{"id":528,"date":"2017-05-04T16:58:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T23:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/?p=528"},"modified":"2017-05-04T17:00:32","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T00:00:32","slug":"a-bumper-crop-celebrating-our-honours-students-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/2017\/05\/04\/a-bumper-crop-celebrating-our-honours-students-research\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bumper Crop: Celebrating Our Honours Students&#8217; Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What do road signs, slaves, and magical talismans share in common? They&#8217;re all topics that English Honours students researched and wrote about this year. We can hardly recall a more eclectically excellent batch of Honours projects. Huzzah to curious minds!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/files\/2017\/05\/ENG-blog-green-plums.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-529\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/files\/2017\/05\/ENG-blog-green-plums-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/files\/2017\/05\/ENG-blog-green-plums-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/files\/2017\/05\/ENG-blog-green-plums-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/files\/2017\/05\/ENG-blog-green-plums-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/files\/2017\/05\/ENG-blog-green-plums.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Photo Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/85213921@N04\/33365282924\/\">Jorge Brazil<\/a> Flickr via <a href=\"http:\/\/compfight.com\">Compfight<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">cc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To celebrate this bountiful harvest of ideas, we hosted a colloquium in the Abbotsford campus board room. On Tuesday, April 25 these budding scholars presented their projects to an audience of peers, faculty, family, and friends.<\/p>\n<p>The lineup was impressive:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emily Bergman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From the Shelter of Magic: A Study of Transitional Objects and Character Growth in Children\u2019s Literature&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Supervisor: Hilary Turner<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brittney Dagneau<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Fluidity of Form: Genre in the Work of Gilbert Keith Chesterton&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Supervisor: Alex Wetmore<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hannah Mackie<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A Curse For The Nation: Elizabeth Barrett Browning\u2019s Poetry of Slavery&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Supervisor: Karen Selesky<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jessica Milliken<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Caution: Hidden Driveways&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Supervisor: Rob Taylor<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rose Morrison<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Food Sovereignty in the Fraser Valley: A Growing Pursuit&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Supervisor: Trevor Carolan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amanda Penner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Theology of Paradox in T.S Eliot\u2019s Four Quartets&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Supervisor: Miriam Nichols<\/p>\n<p>Congrats to our 2017 Honours students for completing their dynamic research projects!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; What do road signs, slaves, and magical talismans share in common? They&#8217;re all topics that English Honours students researched and wrote about this year. We can hardly recall a more eclectically excellent batch of Honours projects. Huzzah to curious minds! Photo Credit: Jorge Brazil Flickr via Compfight cc To celebrate this bountiful harvest of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions\/532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}