SMU English Students Present at the 2025 AAUEC
The Annual Atlantic Undergraduate English Conference (AAUEC) was hosted March 14-16 in Fredericton by the University of New Brunswick. Six students selected by a department faculty committee presented their writing – scholarly essays, short stories, poetry – to an enthusiastic audience of students and faculty representing several other Maritime universities. The Saint Mary's University Department of English Language & Literature has sponsored student participation at the conference for over 20 years.
Our 2025 Student Presenters:
- Ryan Ash, “Untangling the Semantics of Syncretism: the hermeneutic relevance of the motif-index in the mythography of William Blake”
- Annastatia Brooks, “Life and Death in the Cemetery: A Reflection on Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in A Country Churchyard”
- Jacob Butler, “Bed” (short story)
- Nicole Edwards, “How the Serpent Drowned on Fire” (hybrid creative and critical expression)
- Callie Lloyd, “A Landscape of Intergenerational Trauma: The Ripple of Violence Through Generations of Indigenous Women in The Break”
- Andrew Stillwell, “Waking the Author: The Destructive Search for Authority Surrounding Frankenstein”
In the photo:
Top Row, L to R: Jacob Butler, Andrew Stillwell, Dr. David Heckerl (Faculty Rep & Chauffeur)
Bottom Row, L to R: Nicole Edwards, Ryan Ash, Annastatia Brooks, Callie Lloyd