Humanities & Teacher Education

Our Students

Find out more about our four Honor Societies. The Humanities and Teacher Education Division provides its students with numerous opportunities for research, internships, publication and personal enrichment.

Student Accomplishments

We are very proud of our students who go on to do great things. Here are some recent accomplishments of our students and alumni:

Publications

• Garofalo, Daisy. "'Enough of Excess': Portrayals of Twelfth Night's Maria." The Journal of the Wooden O Symposium. 7 (2007): 113-127.
• Hauer, Jamie. "A Study in Success: Doyle's Depiction of Detectives and Mormons in A Study in Scarlet." The Sigma Tau Delta Review. Forthcoming.
• Iwertz, Chad. "Toward a Second Medievalism: Culture and Spirituality in Dante and C. S. Lewis." The Sigma Tau Delta Review. 2008.
• Limos, Danielle. "In This Kentucky Rain." The Rectangle. Forthcoming
• Limos, Danielle. "More Pretend" and "Apples." The Rectangle. 2008.
• Limos, Danielle. "To Cousin William. The DASH Literary Journal. 1.1 (Spring 2008): 30.
• Lindsay, Nicholas. "Winter Sap." The DASH Literary Journal. 1.1 (Spring 2008): 7.
• Petty, Michelle. "Confection." The DASH Literary Journal. 1.1 (Spring 2008): 24.

Conferences

• Jamie Hauer - presented a paper called "A Study in Success: Sherlock Holmes in the 1880s" at the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States Conference in Boulder, CO, in October 2007.
• Chad Iwertz - presented a paper called "'Hold Me in Awe': Spiritual Rhetoric and Allegory in Early Middle English Literature" at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference in Calgary, Canada, in October 2007.
• Heather Kirkpatrick - presented a paper called "Fairy Tales in the Fin-de-siecle: Oscar Wilde & Andrew Lang" at the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States Conference in Boulder, CO, in October 2007.
• Danielle Limos - was invited to read three poems from her collection called "Necessary Imperfections" at the Sigma Tau Delta National Conference in Louisville, KY, in March 2008. She will present a subsequent collection of 5 poems entitled "Purity" at the Sigma Tau Delta Conference in Minneapolis, MN, in March 2009.
• Hayley Lerch - presented her paper "Being Beyond Binaries: A Feminist Deconstruction of Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being" at The National Undergraduate Literature Conference in Ogden, UT, in April 2008.
• Mary Rosenberry - presented a paper at the Federation Rhetoric Symposium 2009 in Commerce, TX. She read the paper at Texas A&M University on February 6, 2009.
• Olesya Salnikova - presented her paper "The Power Dynamics of Pride and Prejudice in the Enforcement of Social Ideology" at the National Undergraduate Literature Conference in Ogden, UT, in April 2008.
• Catherine Whittinghill - presented a paper called "Tractarians, Tennyson and ‘The Lady of Shallott' in the 1830s" at the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States Conference in Boulder, CO, in October 2007.

Screenwriting MFA Students at Step Forward Day 2009

Students enrolled in the Masters of Fine Arts in  Writing for Screen and Television Program volunteered as a group as part of Pepperdine's Step Forward Day 2009.

London Summer English Program

This Summer Dr. Julie Smith and a select group of our English majors pursued their passion for literature across the pond, in Pepperdine's London facility.

 

Ikebana: Floral Arrangement

To celebrate the end of the Spring 2009 semester, Dr. Maire Mullins taught ikebana, the Japanese art of floral arrangement, to Dr. Contino's Great Books V: Asian Great Books students.