Article and photos by Dr. Stacey Parham
A Judson College professor and two of her students presented at the recent Association of College English Teachers of Alabama (ACETA) Conference. Dr. Stacey Parham, Associate Professor of English, Victoria Douglas of Washington, D.C., and Sarah Green of Dora, Ala., represented Judson at the conference, held March 3 and 4 at Auburn University at Montgomery.
The theme of the 69th annual ACETA conference was “Getting Jazzed: Innovations in Teaching English.” To address this theme and explore innovative teaching practices, Douglas, Green, and Parham applied three disparate but complementary literary theories to modern fairy tales, namely Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid” and Oscar Wilde’s “The Selfish Giant” and “The Happy Prince.”
“The 2017 ACETA conference was especially meaningful to me,” said Douglas, who presented at the conference in 2015, along with Green and Parham. Douglas explained that the “meaningful questions” asked by her presentation’s thoroughly engaged audience “enhanced [her] understanding of the various literary theories” her upper-level English class had studied this semester. Douglas was awarded Honorable Mention for the 2017 Mary Evelyn McMillan Undergraduate Writing Award for her paper “Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea: Interpreting Antoinette Mason and Edward Rochester.”
For more information about Judson’s presenters at ACETA or their presentations, contact Dr. Stacey Parham at 334.683.5201.
PHOTOS: ACETA Conference presenters, from left-to-right, Sarah Green, Stacey Parham, and Victoria Douglas.