Flagler College students accepted to National Undergraduate Literature Conference

ST. AUGUSTINE, FL (03/19/2012)(readMedia)-- Flagler College students Emily Hoover and Jon Bosworth have had papers accepted to the National Undergraduate Literature Conference (NULC) to be held April 5-7, 2012, at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah.

Hoover, who serves as editor of the Flagler College Gargoyle, the college's student-run online newspaper, will present papers on "Organic Rebellion: William Wordsworth's Use of Memories in His Preservation of the Natural Environment in Lyrical Ballads" and "Our Own Private Trap: Gender Roles, Symbolic Birds, and Sexual Imagery in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho."

Bosworth's paper is titled "Distinguishing Activism from Journalism in the Career of Stetson Kennedy." It has also been nominated for the Brevard Award from the Florida Historical Society.

Since 1985, the National Undergraduate Literature Conference has given undergraduates an opportunity to present papers both critical and creative, to an audience of peers from campuses across the country and to hear some of the most important writers in contemporary literature.

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Flagler College is an independent, four-year, comprehensive baccalaureate college located in St. Augustine, Fla. The college offers 24 majors, 29 minors and two pre-professional programs, the largest majors being business, education and communication. Small by intent, Flagler College has an enrollment of about 2,500 students, as well as a satellite campus at Tallahassee Community College in Tallahassee, Fla. U.S. News & World Report and The Princeton Review regularly feature Flagler as a college that offers quality education at a relatively low cost; tuition is $22,500, including room and board. A relatively young institution (founded in 1968), Flagler College is also noted for the historic beauty of its campus. The main building is Ponce de Leon Hall, built in 1887 as a luxury resort by Henry Flagler, who co-founded the Standard Oil Company with John D. Rockefeller. For more on Flagler College, visit www.flagler.edu.

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