{"id":15667,"date":"2024-09-16T08:45:23","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T15:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/wilkinson\/2024\/09\/16\/unleashing-creativity-how-english-students-embraced-academic-excellence\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T22:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T22:01:09","slug":"unleashing-creativity-how-english-students-embraced-academic-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/2024\/09\/16\/unleashing-creativity-how-english-students-embraced-academic-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"Unleashing Creativity: How English Students Embraced Academic Excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15669\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15669\" style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15669 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2024\/09\/bigminimount.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2024\/09\/bigminimount.jpeg 512w, https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2024\/09\/bigminimount-300x122.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15669\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association logo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This past summer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chapman.edu\/our-faculty\/samantha-dressel\">Dr. Samantha Dressel<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/english\/index.aspx\">English<\/a>) and six of her current and former students attended the <a href=\"https:\/\/rmmra.org\/\">Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association&#8217;s<\/a> (RMMRA) annual conference in Cedar City, Utah. The Wilkinson group each presented papers and attended multiple Shakespeare performances at the festival, including <i>Taming of the Shrew<\/i>, <i>Much Ado About Nothing<\/i>, <i>The Winter\u2019s Tale<\/i>, and the rarely performed <i>Henry VIII.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The event, co-organized by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bard.org\/about\/education\/wooden-o-symposium\/\">Utah Shakespeare Festival\u2019s Wooden O<\/a> scholarly organization, explores learning in global Medieval and Renaissance studies through text and performances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe students who presented built on work written for three of my classes: \u201cBeyond Shakespeare: Renaissance Drama\u201d; \u201cPremodern Disease and Disability\u201d; and \u201cShakespeare\u2019s Tragedies and Romances,\u201d said Dr. Dressel (who presented her own paper, titled, \u201cRevenge Realness: Spectacle, Metatheater, and Power\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Dressel was thrilled to see her students bringing their work to the next level and being recognized as peers in a community of scholars, engaging far beyond the confines of their formal curriculum.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>\u201cThis was my first experience in a more professional academic environment. Being able to bridge the space between my undergraduate career and a more professional application of my research not only bolstered my confidence in my work, but also in my ability to engage with the broader literary community,\u201d said Jubilee Finnegan (\u201824 English) who presented their paper, \u201cThe Mystification of Gender Affirmation: Galathea, Gender, and Fantasy\u201d at the conference.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Through this experience, Kristen Venegas (\u201823 English MA) expressed how the conference structure helped her see academia from a professional standpoint.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI enjoyed the idea of pursuing a topic of my choosing but also having a fixed deadline that enabled me to complete it versus having an idea halfway through and never following up,\u201d she said. Venegas presented her paper, \u201cThe Cognitive Neuroscience of Melancholy: Tribute to Burton\u2019s The Anatomy of Melancholy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The students were able to see the ways that their coursework related to the larger community of scholars. One keynote speaker, Cameron Hunt McNabb, who edited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Medieval-Disability-Sourcebook-Western-Europe\/dp\/1950192733\"><i>The Medieval Disability Sourcebook<\/i><\/a><i>,<\/i> which Dr. Dressel assigned in one of her courses, took the time to sit and talk with Chapman\u2019s students. Samantha Cottle (\u201824 English, \u201826 English MA ) described getting to meet and chat with her as \u201csurreal.\u201d Cottle presented her paper, \u201cThe Deformed Woman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A number of the student papers engaged with gender and sexuality, closely interacting with the other keynote speaker Vanessa Corredera (Professor of English at Andrews University in Michigan) whose presentation dealt with the intersections of race and sexuality in performances of <i>Romeo and Juliet<\/i>. Students were able to see intersections between their own work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving these sudden personal realizations where I noticed the intersection between my work and others&#8217; work was an exciting and unexpected part of the process. While all our topics were quite distinct, little points of overlap emerged and provoked some fascinating conversation,\u201d said Finnegan<b>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Matthew Lemas (\u201824 English and Creative Writing MA\/MFA) presented \u201cLeontes&#8217; Anger, Delusion, and Aversion: A Buddhist Conception of The Winter&#8217;s Tale\u201d and describes his conference experience to be one of the most socially engaging aspects of academia, turning the relatively individual act of producing and consuming scholarship into a communal activity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[I] met a diversity of scholars across the United States that I would have never [encountered]. My favorite moments were the unplanned kind\u2014the Q and A\u2019s post-panel that would extend into hour-long hallway conversation; the paper on a subject you\u2019ve never heard of, nor a book you\u2019ve ever read, coming to fascinate you the most. Ultimately, conferences [such as this one] allow students and junior scholars to gain a necessary foothold in the often difficult-to-navigate world of academia,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the students already mentioned, Sawyer Kelly (\u201823 English and Communication, \u201824 English MA ) presented \u201cWhatever Helps It Get Close to You: The Politics of Proximity and Relational Embodiment in The Changeling and It Follows\u201d and Bailey Smith (\u201821 English, Graphic Design minor) attended the conference as a preface to her starting a graduate program for a Masters in Library Science with a focus on archives and early books at UCLA this fall.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>\u201cI was thrilled that [this conference] is such a welcoming organization and that so many students were able to bring their work up to a professional standard over the summer. 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