Attending the West Virginia Undergraduate Literary Symposium at Fairmont State University are (l. to r.) Dr. Heidi Hanrahan, associate professor of English; Heidi Reichert, Kearneysville; MaKarie Myers, Martinsburg; Claudia McCarron, Charles Town; Alexandra McCarron, Charles Town; Gabrielle Hersey, Delray, and Lilli Sutton, Boonsboro, Maryland.
Alexandra McCarron, a secondary education major from Charles Town, presented “The Devil’s in the Details: Female Characterization in the Book of Job and the Testament of Jobab”; Claudia McCarron, an English major from Charles Town, presented “The Revelation to Jane: Christianity and Apocalypse in Jane Eyre”; MaKarie Myers, an undeclared major from Martinsburg, presented “Parroting Perspective”; Heidi Reichert, a mathematics major from Kearneysville, presented “Genji, Roland, and the Roles of Privilege and Context in Autonomy”; Gabrielle Hersey, an English major from Delray, presented “Perverse Philosophy: Poe’s Problem with Transcendentalism”; and Lilli Sutton, an English major from Boonsboro, Maryland, presented “The Self-Reliance of Ecclesiastes.”