Ruhlman Conference
English majors present yearly at the Ruhlman Conference, Wellesley's annual celebration of student achievement.
For information about applying to present, see the Ruhlman Conference web site.
Selected Ruhlman Presentations, 2012
Thomas Hardy and the Modernization of Agriculture
Talk by Meredith L Ruhl '12, English
The Making of a Classic: Louisa May Alcott, Her Novels, and Modern Media
Talk by Hayley M Lenahan '12, English
Time Zones
Literary Reading by Hallie C Santo '12, English and Creative Writing
"Stories about Himself": Forgetfulness, Stories, and Power in Peter Pan
Talk by Abigail G Murdy '12, English and Philosophy
"A Separate Peace": Reading the First World War in Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time and A Farewell to Arms
Talk by Esther Y Kim '12, English
A Horizontal Search: Squaring Away American Mystery
Exhibition by Lucy V Cleland '13, English
Selected Ruhlman Presentations, 2011
100 Pains of Subtitling: Language, Culture, and Nodame Cantabile
Michelle Lam ’14 and Natalie Rojas ’14
Reclaiming the Humanity of the Marginalized in Postcolonial Literature
Sydney Hodge ’11, English
Exotic and Erotic in Nineteenth Century French Photography and English Poetry
Hannah A. Keck ’11, Art History and English
Daniel’s Decision: The Ethics of Virtue and Utilitarianism in George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda
Flannery Wheeler ’11, English
Living in Absurdity
Olivia Kingsley ’11, English
Writing the Travel Essay: The Traveler and the Destination (panel discussion)
Alexis Black ’13, English, Elizabeth Hubertz ’11, Political Science, Sarika Narula ’11, English, and Rebecca Winslow ’11, South Asian Studies
Mapping the Invisible: Guides, Maps, and the Role of Cosmography in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene
Gabrielle Linnell ’13, Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Portraying the “Strolling Trade”: Gypsies and Nomadism in the Eighteenth Century Novel
Angelina Del Balzo ’11, English and Italian Studies
Private Rooms, Professional Spaces, and Youthful Ambition in Charles Dickens’s Orphan Novels
Rae Yan ’11, Chinese Language and Literature and English
Looking at Queer Desire in Pale Fire and Death in Venice
Farah Ahmed ’11, English
Writing the Self: Identity Construction in Twentieth Century African American Literature
Galen Danskin ’11, English
Discrepancies between Black Literature and Their Film Adaptations
Boafoa Offei-Darko ’11, English
