FACULTY AND STUDENT NEWS

SPRING 2006

Natalia Shchlegoleva (Ph.D. Program) was awarded the 2006 James J. Hudson Doctoral Prize in the Humanities. The Hudson Prize is awarded by the Graduate School to an outstanding student in comparative literature, English, history, or philosophy who has completed all requirements for the degree except the dissertation.

SPRING 2005

Krista Casada (Ph.D. Program) was awarded the 2005 James J. Hudson Doctoral Prize in the Humanities. The Hudson Prize is awarded by the Graduate School to an outstanding student in comparative literature, English, history, or philosophy who has completed all requirements for the degree except the dissertation. Krista is working on Arabic and Spanish images of the garden in the Medieval and early modern period.

Kirsten Day (Ph.D Program) has presented paper: "Disregarding Penelope: Homophrosyne and Andrei Konchalovsky's *The Odyssey*" - Southwest Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association Conference, Albuquerque NM (February 2005); She will be presenting two papers this semester: "Redeeming Artemisia and Ada: An Analysis of Modern Scholarship on the Hecatomnid Women" - American Comparative Literature Association Conference, State College PA (March 2005); "Exhuming Artemisia: A Case Study of Gender Bias in Historical Criticism" - Classical Association of the Middle West and South Conference, Madison WI (April 2005)
Her article "Finding the Female: An Examination of Women's Voices in Classical Antiquity" has been accepted for publication in Philological Review.