Mica Gould has accepted a position as a tenure-track assistant professorship at Grambling State University in Louisiana. Congratulations Mica! We wish you all the best.

Molly Martin has accepted a tenure-track position at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Congratulations Molly!

Eric Carlson has accepted a tenure-track position at the University of North Carolina in Aiken. Congratulations Eric!

Frank Tobienne's revised MA thesis (The Position of Magic in Selected Medieval Spanish Texts) has been accepted for publication by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Frank Tobienne presented a paper titled "Power Structures in the Arthurian Court, or a Foucauldian Critique on Laughter" at the Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM) Conference at Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN in October.

Jack Baker presented a paper titled "'For Leveful is With Force Force
Of-Showve': Power-Over and the Reeve’s Tale" at the Princeton University
Graduate Conference in Medieval Studies, at Princeton University, New
Jersey on March 31, 2007.

Karen Robinson presented a paper titled "The Riddle of The Wife's Lament: A New Reading of the Poem" at the 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in May.

Karen Robinson received the Peter C. Braeger graduate award in the 76th Annual Literary Awards Competition at Purdue University for her essay titled "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Illustrations as Clues for a Political Context of the Poem."

Jack Baker received an honorable mention for the Peter C. Braeger graduate award in the 76th Annual Literary Awards Competition at Purdue University for his essay titled "Heroism and Hlisa: The Transition from Secular Fame to Saintly Fame in Three Old English Texts."

Ryan Naughton for winning the 2006-2007 Tutor of the Year Award for the Writing
Lab. Congratulations, Ryan!

Ryan Naughton for passing the PhD prelim exam. Congratulations, Ryan!

Frank Tobienne for successfully defending his MA Thesis: "The Position of Magic in Selected Medieval Spanish Texts."

Karen Robinson for passing her prospectus defense; she is now ABD. Congratulations, Karen!

Nathan Mertes for being admitted into the graduate program in medieval English literature at UW-Madison.

Parker Snyder for being admitted into the graduate program at Central European University in Budapest, where he will be doing research on monastic economic models (with a view to their application in Third World countries).

Richard Sévère for passing his prospectus defense; he is now ABD. Congratulations, Richard!

Molly Martin for successfully defending her dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Martin!

Richard Sévère for passing the PhD prelim exam. Onward dissertation prospectus!

Kristin Leaman and Frank Tobienne who were accepted into the National Scholars Honor Society, 2007.

Frank Tobienne who received the Quintilian (Q-) Award Re: Excellence in Teaching (one in 2006 and one in 2007).

Frank Tobienne who was recently offered a summer TA position at Phillips Academy-Andover (June 23rd through August 3rd, 2007).

Jack Baker and Karen Robinson, who were offered (and accepted) TA positions in the FLL department, teaching Latin for the 2007-2008 year.

Frank Tobienne for being accepted into the English Ph.D. program at Purdue. Frank also received a Purdue Doctoral Fellowship. Congratulations, Frank!

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If you have something you'd like to add to the Accomplishments page, just email Karen (krobinson@purdue.edu) with the information you would like to be included.