism and Healthcare in Nurse Bridget Hedderman’s Glimpses of my Life in Aran Theo spoke about their study of Nurse Bridget Hedderman's autobiography on her time serving as a nurse in the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland, and how that work has not previously been viewed as a post-colonial text, nor put into conversation with other, more famous works such as J.M. Synge's The Aran Islands . Theo emphasized Bridget Hedderman's heretofore underreported Gaeltacht background. The complicating factor of medical aid as a colonial intervention was also investigated and discussed. Hannah Kahn The Mediated, Medicalized, and Mortal: Tracing the Body Through Don DeLillo's White Noise and The Day Room and Noah Baumbach's White Noise Hannah Kahn looked at Don DeLillo...
