English professor earns Ph.D.
English professor earns Ph.D.
Don Shipley, Jr. received his Ph.D. in English with a concentration in
Religion and Literature from Baylor University on May 12, 2007. The
title of Shipley’s dissertation was Chesterton and His Interlocutors:
Dialogical Style and Ethical Debate on Eugenics.
Shipley is the coordinator for the Division of Humanities at Louisiana College.
New Testament/Greek prof earns Ph.D.
Jason Meyer, professor of New Testament and Greek, received a doctor of
philosophy degree from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in
Louisville, Ky., on May 18.
Meyer graduated
with a Ph.D. degree in New Testament. His dissertation title was Paul,
the Mosaic Covenant, and Redemptive History.
English professor earns MFA degree
Rosanne Osborne, Ph.D., Hixson Professor of English, received an MFA in
Creative Writing from Spalding University in Louisville, Ky. on June 1.
Osborne’s
thesis, Between Dream and Memory, is a collection of poems in four
parts: poems triggered by news stories juxtaposing autobiographical
fragments and cultural commentary, a sonnet sequence that reckons with
the shaping influence of tools in life, autobiographical memories of
the poet’s childhood in Missouri, and persona poems depicting the life
of Mark Twain.
As part of her
graduation requirements, Osborne gave a 20-minute reading from her
thesis at Spalding University on June 1st. She also presented a
graduation lecture earlier that week on “The Heritage of the Deep Image
Poets.”
Nursing instructor earns MSN degree
Renee Shamblin, instructor of nursing at Louisiana College, recently
received a Master of Science in Nursing degree from the University of
Louisiana at Lafayette.
Shamblin also was inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi honor society in April 2007.
French professor receives NEH grant
Cecile Barnhart, instructor of French at Louisiana College, applied for
and received acceptance to the National Endowment for the Humanities
(NEH) program “Berber North Africa: The Hidden Mediterranean
Culture,” a four-week summer institute for college and university
professors which is to be held at Ore-gon State University June 25-July
20.
The idea of
this institute was born out of an international conference organized
with the support of the Oregon Council for the Humanities and the
Middle East Studies Center at Portland State University in May 2005.
The conference, a first in North America, was devoted to North African
minorities, specifically Berber, Coptic and Jewish populations. How had
these minorities negotiated their survival and their blossoming, and in
North Africa? How had they interacted with Arab-Islamic civilization?
What is their significance in the post-colonial, post-cold-war world?
Barnhart is one of 24 faculty members nationwide chosen to participate in this prestigious summer program.